Campfire Gaggle (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The whickering glimmers of the campfire's light gingerly illuminated the fennec's face as he stood atop an upturned bucket and leaned in close to listen to the sounds of the car's engine. Beneath his inspection rumbled along one of the old cheaply...
Never Retired at the Bar (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The coyote shuffled towards the bar with an expression of anxiety, the drab waiter's apron stained with more spilled drinks and dropped sauces than could be seen in the pale night's glow. "Hey, Chere, there's some drifter out front." The old dragon...
Park and Rest (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The noise started the rabbit awake somewhat, though he couldn't discern its nature, source, or direction. Before he'd fully awakened, his ears were perked into the chilled air of the car under cover of night. He held in place and his breath for a...
Garlic Beans (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The fox leaned over from the pantry and towards the apartment's main room, "We've got black, red, turtle, kidney, somehow darker red, and lentil beans. And something called a split pea." ~ After a pause the ferret leaned out of the bathroom, damp...
Pop (Otherwise Untitled)
~ In the rumbling din of the theater, the squirrel first noticed when her popcorn seemed damp. After a pause in the action, when the characters tumbled into a well lit room to express their feelings and goals to each other, she looked down to find a...
Puzzling Pieces (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The brown bear leaned back against the console's base and glared out across the carefully arranged sea of tiny parts he'd arranged across the floor. The process of disassembling four burnt out communication processors had been straightforward, even...
Limbo Lower (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The scorched and battered hulk of the ship rested heavily into the footprint of the broad prairie, the majority of the worthwhile and detachable bits having been long since removed. In the skeletal framing of panels and discolored equipment, the...
Paperwork (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The length of the room was a broad expanse of silence and dark, while the gryphon quietly reckoned that the floor was a great deal harder than it had been the moment before the net had arrived atop him. He struggled somewhat, and felt the soft...
Meals and Plans (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The laundromat was a soft rumble of clanking machines and muffled tumbles of clothes as Jake regarded the length of vending machine dubliously. The dragon glanced over to Randy, smiling at how comfortable the kobold seemed to be sitting in the corner...
Clarity of Purpose (Welded Sunset)
~ Well above the discrete happenings of the base camp below, the broad winged eagle mech carefully balanced atop a fresh thermal updraft while waiting for the final phase of calibrations to conclude. His attentions, lazily darting about over the camp's...
Situational Awareness (Welded Sunset)
~ The massive bear mech, painted construction pylon orange, froze in place with the creeping and sudden realization that the current time of his chronometer did not match up with the experience and sensations at hand. There were no spears lanced...
Quiet Awakening (Welded Sunset)
~ From the current distance, the system's star was only a somewhat brighter speck from amongst the omnipresent sky of stars and empty. Just enough of the delicate beams of light from the distant furnace danced across the approximately blue surfaces of...