Author: JB McDonald and Zach McCallum

  • V2 Chapter 1: Up, Up and Away

    June 1st, 1929 Sunrise was still an hour and then some away, with just a hint of paler night sky on the eastern horizon, when Fex followed the uniformed soldier…

  • Chapter 12: Nicoletta’s New Digs

    May 28th, 1929 Nicoletta was napping on the too-soft bed in her sterile room when a knock rattled the door, startling her clear up onto her feet.  Corporal Moore’s voice…

  • Chapter 11: Visiting Vano

    May 27th, 1929 It was warm enough—unseasonably warm—that Nicoletta had requested some summer dresses. They hadn’t come. Her handlers had refused to collect any of her former belongings, either, and…

  • Chapter 10: Visiting Vano

    May 26th, 1929 Fex didn’t get another chance to talk to Nicoletta after they were debriefed. In fact, he hadn’t seen her in more than a week. They were both…

  • Chapter 9: The Heist and Its Aftermath

    May 18th, 1929 Nicoletta tried to get her scattered mind to focus. They’d been over this a dozen times in briefing, so many times she thought she’d never forget even…

  • Chapter 8: Dancing Through the First Mission

    May 18th, 1929 Nicoletta had never ridden in one of the new cars before, the ones that could go seventy-two miles per hour down a straightaway. Part of her was…

  • Chapter 7: A Midnight Summons

    May 14th, 1929 It wasn’t so much the knocking at his door that woke Fex as it was Miss Moppet’s orange and black paws digging in when she launched herself…

  • Chapter 6: appearances can be deceiving

    May 13th, 1929 The next several weeks held more, and more complex, training runs with Nicoletta. When they weren’t together, Fex was subjected to a number of meetings and tests.…

  • Chapter 5: Training Begins

    April 10th, 1929 Nicoletta jumped out of the truck gratefully, while Dunfre and the assistant that had joined them sorted out stopwatches and clipboards and bits of paper and whatever…

  • Chapter 4: Fex Meets Nicoletta (Again)

    April 10th, 1929 Nicoletta stared hard at the photograph, her thumb running over and over Vano’s pained little smile and the curly hair falling in his face. He was reading…