This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
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Calling the Storm God
The vixen paused on the edge of the encampment, although it was better decorated than she could have imagined on hearing about the anthro equines that were like her but different, so very different. Tuula pulled her cloak more tightly around her shoulders but there was not even a breath of wind to stir it up at that time, the sensation of absence pulling at her heartstrings as her darker red hair hung around her shoulders, lightly curled and woefully still.
"The wind..." She breathed, eyes raking over the tents, ornately decorated and glittering as if with semi-precious stones in the bright sunshine, everything ringing of quiet sustainability in the realm of those that did not require modern conveniences. "Oh, why have you forsaken me so? We need your touch again, your caress... There is so much more for you to blow."
Of course, there was no one there to hear her, much less the wind that she yearned to lean into so, and Tuula hastened along her way, scaling the light slope with light-footedness. Her paws were bare for she did not see the need for shoes where she was going, her skirts flowing around her legs and cloak billowing behind her. Other furs said it was ostentatious to still wear a cape at the climax of summer, the autumn rites lingering amongst tribes and civilisations that diverged from the normal path of life, but she needed it for all that made her heart float and other lusts lift on the wind itself.
She would not have said that the anthro equines were primitive, per se, for their dress was lightly elegant, exposing a lot of skin in a draping loincloth for both, the mares wearing white and the stallions a tan that stood out against their dark black hides. Sun-bleached after the long, hot summer, some had brown patches that were already shedding out in preparation for winter, one coat changing for the next. Those puffs of hair floated away as some heads and ears turned her way, curious as to who was stepping into their midst, gathered out and away from the tents on the grass by a circle of tall, rising stones. Against those stones, the veiled headpieces of the mares were prominent along with the cloaks that the stallions were, each coming with a different nuance as to what their kind loved, although Tuula already knew where they stood in the way of the world.
A simple people they were and were not, both at the same time, but the ornate jewels and engraved clasps holding what counted for clothing in place were not for the poor, a light veil draped over the breasts of the mares too, although they did not leave anything to the imagination, rimmed with intricate beading. Why, amongst them, Tuula felt overdressed, although she knew that she would not have given up her cape for anything, not even those fineries that must float and rise on the breath of the wind so nicely too. But their home was welcoming and they, clearly, were not against strangers as the vixen moved through them, the force of nature to be reckoned with as a demi-goddess of sorts, looking for the chief of the congregation.
Their leader stood on a flat span of rock with a staff hefted high over his head to a cacophony of whinnies and nickers, the crowd stomping their hooves in obvious approval as he called them to order. And yet the very presence of Tuula there seemed set to throw a fox into the chicken house, so to speak, as he paused and shook his head, his dark mane braided and muzzle painted with wavy lines and dots, the meaning of which Tuula could only speculate on.
Yet he spread his arms open for her with a smile and Tuula stepped to the front, heart in her mouth.
"My friends, it appears that there is a visitor in our midst."
The equines bowed, heads tipping forward respectfully, but she rocked back on her heels, paws clasped to her chest and eyes shining. There was no time for formalities when the sweetness that she craved so was nigh!
"Oh, I mean not to interrupt," she murmured, eyes downcast, knowing her position there was tentative at best. "But I heard there was a ritual to be performed today, to summon Lord God Guthrie?"
She added an extra title there for she was not sure where he stood in the realm of gods and felt it best to be respectful, quivering in place and hoping against hope that they would not ask her to leave, to allow their ceremony to continue in the peace that they, of course, had become accustomed to. And she felt their eyes on her, every last pair of them, the herd gathered for what was sacred to them and interrupted by a vixen who thought that she knew more and saw more than any of them.
She could only try, yes... Tuula could only try to join in with their ceremony and see Guthrie for herself in all his windswept glory.
It was a testament to their tribe that they would allow her in to see the wind god with them, their ritual sacred, although she would not have been surprised either if her reputation preceded her. They sat her down cross-legged as the chief prepared, meditating before the staff, although she grew restless in the lack of wind, itching to be a part of it and yet destined, merely, to watch and wait in the wings. They did, however, gift her with a long, flowing cape reminiscent of the ones that the stallions wore, although it dwarfed her and was beaded with turquoise, the blue setting off the russet hue of her fox fur nicely. It was a gift that she would treasure forever and she pulled it close around her body, tucking her original one away safely, as she thanked them profusely.
Yet it was time for the chief to talk, a whisper that became a shout, shifting so subtly that it took attentive ears to notice it in the first place.
"Wind... Wind, come to us, blow for us, hear us, silence us, embrace us..."
And then his voice rose, winding and changing as he sang the song of the ages, calling down a spirit who, truly, was greater than all of them. The vixen stood out amongst the sleek, hard, dark bodies but she was one and the same of them, swaying and putting her paw on the shoulder of the mare beside her, eyes half-lidded as she lost herself in the rite and the ceremony. Her loins seemed to tingle but it was hard to consider what was imagined and what was real sometimes, breath coming in short, sharp pants, barely able to add her humming voice to the undertone of the throng, the only form of power that she could lend them for such a stringently poignant ritual.