“I’m not a smart man, least ah never really considered m’self one. Sure ‘m not dumb, but ah’ ain’t no Einstein.” Darren sat in the long grass before the landscape of a woman laying on her stomach with her arms folded neatly. Pryvani’s head sat atop her folded arms as she listened to Darren intently. …
Chapter Forty-Three: The Wrath of Lyroo Titan: Exile by Dann
Lyroo’s eyes burned with intensity as she rested her hands on the desk of the Rutger animal control center’s administrator. She teetered on the edge of shouting, and leaned forward as she spoke, just short of crawling across the man’s desk. Her voice cut daggers through him. “Second paragraph, Mr. Hofant!” Lyroo seethed, her eyes …
Chapter Forty-Two: The Winds of Change Titan: Exile by Dann
“Loona’s working on it, there is really nothing else we can do but wait.” Niall sat at his desk with his eyes downcast at his portable data pad. “I just feel so…I mean there has to be more we can…it just seems like we are doing nothing.” Naskia’s mood was sour and ripe with remorse, …
Chapter Forty-One: An Unsteady Alliance Titan: Exile by Dann
“All I’m saying is it happens to be a much larger burden on the tax-paying citizen than its worth!” A figure on the vid screen spoke with passion to a well-dressed Dunnermac who sat across from him at a desk set before a decorative backdrop. “The numbers are available; the House committee has made no …
Chapter Forty: The Enemy of My Enemy Titan: Exile by Dann
Lyroo sat at her desk, which was normally organized meticulously to the point of obsession, wondering if a tornado had in fact been through her office. Things were a mess! Everywhere, the state of her HOS office was just a remarkable convenient bit of irony, icing on the cake. Her short blond hair was frazzled, …
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Aftershocks Titan: Exile by Dann
(“Things were pretty hopeless.” Darren reflected and sat on the edge of the gondola with his legs dangling over the side. He could feel Pryvani carefully watching him, but he didn’t mind so much. “I remember as much, I mean…well it was all anybody was talking about everywhere.” Pryvani say on the edge of her …
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Feast of the Overseer (Part Three) Titan: Exile by Dann
Darren lay motionless with his cheek flat against the cold porcelain plate. The anger and hate had drained from his body, the fear and terror had ebbed away and left nothing but emptiness in its wake. He lay defeated as the young woman who would soon consume him laughed and conversed with her fellow dinner …
Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Feast of the Overseer (Part Two) Titan: Exile by Dann
(“No offense Pryvani, but you can’t know what it’s like to lie on that plate and realize you’re about to be something’s meal.” Darren trembled as he recalled the feel of the cool porcelain against his bare skin, the screeching, chilling sound of steel on ceramic as utensils he couldn’t see dug into the flesh …
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Feast of the Overseer (Part One) Titan: Exile by Dann
(“They teach us how to respond in a crisis situation ya know…” Darren said quietly, his eyes glassed over as he looked out into the calm black water. It was so quiet, so calm that all he could hear was the slap of the water against their boat, and Pryvani’s gentle rhythmic breathing. “We ‘protocol’.” …
Chapter Thirty-Five: Turnaround Titan: Exile by Dann
Darren caught up to Tapp and took hold of her by the shoulder, spinning her around to face him in one solid movement. He was out of breath, where she seemed able to run a marathon if need be. “Just where do you think you’re going to sister!” Darren scolded his voice gruff and assertive …