Hero, Chapter 5 - Out of the Fire
"Bleyen's mane, Reya! What happened?" Reya immediately recognized the bleating voice of Blyth, one of the farm workers for the rolling hills east of Haarshollow. The little otter didn't quite register his voice though. Everything in her body hurt like...
Hero, Chapter 12 - The Crystal River
Reya's stomach growled. She hadn't eaten for the entire day yesterday. Aris and Torren had probably eaten some kind of meal while she had still been asleep in the lodge, but - at her request - they only brought food for her if she asked. And then,...
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 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 9 - Bedridden
"I can't go!" Reya protested, "I can't leave!" "I'm so sorry Reya! You have to! I already said you were the first to see... her. I'd change it if I could!" "Send some other otter! You can't be that freaking good at drawing!" "I - I wrote in the...
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 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 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...
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 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...
Guessing Games
Marik didn't know how Lenny was so relaxed all the time when he perpetually danced on the cliff of expulsion or failing grades or whatever it was that week. But he did. The guy was unmovable; the force of nature funneled into pure...
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...