serina calis

The spire walls trembled with the force of her scream. It wasn't loud—not really. The kind of scream that tore itself out of a throat unused to it, raw and broken and too human for a place built of silence and pressure seals. It echoed in the cavernous chamber of her private study, bouncing off...

The door hissed open again. Another shift rotation ending, maybe. A few boots scuffed the floor—heavy, low-tread military pattern. Another off-duty patrol or a crew returning from deep-system perimeter checks. This was a mercenary bar. Everyone here had a reason not to speak. It was part of the...

She dreamed of Quinn Varanin again. Not the battlefield. Not the throne rooms. Not the Sith or Jedi. Just the garden. That impossible, aching little corner of Jutrand where nothing sharp existed—where war was a rumor and ambition hadn't yet turned Serina Calis into something venomous. The...

Beneath the crust of one of Polis Massa's many asteroids, in a laboratory carved from the ruins of silence and pressure, Serina Calis sat before her altar of rebirth. There was no natural light here—only the violet sheen of reactor cores thrumming with harvested decay, and the soft pulsing of...

The silence of the office was a different kind of loud. Not the stillness of peace, but the quiet that comes after—after the shouting stops, after the ships fall from the sky, after the screams echo and fade. It wasn't the hush of serenity, but the echo of everything just outside the frame—the...

"Turn your enemies against you. This, is my greatest advice." Furia did not speak at first. Her head hung low, hair wild across her face like ink spilled in anguish. The blood on her lip had dried into a scab she refused to lick away, pride still clinging to her like tattered armor. But it...

"She was powerful and persistent and self-obsessed, all features that would continue to grate on Madelyn, but she was powerless to deal with Calis. Even her words tonight could prove dangerous, given what she understood about the girl's unpredictable nature." - Money, Madelyn Lowe The chamber...