Magic!
"How'd you do that?" Shanku asked, flabbergasted. "How does a man and dam make a man-cub?"
"By becoming human myself, of course," laughed Zihna.
"Explanation?" Shanku asked cautiously.
"Well," Zihna closed her eyes. A content look spread across her face as her ears rippled and shrank to the sides of her head. Her claws and fangs did the same, and her wings disappeared altogether.
Dai laughed as Shanku stared dumbfounded at her. "Hunting and magic? Have you been taught nothing?"
"Bedtime, Jakko!" Shanku said hurriedly and fled behind the tipi. Jakko gave a happy bark and followed after her.
"Apparently not," Dai chuckled and served some of his soup to his wife.
The following morning an angry shout could be heard clear across the plains.
"Jakko!"
The dog in question had chosen Shanku as his mattress for the night.
"The whole plains and you have to sleep on me!?" Shanku demanded indignantly of the husky. Jakko wagged his tail and yawned lazily.
"Well, two can play at that game," Shanku sat down on the husky as he continued to lie on her lower legs.
"Come on you two. Time to visit the shaman," Zihna laughed.
"At this time of day?" Shanku stared at her. "Wonder what's so important?"
"Arf?" Jakko didn't know either.
"Probably to cleanse you, demon dog!" Shanku laughed and chased after Zihna.
Jakko growled in offense and wandered off to find Kadin.
Notes & Commentary
March 25, 2010, Thursday
Magic!
Horse titles for Kurach. Go figure. But I didn't want to use "hen" or "bitch", even though both are the correct titles for birds and dogs respectively. ("Man" and "woman" are reserved for the humans.)
If I apologized every time I got something anatomically or schematically off, you would never hear anything else in these little posts. So I will just say I am always trying and perhaps someday the quality of line art will go up.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Dai Birchfield - Zihna Birchfield - Jakko -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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