Scale and Shield (Part 1)
Your continued lack of respect for the natural order will be the end of you." “indeed." he scratched the back of his neck. “i'm afraid i'm rather out of my depth here."
"BLEU" - Me'Zelf
The introversion, indecisiveness, and lack of confidence were compensated with my rigidity to the military system, and nearly all the naivete was eliminated.
A New Phase - Chapter 1
He had been having odd dreams that woke him up, for lack of a better description. it was costing him sleep nightly. he couldn't call them bad dreams, either, just odd.
Spiral Nebula - Prologue
Filled with tens of thousands refugees, the massive ship lacked combat equipment despite being composed of hundreds smaller ships.
SB-TB 02
Heavy lack of common interests than just one, heavy lack of talking points to get a conversation going.
VTQ: A Tight Squeeze
My body tried it's best to wiggle free of the tight flesh, squeezing and curving around it but lacked the strength to even interrupt the snakes movement.
Aurora: Prologue
I lack the axioms to be my own entity for reasons i stated before. to exist is to have bias, and to have bias is to fail at my job. from what i recall, i've always been good at failure. my creators are long dead.
Exposure - Chapter Ten
Nothing about his dancing looked artificial or contrived; it was natural emotion, elegantly conveyed with a total lack of artifice.
Scales and Honor- Swirling Storm: Chapter 3
"or it could be that you lack the blood to do it." the dragon sighed as he bumped the human gently with his snout. "would you keep trying to do it if you lack the blood? even if you lack any natural talent?"
Contemplation
An hour of perusing later he was able to uncover quite a bit on cornerian expansion, or rather the lack of it.
Walking a New Path
Judging by her utter lack of reaction to his presence, the construct was no doubt deeply consumed by her thoughts.
A Lucky Day
Soon the lack of air started catching up with him. he struggled and cried inside his bounds, his body spasming and bouncing in the webs as it starved for oxygen.