Kinderling 1

I'm just going to put this here for fun.  Not sure if I'll do anything more with it.  Might re-write in first person as the MC has a fun voice and about half-way through I wondered if It shouldn't have started it that way:

Kinderling 1:

"Sssh!  Kitten, you have to be quiet."

Taking a kitten on an adventure was such a bad idea.  Tandy knew that, but it was so cute and fluffy, and this particular kitten was such an odd color of lavender, it HAD to be magic.  Well, not lavender really.  It was more like gray, but it was a very lavenderish gray.  How could she resist bringing him - her? She would check later - along?  She just wanted to squish it's adorable little face.  Besides, Tandy had had such high hopes for this kitten.  She was sure it would be the one she would bond with and finally have a familiar of her very own.  Too bad it was probably going to get them both killed.  Her parents were going to be so angry.

"Nothing for it but to run.  Get ready kitten."

"Meow?"

Tandy studied the Gorfs that were tracking them, looking for an opening.  They probably knew she was in the area because they could smell her with their big stupid Gorf noses.  That wasn't usually a problem for a Kinderling as fast as Tandy.  Gorfs could follow the faintest of scent trails for days on end but they couldn't do it quickly.  Kinderlings, on the other hand, were quick and Tandy was among the quickest.

Then the kitten had to go and start all that meowing.  Apparently, Gorf ears weren't anywhere near as slow as their noses.

Tandy finally saw her opening and took it.  Exploding out of her hiding place under a thicket, Tandy threw down her latest magical device and jumped on.  She called it a go-stick.  It was mostly just a branch from a tree that she had nagged her older brother into carving so it would be nice and flat on the top and pointed on one end, which became the front.  Once it was just the right shape, and sanded smooth as she could get it, Tandy then took to carving runes of air, lightness, and most importantly quickness - Tandy's favorite - it connecting them with just the right runic bridges, and pushing her magic as hard as she could manage.

It had worked!  Off like a shot through the forest Tandy went, lavenderish kitten in tow - She couldn't very well have left the poor thing behind, the Gorfs would have made it into soup - laughing the whole way.  There was no way the Gorfs could catch them.  If she was honest with herself, Tandy would have to admit that she wasn't quite sure the device would do anything, and escaping a Gorf hunting party was a poor place to test out new ideas, but luckily it worked and they were speeding away faster than Tandy imagined was possible.

Then the magic ran out.

The crash was horrendous.  Tandy landed on her head.  The kitten landed on it's feet, as kittens always do.

Grumbling and rubbing her aching head, Tandy staggered to her feet.  She was happy to see the kitten had made it through everything unscathed.  Perhaps the kitten is magical after all.  She could hear the Gorfs crashing through the forest chasing her, it wouldn't be long before they arrived.  The flight had given her a bit of a head start, but Gorfs were too dumb to give up, so she needed to get moving.