Cinnamon 12: Warrior Spirit
Lily squared her shoulders. Freshly made a Warrior of the Village, the youngest ever, and with the Champion in a faraway land, she had been given a difficult quest indeed, and was determined to see it through. If she were to fail, if she were to return...
Cinnamon 11: Lost and Found
Cinnamon's tail-tip flicked with anxiety. She was leading Sabine along a lane on the village outskirts, both of them wearing simple pullovers and dark jeans, a small pack slung over the dog's shoulder. What had her on edge was that neither of them had...
Trust
The polecat-girl shuffled from her room with her paws held out, ears askew and eyes squinting; her fulsome fur was mussed, her dark green pyjama top and paler green bottoms rumpled and twisted. "Carrie?" she called out. "I can't find my glasses." A...
Moonglade C2: Long Way Home
**Chapter Two** Long Way Home BEN GRIMACED, PULLING A bolt from his left shoulder as he slumped into sitting in the water, painful tingles spreading from the wound. Lia, standing next to him, her head slightly higher than his now, took it and gave...
Chapter One
**Chapter One** My introduction to the Guild had plentiful fuel for a perfect storm of cringe-inducing embarrassment. I'd just stepped out of my bathroom, my fur still matted with damp and heavily rumpled from the tips of my tall ears to the end of...
Chapter Two
**Chapter Two** I spent the next two weeks bouncing back and forth between cublike euphoria and crippling doubts, equals parts ecstatic at being asked to join the Guild, and petrified that I wouldn't come up to snuff. I really struggled to see how...
Stage Left - Chapter One
Another day over. Another nine to five, eight hour stretch of rote mindlessness in the guise of a paying job done and dusted. Signing out of his terminal the listless and dull-eyed cat took a few short moments to mechanically reorganise the many piles...
Moonglade C1: The Subtle Approach
**Chapter One** The Subtle Approach THE PATH WAS SO well hidden it took them the best part of an hour to find it, tracking back and forth along the east face of the hill nearly a dozen times, their frustration growing as the morning wore on. The sun...
SATAM: Internal Conflict - Chapter One
**Chapter One** Miles 'Tails' Prower had trouble sitting still at the best of times, but on this cool and crisp autumn evening as he, Bunnie and Sally waited in the lee of a gnarled old oak right on the fringes of the Great Forest, the dark and...
Running Deep
**Chapter Three** **Running Deep** "Here we go - Room Twenty-f..." Patch froze, gazing askance at the traffic lights set in the door. "Why are there lights in the door?" "They keep you safe," the snow leopard cub replied,...
Off The Rails
**Chapter 2** **Off the Rails** The lift doors slid open with a muted whoosh and a cheery ping and the dark russet vixen found herself being propelled rapidly out in the middle of a scrum of larger, human bodies. With a lot of effort...
Locked Gate
**Chapter 1** **Locked Gate** "Heavy rain is starting to fall throughout the area, and is expected to continue fairly solidly for the next few days, broken only by a few brief spells of sunshine. There is a strong possibility of it...