CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

 Having shaken their pursuers, for the time being, Oliver and Lewis take a breather and look for somewhere to run to...preferably with a way off-world attached. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The tree shook and the leaves rustled as something large climbed through the branches below him, and he shifted to see what it was. “Do you know what I thought when you weren’t there?” Lewis demanded, pulling himself up on a branch beside him. Oliver hushed him, and pointed toward the flight. Lewis squinted in the direction he indicated, a puzzled look forming on his face. When he finally caught sight of the approaching ships, he edged around the tree trunk, looking for a better vantage point. “That’s a supply fleet,” he observed as they came into view, taking a path down the valley and holding a tight formation as they followed its twists and turns. “Must be heading for a base.” “I d...

 The story-writing was delayed on the 19th day of #NaNoWriMo202, and the words were finished too late for a blog entry on the day. Things got interesting as Ravelin found, and lost, Oliver and Lewis's trail. Starting Words: 37,784 Finishing Words: 39,447 Words Written: 2,074 Extract: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver led them into the hills, his soul singing at the scent of trees and grass and the ruffle of a fresh breeze through his fur. He wished he could stop to investigate the world, but he didn’t dare. Behind them an angry company with too much knowledge of shifters had landed. He didn’t know if they’d traced them to Mikka’s farm, or found their way through the meremois pack, but he didn’t want to stop to find out. Whatever Big Man was, he wasn’t human…and Oliver was pretty sure he wasn’t were…or lupar. No, Big Man was something else. Oliver didn’t know what, and rig...

 Today's words are done early, but I still have a lot of other wording to go. Starting Words: 41,642 Ending Words: 44,052 Words Written: 2,410 Extract: In which Oliver and Lewis arrive at an unknown destination and discover they weren't entirely unexpected: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Heads up,” he murmured, touching Lewis’s arm. “Here they come.” Lewis took one look at the direction they were coming from and his eyes widened. “They were watching us?” “If we were lucky, that’s all they were doing.” “You think they have a mic that can pick up at that distance.” “I’m hoping they’d need a drone, and that as I’m not seeing one, they might.” “But they know what we are, right?” Oliver sighed. “Most likely. IR gives an outline and wolves run hot…but let’s see what they have to say, before we go giving them data they might not have.” Lewis nodded, matching Oliver step fo...