(urth) Short Story 45: Feather Tigers

[Jeff Wilson]

On 9/9/2012 2:51 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
> And it does seem as though Quoquo has overlooked the real tigers for the
> feather ones, and for this error is about to be eaten.

"He screamed wordlessly and ran, and as he did so dark eyes, timid but 
bright with an intelligence not found in any animal, followed him from 
the depths of a thicket of yellowing bamboo."

I do not think that a predator would have timid eyes for fleeing prey. 
Further, actual felines rarely have dark colored eyes.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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