Chapter Nine Page 16
Tina: I always knew I was . . . different. Learning about otherkin made it all make sense — why I was more comfortable with animals than with humans, why I felt this connection with foxes . . .
Even if I never got to change my physical body, it made everything so much better just to have friends who understood.
But if someone like Patrick . . . someone who’s reached the next stage of otherkin evolution . . .
if even he can’t find a body that feels right, what hope is there for someone like me?
Patrick: Tina, wait! I don’t know how, but you seem to have gotten the wrong idea!
Patrick (thinking): How do I explain? Is it even my place to explain? There are things my Master doesn’t want me to talk about. But she said to answer their questions. And that was sort of a question. So how do I get them to listen? Maybe if I took an older form. Even Miranda sometimes listened to that form . . .
(FLASH!)
Hmm, so were-beast legends originate with Beings too?
That would raise the question of where silver came into the equation if that’s the case. Either silver does something to beings, or the people wanted to believe there was something that could destroy these shapeshifters.
I’d put it as the second most likely. It’s a common thing for ‘weaknesses’ to be invented for things, just because people don’t know how to beat it. That, or an inparticular ‘being’ had an especially strong fear of silver.
Um. So, at one point, he gave rise to the legends about werespaniels? What?
I so dig what he looks like in the last panel, but…when the heck would he have had occasion to taken it on? It’s sort of specific…
He’s only mid-transformation there…in Friday’s strip you’ll see what he looks like when it’s finished =)