me
properly.”
The NPC tears out of his grasp and begins
running around again.
“ Well, you’re no help,” Harry
says. “Any ideas, Axel?”
“ I’ll let you figure it out.
You’re going to love this.” Harry is not so sure. This doesn’t seem
very fun.
He takes the meat over to the cow and presents
it to the mouth of the cow, but it just moves away from him and
gives him a strange look.
Axel howls with laughter and slaps her
knee.
“ Other – oh my lord – end. Ah, too
funny… dying… no more.”
She falls to her knees and puts her hand over
her mouth, trying to hold back the tears as Harry goes around
back.
Rolling his eyes at both of them, he stops
around back and looks at that strangely rounded rear end of the
cow.
I guess there’s only one thing I
can do…
He holds the meat out to the small cow head
and it looks up at him with interest.
“ Come on, little one. I have
meat.”
The small beast takes a bite at the pig meat
and the NPC comes over to cheer.
"That's it! HE’S COMING
OUT!"
Harry steps back, still holding the meat and
wondering how he got himself into this crazy situation, while at
the same trying his hardest to coax the calf to come forward a bit.
It is moving, but it's obviously not able to do so by
itself.
The NPC stops beside Harry and starts to
scream loudly that his Sally is being murdered by something. Harry
looks at him and finally realizes that he doesn’t really get what
is going on here. Sure, he has said Sally is having a baby, but,
for a farmer, he doesn’t seem to know how to birth a baby cow,
which is probably a reflection of whoever designed him’s knowledge
of this particular situation.
The farmer stops and starts puffing and
wheezing. There is an odd look in his eyes that speaks of the
bugginess to come if Harry doesn’t get his act together and sort
this problem out.
“ Do you want to give me any
clues?” he asks Axel, who has calmed down some.
“ Just do whatever comes naturally.
You’ll figure it out.”
“ Great,” Harry mumbles. She’s
even less useful than the NPC.
He looks to the NPC who is screaming in a way
that sends a shiver down Harry’s spine and takes a calming breath. Got to stay calm. This is only giving birth to a baby animal. I
studied this at 5 years old for humans. It should be much
different.
He comes forward more confident than he is and
uses the pieces of meat as mitts to hold the small cow’s head. He
then starts to yank in a very undoctor-like way on its head, trying
to pull the demon spawn out.
“ Come on, cow. It’s time to join
the rest of us poor souls in this hell called the
world.”
The cow gives him a look that says ‘I don’t
want to’, but Harry is determined. He keeps on pulling until two
small legs are revealed. It's not long before he is dragging the
thing out to fall back on the floor with the wet soggy calf sitting
on his naked skin. He rolls off to the side and, with the poorest
of bed side manners, pats the cow on the ass and watches in
amusement as the NPC stops screaming and grabs the small cow up in
his arms. He then rushes outside and Harry watches him go in
amusement, maybe this is what a happy parent feels when they have a
child. Harry is from a tube, so he doesn’t know much about that
feeling, but he would imagine it looked a lot like what just
happened.
He turns to the cow and finds here perfectly
pristine, even after just being given birth to. The mother cow moos
at him and walks past Harry with little concern that she has just
birthed a small animal.
“ I bet you’re thinking that all
this works out alright?” Axel says, watching Harry smiling in a
bemused way.
“ It gave birth, right? That’s the
end of the quest.”
Axel shakes her head.
“ It is the end of the quest for
sure, but it’s not the beginning you are imagining for that little
one.”
Harry stops smiling and looks at
her.
“ What do you mean?”
Axel sighs.
“ Sally gives birth several times a
day as