Evolution Part I: Chapter Twelve
The black lab's advice was simple enough. "Eat more, run around less." However, there were subtleties to it that took more time for me to develop and then there were my own body's quirks to work with. The first obstacle I faced came at dinner time of...
A Bronze Rising: Blackout
The news that Sir Henry had been found dead was not as distressing to me as the place _where_ the Knight had been found. I padded the few steps to the crime scene, following Tobias between the tall trees that I'd relocated and planted myself. I growled...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Eighteen
It took more time to bring Pink Nose, Terrier-face and the shepherd-lab up to my level of understanding of language. During that time, life was busy but fairly uneventful save for another litter of male pups being delivered and three more dogs being...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Six
I didn't roughhouse for a week after I'd suffered my defeat at the fangs of the brown lab. As for my relationship with my antagonist, it was little different than how it was before. He held no grudge against me nor I him. I showed him deference when...
A Bronze Rising: Long Due Reward
Sir Ronald lay in a bloody heap on the ground, his face broken beyond recognition. Richard had continued beating the once proud noble long after it was clear that he was dead. Tobias had once tried to get the lieutenant to leave, but a look had sent...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty
The rain didn't stop through the rest of the night and continued as the sky began to lighten outside the concrete box. Although I'm sure that most of us would prefer to be dry, that wasn't going to stop the dogs of the yard going out to meander and...
A Bronze Rising: The Knight Falls
The man, this Richard looked at the opponent who completely outclassed him with open contempt. I'd made a fool of him this day, but it couldn't have ended any other way, the men had no ranged weapons and we were in a wide open field. The advantage of...
A Bronze Rising: The Theatre
I slammed my palm into wooden wedge again, breaking the stone with a resounding _crack!_ The large slab broke away at last, sliding down the gradient a short way to land with a heavy thud on the level dirt below the ledge face. I took a few deep...
Leviathan Chapter Seven: The Sea
Little sister worked exceedingly hard in the next several days. The extra salt of the water required a deep change in every cell of the body and the addition of a couple extra organs to the expansive midsection. But also, the fat straddling her body...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-one
Lopside was going to be a long-term project. That much was clear almost from the start. It was a struggle to cross that gap as he seemed just as intent to teach me the meaning of his drawings as I did trying to get him to understand my alphabet of...
Kovu and Mipa: Jobie's Demise
Mipa looked like she was serious. The lioness crouching and her tail aggressively high, she growled noisy stepping steadily closer, forcing Kovu to the edge of the grass. It was about then that he realized that he would be at a deadly disadvantage...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Nine
To this day, I still don't know what possessed that squirrel to land right in the middle of a pen filled with dogs. It might have just been looking for food, or it might have been suicidal. I harbor a secret suspicion that it's even possible a human...