Fur and Fang by Sean Michael

Author:Sean Michael [Michael, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Torao slept and wandered, ate and slept more, exploring Grey-Son's house and yard, both as a

tiger and a man.

There were upstairs rooms and downstairs rooms, places to soak in the water and places to nap in

the sun.

Torao Approved.

He stretched out on the cool grass, paws batting at the grasshoppers and butterflies.

Yes. Approved.

He thought he heard his name, but he was feeling too lazy to go inside again and look. A

moment later Grey-Son came out of the back door and made a squeaking noise. "T! You can't be

out here like that!"

He rolled over to his other side and stretched, blinking, the grass tickling his whiskers.

Grey-Son came rushing over to him. "I'm serious, T. If anyone sees you, they'll call the cops!

You need to be a man outside. Really." Grey-Son looked around and then back at him. "Please?"

He sighed, rolling his eyes and growling. He liked the grass. He thought of himself looking like a

man, feeling like a man. Being a man.

Bor-ring.

"Oh, crap! You can't be out here like that, either!" Grey-Son tugged off the shirt he wore and

wrapped it around Torao's waist. "I'm sorry, but the cops'll get called if you're naked, too."

Torao sighed, stalking into the cage-house and heading for the little guess-room. Naptime.

Before he bit something.

Grey-Son followed him, hands sliding over his shoulders just before he got there. "T. I'm sorry.

There's just certain rules we have to follow if we don't want to bring attention to you. I hate to

think what would happen if someone found out about you."

Torao wasn't sure what to say, so he didn't. He nuzzled Grey-Son's hand, then leapt to the bed to

lick his paws and rest. Grey-Son came and sat next to him, hand sliding over his skin before he

could shift. "We need to find you something to do, don't we? Can you read?"

"Rrrrrread?" Grey-Son knew odd things.

Grey-Son nodded. "Books? Stay there and I'll get one."

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Grey-Son shot off and came back a moment later with a rectangle that looked like maybe it was a

brick, except it had colors on it.

"Here. A book."

A book.

He poked it. It was lighter than a brick.

And then Grey-Son did the most amazing thing. He opened the book. There were pages like the

flyers, but with no pictures and the pages had black marks all over them.

"It tells a story. But I guess if you can't read... I could teach you. Of course, we'll have to get

some easier books to start."

"Do they say 'come see the tigers'?" All the flyers said that, or 'come see the freaks.'

"What? No, it's not about tigers at all. It's about men who sailed the seas in the seventeenth

century. It's called fiction. It's a made-up story that people read for fun. There's lots of different

topics, though. I can see if I can find one about tigers if you like. We could start off with me

reading to you."

He tilted his head, trying to understand, but he didn't. Couldn't. It didn't make sense.

"Hmm... maybe we should start with TV." Grey-Son stood and held out his paw.

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