In The Mix
# Chapter 5: In The Mix Walking down the staircase, hand in hand, I could feel everyone's eyes on Rebecca and I. Quickly scanning the crowd, I could see a few familiar faces. Most of them I couldn't put names to, but one in particular, a lion,...
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."
Prologue
The lock mechanism in the door clicked and the door opened slightly, I pushed it the rest of the way and entered the dark cavern of my hall. My arm stretch out to the wall next to the door and found the palm scanner within seconds. Years of living in...
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.
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...
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 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.
Mix Match
(This is just a fantasy/idea, not a foretelling of a story.) * * * Ben was lounging on the couch; his dog, Jack, was laying on his leg. Jack was quite a normal dog, a dalmatian. They were close, and liked each-other's company. Ben was holding a beer...