Skill Shuffle

A Well-Worn Sleeping Ritual   It was getting late in the Kubai Desert, and the sun was just starting to set. Countless Xeros and were starting to make their way home from their long days of work, performing, and even creating. No matter who you were, the embrace of the night sky and a warm nest when you returned home was enough to make any Xero excited to retu...

It had been another long day as I dragged my feet up the glass, spiraling stairs, trying to blink and rub the blur out of my vision.  I gripped the stair rail tightly, pausing at the top to widen my eyes.  Slowly, two blurred and neon green rectangles conjoined into a single form; my bedroom door.  With it, everything else began to snap into place, and the swaying grew still.  I let out a sigh, knowing that this clarity would only last so long as I didn’t move.  I stood at the t...