Jingle - Chapter 1
A soft jingle rose above the silence that ruled these empty halls. As I walked across the smooth floor, I bounced a little with every step to make the chains on my pants clink together, causing the only noise around me. I smiled to myself, swaying my...
Four Minds - 1
A gust of wind whipped down a sparsely forested mountainside, howling wildly as it made its way through the trees unhindered by the thin branches on the hardy plants. Scars pockmarked the hardened soil and scorch marks adorned the trees that still...
Malevolence - An Introduction
Ideas flowed through my mind as my eyes darted between the vixen standing before me and the door just behind her and the .357 revolver held firmly in the paw of the female. Tears streamed down the vixen's cheeks as she faced me with her ears pressed...
What is it to Love?
Loves now past flash through my mind People now gone to my heart I bind Friends and family, strangers and foes To all of them a simple question I pose There's so many words we use every day Each one unique in its own special way But certain...
Hive Mind
A sleek head raised up from the underbrush to the far off harmony of cracking branches; the noise reaching the slim creature's auditroy senses as it turned it's eyeless head towards the origin of the disturbance. A guttural rumble escaped the...
Just Breathe - Chapter 5
Return to Form It is a very informative winter. Even just that night, with the maned wolf curled up at my side and the genet sitting across the fire from us, so many of my questions have found answers. The horrid truth of it is, though, that they...
Just Breathe - Chapter 4
A Real Eye-Opener I've always been the adaptable sort. From early on, even in primary school, I've been able to roll with the changes to my surroundings, whether it be new faces or new places or new experiences. This ability was uniquely useful for...
Snow
I hate moving. I don't like leaving behind people that I've only just gotten a chance to get to know; friends that I've just made. I should be used to uprooting at a moment's notice by this point, but it's not natural for me, not even in the slightest....
Just Breathe - Chapter 3
Difference in Perspective My chest is burning with the exertion of walking. I don't think I've had this much exercise in the previous two years of my life. I have my pack and quiver on my back, the bow unstrung and fit into the leather case with...
Just Breathe - Chapter 2
Surprise Education I lean heavily on my staff, gazing over the settlement lying sprawled out below me with a resentment that I didn't really know I felt until this past month. All I'd known in my life was the colonies, never having ventured out...
Just Breathe - Chapter 1
Being Dead is Dirty Work The afterlife is a bit warmer than I thought. I imagined it would be someplace a bit brighter too. All I see is blackness all around me. How droll. And isn't there supposed to be no pain? I ache all over. Man, if only Paul...
The Double Life - Chapter 5
I swallow around the lump that appears in my throat. The gun against my back presses harder into it. "Where is she, ringtail? Where's the vixen that you were with earlier?" His voice is as insistent as the piece against my spine. I have to answer this...