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Shaankah on the River

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“You saw a Void Walker? Up close?”

Shaankah looked down at the hatchling trailing along at his tail. Ayango couldn’t be more then seven rotations and still had soft down along their back instead of feathers. Still young enough that they couldn’t even control the pigment in their scales much less determine which gender they might want shift to as an adult.

“Do they look like us? Do they look like the Kyshar? Or what about the…”

“Slow down! A tree never sprouts all at once hatchling,” Shaankah said with a laugh.

Ayango’s ever shifting scale colors still showed great excitement and curiosity. Purple amusement flickered around Shaankah’s eyes at the insistent questions. Finally he stopped and crouched down so he was at their eye level.

“A Void Walker has no true shape. Not like us. They appear as whatever an individual thinks they will look like. This one looked rather like a Qushaana but shrouded and fuzzy at the edges. They gave me this message and then left without a word,” Shaankah said. He held up a thin slate about the length of his hand from wrist to claw tip. It was opaque and made of a material that wasn’t quite plastic or glass.

“It showed me our home planet on one side and a map with this village marked on the other. I left my current mission and headed the call as any smart individual should do,” Shaankah said pointedly. Not all species believed in the Void Walkers or even the Watchers but the Qushaana did and he did not want this hatchling’s colors to be dulled by the disbelief of others.

“Its a sign a real sign from Yusha!” Ayango said reverently.

“Indeed. That’s why I’m here even though I am Tirsul Aein a special agent of the Kysharian Empire. Even they do not ignore the signs,” Shaankah explained. He held it up to the sun and both of them watched as the slate shifted and darkened until a new image appeared.

“I know that waterway! Its only a mark and a half down the river right by Yusha’s Heart. That’s what we call our sanctuary for the lost. Good fishing there too. Is that where you’re going?” Ayango asked with eager gold and silver dancing across their scales...

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Commission for the wonderful   KuraiShingetsu  Please continue reading her short story accompaniment of this picture at the link above ^

This is Shaankah, who is a Qushaana (a reptilian alien race from her story-world). I loooved working on this piece, it was so much fun!

42 hours in Photoshop CS6 (I swear as I get better I just spend more time.. haha)
Shaankah / Qushaana / story / concept © Kurai_Shingetsu
Artwork by Sidonie 2017

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Shaankah - closeup by Sidonie
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Fanalta's avatar

Amazing art!!!