A Different Diplomacy, Part 1: Axe
It is, perhaps, true that the language in question lent itself more towards directness than poeticism. It was a workaday language, designed for a culture that believed speech and literature to be instruments of communication and clarity, largely...
A Different Diplomacy, Part 2: Dagger
_(Note: This story contains, as necessary to the plot, naked sibling cubs, and cubs being exposed to activities they probably shouldn't be due to their living circumstances, with the natural curiosity that inevitably results. Nothing particularly...
On the Edge of Emergence
_(Note: this story contains a scene of a "cub"-aged character observing a sexual situation. It has been conservatively tagged accordingly.)_ Lilla leaned over the balcony railing, tail flicking lazily back and forth behind her as she looked out over...
Curse-ive, Part One
The warnings they'd left alongside it, though, were in a language that had long since been lost to time, and in their mad dash for power, it was doubtful that the interlopers would have heeded it anyway.
The Wrong Anniversary
Sure, on the surface it had been just another date night: two young professionals carving out an evening in their busy lives to celebrate their growing love. This time, though, it had been less about the present, the dinner at the nice upscale...
Heat
He yowled like an animal and swiped at her face, something he'd never even think of doing otherwise, but he still felt barely in control of his own body, and all it wanted to do now was to lash out at this interloper and get back to what it had been
The Folks in the Woods, Part 3: Trapped and Taken
Frand had stormed out and the house was quiet, but Elizabeth couldn't sleep. Her stomach was knotted with tension, worrying about her little sister, and whether she'd been able to escape. Just a bit lower, her belly was an ocean of slimy warmth that...
Shifter, Chapter 5: Testing
It was an odd scene, to be sure, the thoroughly normal setting of the kitchen occupied by two officious strangers in formal dress, and the normally steady Eloa seeming to flash between anger and genuine panic. The way she was acting was enough to set a...
Boneheap Bonus: Hugh's Side
To say that Hugh had come to despise Gianna was something of an understatement. It wasn't just because she'd been the first to push back, to rebuff his advances. It wasn't just because she'd called his bluff, of forced herself on him, or even that...
The Assignment, Part 7: Councils and Intentions
“So, feeling more relaxed now?” Jesollae asked as I finished the last bite of food on my plate. I simply nodded in response - despite everything, I did actually feel a little better. Somehow, my time with my newly-assigned...
The Boneheap, Part 3: Preheating
Gianna hesitated for a moment, her hand a few inches away from the handle of the entrance door to Duda's, one of the city's more well-known drinking establishments. It wasn't her first choice, and had she still been Giancarlo, it wouldn't have even...
Cicero
He took pity on the boy and took care of him as best he could while allowing the interloper's presence to go unreported. this wolf turned out to be laporkra, and his only true friend.