Stories of the Sundered Spheres

She stooped and entered, her light stabbing before her. The tunnel led straight for almost fifty feet before intersecting crosswise another even shorter tunnel. She grimaced and tried to see what each tunnel held, but her light could not reach far enough. She took the left-hand tunnel first...

Her open eye saw white and purple phantoms everywhere, and she resisted the temptation to open her left. She scarcely noticed that the temperature had changed dramatically; she shivered before it dawned on her that she felt chilly. She waited, just inside, as the light phantoms faded, and...

The unmerciful sun made the valley floor shimmer and dance. She wiped the sweat from her brow, and winced at the pain in her sunburnt shoulders. The burn made the slightest wrinkling of the skin beyond mere discomfort. Her knees hurt even worse, burned almost purple. Exposed by her short...