It took about half an hour.
Klyk didn't rescue everyone who got lost in the desert, after all. He mostly operated at night, for one, where shadows obfuscated some of his more ridiculous features and the mystery of a desert at night could be called upon to make the whole thing seem more crytic and supernatural than it really was.
I mean it was kind of cryptic and supernatural anyway, but he felt he lost a lot of his mysterious allure in the full blinding sun of a midday desert. Plus, his fur was black, and he while he was--as far as he could tell--impervious to getting heatstroke, he was fully capable of getting uncomfortable and really stinky. He normally spent his days asleep in his little shack in the middle of nowhere, waiting out the hellish summer heat.
It was coyote yapping that rowsed him from where he slept, flopped haphazardly and mostly nude in a pile of canines. It was less suspect than it looked. They just kept figuring out the doorknobs.
He scratched the base of his horns idly, yawning. Even indoors, he could feel the oppressive, dry heat. His floor was mercifully cold in comparison, dug a foot into the sand to help cope with the heat, made of dark grey clay. No wonder the coyotes preferred sleeping indoors. It was too early for any of them to be up, so if there was yapping--and there was--something had to be up.
He sort of lazily threw on a robe before opening the door, more out of a sense of modesty than anything. His coal black skin was, as far as he could tell, pretty impervious to sunburn, although that probably had nothing to do with the color, which was more a matter of melanism then melanin. He squinted painfully in the sunlight. Smoke on the horizon...
Someone else would probably deal with it.
...It was pretty far from any roads.
...Sigh.
He should probably at least check it out. It was well over 110, and someone unprepared could get a heatstroke very easily. Probably some dumbass tourist--although in a technical sense he might still qualify as a dumbass tourist himself.
With another put-upon sigh, he pulled his robe off and tossed it back indoors. The coyotes would hardly judge his nudity, and God had more important things to judge him for at any given time. He closed the door politely behind him, and then gave himself the full body shake that signified a transformation between two legs and four.
He was running as soon as all four legs were on the ground; he had long since stopped needing time to adjust. A black dog the size of a horse, against the burning sands, stood out quite a lot. He compensated by moving very quickly and staying away from any populated areas, paths, or roads. Not a lot of people in the desert at noon in July, because most people weren't that fucking stupid. But there were a lot of dumb teenagers in Las Ballenas. This sort of thing happened.
He slowed as he approached the source of the smoke. He was a terrifying thing to behold, all black and huge with demonic horns and smouldering orange eyes. He scared people. No one wanted to see this face when they were stranded in the desert. Or anywhere else, at any other time, for any other reason.
It was a young man... probably. Klyk couldn't get a proper whiff, the air was too full of smoke and acrid, burning oil. He was quite pale, though, and looking pretty burnt already.
It would be nice if he passed out from heatstroke, because then carrying him into town would be a lot easier. Less fussing. But Klyk would prefer to avoid anything potentially fatal. That kind of ruined the point.
So he made himself evident some distance away, approaching slowly. Trying to look nonthreatening, which was of course a useless endeavor when one was five feet at the shoulder and about 250 pounds of solid furry terror with horns. But if the young man could get the hysteria out of the way early, they could then focus on problem solving and getting him out of the sunlight. There was an oasis about twenty miles west. That would be a start.
Klyk didn't rescue everyone who got lost in the desert, after all. He mostly operated at night, for one, where shadows obfuscated some of his more ridiculous features and the mystery of a desert at night could be called upon to make the whole thing seem more crytic and supernatural than it really was.
I mean it was kind of cryptic and supernatural anyway, but he felt he lost a lot of his mysterious allure in the full blinding sun of a midday desert. Plus, his fur was black, and he while he was--as far as he could tell--impervious to getting heatstroke, he was fully capable of getting uncomfortable and really stinky. He normally spent his days asleep in his little shack in the middle of nowhere, waiting out the hellish summer heat.
It was coyote yapping that rowsed him from where he slept, flopped haphazardly and mostly nude in a pile of canines. It was less suspect than it looked. They just kept figuring out the doorknobs.
He scratched the base of his horns idly, yawning. Even indoors, he could feel the oppressive, dry heat. His floor was mercifully cold in comparison, dug a foot into the sand to help cope with the heat, made of dark grey clay. No wonder the coyotes preferred sleeping indoors. It was too early for any of them to be up, so if there was yapping--and there was--something had to be up.
He sort of lazily threw on a robe before opening the door, more out of a sense of modesty than anything. His coal black skin was, as far as he could tell, pretty impervious to sunburn, although that probably had nothing to do with the color, which was more a matter of melanism then melanin. He squinted painfully in the sunlight. Smoke on the horizon...
Someone else would probably deal with it.
...It was pretty far from any roads.
...Sigh.
He should probably at least check it out. It was well over 110, and someone unprepared could get a heatstroke very easily. Probably some dumbass tourist--although in a technical sense he might still qualify as a dumbass tourist himself.
With another put-upon sigh, he pulled his robe off and tossed it back indoors. The coyotes would hardly judge his nudity, and God had more important things to judge him for at any given time. He closed the door politely behind him, and then gave himself the full body shake that signified a transformation between two legs and four.
He was running as soon as all four legs were on the ground; he had long since stopped needing time to adjust. A black dog the size of a horse, against the burning sands, stood out quite a lot. He compensated by moving very quickly and staying away from any populated areas, paths, or roads. Not a lot of people in the desert at noon in July, because most people weren't that fucking stupid. But there were a lot of dumb teenagers in Las Ballenas. This sort of thing happened.
He slowed as he approached the source of the smoke. He was a terrifying thing to behold, all black and huge with demonic horns and smouldering orange eyes. He scared people. No one wanted to see this face when they were stranded in the desert. Or anywhere else, at any other time, for any other reason.
It was a young man... probably. Klyk couldn't get a proper whiff, the air was too full of smoke and acrid, burning oil. He was quite pale, though, and looking pretty burnt already.
It would be nice if he passed out from heatstroke, because then carrying him into town would be a lot easier. Less fussing. But Klyk would prefer to avoid anything potentially fatal. That kind of ruined the point.
So he made himself evident some distance away, approaching slowly. Trying to look nonthreatening, which was of course a useless endeavor when one was five feet at the shoulder and about 250 pounds of solid furry terror with horns. But if the young man could get the hysteria out of the way early, they could then focus on problem solving and getting him out of the sunlight. There was an oasis about twenty miles west. That would be a start.
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