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@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&family=Playwrite+DE+Grund:wght@100..400&display=swap); Obsidian was drowning. He was drowning in paperwork, most of it for contracts for Stonewall. There was a hand buried deep in his red...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&family=Playwrite+DE+Grund:wght@100..400&display=swap); Obsidian gave Hazel a soft smile as she said her goodbyes, nodding his head to her. “Drive safely. Have a good holiday. We’ll see you...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ultra&display=swap); It was Hematite’s day at the bar. It was still early, so neither Lapis nor Onyx had clocked in yet, at a mere four thirty in the afternoon. There were already several people milling about, drinks in hand as they started...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); “I did very little. Just a bit of gas to loosen up your tongue. Nothing harmful, really. You might have a bit of a headache after it...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); For a moment, Sulphur simply stared at the bones. Then, with the tip of his shoes, he nudged them with vague interest. The kneecaps were...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); “... I see. Obsidian didn’t fill you in on what this party is, did he? This is our annual ‘management party’. All of our location...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ultra&display=swap); Somehow, when the kid went down, he didn’t end up winded or unconscious. Instead, his head bounced back forward into his face, hitting his nose hard. Steel on steel rang out sharply in the air. It rang in Hematite’s...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); “Because of people like us.” Ah. There it was. A secret metahuman trying to masquerade as a human then, who thought herself so reviled...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); Stubborn. Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn. Why did she have to be so stubborn? But Sulphur wasn’t resorting to the gun quite yet. He had one...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); The first week of January meant ensuring the deals of the last year were to be in place for the upcoming year. Sulphur had been busy ever...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); Whatever Sulphur was going to reply with, never came out. Instead, he paused, his eyes scanning the room slowly, as the smell of...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); “I thought you might say no. It would be foolish of us to assume you’d just say yes to our request.” His hand slipped into his breast...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cormorant+Garamond:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap); “You’re aware of who he is, then you should be aware of the power that name carries around these parts.” Sulphur held her eyes, his own...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&family=Playwrite+DE+Grund:wght@100..400&display=swap); All at once, it started. That was just the way that Slate liked it, after all. Malachite was quick to shift his skin to the metal of his...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&family=Playwrite+DE+Grund:wght@100..400&display=swap); To say that Ethan was shocked would be putting it lightly. He was so floored by Onyx’s reaction that it took him a full five seconds to...