The Non-Human Society - Chapter Two Hundred and Eighty Four – Vim – To Catch a Tail

... bed. But that wasn’t because we were sleeping. Renn and I were sitting back to back. She was happily humming a tune that had no rhythm to it, and reading the second installment of the Queen’s Lament.

It was a little late in the night. We had a couple lamps lit, burning softly on either side of the bed. Although they had little reflective panels, as to more evenly enhance the light they gave off, it still wasn’t much. A human would likely be struggling to read, or at least not doing so c ...