Stories

Chelle holds a silver chain pendulum above the black spirit cat Moon Threshold pendulum board in the Aether-Reach mist, water drop crystals forming mid-air around her in the liminal threshold light

What the Cat Already Knows

Chelle had been carrying the question for three weeks. She knew the answer. The thinking was a way of avoiding the knowing — and she recognized this pattern in herself...

What the Cat Already Knows

Chelle had been carrying the question for three weeks. She knew the answer. The thinking was a way of avoiding the knowing — and she recognized this pattern in herself...

Chelle stands at the edge of a sun-dappled forest clearing watching a grey wolf sitting beneath an old dream catcher strung between two branches, broken light filtering through the Sunrise Steppes canopy above them

The Wolf Was Already There

Chelle stepped into the clearing before she registered the landscape had changed. The wolf lifted its head. It did not run. It did not threaten. It simply looked at her...

The Wolf Was Already There

Chelle stepped into the clearing before she registered the landscape had changed. The wolf lifted its head. It did not run. It did not threaten. It simply looked at her...

Cinder the grey wolf pack leader stands at the Fenrisheim tree line at dusk, the Wolftooth Braid leather and dogtooth pendant necklace displayed on the mossy roots in the foreground, ancient timber rising behind him

The Cost of the Boundary

Cinder does not perform his authority. It simply is. He was the pack leader before the compact, before the ancient people arrived, before the Expanse had a name for what...

The Cost of the Boundary

Cinder does not perform his authority. It simply is. He was the pack leader before the compact, before the ancient people arrived, before the Expanse had a name for what...

Tiny dark-winged Luna darts through the ancient Fenrisheim canopy while Cinder and Ash run in full stride through the root-shadows below, moonlight falling through the old timber in shafts of green-grey light

What the Expanse Lets You Be

Luna does not use the fairy form often. She does not explain it when she does. The Expanse is one of the places she lets it happen — because Fenrisheim...

What the Expanse Lets You Be

Luna does not use the fairy form often. She does not explain it when she does. The Expanse is one of the places she lets it happen — because Fenrisheim...

Chelle sits on the Attic rooftop at night holding the Ghost Wing crystal orb pendant glowing in her open palm, Midnight the sapphire dragon lowering his great head beside her under the starlit sky

The Third Rumble

Midnight has three rumbles. Chelle knows all of them — not because anyone taught her, but because some knowledge lives in the body before it lives in language. The first...

The Third Rumble

Midnight has three rumbles. Chelle knows all of them — not because anyone taught her, but because some knowledge lives in the body before it lives in language. The first...

Luna on the Attic rooftop at night wearing the silver Dragonjaw Hoop earring, Midnight the sapphire dragon filling the sky above her with wings spread, Ironspire glowing in the distance below

What Midnight Watches

Midnight does not explain himself. He tilts his great head when someone picks up the black Dragonjaw Hoops. He does not intervene, does not make a sound — he simply...

What Midnight Watches

Midnight does not explain himself. He tilts his great head when someone picks up the black Dragonjaw Hoops. He does not intervene, does not make a sound — he simply...