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

TMAU A Nagas Work Perks

Dia’s heaped coils laid sprawled over the doctor, Michael’s backroom as the muscles of her uppermost section did most of the work. Lifting and shifting her forebody around the room, letting her reach the shelves, high and low, sorting and checking the many bottles. A weathered label caught her attention, and she fetched it down while leaving a gap for it nice and clear for future Dia.

When relaxed her body took

TMAU The Good Boy

The wolf woke to a strange new bliss. Surrounded by warm, soft fabric and pressed to the back of his mate. He wasn’t sure if she could sense, how his own scent had mixed with hers in the space of her nest, declaring to any canine anyway, that they were a pair.

His body felt as if it was floating in bedding, the way any movement just sunk into the semi solid surface. So different from waking amid dirt or upon moss. He could

TMAU: A wolf in…




The city looked the same as always from the outside. The wooden palisade stood high as a blockade to anything not human, or human enough, to be allowed entry through the single gate. The wolf watching the gate had forgotten his name. Strangely in a sense, when his world came crashing down it was the first thing to disappear from his mind. But he recognised the two people minding the gate, by sight and by

TMAU – Good fit for a Naga




Dia had been nervous all day, and it showed in the tension all along her body. The state was more than just uncomfortable for a naga. When she got tense it was harder and harder to simply move around, each thick coil like a scaly rock she had to soften up before the muscles would move as they should to slither.

On the occasion she got past her nervousness she’d been

The Monsters Among us: Dealing with Naga




The night air felt strange in Cory’s mouth, even after nearly a week patrolling through the darkest hours. There was something deeper than just a matter of familiarity. The period the guild had been acting as guards and enforcers for this town, it was a small part of his experiences even if it felt like home now. When he thought of night, it was still largely memories of rousing fro

The monsters among us pt3




The guild was well lit, and on arrival, Cory bid Daniel to their quarters while he went to make his report. He reported the attack, but kept his tongue about Daniel, or dragons in general. That was knowledge he would deliver a bit higher, directly. Instead he kept his terms vague, scaled monster. There were plenty in that category.

With that done he wandered the familiar halls t

The monsters among us Part 2




The docks were, appropriately enough, a tidal sort of place. Either busy or quiet. No boats were in port today, so it was largely quiet, but the for the whirling, keening seabirds high above.

Cory’s boots clunked on the stone as he walked his route, patrolling with sharp eyes. He spared a glance back to the reed of a boy, Daniel, his new apprentice since his last was fo

“Something new Cory?”

Behind him, stirred a familiar inquisitive voice. The hot breath of invading curiosity peering over his shoulder at the roughed edged piece of paper he was pinning to the cork wood board.

“Get off my neck, will you?” The presence behind him shifting away as he stepped back, sparing his, comrade in arms a brief, slightly apologetic look.

The man behind him, framed by the pillar