Nathalia regarded the wall with caution, arms crossed as she looked at it. A few other colonists stood around, eyeing the walls as well, comparing notes and theorizing. Howl seemed to be chatting with two Tsabhua from other colonies.    "Ah! Hi Nathalia! These are Spiridus and Harkley, we were just talking about the etching... We ah, still have no clue." Howl awkwardly said.   Nathalia chuckled "That makes sense. it's a lot to decipher." She lo...

Nathalia had long ago decided that travelling by boat- wasn't for her. She hated every second of it, the rocking of the boat, the salty ocean air, being trapped in a relatively small space.   Still, when the colony had written to her, offering her a place while they learnt more about "potential options for an outpost in Rekes" she had happily obliged. She had already been considering life in a colony before she met the small group out in Rekes, and after they left the...

               Tough pebbles crunched under Erist’s feet, slicked from recent snowmelt. The sky was colorless and overcast, the foreboding sense of oncoming rainfall hanging in the air. He looked ahead along the trail at his party: Veldet seemed enraptured playing “eye spy” with Nepeto, who was enjoying a free ride on the draconic tark’ees head, then ahead of them was Deidra. The onyx belemoid was the eldest of the four, she seldom travelled far from the colony, but this...