Keeping Secrets
Max looked up from his mug of hot chocolate, smiling into Brady's eyes. The wolf smiled back, before breaking the contact to sip his coffee. He moaned a little as he drank the hot liquid, inhaling the very essence of the caffeine. Max sipped his own...
Leviathan 05: Revolution Calling
**05: Revolution Calling** Nico walks across the street, keeping his hood pulled low, ears flat to his skull. A ceiling of strangely smooth clouds blankets the dark sky, dozens of blue-grey pebble-like formations flexing and turning as they waft...
If They Ever Learn the Truth
**Thirteen: If They Ever Learn the Truth** Oderan was sitting on the side of his bed when the knock came at the door. He'd had a nightmare of some kind, already forgotten in the haze of morning. He ran a claw over his head, tracing it along one of...
Black Meridian 10: Midnight Meridian
**[Part Two: Performance}** **10: Midnight Meridian** Until he saw it with his own two eyes, Fletcher hadn't fully grasped what Meridian meant by 'auxiliary show'. He saw now it was some kind of circus prelude, but the one time he'd had a chance to...
Quiet Violence
Brady's earliest memory is of a fur his age being hit by a truck, just outside his home window. He was five years old. He wasn't really mature enough to grasp the idea of death in an intellectual sense, but he knew enough to know it was bad. That day...
Black Meridian 12: Mystic Horizon
**12: Mystic Horizon** The circus's circadian rhythm changed significantly during performance weeks, as Fletcher learned. They performed six nights out of seven per week, and the show usually finished an hour or two after midnight. The day after,...
Leviathan 03: The Professional Difference
**03: The Professional Difference** "Kal, for once, don't be a cunt." The short, barking laugh of an insufferably smug border collie is all that comes back through the phone. Vick rolls her neck, pacing back and forth along the wharf. Most people...
A Patient Death 09: Tradition & Triumph
**~ Chapter 09: Tradition & Triumph ~** Roland filed into the Lord's Junction with the other nobles, fighting - as always - the urge to scoff at the gaudy unlit sconces and over-designed doorframes. It was early, and stark morning light illuminated...
A Patient Death 21: Everyone Talks
**~ Chapter 21: Everyone Talks ~** Erasmus sat next to the bed, watching Breeze. He didn't know what to think. Three weeks locked in this room, with the only company besides Fenton the local weirmother, who occasionally visited to scold Breeze and...
A Patient Death 13: Tied Down
**Part Two: Foam Born** **~ Chapter 13: Tied Down ~** _Like a soothed pup in cotton._ It was a saying for a reason. Breeze and Erasmus watched as Abigail slept soundly in the makeshift crib, blankets rising and falling with each tiny breath. The...
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 07: King and Country
**~ Chapter 07: King and Country ~** "Get up." Breeze coughed himself awake, scowling at the boot prodding none-too-gently at his ribs. "Hope you enjoyed your night, damn savage." He looked up, his mind wondering briefly if it was time to fight. The...