Wages: Chapter Fifteen
**Chapter Fifteen - Purity and Promises** With a snarl, Zarr clenched his teeth and let his climax take hold of his body. His breath wavered as pulses of euphoria flowed through his veins for a few blissful seconds. Panting as it slowly left him, he...
Wages: Chapter Fourteen
Celsko lay in the water, head barely breaking the surface, just enough to allow her nostrils to reach the air. She had wedged herself between two boulders, wings spread like great water lilies, and had fallen asleep. On the opposite side of the...
Wages: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen - Awakening Sleep upon that wretched night evaded me. As the blackness befell the outside world, I wept and Celsko fell unconscious, head and body resting gently against mine. It seemed out of place, having her peacefully sleep....
Wages: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve - Breaking Point Louis was a lot of things. Distraught, confused, scared-- all of these emotions blending together to put the man into an utterly glum state. In the days following his encounter with the two dragons he had gone from...
Wages: Chapter Eleven
**Chapter Eleven - Society** The shadow exploded, and the crowd erupted in an utter orgy of shouts. Some cried for death unto our leader, for others, praise was but the battle cry. In the middle of it all stood I, an inept husk of a being, unable to...
Wages: Chapter Ten
"Nimbus... are you in there?" The voice disturbed me from my slumber-- the first one in three days that had been without Kiven. Three days of pure solitude. Three days of nirvana. Three days without the being of hypocrisy that had masqueraded as a...
Wages: Chapter Nine
**Chapter Nine - Night Discussions** "You see, it's all one big gag!" Collin proclaimed loudly, tossing a strip of venison on the makeshift spit. "Whadda ya mean?" Mike asked between bites. Louis guessed the little man must of eaten close to a pound...
Wages: Chapter Eight
Even as conformist I was at the time, I knew what we had witnessed that day needed to be kept a secret. Celsko reminded me of this many a time on our slow walk back. The whole time she spoke of nothing except how wonderfully interesting the little man...
Wages: Chapter Seven
**Chapter seven- _An Encounter_** I hadn't the time to think. How dare this creature threaten a female! How dare it threaten my friend! I was scared to death and enraged beyond belief all at the same time. The whole world seemed to slow to a crawl....
Wages: Chapter Six
**Chapter Six-_ A Discovery_** "Celsko, we're still... friends... aren't we?" The dragoness sighed. "Of course we are." She spoke the words oh so quietly, and I was afraid she would start sobbing again. "I just... I care about you, Nimbus, and when...
Wages: Chapter Five
**Chapter Five -** **A Gentleman's Game** Louis sat under the tarp listening to the radio, idly whittling a stick, and periodically slapping one of the seemingly millions of mosquitoes that surrounded him. Five days ago the men had torched the van,...
Wages: Chapter Four
**_Kiven_** "Shall we go swimming? Or maybe we could try to find those odd mushrooms we found last summer! Remember those?" I trilled joyously. What a happy, beautiful, sunny day! We hadn't had a day like this since that damn traitor was executed,...