"No defenestration!"
"Out with all of you!" the Imperial council growled. Three guards surrounded the nervous Ferals and escorted them back to their chambers.
"I behaved! I ain't goin' over a balcony!" Shanku fretted. "No defenestration!" Katari simply slumped down onto a bench and propped his elbows on his knees with his chin in his hands.
"I thought the Ferals were supposed to be the really intolerant ones?" Katari mumbled.
"No. No, the Ferals actually tolerate other species quite well and can be somewhat flexible. We simply prefer to keep to ourselves, excluding those with Wanderlust. Imperials, however, only tolerate those who conform to their demands," Piram replied.
"And they're still considered better than us?" Shanku asked skeptically.
"Can't fix stupid," Hilael said quietly as he gazed out the window. Innugati chirped at him.
Shanku suppressed a giggle. "So, what now? Go home?"
"Might as well. Others have tried for months to get through to them. I never expected us to do much better. Let's just hope we survive what they get us in to," Piram said grimly.
With resignation, they began to ready themselves for departure.
Notes & Commentary
October 29, 2015, Thursday
"No defenestration!"
A reader responded to 291 with this word which means "the act of throwing someone or something out of a window" (along with pointing out an embarrassing misspelling) and I got such a kick out of it I had to work it in later somehow. Even if just in the comments since that's likely not a word in Shanku's vocabulary. 
I really need to have a hard think on those floorboards. For whatever dumb reason, I keep trying to lay rectangles down in a circle. Ack! I need triangles or a starburst pattern involving nested triangles. Eh, I guess I shouldn't be too hard on myself since last time I had stone floors laid out in concentric blocks to work with and this time it's wood.
Just in case any future readers drop by, this single-illustration story mode is hopefully temporary until I can properly play catch-up with the archive.
Comic days are not over for me. I need to do this more than y'all want to read it, and I promise that is not some kind of passive aggressive barb or other nonsense. It's me finally admitting this isn't just a hobby. It's what keeps me somewhat together during the various crap I have to deal with.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Katari - Hilael - Innugati - Piram -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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