Roen's Tale, Prologue
As I make my way through the village, I watch the guards break up yet another fight. I hate this village...no, not the village, the wolves. If I wasn't one of the best scouts here, I'd leave, and I know my mate would come with me. My mate...Railu, such...
Relieving Stress
_Cloudflare Error: 522 Connection timed out._ "Still? Sure, right when I need to find references the site goes down." With nothing else to do, I lean back in my chair and growl at my computer. "Mike, ease up. You're awfully tense for a snow," my...
The Merrin, part 2
"Hey, you busy?" Alice asks. He turns in his chair, looking through the pod's door. "Hardly. Come in." She steps in and produces two plates. "Here, roast beef with garlic, rosemary & girolles, and for desert, I brought Chocolate Love Cake with...
The Merrin, part 3
"Come on, Key. Fight." Alice gives him five more chest compressions, than two breaths. CPR. She's never had to do it before. Learned it. Had to, it's standard with any medical course. Though if her AI hadn't had to heal her after her suit popped,...
The Merrin, part 17
Avy has taken to typing rather well and has spent most of the morning telling Key all she knows about her species. She started with the larva he found near the lake. That's essentially their first form after hatching from eggs. It looked like it had...
Losing Sight 2
With the house rented for the month, and their things unloaded, he parks the cart in the yard and they head off to the shaman. When they walk into the office, they find no one waiting behind the desk. Puzzled, Nath gently knocks on the door next to...
The Cheetah and the Bulbasaur
Having finally had a bountiful hunt resulting in a filling meal, the lone cheetah lays down in a sunbeam to rest. With the changing of the season, food's beginning to get scarce. He hates migrating, but to survive, he'll have to. He sighs heavily and...
The Merrin, part 21
Sliding around on his back under the shelter, Key slowly welds all the floor panels to their frames. This process is made more difficult by the number of eggs and small creatures attached to the underside of the shelter. Rather than weld the entire...
The Merrin, part 9
Having left the riverbed behind hours ago, Key stops for a moment in a clearing to rest. He has yet to actually see any of the native creatures. He's heard them skitter at his approach, and Drudge has registered over 600 unique calls. Calls that, as of...
The Merrin, part 13
Working on the pod's transceiver, Key sits on top the pod, working through an open panel. As he works, he splits his attention between it and Drudge's findings about Avy. Since she's been inactive the last few days, it's given him time to do an...
The Merrin, part 22
The eclipse has started, bringing out one of the worst storms yet. Key stands near the cave's entrance watching the storm. Avy sits beside him, her tail wrapped in a giant sleeve to protect her from the asrukes, holding Key's hand. She'd normally be...
The Merrin, part 19
With the storm finally passed, it's night. Key works on the com from the outside. So far, he's had to replace the antenna, and several of the connectors due to massive amounts of caesium scorching. Drudge has figured out that the storms coincide with...