“Wild Thing” by Dirt Coyote (part 2 of 2) [18+]

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Today's story concerns adult subject matter for mature listeners.

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If that's not your cup of tea,

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or there are youngsters listening,

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please skip this one

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and come back for another story another time.

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You’re listening to The Voice of Dog.

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This is Rob MacWolf, your fellow traveler,

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and Today’s story is the second of two parts of “Wild Thing”

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by Dirt Coyote, who,

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when he’s not causing all sorts of trouble on twitter,

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is writing a novel,

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a novella, a series,

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and short furry fiction.

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His story featured on The Voice of Dog,

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“I’m Just Your Stud”

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was nominated for Coyotl’s Best Short Story of 2021.

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Find him at DirtCoyote on Twitter

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for future updates.

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Last time, our fox was given a pill from his future self to

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transform into something greater.

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Now that he’s settling in with his new powers, we’ll

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find out what he chooses to do next and how he’ll finish his journey

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to become the Wild Thing.

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“Wild Thing”

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by Dirt Coyote, Part 2 of 2

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When I open my eyes, I’ve returned to earth.

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I'm laying on my back,

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the ground warm, and the desert's night air cooling my fur.

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I stay there, appreciating the milky way above.

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I can see all the stars and galaxies millions of light-years away,

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and peek at them like looking through a telescope. There's

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two neutron stars colliding there.

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Over there, there's a

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couple of aliens

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performing a form of a wedding with

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hundreds of guests surrounding them.

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All around are planets and stars and

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civilizations, ripe for me to explore.

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But a hollowed metal thud of something being kicked catches my attention.

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"We're stranded!" a voice cries out.

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I lift up from the ground,

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turning my attention away from the space above and to my surroundings.

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There's a van sitting at the side of a road,

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and a group of otters are leaning against it.

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One’s got a blunt in his muzzle,

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taking a hit of it before passing it to another.

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"Things will work out,"

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an otter says nonchalantly.

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A girl between the two boys throws up her arms and asks,

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"How?" That's my cue.

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"Howdy!" I call out,

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walking towards them while brushing the dirt off my back and fur.

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All three jump, but I don't change my gate.

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They're staring at me curiously,

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the tallest otter shifting left and right down the road.

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There's nothing for miles and miles. I can read his muzzle,

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and explain, "I just happened to land here.

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here." They shuffle nervously, afraid of me,

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though all three are taller and bigger.

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The one holding the blunt

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cautiously reaches his paw forward,

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extending a roach for me to take.

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I've never done pot before,

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but it seems rude to refuse the offer.

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I take it, inhaling little puffs before coughing my lungs out in front of the three.

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They laugh at that,

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and quickly introductions are made.

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Their names are Damian, Ross, and Tiara,

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and their van gave out between concerts.

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Smoke is still pouring from the grill and I offer to take a look.

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Careful with the hood, I pop it open and poke my head inside.

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I'm not an expert at cars, but I think I know the problem.

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Sensing the vehicle and seeing through its design, I can almost feel where the radiator is cracked.

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It's like an itch on my skin,

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and I mend it closed with my will until it is whole again.

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The otters can't see what I'm doing,

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but I can feel the car heal itself.

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Then I draw from the air,

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filling the tank with water,

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and in an instant,

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the insides feel new again.

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I close the hood and smile at the group,

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a sense of relief washing over me.

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All is right. I clap my paws together and say,

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"That should do it.

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it." Tiara, ever the skeptic, laughs and says,

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"You didn't do anything."

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I shrug, not needing her to understand.

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"Where we headed?"

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I ask casually.

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Damian, the tallest otter, gets in the front seat and turns the ignition.

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The car comes back to life, and he lets out a gasp,

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"Well, shit." He stares at the panels, squinting as he notices the vans running better than it ever had before.

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Again, I shrug. Ross, slapping a paw to my back, takes a hit and when he exhales, he says,

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"And the universe provides.

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provides." So I had. I learn that I’ve landed in the middle of the 80’s.

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We spend months on the road,

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traveling between venues and concerts and bars.

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Sometimes we're there to play a gig, and sometimes we're just there to watch.

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All these bands I only knew from the radio were

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now playing live in front of me, testing their sounds.

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Some are met with roaring crowds, screaming out for more.

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Others are booed and mocked,

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the music not appreciated at the time.

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I recognize some of the ones that would later be hits,

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sleepers that just needed the right moment to shine.

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It was still good to listen to them in their raw impact.

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It is with Tiara that I learn how to braid flowers into a crown.

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She teaches me,

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her way of explaining she likes me.

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Despite that,

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it's Ross who is my first kiss amongst the three.

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He sneaks it in after shotgunning me with a breath of weed, our lips too close and our attraction too strong not

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to finish closing the gap.

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We make out in our hotel room,

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one of the few times we ever get one.

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Tiara and Damian are out at the bar,

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but me and Ross had opted to stay inside for the night.

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I'm glad, because I've wanted this for a while.

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When he breaks from the kiss, he says,

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"I'm sorry. I guess I'm pretty high.

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high." He turns his head away bashfully,

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looking to get up off the bed.

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I don't let him, holding onto his paw

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and keeping him there.

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Then I steal his blunt from him,

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placing it on an ashtray

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and give him a kiss on his neck.

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He shudders underneath me, my teeth sinking softly into his fur.

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I hear him drag his claws on the sheets,

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muttering moans.

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Our clothes come off until we're down to our underwear.

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He's a little unsure of himself,

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but I know well enough for the both of us. "Let's

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start slow," I say,

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and he nods up and down.

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There's a little pudge over his front that I trace a claw through, and he likes that.

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He's careful when he touches me back, not wanting to move too fast.

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His fingers run through the fur on my chest, and I moan to let him know

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it feels good. His cock tents up his boxers, and I dare

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a touch. I put my index finger to the tip,

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stroking it up and down over the fabric.

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It twitches and a bead of pre drips through to sticky my paw pads.

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He lets out a soothing purr as I pull back the underwear until his cock slips through the slit.

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While I'm playing with his cock,

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he's more invested in my nipples.

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He keeps making a circular motion around them, every few seconds giving one a gentle pinch before moving onto the next.

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Then he dips his muzzle down and

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starts nibbling on me between his teeth.

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The sensations are so amazing and my cock feels restrained in my underwear. I pull my briefs down, letting my cock hang out, pre dribbling freely along my shaft.

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Ross looks down, sees my cock,

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and cautiously wraps his paw around it, squeezing me at my knot.

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I huff, grabbing hold of his own stiff member to give him a squeeze as well.

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Side by side on the bed, we jerk each other off.

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Together, we pant, only silenced when we're nibbling and pecking each other between our strokes.

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As I'm getting close,

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I rest my nose into his neck,

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breathing in his scent sharply.

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He's first to cum,

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spraying a line of jizz across his chest and belly.

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I don't last a second after,

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and I am showered in my own spunk as well.

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Together, we fall back onto the bed

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and nuzzle in our afterglow.

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We stay there for a while,

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and I cuddle up against his side.

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"I've never done that with another guy before," he admits.

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I silence him with another kiss,

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reassuring him with my love.

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He feels safe beside me,

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and Ross doesn't even flinch when the door to our hotel opens up.

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Damian and Tiara slip in,

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pausing for a second

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when they see us spent on the bed together.

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Even though we're in our underwear, we're still covered in our cum and

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it's pretty obvious what we just did.

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Tiara's muzzle turns, but all she has to add is,

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"Boys." Her jealousy lasts maybe a week at most,

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before I catch her alone with a flower crown

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I braided just for her.

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Damian, ever the most relaxed of the three,

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goes with the flow,

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not denying the inevitable before we're all pulled into a foursome almost every night on the road.

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It seemed like they only needed me to bridge their sexual frustrations.

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It's about a year down the line that I'm laying over Damian's chest, naked and panting in the back of their van.

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Tiara slides off of my spent cock,

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and turns to curl against my belly.

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Ross is sleepy eyed in his afterglow,

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his cum still fresh on my breath.

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I smile at all of them,

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my first true friends.

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That warm glow fills me again, and even though I'm strong enough now to extinguish it,

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I know it's my time.

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There's a vast universe out for me to explore, and this is just a fraction of what I can experience.

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It's left an itch under my fur,

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and though I'll miss them greatly,

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I know they'll be fine without me.

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"I love you all,

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so much," I say, and stress that last bit

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just so they understand. There’s

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a small hope that one of them might recognize what I’m saying and tell me to stay.

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If they’d ask, I know I’d never have the willpower to leave.

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All they do is chuckle,

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and pass me love yous as well.

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Carefully, I stroke them all in the back of the van,

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trying to hold onto the touch of their fur.

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It's important that I remember this

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and find a place in my heart to cherish it

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forever. And then I'm gone.

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For a while, I travel here and there.

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Sometimes earth,

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but most times not. Sometimes with friends and lovers, and some eons I'm left in quiet solidarity

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to explore the stretches of the universe alone.

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It's only when I come back to Messier-87,

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do I remember something

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important. I remember that awkward wave I gave it so long ago, remember how this all started,

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and see myself so young and new. I've got

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business to do and I need to get back to that party.

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But first, I've got to pick something up.

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Something that isn't mine.

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Again, I give an awkward wave to the black hole,

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feeling our time was short, and again,

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it doesn't have to impress me. It's a freakin black hole. It couldn't give a shit.

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Then I find myself far into the future.

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I see a gas giant

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orbited by a hundred thousand railguns.

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Hiding in the planet's ring is a top secret station;

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a research facility

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where they're developing the pill

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I need to give to myself.

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There's a room where it's being held in and I

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can't just manifest into it.

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They’ve shielded it from me,

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or whatever threat they perceived I might have been,

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keeping me from stealing what they've worked so hard to achieve.

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Sure I could spend a millenia researching it on my own,

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but that's not how it went down or how it will go down.

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Oh, don't think less of me for being a thief.

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They're Nazis. Space Nazis!

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Yeah, that's right, they come back and this thing they've created

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is to ensure their dominance over the universe. I can't let them have it.

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I will myself into the station,

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standing outside a hallway alone.

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But I'm not alone.

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Time stretches in front of me, and I see the few

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infinite versions of me standing in front of the door.

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I am seeing every future of me

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making the decision

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that'll change all of time.

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I watch as each version turns back to greet the one behind.

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Three ahead, the marble fox goes for a wave.

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Two, the next one gives its me a sly smile.

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The one directly in front of me turns back, and I recognize that mother fucker anywhere. He gives me a wink,

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and there’s no hard feelings between us. I turn back,

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seeing a couple infinite marble foxes standing in a row behind me.

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With confidence, I give mine a thumbs up.

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In turn, that one shows me up by giving his me a double thumbs up.

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He's the fun one, I can tell.

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Then I look forward

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and see that all the me's have turned their heads to the right.

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I follow suit, glancing into a passage of time beside me.

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It is there, I see a road that has never been taken, but exists all the same.

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It's a reality where I don't

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get my paws on that pill.

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An existence so dark and bleak, both in past, present, and future,

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that it proves one thing certain:

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I always stop them.

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Every time. The me's collapse into one and I push forward on the double doors leading into a hallway in the research station.

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There are lizards of all sorts, each wearing white lab coats and visors.

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They're scrambling, the time of their ascension dawning,

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and none of them look up from their tablets and notes to notice a fox wearing a tank top just waltzing in.

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I am fast and small,

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walking behind and between the men and women.

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At some points, I pause, waiting for a group to pass

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and others, I hurry by quickly.

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My timing is perfect, because it has to be.

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It's almost crazy to think, with all the railguns and high tech sensors and the room I cannot penetrate,

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not a one thought to lock the front door.

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Ahead of me, there's a metal corridor sealing with lights flashing above.

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There's a tall komodo dragon walking with a couple armed guards at either of his side.

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He's moving with a sense of authority, chest out, shoulders straight, and his head tilting back so no one could be at eye level with him.

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Even amongst his own kind, he thinks himself above everyone else.

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I get close behind the dictator,

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the guards stopping just at the door and taking either side of it.

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They turn and to about-face,

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but their movements are so formal that neither even notices me walking just

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underneath their line of sight.

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I stop in the room,

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pulling my tail forward

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just as the metal door behind me is sealed shut.

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The komodo dragon walks to a table in the center of the room,

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and I see the pill,

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shimmering in red, orange, blue, yellow, and green,

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along with every color in-between.

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He steps around the table, getting into a position that I think he imagines to be more dignified or something.

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Just before he gets to his moment of triumph,

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he notices me across from him.

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He stares for a minute,

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blinking a couple times as if I might be something caught in his eye. The tyrant looks around,

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as if I were a prank his subjects were playing on him,

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and at any second they'd come bursting in saying

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surprise! No one is coming out,

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and so he asks in his final question,

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"Vhat iz dis?" I raise my paw,

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feeling energy coursing through me

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before releasing it out directly into his chest.

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In a flash, the komodo dragon is nothing but a spray of blood and ash against the wall he was formerly standing in front of.

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I'm a little stunned—

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no, a lot, because I wasn't expecting that to happen at all. In my head, I pictured him crashing into the wall and falling unconscious.

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Then I'd take the pill and he would wake up, shaking a fist in anger as I foil his plans for galaxy domination.

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Nope, he is very very dead, and I

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probably should have tested my powers before this point.

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Oh well. If anything, that was a freebie.

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I snatch the pill off the table,

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clutching it in my paw and squeezing it tightly.

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Unlike the fascists, I know this is too valuable to leave somewhere it can be stolen.

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Instead, I place it deep into a fold between time and space,

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ever to be locked away until I need it once more.

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My work here done, I look out towards earth, willing myself to sail back home.

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With a thud, I smack muzzle first into a wall in the room instead.

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I'd forgotten

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that this is the one place I can't travel through.

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That was embarrassing.

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Even as a demigod, I can't help but look like a massive dork.

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With a sigh, I walk back to the sealed door and give it a knock in succession to a tune I remember.

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It takes a second before the metal room opens up and the two guards greet me in shock.

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I take a step outside right between the two men.

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They both raise their guns at the same time, ready to empty their clips inside of me,

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but I'm already gone,

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and they only end up eliminating each other

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and any proof of my existence.

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Invisible, atop of a railgun is where I place myself after.

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I sit there, watching their society from afar.

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They conclude that their experiment was a failure and never attempt to recreate it again.

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For as strong of a civilization they were,

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all that talk of master species and unity falls apart with their charismatic dictator gone.

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Quickly, even before they finish cleaning off the bloody wall of their once great leader, factions are being made.

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Arguments of what to do next and how to conquer the galaxy falls to infighting.

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They splinter and a great civil war happens.

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The railguns once meant for me, are now turning on one another.

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I picked a good one,

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it lasting most of the war.

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The reactor inside hums, vibrating the barrel underneath me.

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Radiation leaking from the core turns the whole thing blue,

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and just before it can get too hot, the barrel erupts.

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A projectile launches from its tip, racing at unfathomable speeds to eviscerate ships, battle stations, and other railguns

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thousands of miles away.

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The war lasts years,

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and I feel a little guilt that I caused this.

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I didn't want this violence, but I couldn't just let them go through with their plans. It felt like the only option at the time,

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but I wonder how I could have changed things.

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Before I can ponder it too hard, I see something coming out the corner of my eye.

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It's a bullet from another railgun.

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I slow time, and even as seconds get stretched to months, it's almost moving too fast for me to follow along.

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Gradually, I rise from the barrel, stepping off into space just as the hull is pierced through

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and through. An azure glow spills from the reactor, leaking into space,

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and the whole gun lazily spirals into nothing.

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Decades pass and the war is over.

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I stay close by, watching their society in fast motion.

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They rebuild,

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not just their crumbled buildings and their ruined stations,

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but they find their heart amongst the destruction.

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Their war has left them tired of fighting, tired of dictators, charismatic leaders, and talks of power and ruling the galaxy. I watch

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a freighter come for the railgun,

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pulling it into pieces.

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What is salvaged of the core is sent millions of miles away to power a station's garden atrium for generations to come.

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The barrel is chopped to bits,

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and I follow a small section smelted into raw metal that is later repurposed.

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At the end of its journey, I see a small komodo dragon hatchling,

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unwrapping a present and looking up at his parents in pure bliss.

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He'd never know that the casing surrounding his little easy bake oven

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was once a tool of awful destruction,

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and everyone’s better for that.

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I leave, knowing there's nothing left for me to see here.

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I've got a party to go to.

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I think to just show up,

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but that feels a little rude.

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No, I need a proper invite.

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Then I remember the wolf the Wild Thing was standing next to,

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and I chase after his image through time and space.

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It's kinda hard to flip through a trillion muzzles in history,

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but I eventually land on him

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about six months before the party.

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I catch him in a green coffee uniform, during the middle of his break.

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He's sipping on a latte while flicking through his social media feed, and seeing him in the light, I realize just how handsome he is.

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It intimidates me for a second.

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For all the lovers and all the adventures, he catches me a little off guard.

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Wiggling my body until I'm feeling loosey goosey, I give my muzzle a slap and

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tell myself to get it together.

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With some bravery, I jump right into it,

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walking into the cafe and taking the seat across from his table to introduce myself.

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The wolf’s name is Giovanni.

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He's a college dropout, living in a tiny apartment in a shitty neighborhood on the outskirts of town.

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When he's not playing video games, he is writing poetry, but he's mostly playing video games.

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Don't look down on him because I love nothing more than spending time together.

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When we go out, he likes burgers and hates sushi,

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but he does it for me anyways.

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Giovanni is saving himself for someone special,

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and I know it's me.

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I know because I look far into the future,

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when his fur is gray and his eyes are milky.

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No spoilers. Just a quick peek, right?

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Even though he can't see me so well, he recognizes me walking into the room and says,

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"Hey Handsome, I love you.

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you." He doesn't say it because he knows what's about to happen next.

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It's just something he likes to do spontaneously,

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and he genuinely means it every time.

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It makes me feel good, that same warmth coursing through my body whenever he tells it to me,

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and maybe that's why I'm just a little too distracted to notice.

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I don't see the clot building up inside his head until it's too late.

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I say I love you back,

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and before anything can be done,

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he's gone. I am cold,

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scared, lost, and utterly alone.

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"Are you crying?" Giovanni asks, and I shake myself from my vision.

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I’m not alone; I'm sitting cross-legged on his couch with a controller in my paw.

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We're still just playing video games together in our youth.

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Giovanni's got a concerned look on his muzzle, pausing the screen for a second to check up on me.

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I wipe my eyes and nose with the fur on the back of my wrist.

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"Yeah, sorry. Allergies, am I right?"

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I say, nodding assuredly.

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He leans his head back, a sly smile on his muzzle

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as he stretches out a, "Surrrreee,"

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unconvinced.

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I shove him with my shoulder, and though he's almost a foot taller than me, he shoves me back just as hard!

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The big bad wolf. We're laughing, and resume playing the game.

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He'd give me so much shit if he knew I was crying about an ending.

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It was always about the journey.

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I should know that, better than anyone else.

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He goes back to telling me about this cool party,

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and he wants me to be his plus one.

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Giovanni is so close to asking me out, but he's not quite there yet.

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This is just a way to spend more time with me,

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and I shield the rest of our future together from myself.

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When he finally does ask me out,

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I want it to be a real surprise.

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But if he's not gonna do it tonight then I'm gonna get it from somewhere

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and I know exactly from who.

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I tell him yes, but I need to stop off somewhere first.

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No homo, so we fist bump before I walk out the door and find the last thing I need.

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Sitting on a building sized tree at the end of the cretaceous period, I string together a bundle of flamingo pink flowers.

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I watch the sunrise, taking in the vast greenery of lands untouched.

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There's a brachiosaurus taking a bite of the leaves next to me, and I reach out to scratch its long neck.

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It likes the attention well enough, even if it doesn't know what to make of me.

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This time and place feels good,

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and I realize that the Wild Thing was right all along: I am having a lot of fun making this crown.

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At this point, even after all this time,

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I finally relax and accept

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that he was always me

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and I was always him.

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Looking up, I see an asteroid approaching.

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It's coming and I fold my ears back in sorrow.

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There's a thought

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that I can stop this.

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If there is any time I can play god, it’s right now.

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But I know it's not my place to do anything,

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and I know that party

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isn't gonna happen

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if I make any big changes. I'm not

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god. I am the Wild Thing.

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The asteroid slams into the planet,

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the blinding light of a hundred million megaton explosion sets the world ablaze.

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I give a final pat to the brachiosaurus, the creature running for its life away from the destruction.

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As the ground tremors up towards me,

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I take a bow, and I'm back in front of Giovanni’s place.

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He answers the door

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and compliments my flower crown.

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Just for fun, I tell him it's not half as beautiful as he is.

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The wolf's muzzle turns red,

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but he pushes past it and holds up his phone.

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The rideshare is coming,

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ready to take me

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the last mile towards destiny.

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When the front door opens,

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it's the hare that invited me to the party.

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He greets Giovanni with a side hug

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and then the wolf turns to introduce me as his plus one.

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The lapine looks at me with some confusion,

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recognizing me, but I’m just the loner he accidentally invited to the party.

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Thankfully, he doesn't put too much thought into it, and welcomes me inside.

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I spend most of the party with Giovanni

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being introduced to his friends.

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They're all chill,

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and it’s not too hard to have a good time with them. But it’s a little difficult to also not be so excited,

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and I've got to focus on the conversations,

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hoping to make a good impression on his friends.

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But it happens. Standing across the room, holding onto a cup for dear life,

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I see me. It's hard to not break down into tears.

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There I am, a thousand years younger, and the second biggest dork in the whole universe.

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And my heart is filled with so much pride.

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He's here. He showed up.

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I can see him more clearly than he could ever see himself, and I'm just so god damn proud of him. It's a Friday night,

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and though he could have spent the evening watching animes he's seen a billion times over,

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he's chosen to step out of his comfort zone for the first time.

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He doesn't have a single friend here, but he came anyway

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with the hope to make some.

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The invite was out of pity,

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but he dressed nice

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and remembered to take the fucking pocket protector out of his shirt before showing up.

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This night could have been disastrous, and though he doesn't have my powers to see into the future,

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he went out anyways,

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like a real champ.

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He's flawless. In my opinion, that’s the reason why he's so much cooler than me.

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It's what makes me feel this intense attraction to him, and I'm getting a little hot and bothered.

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The marble fox across the room is slender, young, and so nervous.

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He has nothing to fear,

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because anyone would be so lucky to be with someone as special as he is.

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That's when he turns to me,

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and we make eye contact.

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I remember my thoughts; see what he thinks of me,

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and I'm flattered.

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In his mind, I see me

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I am the Wild

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Thing, and I want to be with him as much as he wants to be with me.

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Except this time, I think I’d like to be on bottom.

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This was the second of two parts of “Wild Thing” by Dirt Coyote,

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read for you by Rob MacWolf,

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werewolf hitchhiker.

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As always, you can find more stories on the web at thevoice.dog,

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