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New comic! Hawk was at the end of the bed, leaning in under the canopy, a towel tucked around his waist and a smaller cloth over his damp hair. He grinned sheepishly. "I was tryin' to be quiet." "Ah, no," Numair demurred, "The storm woke me up--oh." He spotted the somewhat guilty look that came over Hawk's face. "Never mind." Hawk laid down on the bed on his side, propping himself up on one elbow.…
New comic! Almost instantly, the feathers and striped skin and talons burst away from Hawk's arm; half of it dissolved into light, leaving only a smattering of stray feathers and the hard tips of the talons. Hawk felt at his throat and turned his right arm this way and that, unsettled, but every part of him had gone completely back to normal without issue. The leftover feathers were blowing gently…
New comic! Do I make my peace an' ascend to heaven, or what? Hawk saw Emry as he'd left him: standing in front of the crooked little house with the overgrown grass, under a heavy grey sky. The unbidden memory caused the feathers on Hawk's next to bristle, and he grimaced, keeping his eyes squeezed shut. "Knock it off," he muttered, and breathed out long and slow, focusing instead on his changed…
New comic! A deep blue twilight had settled in by the time Hawk reached the balcony; the sky still had the faintest of orange glows, clear but for a couple wisps of clouds, turning the distant ground below into a featureless dark plain. Light from the last of the sun and from the balcony door scattered over the railings and eaves and the vines framing it all, just enough to see. Hawk landed but…
New comic! "Wow," Vlad said after a time. "Instant dispersal on contact. How did you--" "I gotta leave," Hawk said. He had not risen from his crouched position, and didn't turn his face back to Vlad either, his wings slightly unfurled. "Huh?" Vlad blinked at him, replacing his glasses. "But--" "I gotta leave now , Vlad." And without a look back, he took off from his crouch, kicking up a cloud of…
New comic! In the dusk, the ghost of Suyan with her foot raised looked as solid and present as anything. she said, her voice giving her away. Without waiting for Hawk to reply, she put her hoof into his palm, and it was just as he'd said: they touched, and she went. The form that had seemed solid a moment ago shone and bled into light that beaded up and evaporated, like bright bubbles that were…
New comic! Hawk trailed off. As he stilled and the many heads and arms seemed to resolve some, so too did the silhouettes of people press in again on them both, featureless and silent. Suyan shied away from these. she replied, seeming a little unnerved again. She turned to Hawk. Hawk said, and hesitated, before offering one or many huge taloned paws to her. Suyan raised one of her four-toed hooves…
New comic! Suyan said, and got to her feet. Hawk asked. noticing things. Like how hard I have to concentrate in order to really see anything. > She put her face close to the ground, and it was only with her muzzle an inch from the moss and bits of grass poking through the stones that any of it came into any kind of focus. Then she started to pace again, along the length of Hawk's tail, which…
New comic! So Hawk and Vlad stayed as the day wore on and the shadows in the alleyway shifted. Others came and went, bringing flowers and other items to lay beneath one of the windows of the glassworks; a pair of aproned workers appeared out of the glassworks and brought stools for Hawk and Vlad. Suyan kept roaming around, seeming unable to settle, as she told Hawk--and through him, the many…
New comic! "Awright, I guess that settles it," Hawk said, and ducked down to address Suyan again. he told her, and the faint suggestion of the alleyway around them and the crowd behind Hawk swam into view.
New comic! Hawk turned to see that some of the little crowd had drawn closer: not just other fuzhu like Suyan, studded in various piercings and bearing leather bags set on various light harnesses, but spirits as well. "Everyone in the neighborhood liked Suyan," one of the fuzhu told Hawk, having to crane their head to look up at him. "Lovely child," a spirit next to them murmured, nodding. "But…
New comic! Hawk hesitated. Suyan seemed a little taken aback. Hawk said hastily. No! > Her response came more forcefully and fearfully than she'd maybe meant it to, because she then stammered, She glanced away from Hawk, though her big dark eyes didn't seem to rest any place in particular. she said softly. Hawk looked up. The sky was still a dry blue, with thin clouds drifting across it. Someone…
New comic! A series of faces turned back to Suyan. "Oh, uh..." Hawk fumbled for a moment. The silhouette next to him had lost its clarity and was now a formless body and head. He paused, "Uh," and then tried to clarify, Someone said something next to him. Hawk corrected himself. Suyan stared at him for a long moment with a strange look on her face, a creeping sort of concern. she said, glancing…
New comic! Suyan's voice was starting to shake. Hawk didn't answer. Suyan asked. Tears were beginning to fall from her eyes now, though they didn't seem to go anywhere exactly. Hawk tried to break in, but only got out an uncertain 'uh' before Suyan continued, more desperately with each sentence, Hawk finally said, holding up one taloned finger. The myriad parts of him seemed to curl in on…
New comic! "Uh, I mean..." Hawk corrected himself, Suyan stared, her face etched in awful relief. Then, slowly, she shook her head, and her features began to soften again. she said, and started to look around. Hawk said nothing, the expression on his many faces inscrutable, shifting between looking at Suyan and at the vague shape at his shoulder. Suyan started to pace again, lowering her head to…
New comic! "She did not see their faces any more than Hawk and Teige could," Luu mused to Vlad. No one around them seemed to notice their conversation, too busy murmuring amongst themselves. "...One of them cut their hand, but a healer could have fixed that by now...but if we could get into the crime scene, perhaps they left blood behind." Vlad was still trying to clear his ears. "What about the…
New comic! Suyan fell silent, and the recollection ended. She bowed her head. Hawk sighed. Behind him, the little crowd began to murmur at each other, unsettled by whatever they had just seen or heard. "That was interesting to watch," Luu remarked at Hawk's shoulder. "You did not even need Vlad for that part." Vlad massaged his eardrum with the tip of one finger as if to clear it. "I think that…
New comic! Suyan said, There were three of them, hooded and masked, average in build and height, scrambling after her in the dark. And then, one of them caught up, and grabbed one of her antlers with a gloved hand, and dragged her to the ground. She didn't even have time to fully buck against their hold before a second one was upon her, raising a slim and shining knife over her back. The knife…
New comic! Suyan stared. She said, She couldn't say how many people, just that there had been more than one, pounding after her in the dark. Hawk prompted. The face had been masked and hooded, the hand that stretched out towards her from the darkness nondescript. Hawk said, gesturing at the running feet, the reaching figure. She looked up at him.
New comic! Suyan said, looking around. As she said that, the facade of the glassworks seemed to suddenly be there , in stark detail: the uneven long windows, the moss in the corners, the glass sign shaped like a gently curled fist hanging above her head. Even the edge of the makeshift tent and cord that blocked off the crime scene came into a sharp focus. The glassworks wasn't a particularly tall…
