1. Param

    Private Bivouac [dropped]

    The work came as easy as the smiles. The rhythm set as they cut out from home, out to sea. Salt and sweat all they had to show for it in the now. "Not a matter of what we sail in, Kaina," Param whispered with grin through the push and pull of the oar. "But how we sail, " he laughed. Remembered...
  2. Param

    Private Bivouac [dropped]

    Clawed toes clacked against sturdy planks. Sounded light with each careful step as the skiff bobbed to the shift of the greater sea beyond the Bound City. "Maybe it ain't" Param confessed, simple as sin. Picked up a dark woolly fur and gave it a shake. "Still good for the rain this one," he...
  3. Param

    Prompt Trouble Calls

    A knuckled fist sank into his side. Bruised purple pain bloomed and spread the more with each hit. He grit his teeth. Flung his head back to let his skull smack against his assailant's nose. A crack. The rush of warm blood against his neck. Param grinned as he felt the man's arms loosen, he...
  4. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    "Shooting?!" Param asked as the spout spray hazed through the air. "At us?!" Still the great fin aimed towards the dingy. Param could see it beneath the cloudshadow. The horrible S of the beast beneath, beating the waters with each stroke of its terrible tail. The wave rocked the dingy, and...
  5. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    Fingers came snatch around the worn orange leather that sheathed the fat blade. "Right!" he said, full with hot breath. Off hand went to knife's grip, took hold and- A tug on the anchor line. Down and hard. The dingy dipped, crashed through a wave from the beast's wake, and popped through the...
  6. Param

    Open Catch a Ride: South Ilica, Harbor Village of Cisne

    Clawed toes splayed against the grain of the wooden deck planks. Hands firm about the steering gear, and eyes wide on the horizon as furred tail swished lazy to twitch fast and frantic. "Oh?" some part of his mind had registered. The sound like the first drop of rain to kiss upon the skin. A...
  7. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    Pull, pull, pull. Param slammed a boot against the taffrail, drew in a breath that saw his whole frame swell wide with air to feed his aching arms. Quick, manic, possessed pulls saw Jens and Lilah pulled towards the diving dinghy. A tied down line. A Lurch-leap-slam over the rail that saw...
  8. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    Loose palms were full around the taught rope. Calloused pads felt the chorded fibers of the lifeline, still taught with weight on the other end. Bobbed and pulled by the water's currents. He could tell that much. Eyes and legs so used to the waves. Stomach so sure of the sea. The dark of his...
  9. Param

    Private So Say the Stars

    "Ha! So it is!" He said bright as he hop stepped forward, his tail tall with a happy crook behind him. Without a thought, his hand dipped into his robe, and grabbed up the fold of parchment he had secreted away. Half ready to run. His mind remembered something as he passed by a few locals who...
  10. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    Crouched about the likes, Param squat. Arms folded on the railing, and chin rested as he eyes the blue beneath. His tail swished left. Swished right. Lazy with anticipation. "It's always all wibbly wobbly up here, isn't it, Beth?" Param asked the diving dhingy. "Waves lurch up and down, sun...
  11. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    A salute snapped. Crisp and all into it. After all. When life came so fast, and was gone so quick, what mattered more than a bit of theater? Some ceremony. However small. Then the splash. The bubbles and faste fade of a shape all too familiar to him and his Devahni eyes. More familiar to the...
  12. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    All smiles and cheek, Param winked as Delilah plunged into the depths. Shook his head some as Jens made ready. "Hmm," he thought aloud, as his hands worked over the lines of rope. Part of the watchman's duties on the dinghy. "Kro is big on colored glass these days," he said absently. Kro...
  13. Param

    Prompt Trouble Calls

    Param gave a laugh as he righted himself up. "Depends on the need now don't it?" he tilt and spun on a heel as a gnome careened overhead. Cracked against another ruffian's chest and planted on their back. A rush of steps, an angry shout. Param's eyes went wide. He shoved the chair forward, its...
  14. Param

    Private So Say the Stars

    That first step on land was always the harshest. Bones so used to the sea, felt the ungive of the stone and earth beneath them. It always made Param stop in his tracks. If only for a beat. His tail swat left then right. Before it made a small S and settled its sway low and easy. A hop step...
  15. Param

    Prompt Trouble Calls

    "Name?" he asked, eyes following the lone finger that blurred and split and blurred back together. She went on. "Uh, Param," he said after a moment to think. Boneknitter. He'd heard of them. From one tongue or the other. Maybe he had met one before. But it was all too- "Ow!" he sounded as his...
  16. Param

    Private A shallows, a secret

    "Too busy to really see anything, really," Param said without a thought in his mind. His eyes wide and far away as blooms of shroud-fire painted the black night about his mind. Coated the abyss in scorch and fury, whilst his arms ached, and a low hulled dinghy trudged through the surf. "But...
  17. Param

    Prompt Trouble Calls

    Bottles cracked as flesh thud against bone, and lungs pushed out breaths in low oofs and groans. Param was lost to the stars. Twirling about his vision. Till something gave him a start. Rather, someone. He yelped at the sound of - "How many fingers do you see?" settled back in the sway of his...
  18. Param

    Private So Say the Stars

    Steps down the plank, Param stuffed a folded bit of parchment underneath his robes. "Was planning on it, aye," he said with a smile that seemed second nature to him. "Have to find a Gull's Nest," he added as he passed on her left and went on down toward the dock. "Wouldn't happen to know of...
  19. Param

    Prompt Trouble Calls

    Scoop after scoop, Param tried to horde his winnings as fast as his clawed hands would let him. Shoveling dull and bright coin all the same. "Win some you lose some, my handsome friends!" he said as he grinned the wider. "Piss on that," one man stated as he reached up and grabbed the Deva by...
  20. Param

    Open Catch a Ride: South Ilica, Harbor Village of Cisne

    A smack and a jolt saw the last surviving dumplings tilt and shift amidst the palm of Param's hand. They threatened to roll off. His eyes went wide, his breath hitched and all the hairs along his neck, down to his tail stood tall as they could. Zip zap swoop, his hand counteracted. The...
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