Styles and Attitudes
Part one _(In which a client avails himself of Temple's best-trained rebel, and is quite impressed with his submission.)_ Ten Proudarm's fingers thumped on his keyboard. Exhaustion made him impatient, and in a hurry to end this day. His large...
All in
The old sunblasted walls rose soullessly from the sands in the rosy light of dawn. The impressive, but slowly crumbling arcades lead to complex sets of stairs and passageways, which would soon allow rich and poor alike to quickly find seating in their...
Reined In (1/2)
King Yedezh of Berogh cynically went over the motions. He walked up and down the fresh-faced troops lined up neatly in his courtyard. A bunch of birds flapped about the crenellations in the battlements above them, moving from merlon to merlon, and...
Nilo Seethes
I bit my lip, but gave no indication that I was in any sort of agreement. Drez grunted impatiently, inclining his chair backward as he crossed his scaly legs over his desk. He nearly knocked his laptop down to the floor. -- You know that your master...
A Silvergate story (Chapter 1/11) - Duel
There wasn't any wind at all. No breeze gently held aloft the banners on the fortified walls, and the flags atop the city's towers. No gust howled mysteriously through the alleyways between the tall, serious buildings of the capital. Nature refused to...
Eight seconds flat (1/2)
Ayyal inched forward through the long, yellowing grass. The cheetah's slender body easily dodged the dry branches and the barely visible rocks that might have tripped him. He crawled low, silent in his flawless focus. From his vantage point on top of...
Two for one
-- The governor is irritated at me and, frankly, I can't blame him. Merron appeared rather displeased himself. The panther stared with his black arms crossed over his red linen tunic, but not for long. The Bonehead chief gestured emphatically when he...
Eight seconds flat (2/2)
Seec offered a subtle, but genuine grin. That was exactly what he wanted to hear. -- My loincloth. -- Oh. Sure. Ayyal crouched to one knee, and worked to lift the thick vestment back up to Seec's waist. He had undressed him. As it turned out, the...
Black and Gold
The ragged predators squirmed on their knees, despite the chains binding them to each other in a line, and to both walls. The disturbing and unholy chanting of the crimson hooded figures of this insane rabbit cult mounted into a crescendo. Some of the...
A Silvergate story (Chapter 2/11) - Coronation
It took a few minutes to kick in. The situation, I mean. I really, _really_have to make you understand. Thus far, the entire chain of events since the duel had been too fast, too strange to sink in. In a way, it might have been meaningless, like an...
A Silvergate story (Chapter 11/11) - Dreams
-- How do you plan to rule? I talked slowly. I gazed at the Outsider. I desired a real answer. The reptile became quiet. His arousing touches persisted. The hand that abandoned my collar began to squeeze my nipples. The tremors in my rigid sex...
Wolfhair: Impact
It was a massive, ancient crater. It had undoubtedly once been quite deep, but time had smoothed its edges, and filled it with compacted dust that gave it a flat, hardened reddish-gray bottom. A place of power, of world-changing events like this was...