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It had given me a legend.

"Kyun," he said, and this time it wasn't a whimper. It was a command. Stay back.

The Glimmer-Maw shrieked on a frequency that made my nose bleed. It thrashed, dissolving at the edges, and then—with a final, wet pop —it imploded into a single, perfect, teardrop-shaped pearl. Everkyun landed in a heap of fur, panting. -my hunting adventure time everkyun-

It was a Glimmer-Maw. A serpentine thing made of fractured light and obsidian scales, coiled around the largest tusk-boar I'd ever seen. The boar was frozen, its crystalline tusks chattering in terror. The Glimmer-Maw was feeding—not on flesh, but on its potential . The future memories of the boar, its dreams of rooting for truffles, its plans for the winter. The air shimmered as ribbons of silver smoke drifted from the boar's ears into the Maw's gaping, toothless mouth.

And Everkyun slept for three days straight, dreaming of giant, biteable moons made of cheese. It had given me a legend

I grabbed the discarded sparkle-boar tusk, shoved the Glimmer-Maw pearl into my pouch, and carried Everkyun all the way home through the now-quiet woods. The Sky-Sled engine could wait. Right now, my hunting adventure had given me something better than a trophy.

I scooped him up. His star-patch was dim, barely a flicker. "You crazy, stupid, brave little fluffball," I whispered, pressing him to my chest. Stay back

But it didn't see what happened next.