Episode Four: MAABB
A triangle formation swooped low over their perch. Tr'lia twisted her neck and arched back to examine the players. Not one of them had a shiny green head. Beside her, Lili crunched a trio of jeweled crickets. Her bill snapped as she pulled each bug...
Beast
She left a message for her husband on the morning of the massacre. Askeila kept her voice as flat as possible, kept the tremors away by digging her claws into the fur of her thighs while she told him exactly where she'd be. Where he could find her....
Episode Ten: MAAB
P'rao scuffed the dust with his talons and watched the entrance to the meeting cave for any sign of Meech. His buddy had vanished into the low opening moments before, and though the mouth of the cave enjoyed a steady stream of birds both coming and...
Episode Three: MAABB
P'rao flicked his tail and stamped one, clawed foot into the dust. Overhead, a gaggle of long-necked shoppers blotted out the sun, honking to one another as they passed each table and barely missing a collision with one of the vendors perched over his...
Much Ado About Bluebottles: Episode Two
"Plants!" LiLi scoffed for the twentieth time. "He's selling plants, here!" She nibbled on her bit of roast fungus and clucked furiously. "They're cut off from the nodes, LiLi," Tr'lia said with more calm than she felt. "They're probably harmless....
Much Ado About Bluebottles
Episode One: "Hurry up, Tr'lia!" LiLi sang over her shoulder as she hopped through the market's wide aisles. Her clawed feet stirred little puffs of dust as they scrabbled for purchase. "Come on!" "I'm coming." Tr'lia sighed. She clutched the netted...
Squirrel Tree Inn
Deep in the boundary of the Oakthorn forest, nestled beside the road that leads from Brambleward to Sunnydown, you will find the Squirrel Tree Inn. Run by a family of grey squirrels, the inn is built into the trunk of a massive oak. It is both shelter...
STI- A Dangerous Hope
Millie bent over the sleeping possum and frowned. He'd wandered in and out of consciousness for half the night, and the wound in his side had turned angry and red an hour in. Whatever made that cut hadn't been clean, and she weighed that fact alongside...
STI- Teresa's Discovery
The skunk screamed, muzzle stretched into a wide gap and pink tongue curling around the single, terrified syllable. Hector moaned, let his lashes flutter and peeked just enough to be sure she had no weapon, that he wasn't about to be beaten or...
STI-The Soup is Ruined
Millie's daughter-in-law was an angel. When Jeremy brought home the diminutive red squirrel, she'd questioned how so delicate an animal could thrive alongside her robust son. Patricia surprised her. Raised in a nest with six rowdy siblings, the girl...
STI- Hector's Plight
Hector pulled the blanket around his body and leaned into the wind. His fur rippled, silver across his shoulders and back but fading to a pale ivory along his belly. He limped along the dark roadway, stumbling when a loose stone rolled beneath his...
STI- The Toad's Prophecy
The toad had slept in her yard for seven seasons. He moved very little, spoke even less, and aside from a brief week when the snows covered his warty hide and she feared he'd freeze solid, had been no trouble at all. Millie's friends had suggested she...