Losing Gracefully ~ by SaralynArati

NightOwl

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Thanks for posting more!!! I'm looking forward to finding out what happens in the end!!!! :D

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Slipping an arm free, Song the Wolf Calling does something she hopes will disconcert Star Hawk even further. In place of an answer, she reaches up, pulls his face to hers and kisses him. With his mind reeling a little, Star Hawk considers. It is a beautiful kiss: long and soft and deep. But there is something in the back of his mind that still disturbs him. Almost, he thinks of it in time. Almost, he dodges her knee, and his breath whooshes out as she scores on his solar plexus instead.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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"I can't," Wolf Calling breathes in response, "I can't." Star Hawk doesn't understand. He is slightly hurt by this rejection of his noble gesture, but more than that he is curious. "Why not, Wolfling?" Star Hawk Burning asks, easing his hold on her a tiny bit. However, she cannot tell him in front of so many people, in case one of them might be the murderer. If the assassin knows that his attack is foreseen, he might do something rash and unplanned; the risk of that is just too terrible.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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A few feints and retreats later, Song tries a usually successful spin kick, but her timing is off and Star Hawk catches at her ankle. His grasp on her is fleeting, yet it throws her out of balance and she falls. Star Hawk pounces and manages to pin his opponent. "Yield," he demands of her. "Never," she answers, attempting to squirm loose. Looking with regret at the scrapes and bruises on her, he makes a generous offer, saying, "Fine, we'll leave the circle together. It will be a tie."

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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As Wolf Calling's reflexes slow and her endurance ebbs, Smoke Cat and Blue Turtle are conferring about what next to do. They are closer to finding the killer than they were. But eliminating clan members one by one as they are accounted for is tedious and, unfortunately, consuming too much time. Tracing the knife from its hiding place in the hollow by the river bank proved fruitless. Smoke Cat begins to toy with an audacious and desperate plan, but much will depend on the endangered couple.

10 years ago