When the Fighting Starts
**Chapter Seven: When the Fighting Starts** Oderan's first sensation was one of comforting warmth. Akkedisian blood did not run hot, and every member of his species knew that no matter how many blankets one piled atop themselves, they would always...
Playing Pretend
**Chapter Eight: Playing Pretend** Bailey stood in line, shifting uncomfortably. The damned weather was being it's usual unpredictable self, and after being rained on all of yesterday they were now being subjected to fur sizzling-temperatures....
A Cure for Tragedy
**Chapter Nine: A Cure for Tragedy** It had been a week since the slaves served nobles at the duel, and Garrett was sick and tired of hearing Bailey cry at night. The wolf had been...well not good, but okay up until then. He'd been managing,...
A Patient Death 01: Descending
**A Patient Death** **Part One: The Age of Insanity** **~ Chapter 01: Descending ~** Breeze raked a claw through the mud, dragging his body forward, the stench of piss and shit and blood filling his nostrils. Death stained the senses in a way few...
Black Meridian: [Epilogue]
**[Epilogue]** _Eleckton, The Umen Province_ _Six Months Later,_ A dusty saloon, half-filled with cigarette smoke, barely filled with customers. It smelled firstly of stale tobacco and hard liquor, while beneath that festered the stench of unwashed...
Black Meridian 26: Closed Circle
**26: Closed Circle** _[Imagine you are Fletcher Fulbright.]_ A cold voice in the darkness, syllables like ice. _[Who is that?]_ Dark eyes watching, a chilling cradle of support. It all ends here, it had to, and you know that. There can be no...
A Patient Death 04: Civilised Folk
**~ Chapter 04: Civilised Folk ~** "Halt, you there, on the horse!" A hurried voice cried, the words splashing at Breeze's backside. Clenching his teeth, he pulled reluctantly on the reigns to stop Marlough's pace. The horse's hooves clomped on the...
The Sinner and the Sorceress
**The Sinner and the Sorceress** Francis leaned back in the hay, his tunic had been removed, exposing his chest to the heady atmosphere of the barn. His fur was a deep grey colour mottled with blacks, with a blow of white spreading up from his...
A Patient Death 03: The Gift of Guilt
**~ Chapter 03: The Gift of Guilt ~** Lord Roland san Estoc did not care for Claude Morgan. He watched him now, resisting the urge to roll his eyes as the Inquisitor studied the clerk's order. His lips moved as he read over the order, the faint sound...
Black Meridian: White Lies
# **Black Meridian: White Lies** _What kind of name is Spoons anyway?_ That was the thought running through Nadine's head, as she approached the little nest in the rocks that the gang's head cook had made himself. There were always stupid thoughts...
A Patient Death 05: Kingmakers
# **~ Chapter 05: Kingmakers ~** Breeze hissed as the weirmother smeared a foul-smelling black paste across his gaping shoulder wound. She was a twisted old branch of a woman, perhaps a once stocky raven, perhaps even once the envy of her flock; but...
A Patient Death 06: Wail of the North
**~ Chapter 06: Wail of the North ~** Roland gazed through the glowing crimson of his wine glass onto the city below, deflating. The relief of being finally, mercifully alone washed over him like warm bathwater, and he felt his hide twitch with the...