differently”.
Yesterday I wouldn’t have believed in any of this, today I am finding out about the reproductive cycle of fairytale creatures, who just so happen to be real. I probably shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t resist. You know that one question you want to ask but are afraid of the answer? Yeah I asked it.
“How is your reproduction different?” I asked.
“Lycans reproduce the same wa y you see on TV, by the bite. Once bitten though the person has less than 20 years to live, the average lifespan of the lycan. Lycans are much smaller than we are, shrinking in stature once bitten. Lycans are also faster and more nimble, think of werewolves as the huge gray wolf, while lycans are more like the coyote. There are also many more lycans out there, due to the way they reproduce, making them a formidable foe”.
To me it didn’t make since why would a bunch of scrawny wolves f ight with a bunch of leggy ones. Still she told me all about the lycans, but she did not answer my original question.
“Khatara if lycans reproduce by the bite, then how exactly do you reproduce? Do you do it the natural way with the lycans?” I thought it was a valid question. She just stared at me. Not with the sultry eyes of a seductress but with the hungry eyes of a pitbull. At this point I am just figuring that she must have that mad dog thing going that pit bulls have, ready to fight if you stare them down. While she was huge, I had fought people her height before, but with nowhere near the muscle tone. I just figured to play it safe I would not look at her for the rest of the day.
“Lycans for the most part cannot reproduce wit h us even if we were willing. We give birth the natural way.” She told me.
“What do you mean for the most part?”
“On occasion we get a live lycan to experiment with , none of our wolves were able to get pregnant except one, and even she only had a single pup in her litter.” She replied. “Once we found that we were not compatible biologically, we disposed of the thing”.
Now that opened up something disturbing. What I gathered from that was some dude was raped repeatedly and when they couldn’t get pregnant they killed him. I guess that is not the most horrible way to go, but definitely not the best.
“Well if you can’t reproduce with them, who do you have sex with?” I finally said the S word. Reproduce sounded to me like something my science teacher would say.
“We do not have sex, we mate”. She said with a superior sounding tone in her voice. “We only come into heat twice a year, and we are only compa tible with you human wizards. That is how we reproduce, although our numbers are dwindling due to not having enough volunteers or criminals.
Criminals? I did not want to know what they did to that poor guy. I thought folks would be lining up around the block to get some. This didn’t make sense since using quick logic, making the average wizard between 13 and 25.
“Why would you need volunteers, just go to a sperm bank like all the rich old chicks do” . To me the question was valid.
“It has been tr ied before, it does not work. Mating the natural way works.”
I decided I had enough sex talk. I figured my first time talking about bumping uglies with a real life girl would be exciting, this was confusing, weird and just plain scary.
“Khatara you never said why you and vampires do not get along.”
“That is simple ” Khatara started, “Vampires used to rule over the Lycans, something they wished to do to us once they discovered our existence. We will never submit like happy little dogs the lycans were and fought with all of our strength. When the lycans finally regained their freedom, there was no love lost between us, since they were the vampires’ main weapon as they are too good to get their hands dirty. Vampires wished to rule over all of us and probably would have if it wasn’t for the wizards who suddenly began attacking all with no mercy. Eventually the