All this time the Bear’s delegate had said nothing beyond a few simple greetings and listened.  Though Gregory could see his old rival had an amused look on his face as he watched this play out.  Clearly, he wasn’t going to take either side in this and was just as surprised as the mage delegate.                Leland was waiting to hear how this would go.  It blew his mind that Rolo thought it was important to make it his business how other factions handled their rogue issues.  If he just shut up it would be ove

The other factions had finally arrived over the next couple of hours.  The merfolk had to make do with the swimming hole and the cat shifters made do with cabins at the far end of the pack lands. There had only been one incident with the cat shifters when one of the non-predator shifters requested that they ensured their litter box was nowhere near where they were staying.  A swift reprimand and apology came directly after that.  The non-predator shifters received cabins near the medical centre and packhouse as they would be working as support personnel within the medical centre, kitchens and war room.   &n

                Gregory was not getting tired and irritable as the night wore on and the fine details were hashed out.  Jobs and groups decided on.  How they were going to move the people and equipment was discussed to the point he felt it was just splitting hairs.  But, that was what he told the group at the beginning of the meeting.  Now they were going over how the timing was going to go down to the very last second it felt like.  Now they still have to hash out how they were going to get those they could save back here and to proper medical attention, also, the injured and of course the prisoners if they needed to interrogate th

Darkness leaving the world again and the creature that is known as Hannibal was forced underground again.  He had long ago shunned the harsh rays of the sun for many other reasons.  But he told himself it was because life in the sun had long since bored him.  Why should he waste his time within the mundane world?  All that was left for him there at this time were games to pass the time and he was done with that.  He had lost the enjoyment of the challenge when he could outsmart them all again and again.  No, the time was coming in just a few days to change the board and the game.  He was going to take it to a whole new level.  No more of this skulking around to avoid detection to get what he wanted.  No more cowering in fear of detection by those lesser beings.  How dare they tell their elder he was wrong, perverse and criminal.  He would soon be telling them the real truth. His truth.

                He’d summon the scum to him as soon as he sensed his conscious presence and he was still not here. It was irritating.  He wanted to know why his plans weren’t moving faster and he would not accept excuses this time.  His army wasn’t getting any bigger or even closer to being a fighting force.  His anger bled into his eyesight and his power lashed out from him at the closest creatures. A flock of birds fell from the sky in a hail of feathers. Each small body landing in a sickening thud. The sickly smell of disease and rot filtering suddenly from each still form.