The Gazelle Joint
The Gazelle Joint (The following events pertain to two characters owned in full by Monbai.) Ginny shifted from one foot to the other and eyed the spiral pillars to either side of the _Gazelle Gourmand's_ front entrance. The high glass windows were...
Episode Eight: MAAB
P'rao adjusted his angle and dropped like a stone until his talons just hovered over the wispy grasses. He flexed his claws and twisted to see Meech on his right, just now descending to a skimming altitude. Beyond his friend, the green wall that marked...
Episode Nine: MAAB
Episode Nine: The cave yawned near the bottom of the aerie wall, in the public area but far enough from the social vugs to be secluded. Marked for business and not fun. Tr'lia flew past it twice before fixing her eyes on the rim and coming in for a...
Live Cargo
"I don't take on live cargo." Cici reached under the collar of her jumpsuit and scratched the dense fur beneath. "What else you got?" The spaceport lighting made a kiln of her radiation resistant suit. She flattened triangle Corgi ears against her...
Episode Seven: MAAB
She tugged on a bit of grass, and the strands parted from the mat, pulling free. Tr'lia held the smaller bit in her beak and hopped two bounces to the right. The fiber had cost her the rest of her festival money, and it wasn't very good quality at...
Episode Si: MAAB
**Much Ado About Bluebottles: (continued)** P'rao waited for them under the bleachers. Tr'lia landed on the highest perch, three beats before Lili's impact rattled the dried timbers. She saw him twist his neck up, caught the flash of green in the...
Episode Five: MAABB
She pressed her red bag higher up under her wing and hopped sideways toward the cave opening. From the side passage, the low whistle of her father snoring echoed against stone walls. The tunnels made him sound larger, more menacing than a squat sparrow...
Episode Four: MAABB
A triangle formation swooped low over their perch. Tr'lia twisted her neck and arched back to examine the players. Not one of them had a shiny green head. Beside her, Lili crunched a trio of jeweled crickets. Her bill snapped as she pulled each bug...
Eleven
Tr'lia got used to the smells faster than she'd expected. Her curiosity over Mr. Steen's specimens helped, kept her mind distracted, focused. After the first day she learned to keep one eye on the cages at all times, and now she walked with a permanent...
The Going Forth Of Uadjet
Uadjet guarded an empty temple. She stood in the shadowed niche and watched the dust motes dance in the sunlight for enough years to eat the stones away, to pit the bricks and make softer edges of the once-sharp rectangular doorways. Golden light on...
Beast
She left a message for her husband on the morning of the massacre. Askeila kept her voice as flat as possible, kept the tremors away by digging her claws into the fur of her thighs while she told him exactly where she'd be. Where he could find her....
Episode Ten: MAAB
P'rao scuffed the dust with his talons and watched the entrance to the meeting cave for any sign of Meech. His buddy had vanished into the low opening moments before, and though the mouth of the cave enjoyed a steady stream of birds both coming and...