Sing! Oh Ravening Beast!
Chapter One: In Grief's Wake Sweetgrass Twined knelt before his father's open grave. Rivers Twined's head peeked out from the crimson and violet abbexi boughs piled over his body. His horns had been shorn off, pale stumps on a pallid, wrinkled...
Bound Ch.3: Raid on the Lower Warrens
PelTar Tower rose higher than any other tower in the sprawl. It was the final built, after they leveled the last pre-war skyscraper that stood in its place. Even an express elevator took twenty minutes to climb the length of its spine. The massive...
In Another Life Pt. 5
The prince did not return before Liolyn did. Sirtas opened the great marble doors of his lab for her, and she entered small like a rodent in a house of cats. By now her knowledge of the lab made it easy to navigate. There was the antechamber into...
The First Fox -- A Scourge Standalone Side-story
Felix Asher had been getting ready for bed, brushing out his soft, white coat when he received news of the captured beast that had been preying on his people. The court mage asked for the young lord's advice on the beast, for it seemed sentient as any...
For the Love of a Red Lizard 2
C.J. gave the camera a toothy smile. The chubby but athletic beaver wore his backwards cap but nothing else. A tuft of blonde fur matching the hair on his head went down his round pecs, thinning, traveling down across his round navel to a thatch of it...
Learning to Love Your Work
Elaine flipped down the mirror in her car and checked herself over. Her eyeliner was fine--just a light touch of it with mascara was how she preferred to go when out on a job. Her light blue eyes seemed to be scanning past her own muzzle as the giraffe...
What We Are in the Dark
Cathka got lucky. So many of the souls in Basphemen's Tower had been so degraded they were nothing but scraps of energy. They remained a part of the tower, circulating within the lich's dead body. She sat in Basphemen's study, one of the few normal...
Scourge No Longer Pt. 5
Melbin had been kind enough to lend them the first floor of his home for the afternoon. Selvanna and Karniel moved the large dining table into the den, shoving furniture aside. In Melbin's study, Karniel stole a stack of folded parchment meant for a...
No Good Answers
Inside the main room of the secluded mountain cabin, sitting around a large coffee table, was each of Mathus’ close companions and lovers: Karniel, Korlyon, Cathka, and Selvanna. With them was the kobold Srek, two human-posing old gods named Hakia and...
Ways to Protect
“Oh, Consort Zysh, any luck today?" Behesh asked. The wyvern looked across the table both Srei and Esmal sat at. A few paces away passed Sisbul's consort—Srei had been so busy correcting Esmal's spelling she did not even notice. On the table were...
Quizzed By an Aspiring Succubus -- A Scourge Standalone
Sepulcher of Midnight, like each of the Emerald Cities, had a school dedicated to training mages. The Asher Institute of Magic was one of the older schools, modest in size and founded by a dragon and the Asher family's financial backing. Mages far and...
Scourge No Longer Pt. 3
Dialdon and Selvanna led Mathus through the Grand Temple with four guards following behind them. Though the guards dressed in clothes reminiscent of the rest of the temple—soft yellows, flowing fabrics, modest attire—they carried long, slim sabers...