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The Goosemother Scroll: The End in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll - The Conclusion"Hello, Sister," said the other pig.

"This is a trick!" said Pyg, but deep within her, she knew the Master was Dawnsong, the brother taken in her stead on the night of their birth. But how did he know her?

"This is a trick!" she repeated as if to convince herself. "My mother said Dawnsong was dead!"

"Dawnsong? Is that what I was to be named?" said the Master. "I am named Strangeborn, but no one calls me that anymore. Your mother - that is, our mother - never took the trouble to find out what became of me. For that I can't blame her. Who is a pig against the wolves?"

The Master's voice dripped with sarcasm. Who, indeed, was a pig amongst tThe Goosemother Scroll - The Conclusionin The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 15The Unspeakable Oath. When the living make a deal with the dead. All who commit such dealings are doomed to serve the Ghosts of Men for a thousand years. For the dead men can claim the bodies of the living, but never their souls... without permission. Such permission Leap granted the spirits when he spoke in the ancient tongue aboard the black ship. In exchange, he asked for safe passage into the Elephant Lands and for the life of his friend. All this Estruthia had seen in the young wolf's eyes, but it was far too late for the priestess' magic to save him. Now the dead had claimed their prize and left a wound in Pyg's heart among so many otheThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 15in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: Loss in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 14All was quiet in the elephant graveyard. Here, the bones of the ancients lay scattered, huge and broken, like ruins of a once great city.

"Is it really all right for us to be here?" Pyg whispered to the ostrich priestess.

"It is an honor," the priestess answered. "An elephant's invitation to a graveyard is their way of introducing you to their ancestors as a friend. Her majesty is not only paying homage to the ancients but asking them to protect us."

Pyg nodded and watched as the queen and her soldiers wandered wordlessly among the bones, picking them up, curling their trunks around them. Weeks ago, Pyg would have thought it a peculiar cusThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 14in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: Elephant Bones in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 13The soldiers had prepared for an attack from the skies, but they had not prepared for so many foes. Foes who were better armed and organized than they. Foes who were certainly better fed. In the end, it was the rhinoceros king and elephant queen who won, but not without terrible loss.

Pyg could not feel sad for all the death around her now. She could only feel anger.

"It just keeps happening!" she said to Leap. "No matter what we do or where we go, trouble is always close behind!"

"You can't look at it like that," Leap told her. "You've lived through all of it so far, haven't you? You were meant for something important, Pyg. Like Father LoThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 13in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: The Ambush in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 12And so it was war.

And though it was war, Pyg felt safer than she had since leaving her mother's home with her poor, unfortunate brothers. The rhinoceros king's army was twenty thousand strong with beasts of every fur, scale, and feather. Soon, they were joined by the elephant queen and her forces whose shortage of soldiers was made up for in the sheer size of those tusked fighters.

Pyg liked the elephant queen. She was as fierce as the horned king but to Pyg and Leap she was as gentle as Pyg's own mother.

"My daughter would have been your age, I think, had she not been taken from this world by evildoers," the queen told her.

Often, Pyg'sThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 12in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: The Priestess of Gol in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 11"If your majesty will permit me, I believe I can divine the message of the parchment," said a silken voice.

The voice belonged to an ostrich with intricate designs painted upon her beak. A headdress of gold links and jewels crowned her head, her feathers were dusted with a greenish pigment, and Pyg could have sworn her eyes glowed a faint emerald color. As Pyg stared into those eyes, she suddenly found herself with the knowledge that the ostrich lady was Estruthia, the Priestess of Gol. How she knew this, Pyg couldn't have said.

The king nodded curtly, and the ibex handed the message to the priestess. Estruthia then waved a wing over the soThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 11in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: The Rhinoceros King in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 10Their captors were beasts neither Pyg nor Leap had seen before. They looked like huge dogs but with peculiar rounded ears. They had blunt snouts and sharp teeth, and they punctuated their speech with eerie cackles that made them seem mad. Pyg had read about beasts like these before, but in writing, hyenas sounded so strange that she'd thought they were imagined. But once she had thought the Ghosts of Men were imagined, too, and she had now seen them for herself.

The hyenas bound Pyg and Leap and pushed them down a narrow, winding trail for at least three miles before they came to a clearing. In the clearing was a great tent of purple cloth, The Goosemother Scroll Episode 10in The Goosemother Scroll

Pyg and Leap and the Screaming Corpses in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 9Pyg and Leap found themselves standing upon the shore of the elephant coast, Pyg watching the ghost ship vanish behind them, Leap shivering as he stared at the carnage before them.

"I wonder if he knew," said Pyg.

"Who? And, er, what?" asked Leap, who was transfixed by the sight of a rotting zebra.

"Father Longtail about the Ghosts of Men," answered Pyg. Her voice trembled. "About whatever happened here. Maybe we weren't expected to come back. Maybe that's why we were given such a useless excuse for a boat!"

She bent down, picked up a rock and threw it at the sun-dried carcass of a gazelle. The rock hit its target, disturbing a cluster ofThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 9in The Goosemother Scroll

Death Upon the Elephant Coast in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 8Leap lifted his head to the moon and howled. It curdled Pyg's blood to hear it, and yet there was something almost regal about the sound. It was the sound of ages past. The sound of mystery. And, most certainly, of death.

Pyg saw the ghosts, blood-hungry even in their dead forms, pause at Leap's voice. Then, all at once, they made horrible faces of rage and ravenousness, and they rushed for the young wolf. Pyg couldn't watch anymore. This is the end, she thought, weeping into her hooves. And it's all been for nothing!

She heard Leap yelp, then heard his claws scrape the deck as he ran back from the advancing specters. He howled again, loudeThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 8in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: The Ghosts of Men in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 7The dark ship drove hard and fast, driven by hellwinds to crush the little sailboat into flotsam.

"What will we do?" Pyg despaired. There was no hope of maneuvering out of the way, and Pyg had never learned to swim.

"We have to jump!" Leap answered. "Climb onto my back, and I'll carry you!"

There was no time think beyond those precious seconds. The pair dove into the inky black sea with naught but a prayer as the demon vessel obliterated their pitiful craft.

But where would they go now? They could not swim forever, both of them knew. Their food was gone, and without a boat, they were destined to drown.

By miracle or design, Pyg noticed aThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 7in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll: The Dark Ship in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 6A wolf. Here in this so-called safehaven. A wolf walking through the curtain at that very moment! And no one screamed or ran. Father Longtail was saying something to Pyg, but she couldn't make sense of his words at first. All she could think was run. She must have been a frightening sight to behold, for the wolf's ears fell back, and his tail ducked between his legs.

"I'm sorry," he said softly. "I'll... I'll come back another time."

Somehow Pyg got her legs working again, and she scrambled to the only place she could think to. Under the bed.

"Oh my," said Father Longtail. "Perhaps you're right, my boy. Let us give her a bit more timThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 6in The Goosemother Scroll

The Sign of the Master's Legion in The Goosemother Scroll

The Goosemother Scroll Episode 5Pyg fainted and dreamed terrors. Nightmares of strange symbols spelled out in her brothers' blood. Of tall, hairless creatures with large, rat-like claws. Of shadows that sucked her in like quicksand.

But it was a prickly, tickly feeling that finally woke her. It felt like a dozen tiny hairs were brushing just-so against her cheek. Pyg opened her eyes to a dim orange light and saw, perched upon her nose, a mouse in a long gray robe.

"Ah! Awake at last. Good, good!" the mouse said pleasantly. His whiskers twitched as he smiled. "I was beginning to worry!"

The mouse felt around her snout with his paws as if unsure and then hopped down besideThe Goosemother Scroll Episode 5in The Goosemother Scroll

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~rozastation Dec 1, 2012

i love your animations their way better than my are ^-^

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~rozastation Dec 1, 2012

i going to get the book skary childrin! ya!!!

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~bushidoshonen Aug 9, 2012 Professional General Artist

got my copy of skary childrin yesterday and i really enjoy reding it

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~Harajukuterasu Jun 1, 2012 Hobbyist

You are very talented and the Agony animation freaks me out

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