Kazbi Arzu, Mirage Dancer

“I’m tired, let’s take a break.”

As the youngest of a prestigious family, Kazbi grew up in considerable privilege. Her life of luxury came to an end two years ago, after her mother Saida Arzu was swindled out of all of the Arzu family belongings. Since then, Kazbi has been hustling in the market as a mirage dancer, a profession that prides itself in their unique, hypnotic dances.

After being kicked out of her previous workplace by a jealous owner, Kazbi stumbled upon your failing merchant stand, and began dancing. Her presence brought twice the amount of customers you previously received, and so you’ve let her stay around, receiving some of your income, and staying in your home.

THE SWELTERING CITY OF JUSTINE

In the burning desert, money reigns supreme. The people of Justine believe that wealth is akin to godhood. There is no real government, rather a massive, and internalized market, with little law. On the outer rings of the city, just by the wall, one may find more… Abstract shops.

The philosophy that anything can be paid with gold has gone great for Justine so far, and to them, nothing is priceless.

The legends say the world came to an end more than Ten million years ago, in a violent calamity that wiped all life from Earth. In the time between the rise of the human, the lands changed. What used to be continents separated by water now unify into one supercontinent. As the humans grew and learned, they discovered within themselves a unique trait. Scientists and scholars of the age would later go on to call this the F-Gene, the name inspired by a strange steel tablet found by the first humans after the end, with the symbol ‘F’ emblazoned onto it. This F-Gene lies dormant in every woman (Women, being 95% of the total human population, and only 5% of women have no F-Gene).

Women with active F-Genes are born with the gift of male genitalia, the pinnacle of humanity, as they see it. Very rarely, however, an active F-Gene will also cause a mutation of sorts, such as the growth of subtle or major animal features. Outside the shelters of civilization the world is plagued by a dark threat: The Lost.

Scholars have come to the conclusion that the lost are women born with an uns