Growing Closer To You
But your friendship was important to you, a lifeline and one of the few social interactions you had outside of the soul-crushing grind of a dead-end job.
[TF] Seventeen Marbles
They fail to realize i am the lifeline of the station. it's easy to fish out some recruit thirsting for adventure from a state-of-the-art university.
Broken Youth- Chapter 4
You need some hope, and here is a lifeline. take it." squinting my eyes at him, i get the point that these moments come very rarely.
City of Light: Chapter 33
Her sole anchor was the slumbering princess, azzik's final bequest, a lifeline preserving his memory. tears welled in her eyes. however, everything shifted when asterion, the articulate minotaur, threatened to immolate azzik's remains.
Aureate
Wiscnie trees are very susceptible to disease and rot, but research and conservation efforts have given their sour fruit a culinary lifeline. last but not least, the red zilzena is a fruit that remained elusive to velvian natives for hundreds of years.
Affections- Chapter 7- Storm's Eye.
She still clung to that ursa teddy with her other hand as if it was her lifeline, for her it may as well have been. she considered it a memento of her first date, although not official it was already priceless. "electa...." he cried.
Planets and Pacifiers [Comm]
Along the walls were various infantile patterns of little cubs, kittens, puppies, and other children, some of them wearing little space suits and diapers, while others slept on crescent moons or floated through space, attached by a lifeline
Dark Inheritance Part III
Alex looked back up from his survey and saw that the female wolf was sitting back down, still holding the bed pan as if was her lifeline. it was a pitiful sight and made the human feel bad; he was the one frightening her after all. "i won't hurt you."
Coyote magic
"that's not true," were the words that took him to safer ground, and he spoke them like a lifeline. "that's not true." the coyote stared at him despairingly, and then sank to the floor.
The Souls Judgement
The older blond tossed the pack at tristan who clumsily caught it and then hugged the pack to his chest like a lifeline. "...jerk..."
Kobold Krafts (at work)
It was the only real lifeline she'd come to accept in this new environment. especially after witnessing the dancers.
The Eye of the Storm
Our lifeline was a tiny, lightless cave located in the side of a bluff that held little oxygen and no life. isthia, at the time being, was useless and disoriented after spending a whole fishless night swimming in a pool the size of a hotel suite.