A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 27
The bridge of the Rose was cramped this morning, with every Frr'a'narr'ah taking her place in the circle of Mothers, and even Francisco and Night Star were in attendance. Lianna, the newest member of the circle, sat just behind and to Strong Soul's...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 1
Part 1 - Refugee "Again!" Stargazer's voice sounded louder than she remembered from his time on the Mrr'tani Pride, filling the hold with a tone of authority that he rarely used in her presence. It was only when they were practicing as they were now...
A Warrior's Heart Chapter 11
The human crew's mess hall stank of human sweat and blood when the door slid to the side at Strong Soul's touch to the release. She stood in the doorway with Stargazer behind her and two of the Ferret's Mrr'tani crew on either side behind him. The...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 10
Docking was a routine maneuver that hardly required any attention from the human occupants of either ship, and Strong Soul left Micah and Jules to take care of the details between themselves. With a tiny feeling of emptiness, she drew back from the...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 9
Part 2 - Warrior "You're sure about this, love?" Night Star asked, turning from his customary seat on the bridge to face her. "You know that there's no going back from this. If we start this, then they're never going to stop looking for you." The...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 8
The Spacer's Legs almost exactly matched the image in Strong Soul's mind of how she thought it would look. Garish neon lights covered nearly every surface, and though the clientele was generally washed, they presented an image of a particularly rough...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 7
Strong Soul was expecting Paradiso Four to be a grungy and run-down planet, full of pirates and thugs, and the entire journey across hyper to the coordinates that Stargazer provided, she was wondering what they were going to find when they arrived,...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 6
The Shinsayasa Vineyard reminded Strong Soul of Airgidbaille so badly that she had to keep from looking over the hill to find her cottage. Every so often, she'd catch her eyes wandering, trying to spot S'cree on the wing or one of Marcus' elk wandering...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 5
The joke among the spacers, as Night Star told it, was that Damrok was very aptly named by the first colonists that set foot on it. They said, "Well, we finally made it to this damn rock," and that was the way that it came to be. Looking out the...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 4
There were so many goodbyes that had to be said before they could finally depart Mss'ranaw, and Strong Soul sat in her now-familiar right hand seat in the bridge of the Mrr'tani Pride, reflecting on just how many friends she'd made in the short time...
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 3
She felt Stargazer's mind before she even reached the door. The link carried the familiar flavor of his particular brand of annoyance. It was the kind that he suffered with in silence, for he knew that even pointing out what he was annoyed about this...
Cats of a Different Color, Chapter 10: Camp
Tala Lokni Unknown Location, Earth It seemed like forever that Tala was sitting with Aina, the other healer drifting in and out of consciousness, never fully returning to awareness, not with the drug that he'd given her still in her system. It would...