Ama and the Queen
**Echos of Juena** _Second Retreat_ **Ama and the Queen** By Aerieon Hill 1 They started out as one hundred and fifty souls fleeing from the black god. Their village was in ruins and those who survived had been taken prisoner by the black god's...
Elqua and Val
**Echos of Juena** _Second Retreat_ **Foreword:** Before the second retreat, what it meant to be human had changed drastically. No man was untouched by Blessed Juena. Whether fur, feather, scale or wyrd humanity had changed forever. These stories...
Hunter And Winter
**Echos of Juena** _The Advance_ **Foreword:** In the third generation of the advance the dire wolves had become little more than dogs compared to their ancient brethren. In the early days beyond the first generation of the first retreat; wolves...
Desires of Demons pt 5
**Desires of Demons** Pt 5: Madness, Sanity, strife **Ch. 1 - Acquaintance** Those first few days were a frightening blur for Erin. Aliens in her home, strange beasts of tooth and claw. One was obviously sick, stuck in a perpetual state of delirium...
White Wings
**Echos of Juena** _First Retreat_ **Foreword:** In the 37th generation of the first retreat the harpies came. Born of Owlkin and Hawk Singer they had hands of an owl, feet of a hawk, wings of a raven and the bodies of fair maidens. Their faces...
People of the Sea
**Echos of Juena** _First Retreat_ **Foreword:** The Sun Sea; a pretty name for a vile place. The ocean sulfurous and bubbling with vents just below the surface. The islands, rocky and steaming with fresh a gout of lava every day or two. The...
Dragon's Sacrifice
**Ch. 1 - Capture** A cruise, a joyous excursion to relax and maybe even dive. That was what Anna and her husband had in mind when they purchased tickets to take them along the pacific rim. It was a three month voyage with stops at hundreds of ports...
Splice of Life
**Ch. 1 - Point of Sale** "It's either this or live out your last few days in pain. You don't have enough credit to even afford pain killers I'm afraid." Doctor Stephenson told her with a firm shake to his head, "It's only ten years out of what could...
...Dream...
**Dream** -1- Omo woke late that morning, it was well past dawn and nearly to high noon when she crawled from her hole. There was a strange sense of urgency at the back of her mind, like memory of something important that was just out of reach. Yet...
Mother, Father, Moth
**Mother, Father, Moth** **Ch. 1 - Moth Bride** John was the biggest, baddest boy in town; or so he told his friends when drunk. Once the toughest football player on the local highschool team, able to run faster, farther, and tackle harder than...
Snow Angels
Ice, ice for as far as he could see. Drifts of snow, crags and glaciers. As he had first been born on this world, from that glacier on the southern continent; so too would he end up on this world, trapped in a prison of frost. Soon he wouldn't have...
Feral Instinct
Years ago he had lived as a man on the surface. He went to work, he wore a suit, he came home, he went to the bar, he even played sports. But that was a lifetime ago, a memory so distant it seemed like a dream. A string of crimes and the police...