Musa was on night guard duty. Again.
It wasn't the best job, especially if you had a shift the next day, but it was a cool night despite the blistering summer heat, with a nice breeze. There were worse ways to spend a night, really. It's not like anyone ever actually broke onto a banana farm. Kids, out for a good time and to steal a couple of bananas. Sometimes. Hardly ever anything else. Twice, Musa had come across wildlife.
But they were big, and strong, and good at being a guard. The owner of the farm had long since figured out their idiosyncrasies, although they now wore a hat to help cover them up.
They meandered idly, most of the way to bored, when a whiff of something weird hit their nose, carried by the cooling summer breeze.
That was definitely not bananas, or anything even adjacently related to bananas. It was bitter, and thick, and a little familiar. Curious, and also doing their job, Musa broke route to track the scent down. It was a welcome and entertaining diversion, and they enjoyed the sensation of tracking something down by scent, even if it was... this.
What they wound up finding was both exactly what they expected and not at all. A woman, young looking, though that was hardly telling, with light brown skin and dark hair... sitting at the base of a banana tree, leaning against it. In one hand, a banana, not quite ripe and half eaten. In the other hand, the source of the smell, a rolled up little blunt of something Musa hadn't seen in twenty years. They had assumed that people here just didn't have it. It was a bit bemusing, to see it now, in the well-manicured hands of a trespasser.
Even more interestingly, she didn't appear to have ears either, though she did sport a long silver tail that mirrored Musa's dusty yellow-brown one, which flicked idly behind them, betraying that their mood was curiosity and not irritation.
They cleared their throat to draw attention, since the woman seemed, ah... distracted, and squatted down to be more on level with her. "Why are you getting high on a banana farm?" they asked, face neutral.
It wasn't the best job, especially if you had a shift the next day, but it was a cool night despite the blistering summer heat, with a nice breeze. There were worse ways to spend a night, really. It's not like anyone ever actually broke onto a banana farm. Kids, out for a good time and to steal a couple of bananas. Sometimes. Hardly ever anything else. Twice, Musa had come across wildlife.
But they were big, and strong, and good at being a guard. The owner of the farm had long since figured out their idiosyncrasies, although they now wore a hat to help cover them up.
They meandered idly, most of the way to bored, when a whiff of something weird hit their nose, carried by the cooling summer breeze.
That was definitely not bananas, or anything even adjacently related to bananas. It was bitter, and thick, and a little familiar. Curious, and also doing their job, Musa broke route to track the scent down. It was a welcome and entertaining diversion, and they enjoyed the sensation of tracking something down by scent, even if it was... this.
What they wound up finding was both exactly what they expected and not at all. A woman, young looking, though that was hardly telling, with light brown skin and dark hair... sitting at the base of a banana tree, leaning against it. In one hand, a banana, not quite ripe and half eaten. In the other hand, the source of the smell, a rolled up little blunt of something Musa hadn't seen in twenty years. They had assumed that people here just didn't have it. It was a bit bemusing, to see it now, in the well-manicured hands of a trespasser.
Even more interestingly, she didn't appear to have ears either, though she did sport a long silver tail that mirrored Musa's dusty yellow-brown one, which flicked idly behind them, betraying that their mood was curiosity and not irritation.
They cleared their throat to draw attention, since the woman seemed, ah... distracted, and squatted down to be more on level with her. "Why are you getting high on a banana farm?" they asked, face neutral.
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