A Fox in Wolves Clothes Part 1.3 - Tuff Tails
He awoke with a dry raspy cough. The sun had risen into the sky to where it bared down on him. He’d slept well through the morning. The little stream continued to trickle next to him and Anzou rolled over. He stuffed his muzzle into the shallow water...
Juryokine: Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine When Toke stumbled back into his dorm that night, sore and on the verge of passing out, he let out a ragged sigh. Zashiel had pushed him all day long, for over seven hours straight. The breaks, when she allowed them, had only been long...
Juryokine: Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Eighteen "No!" Toke screamed, and sat up in bed. He sat there for a minute, shaking, before his brain kicked in and he recognized his dorm. After giving the room another glance to make sure he was alone, he hesitantly laid his head back...
Juryokine: Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten "What do you mean there's no class today?" Toke asked in outrage. "Just what I said," the secretary snapped, standing behind his desk instead of sitting at it. "Professor Navras has fallen ill and cannot be here to teach you...
Juryokine: Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven _Meet me in the alleyway._ Toke cursed, wadding the note into a ball and throwing it across the room. Of course she would want to go check it out, and _of course_ she would want to bring him along. As if he hadn't proven himself...
Juryokine: Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight Toke's head throbbed with pain as sunlight attacked his eyelids. The hot air was sticky with humidity, and the rough bed of corn cobs and stalks didn't allow him the illusion that he was lying in his dorm at school. With a groan, he...
Juryokine: Chapter Five
Chapter Five "Try not to order anything _too_ expensive," Mr. Gnasher advised his family as they sat down to look at their menus. The restaurant Evanya had seen on arriving in Jerulkan was called Tivinski Kolo, one of the finest, and most pricey,...
Juryokine: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen For a single, confusing minute when he woke up, Toke thought he was back in the cornfield the morning after swallowing Zashiel's feather. His head throbbed underneath the sticky heat of the summer sun, and dozens of tiny, sharp...
Juryokine: Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty One "This is called a dodger." Toke and Zashiel were back at the Massaro Quarry, standing at the bottom of the cylinder shaped hole they had made into their training area. It was two days after their misadventure at the Flashing...
Juryokine: Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Sixteen The next day, Toke woke up and immediately went to his window to check for a note. There wasn't one. A pit formed in his stomach, but he buried it with an indifferent shrug before getting dressed and stepping into the hallway. _I...
Juryokine: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve A strange crackling filled the air as the spear came down, but it was immediately drowned out by an even louder crack as it split the ground beneath it open. Toke rolled and loosened gravity so that when he pushed up with his hands...
Juryokine: Chapter Twenty Seven
Chapter Twenty Seven Toke could feel something cold and hard clamped around his body. He groaned softly as consciousness began to return to him, bringing a sharp, throbbing pain with it. It felt like his entire face had been hit by a wrecking ball,...