Wages: Chapter Nine
**Chapter Nine - Night Discussions** "You see, it's all one big gag!" Collin proclaimed loudly, tossing a strip of venison on the makeshift spit. "Whadda ya mean?" Mike asked between bites. Louis guessed the little man must of eaten close to a pound...
Wages: Chapter Eight
Even as conformist I was at the time, I knew what we had witnessed that day needed to be kept a secret. Celsko reminded me of this many a time on our slow walk back. The whole time she spoke of nothing except how wonderfully interesting the little man...
Wages: Chapter Seven
**Chapter seven- _An Encounter_** I hadn't the time to think. How dare this creature threaten a female! How dare it threaten my friend! I was scared to death and enraged beyond belief all at the same time. The whole world seemed to slow to a crawl....
Wages: Chapter Six
**Chapter Six-_ A Discovery_** "Celsko, we're still... friends... aren't we?" The dragoness sighed. "Of course we are." She spoke the words oh so quietly, and I was afraid she would start sobbing again. "I just... I care about you, Nimbus, and when...
Wages: Chapter Five
**Chapter Five -** **A Gentleman's Game** Louis sat under the tarp listening to the radio, idly whittling a stick, and periodically slapping one of the seemingly millions of mosquitoes that surrounded him. Five days ago the men had torched the van,...
Wages: Chapter Four
**_Kiven_** "Shall we go swimming? Or maybe we could try to find those odd mushrooms we found last summer! Remember those?" I trilled joyously. What a happy, beautiful, sunny day! We hadn't had a day like this since that damn traitor was executed,...
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,...
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...