Voracity

Voracity

5.16 The Masks We Wear

Maenad’s bacchanal is taking place in the orb above the Spire, where Visage hides their portal to the World of Glass. By the observations of Agatha and the deductions of Striga, we’re certain that Maenad is one of the priestesses…

5.15 The Masks We Wear

“See? Toldja you’d look good!” teases Bombshell. “Bite me,” I grumble back. “I feel so constricted in this thing.” “Girl, it’s a corset. Don’t you wear one in costume???” “It’s not the same! It’s decorative.” I play with the laces…

5.14 The Masks We Wear

“It’s surreal to read a period piece for a time when you were alive but not conscious,” Sophia says as we wait for our food. “And in another country with a different cultural context,” I add. “Even having watched or…

Interlude: Mask of Principle

Lilith hadn’t thought long about her name when asked to choose one. Privately, she didn’t believe most witches or magical girls had spent all that much time thinking about their appellations, but unlike them, she had an excuse; she’d already…

Interlude: Mask of Stability

Agatha Cain was having a difficult day. Actually, to be more accurate, Agatha Cain had been having a difficult month. It had been a messy, complicated, confusing month, and it wasn’t getting better. Was it fair to say that it…

5.13 The Masks We Wear

Bliss. That’s the only word that could possibly describe how I feel after my first time with Sophia Lane, my dearly beloved. And second, and third, and almost a fourth. True to her word, her appetite is insatiable. She takes…

5.12 The Masks We Wear

I won! I did it! I got the thing I wanted! Fuck you, Hastur! Everyone who’s ever called me a lonely freak can piss off! Sophia likes me back!! She said she loves me!! Story over!!! Put the book down…

5.11 The Masks We Wear

For the second time in my life, I die. Them’s the breaks, I guess, when you taunt an almost-god to her face. Death has a funny way of flattening things. Fear, anger, love, hate, it all gets smushed down into…

Interlude: Mask of Iron

Two Weeks Ago Ferromancer was working on a gun that shoots you in the friends. More accurately, she was trying to harness principles of magical sympathy to create a weapon that could kill someone by shooting their best friend, closest…

5.10 The Masks We Wear

Once again, I find myself waiting in a Visage lounge for a meeting with one of the three women that run the Forks branch of the company. This time, it’ll be Pearl Princess dragging me into a conference room, and…