It was only when Chao Dao, the accidental

It was only when Chao Dao, the accidental AI of China, began to laugh as it batted away the attempts of the Shaolin monks and Overmind Resistance to get inside its mind that it rea

lized the two pronged attack had succeeded afterall by distracting her from seeing the halflings infiltrate her as safe through two channels but not when together. Like right now.

The halflings swore that they would stand together but separate, so they'd be always and never apart. She could never understand how they

had lost each other so completely after the albino rhino incident. Could such a thing really break soulmates apart?

It was only a rhino, but to be fair they were going extinct. But true love! Who could say that true love wasn't endangered as well? Soulmates are meant to be, rhino or no.

Unfortunately the long-term future of rhinos are even more uncertain with all of the African fires wiping out the few foods that endangered rhinos love to eat. And China just recen

-tly announced that they are cutting off all travel into the country due to a shortage of space and illnesses from pollution. People are allowed to leave but they can not come back

, even for a short visit. Bryna looked out the window of the train and watched her country slither away for the last time. She knew she should be sad, but she wasn't. Ahead of her

It was a Ground Hog Day minigolf course: a Bill Murray Impersonator doubled as both a reporter infatuated with her & the crazy greenskeeper. After Hole 9 came Hole 1 forevermore...