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 08: Three's Company
**~ Chapter 08: Three's Company ~** Breeze sneezed, cursing the pawful of woodchips and dust he'd just snorted from the air. He shook himself, again raising the axe, and again bringing it down on the errant log blocking the path. _Kunk._ The sound...
A Patient Death 14: Army of Thieves
**~ Chapter 14: Army of Thieves ~** Two fundamental ingredients are required in order for war to rage on for over a hundred years, and the first one was simple; an endless pool of able bodied men willing to stand and fight for their king and country....
A Patient Death 25: Deliverance
**~ Chapter 25: Deliverance ~** Estrion's farm was quiet in the night. Breeze, Erasmus, and Fenton watched it from a distance, their paws resting gently on their weapons. "I don't see many guards." Breeze mumbled. "I count four outside," Fenton...
Misery Loves Company
Brady tried to swallow back his nerves, his shaking paw hovering above the door, poised to knock. He wished more than anything that he could fast forward his life; skip through this unpleasant chapter and just wake up on the other side of it free from...
A Patient Death 17: Infest The Rats' Nest
**~ Chapter 17: Infest The Rats' Nest ~** "It feels a little odd, to be holding a ball at a time like this." Salem whispered, adjusting his doublet's collar as he scanned the room. Roland merely shrugged, feeling quite at home in his finely-pressed...
A Patient Death 10: All Hail, Apathy
**~ Chapter 10: All Hail, Apathy ~** Smoke rose in the distance, the narrow plumes of white trailing up beyond the edges of the city walls, indicating to all who cared to know that Nurjan's army was performing their morning prayer. The Niverron walls...
Closer
Fourteen year-old Brady wandered into the abandoned playground, his paws stuffed deep into the pockets of his hoodie. He was shivering, despite his wolf fur and favourite blue jumper. Why Oliver felt the need to meet him at a playground at 11:30 at...
Heartache
Riley's chest _hurt_. It was a primal, very physical kind of pain, as if someone had punched him right above his heart. Standing hopelessly in the entryway, the fox sunk to his knees, broken. He had no idea where his boyfriend was. But it had to have...
A Patient Death 27: The Predator Strait
**~ Chapter 27: The Predator Strait ~** Something was wrong in Lurren, Erasmus could feel it. To his soothers' senses, it felt like bitterness and despair wafting above them, collecting like smoke in a house. He and Breeze walked, Fenton a few feet...
The Burning Bridge
Oliver had told Brady that the party started around eight, but the wolf didn't arrive until much later in the night. There was no denying it, he was nervous and it was causing him to procrastinate. He paced back and forth in his house, snapping at his...
Don't Look Now
Despite being a short journey, on the drive to Wendy's house Jake found himself unable to stop fidgeting. He was nervous, his limbs tight and heart racing. He felt both ashamed and relieved that his brother knew the truth. Ashamed because...well, Brady...