Out by Mourner's Hill (Commission)
**Out by Mourner’s Hill** By Laz Briar Rich woke, the dull chatter of crowd noise washing over him in a wave of airport sounds. He took a sharp breath, stretching, the fog of rest still heavy, clouding his thoughts. He was a dreaming. Dreaming damn...
Hearth in Herds - Part VI (Commission)
**Hearth in Herds - Part VI** Jamie wrestled himself from sleep, the slumber of the previous day fading from his body as his heavy eyelids flickered open. He took a breath and shifted, thinking – in brief – of lucid memories and happenings. One of...
What Was Broken [4]
Sean guessed that it was the presence of lazarus with them the first time that allowed the wolf to show a little bit beyond that mask of indomitable will.
Living High
**Living High**  If luxury were arrogance, then the _Glorium Maxa_ was the epitome of self-importance and indulgent design. It hovered high above the city, an airship draped in both grandiose...
I - COLLATERAL
_A haze of lucid, violent sparkling vapor oozes out of a small nightclub in the seedy corner of CivSector. Its once vibrant windows sporting patterned holo ads for an evening of limitless debauchery instead flicker with distorted, ruined static,...
Student of the Sultry Tome
STUDENT OF THE SULTRY TOME BY LAZ BRIAR \>The duties of the Librarius Sola are particularly burdensome this week \>You've noticed, over the past few days, a series of older, human-written tomes have been transported...
Peace Doesn't Sell
Black plumes of smoke choked the air as siren screams rattled the hillsides. The remaining Ajit-Kor mercenaries were scrambling to get out of _Zkaaz,_ their comrades exploding in pockets of red as distant shots picked them off one by one. Retaliatory...
Training Session
Training Session By Laz Briar  "Come on, come on, keep up!" You're not sure what possessed you to take up this training regimen. Maybe you got a little too excited one night when you signed up. Maybe...
You Get One
**You Get One** By Laz Briar It's a rush. It happens fast. You don't even process it – you're walking one moment and the next a spike of pain erupts through your arm. You were vertical, now you're flat. Everything was fine – just a routine day, just...
A Pilfered Exchange
**A Pilfered Exchange** _by The Brain of Lazarus_ _// Glorium Exaltia Imperialis //_ The first time changes you. He'd heard that phrase a few times, young Kalasan. When the youthful white furred rabbit had gone through the web-work of training in...
On Silk Wings
**On Silk Wings** _by The Brain of Lazarus_ _// Ordications Axx Protoca //_ It's not every day the Office of Prestigious Security and Defense ordains one of its own to travel abroad on vague business detail. In fact, an officer leaving his or her...
Sixer
**Sixer** _By Laz Briar_ _"See you **real** soon, babe."_ Kalden let his eyes wander over the text over and over again. Something about it was empowering, intoxicating. Well, not something. There was a distinct reason why it made his chest swell...