Recent content by Tanya Keltoi

“Could do with a tot of rum meself,” the Admiral murmured under her breath wistfully at the thought of the concoction she had left behind in the infirmary. It never had sat well with her to leave a good drink unfinished, and even now with the chaos and clatter on deck all she could think about...

The cool of Tanya’s guarded mask began to soften as Falun spoke. Under other contexts she might have made light of his brief grimace; found a jibe or joke to make and tried to break the tension between them with an offer to start afresh. He was not related by blood but as far as the vixen was...

Alcohol and Tanya had long enjoyed a complex relationship: as such the vixen appeared, to all intents and purposes, as though she had not touched the amount of alcohol which had disappeared down her maw. She settled back comfortably in her chair, tailbrush flicking with lazy contentment whilst...

She’d as much as told him to stay down but considering it was preceded with an apology (of sorts), Tanya elected to let the matter go. Tonight hadn’t been about making enemies nor letting her temper get the better of her and she intended to calm herself down, though part of her still railed...

Heroics. The word alone sent her brush twitching. Too many had been lost over the years to good intentions, all fine beasts with lives ahead of them cut brutally short by duty or bravery or simply a heart too kind for the brutality of life at sea. Several had died protecting her; their ghosts...

Whilst her husband departed to attend to his new navigator-in-training, Tanya lingered long enough to give Calara an approving nod as the otter took the helm. It was still strange for the vixen to find herself now so aligned with woodlanders within the Imperium’s employ, baffled more by their...

Oilfur knew in his heart, with the manner of resigned despair better attributed to those castaways when first they had stared at the trackless waves around them, that his fate was sealed. Against all odds, desires and wishes, he would be the beast to have to go find the Admiral. Ugh. At the very...

It was a swift easy trot belowdecks to catch up with the crew, brief as the aside with their newest navigator-in-training had been. One slim, scarred paw traced the simple banister as they descended, clawtips scraping lightly over the freshly oiled wood; It was a simple sound and a comforting...

Shame and fear proved powerful combustion, manifesting as anger within the diminutive vixen with nowhere for it to go. There was enough distance yet that she needn’t mask the heat in her gaze but it would be but a brief window if she did not take her leave. Indecision warred with property – no...

“A’ight, take your pocket money and g’wan.” “Ugh, ma, stoppit.” “What, too grown an’ proper now you’ve had a sail out to even say thank’y? I should wipe that drippy snout of yours right when your friends see you. C’mere.” “Ma!-” Cackling like the old crone she was rather enjoying her...

Later on Tanya would reflect that she hoped Falun would embrace this lesson; would hope even more that it might even, down the line, become a cause for bonding between them. She’d been knocked on her tail many times for her smart mouth in her youth, though she had never possessed Falun’s...

Death prowled as an ever-present companion to Tanya. Even when she did not need to stare it in the face, it lingered day by day as a spectre in her peripheral vision. The fragility of her own mortality had been learned from a young age, compounded swiftly by a litany of personal losses and the...

Since the gradual evolution of their relationship in the years since leaving Bully Harbour Tanya had rarely made it a secret that she adored every part of her husband, organic and inorganic. The pressure of his gauntleted paw was as thrilling and familiar as his claws and it was no small...

There was a momentary tenseness in her jaw, a further prickling of her fur which heralded a moment’s hesitation as guilt wrestled her impulse. He was grown (that much was obvious in how he towered over her), but he was still by all accounts a youngster in her eyes. She’d always protected family...

Tanya nodded along as the other attendees explained their links to the nameday beast, filing away as much as made sense whilst coming to better understand the relationships which interplayed between them all. ‘Gates she’d missed a lot of life here, and had to wonder if this was how it had felt...