4.4 - Mixed Signals
"...and you should be glad that you're getting only a commendation for your excellent tactics in the battle, Captain Wren. I've heard talk of there being a statue in Luminous' honor." Wren could see the eye-smile from the aged snow rabbit....
2.2 - Hard Bargain
"They're hailing us," said Vesta, the lop-eared rabbit at the comm station, adjusting her earpiece. "Again. I haven't replied yet ... " Peregrine just nodded and looked the other direction, toward his first officer. "Can't ignore them." The red...
2.1 - Queen For a Day
"More," Seward panted, nose tingling, lungs filling with a familiar, spicy warmth. He looked up from the large white-furred breast he'd been suckling. "Please?" It was 0800, an hour before their duty shifts. They'd only been awake for fifteen, twenty...
1.10 - Exposure
The reading did not make any sense. Seward had to check the scanner again, even going so far as to hit it to make sure that it was working.Damn thing. He looked up at the sealed door, then back down at the scanner. Unless he was deeply mistaken and/or...
The Good Diplomat
It was just after ten, now, in the valley. A hot summer night. Starry, and flooded with pale moonlight, the stagnant air shrouding pungent scents that stirred poignant memories. The kind of...
Excuse the Fire
"Ross." "Yeah ... " Whiskers twitching, looking up. In that familiar ... so familiar. Ever-willing, wide-eyed way. Sitting at the kitchen table, his long, pink ropy-tail sticking through the 'tail-gap' in the chair-back, casting itself...
Photogenic
"Left?" was the snow rabbit's light, feminine breath. Half-question and half-echo. One foot-paw off the ground, toes curled. As she waited for an answer. " ... just a little bit," Ross finally nodded, distractedly. "My left ... or yours?" ...
Fool For You
"Y'don't need all that calcium for yourself," Petra insisted, privately. A little bit stubbornly. " ... well, a rabbit's gotta, you know ... gotta keep his bones healthy." He cleared his throat, his cottontail flicking, flicking behind him. "I...
Never an Act
The raccoon shifted on his back, the sleeves of his uniform rolled up past his elbows. "Okay. Okay, we're gonna figure this out," he whispered to himself, swallowing, blinking a few times, and his ringed, black and grey tail swishing out of the way....
Decorum of a Swoon
The mouse tilted his grey, rain-furred neck, lolling, then lazing forward, feeling a familiar presence of rodent buckteeth descending hungrily on his nape. The sheer, tactile contact causing him to draw air, causing him to arch his naked belly, further...
A Presence of Light
" ... mm, mm," were her throaty sounds, born of physical pleasantness, light and lazy, moaned in sweet, simple succession. The tipsy otter was somewhat on her backside, shifting to get more comfortable, legs beginning to spread. More on instinct than...
Joy Cometh In The Morning
Adelaide, back from the bathroom, flopped into bed, still waking up. Giving a little half-yawn, with a slight, batty chitter. Keeping her deep-pink eyes closed for a moment before opening them again. Her carnation, cotton candy, watermelon-furred body...