Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-nine
I spent the better part of a week assisting Lopside in great leaps of verbal cognizance and vocalization, although to my doggish sense of time, the long daily efforts felt more like months. As I mentioned before, Lopside seemed suddenly possessed by a...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-eight
I spent most of the day worrying about possible discovery by humans of our transgressions; minor though they might have been. To me the signs were obvious, naturally, and after receiving my brief physical, I felt for sure that it was only a matter of...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-seven
I got a few hours of sleep as dawn swiftly came and began to sweep into morning. I slept under the pavilion along with Pink Nose and Fatty while the rest retired either to the concrete house or else simply lied down in the damp grass. Although I did...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-four
I'm not sure why I was so hesitant. Perhaps it was all the strange things I'd experienced since stepping out of the yard for the first time. But right then the thought of another pack of dogs being around the corner frightened me more than it enthused...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-three
Not wanting to press Lopside too much at a time, I left him and decided to give myself some time to spend with my brother. He greeted me fondly with a "Hi Topsy!" and a pounce against my chest. He licked my face and I licked his head back. He whipped...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-two
A week after I'd first started hanging around Lopside, I finally felt like we'd started making progress. He now understood that when I was making noises at him, I was trying to communicate and he was picking up some nouns, like "food" and "water." But...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-one
Lopside was going to be a long-term project. That much was clear almost from the start. It was a struggle to cross that gap as he seemed just as intent to teach me the meaning of his drawings as I did trying to get him to understand my alphabet of...
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Seven
** ** **chapter twenty seven** "stop, please," said the security guard as soon as we entered the building. he was middle aged, sleepy, and fat, which told me a lot about this building.
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Six
** ** **chapter twenty six** dex hadn't been kidding when he'd said he had connections here in chicago.
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Nine
** ** **chapter twenty nine** dex and i sat in silence as the taxi drove us toward gunnery and floydston--and the end of my short taste of freedom. it felt surreal.
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Eight
** ** **chapter twenty eight** for one crazy second, i thought i'd wandered right into kaylie herself. but after my brain caught up with what it was seeing, i realized that the werewolf who'd caught me wasn't her.
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Three
** ** **chapter twenty three** the following weeks went by in a blur. i'm not even sure how many weeks it was. more than ten. less than twenty. i think. my cousins and i spent most of our time in the playroom.