Hero, Chapter 8 - Scurvy
When Aris looked at Reya's leg - the small otter didn't want to examine it herself - he said that it was broken near the center of the bone. Reya was relieved beyond belief. When a bone completely snapped there were several ways it could happen. When a...
Hero, Chapter 7 - Snap, Crackle, and
She could hear Torren come down the steps. He raced over to the edge of the table that held Sylvia. Reya was still leaning over the motionless body. Staring. It was morbidly quiet. For whatever reason, she felt an urge to break the silence. 'This...
Hero, Chapter 19 - Blood and Fire
The storm persisted for the rest of the excruciatingly long afternoon. The rain lightened up to a drizzle, but the dense fog never left. Eventually Reya took notice of the limp in Mephit's step and called for everyone to rest. They set up under a small...
Love is Blind
Nothing had ever hurt more in Elin's life than the moment when the fox's claws dug into his eyes. Everything turned to a sickening red. It may have been blood or it may have been his mind trying to visualize or cope with the agonizing pain. However,...
Love is Blind (c)
Nothing had ever hurt more in Elin's life than the moment when the fox's claws dug into his eyes. Everything turned to a sickening red. It may have been blood or it may have been his mind trying to visualize or cope with the agonizing pain. However, in...
Hero, Chapter 15 - Oh Deer
A piercing noise woke Reya up from her sleep. It was a hiss. A sharp, aggressive hiss. Her eyes snapped open as soon as she realized what she was hearing. She looked up through the light of early dawn to see Torren's back arched, ready to pounce at any...
Hero, Chapter 3 - A Book
Reya half expected to find her brother sternly waiting for her as she walked into her den. She wasn't quite sure how to feel when she didn't see him. An ache in her heart told her that she missed him, but she couldn't even think of talking to him again...
Hero, Chapter 17 - Of a Story
"Get back!" Reya whispered harshly. Jack backed up with her into the tree cover and everyone else quickly followed. "That's what I was about to say," Aris muttered. "Well, say it faster next time! If one of those birds spots us, whoever that is out...
Hero, Chapter 4 - By the Flowing River
Reya threw her body to the side just in time to avoid a flaming branch smashing down to the spot where she had stood only a second earlier. She kept on moving, she had to. Flames lapped at her paws and tail with every moment that she...
Hero, Chapter 14 - Sente
Reya could hear the expletives coming up the stairway before she could see the cat, its ghostly pale face, or the shoulder dripping blood from a long gash. "Siv!" Aris nearly turned head over heels as he ran to the feline. "What h-happened?" "What do...
Hero, Chapter 16 - The Beginning
"W-what happened to you?" Aris stuttered. For a moment Reya wondered why he thought to ask. But then she realized that she was flat on the ground with everyone else standing around her looking very worried. "Noth-" she started to say, but she was...
Hero, Chapter 18 - Katafront
A week after coming down from the mountain, everyone looked melancholy. A tempest of rain poured down through the sparse canopy above the animals as they walked and, in the case of the otters, swam towards Fenbury. Reya tried to tag along next to the...