A Bronze Rising: Spirited Away
"M-me? Powerful?" said the boy in a soft, frail voice. His knees were shaking with the cold. "I... I'm not sure what that would even mean." A tiny grin tickled the corner of my mouth. Perhaps the boy was not a stupid as I'd previously guessed....
A Bronze Rising: The Offer
By the harsher scent, I could tell that the human was male. However, the scent of the human male was as meek as a drop of milk diluted in a bucket of water compared to the musk of another male dragon which capable, by pure biology, of filling me with...
A Bronze Rising: Scenting
The human was so long in responding I began to wonder if the creature was even capable of speech. Where there, in fact different breeds of human as there were dragons? Perhaps I'd picked up a variety with no more sense than a rutting pig. Oh well,...
A Bronze Rising: Kidnapping
...human. Yes, that's what they were called. I circled lower and lower sacrificing the height I had taken from the thermal. It gave me time to decide which direction from which to strike. I was well practiced in hiding myself on my approach. The trees...
A Bronze Rising: The Gift of Patience
I resist the temptation to simply fly down to the village, create a ruckus and position myself as the peoples' new ruler. Not that I couldn't, but that approach lacked finess and besides, they tiny things would probably attempt to kill me as soon as I...
A Bronze Rising: New Territory
After a weary climb over the heights of the last mountains, I glide down the chilly slopes, the bald rock giving way swiftly to tall evergreens that fill the sweeping valley ahead of me. My wings burned upon my back with the effort of crossing the...
The New Alveri Chronicles: In the Land of Nod
In the country of Nod, it was a time of peace, growth and prosperity. For nearly 10,000 years, the Holy Riders of Nod have held the peace to the best of their ability. A fearsome union between two castes, once bitter enemies, the Holy Riders were a...
Kovu and Mipa: Kovu's Love
Mipa polished off the small menagrie she'd single-handedly decimated. Her stomach felt bloated and stuffed to the brim, but the only reason she'd stopped eating was because there was simply no more food. "For tonight she thought wryly and picked her...
Kovu and Mipa: Serpent's Bounty
The carcass of the snake took weeks to eat, even with Mipa's impressive appetite. Seeing as the carcass was too heavy to move, even with the large felines' combined strength, they both decided to hunker down there around it. It was an easy decision,...
Kovu and Mipa: Titan's Demise
Kovu was forcing himself through the tangles of underbrush when it struck. Likely it had been its plan all along, Kovu realized the second that it sunk its teeth into his shoulder and he saw the great glistening coils move through the vegetation...
Kovu and Mipa: Mipa's Demons
Kovu walked alone through the dark overhanging boughs of the forest. He was sexually frustrated and frustrated at Mipa as well for clinging to her old rationales and phobias. He was frustrated at himself for being unable to woo her. "I thought I could...
Kovu and Mipa: Rope Maker
Mipa wound up waking Kovu up yet again early in the afternoon, having to prod him several times to make him come to his senses this early before dusk. "Urgh..." Kovu groaned and rose unsteadily, blinking in the bright light of the afternoon sun...