Wherein my powers are returned

I have been busy again! Though the three articles I put up last night aren't the best stand-alone things, they did turn out alright. I've been slowly coming to grips with the content of this thing, and I have a broad outline with focused sections.

This one developed the best of the three. Brothers Elk and Bear play chess and plot against each other while establishing some kind of ostensibly quid pro quo political maneuverings. It's place is secure in the story, though condensing the dialog into the space I've allotted for myself will be a challenge. This challenge will be no match for me, because I am a mighty champion. This is something obvious, but I still felt like pointing it out.

This one doesn't stand up individually very well, but it also have a clear place in the narrative. Brother Badger interrupts a bear from his important pounding away at a chunk of meteoric iron to ask him to kill someone. It also prominently features a horse with a human head. As I've stated, in this world all of the actual animals, that is the beasts of the field etc etc have human heads. Why? Because it is awesome, and creeps some people out a little bit.

This one sucks, has no place in the story, was only finished because it was next in my moleskine, and was only uploaded because I like the weird bulldog a little bit. I might use it if I need some filler toward the end, but I also might hurl it dramatically into the tumultuous sea to be wracked against the rocks and devoured by screaming gulls.

I have more now completed but unscanned. I'll fix that this evening, while I recline languorously in a chair and smoke a pipe like a gentleman. I will also swill beer like a scoundrel, but I choose not to talk about that because it makes me seem less classy than I would like people to think I am.