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I thought I'd share this here since I'd like to post something, and because I like explaining stories here.

If any of you remember my open species, my Mourners, here's one of my characters which is a halfbreed of the two, and as a result is very... different. He and his brother and sister suffer certain deformities and mental issues as a result of bad genetics, from both being halfbreeds and their parents passing on leucistic genes. They've managed to survive past infancy and abuse from their healthy non-mutt relatives and now this one, Enoch, takes care of the grave cairns of dead Mourners.

Essentially the undertakers for all the Mourners in the area, he and his siblings strip the flesh and off of the dead and return bones to the family packs, who often carve into the bones with their teeth. Often the bones are then picked up by Enoch and his siblings and placed in shallow holes, then covered by dirt and rocks to make cairns in this one particular field enclosed by hills. Most packs visit the cairns of their relatives, but some move on and sometimes leave the area.

Most Mourners avoid Enoch and his siblings whenever they can and take the bones to the edge of the field or a hill, to stay as far away from them as they can. There's a rumor that the three of them eat the flesh of the dead Mourners as their main food source and that they kill unsuspecting and weak Mourners that stray from their packs. This rumor is not entirely unfounded...
Image size
2340x4160px 2.98 MB
Make
Motorola
Model
Moto G (4)
Shutter Speed
1/30 second
Aperture
F/2.0
Focal Length
4 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Oct 7, 2016, 2:40:05 PM
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Merleee's avatar
This is awesome, both the drawing and the story (although the story is also kinda sad :c).