A Patient Death 25: Deliverance
**~ Chapter 25: Deliverance ~** Estrion's farm was quiet in the night. Breeze, Erasmus, and Fenton watched it from a distance, their paws resting gently on their weapons. "I don't see many guards." Breeze mumbled. "I count four outside," Fenton...
A Patient Death: Epilogue
**~ Epilogue ~** _Two Years Later._ Breeze crept into the quiet hall, the torches dim, his knee throbbing distantly. The leg mostly worked as normal now, although the cold tundra of the north sent aching spikes through the joint intermittently. His...
A Patient Death 27: The Predator Strait
**~ Chapter 27: The Predator Strait ~** Something was wrong in Lurren, Erasmus could feel it. To his soothers' senses, it felt like bitterness and despair wafting above them, collecting like smoke in a house. He and Breeze walked, Fenton a few feet...
Left Behind
**Chapter Six: Left Behind** The jackal called Walter Randor strode through the streets of the Tevarian city with his head held high. He knew most of the noble and merchant class looked down on him, but he didn't care. He was Slave Master of this...
The Weakest Link
**Chapter Five: The Weakest Link** Rain made the days even more miserable. Bailey had assumed that working under a hot sun was the worst possible condition, but apparently, he had been wrong. Whilst it was true that the sun burned your back, dried...
Playing Pretend
**Chapter Eight: Playing Pretend** Bailey stood in line, shifting uncomfortably. The damned weather was being it's usual unpredictable self, and after being rained on all of yesterday they were now being subjected to fur sizzling-temperatures....
A Patient Death 01: Descending
**A Patient Death** **Part One: The Age of Insanity** **~ Chapter 01: Descending ~** Breeze raked a claw through the mud, dragging his body forward, the stench of piss and shit and blood filling his nostrils. Death stained the senses in a way few...
Black Meridian 26: Closed Circle
**26: Closed Circle** _[Imagine you are Fletcher Fulbright.]_ A cold voice in the darkness, syllables like ice. _[Who is that?]_ Dark eyes watching, a chilling cradle of support. It all ends here, it had to, and you know that. There can be no...
A Patient Death 04: Civilised Folk
**~ Chapter 04: Civilised Folk ~** "Halt, you there, on the horse!" A hurried voice cried, the words splashing at Breeze's backside. Clenching his teeth, he pulled reluctantly on the reigns to stop Marlough's pace. The horse's hooves clomped on the...
A Patient Death 03: The Gift of Guilt
**~ Chapter 03: The Gift of Guilt ~** Lord Roland san Estoc did not care for Claude Morgan. He watched him now, resisting the urge to roll his eyes as the Inquisitor studied the clerk's order. His lips moved as he read over the order, the faint sound...
Black Meridian: White Lies
# **Black Meridian: White Lies** _What kind of name is Spoons anyway?_ That was the thought running through Nadine's head, as she approached the little nest in the rocks that the gang's head cook had made himself. There were always stupid thoughts...
A Patient Death 05: Kingmakers
# **~ Chapter 05: Kingmakers ~** Breeze hissed as the weirmother smeared a foul-smelling black paste across his gaping shoulder wound. She was a twisted old branch of a woman, perhaps a once stocky raven, perhaps even once the envy of her flock; but...