“He’s had a redemption arc, trust me,” Lilith had explained. Watching his self-satisfied smirk as he lounged in her living room, making himself right at home, Reyna wanted to call her friend and ask her to get rid of him. There was only one thing that stopped her: Lilith and Mark. As the only human in their friend group, Reyna knew that she was only considered a liability. With the increase of monsters in the area and a plot to take her life, she knew she had to stick to a serious training schedule or else rely on her friends to protect her. She wouldn’t let them put their life on the line for her, not again. If that meant[…]

“Buddy, I’m home!” The scientist called out, entering the basement. Calling it a basement might have been an injustice. It was more like an entertainment and fitness space. Rows and rows of home gym equipment took up most of the front of the room next to the stairs. The exercise equipment, even including the VR exercise bike set-up, had been built himself. He hated the idea of his robot friend being stuck in the room, bored out of its mind, and had always made sure to build another invention for it to play with.  “I’m sorry I’ve been gone so long,” he said, hurriedly weaving through the makeshift home gym to the rumpus room at the end of it. “I’ve[…]

Unlike most people, I’m not fond of weekends. I like to be kept busy, and for many people the weekend is suddenly this time when you’re free to do whatever you please. I haven’t really found many hobbies thus far, and I don’t really get into traditional television entertainment, so I spend most of them wandering aimlessly in an attempt to occupy my mind. I’ve been conditioned to be busy. There was ALWAYS something to do on the space station, at every hour of the day. Even when you took a break, they were short and the back of your mind was thinking about the next thing to do. That’s just how my mind works now, forever. This last Saturday[…]