As she lay there, she listened to the steady staccato ba-beat of his heart and wondered what made his arms so different from every other pair she’d ever laid in. He was a mammal. That wasn’t particularly new. But there was something about his gentle warmth that settled in somewhere deeper, somewhere she couldn’t quite…
Category: Fluffuary 2025
Fluffuary Day 13: Rain (This is a Whump And I Only Care A Little Bit)
He woke up, gasping with the pain, the dull throbbing heat of it lighting up his insides, setting him aflame in the cold dark shadows of the morning. He rolled from twisted bedsheets as the thunder rolled outside the window, stumbled to the glass to press a hand against the pane. Rain. A beautiful thing…
Fluffuary Day 12: Argument
Kajj knew he could be stubborn. It was one of his strongest qualities, and one of his greatest assets in the life that he had lived. Every single inch that he gave his enemies was an inch they would try to hang him with, every concession another door opened to let an enemy into his…
Fluffuary Day 11: Crush
He had heard the humans call it a crush, and he had to agree that it was an appropriate term. There was a weight to it, this thing that sat in his chest. A weight and a warmth and a pull that he could not quite deny. He had felt its callings before, singing sweet…
Fluffuary Day 10: Rivals
Qud had always been the leader. He was the first to hatch, after all, and since that moment Kajj had always been racing to catch up. Qud was the first among them to molt, and the first among them to sing fundamental. He was the strongest and he was the fastest, the biggest and the…
Fluffuary Day 09: Grass
After centuries in space, it was difficult to adjust to life on a planet. There was gravity, for one thing, combined with the uneven floor of the dirt and the chill of the mornings that made his morning runs increasingly difficult to handle. Twice this morning he had needed to pause to rest, stretching out…
Fluffuary Day 08: Trust
This one is a little bit spicy kinda sorta but it’s not explicit in any sort of way. Soft, slow breaths ghosted against the bare chitin of his chest as his lover slept on, her pale skin still flushed with warmth. Small strands of sweat slick hair clung to her face, and he freed them…
Fluffuary Day 07: Prank
please don’t take this seriously, this one is a joke “~Take cover!~” The Elder’s baritone song boomed out across the field, sending his cohort scrambling to obey. Luckily, the picnic area he had scouted had been a good one — the craggy hills offering ample shelter for the smaller members of his warren. He cursed…
Fluffuary Day 06: Collapse
The children stared at him with wide, terrified eyes as he made his way into the classroom, head ducked low in a mostly ineffectual attempt not to taste the dust on the ceiling. //The humans never do a very good job of cleaning up there, do they?// his implant asked, purposefully jovial in an attempt…
Fluffuary Day 05: Starry Night
With aching body and heart, Kajj cast himself out into the Black.And the Black embraced him. Through the soft red glow of his personal atmo-shield, he watched as the universe stretched all around him, infinite and unknowable and vast. And yet… he recognized those stars. He recognized those patterns. There was a map in his…