Wages: Chapter Three
**_Brethren, mates, and anger._** I turned away, not wishing to see the red drake take his final, blood choked breaths. "Rot forever, bastard!" I muttered quietly to myself. How I cursed him! Oh, how I cursed the old drake! Thank Sephive we have the...
Wages: Chapter Two
**Chapter Two: **** _Louis, Collin, and Mike_** "Yesterday, at 10:47 AM, May twelfth, 1974, three men walked into the Bank Of New York on fifty-first street in Manhattan. They were in the bank for seven minutes, killed three people, and made off with...
Wages: Chapter One
**Part One: The Colony** **Chapter One: A storyteller's death** The perennials were in bloom, illuminating the mountain valley with the violet splendor of a million purple lilacs under the springtime sun. The mountains, like great palisades,...
Wages: Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Sixteen - The Chosen Few At the stream that afternoon, once Veexer had finished speaking with me, he, with the still shocked Roaz in tow, had left, setting off to find those he deemed "trustworthy". With him gone, composure fell, and I...
Wages: Chapter Eighteen
**Chapter Eighteen - Paranoia and Pain** At the sight of the gun, the strange man standing atop the stone and earthen embankment, and the glint of the sun on metal, I reeled. Death was upon me, striking in the form of these humans, this _Louis...
Wages: Chapter Seventeen
**Chapter Seventeen - God & Eden** Excerpts from Louis Bekker's journal May 29, 1974 _Heard over the radio today that terrorists took some school in Ma'alot, Lebanon. They say a lot of people died, mostly teens. Collin said, in his words, that it...
The Pool (Art + Story)
"When I was a whelp, the water terrified me!" Savel stopped, turning back to look at the wyvern following at his heels. "Strange now, I think," he continued, "an aquatic being terrified of the water, but I was, was..." The drake trailed off, lost...
Wages: Chapter Nineteen
**Chapter Nineteen - Pit** Inhale. Scales shifted as she felt her lungs fill. She dragged on the air of life, clung to it with all her might. Her chest rose, rose... _Pain!_ Pain, such tearing, ripping pain! It burned through her, sending her body...
The Cosmos Dethroned (I)
**Phase I** "Káev... ar-are you alright?" He winced. The words, no matter how softly spoken, seemed jarring in the cold silence of night. They stung his ears, causing them to ring, and made his stomach contract into a tight, heavy ball that rested...
The Pool, Chapter Two.
Evet was warm. It wasn't the type of uncomfortable warmth, like the heat that had bore down upon her on the trek out to the pool - no, this was a warmth she felt contented by. It made her want to lay down in the grass, spread her wings, and take a...