[Commission] A Toy's Purpose: Celebration
Light classical music played through the dimly-lit hall of the manor, drifting through the air along with the chaotic murmur of hundreds of animals all conversing in a large space. The New Year's party was in full swing, guests schmoozing with each...
Clarity of Purpose (Welded Sunset)
~ Well above the discrete happenings of the base camp below, the broad winged eagle mech carefully balanced atop a fresh thermal updraft while waiting for the final phase of calibrations to conclude. His attentions, lazily darting about over the camp's...
A New Purpose Part 5
Alex appeared as Irma lifted her wing away and looked at us over her body grinning like a loon. "I knew it. I knew there was an infestation of rattlesnakes around here somewhere." "And there go the happy feelings." I muttered, my glee evanescing, I...
A New Purpose Part 4
After some time, we awoke. I opened my eyes to see the gaping mouth of my yawning wife as she cleared her head. Once a moment had passed, she pulled my head closer to hers, and rubbed her cheek against my own while she made a rumbling noise the likes...
A New Purpose Part 3
Sometime later, I felt a nudge. And then another. Then a voice spoke; "c'mon Dad, you're heavy." Finally the voice registered. And panic flared anew in my body. "Lucy! What are you doing? I thought your mother told you to stay in the attic! We could...
A New Purpose Part 2
I woke seven hours later as my brother shook me awake. "Alex?" I queried groggily. "Get up you slug, your wife says you've slept enough." I snapped awake "God damn it Kim! I said four hour shifts!" She looked up from where she was sitting next to...
A New Purpose Part 1
I sat back and reflected on the story I had to tell, while my wife passed by outside singing some kind of praise about her own awesomeness. I gave an amused chortle as her passage rattled the outside of our barn. I craned my head back to look at the...
A New Purpose Part 8
I roused from the stupor I had fallen into while simultaneously tracking the goings on around me and gnawing over what to do about the growing hunger that I felt distantly in my elongated body. I opened my right eye to glance down at those who had...
A New Purpose Part 7
Irma snorted derisively and cracked her tail. "Skin or scale? We can't even agreeee how to treat those with different colorsss, to say nothing of whatever isss to be made of usss now. What happened to him declaring martial law?" Ulysses stepped...
A New Purpose Part 6
As we sat there and tried to process what was happening. Brian and Serena had gradually overcame their initial hysteria and were talking rapidly to each other. Luke and Lucy were still whimpering beneath Kim's raised wing as she craned her head back...
Chapter 8: Purpose and Passion
no purpose apart from just going against the norm." he turned back around, hobbling to face kane. “say your piece. then leave. i don't care about maxwell. he is no son of mine."
Chapter 7: Betrayal and Purpose
Betrayal and Purpose Blind Baking As Generals had to maintain their anonymity, the tribunal’s three sitting Generals were masked behind protective layers to hide their identities. In fact, the only General actually seated in the large...