Perilous Jaunt Chapter 20
**Chapter 20** ** ** **Peter** ** ** ** ** Around three weeks later, we arrived at the bottom of the Fanged Peaks. We had managed to make our way through the rest of Ulpis' Kingdom without any more troubles, but I was doubtful that our luck would...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 19
**Chapter 19** ** ** **Peter** That night, Dante left Esme and I alone to go find our dinner. Esme sat on the opposite side of our tiny fire, holding her knife with careful fingers and memories twinkling in her eyes. "Why did you do it?"...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 18
The three of us turned to walk away from the smith, heading towards the southern edge of town and to the future perils that awaited us.
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 17
**Chapter 17** ** ** **Dante** ** ** I didn't turn to watch Peter as he left me in my desolation. At first, a piece of me felt guilty for snapping at him so callously. But that wasn't my main concern. I couldn't allow him to see me crying like a...
Perilous Jaunt chapter 16
**Chapter 16** ** ** **Peter** "Leave him alone," Esme called out to me, as I began to walk after Dante, who had already disappeared into the woods. I turned back around and saw Esme crouched down beside the topless lioness. "He seems really...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 15
**Chapter 15** ** ** **Dante** Peter's eyes hung open wearily the next morning and -on the few occasions that he spoke- his voice was hollow of all inflection. His lips were extremely purple and swollen to twice their usual size. When I asked...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 14
**Chapter 14** ** ** **Peter** ** ** It was great to be staying in an actual bedroom again, especially one that was in a palace. Sure, it wasn't as big as my room back in Lowpive, but it was better than sleeping out in the cold again. In fact, I...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 13
**Chapter 13** ** ** **Dante** "The fuck he did," the armored jaguar to our left snarled, tightening his grasp on his spear. His raccoon counterpart, who stood at the other side of the door, grunted in agreement and kept one hand ready on the...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 12
**Chapter 12** ** ** **Peter** When Dante had returned that night with no dinner for us to eat, he was unusually quiet. I didn't say anything, even when he forgot to tie me up before we all went to sleep. Was he sad about that whore dying?...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 11
**Chapter 11** ** ** **Dante** ** ** After the incident on the road, we had ridden for four whole days on the tamed horses we had stolen until we reached a town that was right over the border between Capres' and Ulpis' Kingdoms. It was dark when...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 10
**Chapter 10** ** ** **Peter** ** ** "He's pissed at me, isn't he?" I asked Esme from across the fire. We rode on the tamed horses all day long and set up camp before it got dark. We didn't even stop to put my makeup back on when the sky...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 9
I looked over at esme, fearing that she might have been in some kind of peril. when my eyes finally lay on her, i saw that she was pointing at something ahead of me.