Rating: PG
Word Count: 727
Summary: Opulence doesn't suit Paradigm, Kse's dancing doesn't suit Maxim (or anyone else, really) and there's always someone at these things that you don't want to see...

( The drinks were warm and the expensive foods were cold and silently Paradigm watched couples dance strange steps he didn't think he could follow in a million years. And the chairs were too hard. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: A little cloudgazing beneath the virtual clouds.

( The clouds scudded across the vivid sky, reflected in her eyes. "That one looks like a shotgun." )