Off Limits
"oh,_jackie_," the glowworm grinned, amused, "you _both_ were, don't you know?" the jackal was surprised to hear that the glowworm knew jackie from before.
Mean You No Harm
The glowworm walked into the room with a glowstick tonfa in each hand only to fall gracelessly on her face the moment she stepped right into the trap that her captives had set.
And I Must Scream
"that's right," the glowworm answered between pickax swings. "i used to run food with her back in the day." glew had been assigned searchlight as an enforcer. "until she betrayed us."
Phone Home
The roach lifted the glowworm's head back up off the ground next to her to look at it, but it didn't seem to lend much credence to her guess.
Die A Thousand Deaths
Those had to be the parrot, duck, and glowworm pirates they'd killed earlier, the jackal gathered. "most deals are informal, unless you bring in an arbitrator to mediate, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Water Flowing Underground
"well yeah, not since last time, i mean," the glowworm grumbled. "we're not here because you did anything," orchid assured them. "what do you want from us?" the toucan demanded. "we're headed for an ice cave," ghost explained.
Carnival of Traitors - Chapter II
Window lights flocked together alongside the track, as glowworms under a cave's vault. a fair amount of them marked the bloated belly of the inn. "and so we reached our destination." wenzel gratefully changed the subject.
The Master's Tools
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." (Terry Pratchett) "So these robot masters," Fran's roommate had asked her as she'd been playing Mega Man, "they're supposed to have been built to do just this one job, right?" The jackal had...