The Pool (Art + Story)
"When I was a whelp, the water terrified me!" Savel stopped, turning back to look at the wyvern following at his heels. "Strange now, I think," he continued, "an aquatic being terrified of the water, but I was, was..." The drake trailed off, lost...
The Cosmos Dethroned (I)
**Phase I** "Káev... ar-are you alright?" He winced. The words, no matter how softly spoken, seemed jarring in the cold silence of night. They stung his ears, causing them to ring, and made his stomach contract into a tight, heavy ball that rested...
Wages: Chapter Nineteen
**Chapter Nineteen - Pit** Inhale. Scales shifted as she felt her lungs fill. She dragged on the air of life, clung to it with all her might. Her chest rose, rose... _Pain!_ Pain, such tearing, ripping pain! It burned through her, sending her body...
Wages: Chapter Eighteen
**Chapter Eighteen - Paranoia and Pain** At the sight of the gun, the strange man standing atop the stone and earthen embankment, and the glint of the sun on metal, I reeled. Death was upon me, striking in the form of these humans, this _Louis...
Wages: Chapter Seventeen
**Chapter Seventeen - God & Eden** Excerpts from Louis Bekker's journal May 29, 1974 _Heard over the radio today that terrorists took some school in Ma'alot, Lebanon. They say a lot of people died, mostly teens. Collin said, in his words, that it...
Wages: Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Sixteen - The Chosen Few At the stream that afternoon, once Veexer had finished speaking with me, he, with the still shocked Roaz in tow, had left, setting off to find those he deemed "trustworthy". With him gone, composure fell, and I...
Wages: Chapter Fifteen
**Chapter Fifteen - Purity and Promises** With a snarl, Zarr clenched his teeth and let his climax take hold of his body. His breath wavered as pulses of euphoria flowed through his veins for a few blissful seconds. Panting as it slowly left him, he...
Wages: Chapter Fourteen
Celsko lay in the water, head barely breaking the surface, just enough to allow her nostrils to reach the air. She had wedged herself between two boulders, wings spread like great water lilies, and had fallen asleep. On the opposite side of the...
Wages: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen - Awakening Sleep upon that wretched night evaded me. As the blackness befell the outside world, I wept and Celsko fell unconscious, head and body resting gently against mine. It seemed out of place, having her peacefully sleep....
Wages: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve - Breaking Point Louis was a lot of things. Distraught, confused, scared-- all of these emotions blending together to put the man into an utterly glum state. In the days following his encounter with the two dragons he had gone from...
Wages: Chapter Eleven
**Chapter Eleven - Society** The shadow exploded, and the crowd erupted in an utter orgy of shouts. Some cried for death unto our leader, for others, praise was but the battle cry. In the middle of it all stood I, an inept husk of a being, unable to...
Wages: Chapter Ten
"Nimbus... are you in there?" The voice disturbed me from my slumber-- the first one in three days that had been without Kiven. Three days of pure solitude. Three days of nirvana. Three days without the being of hypocrisy that had masqueraded as a...