2.1 Technical Difficulties

CHAPTER TWO:
Breaking the Glass

Shelley Huntington was less than thrilled with Kailin University. It was an old, respected institution built on Earth before there were any other inhabited planets to talk about. Ostensibly, the sprawling campus of white stone buildings—likely laced with nanobots and other technology—still belonged in private hands, those of William Scheffer, heir to his grandfather however many times removed that had founded it. The buildings and grounds of manicured lawns and neatly cut road– and skyways likewise failed to impress Shelley. She was an Ybreteh girl. She liked her computers and small spacecraft Abi bought her for her sixteenth birthday and the higher-tech world she had been born on.

“Anywhere, anywhere but here,” she muttered to herself under her breath. She had dumped off her things in the dorm room indicated by her room key, a tiny boxed-in affair occupied by three beds—more muttering ensued—and since then, taken to wandering disconsolately about the ridiculous maze of hallways (she didn’t even know they still used drywall this extensively) in search of the vocational orientation auditorium marked deceptively on her campus map as just inside the building across from the dorms.

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Prompt Me Some Fiction at Ficlet O’Clock

So, it’s that time again. I have a hankering to write some ficlets, and my current docket seems too overwhelming.

1. Give me a number between 1 and 10.
2. Name a storyworld, fandom, or character.
3. Ask a question.

I will answer your question in a ficlet of the number of sentences specified in #1.

The Number of Fear {Divergent}

for lithiumlaughter

He must stay brave to keep the name.

Revelation {Avengers/X-Men Movieverse}

for xenokattz

That wasn’t anger in Natasha’s eyes, but betrayal.

 

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