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Tags: Anthro Anthro/Anthro Bittersweet Deer deer prey Digestion Eanli Cosmos elk elk prey emotion F/F F/M Fatal femdom Fisher fisher pred Gentle Pred hare hare prey Hunting Hours large prey porcupine porcupine prey Post Digestion regurgitating remains Resigned Prey sad Semi-willing sexual references Size difference small pred Soft Vore Unwilling Prey violence
Finally, the anthropomorphic industrial-gothic mystery-thriller in one easy-to-download document! For those that prefer to read books in something other than the weird embedded content pane like you see above, I've provided the whole novel in a single volume here.
A young bachelor bargains for travel rights to study civilized predators. The deal is simple: investigate a mystery threatening the most important civic project in the region and he may conduct his research. He agrees and seeks the protection and guidance of a competent predator for hire. The Bachelor will recall to you his life-changing adventure, in which he finds himself in the cross-hairs of dangerous individuals as he discovers the entanglements between the civilized prey cities and the predator-controlled wilds, as well as his own family and his mysterious predator companion.
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Posted by TestAccountPleaseIgnore 2 years ago Report
Warning! A huge battleship “SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ IT YET” is approaching fast!
Kalay going into rut and rationalizing his trying to seek out Sunchaser (when IRL cervids in rut tend to obsessively pursue does) makes a very good benchmark for trying to recognize Eanlian instinctual behavior in your other works, which I'd had a few issues doing before. Oseri Rivers and her over-hoarding prey is second, but that could be misinterpreted as Rivers being Rivers (certainly, though, other readers saw it, and that's why I did). This's more blatant, thanks to Kalay's little...awkward misinterpretation. It makes it more obvious his ego's trying to make justifications for his temporarily rampant id, so to speak.
With medical attention, Kalay can hold his own against his brother within a week of getting shot with what seemed like a punt gun or a large anti-material rifle, and Sunchaser apparently threw said gun — almost certainly tens of kilograms and several times her body weight — into her floor hard enough to break its bipod. Seven Days had a note on "primitive" human cell membranes/skeletons/genetics/such, but, well...there's no way an Earth moose could survive a point-blank punt gun blast or 20-mm shell to the gut, regardless of what medical attention was on hand. And humans can barely move that kind of gun around, but an Eanlian porcupine or fisher? Easy.
I think this is your best demonstration of how Eanlians are both aliens and animals (as we'd think of them) so far, or, at least, how they behave differently from humans in some aspects.
Posted by ObsidianSnake 2 years ago Report
Those are great observations! They are each unique beings. I think there's something special about that, how things like species creates different modes of being, as it were. These characters have a different kind of experience of the world, with different capabilities, size scale, different experience of time frame, different priorities of senses, and so on.
Maybe that helps the people reading to reflect on their own mode of being? Maybe! How can somebody see instinct in our own behavior without having a frame of reference to compare it to? I doubt that's what people are looking for on this site. Well, I like to sneak that kinda thing into these stories, anyway, for spice.
Fun side note: I struggled with a nomenclature problem in this one. In English, the term "elk" is ambiguous. On the east side of the Atlantic, the word is associated with the genus I know as "moose", but on the west side of the Atlantic, the term "elk" is used exclusively for the larger species of deer. The specific word "waputi" is growing in popularity and it solves the problem, but I decided MOST readers would infer what the characters were from the context provided in the first few pages.
Posted by Vulpini18 1 year ago Report
Great job with this story, you have a great talent for weaving a compelling narrative. And it's always great seeing some voracious mustelids!
Posted by ObsidianSnake 1 year ago Report
Thank you! I often think of these as kinds of stories that contain some vore, rather than vore stories. I've really liked things in that kind of genre in the past, which is one of the things that inspired me to finally write here.
Also, for how they are, mustelids are totally under-represented.