In a bookshelf you spot a book with a black cover but no title. Opening it you find a number of short stories, some of them only fragments that are continued, or finished, in later chapters.

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• Hoshi - Part 1
• Vyrliix the Stalker - Part 1
• Castle Auelius - Part 1
• Vyrliix the Stalker - Part 2
• Slight of Hand
• The Pattern - Part 1 (March 2004)
• The Pattern - Part 2 (March 2004)
• Castle Auelius - Part 2 (April 2004)
• Katana - Part 1 (April 2004)
• Katana - Part 2 (April 2004)