As someone who had read the right books, Wilma should know that demons need to be called and welcomed before they can claim you but when, bored and with out direction after graduating college, she gets a chance to reconnect with the object of her infatuation from high school, she forgets everything, including this rule.
Chapter Nine--The strain of the recent events, combined with the way said events force her to confront how much she has changed, push Rachel into a complete breakdown, which Susan and Alice join forces to hide from the rest of the women at Luther's. Then things get even worse when another request comes in for Rachel.
The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.
Chapter Eight--The slow and possibly reluctantly growing bond between Rachel and Alice is disrupted when Rachel is suddenly called on to perform her professional obligations in the fullest sense.
The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.
High Priestess Xtaj prepares for her yearly duty, to educate, join with, and then offer up, the chosen sacred vessel to enable the crops to grow. Never have encountered difficulty with this task before, she is completely unprepared for the range of unwanted emotions this year's vessel delights in provoking in her, driving her ever further from her confidence in her calling.
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Young warrior Sarna returns for a comforting visit to her childhood home, only to find that her mother's addiction to the reya plant has caused her to fall afoul of its vengeful guardian spirit and she becomes caught up in a desperate overwhelming battle to preserve the first love and refuge she ever knew.
Chapter Seven—Rachel makes an amazing and heart-wrenching discovery about Alice and the two draw closer as a result, even going on an outing together. Oh, what a shame it is for them that The Holidays get in the way... Rachel has switched off this announcement.
The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities lik plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.
Chapter Six—Sick of the mounting pressure to attend parties as the Holidays loom, Rachel's brilliant passive-aggressive revenge plot goes off the rails when she unexpectedly encounters a familiar face.
The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.