A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 7
Strong Soul was expecting Paradiso Four to be a grungy and run-down planet, full of pirates and thugs, and the entire journey across hyper to the coordinates that Stargazer provided, she was wondering what they were going to find when they arrived,...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 6
The Shinsayasa Vineyard reminded Strong Soul of Airgidbaille so badly that she had to keep from looking over the hill to find her cottage. Every so often, she'd catch her eyes wandering, trying to spot S'cree on the wing or one of Marcus' elk wandering...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 5
The joke among the spacers, as Night Star told it, was that Damrok was very aptly named by the first colonists that set foot on it. They said, "Well, we finally made it to this damn rock," and that was the way that it came to be. Looking out the...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 4
There were so many goodbyes that had to be said before they could finally depart Mss'ranaw, and Strong Soul sat in her now-familiar right hand seat in the bridge of the Mrr'tani Pride, reflecting on just how many friends she'd made in the short time...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 3
She felt Stargazer's mind before she even reached the door. The link carried the familiar flavor of his particular brand of annoyance. It was the kind that he suffered with in silence, for he knew that even pointing out what he was annoyed about this...
Cats of a Different Color, Chapter 2: The Outsider
Tala Lokni Silver Lake Abbey Litla Deirfiúr, aka KOI-172.02 Tala never tired of looking at the sky. The night was late and moving onward. The sun had set behind the mountains and Big Sister was casting her blue-sliver glow across the lake for which...
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 13
Part 3 - Mother Chapter 13 One week had passed, and Meriah was already sick of the inside of the hospital room. They'd made a great deal of progress on programming the software that controlled her new leg, and she was up and able to walk around with...
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Time didn't seem to matter where Meriah was, and flashes of awareness blended with dreams and nightmares. There were images of times long past, playing in the forest with Lyria as she was taught the rudiments of keeping game. More recent...
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 11
Chapter 11 It took a while to find a way to get Meriah free of the conduit, and in the end they decided that there was no way for her to make it through the woods with a piece of metal in her leg. Despite Stargazer's misgivings, they decided to remove...
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 10
Chapter 10 "And that's when the guy said, 'I don't know how those bottles got there.' Like fifteen hundred bottles of bootleg Franzian ale just magically appeared on his ship." Jason laughed along with Steve while Meriah tried to find some frame of...
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 9
Chapter 9 There was something that Meriah had never thought about when it came to space travel. Here she was, off the planet for the first time, and all she could think about was how close in everything was. There was no way around it, it was boring....
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Meriah swam slowly back to the surface of consciousness, gradually feeling the world around her resolve into something solid, and she found herself laying on a comfortable bed with the scent of her forest all around her. For a moment, with...