WAITING ROOMLaw required that all Pets living in Eos receive a monthly checkup. Not only that, but with Riki’s inordinately high rate of getting into scrapes with Eos Security over one infraction or the other, Riki was very familiar with the inside of Tanagura Medical. He took his usual seat in the waiting room, looking … Continue reading

WAITING ROOMLaw required that all Pets living in Eos receive a monthly checkup. Not only that, but with Riki’s inordinately high rate of getting into scrapes with Eos Security over one infraction or the other, Riki was very familiar with the inside of Tanagura Medical. He took his usual seat in the waiting room, looking … Continue reading

DETOURSKatze and Riki rode in silence for several miles. As they left the slums of Midas behind them and headed on the main road into Tanagura, Riki grew more tense. Finally, he carefully queried, “So….? On a scale from 1 to 10, how mad would you say Iason was?”Katze shot him a brief sympathetic glance.“Say … Continue reading

RELEASED“Get up, Alec,” was Katze’s chosen greeting upon entering the cell. “Time to go.”“Hey, Boss…uh…are you mad?”“Mad? Why would I be mad?” Katze’s eyes, however, blazed with inner fire. “What I AM is baffled.”“Katze, I swear, Riki and I had nothing t do with this. Thank Luke over here.”Katze’s golden eyes narrowed in Luke’s direction … Continue reading

COOL HEELSRiki was fine.Scratch that. He was unharmed (for now) but far from fine. FAR. In fact, he was internally freaking out. Oh, he’d been arrested before, dragged down to the Midas Police Center and roughed up a bit before his records were pulled…. His records showing that he was the exclusive property of a … Continue reading

LOCKED UPWell. It could be worse. They could all be in body bags right now. As things stood, Luke’s egregious display of offensiveness had led to all of them sitting pretty in the belly of the Midas Police Center, wondering if they’d ever see the light of day again.Sid busied himself doing chin-ups while Alec … Continue reading

THE DARKMENJust perfect – they hadn’t even called any regular old beat cops – these were the Darkmen, the juggernauts of the Amoian police.“Everybody freeze! No one move a muscle, or I’ll have all you slum mongrels in body bags, I swear to Jupiter! What are you looking at, punk!?” Luke didn’t know when to … Continue reading