Inskirus Part I Sylbistrae Section I I was the commander of the Silver Stream, some off shot dimension out there in the Spindle Pillar. The Silver Stream? The Spindle Pillar? One, a pivotal axis. The other, a sea through everything and all existence. The sea, a whole other universe within a universe. The sea, contained in the pivotal axis that spun the universe. The Silver Stream contained everything, thus, but one particular world was within and only within it. Inskirus was the high accelerated name of it. Some people in other universes may have considered it a type of heaven. Power, Dream, and Explore along with me still were the most active in this place compared with the Main Universe. I had bridged the gap between this world with Pranoke and thus with the Universe. It was our playground but was not a paradise in a sense that it a heaven might be. Let me take you back into the stages when Sylbistrae, my Metropolis of a city, was spawning. Sylbistrae was a medieval city but in a futuristic setting. One reason it had a medieval flavor to it was the Market Places. Yet, now that I think about it, I'm only kidding myself. I must have thought it medieval because it had creatures from medieval stories at least such as dragons. Obviously the creatures and talking about them beforehand are irrelevant. I should just tell my story. The day was not so clear but bright, the sky in a haze of blue. It was hot; being this was early summer, one of the summers that truly gave the city its form. It wasn't the only city in a heat wave. The entire eastern hemisphere had heightening temperatures. Lord Power and dream conspired to do this but the details might boggle the mind of first forms. Especially for someone not having the capacity of omniscience. The air was otherwise calm and the haze hung all about, keeping wanted company on some, such as me. Though, I feared, it kept unwelcome company on the others around the city and elsewhere. My concern of the day, and it started early, was the south east side marketplace. I was standing there next to a food booth. My eyes were on a "bear come out of the mountain" type creature. He was a dark brown Grizzly, big and pudgy, more so in the rump than the belly. I eyed a raccoon coming toward me purple and light purple furred in the tail as well as belly compared to back and face. She was wearing a golden necklace which freely hung onto her white vest skirt, otherwise a full piece of clothing. Odaira was her name, one I had known since Pranoke, and had rescued from a dire fate in the captivity of the Saynajaus Elfish Magineans. Odaira was my kind of fur, bigger in the belly, lesser, though in full taste for me, in total fatness there. She had put on more weight upon coming here, mostly as an aftershock of her captivity of which I could only sympathize. Her captivity was not the only reason for her being larger than I had known her as. The Raccoon handed me a large basket made of brown wicker. A cloth was spread out in it and piled on there was a mixture from cheese, to meat, and to breads and fruit. A cornucopia though it wasn't a horn. Odaira stood beside the basket and I reflected fully on her a little more. She was just the right amount of fatness in the boobs as well as in the belly. It was a big ball of a belly, though, and sagged down nicely onto her thighs and lower body. They both made very noticeable outlines on the front and even moreso on the sides. As she took a peach, I almost laughed. She wasn't ashamed at all. "How are you adjusting from vore?" I asked her plainly, still watching the bear but looking back over to Odaira. She had pulled some of the skin off of the peach and had bitten off a portion of it. The Raccoon hesitated, swallowing before answering, “I ate these fruits in one gulp, if you'll remember. Ah my stomach usually cries to be filled more and more... I'll manage." "I could fix it," I looked over at her leisurely after another quick glance at the bear. She shook her head and was done with the peach so went and pitched the peel in a nearby trash receptacle. Then she came back over and grabbed an apple, offering it to me, but I smiled shaking my head slowly. "Besides I can just eat more. It's in ready supply if you know who to talk to," She added with a nudge and wink at me. I said out of the corner of my mouth still looking at the bear, "Yeah... you've become fatter." I looked over at her just after my comment and she stammered looking down at her body, "Well... I... shoot..." I looked at her day dreamily and she blinked in surprise but came back to mirror my look, adding her own smugness I was used to, "I see how ya' are. Oh I should've known from Pranoke. Ha. Well then it works for ya'. Just watch..." I was looking at the bear more than at her so she followed my gaze. The creature was seated next to a big table on a larger cafe bench, at the far end in front of one of the South West Marketplace's premier restaurants. He wasn't so much out of place as far as being a grizzly. He was, though, much larger than most grizzlies which frequented the city from the mountains or were in permanent residence. A blue white striped skunk in a white black waiters outfit came quickly but surely over to me. He stood next to me panting for a few moments from the heat and having to wear the waiters outfit. He then bent down to whisper in my ear, "This is the thirteenth time he hasn't paid his bill. Then, we've noticed him swipe some items from the booths too." Odaira had grimaced at the skunk when he was turned with his back to her, at the notorious skunk smell around him, though it was just a trace. She turned her frown into an innocent grin when he turned to her and nodded politely before going back toward the Cafe. "He's a big bear. I didn't know they got that big. If his bigness were any higher up on him I'd think he'd eaten rabbits or some bunch of creatures whole," Odaira commented, looking unfixidly in the bear's direction. "He's not bad. Though not my taste in where the fat is on 'em. But he's good and tubby. I may let him off easy and give him a job with me," I spoke to Odaira out of the corner of my mouth. "Oh so you're doing some spy work. What's he done? Got too fat?" Odaira asked with a light giggle. "Something like that. He's not paying for what he's eating. They've tried to stop him but he's somehow gotten out and away in time. Interesting dilemma, and well in my tastes," I explained to her taking a pear and started peeling it with my claws. "Didn't you say that the currency was only superficial?" The Raccoon asked looking at the bear. I bit a chunk out of the Pear and grabbed a hunk of cheese while Odaira was on a hunk of bread. "This currency was put in place for such characters. They really don't need to do much to bypass it. This is one of those reasons and I want to know those who do. They are the really interesting ones," I responded. Odaira glanced at the bear then at me after finishing the bread remarking, "Well?" I finished my piece of cheese and the pear throwing the pear skin away. I turned to Odaira invitingly, "You can help me out with this one." She drew her paw across her mouth leaving the paw on the side of her face, looking at the bear then back at me. Then finally she looked down at the basket withdrawing her paw commenting in an innocent smile, "I'll be there in a second. I want to grab a few more bites."