037 Her Wooden Sword
Save Point: Her Wooden Sword "I was totally adorable when I was little," explains Cleo. "Lionesses develop more quickly than humans, obviously, and so I was sort of stretched out and healthy and lean where most kids are short and a bit stubby and kind...
140 The Highgrounds
Save Point: The Highgrounds There's no getting round it, the armour isn't going to fit anymore. It was closely fitted back when she was small and trim, even if she had insisted that they left a certain amount of allowance in the straps in case she...
251 The Solar Barque
Save Point: The Solar Barque Sethkill is proudly showing Mariel around the boat-pits as though he was responsible for them, even though he is neither building nor designing the vessel that will become the new Vermillion Dragon. That responsibility...
379 The Feathers of Anuket
Save Point: The Feathers Of Anuket Anuket wanders along the tideline, her bare paws crunching in the damp sand, looking for new and unique shells to add to her collection. The tides here are are large but steady, unlike the much more complex epicycles...
478 Cutting Your Losses
Save Point: Cutting Your Losses Terrowne comes home to bad news at the end of a long journey. Cleo has visibly been crying, the fur matted down the sides of her muzzle, and she immediately throws herself forward into his arms. "Grunter died," is all...
607 The Night Has Claws
Save Point: The Night Has Claws "You have to have a little animal in you to survive an attack like that," suggests Cleo, reading not in the headlines but in a much smaller article how a locally well-known cheerleader and her friend were quite...
780 Standing Stones
Save Point: Standing Stones What reasonable person would take a three-hour walk in the soggy, misty morning, just to view a not particularly impressive stone circle in the middle of nowhere that no-one had seen before? Well... no sane person would,...
890 The Alignment of the Spheres
Save Point: The Alignment of the Spheres Cleo comes home and makes a point of ignoring Niphur, who has somehow in defiance of all logic managed to lay the length of his black furry body along the upper edge of the fridge door, where it protrudes just...
980 The Rockslide
Save Point: The Rockslide It's a very dramatic promontory, like Pride Rock on steroids. Cleo is probably the first and last real lioness it will ever see. Suddenly Terrowne stops and stares at the sky. It's a look she hasn't seen since she caught a...
Flawed Art Online
First of all, let me start by saying - I am so very sorry for trapping you in a pillar of light. I know it's terribly derivative, like something out of one of those old Greyhawk fantasy novels. In fact that's where I got the idea. Yes, long before...
The Table is Adjourned
The morning is proceeding as normal, and he's just about to head out for work, when it becomes apparent that their daughter hasn't come home from the party last night. Events then follow a predictable path in which they call all her friends, or at...
THE WINE SEEKER
~1. In Which a Merchant Meets An Unexpected Guest~ The faint sounds of the desert, low wind, distant kites and an occasional insect, are enough to lull him into a false sense of security, as though he was entirely alone. Taking a deep breath against...