Imminent Visitors
With the coming of winter it wouldn't be long before the Heyen clan came to seek shelter in the Nyre from the fierce snows on the prairie. After all that had happened over the past few years, the Scissortails were no longer secretive about it, and word soon spread among them. Shanku was particularly excited since she hadn't seen the Heyens in many years.
"Do you think I could go out and meet them?" Shanku asked her grandsire.
"Haven't you done enough roaming for a while?" Bibot asked with mild annoyance.
"I wouldn't be going off on a new adventure, exactly," Shanku replied. "I did stay with them for a season once. I just want to greet old friends."
"I don't suppose there would be any harm, or none I can foresee. You be sure and behave yourself, and tell your parents before you scamper off," Bibot said sternly.
"No worries, I will!" Shanku chirped. She skipped off to prepare for a new journey.
Bibot just shook his head as he watched her go. "Thankfully Muso and Banhi are more normal. I should like to see great-grandcubs someday. I doubt that one there will ever settle down." With another shake of his head, he returned to his duties.
When Shanku had found her mother and explained her wishes, Nari simply chuckled. "It took you longer to ask than expected. Yes, go on. Be good, be kind, watch out for gryphons, minocentaur, and all that good stuff."
"So, um, does anybody want to come with me and meet them?" Shanku asked sheepishly.
"Perhaps some other time. I have a lot of work to do," Nari replied gently. "Your father has training and the little ones have studying to do."
"So... Hilael then?" Shanku asked and looked hopefully to her brother at the table grinding poultices. He shrugged and nodded. Shanku grinned. "I wonder if I should invite Katari too?"
"You could try, but I'm not sure he could. His parents are probably still nervous that he's friends with the one that brazenly petted the fearsome demon lord."
"Aw, now, Kleu isn't so bad!" Shanku protested. "He was just lonely. And he's a goblin, not a demon."
Danæ wasn't kidding when she said Shanku would be just like me, Nari noted. "It's still going to take some time for everybody to see him as something else."
"I guess it'll be just me until then," Shanku said as she scratched the back of her head. "Oh well. Their loss. I'm going to go ask him anyway." She ducked under the curtain over their doorway and disappeared.
"I guess you should start packing then," Nari observed to her son.
"I never unpacked for this reason," Hilael replied.
"Smart lad," Nari chuckled and returned her focus to the blanket she was working on.
Notes & Commentary
January 4, 2018, Thursday
Imminent Visitors
Welcome to JAD's new layout! As I'm sure you've noticed, the "comic page" is now just a single illustration, and I have a proper area dedicated to the "transcription". JAD is now officially an illustrated webnovel. I'm hoping that's as far as it goes. I will be rather bummed if it goes fully webnovel, but, time will tell. I will be going back through old pages and adding the written counterpart below.
In the past, most of my writing has been done in March since the office is pretty dead. If it's quiet this year too, perhaps I can get all of 2018's updates written so all I have to worry about are getting the illustrations out on time. Illustrations go much faster when I'm not staring at a completely blank page. This is my first year as the boss, so, fingers crossed!
In other JAD news, I am posting JAD to Tapastic/Tapas again. This time as a novel since the whole webcomic thing is kind of over. Never thought I'd say that. 
Tapastic is currently set to update every week of 2018 and will neatly contain the entirety of The Early Years. I think. Some stuff I had to trim out due to their 15,000 character limit, and even though some chapters got busted up into 2-3 parts, some parts had to be reduced to have a clean scene break. I'm still grooming the second book, but we'll just have to see how updates go until it catches up to the current part of the story. This site, of course, will always release updates first. I just hope I don't get too many ill reviews. I'm even less confident about my writing than my drawing.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Bibot - Nari Zefana - Hilael -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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