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Nico finally loses his virginity, and glad he is to be rid of it!\r\n\r\nThis still needs work, but I'm not sure exactly what. Opinions accepted.

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Work in progress. Should I work on this version of page 27 or the other one? Or both? Only one needs to go in the series. \r\nLet me know your opinion at \r\naefields at \r\nfastmail dot com

Criminal influence

Morning after their meeting

Nicolas is in turmoil about what to do.

Altho the weather is hot, Nicolas is wearing his long pants this time.\r\n\r\nHe's carrying a bag, but it's behind him so you can't see it.

Drawn on paper, colored on the computer with GIMP.\r\nThere are missing numbers in this story because I have not drawn all of the pages. In some cases I have left numbers available just in case I decide there needs to be some intermediate pages. In other cases I know that I intend to insert an episode, but it isn't complete yet. So don't worry about missing numbers. Everything I have drawn and written is here in proper order - just with a few open spaces for what may appear in the future.

Val is learning more positions from Nicolas.\r\n

This is the first one I worked on with the tablet I received for Christmas.

Down the tumbled slope from the cave mouth they ran, dodging around trees and bushes, until they reached the edge of the plowed lands around the castle.

Hug

And so they go back to the foot of the cliff, which leads to the next picture.

Val has an idea what Nico might be thinking about.

Legup

Pages 82, 84, and 86 haven't been drawn. They would be transition pages and I haven't decided if they're necessary.

Eventually, it had to happen.\r\n\r\nWhat will Nico's mother think when she finds out that she has half-fox grandkids?\r\n\r\nShe's so cute, how could any mother be unhappy with her? Mmmm, well, parents can be unhappy with their children's choices no matter how good those choices actually are.\r\n\r\n[I am still working on the raiding of Duravin's castle and I haven't yet decided how many pages it will be. So for now this chapter will be numbered starting with 190.]

Good food is a good argument.

Val and Nicolas arrive at the farm by moonlight.

Val thinks, "Him standing up there so obvious makes me nervous." as they sneak to Nico's room.

Discovered

As with most of the rest here, drawn with pencil, inked, digitized, then colored.\r\n\r\nGaps in page numbering are due to the fact that I intend to fill them in later. Someday. Probably.

This is one of the few I drew in separate sections on the paper.

This counts as 3 pictures. That is to say: 201 is the bottom half, and 202 is the lower right inset.\r\n\r\nNumbering will be standardized once I decide which panels go together in what order and such.

Some background: In this version of the time and place it isn't unheard of for humans to be friends with, or even marry other animals, but it isn't really socially acceptable. And in reality, parents were expected to take a large part in choosing their children's spouses. It certainly doesn't help that Nico's father has an even stronger dislike of foxes than was usual for peasants of that era. By the way, their father does not usually hit them like that.

Nico and his older brothers fight sometimes, but on the whole they're nice to each other.

Val, on the way home after a night at Nico's. Rumors, via the crow, spread faster than she can trot.\r\n\r\nSam the squirrel is too foolish to keep his mouth shut.

As soon as Father is out of sight, Nicolas takes off.