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Elf vs. Orc 8Celadon woke up in the elf's arms.

This sounded a lot more romantic than it actually was.

For one thing, learning to sleep in proximity to another person is an acquired skill. You learn what to do with the arm that always seems to get stuck between you and where to put your feet and whether they mind having a leg draped over theirs and who can use whose arm as a pillow without nerve damage or a sore neck. Then there's the whole complex negotiation of blanket treaties and sheets and who gets what and who needs layers and who has to stick their feet out.

Without acquiring these vital habits, you wake up pretty much like Celadon—stiff, sore,
Elf vs. Orc 7This was easier said than done.

She gave him some very practical suggestions about how to tie the ropes. A bit of slack between the feet, enough to shuffle, not enough to run. A rope around the neck as a kind of leash in case she attacked him. He could tell she'd done this sort of thing before.

Sings-to-Trees, at that point, would have been happy just untying her completely and pointing her in the direction of the outhouse, but he had a horrible feeling he'd disappoint her if he didn't at least try to hold up his end. So he steeled himself to stay awake a bit longer and got the ropes set up, and hauled her out of the bed.

Then she wound up
Elf vs. Orc 6He got a nasty start a few hours later, when he came in to check on her.

He'd tied her hands, her feet, thrown a loop or two around her waist, and roped everything to the bed, the chair, and the fire iron, just for good measure, He'd done everything short of hog-tying. She wasn't going to get loose in a hurry.

He wasn't sure why he was bothering, really, since he had a horrible feeling that if she said "Will you untie me?" he might do it, and if she said "please," he'd definitely do it.

Still, she didn't seem to be a threat conscious, so maybe that was okay.

Then, because his feelings were still churning and there was nothing for emotiona
Elf vs. Orc 5Sings-to-Trees's primary thought through the whole violent encounter was Not the throat again!

His neck hurt. He felt like a troll had used his esophagus as a dance floor. This could not be healthy. If he lived through this, he swore he would be nice to his throat for the rest of the year. Hot teas. Scarfs during winter. Anything.

For awhile, he didn't think he was going to live to see sunrise, let alone winter.

Then she'd apologized. The orc had stood there, with a distinctly sheepish expression on her face, and she'd apologized.

None of his patients ever apologized. Most of them couldn't talk, and it didn't seem to occur to the ones who

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The naked mole rat knew that he was dreaming. For one thing, he wasn't in the tunnels any more, and there weren't any other mole rats around, and he could have sworn that he hadn't been bipedal earlier in the evening. But all that was immaterial. He knew he had to be dreaming, because even naked mole rats know that you can't get blood from a turnip.
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There's an explanation for this somewhere. If you find it, tell it it owes me five bucks. All I know is that I've been in a surrealist mood lately, and my attempts to do a really epic sort of surrealist landscape in real media has been foiled by lack of skill, so in an effort to get this vision of cyclopean turnip architecture out of my head, I turn to my first great love, digital art. Painter 7 did not want to do this--it suffered a fatal crash halfway through, and I had to repaint about five hours worth of turnips--but I perservered, and drug the image out of my brain like a...thingy...prying...um...another thingy...out of a shell. Thingy.

I am almost certain that this is so damn weird, even for me, that it's a bad piece to try doing the limited edition print thing. But what the hell. I've yet to go wrong assuming that at least part of my audience is as weird as I am. So, this print is available in two sizes--the standard, small, for $10, as always, and also as a limited edition jumbo print, in a print run of only 10, one artist proof, signed and numbered by the perpetrator, for $45. Send a note or an e-mail if interested.
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Naked Mole Rat Dreams by `ursulav ( Featured by `archanN )
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~thejessiejensen Apr 22, 2013  New member Hobbyist General Artist
This is awesome!
Man your imagination is awesome. Your dreams must be crazy.
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~BrodyHall Jan 2, 2013
wow just wow
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~DahliaFay Nov 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
The mole rat looks so cute and hairless :)
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Mood: Love ~ArtN00bly Nov 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Cute!
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~Dragonjek Aug 10, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Naked Mole Rats have a form of hive mind. Obviously, this has left them open to suggestions--for in one's dreams one is laid bare and open to whatever may come in.

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
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~The-TND Mar 13, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
great idea :)
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~OniVrask Mar 5, 2012
Hmm this is giving me some kind of an idea....not sure what sort of idea yet, it may not be an idea at all I just might be delusional. O.o Either way great piece it honestly is a great piece!
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Mood: Love ~Mourge Mar 5, 2012
Ohhhh this is nice....... Love
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Mood: Joy *pixicosmos Jan 25, 2012   General Artist
Awesome!
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Mood: Adoration ~SchizoFreya Jan 5, 2012
Hmmmmmmmmm....hmmmmmmmmmm =D

Maybe the naked mole rat grew tired of its daily tunnels and turnips?
If turnips are at the heart, and the heart is bleeding a path than it cud be worth following it. ;)

Love how u drew this, and adore your froggies too! :nod:
Keep up the gr8 and wicked translations of your mind and have a gr8 gr8 daaaay!

:rose: :rose: :rose:
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