The illustrated title of my comic 'Coy'; thick text is filled with leafy texture. Page 1: a coyote squeezes its way out of the darkness underneath a low porch. It stumbles its way into the warm orange light. It enters a forest, looking at a snake high up in the branches on its way in. It pauses, fearful, once it realizes the thickness and darkness of the woods. But it is distracted by spines poking out of a nearby bush. Page 2: a porcupine! Having found a new friend, the porcupine gallops happily out of the forest and into a yellow field of grass, the coyote following close behind. But the porcupine stops, and the coyote bumps its face into its sharp spines. Tearing up from the pain, the coyote leaves porcupine. Morning turns to noon, and a deer comes across the coyote. She looks intensely at the coyote, and the coyote averts its eyes. She then sits down happily beside it. Page 3: the deer pulls a spine out of the coyote's face with her mouth, startling the coyote. But the coyote realizes the good she's done, and allows her to continue until sunset. Coyote is trotting along, deer behind, but she notices her own kind walking in the opposite way. She follows them, leaving coyote alone. Page 4: Coyote looks around, and accidentally steps into a flowing orange pond. It decides to leap in, sinking impossibly deep through a dense sea of plants, until it reaches the bottom. Then, filled with a sudden burst of energy, the coyote runs forward, and jumps maw-first into a bush. 'Crack!' Page 5: a log above a pond at the bottom of the pond has cracked open, and indigo liquid pours out from it. Coyote has caught a rabbit, dead in its mouth, and it drops it on the ground. The indigo liquid creeps to the shore the coyote stands on, which has now become snow. The rabbit's body is swallowed by the liquid. The coyote backs into a snake, which curls up its leg, torso, and neck, meeting the coyote face-to-face. Snake tells coyote they are cold. Coyote, feeling pity for the snake, lets it continue to hold on and walks forward, in search of warmth. The snow continues to rise, and eventually the coyote collapses from exhaustion, snake still coiled around. A fox comes across the coyote, confronts the snake, and chases it away. Fox lays next to coyote, warming them up and restoring their energy.

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