Chapter 11 - Workplace Relationships
**Chapter 11 - Workplace Relationships** Weeks passed by without much of anything happening. Work, sleep, study with Tri...things of that nature. He had started to show me some martial arts techniques, and was also teaching Lucas and his...
Chapter 10 - From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell
**Chapter 10 - From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell** _I am still alive, my dear prisoner. _ You must be wondering how. How dare you. How dare you doubt my ability to not only survive but endure and flourish in this world, in this...
Chapter 9 - The Dragon
**Chapter 9 - The Dragon** Winter had finally decided to rear its ugly head in San Francisco, and I was having none of it. I disliked the cold with a passion and complained about it just as much. Tin had once asked me why I hated it...
Chapter 8 - Baby It's Cold Out There
**Chapter 8 - Baby It's Cold Out There** "This is California, right?" "Yes, Simon," Ethan lazily responded as he put a mug of hot coffee in front of me. I was sitting in the back room of the new Arc with the three cat brothers--Ethan, Ciel,...
Chapter 7 - Trials and Tribulations
**Chapter 7 - Trials and Tribulations** The world spun around me as we walked. If not for Tri I'm certain I would've fallen face first onto the paved street. I could hear other voices near me, familiar voices talking. "Is he all...
Chapter 6 - The City of Yin and Yang
**Chapter 6 - The City of Yin and Yang** To say I was nervous when I started at the shipyard was an understatement. I had never done any kind of construction or ship work outside of repairs while at sea. I had a lot to learn and I was...
Chapter 14 - Overwhelmed
**Chapter 14 - Overwhelmed** I hated the cold. I work in the heat of fires and homes, so usually I'm sweating my bollocks off even in the dead of winter while working in the chimneys and the homes of people who could afford me services. ...
Chapter 13 - Fragile
**Chapter 13: Fragile** "Now see here, you whelps," the huge, hulking badger said as he walked in front of us back and forth. He wore that cudgel of his on his belt prominently. "Alister's contracts all became void the moment he went in...
Chapter 12 - London Bridge's Falling Down
**Chapter 12 - London Bridge's Falling Down** "It was real!" I screamed into Gideon's chest, gripping him and turning him so I could see back the way I had come. "It was real, it was real!" I repeated, trembling. Gideon's eyes were wide with...
Chapter 11 - From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell III
**From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell** Being a "man of blood," as my father would often say, means you have to always be aware of your appearance. You must always treat a social event as important, the people attending as people on the chess...
Chapter 10 - Ghost Hunting
**Chapter 10 - Ghost Hunting** It took us until the following week before we could go out and look for this ghost, the reason being that the weather just didn't cooperate; the days were warming up and the snow had melted but that also meant chilly...
Chapter 9 - The Little Things
**Chapter 9 - The Little Things** My face hurt after being hit by that oaf of a badger. It took almost a week for the swelling to go down and my anger to simmer. Anger generally wasn't my thing, but this badger, this Duncan, had hit a spot in...