Escape!
"Shanku?" he asked incredibly.
"Howdy, Rin!" Shanku gave a big smile.
"You lunatic!" Rin growled and stroked the bridge of his nose in frustration. He pointed at a trail behind him. "They won't be gone long. Take him up that trail back to the city."
Shanku shook off one of the discarded feathers that had landed on her head. She hopped over the stream of water that had been separating Rin from the gryphons. Shanku took the hand of the child in her own and smiled up at him warmly. "C'mon, kid!"
"I'll keep them at bay," Rin said and took flight as an angry gryphon began to dive in their direction.
Quickly, Shanku ushered the child up the trail and away from the aerial dogfight. The trail was steep and lead up to the top of the waterfalls. It sprawled over a series of ledges that would eventually join with the trail between the springs and the town.
"Enjoy your adventure?" Shanku asked the boy.
"No," he pouted and looked downcast. "I'm in trouble now."
"That's only half of it," Shanku laughed. "It was quite a thrill to do some exploring without getting nagged the whole time."
"How would you know?" he asked suspiciously.
"Ohhhhh," Shanku said slyly. "Just a hunch."
"You're real little," the boy said with surprise, and held his thumb and forefinger close for emphasis.
"And you're really big," Shanku said as she looked up at him. The top of her head barely came to the bottom of his chest.
Notes & Commentary
November 7, 2013, Thursday
Escape!
Rin goes in for a head-to-head with the gryphons now that he's not grounded while Shanku and the big little guy sneak off.
A week late, I know, I'm sorry. Still playing catch-up with school, I had a really bad weekend when I planned to work on the comic, and I've had a few commissions to do over the past two weeks. Right now, I'm in such a tight financial situation that any unpaid work MUST take a back-burner to paid work so I can keep the power on and food on the table.
So, um, if you have some extra change, want to commission some artwork? If you think I'm a psycho stalker, I can email the large resolution copy to you. If you don't think I'm a psycho stalker, I can mail the original pencil work to you.
...Some of you are now thinking I'm a psycho stalker because I brought it up, aren't you? 
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Rin -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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