Further Exploration Reveals... a story of Vas World for the Giraffe Call

To an anonymous prompt.

Vas' World has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ.

This comes some short time after Greetings ()


it had been with effort that Paz and Malia had slipped away from their "welcoming committee" who were, after five days, beginning to feel more like benign jailers. Vas was still doing the staring-slack-jawed thing he'd been doing since they encountered the purple girl, and the rest of the team were baby-sitting him, trying to get him to snap out of it. That left the uncomfortable pairing of Paz and Malia, who had in common that they thought Vas was a bit of a jerk, to handle the finding-an-escape route and generally doing the job they'd been sent here to do.
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...on my parade, a story for the Giraffe Call

For sarah_tv's prompt.

No matter how much they tormented him, Eilon insisted to the last that it had not been intentional. With no proof, no Law against it, and a seeming inability to force the truth out of him, the Jiminies had to let him go - but they held a grudge against the narrow-hipped dryad boy as long as their memory held out.

Luckily for Eilon, the length of a Jiminiy's memory was just barely longer than the next shiny thing, and that meant he only had to lay low (harder than you'd think for a dryad in the city; he spent most the time hiding in penthouse gardens) for a couple months. It did mean he missed Christmas, but that's what he got, I suppose, for messing with the Macy's Day Parade.

He shouldn't have been awake at all, really. Dryad, as I pointed out to him in the time, generally meant "dormant in the winter like a good tree." And, indeed, he got in more trouble in winter than any three boys or three hundred trees ought to.
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Down in Human Town, a story for the Giraffe Call (@lilfluff)

For lilfluff's Prompt, with thanks to @inventrix and fourteen minutes for the names.

The humans hadn't been the first to Landfall-Etrian, but they hadn't been latecomers, either.

The lush, Earth-like planet had been discovered in a prime location in a solar system not all that far, as galactic scales went, from Earth; the Fordante had discovered it (at the same time as the Ngedik, and totally ignoring the Exxonoth who were native to the planet).

(Actually, humans could be grateful to the Fordante and Ngedik, because without them "inviting" other races to "their" planet, the potentially-sentient status of the Exxonoth would have precluded their settlement. But that's another story).
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