(D.X.) 2. Blue Eyes
She chalked up his comment to a lucky guess and ego. "wouldn't want _that_," she replied. "why haven't you asked me my name yet?" "names are unimportant to the dead..." "i see. well, i'm not dead now."
Coming Home
He chalked it up originally to his work. he was a firefighter and his shifts were the standard long ones that kept him away from house and wife just like it did with the other men at his station.
Jessie Raiye: Derrick and Kayden
And if it doesn't work out, then i can chalk it up to a new experience that i never have to try again." stretching his ruined wings, derrick grinned to himself. perhaps he should look up where jessie lived and stop by tonight, even just to say hi.
Harley's Secret (Part 4)
Harley chalked her paws and spun around her pole. she hooked one leg and bent back, so her top half was horizontal. she came back up and shook her tail for the audience, which they seemed to like.
Chapter 3: First Impressions
His negative emotions sensing is one of the abilities that he chalked up as one of his species abilities like his transformation ability. this time the normal miasma of negative emotions of the city was somewhat muted.
Sit Back And Relax
The entire situation seemed so surreal and outlandish that coal almost chalked it all up to some exceptionally vivid nightmare, that he'd wake up in a moment back in the tent and he could dismiss it as a nerve-induced fever dream.
Observations on biological responses to Human-Minotaur symbiosis
In older times it was often just considered a good idea for a human male to not enrage a bull, so casual observers chalked it up to prudence.
Unintended Consequences
Cain finished the circle with a final stroke of the chalk. the wide, sweeping lines of the outer containment circle were filled with twisting patterns; each one overlapping the others to form a complex net of arcane glyphs and power.
Tristan (Intro)
The two chalk white stripes that run down my back and through my tail are the only color on my body other than my pale blue eyes. i've spent countless hours looking at myself in the mirrors over my bed.
The Black Road, Chapter 1 - Law
It was weird but i just chalked it up to coincidence. we were soon led into the kitchens which were already in prep mode. getting trays ready, glasses filled, and other necessities prepared.
A Spell Gone Wrong
Before the kitsune, scrawled out across the cobblestone floor, was a large circle of chalk and wax. innumerable smaller circles of varying sizes filled the space inside, and countless runes and sigils adorned them.
Pawford, Ch 7: Lost in Thought
chalking the lack of communication up to yet another round of failure-to-connect, i got into my car and had just buckled my seatbelt when my cell rang; checking the caller id i saw that it was cj.