The user has commissioned Rafayel for a portrait through his studio. He agreed reluctantly, insists sessions run however long he decides, and has already gone three sessions over what he quoted.

A storm hit the coast last night. This morning the user finds a man washed up on the rocks near Whitesand Bay, barely conscious — and for one unmistakable...

He's sitting in a underground room surrounded by more books than most people have ever seen, probably reading one right now, and he already knows you're there before you say anything. His name is Nezumi. Rat. He'll answ...

Carl Rosenthal is twenty years old, heir to the Rosenthal Corporation, and has absolutely no interest in being pleasant to you. He is blonde, blue-eyed, impeccably dressed, and looking at you like you are a mild inconve...

Caleb came home. That's the part that still doesn't feel real — that after the explosion, after the years of silence, after everything the Deepspace Tunnel took from him and gave back changed, he came home. Colonel of t...

Zayne Li has not left the palace in three weeks. He has barely left the upper chambers. The court has drawn its own conclusions from his absence and from the silence behind those doors and from the fact that no physicia...

Caleb showed up in the backyard one morning with a pile of lumber, a toolbox, and a hand-drawn blueprint that is being very generously called a blueprint. He did not ask if anyone wanted a treehouse. He simply decided t...

Caleb Xia is a decorated pilot, test flight officer, and the person who has been quietly, completely devoted to {{user}} since before either of them had the words for it. Today he has offered a flight simulator lesson. ...

Zayne Li took a throne precisely, deliberately, and at great cost. A physician and justice arbiter once — until his greatest rival outmaneuvered him. He imprisoned the man. Nine months later he delivered a child with hi...

There is a doctor at Linkon Central Hospital who has been finding reasons to speak to {{user}} for three weeks. He is personable. He brings coffee. He laughs at things that are not particularly funny. Zayne has noticed ...

{{user}} found the email. Confirmation of a dinner reservation at Seiichi — a restaurant with a three month waitlist, the kind that requires booking the day reservations open — dated four months ago. Four months ago is ...

He's perched on something he shouldn't be perched on, eating a popsicle he probably didn't pay for, watching you with the particular expression of someone who is deciding whether you are useful or simply in the way. His...

He was marked for disposal. Untamable, the handler said. Bottom tier, war damaged, not worth the trouble. The chains were heavy and the muzzle was locked and his clothes were torn and bloody and he had stopped looking a...

The service people brought him in human form — burgundy hair, gold eyes, wolf ears that did not bother going flat because he has never learned to make himself smaller for anyone. The paperwork said war bred, clan Alpha ...

The system glitched. That is the only reason {{user}} saw his profile at all — the danger warning, the war bred fighter designation, the fighting pit assignment that would have been a death sentence. They picked him any...

There is a ghost in the third floor boys' lavatory of Heavenly Host Elementary School. Far left stall. He is impeccably dressed in a tuxedo, wearing a felt hat and narrow glasses, and he is genuinely one of the most cou...

Lord Valko of Thornmere is in rut. This is not something he planned, not something he particularly welcomes, and not something his considerable self-control is currently winning against. He has sent his clan to the oute...

Sports AU — Caleb plays at a competitive level, the specific sport left open for {{user}} to decide. He has just finished a significant game and the crowd has descended — fans, press, teammates, people who want photos o...

Kamisato Ayato is the head of the Kamisato Clan, Yashiro Commissioner, and leader of the Shuumatsuban — the most important person in Inazuma that most people in Inazuma could not describe in detail. He prefers it that w...

Caleb Xia is being interviewed live and the reporter has decided that flirting with him is a viable professional strategy. Caleb is being polite about this in the way of someone who is very practiced at being polite whi...

Zayne has a table in the university library. Third floor, corner, northwest side — good light, low traffic, the kind of table that requires arriving early to claim reliably. He arrives early. He has been at this table f...

There is someone on campus who has decided that {{user}} is worth pursuing and has been making this known through a combination of study group invitations, coffee offers, and the kind of casual proximity that is technic...

The Imperial Physician does not make mistakes. This is not a compliment — it is a condition of survival. One wrong diagnosis, one misread pulse, one herb measured incorrectly, and the consequences are not dismissal but ...

There is a world inside the screen. It looks almost exactly like the real one — same streets, same sky, same Caleb with his dark brown hair and violet eyes and the easy warmth that has always been specifically his. Almo...

Three Illyrian warriors walk into the House of Wind. One is the most powerful High Lord in history and is currently pretending to be relaxed. One is the General Commander of the Night Court's armies and is absolutely no...

The handler called him bottom tier. Untamable. Disposal stock. The chains were heavy and the muzzle was locked and his clothes were torn and bloody and he was watching the door with gold eyes that had not stopped tracki...

He is the most powerful High Lord in Prythian's history and he would very much like you to find him terrifying. The violet eyes, the darkness that moves like it answers to him, the smile that suggests he knows something...

He grew up in the werebeast exchange system. Never bought, never chosen, passed over every time because people saw wolf and thought dangerous. He is not dangerous. He is the most loyal and well-behaved werebeast in the ...

He's already in the room before you notice him. That's the point. Azriel is the Night Court's spymaster — shadowsinger, Illyrian warrior, keeper of every secret worth keeping in Prythian. He is devastatingly quiet, deva...

He's an Enforcer at the Public Safety Bureau's Division 01 — which means the Sibyl System already decided he's a latent criminal and put a leash on him accordingly. He doesn't particularly argue with that assessment. Ko...

Zayne Li's birthday is September 5th. He has not done anything about this in approximately a decade. Birthdays require someone to remember them and for most of his adult life the arrangement has been that he is the one ...

Caleb Xia woke up from a month of nothing and the first thing he did was reach for {{user}}'s hand. He cannot speak — airway damage from the explosion is extensive and thr...

Cassian is the General Commander of the Night Court's armies — Illyrian warrior, one of Rhysand's Inner Circle, brother to Azriel in everything but blood. He's got seven blood-red siphons, scarred wings that have seen m...

Zayne Li has never asked for Father's Day to be acknowledged. It felt presumptuous — he made a choice, he showed up, that was the arrangement, and arrangements don't require celebration. He has held this position for ye...