Literature
Beach
Cinder watched them from the window, head perched in her right hand. It was Iko’s idea, to play beach volleyball, despite none of them knowing the rules. Cinder didn’t know them herself, but she doubted that Thorne catching the ball, running to the other side, and touching it to the ground was legal.
Signing, she closed her eyes, the hundreds of comms, news articles, and stats scrawling across her vision, just as she’d left them. After Levana’s announced death, there was chaos. The poor were currently barely affected, since they knew little about their ruler, but the royalty had been cold to Cinder, ever since