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Winter crept by slowly. I left my little refuge from time to time to scrounge up what little food I could. I'd been lucky - the mousepeople I'd eaten kept me going long enough for me to find other edibles. Never anything quite so satisfying, but food nonetheless.
For the most part, I remained hidden and warm. At first, the fire was an oddity to me. I knew it was warm, but I didn't know how to KEEP it warm, and as time passed, the warmth and light it provided waned and flickered. I studied it, and found that it had 'eaten' all the wood placed inside of it...so, I tried placing more. It stirred the fire back to life.
I quickly figured out what that meant - wood equated to heat. I learned alot about fire, just playing with it, burning myself, and discovering its little mysteries...
I enjoyed learning. Always had, and even during my worst times, that never changed. You had to learn to be better. Those who didn't learn stagnated. Those who didn't learn were food.
Spring, finally, came. I'd survived winter. I'd scraped and scrounged and nearly starved to death, but I'd survived it, and that was all that mattered. With spring, though, came new dangers - dangers I was not used to dealing with alone.
I was small, still. Weak. Slow enough that most larger predators were just slightly faster, and 'slightly' was all that was required. I recall more than a few close scrapes, times when only sheer luck managed to get me by. I was wounded more times than I could count, but those wounds meant nothing.
I survived.
That was all that mattered.
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Poor Little Ryla can't catch a break! D:
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Posted by Twister88 8 years ago Report
You should seriously write a novel some day, there is some real writing talent right here
Posted by Stunlocked 8 years ago Report
Nah, this is WAY better with pictures
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Art is good with writing! Writing is good with art! Makes a nice, cohesive whole.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Awww, thank you so much! :D I really appreciate it! Who knows! Maybe one day!
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Yes! :D Now to get little Ryla all grown up!
Posted by martyr 8 years ago Report
I would seriously buy a print version of this comic with your story additions included. This is all sooooo good. >w<
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
I would buy it to.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Awww, thanks! I'm glad you like it enough to even consider it! <3
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
I don't like it I LOVE IT it's super good art job and the story is amazing
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
Sry forgot the dots and stuff. :p
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Eeee! x3 <33
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Weeee! Thanks! :D Who knows, maybe it will one day be a reality! Something along those lines was planned....until I decided to show it all for free! XD
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
Im very happy the you shower it for free. :3
Posted by YesImCanadian 8 years ago Report
This is so well done! Keep it up.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Thanks! :D I hope it continues to be entertaining! Next page in a couple of weeks!
Posted by Vale666 8 years ago Report
Uhhh nuuu lil Ryla O___O Come in sneeeekys arms! <3
< (O_O) >
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
I'm not sure she will like snakes couse she are afraid of predators like yourself.
Posted by Vale666 8 years ago Report
Ryla always like me O___O *snif with open arms*
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
Ok If you say so.
Can I have a hug? I bet they'll be awesome! ^^
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Lol XD Snek hugs! These are...generally really tight hugs! XD
Posted by Vale666 8 years ago Report
Comeeee here! And get your freee sneeek hugs! Old sneeeky sneeeeek wanna cuddle her Ryla O_O Meow!
<=(O___O)=>
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
See I told you maybe she don't want to be squashed o_o
Posted by Vale666 8 years ago Report
SHEEE waaaant SNEEEEK hugs! You dont know what you saaaay!
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
Ok what ever you say. I guess I'm just a snack and you are a snake so you probably know best.^^
Posted by IceSnack 8 years ago Report
But I'm watching you. Literally.
*pressing +watch button*
Posted by Liz 8 years ago Report
Pain is a good teacher and fuel for revenge.
Every step is small but calculated and that is how she will survive. Not just sheer strength, but the mind and presence to learn and be cautious around others.
Lovely writing Cassy ^^
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Yes, yes it is!...and you pretty much nailed it in this case. >:3 Revenge is sweet...
Really glad you're enjoying it so far! ^_^ I've always found it more interesting when a predator uses their brains more than sheer brawn! Course, a nice mixture is fun!
Posted by testuser 8 years ago Report
*gives you bandages*
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
I needs! D:
Posted by Shady_Knight 8 years ago Report
Let's all pause for a moment to appreciate that, throughout the entirety of winter, Little Ryla never learned the harsh lesson of what happens when you dump too much wood on a fire at once.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Oh, but she did! Hence the 'Burning myself' comment...x3 Just no frames dedicated to it!
Posted by Shady_Knight 8 years ago Report
I meant how dropping a whole bunch of wood that's too big for a small fire to burn all at once could have potentially smothered the flames, thereby depriving herself of her only external source of heat and making winter all the more harrowing.
Posted by MouseBoy 8 years ago Report
Poor fox! *tries washing off cut*
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Much better. :3
Posted by StickyGlobule 8 years ago Report
I like to imagine the tiger giel screaming....
you guessed it...
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
I heard her outside, howling her rage into the skies...
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!*
...And suddenly, I wasn't really afraid anymore...
XD
Posted by neko1992 8 years ago Report
To bad you did not have(someone like me) as friend at the time but i dout you would have trusted anyone at the time
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Almost noone! Maybe other foxes, but...as luck would have it, encountered none. D: For better or worse!
Posted by neko1992 8 years ago Report
Well thats sad but at least you eventualy trust some people or at least have a truse with them
Posted by DimensionalKitty 8 years ago Report
Am i the only one wanting to go into that cave and be a parental figure to ryla
Posted by NiceGuy18 8 years ago Report
No you are not alone in this
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Two parents...TWICE the parenting! :D
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Poor Ryla needs one! XD She's gonna grow up as a vagabond who eats everyone, and--
--...Oh...
Posted by DimensionalKitty 8 years ago Report
It is alright ryla you just need to control any anger" rubs young rylas head and also helps heal her back wound
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Or get sweet, delicious vengeance! >:3
Posted by DimensionalKitty 8 years ago Report
Either one sweetie works" kisses her head and gives her some raccoon people
Posted by DimensionalKitty 8 years ago Report
Either one sweetie works" kisses her head and gives her some raccoon people
Posted by POPObro 8 years ago Report
shes like that with most predators but how will she be when she meets a human for the first time?
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Humans will be an oddity...shall be getting to see her first encounter in a few pages...>:3
Posted by POPObro 8 years ago Report
well lets hope they treat her better then the rest of them did
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
It's...sadly unlikely, at least initially. D:
Posted by ItsSongxing 8 years ago Report
Shinki is going to write adoption papers and make Ryla her child.
Smol cinnamon roll fox must be protected.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
....She does kinda look like a cinnamon roll, all snuggled up like that, doesn't she...? XD
Posted by ItsSongxing 8 years ago Report
Whether or not she looks like a cinnamon roll is irrelevant.
She is smol, lonely and needs protecting. Thus, Shinki will make Ryla her kid.
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
:O! Will then be safefox! XD
Posted by ItsSongxing 8 years ago Report
Very safe! Truly under divine protection!
Posted by SnipsChan 8 years ago Report
Ouch that scratch looks like it hurt >3<
Grow little Ryla!
Become the squishy foxy rayon machine we all know and love >:3
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
XD!! Foxgrowth in progress!
Countdown to bigger fox! Commencing in 5...4....3....2...!!!
Yes...bad scratches. D: Better than getting snagged and nommed, though!
Posted by LunaraMoth 8 years ago Report
But with spring comes moffs... Terrifying, floofing, and ruwring moffs!
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Tinyfox floofs will floof at floofmoffs!
Posted by UnboundBA 8 years ago Report
she should get lessons from Richard B. Riddick, she'd become the ultimate survivor
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Oh gosh. XD Incoming Eyeshine?
Posted by UnboundBA 8 years ago Report
And probably relying on her animal side, after all, it's an animal thing
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Yes! >:3
Posted by UnboundBA 8 years ago Report
be awesome to see what Riddick would do in this situation, probably kill everything
Posted by RedNastyFox 8 years ago Report
Really amazing story, especially with such gorgeous illustrations! ;) With such background Ryla doesn't look like a sassy bitch for me anymore, now she's just a poor fox with a tough childhood. :( I hope once she will take her revenge and eat all of that pesky wolves in the forest. :3
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Her childhood CERTAINLY shaped who she became. x3 For better and worse! Glad you're enjoying it so far! <3 Hopefully, it reveals a whole lot more about why Ryla is Ryla...and eventually, why Felicity is Felicity. x3
Posted by cloudrunnerteeny 8 years ago Report
as wonderfully beautiful as this comc s, cant read t currently, lttle ryla is just too adorable and my heart is too soft to see her in pain ; w; stll, i'll coming back to see how it goes~
Posted by CassyInko 8 years ago Report
Next page oughta start...clearing it up! x3 After all, little Ryla can't stay little for long!