Author's note: Hello, sorry for these episodes being few and far between. It's getting progressively difficult to come up with what happens in these short stories. It frustrates me to set a deadline and not be able to meet it. This episode was not finished on the projected release date of April 1st, 2026. I had chosen to release it anyway and finished it over the rest of the month of April until the 18th. Future episodes in the rest of this season from now on do not have their release dates...

A high-risk run through the Serpent’s Corridor pushes the Diadem and its crew to the brink, where buried secrets, fragile trust, and Van’s stubborn need to prove himself threaten to turn survival into catastrophe.

The low frequency rumble of energy being transported through massive conduits ran along the beams of pure crystillium that...