Description
Jackie wiped a finger across the cold taxi car window. The condensation on the outside of the glass barely reacted, beads of water in a race to sweep away every settling snowflake. Past the window, a world of spindly trees ran past Jackie’s eyes, branches that stretched over the sheltered road and attempted to blot out the bright grey winter sky. The darkness behind the tree line was speckled white from the fragile snowfall taking to the stage against the slowing rain. The trail left by Jackie’s touch faded with the heat of a soft sigh as she retreated from the landscape and closed her eyes.
There were usually deer out this way, at least one or two, perking their ears at the strange sight of a car intruding onto their sacred silence on the way to Jackie’s grandparents. This was the first year where she was asked to host their annual winter solstice party, but the responsibility was too much. Her cousin’s had done a fine job, it just wasn’t the same. Everyone talked about presents, and leaving before there was even time to watch the first snowfall. There was such a rush to get out, they’d left her without a ride and somehow managed to steal the sweater she came with. Jackie tugged on the scratchy fur of the chocolate brown polka dot sweater she’d browed from her grandparent’s basement. The bristles of cotton dug into her darkened fingernails and caught on the fine hairs spreading over her stomach.
Jackie’s eyes fluttered open, unconsciously catching sight of something bounding through the foggy window. “Wait!” She muttered while pulling on the increasingly warm sweater.
“Huh?” The belligerent taxi driver didn’t take their eyes off the road, already going much too fast for Jackie’s taste.
“I thought I saw one…” The car passed into a tunnel as suddenly as the words left her, washing the passenger side window with faded amber light momentarily. When they emerged back into the damp snowscape, it didn’t feel nearly as cold for Jackie, dragging her hand over the backs of her ears which had felt numb from the cold. Now she felt them pulling outwards to a fine point, wrapped in fuzzy fur. Her eardrums crackled as the fluff blossomed inside her deepening triangular ear folds, batting against the side of her head in a twitching motion.
Jackie felt on her nose, warm and red from sniffing through a lingering cold, now damp and black, expanding under her fingers and between her eyes. She cupped her palm over her face as if on the cusp of a sneeze. “Ahhh…” Her nostrils flared out and flattened as her upper lip rose to meet them. Jackie’s lower lip became puffy and charcoal colored as it spilled forward to hug against her growing snout. Her mouth closed with a rough snort, expelling a deep pressure in her sinuses that pushed forward her rectangular muzzle. The skin on the bridge of her nose was cracked with scattered white and black texture, nasal rumbles that made Jackie’s ears bounce.
The car slowed to a stop at an abandoned four-way intersection, Jackie’s fumbling her hands against the side door. The hard black fingernails overtaking her digits as they flipped the door latch. She pressed the tips of her feet against the floor, stumbling her way out of the seat and into the snow dotted curbside. A small cotton ball tail loosed itself from the slip of her pants, with Jackie turning around to the startled driver.
“Its fine, I can walk the rest of the way. There’s something I still need to see!”
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A deer morph I did of a very dear friend (by my request) she makes a lovely deer girl, and I'm very grateful to have permission to share it with you all! The brilliant story, is of course provided by Tocixcog, who can be found here: www.furaffinity.net/user/tocix…
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