Darnlake Botany Symbiosis
There is no experience like being inside a pod that Venus had custom grown for your specific being. The sap inside tastes unique, as if it was squeezed from a distant fruit you can vaguely remember in your childhood. Being inside Dr. Tuber's pod was...
Return to Darnlake 3
Return to Darnlake: Road to Ganeton Morning seemed to come quick. Bao and I didn't talk much right away, he just tossed me another one of the red fruits and started using some of our water to clean himself a bit. He was right about the fruit,...
Darnlake Botany Botanica
There was no waiting this time, no letting weeks go by before the next serious conversation. The very next day that I came into work Dr. Harold Tuber was waiting for me in the back of the greenhouse in his office study. We said our usual greetings and...
Return to Darnlake
================================================================================================================================================ Author's Note: Even though Return to Darnlake is technically the 6th of the Darnlake Botany stories, it...
Darnlake Botany Vines
"Aren't you enjoying yourself? It looks like there's too much on that otter mind of yours." "Well... yes. It's hard not to be curious about everything that has been going on here." "Now's as good a time as any to start asking." "I suppose so....
Darnlake Botany-R 02
A few weeks passed and I was having a hard time finding the right way to ask Dr. Tuber the specifics of what was happening at the greenhouse. I had more than a good peek of things with his potted plant and it had proven to be a wonderful distraction...
Darnlake Botany Nourishment
A phone call in the middle of the night is never a good sign. "Come into work now. Right now. We have a big problem." "Hhmmm... wha... ohh... Dr. Tuber what time is it?" "Fescue Maps, I said right now! This is urgent, the situation is getting...
Darnlake Botany-R 04
A phone call in the middle of the night is never a good sign. "Come into work right this instant. We have a big problem." My boss' voice was even more stern and serious than usual. "Dr. Tuber?" My thoughts were still in a fog from whatever dream...
Darnlake Botany-R 03
Dr. Tuber let me take a day off after what had happened between myself and the sundew. When he told me the next day we'd be working a night shift I could only imagine he wanted to spend more quality time with his wife. Probably enjoying a nice brunch...
Return to Darnlake 2
Return to Darnlake: The Moss Gym I wondered if Fescue Maps would be angry with me for waiting so long to come back for him. In all honesty, I realize I didn't have a choice until now. There were quite a few other botanists and scientists of all...
Hold Me Until Tomorrow
Today her fur was pure white, more than fresh snow or heavenly clouds. She was a wolf, her nose was a soft pink and the fangs just below her lips gave off the most subtle hint of a fierce nature. More than anything else, her eyes stood out from the...
Ivory Fang - Dawn
"You can put those away, we're not here to hunt." My mentor and I had walked west for several days. I was lead to believe we were coming back with a special 'surprise' for our tribe back home, perhaps some sort of rare meal to celebrate my...