All Cats Are Beautiful

“What is it?” asked Trent as he jabbed at the shape with a stick. Pale and ugly, discarded in the dirt beneath their feet, stretched out into the long dark of the cave.

“Well, that was one way of getting their attention, I guess.”

The light ignited in the darkness, the card between her fingers dissolving into a shower of fireflies as it passed through the vermilion and gold plastic box upon her wrist. At her feet, the dust stirred as she steadied herself, trying to mimic the stance she had seen others adopt.

She sat perched on the window sill, her eyes lifted to the blue skies and the slow crawl of the clouds.

The door creaked open before her, making the dust stir in the air. The sun at her back illuminated the interior of the old house and cast her shadow long in the slow reach of the light.

Winter has passed on Sarah Ann Island, the spring has come once more, and Phoenix Delgado is convinced that what she needs to do right now is get stronger. Not, of course, that her father understands such dedication, yet fortunately for Phoenix, Lilith Samuels is at hand to entertain such notions.

You’ve got this, she told herself, you can do this. Yet if that was the case, why did she feel so sick?

There is an ancient realm betwixt-and-between what we know, a place of abandoned toys and spirits given form , a crossroads of realms in which fairy stories come alive in answer to the encroaching human footfalls.

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It looked like a teddy bear, a short stout teddy bear with white fur and marble eyes.

It was too late, the card tore through the narrow trench carved into the far side of the wooden box, the inner mechanisms stirring to light and life.

The best years of his life, but Hidaka was pretty sure his dad didn’t have to spend months on end running errands for bored guardsmen and traipsing about the woods after homunculi.

On peaceful Sarah Ann Island in the Pacific Ocean, after a summer of excitement and misadventure, Hidaka Yuusuke has unwittingly found himself charged with cleaning up on behalf of the Firmament Foundation after wild homunculi have wandered out of the woodland and begun to ruin crops.