Levi sipped at his juice and felt better; he heard a vaguely familiar song in the distance. The drink was tangy and tart, kind of hard to pin down but probably had some pomegranate as an ingredient. Not much work had been done on the sandcastle, but it was not quite the same between when he'd left i...

Rin didn’t answer and the gap in exchange was enough to snap him out of his daze, if one were to be so gentle as to simply call it that at all, so Levi returned to his immediate surroundings in time to see a crab fly past his shoulder. It was sudden and quick enough that he didn’t know it was a crab...

The social mixture reveled in a never ending crescendo, with the beach’s apparently natural disinhibiting effect in full force. What a contrast it was, in the face of an external world replete with hardship, isolation, and zero-sum compromises. That thought dawned on Levi, as an essential insight th...

Dan nodded with mild, falsely disinterested enthusiasm at the introduction to the Eberhart sisters, while Levi was still mostly distracted. With the tacit invitation to join the two, the sisters had brought a needed layer of novelty to the day at the beach. They day could only go down from here, all...

“And there was, like, sixty of them, it was pretty crazy,” Levi had reached the end of recounting the events earlier in the year, when he’d been entangled in the anti-insurgent operations in Eurasia. It was funny, he realized over the course of telling the story, that such events were not made parti...

Unlimited leisure: it was a poison, the kind of idleness that tilted against materialist expectations for survival in the world of responsibility and flew in the face of any kind of pretension to virtue. This brand of leisure tended to part itself into two, creating a surplus of impoverished weeks p...

The outskirts of Caelin Hill were lacquered in sprawling fences of steel and orange plastic, cement blockades, and on the ground, unfinished roads and concrete detritus. It was the perennial flow of urban sprawl, a phenomenon that could not exist to the same degree up in Space: a lot of the projects...

[b]Name:[/b] Aporia Index [b]Age:[/b] 22 [b]Race:[/b] Advanced Newtype [b]Other Information:[/b] - autodidact [b]Appearance:[/b] - coarse shoulder-length brown hair - 5'6 - wears a cloak, possibly ironically, but it's hard to say - adorned in jewlery: several necklaces, left arm loaded with bracelet...

Levi was actually asleep in the GunEZ's cockpit when the sun arose, and as a result he had missed Alivius' intercom message. So it was the landing that roused him from sleep. His mouth felt disgusting, and on top of that there was every other discomfort one is subject to upon waking up. The cockpit ...

"Uh, okay." There was no end in trying to rationalize the change in Rin's disposition. But, she didn't seem like a fickle person, so it was bizarre. Levi was likely a bad judge of character. Maybe. Hard to say for sure. There was the apprehension of whim, and sensitivity to circumstance, which both ...

"We can give it a shot, but I'm pretty good, just a warning." Levi wasn't particularly interested in the simulator. Not long ago, it dawned on him that he genuinely did enjoy piloting: it was as much a thrill as any other risky activity. But he also felt guilty about it, since it was not borne out o...

They were at loggerheads and would probably remain so for the time being, if the discussion continued. Levi didn't immediately have time to reflect on his opinions, which would be distilled into beliefs, eventually, maybe. He inhaled deeply and wondered how Rin could go to talking about assent to th...

Levi listened carefully, at what initially appeared to be a categorical dismissal of an argument that was too broad to be discarded in such a manner- well, he felt that way, at least. It was a bit shocking to him that progression in history, for Alivius, could only be conceived at the level of large...

Levi circled around so that he could face both women. Alivius' response triggered a reactionary sentiment within him, but her indifference was justified: she was not going to be tied to mere facts of biology. Still, though, where there was human potential, there should be a willingness to accept res...

Levi smiled, as warmly as he could, despite every instinct telling him to withdraw from the situation. He certainly felt more at ease talking to Alivius, though there was a healthy dose of suspicion regarding his motives that made him re-evaluate the situation. "Where you find one Newtype, you usual...

"I see ya, having fun or is it already over?" Levi trotted over to the external monitor, stopped just behind ALivius and peered over her shoulder to take a look at Rin's score- frankly he was surprised that she had an interest in this stuff, but when it was just a simulation, piloting was probably a...

With the lights off and his eyes still unfocused, Levi was splayed across the compact bed, entirely comfortable in the temperature and humidity controlled room. He had it in his mind, specifically the part of his mind that had as its job the separation of his own identity from everything else, that...

"I tried to pack light," Levi said, as curt as possible to avoid a justificatory tone; he was enjoying the food, but the atmosphere was a certainly wanting. It made sense, though, he was not [supposed to be] on vacation. He would have to use one of her tablets, or maybe just find something more crea...

Levi awoke to the sound of the intercom bellowing aloud, and the message was over before his senses had any chance to attune properly. Something about food, which Alivius had mentioned earlier; Levi wasn't hungry, and also did not have any expectation that she would be able to cook particularly well...