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艳 ([personal profile] jiuweihu) wrote in [personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2019-09-13 11:41 pm (UTC)

[ ”What are you?”

If it’s possible for a fox to convey something so specific, the way her lips curl and her muzzle wrinkles almost tries to imply, ”Are you that clueless?” She flares out her nine tails, flicking them back and forth demonstratively.

Foxwoman. Nine-tailed. Huli jing. There were plenty of names in far too many languages to count.

She watches Peter for a half-beat more, and then takes a couple of hobbling steps away to find the cover of a bush. She sits, mindful of her paw, and then, in a shifting of silver light—

—changes.

A woman close to Peter’s age sits behind the bush, her knees drawn up to her chest to cover herself as she minds her obviously broken foot – with its black rune still in place. ]


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