Plots and Plans
"Wanna play?" he asked as he came up behind her.
"In de mood to lose again?" Shanku asked boredly.
"How about we raise th' stakes?" Aaron said slyly.
"Oh?" Shanku flicked an ear in his direction and glanced over her shoulder.
"If I win, you get me some fish!" Aaron said confidently with arms akimbo.
Shanku turned to sit side-saddle on the bowsprit and studied him a moment. So one of these lowlives are finally gettin' the brass to have me fish for them? At length, she replied, "Alright."
Aaron waited below as Shanku flew up to the crow's nest to retrieve the chess board.
"White or black?" she asked when she returned.
"White!" Aaron said excitedly.
The two played chess. Aaron thought long and hard about each of his moves. Shanku, hardly impressed, pretended to be as she methodically took a few of his pieces and moved even more of her pieces into position to be taken. Aaron, none the wiser, soon moved his last few pieces into place.
"Checkmate! Ha!" he exclaimed. He almost couldn't believe he had won for once.
"How soon would you like your fish?" Shanku said with a forced smile, baring her fangs.
"As soon as possible," Aaron said proudly as he crossed her arms over his chest. He closed his eyes and savored his victory.
"I'll return," Shanku waved to him coyly as she went to get her spear.
Notes & Commentary
October 4, 2012, Thursday
Plots and Plans
He should be proud of himself. He usually loses. Badly. That was way too easy... Start pitying that boy now.
She owes all her chess skills to Dr. Newbury. In fact, she only won once against him. Where she gets the craftiness from, I don't know.
Working on the page, however, was not easy. The baby has gotten to the point that he's fighting sleep so badly that if he was a fish it would take three people to reel him in. It wasn't until I after I'd scanned this in that I realized Shanku's wings were missing in the fifth panel. Oy...
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Aaron -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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