Leviathan 04: Plausible Deniability
**04: Plausible Deniability** Nico's sitting at his desk, crunching a fingernail in his teeth, contemplating suicide. Not seriously, of course, but merely entertaining the thought, toying with it. Right now he's thinking how nice it would be if the...
Keeping Secrets
Max looked up from his mug of hot chocolate, smiling into Brady's eyes. The wolf smiled back, before breaking the contact to sip his coffee. He moaned a little as he drank the hot liquid, inhaling the very essence of the caffeine. Max sipped his own...
You Need A Friend
**Sixteen: You Need A Friend** Bailey stepped delicately through the crowded room, his new vest buttoned up tightly, his eyes locked to the floor respectfully. All around him affluent Akkedisian Lords and Ladies coalesced, discussing various issues...
Leviathan 05: Revolution Calling
**05: Revolution Calling** Nico walks across the street, keeping his hood pulled low, ears flat to his skull. A ceiling of strangely smooth clouds blankets the dark sky, dozens of blue-grey pebble-like formations flexing and turning as they waft...
If They Ever Learn the Truth
**Thirteen: If They Ever Learn the Truth** Oderan was sitting on the side of his bed when the knock came at the door. He'd had a nightmare of some kind, already forgotten in the haze of morning. He ran a claw over his head, tracing it along one of...
Black Meridian 10: Midnight Meridian
**[Part Two: Performance}** **10: Midnight Meridian** Until he saw it with his own two eyes, Fletcher hadn't fully grasped what Meridian meant by 'auxiliary show'. He saw now it was some kind of circus prelude, but the one time he'd had a chance to...
Quiet Violence
Brady's earliest memory is of a fur his age being hit by a truck, just outside his home window. He was five years old. He wasn't really mature enough to grasp the idea of death in an intellectual sense, but he knew enough to know it was bad. That day...
Black Meridian 12: Mystic Horizon
**12: Mystic Horizon** The circus's circadian rhythm changed significantly during performance weeks, as Fletcher learned. They performed six nights out of seven per week, and the show usually finished an hour or two after midnight. The day after,...
Cyber Sleuth
After two hours of digging around inside a computer, Riley concluded that the fur whose life he was invading was the most boring lion alive. He'd been sitting in a lecture, up the back as usual, except the lecturer taking the class was going on and on...
Leviathan 03: The Professional Difference
**03: The Professional Difference** "Kal, for once, don't be a cunt." The short, barking laugh of an insufferably smug border collie is all that comes back through the phone. Vick rolls her neck, pacing back and forth along the wharf. Most people...
A Patient Death 09: Tradition & Triumph
**~ Chapter 09: Tradition & Triumph ~** Roland filed into the Lord's Junction with the other nobles, fighting - as always - the urge to scoff at the gaudy unlit sconces and over-designed doorframes. It was early, and stark morning light illuminated...
A Patient Death 21: Everyone Talks
**~ Chapter 21: Everyone Talks ~** Erasmus sat next to the bed, watching Breeze. He didn't know what to think. Three weeks locked in this room, with the only company besides Fenton the local weirmother, who occasionally visited to scold Breeze and...