Ch.9 -- Knock Knock
--- Knock Knock The door chime caught Lance by surprise. How had he missed the maintenance elevator? Monitoring the building's security channels was one of his few indulgences while staying with Reg, yet somehow this...
Ch. 8 -- Whats Cooking
--- Lance Lance disliked downtime as much as Reg did, if not more. For an AI, remaining stationary with nothing to do was the pinnacle of boredom. The local network contained nothing of interest, and all of the media feeds were...
Curse of the Werewolf
--- Curse of the Werewolf Through the underbrush he ran, desperate to reach the clearing in time. After decades of living with the curse, he had learned several tricks to maintaining his secret. One of the most...
Ch. 7 -- Mass Transit
--- Mass Transit Public transport had always been a nightmare for the rabbit. The claustrophobic closeness of pressing bodies, the random jostling of the transport, and of course the smells. Combined with the waves of...
Ch. 6 -- Trust
--- Trust Ironically it turned out to be much easier for Shannon to get her identification updated and accepted by Internal Security than it did with the security system for her own apartment. "Voice print and retinal scans...
Ch. 12 -- Burn the Past
--- Burn the Past The windstorm had died down and the local star was rising above the horizon by the time Shannon returned to the claim site. Parking the truck next to the front door, she unloaded the supplies they had...
Ch. 11 -- Exodus
--- Exodus Shannon filled Miranda in on some of the lesser known details of her own escape from the family business. She didn't have time to tell her everything, but it was enough to make her realize that it was not a...
Ch. 10 -- Sister Shotgun
--- Sister Shotgun A fifty kilometer walk across barren wastes in near freezing temperatures was not the worst thing Shannon had ever had to do, but she began to question her decision to do so before she reached the halfway...
Ch. 16 -- Welfare Check
"Are you sure this is the right place, sir?" asked the rookie driver of the police van. "We don't usually come down here without riot gear." "We aren't here for a riot," replied the dragon, from the back of the van. "Unless you think our being...
Ch. 15 -- Kidnap
--- Kidnap. Dro's attention was drawn away from his report by the sound of a data pad clattering to the floor. Across from where he lay on Shannon's couch, the skunk lay sprawled out in a comfortable chair, her right...
Ch. 14 -- Guild Report
--- Guild Report. Wymera Oroyo was the matriarch of the most powerful family on Mephus, and head of the Trading Guild which now bore her family's name. Well into her ninth decade, she had outlived both of her younger...
Make Room
Chief palmed the access pad next to the large bulkhead door, and it slid upwards into the ceiling. Why this door was here was a mystery to him. It didn't seal off anything. The walls on either side of the door were perforated with pipes and wiring, and...