Ghost of a Rose ~ Chapter 11
Markus ran through the figures before him once more. Everything _seemed_ to line up just right: with an idle claw he tapped at one line after another, checking with the ledger opened between him and Rhea beside him, peering at the quality of the ink...
A Taste of Something Else ~ 20/20 Hindsight
“This is just how it goes sometimes." “I know." All around bubbles the sound of a slow day at the mall. In the air hangs the aroma of hot pretzels, and fresh baked cookies, and the unique mingle of the nearby food court; then there...
Ghost of a Rose ~ Chapter 18
“You and I have already spoken on the matter, Lord Kalla." Markus nodded without bowing his head, paws clasped behind his back. As usual he stared a point roughly above and to the side of Lord Thorn's ear. “Yes, sir." “But for my...
Ghost of a Rose ~ Chapter 7
Markus tried not to scratch beneath the collar of his shirt again, after having struggled with the fitting of the outfit so much that he had had to call for the help of the carriage driver. As soon as he had stepped out, he could feel the difference in...
Nyctophobia
There was a house in a forest. IT was quite a remote place, bordered on all sides by high-reaching trees and on a bit of a hill, wedged between earth and sky. It was a two-story house, on the second story of which was a balcony, an overlook: if someone...
Always There
Lukas found her when she was just a kitten. A tiny thing, really, black and tan like a cinnamon-dusted ball of shadow that could fit into his cupped paws, even as a young pup himself. She'd spent the first year of her life as a stray, after which...
Ghost of a Rose ~ Chapter 9
Markus’s fingers brushed along the cool, moist walls, feeling where the bricks gave way to natural stone and earth, picking out how this section had likely been added on after the construction of the rest of the manor. The passageways within the Oryon...
Birdsong, Part 2 [Commission]
_He ran. Felix could see the end of the street, could see the buildings passing by on either side of him, yet whenever he looked forward again, the expanse of sunlit grasses surrounding the city remained just as far away as the last time he'd looked....
Birdsong ~ Part 4
Felix froze where he stood, the _force_ of this presence swirling all around him. Shock, fear, disdain, disbelief, all pounded out and away from Askia where he stood, gun clutched in one paw and hatched in the other: hackles bristled, snout curled back...
Birdsong ~ Part 5
For a while it had seemed to Felix as though the storm had cleared, as though the clouds parted overhead so that the sun could shimmer down and warm his skin and fur with its gaze. The ground became soft and pleasant, and the scent in the air shifted...
The Long Way to Somewhere ~ Chapter 1
Caelan lifted his head as he walked, the marten’s ears remaining perked to the ongoing noise of the swamps around him. He blinked, looked one way, looked the other, slowed in his pace, then continued on a second later, all of the old stories passed...
You Are Not Alone
"The high today got down to 89, and thanks to an incoming coldfront, tomorrow should come to 85. Also thanks to this front, we should have storms through the rest of this week..." The wolf looks up from his book at the TV, where the weatherman did his...