Nocturne
**Chapter Five - Nocturne** Cass had claimed the standard bed, leaving Thomas to sleep on the hidden foldout mattress. The ferret girl threw herself on the bed ungracefully and stared at the stealing. Heaving a monstrous sigh, she considered the...
Stranger than Fiction
**Chapter Four - Stranger than Fiction** ** ** Cass's fuzzy feeling intensified and she thought she had gone completely blind. She could not speak, she could not react; all she was able to do was stand frozen as the energy enveloped her. She vaguely...
Bomb Shelter
**Chapter Two - Bomb Shelter** ** ** The project was about as exciting as could be expected for a class outside of her major. While they were both working, Cass broke the silence. "So have you heard about the bunker or whatever the U is supposed to...
Prologue and Chapter One - Saturday
**Prologue** Cass's panting in the night was suppressed by the tangle of cedar and fir surrounding her on either side as she darted down the straight but narrow stretch of cobble ahead. The only accompanying sounds were the soft scuffing of her...
Sigil
**Chapter Three - Sigil** ** ** Cass did not hear from Thomas for the rest of the weekend or even into the start of the week. On Wednesday, the first day her history class met, Cass mentally rehearsed her portion of the presentation over her chicken...
Slick, Slippery, Slimed--The Siren's Call
And there she sat, her mermaid's tail stretched long and muscular, tensile, and sporting the broadest, biggest fluke i'd ever seen on a fish--silvery, soft patches of pink and yellow webbing that spanned the gap between strong blue scaly flesh.
Fish and Lilypad
Before fish could ask any questions jacky thrust the device over her muzzle. a confused fish looked cross eyed down her nose at it. "it's like a fish's gills.
Bubbles
Gray pebbles lining the flooring, being sucked up by the fish and spit out.
The Day when Placoderms flew
Several secondarily flightless species arose, both as "placoderm penguins" and as simple pond fish with no predators, but the sophisticated lung still gave them a competitive advantage over other fish.
The Otter
With determination and pride he dives with a splash but the fishes are gone in a rainbow flash.
The Striped River Cat
Once upon a time, in the Amazon River, there was a striped raphael catfish, he was the spikiest of them all. He loved to explore the riverbed and his favorite time to do it was during the day, he was never fearful as his spikes protected him from most...
Vast, Our World and Our Resolve - Prologue
The vice admiral stared at her screen, the twenty-six standard hours of sleeplessness beginning to weigh on her despite the five cups of black coffee she had consumed and the adrenaline coursing through her. The live readout of the ever-changing status...