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Stella Chapter II My training was ever changing. Never the same and always more difficult than the last time I went inside, it was the only thing I looked forward to every day. After making sure Vice was comfortable in the viewing box, I’d flown down the stairs and stepped up to the steel door eagerly. As the lights turned on and changed from red to green I rolled my shoulders and cracked my neck, my hearts racing as I prepared for the green light. There was a flash of green and the room went black. I listened for the soft click of the door and I leapt up and into the room. Today the floor was replaced with bubbling lava and the ceiling was black smoke so thick even I couldn’t see through it. I floated in the air about twenty feet above the lava and warmed my hands over the extreme heat. I pulled my hood up and covered my face, then turned around slowly and searched for whatever might be my challenge. There was always a simple goal to accomplish in these things, it was just ge...

Stella Constinight CHAPTER         I Wind bit into my clothes and froze me to the bone as snow kissed my exposed skin. My shoes were wet, my toes numb. Each breath was ice going through my nose and down my throat to my lungs. My hands were gloved and tightly fisted and still I could not feel them, my lips chapped. The black sweater and scarf I wore were no protection from this bitter cold. My hair was packed inside a winter cap and my ears burned from the cold. How did people live like this?          I opened my eyes and looked at the frozen white around me. Wind blew snow across the miles of white without a thing to block its path. I looked up and the sky was gray with snow clouds, not a trace of the sun to even be glimpsed. The wind did its best to knock me over, my clothes flapping behind me with its effort, yet I stood solidly in place and looked on.     ...