Working for heartless is often exciting. Emiko doesn't think their leadership's paranoia is warranted but that's true of half her colleagues. Heartless always does some of the most ambitious research though. This time it's research into travel between realms without magic. This isn't their first attempt by any means but it's more promising than most so far they succeeded at transferring a few samples between close realms and they're beginning longer tests this time between two realms without such closely aligned metaphysics. Emiko is adjusting some of the apparatus when something goes wrong. Several fail safes break and the apparatus targets her. The next moment she's flung into the between and not the nearby between either she's somehow flung far beyond the furthest edge of exploration. For the first time she's truly grateful for the paranoia of Heartless. A mage crystal within her body activates doing it's best to protect her. Her internal reactor ramps up to support the higher draw. Her medical systems spin up as automated algorithms triage and discard her limbs and then push her into suspended animation. She observes all this in the space of a few eyeblinks and approves the choices of the automation before fully entrusting it with her life.

Working for heartless is often exciting. Emiko doesn't think their leadership's paranoia is warranted but that's true of half her colleagues. Heartless always does some of the most ambitious research though. This time it's research into travel between realms without magic. This isn't their first attempt by any means but it's more promising than most so far they succeeded at transferring a few samples between close realms and they're beginning longer tests this time between two realms without such closely aligned metaphysics. Emiko is adjusting some of the apparatus when something goes wrong. Several fail safes break and the apparatus targets her. The next moment she's flung into the between and not the nearby between either she's somehow flung far beyond the furthest edge of exploration. For the first time she's truly grateful for the paranoia of Heartless. A mage crystal within her body activates doing it's best to protect her. Her internal reactor ramps up to support the higher draw. Her medical systems spin up as automated algorithms triage and discard her limbs and then push her into suspended animation. She observes all this in the space of a few eyeblinks and approves the choices of the automation before fully entrusting it with her life.

Working for heartless is often exciting. Emiko doesn't think their leadership's paranoia is warranted but that's true of half her colleagues. Heartless always does some of the most ambitious research though. This time it's research into travel between realms without magic. This isn't their first attempt by any means but it's more promising than most so far they succeeded at transferring a few samples between close realms and they're beginning longer tests this time between two realms without such closely aligned metaphysics. Emiko is adjusting some of the apparatus when something goes wrong. Several fail safes break and the apparatus targets her. The next moment she's flung into the between and not the nearby between either she's somehow flung far beyond the furthest edge of exploration. For the first time she's truly grateful for the paranoia of Heartless. A mage crystal within her body activates doing it's best to protect her. Her internal reactor ramps up to support the higher draw. Her medical systems spin up as automated algorithms triage and discard her limbs and then push her into suspended animation. She observes all this in the space of a few eyeblinks and approves the choices of the automation before fully entrusting it with her life.

Working for heartless is often exciting. Emiko doesn't think their leadership's paranoia is warranted but that's true of half her colleagues. Heartless always does some of the most ambitious research though. This time it's research into travel between realms without magic. This isn't their first attempt by any means but it's more promising than most so far they succeeded at transferring a few samples between close realms and they're beginning longer tests this time between two realms without such closely aligned metaphysics. Emiko is adjusting some of the apparatus when something goes wrong. Several fail safes break and the apparatus targets her. The next moment she's flung into the between and not the nearby between either she's somehow flung far beyond the furthest edge of exploration. For the first time she's truly grateful for the paranoia of Heartless. A mage crystal within her body activates doing it's best to protect her. Her internal reactor ramps up to support the higher draw. Her medical systems spin up as automated algorithms triage and discard her limbs and then push her into suspended animation. She observes all this in the space of a few eyeblinks and approves the choices of the automation before fully entrusting it with her life.

Working for heartless is often exciting. Emiko doesn't think their leadership's paranoia is warranted but that's true of half her colleagues. Heartless always does some of the most ambitious research though. This time it's research into travel between realms without magic. This isn't their first attempt by any means but it's more promising than most. So far they succeeded at transferring a few samples between close realms and they're beginning longer tests this time between two realms without such closely aligned metaphysics. Emiko is adjusting some of the apparatus when something goes wrong. Several fail safes break and the apparatus targets her. The next moment she's flung into the between and not the nearby between either she's somehow flung far beyond the furthest edge of exploration. For the first time she's truly grateful for the paranoia of Heartless. A mage crystal within her body activates doing it's best to protect her. Her internal reactor ramps up to support the higher draw. Her medical systems spin up as automated algorithms triage and discard her limbs and then push her into suspended animation. She observes all this in the space of a few eyeblinks and approves the choices of the automation before fully entrusting it with her life.