The Districts
Ah, Harkenwood. The shining great metropolis of the lands that once belonged to the elves. Nobody was quite sure who it belonged to now. Perhaps it was still the elves, but one would never know from looking at the city. Unlike the traditional...
The Fruit(bats) of your Labours
A beautiful day! Eva bounced out of bed, more energized than she'd felt in years. The birds were singing outside, the sun was shining, and _she was going to graduate._ As a computer scientist. After so many years. She stretched, letting the sun warm...
Welcome to the Jungle
Shu struck, his fist moving almost too fast to see, towards his friend. Jin effortlessly dodged. He countered with a sweeping kick aimed at Shu's upper body, who in turn caught Jin's leg with both arms. Like trying to punch a flame, or kick down a...
A Friendly Demonstration
Alex groaned. _Getting_ knocked up had been fun. _Being_knocked up was less so. Oh, he still didn't _mind_ it, not as much as some others might. But there was no denying that it was quite the burden. It reminded him that he'd been born as the wrong...
A Kind of Graduation
Frankie looked at himself in the mirror. His eyes were bloodshot, with dark rings around them. His hair wasn't even combed, with how he'd had to peel himself out of bed to make it to the laboratory this morning. He was tired. Very, very tired. The last...
Winter's Consequences
The otter rubbed her belly. Yep. She was starting to show, wasn't she? A distinct bump had formed in her belly over the last couple of months, and she didn't really need a test to figure out what'd happened. This was what _always_ happened if you let...
Surrender
Samael - or Sam, as he usually called himself - woke up, and immediately let out a groan, grabbing his second pillow and pressing the cool fabric against his face. The situation was immediately apparent; his sheets were soaked, and not with sweat. He...
Shared Glory
Jenny was a career woman, and proud of it. A lot of her peers had avoided college, or even - god forbid - flunked out of _high school_, but not Jenny. She hadn't gotten knocked up by some casual fling when barely of age like some of the other dobermen,...
Taming Dragons
The dragon's throne room was a vast, imposing thing. A great, flame-lit cavern, with the torches casting dark, flickering shadows from the massive earthen pillars that remained to support the roof. Stalactites both massive and small lined the ceiling,...
Tod and Tomboy, Trapped
Jamie woke up to a clang so loud it made his teeth rattle. He had very little idea where he was, why he was there, or why he had such a headache. Startled, the fox sat up, or at least would have, only to bang his head against unyielding metal. He had...
The Old Haunt
The old school had seemingly always been there, unchanging. At least for as long as Frank could remember. He wasn't the type who'd get bothered by a simple building, no matter how abandoned it looked, but this one had something particularly strange...
The Intimate Donor
It was another beautiful morning in the city. As beautiful as one could expect them to be, anyhow, the air hazy with both morning fog and the exhaust of thousands upon thousands of cars, full of commuters heading to work. Dotted in that vast urban...