"Happiness hit him like a chimera in the back..."

...No, wait. That metaphor almost worked the whole way through, but lions are cats, aren't they? Damn.

Anyway, now that the introductory 4 chapters are done with (and Phobos is of an age where he can actually have debilitating romantic conflicts), we're finally getting into the meat of the story, starting with Phobos being waaay more confident than he should be, and getting his ass kicked by wild animals. Fun times! I've upped the story to Teen for blood, non-cartoon violence, and >implying, as well as in preparation for... events, in the future. I also felt justified in adding the "Adventure" tag, since he's actually going and doing things now.

I've decided on a hybrid option, regarding the question I asked last post. There will be some (much, much shorter) side-scenes interspersed through the main story (like 'A Meeting in the Dark'), but any longer stories (like 'The Vault' - coming soon to a Fimfiction near you) will be stand-alone fics with links back to LoF.

The next chapter was originally going to be titled "Teachers", but after I finished this chapter, I realized that a much better name would be "Secrets". I think I'm finally getting into the swing of this "releasing things on a semi-regular basis" thing (keyword: "think"), so, hopefully, look for that in the first half of March.

...Hm... it always looks so snazzy when Thunt does it. Maybe I should try it. ...Is it even proper to say "as always" when I haven't said it before? Whatever. *ahem*

As always, thanks for reading.

Edit: I was bored, so I went back through the first 4 chapters and found a bunch of mistakes and fixed them. Some of those mistakes were missing/invisible horizontal rules that were supposed to be separating scenes, but couldn't be seen for some reason. So... I hope that sort of thing wasn't too confusing, at the time.