Cave Yeti, Farmer Yeti
"He's blocking the entrance!" Huata said frantically.
"Whose bright idea was it to pick lichen in front of a cave!?" Shanku demanded in exasperation. She sighed and shook her head to clear it. "Do you think there's another way out?"
"I don't know," Huata said nervously as she drew her wings around here. The yeti growled viciously and advanced forward. The kurach took a step back. Shanku held her hands up before her as Huata shrank further.
"We mean you no harm," Shanku said calmly. "We just want to go home."
"Thieves... You rob my gardens again!" The yeti growled.
"You grew that stuff?" Shanku asked in surprsie.
"Thieves!" The yeti roared, displaying his long fangs, and took a swipe at the kurach with one of its huge hands. Shanku quickly dropped down out of the way. She jumped back to where Huata was pressed up against a rock wall.
"I'll distract him," Shanku said quickly. She took off her bag and thrust it to Huata. "Take my bag and fly."
"But what of you?" Huata asked nervously as she took the bag.
"I've survived worse, now get ready," Shanku said with determination as she stared down the yeti. She kept her wings flared and ready beside her. "We just wish to leave now. I could help you grow more."
Notes & Commentary
August 21, 2014, Thursday
Cave Yeti, Farmer Yeti
Don't think too poorly of Huata. She's naturally timid anyway and she's grown up on stories of these things maiming trespassers.
He's one of this "geroff mah properteh" farmers. The "y'all come back now, ya hear" one is in the other cave. Loved coloring the yeti. I had considered making him pure white like the traditional yeti, but I thought I'd make him a bit like the Japanese macaque instead, but with a mohawk. Most yeti I've seen have short little stubby noses anyway, and cold climate primates tend to have long noses instead to warm the air they breathe in. The white sheen you see around his edges is his overcoat.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Huata -
Creatures - Yeti -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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