4:35am, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. Nami sat cross-legged in an old armchair, listening to the sounds of her shower. A muted television washed the back walls of her apartment in flashing lights, but she ignored them, her focus instead on her tablet. She was staring at a message from her supposed boyfriend, a text…

1:39am, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. “What a damn mess,” said a tall, Japanese man as he climbed out of his 2097 Raijin; a sleek and silver car that did not match the scruffiness of its owner. “There’s junk everywhere.” A second person climbed out from the opposite side, a dark-skinned woman with shoulder-length teal…

12:05am, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. The bowels of Kanto City cried in the night, a forest of engineering and disposed machinery screeching with strain and rust. As it passed crescendo a man’s scream joined in; a terrified, high-pitched wail reaching out into darkness as he struggled to clamber and climb from his pit. When…

1:42pm, Tuesday the 13th March, 2125. The woman sat across from him in an old-fashioned grey suit, the kind of white shirt and sharkskin-coloured jacket that important people wore in old movies. She wasn’t ugly, but her professional demeanour and short-cropped silver hair weren’t to his tastes, and he kept getting distracted by the way…