Expansion Novels & Stories

Eli caught me in the hallway away from the crowd. "We did that," he said. "We did," I said. "The expansion," he continued. "Six months means we're actually doing this. Long-term collaboration. Long-term us." "Yes," I said. "Assuming I don't sabotage before we get there." "You probably will," Eli said. "At least a little bit. You're going to get scared. You're going to retreat into control mechanisms. And I'm going to be there reminding you that you already admitted this matters."

As Myra stopped and asked the other groups for further information, one of the men stated his points. “What about our alliance? We got threatened enough and how can we expect you to protect our business?” “I have asked for your views. I didn’t give you permission to question our abilities.” One sentence and Arthur’s head snapped at his sister’s direction along with Ranvijay. “Will this girl always be such a hard nut?” Arthur mumbled under his breath. “The nearest alliance in Asian region will be from us. I believe we can keep such facts in our count.” Making everyone startled, Ranvijay spoke in his same dark voice.

" We have, strong electrolytes and weak electrolytes, " Mr Garret voice faded away. Ace's thoughts invaded his mind in the middle of the class, he looked out of the windows, he's always looking out of the window. Mr Garret got tired of scolding him to pay attention to the lessons, he would always ask him suddenly but Ace already knows what they are talking about, he's smarter than most of the students in his class. Ace always does that in winter, staring out the window and wait for spring, he hates winter and hates the end of the year.

Too many responsibilities. Tea looked up at the scorching sun, squinting to look at the clouds. She listened to the birdsong that charmingly danced against her eardrums. She wiped the sweat off her perspiring forehead then rubbed it on her dirty, muddy vest which covered only her chest. She walked towards the corner of the still dirty floor and left the broom there, already weary from her hard work. The half-finished roof sheltered her from the heat and brought with it a refreshing coolness that satiated her body’s rising temperature. Her bright green eyes fluttered before coming to a stop at the curve of her cheek. And sleep came like a hunter closing on its prey. She dreamed. And when her

“That doesn’t mean tiredness. It’ll pass, it always does.” We didn’t argue long after that, but I did get us back home. There was fewer chances of us being interrupted there than in the packhouse. She did seem to get better though. So I took my laptop and sat on the couch to look at what my options were for expansion. Again. I thought I wouldn’t expend for a while, but those things keep sneaking up on me. I mean that most packs have to work to expand, but in the last few years, I’d say it’s nearly more work to limit expansion than to just go with the flow.

Fear started creeping into my whole body as I stood up and walked towards the door. I gently opened the doorknob and thank God it was not locked. I started wandering into the halls of this house. I see a staircase and I immediately went down, damn this house is so big. The interior design is a combination of Grey and White. "Hello!! Is anybody in here?!!" I shouted. I just got off the stairs and I look around and damn the interior design is so beautiful and elegant. A good combination of both white and grey. Then I heard a familiar voice,

In the following days Will had gone to the Chiefs room after waking up. Chief didn't seem to mind, and kept teaching Will more words. Will was surprised at the rate he was absorbing information, it was like his brain was a sponge. Chief would also wrestle with Will sometimes and even spar with the sticks. Will was still very small, but to his surprise, only a couple of days passed and his muscles had already grown and he felt much stronger. Will could also stay awake for an entire day instead of falling asleep all the time. [Goblins seem to grow and develop much faster than humans. It's only been a week and a half and I can almost understand Chief, I can even run around half the day without

, i dont know why but i put my arms out and spin and blow with my mouth, i cant explain but i feel as though im calling the wind, i have no idea where my strength was coming frombut i have neverfelt so strong, I twirl my arms and the wind came, the more i twirled the stronger the winds got, nobody could see a thing, i could only just see Jonas, he was running but the wind kept pulling him back, most people had ducked as low to the floor as they could including Shannon whovwas still behind me, "You can drop the wind now" Jamie said through the mind link, so i dropped my arms slowly until they came to a stop and the wind died down until it was non existent.

POV: Isla | The Shelter medical wing, Rookeries The shelter's medical wing has expanded twice since the raid, which is the specific expansion that happens when the number of people requiring ongoing care exceeds the space initially allocated for it, and the expansion has been managed through the specific Rookeries method of solving space problems, which is to identify adjacent rooms and repurpose them and adjust the workflow accordingly and not stop moving long enough to feel the weight of how much the workflow has expanded.

A gilded cage, if you ask me. It’s been six years since the Patefaction, and things have calmed down some. Humans and "supes" live side-by-side, sort of, in a fragile harmony. But things also changed fundamentally. A new leadership, called the Councillium, now delegates everything. It's made up of a representative from each of the four main factions – witches, vampires, werewolves, and even a human. Places like the Institute were created not only to care for parentless children like me but also to teach us what we needed to know for our seventeenth year. When we turn seventeen, we’d be shipped off to one of the Academies, elite institutions where we would learn to control our powers. So far,