Winded Sails - Chapter 14
While at home, curled up and comfortable in her hammock, Kali rarely woke up early. Not once her clock has adjusted back to a cat's natural nighttime hours. She slept until dusk, and sometimes rose even later than that, as most residents of the Benz...
Winded Sails - Chapter 15
In the early morning, before the sun had finished cresting the horizon, Kali stepped out onto the main deck. A single foot outside the cabin and a gust flung her scarf off her ears, the loose ends whipping against her back. Kali’s whiskers drew back,...
Winded Sails - Chapter 13
Kali froze where she was, the fur on her neck and tail prickling with alarm. Tensed, ready to flee, though she couldn’t go anywhere. Her position on the flimsy shelf was already precarious, at best, and she only stayed there with Rinzaan propping her...
Winded Sails - Chapter 16
Somehow, word of the Mjauzi reached the ship long before Kali and Masede–and Joyana–had returned. By the time Kali scaled the ladder, it seemed like every sailor, freshly roused from an interrupted slumber, had gathered on the top deck. Every...
Winded Sails - Epilogue
The bowstring snapped from Kali’s fingers. Her arrow sailed across the green, a straight line into the target. A spray of sand, as it struck and buried halfway through. A solid hit, though not quite enough to breach the target entirely and leave her...
Winded Sails - Chapter 19
That sleepless night dragged on. Hour after hour, Kali waited at her desk, toying with the few loose beads for a while, her tail itching with a nervous energy. Constantly she checked over her shoulder, whipping her muzzle over towards her dimly lit...
Winded Sails - Chapter 18
For three days, the _Sandstalker_ dragged through the sand. Limping, with its two remaining masts, on the remnants of a scant breeze that hardly filled either sail. An eerie silence filled the returning voyage. Far different from the jubilation...
Winded Sails - Chapter 8
This wasn't exactly the night Kali had hoped for. First exhausting Rinzaan with a couple dances, then the near-catastrophe with his gold, and, after all that, then arguing over long-dead sea monsters on a rooftop? Thus far, almost every turn Kali had...
Winded Sails - Chapter 10
The line for the lift wrapped around the block, twisting and snaking through the Benz streets, like it usually did in the late afternoon. When the sun kissed the sand on the horizon, before the nighttime bustle started, that was when the grand Mjau...