Filling the Void - Chapter Seventeen
Victus flowed through his Tai Chi forms with the peaceful grace of a fish gliding through water. The cool dawn air, made humid by the surrounding acres of grass growing unnaturally on this near-desert world, felt dense and energizing as it moved in and...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty
"i might be mixed, but i'm not stupid." surprised by the sudden change in lucas's attitude, victus quirked his head in confusion. "i don't know what i did to offend you, lucas, but i apologize for my actions."
Filling the Void - Chapter Eighteen
He was mixed breed, exhibiting traits of both rottweiler and shepherd canines. although this sort of mix conferred no genetic instability that victus was aware of, it did pose social challenges.
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-three
Cross-bred, heavy on the shepherd and rottweiler types, with others mixed into the genome here and there." as he described his student, the picture in his mind sharpened and cleared.
Prologue & Chapter One - Meetings
**Prologue** I was born in the early morning hours, when the mists still hung heavily in the chill air, far in the distant past. My dam and my sire, Fire Weaver and Sky Splitter, who are among those referred to as "First Ones", were filled with joy...
Filling the Void - Chapter Nineteen
During his contemplations, as he watched the other man cavort back and forth across the field with sapiens children half his size, victus considered that lucas's instinctive unifying behavior might have helped him overcome his mixed-race heritage,
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-Two
From the chair in his private office, Negin Mal glared down at his personal guards from the raised platform he'd had constructed behind the desk to enhance his psychological advantage. To Mal's consternation, Victus's air of cool detachment hadn't...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-One
"I'm worried about my boy." Dagen pulled a used paper napkin out of his pocket and wrung it in his hands, absentmindedly twisting it this way and that. Even though dead air was generally discouraged while on long-distance vid calls, he was glad that...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-five
True, he loved kids and would have liked to have a half-dozen of his own, but the thought of passing down his mixed-up genetics to children made procreation distasteful to him.
The Lizard Chronicles- Chapter 5
“it is currently five point six kilometers long," i give a low slow whistle, “it is a mixed species destroyer class colony ship." i give her a confused look, “what do you mean by 'mixed species'?" i ask.
The Countryside
Following that night things went smoothly, we had started dating despite people's concerns about a mixed species relationship.
The Legend of Captains Thod and Riva ((Prologue and chapter one))
The mixed species that made up thod's crew heaved on the lines drawing the ships together with a crunch of wood on wood. taking the line in one paw he swung down from the crows nest, the wind whistling in his ears.