Kanti‘s class is in session, but does Tshila have a question for the teacher?
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They’re a bit off, snakes are venomous, but depending on the snake or you ate one with cuts in your mouth that could be a sad fate for them. Of course, this is a tribe without a written language, so they’re excused 😉
Getting to see Kanti teaching the kiddos is so cute!
Who better to teach the kids helpful life tips via song than a bard? Thank you, Miss Kanti! ^__^
Posonous: You bite it, you die
Venomous: It bites you, you die.
Voodoo: It bites itself, you die.
Coincidence: You bite something, it dies.
The first two cases apply here!
SOMEONE just remembered she saw a Snake with legs.
Or did she dream the whole thing?
Nice to see Cree and Tyree. Yeah the food diet make sense, they are still cats after all.
I genuinely hope when the kids meet one another, they don’t have their parents prejudices (Though considering Sombrana actions, I can see Arc wanting to avoid attacking first cause that what Sombrana would do).
Uh-oh, Tshila been listening, I can’t tell if that good or bad.
Something perked up her one-and-a-half ears!
I legit never noticed she had half an ear missing, cool!
Maybe the snakes are different in this world. They’re good eatin’ in ours.
Up until you get to the venom sac. Gotta eat around that!
Vocals & Vital Victuals
Song to Safe Sustenance and The Refrain of Recollection.
The songs of school swell the air as Kanti and the cubs countdown the kinds of catches that are capable completing a full course. In the background Tshila and Niyah (I think) talk as the titles of top tiger game run the gamut. Then Tula tries her hand, raising it high and heading up a query about the qualifications of savoring serpents as selected suppers. Her discernment is discouraged by the dangers derived from devouring the scaled slithers. The reason behind the rejection: The venom they veil within. With it digested, death is determined. The come some questions: Do snakes fly? Do they have legs? With a no announced, adulation is appropriate for the capable cub.
But this is overheard by Tshila who feels the disturbance this mention manages to move.
The innocence of the innocuous is an enlightening moment for many. But this moment also sees the seeds of something significant sown into fertile firmament.
Is this enough to see Tshila search for the fleeting feelings that are flowing through her unsettled soul and hurt heart? Or is this only a passing phase in a mother’s musings?
I gotta hand it to you, this is some of your best work yet! I love how you described both Kanti’s teaching process and Tshila’s reaction here!
Oh, and yes, that’s Niyah that Tshila is talking to. IIRC, it’s the first time in over a decade and a half that Niyah’s appeared in the comic. She debuted on the same page as Tshila way back on page 104 which was published in 2008!
Thanks. But truth be told, I’ve been looking up many of the words I’ve been using in these comments. I never use them myself but maybe one day I will. It’s better than what most people usually speak today.
Kanti mixing up poisonous and venomous a bit here – most snakes, even venomous ones, are safe to eat from the neck down. I guess it’s to be expected when all knowledge is transmitted orally though.
Snakes have a neck?! o_O
Oh is someone recounting a strange dream of a talking snake? Making sure her kids aren’t hanging around with traitors or dragons?