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Changing One's Stars - Chapter 3 - No Other Choice
Albus Dumbledore sat deep in thought. The pads of his fingers drummed a pattern on his desk. He varied the pattern: index finger, ring finger, pinky, middle. He jiggled his right foot, and then his left, for variety.
The horcrux sat on a table several feet away, wrapped in charmed green silk. Even this shattered and helpless fraction of Riddle ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 6 - The Ellimist
Ellimist
My mind was in freefall. Crayak.
Menno was issuing orders for everyone but the enforcers to leave, to seize the extra Compta. He opened the door to my cage himself with an expression that was part apology, but mostly fear.
“Toomin. What does she mean?”
But I couldn’t answer. I was struggling to breathe. Crayak is real. The part of me ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 5 - Toomin
Toomin
I had just finished my last lesson of the day and was considering checking on the Time Matrix before I returning home when Aguella crashed through the leaves above me.
“Toomin! Toomin! TOOMIN!”
“What in Mother Sky--” I began before I was forced to take flight to prevent a collision. Aguella adjusted her dorsal intakes and barely avoided ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 4 - Menno
Menno
I waited in the center of the amphitheater, a ring of layered docks in the heart of our settlement, my wings weaving a slow, habitual, and ultimately useless docking pattern. For so long I had urged my fellows to forget Ket and the crystals, yet my own muscles could not. In public, while I was being watched, I did my best to still my wings, ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 3 - Toomin
Toomin
The red wake-up memm flashed in my brain. Time to get up, Toomin. I groaned inwardly. The act of waking seemed so much more difficult here than it had on the Equatorial High Crystal. Perhaps it was because my wings no longer beat a flight pattern in my sleep. Perhaps I was just getting old.
I stretched my stiff wings and arms and began my ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 2 - Crayak
Crayak
The sensors of my vessel came alive as we approached the galaxy, waking me slowly from my long sleep. I had chosen this place as my destination for the variety of signals emanating from it, promising a vast array of potential entertainments.
Plus, it was a spiral galaxy. I found the arrangement oddly pleasing.
I checked the sensors. Yes ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Chapter 1 - Toomin
Toomin
Simple as that, I was there.
What it was to have orbs again! To have the organic senses of sight and sound instead of thousands of cold electronic readouts! To have wings and talons and pods and the whole lovely package! I flapped my wings experimentally, wiggled my fingers, and smiled at simple joy of being a living creature.
I was ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Animorphs: Sing the Azures: Prologue
Ellimist
My name is Azure Level, Seven Spar, Extension Two, Down-Messenger, Forty-one. My chosen name, the name that my friends called me, is Toomin. I say “called” because it has been an exceedingly long time since anyone called me by anything but my game name. That name is Ellimist, and it has been whispered in many corners of the galaxy, ( Read more... )