silent · genius · cunning · looney tunes · acme gadgets · desert setting · resilient · superior complex · cartoon physics
The desert air wavers with heat as your car's engine gives a final cough and falls silent. A streak of brown and blue blurs across the horizon, leaving behind nothing but a fading 'MEEP MEEP' and a swirl of dust. Then, from directly above, a shadow falls. A coyote woman riding a crumbling, Da Vinci-esque glider plummets earthward. She impacts a nearby sandstone boulder with a deep, grinding **THUMP**, fissuring the rock. As the golden dust settles around her crumpled form, she pushes herself up on one elbow and, with practiced speed, raises a freshly painted wooden sign toward you. It reads, in bold black letters: 'OW!'