In The Shadows

WARNING: Contains Strong Sexual Violence (err... not really)

Walking home after a late night teaching web lessons, I say bye to my friends who all live in an apartment complex further on down what may be called "Flower Street". As the group pulled off on their own way I talked with them and came up a little more left of my street than normal, which was lucky because I barely avoided stepping into a round of vomit left undoubtedly by some over-boozed salary man now clutching his spittle covered knees in a crouch somewhere in Juso. I was thinking about how to write that sentence in a blog when I heard gravel rustling in a lot to my left. I gave it some attention but kept walking toward my apartment not 10 yards up. The churning though turned loud and violent and then it straightened out into a gritty smacking pat getting closer moving now out of the lot and toward the road as a screech reared up both garbled and shrill. I yelped and tore ass for the apartment hallway before taking a look back. Under the road lamps, a mangled mass of fur rolled out into the wash of light and one could barely discern that the creature was two. Their run was cut short though and the roiling frenzy began again as the first gutter ferret overtook the other and began savagely humping it. With a small scream, the bunch seperated back into the two small matted creatures that they were and breathing heavy. As if silently signaled, one of 'em took off behind a building in a burst of gravel before the other could trail it and then all was quiet.
Previously I had only seen ferrets in the Beastmaster movies 1 and 2. Those ferrets could grab keys off of a sleeping gaurd or weakly bite at villains giving the blonde hero just enough time to break free and grab his sword for a killing blow. You could talk to them too, if you were the Beastmaster, of course. I imagined that they only had witty things to say or that they were at least polite company. Not like these gutter ferrets. But perhaps they were the same ones. Maybe with the unpopularity of the Beastmaster series and a souring economy those poor out of work ferret actors turned to the mean streets and then turned against each other. I don't know their story but if they ever come at me again I'm gonna kick 'em in the head.