Ander - Chapter 2, Subchapter 3
3 "Your own brother, eh? That's hard," Salem said, taking a deep drag on a pipe he had pulled from his front pocket a few minutes ago. Ander was quite interested in the process of stuffing it with pipe-weed and then lighting it with a contraption not...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 1
**HIGH HOPES** Snow falls from the sky as a Before-World train plows through the frozen wastes of Further Bismarck. It carries with it a contingent of Anthrostate troopers bound for the frontier, who huddle together on the floor for warmth in an...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 17
**THE POST-WAR DREAM** Sitting in a bunker here behind your wall. It's a place you've been many times before. Once for a good stretch when your father died, but almost always briefly. You've gone away inside, beneath blissfully cozy sheets and soft...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 2
**HEY YOU** _knock knock knock_ ... "Enter." You open the door to Lotte's compartment, and find her sitting in her chair as if nothing intensely sexual happened within the last half hour. All traces of your...mess appear to have been scrubbed...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 13
**LEARNING TO FLY** Morning finds you and Lotte nestled in a cocoon of blankets next to her old kerosene heater in the air traffic control tower. The worthless thing broke last night sometime during cleanup, but you weren't complaining. Any...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 11
**...IS THE ANTHRO WAY** You find Beckett standing outside the field hospital staring at the night sky. There's a full moon out this evening, unobstructed by clouds, and a brilliant sky full of stars swirls over your head. There aren't many...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 10
**HANGING ON IN QUIET DESPERATION...** Ash falls and smoke rises on the 14th day of the Siege of Wind River. It has been 9 days since you last saw your wife, and 5 days since your last patient of the day came into the clinic. Mt. Ashina is...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 8
**MOTHER** You sit in your apartment, practicing your suturing on pieces of scrap leather. It has been 5 days since your and Lotte's argument, and subsequent reconciliation. SSGT Beckett sits across from you in Lotte's seat, humming happily as she...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 9
**THE GRASS WAS GREENER** You wake up early on a warm spring day, sunlight peeking through the curtains as you greet the dawn. You hop off the bed and stretch, giving a cute little yawn as you reach your hands to the heavens. The scent of...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 4
**COMFORTABLY NUMB** You hate this You honestly, truly hate this life. What immediately followed your surrender to husbandry was frankly worthy of suicide. Your mother's freedom? Worth it. Your elder sisters' acquittal? It had to be done. The...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 12
**DON'T LEAVE ME NOW** You ascend the stairs to Lotte's hideout in the old traffic control tower with the trepidation of a prisoner marching to their execution. Lotte needs you, and you need her. The pain in your chest and the desire to touch...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 6
**HOW I WISH YOU WERE HERE (PT 1)** The door at the end of the hallway opens up to an ordinary looking conference room with a long wooden table by the windows. The seats are high and big enough to support most anthros, and the walls are decorated...
CPT Obmeyer: Ch. 15
**THE FINAL CUT (PT. 1)** Doreen Goll throws open the tower door, panting heavily, dripping with sweat, and leaking makeup down her face. "Pavel. Y. Koslov. _I am DONE letting you play with my feelings!_ " She declares angrily, and jabs a shaking,...