Recent content by Tanya Keltoi

Her good ear seemed to drop horizontal like a signal flag before flicking back to position; just what emotion that was designed to convey, even Tanya did not know. Amusement? Confusion? Agreement? It simply felt correct for the situation. The yawns were noted but appeared of little consequence...

Whatever relief Tanya felt that Mina Rose’s acquiescence would buy some time was short-lived. The hug would have come as pleasant surprise, and indeed the smaller vixen responded with all due enthusiasm and a firm embrace, but guilt continued to thud hollowly in her chest. You’ve nothing to...

Already perched upon the quarterdeck railings where they had been taking a break to enjoy the last of autumn’s sunshine, the vixen heaved a sigh and drained her tankard. “Right, suppose we’d better do as ‘is nibs says,” Tanya snorted with mirth as she looked to the marten beside her. “Can’t wait...

Very rarely was Tanya lost for words. She stared, something between utter confusion and discomfort flickering in her expression before she mastered both this and the urge to join in the laughter. In her younger years she might have bullied the doe relentlessly; as she had aged she had begun more...

She was advancing in years, but for Tanya that remained merely a physical limitation: she was still youthfully-minded and, this being the case, of a mind to make a suitably dramatic exit. With an athleticism her joints would complain of later, the vixen sprung up onto the sill and swung the...

The sight of the young vixen trying to reconcile all this information with her sense and self, processing the grief…Tanya could have clawed herself for the lies. Dusk, too, for the necessity of it. Curse it all but she’d better find a way to smooth this over soon, or let me tell her. The...

The older vixen’s ears settled back, partially in discomfort for lying and partially in grief over Valdrisk. That much at least was no lie even after all the years. She almost found herself wishing the tale true, that he had passed whilst she was living in Kutoroka: the indelible image of...

Very swiftly Tanya found herself in her element, green eyes glittering with a mischief soon losing purpose: what had intended as teasing was, for her, treasured memory and there was little disguising the hints of pride as she spoke. “Aaah Caden was a cute one for sure, liddle toddlin’ puff of...

“I’m glad you’re back and all,” Tanya replied to Caden with an affectionate squeeze of his shoulder. “You’ve grown into a beast to be proud of, and I’m lucky I got to see that.” It had been an awkward meeting to be certain, but to have resolved some part of their relationship felt like a fresh...

Tonight had been intended as an exercise in her skills as an assassin: instead it was testing Tox’ very ability to remain in character. Not unlike Matisse she could feel a surge of fury bubbling beneath her fur at the way tonight had gone sideways, indignation and righteous anger already...

“Hm. Interestin’.” Though it had only been a secondary purpose for exploring the Keys, far removed from the priority of recovering Mina Rose, it was worth reflecting on whilst she was here. Paw-cannons: it was as horrifying a thought as it was captivating. Nothing on the elegance and speed of...

Mild surprise registered on her features – not at the offer so much as a sort of wry amusement at the very thought of not only herself but the family at large indulging in something so formal as a planned dinner. She and hers were by and large a wilder force than the Ryalor’s side with their...

A wry smile flitted across her face, the inference of her husband’s haunting of the docks a delicious mystery for another time. Whatever he’d been up to had garnered quite the intrigue: no doubt she’d enjoy reading the Smelt’s coverage on her return, even were it being used as mere wrapping for...

“Ha! Cheeky sod.” Tanya shot Caden an affectionate grin at the teasing before reaching out to pat Daniil’s shoulder. “Now you play the long game: white fur shows blush well, though somethin’ tells me you already know plenty about that.” They seemed a well-matched couple: dear to her as Caden...

Orina’s decision was a wise one, and Tanya nodded in agreement: whatever was left of the building could be combed over later, but the more lives saved the better. Taking the lantern after siphoning a small amount of the spilled contents into a glass vial on her own poisoner’s belt, she...