The Child of Ravens

Chapter Three: Grudge

Warning: Cursing, Violence

Did you know, that crows can hold grudges for generations? And that they share these grudges with other crows as well. 

The past week had been hectic, as five new highly detailed commissions came into Cai's inbox, all of them wanting full color, shading and for it to be animated as well with incredibly short deadlines all due within days of one another. By the third day alone she was sure she had carpal tunnel, but the doctor had said no, and just to take things easy.

But he's stubborn, so no, Cai would not be taking things easy. Instead, they'd be holing themselves up in their in-home office/workspace, and would be forgoing quite a bit of sleep and food in order to get all xier work done on time. This was quite upsetting to Pigsy, but since he was suddenly flooded with new orders from large construction companies, needing good fast food during the cities rebuilding he had no time to nag her about her eating habits, which was perfectly fine in Cai's opinion.

It was finally by midday on Sunday, that they'd managed to finish and deliver the last of their commissions, that the bird woman had allowed herself to fall back into his seat with a relieved sigh, "Finally, all done."

The slamming of his front door had floor tennant three jumping in surprise, and whirling around to see an enraged Pigsy with a wooden spoon in hoof, looking about five seconds away from dealing the finishing blow.

"U-uh, hi there Mr. Pigsy, lovely day?"

Wrong answer, "Well it ain't gonna' be lovely much longer, if you don't get your pale, thin ass down the stairs and into the food truck right now, and eat the lunch I've made within the next five seconds!!"

"Sir, yes sir!" With the obvious purpose of not dying, Cai scrambled to grab her apartment keys, messenger bag, phone and travel mug, nearly tripping and falling down the stairs as he struggled to put on his flip flops at the same time as he walked down, and rushed into the truck, buckling up and shoveling food into his mouth. Pigsy was out a few minutes later, having closed up the shop early for the day and locking it, climbing into the driver's seat and nodding in approval, at the sight of one out of the four headaches in his life doing as told. Speaking of which, it was time for him to go yell at two the other four for slacking off.

For context, Pigsy has four headaches in his life; MK slacking off in his work at the restaurant, Mei pestering him when he's busy and dragging MK into slacking off, Tang not doing his work and eating noodles for free, and Cai refusing to take care of themself.

Arriving at the docks, the bird set her now empty meal box down on the dashboard, and got out to follow Pigsy, noting that the pig had already started yelling at MK, Mei and Tang, where as Sandy was up in his crane, doing dock work. Waving hello to the large blue fellow, she walked over to the couch to relax, taking out her recent read--The Priory of the Orange Tree--and began to read, tuning out Pigsy and the others, until the thump of something heavy got his attention.

Turning around, she was confused as to why they were all panicking over a dropped shipping crate, and it didn't take long for an answer, as MK burst from the top of it shouting, "I. AM. INVINCIBLE!!"

"I have really gotta' stop missing these kinds of things," Putting his book away and walking to where the others stood, Cai took a sip of xier fruity drink and looked at Mei. "What'd I miss?"

"Oh, Pigsy was yelling at MK and a shipping crate fell on him--" Cai choked on his drink with a sputtering cough "But--You okay Cai?"

"Fine, just fine, uh, did I hear you say that a shipping crate just fell on MK?!"