Hey guys, so I was going to make a post talking about the start of the new series I posted on Patreon, but then I saw I just reached 200 watchers SoFurry, and it looks like my audience here on InkBunny is growing at a nice and steady pace too! Thank you guys so much. It really means a lot that my audience is growing with each story I post. To show my appreciation I think I'm going to do a twitter raffle for a free story commission soon to celebrate, and also cause I'm also almost at 200 followers on there too. If you guys want to follow me there if you aren't already, but I'll also post a journal here whenever I start the raffle. It'll probably be within the next week or so.
Moving on, my next story is now out on Patreon. It's the start of a new series called, A Visit by a Dire Wolf, and it will most likely span about 7 chapters or so, as the plot will go the course of a week, with a chapter serving as a new day. As I said in a previous journal announcing this series I was working on a while back, this is based on true events that took place to me and a few other people I included in the story about one month ago. A friend of mine, a Dire Wolf, named Eric comes to San Antonio, TX to visit me and another character called Sekke, and what follows is a very fun and interesting week to say the least. If you'd like access to it now, consider pledging a dollar to my Patreon, if not look forward to when I make it public in a week, until then here's the usual preview for it:
A Visit by a Dire Wolf: Day 1
By: Ash Cinder
I drove me and my best friend, a squirrel-owl named Sona to the hotel. We were so excited that our friend, a dire wolf named Eric got to visit us in town this week. It was a bit of a spur of the moment thing, he'd messaged me a week ago saying he was coming down to San Antonio partly for a business trip, but also because he wanted to visit me, Sona, and one other friend of his.
"I can't wait to finally meet him." Sona told me.
"Me too!" I said. "I knew I'd be able to meet him in person one day, I just never thought it'd be this soon."
"Yeah, and you've known him longer than I have."
"Where do you think we should take him?" I asked as we started to get closer to the hotel as we entered downtown.
"How about we go to Hard Rock Café?" Sona said, looking at her phone. "That's pretty close by to his hotel, and we could walk there from the Riverwalk."
"That sounds good, man, I haven't been there since I was like 10."
"Great, guess we'll eat there if he's cool with that."
About five minutes later we got to the hotel and parked, Eric and his other friend were already there waiting for us and headed over to the spot we parked in. I immediately got out of the car, only to be embraced by the old dire wolf in a friendly hug, squeezing me so tight I was hard to breathe for a second.
"So good to finally see you Ash!" He said. "Hat and all!" He patted the top of my head.
"You too!" I said as he walked around the car to give Sona a hug too.
Then I turned my attention to a female jackal standing by him.
"This the other friend you were visiting?" I asked.
"Mmhm, this is Sekke, you can thank her for me being here." He said, putting his paw around her, making her smile. "You see, it all started when I told her online that I'd travel all the way here just to tell her she was beautiful in person, and she didn't believe me. And, well... here we are."
"Yeah, pretty much." She giggled and blushed slightly.
"Awwww!" Both me and Sona said.
"Well, it's nice to meet you." I said, about to give her a hug before she stopped me.
"Ah! No hugs, I just got some nipple piercings today and I'm still really sore." She warned.
"Oh wow." I said.
"Yup, took her to get them today." Eric bragged. "Squeezed my paw pretty hard when she got them."
Me and Sona laughed.
"So, what are we doing?" Eric asked.
"Besides roasting in this Texas heat?" I said, making him chuckle.
"Yeah, it doesn't get this hot in back home."
"Yeah, I bet not. Anyway, me and Sona were thinking we'd go to the Hard Rock Café, it's only a walk away from here, and it would probably be a good start for the rest of the evening."
"Sounds like a plan, lead the way!" Eric said enthusiastically.
