"The Thin Line," Part W
\*\*\*\*\* It is true, what they say: you never remember the details of your dreams when you waken. You do remember, though, sensations. The overwhelming sensation that I had was that I was drowning, and couldn't breathe. I would be bobbing...
"The Thin Line," Part F
\*\*\*\*\* My initial thought had been that, clinking and pouring notwithstanding, I was about to deal with some feral furs. I was not that far wrong; it was Schweink and Bagoum, who by either some unerring instinct, or by the means of observing...
"The Thin Line," Part G
\*\*\*\*\* The next pawful of days passed uneventfully, unless you count Bagoum dropping twelve straight shove-copper matches to me. The stakes were comparatively low: the ram had to mow both the front and the back yard of the bungalow, a task...
"From Whom All Blessings Flow," Part E
\*\*\*\*\* (E/\* 7/19/2013) I'll be honest with you: I actually had good reasons and real reasons for "volunteering" with the Marshal for the duty. Certainly, I wanted to figure out who in the Netherhells had cold-cocked Brother Felix, and who...
"The Thin Line," Part Q
\*\*\*\*\* Two weeks later, Elvish poetry would have seemed a completely different world from that which I inhabited. My world consisted of, in no particular order, having to call out the Fundamentals of Gramerye while doing pushups (in a muddy...
"The Thin Line," Part RR
\*\*\*\*\* In the dawn mists, the ant-borne host moved across the ice, to the strain of the occasional oliphant, but other than that, in unnerving silence. As they got closer, I began to make out the emblems that they were wearing on their great...
"The Thin Line," Part UU
\*\*\*\*\* The next sensation I had was being poked gently in my shoulder. I awoke to find the sled-driver using the butt of his riding crop on me. "Sorry t'wake yer, mate, but yer only a 'ero once, right?" He gestured in front of him. "No...
"The Thin Line," Part P
\*\*\*\*\* More's the pity, there was no particular way I could skive and get on sick call for the few days following, without getting caught. I suspected this, and it was confirmed by Schweink. "We had a fellow back in the old Thirty Ninth...
"The Thin Line," Part CC
\*\*\*\*\* Much of the next morning, which was a drizzly late fall day, was spent indoors inspecting the kit of Platoon Thorn, Fourth Company, First Battalion, 37thRegiment of Foot. The first thing I did, however, was peer into Lieutenant...
"The Thin Line," Part O
\*\*\*\*\* At one level, things settled down a bit after that morning. Meadow and I regularly met and saw each other, to the point where our appearances together in the market-place caused no comment; at least, no comment that we could see. I did...
"From Whom All Blessings Flow," Part G
\*\*\*\*\* (G/\* 7/21/2013) I had a number of advantages over every other fur that surrounded the entrance to the Crypt. For one thing, I was probably a good deal younger than all but one or two of the monks. For another thing, I probably didn't...
"The Thin Line," Part V
\*\*\*\*\* The thing I remember about that day, right at the end of summer, was how beautiful it was. "King's Weather," they called it. It was brilliantly sunny, not a cloud in the sky, mild, and with just enough breeze to make the Royal Standard...