The Rider: Chapters 17&18 + Epilogue
**Chapter 17** Kendra and Wei stood on the counter and faced it, the Rider. It raised itself up on its two lower tentacles and slowly swayed before them. The emergency lights above flickered constantly making it flit in and out of sight every few...
The Rider, Foreword + Prologue by Wyldsyde
_ **The Rider** _ **Foreword** This took far, far too long to write. Life has a habit of getting in the way of things, for years of time in my case sadly. That said, it is finally done and complete, my third story placed inside the wonderful...
Surrender: Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Ken knew something was wrong. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out. Maybe Rufu was a bad liar, or maybe he just knew her well enough to tell she hadn’t been honest. Either way, the idea that her family kept her so busy all...
Surrender: Chapter 3
**Chapter 3: ** Rufu wasn’t sure how long she’d laid in bed awake, unable to fall back asleep. Long enough for sunlight to start peeking through her blinds. Long enough, even, to know that staring at the ceiling and...
Surrender: Chapter 4
**Chapter 4: ** Rufu was sick of waiting. She thrummed her fingers on the dining room table, idly watching the door frame that led out into the hall. Time ticked on as her claws clacked against the wood, louder and louder, hard enough to...
The Rider chapters 5 & 6
**Chapter 5** Rain fell over the city, a constant steady downpour that made the paved streets shine under the artificial lights above it. Even though it was early in the morning and the sun was rising, it was completely obscured under the dark...
The Rider Chapters 3 & 4
**Chapter 3** “Can you believe that?” sputtered the slightly drunk falashai. “Damn ships falling out of orbit onto the planet and crashing at the city outskirts like that. This world is going to the pits I tell you and Anatalay is sinking in...
The Rider: Chapters 7 & 8
**Chapter 7** Kendra stepped out of the shower in her apartment, soaking wet but feeling better for the moment. She raised her towel and began to dry off, tossing her shaggy dark hair all over the place in the process of drying it. She could have...
The Rider: Chapters 15 & 16
**Chapter 15** Umatchki strolled down the long corridor leading from lab 21 to the lounge. The kiori was tired, having not slept well from all the long hours he had been working. It was good work though as everything they had been doing in this lab...
The Rider: Chapters 11 & 12
**Chapter 11** “If we were playing strip baccat I tell you, we’d both be seeing some serious lupari schlo… oof!” Wei was shut up by Kendra shoving her hard. The younger woman broke out laughing. Wurgaryn’s ears folded back against his head and he let...
The Rider: Chapters 9 & 10
**Chapter 9** The storm raged, lightning flashing across the dark sky and thunder rumbling after it moments later. The rain fell in sheets, soaking all it touched. It cast a somber mien across the entire city now, folk huddled in their homes together...
The Rider: Chapters 13 & 14
**Chapter 13** Imacha had carried his companions down into the small conference and viewing room in sub-level 8. It was like a small lecture hall within universities with tiered seating and a wall completely dominated with a digital screen. The only...