These Scars of Ours
**Twenty: These Scars of Ours** _Two Years Later._ Garrett woke slowly, vision fading in gradually. The bed was warm, and he stretched out in it, groaning slightly as his joints popped. Being able to wake up whenever he wanted, it was one of the...
Spilling Over
**Three: Spilling Over** "So... feeling ready?" Clara asked, crossing her legs and leaning back in her seat. Max sighed, her own legs folded beneath her on the seat, her grey hospital-issue tracksuit bunching up around her knees. The young fox took...
Thicker Than Water
**Five: Thicker Than Water** _Connect The Dots - Ayreon_ Dinner with his brother was more awkward than Ethan would have liked. After leaving the city, he drove absentmindedly for hours. He wasn't sure how long exactly, but it must have been a...
A Patient Death 11: Sweat & Shame
**~ Chapter 11: Sweat & Shame ~** When big pig Hando told Breeze the smuggler they were looking for worked out of a place called the Red Lantern Inn, the wolf had expected to find a normal, if perhaps unusually decorated... well, _inn_. "This is a...
A Patient Death 10: All Hail, Apathy
**~ Chapter 10: All Hail, Apathy ~** Smoke rose in the distance, the narrow plumes of white trailing up beyond the edges of the city walls, indicating to all who cared to know that Nurjan's army was performing their morning prayer. The Niverron walls...
A Patient Death 08: Three's Company
**~ Chapter 08: Three's Company ~** Breeze sneezed, cursing the pawful of woodchips and dust he'd just snorted from the air. He shook himself, again raising the axe, and again bringing it down on the errant log blocking the path. _Kunk._ The sound...
A Patient Death 07: King and Country
**~ Chapter 07: King and Country ~** "Get up." Breeze coughed himself awake, scowling at the boot prodding none-too-gently at his ribs. "Hope you enjoyed your night, damn savage." He looked up, his mind wondering briefly if it was time to fight. The...
A Patient Death 24: Gift Horse
**~ Chapter 24: Gift Horse ~** Roland stood on the edge of the overlook, cloak wrapped around himself. The wind buffeted his side, but he paid it no heed. Below them, Niverron burned for the second time this year. The bait had worked, in fact it had...
A Patient Death 23: King of the Mad
**~ Chapter 23: King of the Mad ~** Roland swallowed tightly, shivering into his fur-lined coat. "You alright, m'lord?" One of his guards, a stout orange fox, asked him, shifting in place. "Fine, fine." Roland replied. "Let's get this over with."...
A Patient Death 21: Everyone Talks
**~ Chapter 21: Everyone Talks ~** Erasmus sat next to the bed, watching Breeze. He didn't know what to think. Three weeks locked in this room, with the only company besides Fenton the local weirmother, who occasionally visited to scold Breeze and...
A Patient Death 20: Wicked Hearts
**~ Chapter 20: Wicked Hearts ~** Roland sighed, undoing the buttons on his jacket as he slid it from his shoulders. He licked his lips, tasting the dryness in his mouth and wondering if it were worth weathering Fantine's scorn for a nightcap. He...
A Patient Death 26: Love and War
**~ Chapter 26: Love and War ~** _Nurjan is upon us._That's what the missives said, when Niverron first fell to Astmoor. A devastating blow for the war effort, one of the Emperor's greatest victories in the hundred. _What do they think now?_ Roland...