Wages: Chapter Nine
**Chapter Nine - Night Discussions** "You see, it's all one big gag!" Collin proclaimed loudly, tossing a strip of venison on the makeshift spit. "Whadda ya mean?" Mike asked between bites. Louis guessed the little man must of eaten close to a pound...
Wages: Chapter One
**Part One: The Colony** **Chapter One: A storyteller's death** The perennials were in bloom, illuminating the mountain valley with the violet splendor of a million purple lilacs under the springtime sun. The mountains, like great palisades,...
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...
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...
The Pool, Chapter Two.
Evet was warm. It wasn't the type of uncomfortable warmth, like the heat that had bore down upon her on the trek out to the pool - no, this was a warmth she felt contented by. It made her want to lay down in the grass, spread her wings, and take a...
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 Four
**_Kiven_** "Shall we go swimming? Or maybe we could try to find those odd mushrooms we found last summer! Remember those?" I trilled joyously. What a happy, beautiful, sunny day! We hadn't had a day like this since that damn traitor was executed,...
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 Six
**Chapter Six-_ A Discovery_** "Celsko, we're still... friends... aren't we?" The dragoness sighed. "Of course we are." She spoke the words oh so quietly, and I was afraid she would start sobbing again. "I just... I care about you, Nimbus, and when...
Wages: Chapter Seven
**Chapter seven- _An Encounter_** I hadn't the time to think. How dare this creature threaten a female! How dare it threaten my friend! I was scared to death and enraged beyond belief all at the same time. The whole world seemed to slow to a crawl....
Wages: Chapter Three
**_Brethren, mates, and anger._** I turned away, not wishing to see the red drake take his final, blood choked breaths. "Rot forever, bastard!" I muttered quietly to myself. How I cursed him! Oh, how I cursed the old drake! Thank Sephive we have the...
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...