I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 1
# Chapter 1 The communal bunkhouse was quiet, save for the occasional snore or gentle mumbling from the tens of other workers occupying the rows of bunk beds. Max listened to it quietly as he lay on his own bed in the dark room, fingering a small...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 19 (FINAL)
# Chapter 19 Max awoke again to bright light filtering into the room. For a moment, he felt a rush of panic, thinking that he'd missed today's training session. Then he paused, breathing a sigh of relief that it was actually another off day. "Good...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 2
# Chapter 2 Max ended up drifting off to sleep with this confusing menagerie of emotions still swirling through his mind. He awoke the next morning before dawn, as he usually did. For a moment, he thought he needed to get up if he was going to make it...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 4
# Chapter 4 Max shouted as he sat bolt upright on the mat, breathing furiously. He looked around, finding himself safe and sound back in the Academy. He squeezed the sides of his head tightly and stared at the ground, trying to stop the shaking that...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 9
# Chapter 9 When Max awoke again, he found himself not in the small cage that he was used to, but in a featureless stone room bathed in the warm glow of one of the Academy's strange round lights in the ceiling. He looked around himself, finding that...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 16
# Chapter 16 Max's dour mood continued through the next day. After taking his Focal, he was surprised to find himself standing in a featureless stone room. In front of him was a black curtain, spanning one wall of the room. Seeing the nightmares had...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 7
# Chapter 7 The next day, Alva was late waking up. They were also surprisingly subdued throughout breakfast, barely saying anything to Max as they picked at their food. In class, Max and Alva both stared at their vials of Focal for longer than they...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 17
# Chapter 17 Max felt his world turn and he awoke with the Alius's words still ringing in his ears. He curled up tighter on his mat, grimacing as he quietly cried. He knew in his head that what he'd experienced wasn't real, but that didn't make the...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 11
# Chapter 11 Max found himself again in the featureless stone room. Remembering what the stranger had promised him last time, he looked up at the ceiling just in time to see the first wasp nest fall through the trap door. Then another. And another,...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 8
# Chapter 8 Unfortunately, the training sessions didn't get better. The next four sessions were the same nightmare, with small variations he presumed was to keep it scary for him. The worst was when they threw bunches of rotten fruit and vegetables at...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 18
# Chapter 18 The darkness behind his eyelids was suddenly replaced by the light of the cold stone room that had been the backdrop of the last dream. He saw movement in the corner of his vision, and he turned to find the Alius standing off to one side,...
I Dreamt of Wasps - Chapter 10
# Chapter 10 It took little time for Max to fall asleep, though he still woke up just before dawn. At first, he felt a wave of dread that he'd likely be facing the wasps again today, but the dread was pushed to the back of his mind when he realized...