This is a thread for stories before the beginning and to the side of the present.

Namely, it's a place to play out scenes for Nine-Colored Roses that don't fit into the main IC thread timing-wise. For example...

Session 0.5: Blazing Striker vs. the Bully - for MReav

February X, 2015

"Hey, nerd!"

As far as insults went, it wasn't very creative, but William Ray's voice had a way of carrying. Frankly, it was his only qualification as a football quarterback, but he was the sort of person to gravitate to that position anyway - very much the traditional high school bully and very invested in the traditional signs of status, such as expensive clothes, sports positions, and looming over people shorter than him like he was doing to Shira in the cafeteria right now.

Typically, he pitched more creative insults from farther away, but this time he'd made the effort to put himself between the new girl and the door, with a couple of his hangers-on idling behind Shira - no one close enough to say that a fight was about to start, but no one there coincidentally, either.