The Blessed Runaway
Filthy, sticky-fingered urchin! i will see you carved into quivering bits!" the shopkeeper flexed his hands, eager for a fight.
Ander - Chapter 2, Subchapter 2
"you little urchin!" kiana said, waving her crutch about her head again, as if she'd actually hit her dearest little sister with it. "need i remind you i am still technically betrothed to mateo?"
Fishers of Men
'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll) Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...
Stolen Heart of Fire chapter 2
You look like a street urchin." she quickly called over one of the servants, a stout older woman named madison, and simply pointed at lilia. the servant nodded and quickly grabbed lilia by the shoulder and pulled her over into one of the dressing rooms.
An Era of Chivalry 12 - The End Of An Era
"thy raggedness is a testament to thy desperation, urchin." "whatever, i'm still fuckin' standing!" and with that arrogant boast, he ran towards glenn once again, readily striking out to hit him in the thigh.
Ander - Part 2: Subchapter 2
"you little urchin!" kiana said, waving her crutch about her head again, as if she'd actually hit her dearest little sister with it. "need i remind you i am still technically betrothed to mateo?"
Loyal Dogs: The Traitor Chapter 1
As a pup, he was fast, forgettable, and had a charm that allowed many to ignore he was a street urchin. those traits earned some attention from many thieves, mercs, and assassins who called on him to spy or steal for them.
Counter Earth Chronicles Fallen Empire Chapter 56: Caught In A Web Of My Own Intentions (Conclusion)
"oh yes, you are the street urchin we took in." "yes ma'am. i am grateful. my life is full of purpose and i can now see beyond my next meal." "good because i am giving you another task. rise and come here." the female said to her subject. "hmm?"
Into The Abyss
'Let me hammer him today!' (Pink Floyd, The Trial) Mano's path led her back up out of the water and into a corridor that led her to a rowboat on a canal. Approaching the rowboat to sit down in it and pick up its oars, a chill went down her spine...
Down The Stream
'You can't free a fish from water.' (217th Rule of Acquisition) "I told you that there'd be another Great Flood," Boko chided Klein, "but you didn't believe me, did you?" Descartes looked Boko up and down. He had no idea who this chameleon could...
Deep Blue
He finally noticed her from above the pier as he flew overhead. Scylla was tied up to a pole, plunged so deep into the earth under the shallows that went back and forth between high and low tide between the shore and ocean that there was no way that...
Ripple Effect
'There is evil there that does not sleep.' (Boromir, about Mordor) "So..." Klein asked Fugue nervously, "what have you been up to?" He remembered the blowfish fondly, but there was something 'off' about him somehow that the skunk couldn't quite...