Mama Bear

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Challenge #04281-K263: Little Mama Bear

You're bigger than me, you've trained longer than me, but, I assure you, if you try this, you won't win. You have your strength and military training. I've lived in the streets. I'm younger than you, but you touch these two teens behind me again, and I will snap you in half. -- Anon Guest

[AN: This almost turned into a Kosh story. Gotta remember those qualifiers you put in there, Nonny!]

They call me Maw, and they don't do that because I eat a lot. I'm the oldest one in the Tosheroon, though I ain't much older than many of 'em. I'm as good as their maw, anyway. Not like there's many volunteers.

As for why we're the Tosheroon? Well. You know gutters and drains, how things clump up in the eddies and make a sort'a... ball of mud and other stuff? That's a tosheroon. There's precious things in those sometimes. We're all people who washed up together in the gutter. And every single one of 'em is precious to me.

I ain't their maw. Their maws left 'em on the street or in middens t' die. I'm better. I saved 'em. I reared 'em. I protect 'em.

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Challenge #03377-I089: Priority One

In a ship load of orphans, found in floating safety pods, the two of us stood in a sea of stars. Then THEY came to hurt our babies. I may just be a ship, and my partner may be alone save for me at their side, but touch my kids, and I will destroy you! -- Anon Guest

The SS Plover brought the children back inside when all was safe. The automated systems had taken care of all the dangerous things. The

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Challenge #03302-I014: You Touch, You Die

There's one universal truth. Never get between a set of parents and their children. -- Anon Guest

The Universe has ways of answering the wrong questions. Those who know this never put voice to questions like, "How bad can it get?" or, "What could possibly go wrong?" It also responds to the terminally daft when they say, "It can't possibly get any worse," because the first law of the Universe is that it was NOT made to be kind.

Some Vorax, like

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