It sounded like a mechanical device that needed oiling, squeaking lightly but incessantly, but as I got closer I realised that it was the sound of meowing cats. As in multiple. I found Clinton inside my cupboard, along with three baby kittens, squeaking in incredibly high pitched voices. They had...
“Let Katelyn go. She’s just a human, she has nothing to do with this. It’s not her you want.” “You’re right,” the Champawat Tiger purred down the line, “it’s you. She means nothing to me, nothing at all, so don’t think for even a second that I won’t tear this little friend of yours to shreds and ...
But despite my desire to press on to Cinder, when I saw what lay beyond I stopped and drank in the view. A wide, single room, in the style of the 1900s Australian farmhouse, was the entire of the ground floor of the house. The walls were papered with an off-white colour dotted with pink flowers o...
My neck, sore and bruised, still felt tender after Hailstone had injured it again. Still, I could feel the power of the Rakshasa bloodline within me, healing me. A human would have died, their neck snapped in an instant. But that wasn’t my fate, not now that I was what I was. I wet a cloth from t...