White Noise
_Beep_. _Beep_. _Beep_. That was the first thing Lars heard. Hearing seemed to be his only sense right now. His eyes seemed to be open, but everything in front of him was a blur of greys and whites. Beep. He could hear beeping, but had no idea where...
A Patient Death 24: Gift Horse
**~ Chapter 24: Gift Horse ~** Roland stood on the edge of the overlook, cloak wrapped around himself. The wind buffeted his side, but he paid it no heed. Below them, Niverron burned for the second time this year. The bait had worked, in fact it had...
A Patient Death 26: Love and War
**~ Chapter 26: Love and War ~** _Nurjan is upon us._That's what the missives said, when Niverron first fell to Astmoor. A devastating blow for the war effort, one of the Emperor's greatest victories in the hundred. _What do they think now?_ Roland...
A Patient Death 08: Three's Company
**~ Chapter 08: Three's Company ~** Breeze sneezed, cursing the pawful of woodchips and dust he'd just snorted from the air. He shook himself, again raising the axe, and again bringing it down on the errant log blocking the path. _Kunk._ The sound...
A Patient Death 16: Disease, Injury, Madness
**~ Chapter 16: Disease, Injury, Madness ~** There was no heat in Luther's cell, and so the smuggler woke slowly. Like all reptiles, the komodo dragon was ectothermic, meaning he relied on the mercy of external sources to keep his body's temperature...
A Patient Death 10: All Hail, Apathy
**~ Chapter 10: All Hail, Apathy ~** Smoke rose in the distance, the narrow plumes of white trailing up beyond the edges of the city walls, indicating to all who cared to know that Nurjan's army was performing their morning prayer. The Niverron walls...
A Patient Death 25: Deliverance
**~ Chapter 25: Deliverance ~** Estrion's farm was quiet in the night. Breeze, Erasmus, and Fenton watched it from a distance, their paws resting gently on their weapons. "I don't see many guards." Breeze mumbled. "I count four outside," Fenton...
A Patient Death 27: The Predator Strait
**~ Chapter 27: The Predator Strait ~** Something was wrong in Lurren, Erasmus could feel it. To his soothers' senses, it felt like bitterness and despair wafting above them, collecting like smoke in a house. He and Breeze walked, Fenton a few feet...
Black Meridian: White Lies
# **Black Meridian: White Lies** _What kind of name is Spoons anyway?_ That was the thought running through Nadine's head, as she approached the little nest in the rocks that the gang's head cook had made himself. There were always stupid thoughts...