X-085: Blight

Kuiper raised his freshly carved lantern fruit proudly, as if showing it off to the world. He gazed at it fondly, admiring his handiwork; he’d created a night sky, decorated with tiny, meticulously sculpted stars. Its luciferase-laden flesh was illuminated with a yellowish glow where he’d chiseled away the outer rind. It reminded Kuiper of himself, constellations across its surface, similar to his pelt.   Blight peered over ...

The last normal morning Lelu woke up to the phantom pains again.   He slowly rose from his empty bed. He had managed to kick his pillows and blanket off again. The room was warm but sleeping under a blanket just felt right.   The nagging pain on his unexistant arm was taunting him like an alarm. He didn’t usually take his prosthetic off to charge it on the dock, but l...