Family SnapshotHis head aching, Dakota placed a weary foreclaw on his forehead. He was sitting in his room late at night after work, staring out the window out into the night sky. Oh, jeepers, this is just too inane a situation, you silly gryphon.His weeks of being contracted out to preform maintenance on the robots in use at the local newspaper was successful. Maybe too successful. His creation, his poor, beautiful Lillian, being so bored of being cooped up in the house for months, had been insisting on tagging along at least a couple days a week. Could he blame her? There was so little stimulation left for her back in their little mountain-bound house,
How True Monsters Are MadeJoseph pursed his lips, placing his large fingers together, feigning deep thought. "Lillian, I know what's different about you." She flung around her head to face him. "What did you say?" He rolled his eyes up to the ceiling, chewing a finger to even further his ruse of simple curiosity. "Well, y'see my dear little creature, I am magical just like creator. I'm fully capable of sensing a life form if it has entered the room." He leveled a steady gaze at the robot. Lillian opened her beak, but for once, she found herself speechless. Dakota didn't seem to trust the unicorn- just why she wasn't sure, but she t