eighth phase - first awakened

Title: Interlude One - Cooking With Haru
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: She can't cook. He can't bake. They manage to make the most of it anyway.
Notes: Fits in after Albert's Legacy - clearly, Catherine's bakery puts food on Mao's brain.

( Together they make one whole chef! )


Title: Picnicking in the Rain
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: A little rain isn't going to stop Haru from making the most of his afternoon with Mao.
Notes: Fits in after Christian's Inferno; Damien's fierce storm reminds Mao of another place and time.

( Every cloud has a silver lining. Or something like that. )


Title: Five Texts Mao Didn't Send (And One She Did)
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: Mao figures it's pointless trying to send him anything - the texts probably won't even go through. But it's worth the risk, at least once.
Notes: Fits in after Malice, though some of the texts are from later in the timeline. Time is a fairly mutable thing in the multiverse, after all.

( Travelling the pluralistic cosmos isn't all sunshine and rainbows, you know. )

Title: Introduction
World: Exanimare
Summary: Azel has a problem. Malcolm is the solution.
Notes: I've been writing this verse really disjointedly; it's basically a series of one-shots. This is the first one I wrote, and it also takes place first chronologically. (I also wrote this one entirely because I wanted to use that line at the end.)

( The streets were nearly deserted at this time of night. )