Lykos 3-05 - Thicker Than Water
**LYKOS** Third Age Chapter 5 (Thicker Than Water) There wasn't any sound quite like rain hitting glass, beading up on the windshield and streaking along the body of the SUV as it ventured down the backroads between the forest of trees. It...
Father Krampus
**Father Krampus** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons It was an old cliché that there were countless words for snow across the world, but for Brandt there were just two kinds; the snow on postcards and in movies, showing a winter...
The Perfect Gift
**The Perfect Gift** Supported by my Patrons Winter was in the air and all of downtown had been transformed. The leafless trees had been wrapped with vibrant white Christmas lights. The sky bridges between the different sections of the mall had...
Forbidden Fruit of the Loom
**Forbidden Fruit of the Loom** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons Time was like a river, flowing endlessly from start to finish. There were eddies and currents where time seemed to move slower or faster, but it was rarely stagnant....
Snowbound
**Snowbound** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons The drive had been long but intimate. The city had been festooned with lights and banners and flags, inflatable lawn ornaments and projectors casting flurries of fluorescent...
Last Minute Look
**Last Minute Look** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons Fall leaves danced and skittered down the curb, carried on the Autumn wind. The air was sweet with the smell of the harvested hay, the sort of smell that took root in the...
Fire of the Night
**Fire of the Night** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons The evening sky had taken on a violet hue with thin ribbons of citrine, complimenting the streetlights as they watched over the trick-or-treaters. The long, hot summer had...
Footfalls
**Footfalls** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons Chk-Chk. Chk-Chk. Chk-chk. It was the sound of skateboard wheels rolling along the sidewalk, echoing into the evening air. The trees rustled in the cool wind, adding just a bit of a...
Tanuki Tales
**Tanuki Tales** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons It was a common saying that print was dead. Newspapers were on the brink of extinction, magazines had declined to the point of obscurity and there were fewer and fewer sightings of...
A Big Hole to Fill
**A Big Hole to Fill** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons Of all the lecture halls on campus, Amberlin Hall had to be one of the largest. Even on cloudy days, silver light poured in through the six narrow horizontal rectangle...
Hard Rock Life
**Hard Rock Life** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons Heavy, dark clouds rolled across the city's skyline, accompanied by a rumbling so deep that it felt like the language of the planet itself. What light made it through came in at...
The Wallowing Way
**The Wallowing Way** Written by Leo\_Todrius Supported by my Patrons The sound of rain was usually relaxing; a gentle pitter pat, a speckling on the cement... but this was no ordinary rain. It came down in drops so big and so heavy it sounded...