A/N: Whoooooo boy. Let me tell you, if you thought anything was even remotely weird before, then you ain't read nothing yet. The events here aren't as awkward, but I think all that awkwardness was converted to weirdness.
...I'm gonna have to write another chapter just starring Silky and Lupus again… eventually. Maybe even throw Vella into the mix. A set of beast-girls' night out, doing anything and everything humans probably wouldn't do.
Canon name = nickname.
Velouria = Vella. Keaton = Keaty. Hinoka = Hina. Setsuna = Seta. Corrin = Lupus. Sakura = Saku. Ryoma = Red. Azama = Monkundo. Subaki = Superman. Selkie = Silky. Kaden = Ka-da. Lastly, only Selkie/Silky refers to Corrin/Lupus as Lu-pu.
Consort: The peak of truly epic chapter names!
Oof, a true dilemma… to have Kana now or to wait until Ka-da's and Lupus's stats get higher and have Kana later. As for the 'odd' thought?
Well… I do remember reading a fic way back when about a similar topic. It wasn't a fanfic, but it dealt with a human that was currently in dragon form getting pregnant, and was told *not* to shapeshift back into a human for a set amount of time. It does make me wonder how Lupus would feel being in her dragon form for like, over a month… or how her family would feel about that.
Ultimately, I like that 'odd' thought, and since I'm aiming for a more accurate depiction of the animal side of things…
Right, won't be long now.
By the time Silky and Lupus got back to Castle Shirasagi, it was already near sunset. Hoshido gets this nice orange-ish glow to it, and for a few times, Lupus wanted to simply look skyward and see the clouds. But… she's hungry. So, she decides to fix that first. Though, one of the first things that happened was Superman swooping down on his Pegasus, "Ah, Lady Corrin." He greets, "And Miss Selkie, how are you two faring?"
Lupus tilts her head, "I'm well, Superman." She looks at Silky, then the horizon behind them, and back to him, "Kinda tired, though… maybe hungry, not sure. Silky?"
"Yup, I'm actually pretty done for today, too. Already ate, though." She kicks the stone at the same time as Lupus, causing the two to look at each and start giggling, "You do that, too?"
"I was the only one to do that back in the pack." She nods.
"Lady Corrin, shall I prepare some food for you?" He performs a short bow, "Perhaps…"
"Chicken?" She immediately asks. "Like the last one?"
He hesitates for the smallest of moment, before flashing a smile and nodding, "Of course. Shall I meet up with you in the dining hall?"
"Sure!" With that, Superman heads out once more, while Lupus and Silky head inside.
"It was his choice." Silky abruptly says. "Can't do anything about it."
"I know, but…" She pauses, "You listened and he didn't." She tilts her head, "Actually, Keaty and Vella were the same way… maybe males are dense in general?"
"Probably." She nods, "That kit who pulled tails is… was a male."
Lupus cringes, "Right, you told me about that." The two continued to walk through the halls. "So… you can partially shift?"
"Uh-huh." She nods, "Wanna see?"
"Yes!" And in the next moment, Silky shifted one of her arms to her Kitsune's form. "Ooo…"
"Can't really do much with it in this form. Like I said, it tends to be more a waste of energy, so we normally don't."
"I'm guessing you just focus your Stone on that one part?" Lupus asked, receiving a nods as Silky shifted her arm back, "Alright, so…" She brings the distant roaring to the front, but instead focuses on her arm.
"Eep!" Silky hops back as Lupus does, in fact, succeed… the problem?
Instead of forming one of her dragon's arms… a lance pops out. And that lance is now embedded in a wall. "Uh…" She sheepishly smiles, "Silky… I can't pull it out." After Silky recovered from her initial surprise, she nods again before placing her hands around Lupus's new lance and pulled hard.
Wow, her lance is really shoved in deep, too.
It took Silky planting her feet on the wall and pulling with a good chunk of her strength before it dislodged… flinging the two women backwards from it popping out so suddenly. Lupus hits the wall first, then Silky is next, landing on Lupus's lap. "Hee… ha, ha…" Lupus starts giggling, before it turns into full-blown laughter.
"What kind of dragon arm is that?" Silky gives in to the giggles as she stretches across the half-dragon, half-human raised Wolfskin woman.
"I dunno." She replies, while turning that lance back into her normal arm. "...huh, that means I can partially shift, and use it to fight." She strokes Silky's hair with a smug smile, "There's an advantage for me to partially shift."
Silky scoffs, "Yeah… but do you have soft fur?"
...She's jealous. "Nope." She digs her fingers into her fur even more, earning a groan of satisfaction, "Hey, Silky? Do you think Ka-da is gonna return?"
"I doubt he'll stay away." She replies, "He'll come around… I hope. I mean, we're all that's left of our hamlet, after all." A sigh, "I wish he'd talk about it."
The two lean against the wall in silence, before Lupus's stomach ends up making its hunger known, "I should get to the dining room."
"Oh yeah. Superman is getting you a chicken, isn't he?" She asks as Lupus gets up, causing the vixen to fall onto the floor, "Hey!"
"Yup, and I'm hungry." Lupus quickly walks away, "And no, you aren't getting any."
She huffs, "Fine, I guess I won't let you stroke my fur later."
"Oh really?" She raises an eyebrow as she begins walking.
"...no, not really." Silky pouts as she follows Lupus. "So, what does chicken taste like?"
"Oh, but first, let me tell you about this human thing called 'etiquette'."
The dining room doesn't seem any different than last time, except that Silky and Lupus arrive alone. The table wasn't even have that annoying 'utensil' stuff on it. Good, Lupus wasn't planning on using it, anyway. "Chairs, huh?" Silky asks as they approach the table. She then pushes the four-legged seating thing aside. "Looks hard." She then sits on it… then lets out a squeak of pain. "Oh… there's no spot for my tail! I don't like that! Luuu-puuu!"
"I got an idea for that. Get up." Doing just that, Silky stands and pushes the chair back. "Here we go." She forms her lance and thrusts a hole into the back of the chair, then retracts it.
"Ooo… a perfect size, too. Thanks!" She flashes her canines before sitting back down, inserting her tail through the new hole in it. "Much better." Her tail wags happily.
Lupus sits down beside her. "Ah, Lady Corrin. Perfect timing." As if he knew this was the ideal time, Superman walks in with a chicken very similar to the one he got her before. "Would you care for anything else? If not, I should return to my liege."
Silky looks at Lupus, and both shake their heads, "No thank you." Lupus flashes a smile.
Superman chuckles, before giving them a short bow, "Then enjoy your meal." With that, he leaves.
"So… chicken." Silky states as she reaches for a piece. "Never seen anything cooked." Her eyes dart to Lupus, before she rips off a piece for herself. "Smells good."
"Tastes great!" Lupus nods, before simply biting into it. "Mmm…" She hums, with her face now plastered with chicken juice. "Sooooo good. And no spices to ruin it!"
"Shpishes?" Silky asks with a mouthful of chicken, "What'sh them?"
"Bad smelling things that make it tashte bad."
"Humansh ushe them? Shounds pretty dumb." The two nod at each other.
"Just be glad we aren't having to ushe those utenshils."
"Little sister…" Hina enters the room, before sighing. "If you wanted some food, you could've asked the castle staff."
"They'd ruin it with shpishes!"
"Please, swallow your food before talking."
"Shee what I mean? Stupid etiquette." Lupus turns to Silky, whose hands are far more covered in chicken juice than hers. Well, to be fair, Lupus is just diving in head-first, being the one closer to the chicken. Hina closes her eyes and sighs at Lupus. "Oh, thanks for the blanket."
Her face turns red. "Not… a problem."
"Blanket?" Silky echoes. "What's that?"
"Soft cloth thing that goes over people when they sleep. We don't have fur, y'know." Lupus informs her, "I guess it's for decency, too. Didn't bother putting on clothes after having sex with Seta."
"Sister!" Hina chides her.
"Women mate?" Silky asks, "How?"
Lupus ignores Hina's protests, "It's a human thing, Silky. We didn't mate." Another chunk of chicken is bitten straight off the bone.
"Oh…" Silky rips another piece off with her hand, before smiling and humming as she bits into it, "I loooove birds." She burps, "I like how this one is featherless, makes eating easier."
Hina, perhaps giving up on the lack of etiquette, sighs and walks away. "I rarely ate things without at least a bit of cooking."
"Ooo, so you never had a live bird?" Her smile turns predatory, "I gotta fix that."
Yet, Lupus just tilts her head, "Hey, Silky? Mind opening your mouth again."
"Huh? Sure." She does so without a reason, "Why, shomethin insh my mouthsh?" She asks while Lupus sticks her hand in.
"Yeah, actually…" She ends up pulling out two vibrant red feathers covered in Silky's saliva. "Huh…" She isn't sure how long they have been stuck in her mouth, but they actually look pretty good…
Treasure.
Then she remembers that there is a rather large helping of Silky's saliva covering her hand, alongside some small bits of chicken. Lupus then sniffs it. It actually smelled almost nothing like the chicken the two are sharing. It's… kinda sweet, really. Being curious, Lupus does the next logical thing…
She licks Silky's saliva off of her hand.
"Oh. Whoops." Silky giggles, clearly not even phased by Lupus sucking all of her literally sweet saliva off of her own hand, "I love eating birds, but sometimes their feathers get caught in my mouth… and since the insides of my mouth are rather tough, I can't feel them." She opens her mouth again, "Wanna feel it?"
"Really?!" She asks, if far too excited. Once more, her hand enters the Kitsune's mouth, then starts to feel the insides of her mouth… though she also might have spent some time trying to get as much of that sweet saliva covering her hands. "Yeah, this is so rough compared to your fur." She pulls her hand out once more, "Hey, can I keep these feathers?" She asks, before going to clean the next set of saliva from her hand.
"Uh-huh, I only eat the feathers if they go down with the bird." She burps again.
"Hey, Silky?" She starts, "How do you do that? You taste really sweet."
"I do?"
"Yeah, here…" She sticks a finger in her mouth, before offering it to her.
Silky licks her own saliva off of Lupus's finger, "...Hey! You're right!" She smiles, "I never noticed."
Smiling, Lupus also burps, if slightly louder. The two then giggle. Lupus yawns…
Silky yawns. "Stop copying me!" Lupus pouts…
Silky pouts at the same time, "I can't help that you're so much like me!" Lupus snatches a bone off of the chicken and begins chewing on it. Silky snatches a bone off of the chicken and bites into it. "There, we're different."
"Why break it? There's plenty of flavor left on the bone." She points out.
"Really?" Silky tilts her head, before snagging another bone, this time to chew on it. "Oh… there is!" She smiles, "There's never any flavor left on the bones from the kills we made."
Once the chicken has had both its meat and its bones taken care of, the two sit there for a moment, completely content. "I suppose I should spend some time with my family." Lupus declares, "I wish I had something for you to do here."
The vixen pauses and thinks for a moment, "Well… I suppose I could just return to the forest for a bit. Oh, wait! What about the good smelling bath stuff?! Yeah, I wanna take a bath!" Silky bolts up. "Actually, don't tell me. I wanna find it, too. I'll see you later, Lu-pu, okay?"
"Alright… I hope we can play again together soon!" With that, Silky makes her way out, and that just leaves Lupus with one question…
Who is she going to spend time with first?
A/N: The most important lore bits ever to be introduced, ever! Silky's saliva tastes sweet. I have no idea how that popped into my head, but once it did? I just rolled with it. Just goes to show how different Lupus is from humans, how similar she can be to the beast-races, and how little such topics are discouraged in the Kitsune and Wolfskin communities.
Also, I suppose that means Silky and Lupus shared one heck of a kiss.
Where will Lupus end up next? When will the urge to go back to the pack finally become too great to ignore? Will Ka-da ever come back and pin her down? Will Silky start bottling her saliva and selling it as a sweetener?