Once Lian left with the mysterious Augustus - much to Thaniel’s dismay - Pandy no longer had to worry about the older boy catching her moving around at night. She spent that night trying to figur...
2024-12-09 04:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe city consisted of the same lacquered streets and glittering buildings as before, all still covered in the red glow of ki-crystals. The feeling of it was entirely different, however. It was like...
2024-12-07 04:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they reached the Nine - the central levels in the entire mountain, where the mosui city had been built - Kaz and Li saw an instant change. There were guards standing at the botto...
2024-12-06 00:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostKaz had had to deal with far too many of these shiyan by now. For the first one, Chi Yincang had cut a hole in the body so Kaz could reach and crush the core. He had torn Litz’s mis...
2024-12-05 04:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostKaz bent over, peering into the cavern at the end of the long, low tunnel. The last time he’d seen it, it held several huts and the remaining males from the Sharpjaw tribe. The fulan&nbs...
2024-12-04 03:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostKaz had been gone for almost three days, and it felt like three years. Kyla lay on her belly, staring into the cozy space she’d made for Mei, using grass and branches. The fuergar h...
2024-12-03 03:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostKaz looked down, but his view was blocked by the stone on which he stood. The sound of scratching heralded a hand, then a wary face that peered up over the carved muzzle, looking ready to leap up o...
2024-12-02 04:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone on Patreon noticed that Broken Knife is a year old now, so here's Li with cake! I did her new coloring, and find that I don't love the black nose (it started out larger and I kept making it...
2024-11-29 04:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've been working on my fuergar images whenever I got a chance, and finally finished them! I wanted to share the full size images. (Also, whiskers are really hard to capture against a...
2024-11-28 02:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a dragon carved into the stone around the stairs. The last time Kaz saw it, he’d guessed, but now he was certain. Four guards paced back and forth near the dragon’s gaping maw. They e...
2024-11-28 00:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostLi was worried. Ever since Kaz spoke to the Nadi female, he’d been all but silent. She’d tried sending him images of himself as various creatures, including a blue fuergar and a p...
2024-11-27 05:32:24 +0000 UTC View PostNadi, the den-mother of the Stoneborn tribe, was sitting on one side of a circle of puppies, teaching a howl about the difference between yumao and duyu. When Rega taught thi...
2024-11-26 05:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone except Lian and Clara gathered to eat. Clara was at a friend’s house again, while Thaniel’s brother claimed he needed to pack, even though as far as Pandy knew, the vast majority of hi...
2024-11-25 21:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostKaz continued to follow the same path he’d used with the humans, stopping only briefly to rest and eat. He didn’t even feel tired, but Li wasn’t used to walking so much, and she still insiste...
2024-11-23 03:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Kaz finished speaking, the light around the door had dimmed. The females of the tribe had doused most of the lights, leaving only a few to allow the guards to see and members of the tri...
2024-11-22 04:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostKatri seemed unwilling to begin, so with Li’s reassuring weight in his arms, Kaz drew in a deep breath and spoke. “When I was young, Father took me out to teach me to hunt. The Woodblades had j...
2024-11-20 22:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone had torn out several pages from the front of the book. The ragged edges protruded like the stumps of old, worn teeth. The damage looked old, so he suspected Oda had done it herself, and for...
2024-11-20 02:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile there had been little doubt that the Broken Knives’ den would still be where he’d left it, essentially untouched, Kaz wasn’t as certain about the Longtooths - or rather, the Longknife t...
2024-11-19 01:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, Pandy felt like she was floating, and then she was surrounded by light and a high-pitched shrieking. Whoever was making that noise really needed to stop, but Pandy couldn’t do anyth...
2024-11-18 06:51:20 +0000 UTC View PostI really don't like my tier titles. I've been trying to think of better ones, and the best I've got is:
$1 - Background Character
$3 - Supporting Character
$10 - Main Character En...
2024-11-16 02:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostEntering the abandoned den was as eerie as he’d expected it to be. The huts remained where they’d been abandoned, the tattered leather and tied-together bones looking even sadder now that he’...
2024-11-16 02:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostAs Kaz started to put his paw through the crevice, he paused, glancing back around at a particularly dense patch of shadow. “Are you coming, Heishe?” he asked.
The serpent slithered out w...
2024-11-15 04:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostPandy whipped around, desperately trying to look like anything except for a possessed undead rabbit who had been about to smack a suspiciously smoking magical button. Which wasn’t difficult, real...
2024-11-14 19:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe flight up the mountain was both cold and utterly glorious. Kaz used his ki to keep himself from freezing, as well as protecting his eyes from the whipping winds. Li flew just beyond the tip of ...
2024-11-14 02:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone stared at Kaz, and he half-wished that he still felt comfortable just leaving without saying anything. He’d promised Lianhua, however, and it wasn’t like they wouldn’t understand soo...
2024-11-12 22:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostLianhua took her grandmother into her tent to bathe her. Yingtao went as well, but Elder Long and Chi Yincang stood outside the entrance to the tent, waiting. Raff went ahead and started cooking an...
2024-11-12 01:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostElder Long’s fingers immediately closed around the small figure, and he drew his hand back. “What?”
<Release her,> Li insisted, staring after the statue hungrily. <She’s mine...
2024-11-09 02:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostKaz spent that night in the hammock Raff had given him. He found a spot near a ledge where he could attach it by cutting away some of the stone with his claws, then tying the ropes to the freshly c...
2024-11-07 21:57:34 +0000 UTC View PostNow that Elder Long had joined them, there was no question of continuing on, much to Kyla and Li’s disappointment. Li sulked, refusing to come down from her tree, but Kyla had an oddly calculatin...
2024-11-07 03:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post<Kaz?>
<Kaz!>
Li dove down, the tip of her wing just brushing the top of Kaz’s ear. The closer they got to the mountain, the more he found it difficult to look away, or ev...
2024-11-06 06:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post