You’ve experienced pain before. It comes with your nature. You’d go so far to say that living is in of itself a kind of pain. The kind of pain you feel now is not physical, but emotional. It is the kind of pain that you know wont heal like the rest. Even so, you have to move on.
It is said that when a Hellhound lives long enough to see their tail striped with silver, that they gain the wisdom and power of the ancients. You have lived long enough to see this happen, and you can safely say that such rumors are based on lies. All that a few tufts of silver fur mean to you, is that you are long past your prime, and now seek a place to lay down and die. You have no purpose, and your body is a ruin of countless fights. This world has no further need of you. This all changes, when a young orphan boy wanders up to you…
Jerry is a divorced father of a young man who’s recently worried his mother over dating one of those new “Mamono” A pretty scary one, if she says so. But Jerry finds he’s quite compatible with his son’s girlfirend’s mother.
What happens when an Ushi-oni has to serve community service with a wounded veteran?
Kaci is terrified of boys. They constantly stare at her, she can practically feel their eyes boring into her. She can’t hear their whispers, but she knows what they’re saying. How homely she is, how gaunt and gainly she is. But one day, when her mother drags her to Berryton for Merchant’s Day, she finds a solution to her problem. A mysterious woman’s magical powder, that allows her to see magical lights, that let her avoid the boys! But slowly, things begin to… change
Jennie had her flaxen hair tied into a ponytail to keep it up and out of her way, while she had her sealskin on her lap. Nary once, did she look up from her repair work of fixing a tear, putting in stich after stitch, evenly.
‘How can she sit there as naked as the day she was born, and without so much as a single goose-bump on her anywhere?’ Hew idly wondered, as he shifted closer to the fire, when yet another breeze inspired a wave of them across his own skin.
“But, as luck would have it, the King managed to almost literally ‘bump into’, a heretofore unknown kind of Dragon. A Silly one. She was considered silly by her fellow Dragons because she acted in silly ways. She did such silly things as refusing to take over the family hoard as was expected by her mother.
“How is it, that you were able to understand her, Majin Arawn?” asked Victoria.
“It is quite simple, your Highness. A long time ago, I learned to speak Baby.”
“That’s preposterous Arawn, babies don’t speak.” She claimed, with her own Mother looking dubiously over her shoulder at me.
“Well then, let me give you a demonstration your Highness.” I then turned and addressed her baby. After a few interchanges, I came up with a suitable reply.
“According to your daughter, the reason why she doesn’t like to feed immediately after you bathe, is that the soap you use is overly spicy.”