Inuk stepped out of the back of the vehicle, his wet crown of hair blown into a white comet by the force of the hot air vent the ork had insisted on blowing directly in his face. The rain plastered it back down until it looked like a tipped-over comma. The rain, at least, was warmer than the river. ...

They hit the surface like an explosion of meat and water. The vampire's lifeless body clung to Inuk, his claws deep in skin, his arms in a last embrace. Peacefully, Inuk floated down with him, to the bottom. <b>I am not finished with you.</b> Inuk's eyes snapped open. The vampire was alive, clawing ...

"You think to defeat me?" the vampire hissed in his ear. "I, who could drink you dry, could make you my slave with a touch?" Inuk struggled in the vampire's iron grip, leaned too far over the guardrail, looking at the icy water hundreds of meters below. He gritted his teeth, twis...

He could see the fear in his opponent's eyes. This was a young one, unsure of his power, lacking the experience that would have allowed him to avoid this simple confrontation. The old ones rarely stayed in place long enough to exchange blows, particularly with someone like Inuk. Not that it had ever...

The magician, focused on the blur of the fighting woman, slumped with exhaustion, did not sense the footsteps behind him, footsteps that made no noise and left no trace. He did not turn, nor did he react, when the blow arced toward the back of his head. His only movement was on impact, when a blow o...

They saw nothing. Jaws agape at the blur that ejected from the Cadillac and disabled three of their men in one smooth series of motions - and dodging a truck in the process - they paid no attention to the hunter behind them. This wasn't their time, anyway; they stood ready to guard their master, and...

Inuk stood smoothly, not dislodging his companion's hand. In his quiet voice, he said, "What must be done before we may leave?"

Once everyone had gathered around, Inuk crouched down and pressed a hand to the wall. There was an audible click, but to the eyes of those assembled, the man's hand simply appeared to pass through the wall. He withdrew it, and a piece of the wall popped out onto the floor. The observers could see a ...

Inuk crinkled his face some more in confusion until the meaning of her words became clear to him. Kabloonuk and their misconceptions. He considered correcting her, but didn't care nearly enough. "I will look," he said instead, and set about investigating the apartment. This was how city me...

Something...something. Maybe it was this place, this unfamiliar cave of homes, but something was off. Though his posture didn't change, Inuk's hands curled into fists, and his perception flickered back and forth between the spirit world and the human world, as usual outside his control. Like a hunte...

Inuk waited until they were all in the room, then leaned apparently casually against the doorframe. From here, he could see both the hallway and the apartment; his hands hung loosely at his sides, ready if anything untoward should happen. He also exuded the odor of someone who hadn't showered - ever...

Wide-eyed and somewhat dubious of his surroundings, Inuk placed a hand on the leather seats to anchor himself in a reality he understood. "No," he said quietly, looking around at the city spread out around him. It was a day of wonders, it would seem.

What are we waiting for, exactly?

Inuk remained silent, apparently content to do nothing.

The Inuit didn't pause or turn from the glass, but instead said, "Inuk." He remained otherwise still, like a wolf waiting to ambush a deer.

Inuk continued to ignore the man; he had no head for numbers larger than one would find in a herd of elk, and without context, the man's words continued to hold no sense. That was okay; the realm of men and words was not his. His job came later. With wonder, he looked at the mountains of steel and g...

His eyes widened, and his amazement was complete: the entire room, the whole structure, began slowly and ponderously to raise from the top of the building. The metal railing beneath his hands vibrated in time with the quiet groaning of the metal structure of the room as its weight shifted from being...

Inuk continued to ignore the progress of the conversation in favor of staring at the incredible view below. He didn't need to know any of this. His job was clear, or would be when it began. Until then, this view was so much more compelling that the background offered by the man at the head of the ta...

Inuk turned from the sheet of sky and shrugged. "I go." He looked back out the window, over the strange city below. He wondered what the people down on the streets were like, if he could recognize them as people at all, any more than a bear might realize that Inuk was a person. Truly, he h...

The room was a box of glass and air, on top of a tower of steel. It was so far beyond his ability to comprehend that it was beyond his ability to react. He behaved as if the carpet were ice and the sky open and blue, but his gaze continually wandered to the windows, to the true sky beyond, to the vi...

He was almost there. He could feel it, as he could not feel his feet, bleeding beneath their sealskin bags. He'd lost feeling in his feet a very long time ago. It didn't matter, any more than the wound in his side the piasma had given him did. He had at least bound that, and poulticed it against inf...

He was almost there.