This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
All characters are over eighteen and clearly written to be so, as in all of my stories.
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The world was not recognisable by the year four-thousand-and-ninety-six. It was a raw and ragged and rugged world that had been beaten down to the marrow of the bone and the skeleton that it had once been, nature twisting into a contorted means of being in order to simply survive. Cities had been torn down into crumbling ruin, once tall skyscrapers having fallen, though some smaller buildings (in comparison) still stood in testament to the might of humanity that had once lived there. The natural world had reclaimed some of it but everything was left with a harsher edge to it, the tone rougher in colour than before.
Truly, nothing was meant to stay the same forever but the problem there was that humanity had hastened the demise of a planet that was meant to last for many thousands upon thousands of years more. It still had some use, of course, as the home of miscreants and misfits, those so-called "freaks" that had developed with the rise in the temperature of the earth, but little more than that. No one went there unless they were forced to.
Slade was an odd sort of fur, a hulking grey wolf with a broad, demanding chest. As a soldier, he was much in demand with the space force, infiltrating planet after planet while the main base was set on Mars still after the very first mission back a good thousand years to move off Earth. It simply was not sustainable to him but Slade leaned back in the seat of the single-pod transporter with a sigh, something churning in his gut that he could not have explained.
Failure...
Oh, he'd failed all right but it was not a kind of failure that, truly, could have been out of the blue. Slade was sure that he'd been set up to fail, although he could not have said that he either knew or understood why, for he was a decorated soldier, a hero in so many ways. So many had looked up to him, although many too had claimed that he was intimidating, that he was a rogue to be put down. Of course, he was not all that bad and had done much for the colonies as they expanded and sought out fresh planets, new terrain, but something had gone wrong, very wrong.
One mission: infiltrate the enemy. Though he had not been given the tools to do the job properly or the equipment, forced to scrounge and scrape after all his heroic acts, though he could not have said why. In the grand scheme of things, it didn't matter that he had slipped up once, gotten caught and had to flee, only narrowly escaping with his life, with his tail quite literally between his legs. Yet Slade could not have said why it was, exactly, that they had cast him out, even though he was on his way to the one place in the galaxy that made his heart jump and flutter in weird and wonderful ways.
They couldn't punish him severely, even though he could not fathom why it was even an option, but they had a way to get rid of him. Whoever had looked through his medical files had done a good job, dredging up the counselling sessions from many years ago and...well...uncovering everything. The wolf shivered in place, the seatbelt tight across his chest as he curled forward, looking out as the land approached, the transporter easing smoothly through the atmosphere. It was the perfect way to make sure that he kept his mouth shut about what he saw, to ensure he was perfectly compliant even though they had surely determined that they had had their fill and use of him.
It was time for him to leave the force and return to Earth.
He held his breath as he stepped from the spacecraft, which was already churning and rumbling, pushing out his luggage on a conveyer belt that seemed to contain everything he'd ever owned, even what he'd put in storage when he'd gone off on missions or just to clear out his home. He wondered if his house would be sold but the need for that paled in comparison to the world he'd been tossed into, something squalling in the thick undergrowth.