Year of the Echidna
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“When did this happen?”
Knuckles could lie. Sonic probably would–trickster that he was. But not Knuckles. He bowed his head and prepared to face her wrath with honor.
“My first battle against Shadow…?” Against his will, his voice lilted up at the end.
There was a pause and then the Pretzel Woman leaned back. “Knuckles,” She dropped his name like a stone. “Is this injury weeks old?”
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- Part 5 of Knuckles Goes to the Doctor
- Part 1 of Year of the Echidna
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Every time Knuckles forgot an echidna word, that word was gone forever. There were already so many that had been lost to time. He’d only been a small child when his tribe was killed. He’d been fluent in his native tongue, but there were many big, fancy words he never learned. All his teachers had died, taking half his language with them. Now he lay awake in his bed at House Wachowski and felt the weight of his slowly eroding childhood vocabulary.
He’d lost ‘thread’.
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- Part 2 of Year of the Echidna
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“Man, Tails, I love you! Never change.”
Knuckles frowned. Sonic was laughing, but ‘never change’ seemed to be a compliment. Tails, at least, didn’t seem offended. He beamed with pleasure, his tails twitching.
Knuckles was no closer to uncovering what ‘love’ meant. He had his theories, but just in case he was wrong, Knuckles would not use it himself.
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- Part 3 of Year of the Echidna
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“Our garden was badly damaged in that storm last week,” the rabbit said.
Knuckles gave a jerky nod as if he knew what she was talking about. Or why she was telling him this.
“I’ve tried some repairs myself but it’s a lot of work and it’s only Cream and me, you see.” He did not see. He nodded like he did, because he did not want to upset the well-dressed lady with the little daughter. “You said you were looking for work?”
Oh. He realized suddenly: she was asking if he would work for her.
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- Part 22 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 3 of Precious Things
- Part 4 of Year of the Echidna
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“Did you two… know about this?”
“Know about what?” Knuckles and Sonic said at the same time but in very different tones.
“About the whole…” Tom lowered his voice and stooped, which only succeeded in drawing more attention to him. “Longclaw was… killed by echidnas?”
There was a long moment where they all just looked at one another. Tails looked confused. Sonic looked a mix of distressed and guilty. Tom and Maddie looked like they were expecting shock. Finding none, Tom’s face shifted to outrage. “Wait, you knew?!”
Knuckles started at his tone. “You didn't?!”
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- Part 24 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 5 of Year of the Echidna
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Maddie reached for the grape tray. She’d barely pulled her hand away before a tiny red fist darted out of the nearby blanket pile and grabbed a handful. Shoving the grape in her mouth didn’t do much to stifle her laughter.
There were so many things that were a mystery about their little guest. How old he was. Where he was from. What had happened to his family. What had happened to him. Heck, they still didn’t know his name. But she knew he loved grapes.
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- Part 3 of Longclaw Lived (Unfortunately for Knuckles)
- Part 6 of Year of the Echidna
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For a moment, Knuckles was a child in the arena again, watching his spurs melt into his claws, and horrified at losing them forever. He jerked upright and recognized familiar blankets and the merry frame of a bed shaped like a red truck. With this awareness came the memory that this was only temporary, his spurs would go back to normal eventually. But then came a new horror. He was at House Wachowski and he was changing.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2025
- Part 7 of Year of the Echidna