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Flora: Please, help me! My son said he’s here: Kaleb, with a ‘k’ Veloux, v-e-l-o-u-x. he came here with a friend, Tanya, err, Tanya locket.
Nurse: I found her. She’s in room 110. Down the hall, and to the left.
Benni: Found it, Mrs. Flora!
Flora: Okay, you two go wait in the waiting room for me. I’ll come get you in a few minutes.
Flora: Oh! I- I must have the wrong room. Sorry!
Brenda: Wait! Is your son named ‘Caleb’?
Flora: YES!
Brenda: Then you’re in the right room.
Brenda: We found them laying on the side of the road. That poor girl, she’s been beat up pretty bad, and from what your son’s told me, she may have even been raped. I hope I’m not overstepping by requesting a rape screening.
Flora: N- no, it’s fine.
Brenda: Poor boy, I can’t even begin to imagine what he’s feeling right now. He hasn’t even left her side since we arrived.
Nurse: I found her. She’s in room 110. Down the hall, and to the left.
Benni: Found it, Mrs. Flora!
Flora: Okay, you two go wait in the waiting room for me. I’ll come get you in a few minutes.
Flora: Oh! I- I must have the wrong room. Sorry!
Brenda: Wait! Is your son named ‘Caleb’?
Flora: YES!
Brenda: Then you’re in the right room.
Brenda: We found them laying on the side of the road. That poor girl, she’s been beat up pretty bad, and from what your son’s told me, she may have even been raped. I hope I’m not overstepping by requesting a rape screening.
Flora: N- no, it’s fine.
Brenda: Poor boy, I can’t even begin to imagine what he’s feeling right now. He hasn’t even left her side since we arrived.
Wow.
This is how you make a powerful strip without making it NSFW.
At least they are reunited. But troubles are not over. Not at all…
You know, a person could count themselves blessed to have a friend like Kaleb…blessed indeed.
I cringe at the thought of the coming storm, though, and the recovery that Tanya has before her, but with the ones surrounding her, my hopes are high for her, and all the others, getting past this and being all the stronger for it.
I wish I’d had a friend or brother like Kaleb growing up.
Is this loss?
You’d think the staff would’ve given Kaleb a hospital gown rather than let him be in his underwear
In all fairness the characters are anthropomorphic and covered in fur, so what we consider certain modesty traits might not really apply… Hmmm. Might have to ask Campion about that.
What if he was given one, and he didn’t want to wear it? In all fairness, the fact that he’s wearing underwear that’s probably still wet shows that he is in fact showing modesty. Of course, even if Brenda isn’t his mom, considering the situation, she’d most likely treat this no different than one of her own boys running around in their underwear at home.
Of course, as the writer you’d know his motives best. I can believe that after spending so much time in a hospital himself, Kaleb may have grown to loathe wearing a hospital gown.
I am reminded of an old Snoopy greeting card I saw years ago. On the front it says, “Doctors aren’t funny. Nurses aren’t funny. Needles aren’t funny.” Inside it says, “Your hospital gown. Now that’s funny!”
There’s also a trope of “Naked people are funny.”
Wow. DOn’t use anything but the arrow keys if you have to move about to edit a comment. It kicks you off your comment window. Anyhoo, as I was saying before the site twitched, another commenter might have the right of it in that Kaleb may be a bit fed up with hospital gowns. Another thing that I was curious about, as your populace are created lifeforms blending human and animal, would they have the same sexual triggers that humans would? That would primarily focus on visual cues, where as most mammals are scent induced into sexual interest. Or would… Read more »
I’ll look into that, but it doesn’t look like there’s much I can do about it. However, the general rule for most forums is that If you’re going to write long replies, do it in a text editor first.
P.S., I edited your post to get rid of the default text.
Thank you! Yeah, some glitches are just the way of things, and there’s a ‘settling in period’ that I’m fairly sure will take a bit. And I’ll certainly do the text editor in the future! 🙂
I’ve been writing a series of stories that explore some of those same questions you brought up. Of course, my world is different from the one Campion has created here. In any case, I think that it is important to ground the world in some realistic rules, then stay consistent. Consistency adds to believability over the long haul.
Indeed! I wouldn’t mind checking out what you have!
We might arrange something. In the meantime, if you felt like starting the discussion you suggested over on the forum, you can count on me to chime in.
Looks like Kaleb likes Tanya more than he’s willing to admit, even to himself.
Considering not too long ago, it was “Ew Girls!”
Of course, this may just be how Kaleb reacts, he’d do the same for Paz I think.
Bunners
Perhaps, but Tanya had always been very overbearing in her attention to Kaleb. So much so that he would hide whenever she was anywhere near him. But, over the course of the comic, he’s become less and less fearful of her presence as she’s become less and less overbearing. Also, I think that after his head injury, she’s become more protective of him and what guy doesn’t like it when a woman is protective of him? LOL.
Man, this is gonna be a psychological toll on Tanya with the feeling of violation and blow to her sense of safety. And given her what I assume was a pretty rudimentary lesson about sex/cubs, she might think she’s pregnant (which will obviously be dismissed by the adults; it’s still going to be a scary thought). Fortunately she’ll have a lot support dealing with such a traumatic event.