The Vents
Lix wasn't a stranger to violence per say, however her experience in the realm of death and injury was indirect. A flaming explosion after a collision or slamming her vessel into an asteroid, something born by accident or failure of skill at the flight...
Rest, Recuperation, Repair
Love Like Oil, Act Two Koorka Station greeted Jack and Lix with in the same spirit as when they had left; with bodies, the stale smog of a dozen different species crowded together in too small a space, and the promise of riches for those who had the...
Adult Conversations
Lix was not one for distrust, not for her close friends at least. The Kux'lar was simply an individual with an innate faith in her entrenched confidants, willing to bank on her convictions and stand by her decisions. Yet one could only ignore so many...
Blood and Fuel
"Docking bay twelve, sidle up 'tween those shuttles!" Jack huffed in the hot confines of his EVA helmet as he dogged shut the hatch to the No Safety Measure's cockpit, sealing inside his captain and mate. "Power from engines to shields an'...
Kobold Krafts (at the store)
If exhaustion had a manifestation, its avatar would be poor Yelz. The kobold's subspecies wasn't ever meant for nocturnal life, yet here she was hitting the hay at two in the morning and finding half the sunlight gone by the time she awoke. The past...
Shark Skin Crowd
Unaki would follow her Thomas anywhere. Right by his side, hovering over him like a scaly guardian angel through pouring rain, freezing sleet, or scorching sun... Though the latter felt really good on her scales. It didn't matter to the powerful...
Kobold Krafts (in the rain)
Rain pelted the scratched and dingy windshield of the barely functioning 1997 Acura Integra, its cabin silent and musty from the lack of a working air conditioner or radio. Mercifully, the hazard lights still dimly blinked to warn any who passed that...
The Yulpa Circuit
"A great cycle to you all! I'm so enamored to have what feels like _half the galaxy_ join us for the first race of the Seventy-Fourth Galactic Asteroid Racing League!" Across the stars, trillions upon trillions of souls tuned in to forget their woes...
Kobold Krafts (at work)
I was supposed to have double upload Kobold Krafts and Afterburner Aftercare but a minor flood ate up a lot of my writing time at home. The latter is about halfway written so look forward to that! As always, if you want more scalie goodness, feel free...
Kobold Krafts (in the pool)
_Tink tink tink…_ "If I don't move… she won't see me…" It wasn't the first time Yelz had lied to herself; eggrolls were good without sauce, close-toed shoes looked good on clawed paws, green went well with pink, or it definitely wasn't getting...
Kobold Krafts (in the sky)
The pervasive beat of Wild Greg's had become nothing more than a backdrop for Yelz, her tail twitching in time to the angry rhythm pounding through the floor beneath her office chair. Several 'Statistics for Dummies' lay beneath her bare pink paws, a...
Kobold Krafts (...)
Three days. Yelz had been whittling away her claws upon a keyboard for three days, locked away in her office at Wild Gregs. Numbers rolled in the kobold's eyes like syrup, seeping past a brain that was slowly turning to mush and pooling around...