Teaching a Young Cub new Tricks
**Teaching a Young Cub Old Tricks** Chandi grinned as she sunk her claws into the springy surface of the jungle-tree, scampering up its trunk like a stripey squirrel. The young Rakshasi would probably have pondered the primal joy that tree-climbing...
Scalie's Dance Floor
**The Scaly Dance Floor** Wolfgang Blackwood sighed as he felt the night air caress his fur, gazing up the steep-walled concrete canyon he found himself at the bottom of. For a moment, the sound of the traffic - the honking and cursing and squealing...
The Rites of Slaanesh
The Rites of Slaanesh Carlos glanced nervously over his shoulder at the door leading back to the hold. Even through the thick plasteel, he could hear them – howling and hissing and rattling their bars. Whatever those vicious xenobeasts had been...
The Beastmaker's Age - YEAR 3
The Beastmaker's Age **YEAR 3** **\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** _A beautiful, golden-haired elven woman is kneeling...
Zootopia Blues
**Zootopia Blues** - Chapter 21 of the Legends of the DragonRider (...) When Judy and Nick knocked on the door a couple of hours later, Anitra could thus receive them in a suitably throne-like chair, flanked by her two gleaming bodyguards -...
The Beastmaker's Age - YEAR 7
The Beastmaker's Age **YEAR 7** Sayn hummed tunelessly to herself as she reclined in the grass, gazing up at the clear, blue sky, pondering the shapes of the drifting clouds - rare as they were. Around here, in the foliage, insects were buzzing,...
Deus Ex Machina
**Deus Ex Machina** - Chapter 19 of the Legends of the DragonRider Anitra held on tight to the small, squirming body of the Siren, Kleomene, as Blake flew towards the two closely-spaced mountain-peaks. Blacks like him still generally used that...
Raspawtin
**Raspawtin** Anastasia had always loved to play hide-and-seek. Well, mostly she liked to_hide_ - the 'seek' part always seemed to happen organically, as servants or others noticed that she was missing and began hunting for her... though she'd found...
To Darkness Descended
**To Darkness Descended** - Chapter 16 of the Legends of the DragonRider It was colloquially known as 'the Tree of Punishment'. By all accounts, it was the result of one of the many attempts that had been made, over the years, to create a tree...
Second Fiddle
Tiriana & Slate - Second Fiddle Justus Andomus sauntered through the palatial entrance-hall of the mansion with a suitably stately demeanor, even though he rather felt like humming a merry tune as he went. The broom-closet encounter with the upstairs...
In Darkness Reborn
In Darkness Reborn - Chapter 17 of the Legends of the DragonRider Anitra shifted her weight uncomfortably from one foot to the other. She was standing close to Direza's shoulder, ready to protect her if need be, while Melora and Mel guarded the door...
Family Matters
**Evereldis & Swarten** - Family Matters Evereldis' brow was creased as she stared through the darkness, her vertically-slitted eyes penetrating the gloom of the overcast night with relative ease – and those wrinkles weren't simply the...