TMAU Part 9 Strange bedfellows




The passage of time was hazy, when Daniel was digesting. Sleep played upon his senses, tugging his mind down into its embrace where reality blurred with fantasy for hours, or seconds before the sharp awareness of being awake informed him he’d been sleeping. By the time he backtracked through the hazy dreams to determine where they started and reality ended, he had dozed off again.

TMAU Part 8 The beginning of the end

Evening was approaching, but the sun was still high, lighting the streets, banishing the shadows in which hungry beasts lurked. Outside the small window Cory sat by the people came and went. The urgent dash to get inside wasn’t present in them yet. He was glad his new schedule allowed him at least a glimpse of the town at peace. He was just about able to trick his body into accepting living by night. He woke to the sun, and slep

TMAU 7 What oozes beneath

It was an impressive and pretty pinion, that had been caught between Daniel’s teeth. Cory’s eyes keen on Artur as the guild master turned the plume in the light of the lantern keeping his office bright against the fading of light outside.

“This proves nothing, Cory”.

“The deep, it doesn’t” Cory’s arms folded against his chest “a new gryphon mo

TMAU Pt6

A summons to Artur’s chambers was never a good sign. Cory wandered the halls of the guild, brooding on what it could mean. He didn’t dare hope it was good, Artur liked to commend members publicly not privately, but perhaps since he couldn’t attend regular meetings with his night shift… but no, it would be simpler, and more like Artur, to just demand he rise earlier to attend the meeting.

What could be wrong, well

Were in Wolf




Hazy, muted afternoon light cast the city in a faint golden glow. The people more concerned however with the approach of twilight and the awakening of its beasts. The regions near the port had a tendency to empty earlier than others. Things, lurked in the water, waiting for darkness. But a lone figure, hunched over, unsteadily walking, a shawl clutched around itself to fend off the piercing touch of cold air made it

TMAU Part 5

Cory couldn’t help the way his eyes lingered on the flickering flame in his lantern. Heightened senses keen for movement in the gloom of the city streets. There was duality in the flame, it cast an orange glow on the cobble paths, the mixed walls of the city. Stone and wood, mudbrick and cobble. It spoke of the eras of the place. More of a history than most settlements. The roaming lizards were a problem, landbound, dull witted dragons of a sort. Not as

Opportunity Yeah




Ezzie padded around her little house surfaceside, checking she had everything she needed in her cloak. The night was closing in… evening and night.

Her small dextrous paws felt each little bottle in turn, one held in her grip, the tonic to make her human, for Ezzie was a rat. Like the foxes and the wolves, even the were kind, she walked on two legs like the humans did. She imagine

The Monsters among us part 4

The guild’s corridors were uninspiring but functional. Any budget the guild put towards appearance was wholly devoted to the entry hall where the locals might wander to talk to the receptionists, or visit the bar.

Cory strode along the familiar paths, listening to the weary yawn of his apprentice. Not that the word fit. Daniel’s human side was much like the guild’s decorations. Skin deep and borne ou