Yard Spirits - Rust Skinks/Leaf Rabbits/Sandhill Shifters (cw: eating bunnies)
Name: Rust Skinks
Spirit Type: Big Lizard/Metal Eater
Appearance: Black scales covered with orange rust over their back and belly.
Date: Late July 2017
Location: Central Valley, CA
Encounter: I was in my mom’s backyard. This threefoot long lizard was on the old gardening tools, gnawing it. (My mom’s yard is home to a family of sandhill crane shifters/elves, the elder said it ate the rust.) Later that week, I found the rust skink and its wife/mate floating and swimming in my mom’s bath tub pond. They were like “about time we got a swimming pool.” Its really hot where I grew up.
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Name: Leaf Rabbits
Spirit Type: Plant-Animal Hybrid/Rabbit
Appearance: Small palm-sized rabbits with white fur, stained with dirt. Leaves and seed pods grow out of their backs.
Date: Late July 2017
Location: Central Valley, CA
Encounter: After I talked to the family of sandhill crane shifters in my mom’s yard, I started seeing these little rabbits in my mom’s pots. She keeps a ton of indoor plants. The bunnies would pop out of the dirt and wriggle their little noses, ears folded flat against their head. Then the elder snagged the bunny with wizened leathery clawlike hands and popped the bunbun into his mouth. His family eats them. I asked if I could have one and he got all frosty with me. “You have your food, and I have mine.” He’s very aware of my mom’s shopping trips. “They breed fast.” An image shown in my head of a bunny with seed pods popping open with more tiny rabbits rolling out.
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Name: Sandhill Elves/Shifters
Spirit Type: Animal People/Shifters/Humanoid/Avian
Appearance: Pointy-eared humanoids with tan/brown skin. Younger ones will have sandier hair. Older members will have white hair.
Date: Late July 2017
Location: Central Valley, CA
Encounter: They live in my mom’s backyard. They being the grandpa (elder), his daughter, and his two grandchildren. (a brother/sister) There is a tent that they sleep in underneath the shadow of the neighbor’s tree and next to the fence. The grandchildren sleep in the room I grew up in, which is now a guest room. My mom takes good care of her yard and has a ton of outdoor furniture which they sit in a lot. The younger brother also can shift into a coyote due to inheriting it from an ancestor. With the new bathtub pond, I catch them sitting in it.
-Mod Water
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