Bloodline, Part 1
It had been about two months since that first night with Abram. For a long while, what I felt most was a peculiar kind of emptiness, a sensation of a large hole in my spirit. When that image finally came to me fully, I realized exactly what it was that...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 5.4 - A Goal for the Future
On the second day of Sogra McCartin's arrival, Kiryu stood outside the hotel with Roberto Danzaki in tow, beneath a bleak silver sky. In his pale suit, he looked dull next to his friend with dazzling purple waistcoat and glorious crimson...
For the Prince 1
The cloak flailed behind him as he stood, facing the cliff and the powerful breeze that lashed at it. His reptilian eyes were fixated on the area below that cliff: a clearing, where the Forest of Follies met the Artisan's Range. Any moment now, his...
Submission: Estrasa Tower
Abby Tor's black scales glimmered in the crystal light of the common room of that she shared with her best friend, she paced the carpeted floors of the room. The sounds of clacking nails on the stone work just a single room away brought pulled Abby out...
Day 3 - Adventure
Xaliima kept close to the ground as she skulked through the forest, her dark green skin and brown furred attire blending with the vegetation around her. With her bow firmly held on one hand, Xilema's sole brown eye scanned the area. Under her expert...
Across the World 4 - Welcome Home
The Suneater was tended to first as the flyers all moved him to somewhere safe, sitting him up in the shade and nursing his wounds. Oddclaw helped despite his reluctance as he used his fleshy sling to prop the broken bone and stabilise it against his...
Across The World 2 - Thieves of the Lake
Waking up a few hours later, the sky was full of stars still as the fire began to dissipate near Oddclaw's feet. The moon was reaching over to the west, a shining orb almost round but not quite due to the slight wane upon its edge as he roused Moonclaw...
Across The World 1 - The Sun and the Moon
**_THE SCRIPTURES OF ODDCLAW_** **Three: Across the World** _"I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road...all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them."_ _Amin Maalouf_ The first thing he...
I Dreamed of Fire 4 - Autumn's Dusk
"Alright class, everyone ready?!" Ms. Smedley clapped her hands as the chattering turned quiet. "Now, I want you all to remember we are here on a quest for knowledge. You are to behave, to be respectful and above all to keep together. Remember,...
Your Possible Pasts 6 - Ebb And Flow
_"It all started in my youth,"_ Ecco began, _"back in the home bay that I was born and raised in, there was a fearsome typhoon that came from the stars and swept all of my pod away into the stars."_ _"They were taken?"_ asked Oddtooth looking up at...
Broken World: Desire (Part 3)
Part III"I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you're a baby."--T.H. White,The Once and Future King Graadig sat eating cottage pie with his fingers as he watched the third man's body being tossed into the nearest fire. Now...
The Coffin: Part 6
Marcus awoke, stiff and weary as if he hadn't slept at all. Groaning a little, he clenched his eyes shut, wishing he had somewhere more comfortable to sleep than a pile of gold. "You look awful," rumbled a deep, melodic voice from above him. "Well...