A Patient Death 24: Gift Horse
**~ Chapter 24: Gift Horse ~** Roland stood on the edge of the overlook, cloak wrapped around himself. The wind buffeted his side, but he paid it no heed. Below them, Niverron burned for the second time this year. The bait had worked, in fact it had...
Fight For Me
**Nineteen: Fight for Me** Albion shuddered, biting his lower lip as he came onto Oderan's stomach. Riding out the last of his orgasm, he let himself fall gently forward, laying his body atop the drake's. He pushed his nose into his lover's neck,...
A Patient Death 26: Love and War
**~ Chapter 26: Love and War ~** _Nurjan is upon us._That's what the missives said, when Niverron first fell to Astmoor. A devastating blow for the war effort, one of the Emperor's greatest victories in the hundred. _What do they think now?_ Roland...
Leviathan 02: Easy Does It
**02: Easy Does It** Nico's about to vomit. He hasn't even made it past the lobby yet, he's so nervous, he barely slept at all last night. He sucks a breath in through his nose, pushes it out his mouth. Or is it meant to be the other way...
Black Meridian 21: Seeing Spots
**21: Seeing Spots** Kalico Black spun his revolver in paw, strolling over to the fallen plate. The audience held their breath, waiting for what they no doubt knew was coming. Small pups and kits held their paws over their ears, eyes wide,...
Viking Diplomacy
Six days. Nearly a week. That's how long Jake made it before Wendy came back into his life. In those six days, the young wolf did a lot of thinking. He thought about their relationship, and how it had ended, thought about all of it. When he was in the...
Heretic Anthem
Lars opened his eyes groggily, looking around, wincing from the bright morning light streaming in through the window. Poorly attempting to get his bearings, he noticed that Riley's bedside clock read 11:00. He wasn't too surprised at the time,...
A Patient Death 08: Three's Company
**~ Chapter 08: Three's Company ~** Breeze sneezed, cursing the pawful of woodchips and dust he'd just snorted from the air. He shook himself, again raising the axe, and again bringing it down on the errant log blocking the path. _Kunk._ The sound...
No Sudden Moves
Isaac was crying again, he'd been crying for days. The band members had all blocked him online, and even in class he was getting the occasional odd look. It was spreading, the rumour, like fire. Burning it's way into people's minds that Isaac Marks was...
A Patient Death 16: Disease, Injury, Madness
**~ Chapter 16: Disease, Injury, Madness ~** There was no heat in Luther's cell, and so the smuggler woke slowly. Like all reptiles, the komodo dragon was ectothermic, meaning he relied on the mercy of external sources to keep his body's temperature...
A Patient Death 14: Army of Thieves
**~ Chapter 14: Army of Thieves ~** Two fundamental ingredients are required in order for war to rage on for over a hundred years, and the first one was simple; an endless pool of able bodied men willing to stand and fight for their king and country....
The Sinner and the Sorceress
**The Sinner and the Sorceress** Francis leaned back in the hay, his tunic had been removed, exposing his chest to the heady atmosphere of the barn. His fur was a deep grey colour mottled with blacks, with a blow of white spreading up from his...