FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

Tizak pressed the large wooden door open, causing a chime to ring out somewhere deeper inside the shop. The kobold looked up and around. Although the façade only took up a small portion of the row of stores, the space seemed to extend further than it should as he surmised from the outside. Such an enchantment must be a lot of effort to keep stable enough for a business.

In all directions were stacks of shelves piled high with books, crystals, bags of components and potions ingredients, scrolls and pots of magical ink... The only walls of the shop he could see, in fact, were the one the door he'd passed through, and the one that the counter stood in front of, presumably separating the main floor from the stockroom. However, that would have placed the stockroom in the next store over if space weren't expanded.

The kobold made his way over to the counter, observing the creature standing behind as he approached. She was a feline of some kind, mainly white and grey furred but with red and blue for her left and right eartips respectively. Between her mismatched eyes rose an arc of three small slender gemstones imitating their shape. Her grey chest fluff nearly obscured her bust, but just enough was noticeable to see the white furred breasts were present while leaving it presentable to be displayed unadorned. At their sides, more blue and red came into view, first in stripes and then solids down her arms, opposite the placement on her ears.

Tizak cleared his throat and placed his claws up on the counter to help make himself known to the feline.

The creature behind the counter turned her head to face him, her mouth spreading into a wide, toothy grin that seemed to conform to the surface of her outstretched cheek-fluff more than it had aught to.

Stepping back at this, the kobold swallowed. "Hello, I was hoping to get a recommendation on a magical solution for a problem..."

Placing her own paws on the counter where his had been, the cat leaned forward. "And what would that problem be?" Her paws themselves were white-furred, and the pads beneath black from what the kobold had caught a glimpse of in their fluid movement.

Tizak swallowed. "Well... I have this big friend of mine, like, bigger than you..." The kobold let his eyes dance around, finding it hard to keep to her eyes and her too-wide smile. "And he's eaten me twice now quite out of the blue, dreadfully embarrassing." He turned his head back towards the door of the shop, hearing something behind him. "And I'd like to find some way to even the score..." He turned his head back forward to find the feline had vanished.

"Well, this should help." Her voice came from the spot he'd just looked away from.

The kobold jumped and pivoted. Now out from behind the counter, he could see that the colored pattern of her arms extended to her legs, matching the arrangement of her ears this time, while her two tails matched the arrangement of her arms. The twin limbs were long and fluffy with... teeth at the ends. Smiling just as wide as the mouth on her face. Finally, he noticed the vial in her hands, a dull yellow-orange substance inside. "What is it...?"

She tilted her head and held the vial out with one paw while running the back of her other paw along the glass like a model. "You drink this and you'll settle your score squarely."

"Yes but... what does it do?" Tizak looked between it and her heterochromatic gaze.

The feline wiggled the vial by twisting her wrist back and forth. "Oh, it'll work, trust me. It's just what you need."

Swallowing nervously, the small draconid bit his lower lip slightly. "Okay.... How much?"

Purring, she caressed the vial with a single extended claw. "This can be yours for the paltry sum of a mere five hundred gold."

Tizak perked. Five hundred, paltry? His breakfast that morning hadn't even been a full gold piece, he'd just left one and told the tavern maid to keep the change. "How about.... Four hundred? I mean, you haven't even told me what it d-does..." He trailed off, trembling.

All three of her mouths were facing him now, each showing a seemingly impossible array of teeth. He thought he saw a drip of drool appear from the corner of her mouth, which was definitely past where her flesh should have stopped beneath the fur on her cheek now. The blue tail maw licked its fluffy lips with an uncomfortably long looking tongue when his eyes darted between the two caudal predators.

"Y-you know what, five hundred is good." He dug into his purse and pulled out five small bags he'd filled with one hundred gold each for larger purchases, holding them out.

The feline, still smiling, gently removed the bags from his grasp and firmly pressed the vial into his palm, using her paw-pads to curl his claws around it. "Pleasure doing business with you." She purred loud enough that it felt as though it might have been coming from inside the kobold's own head.

Tizak twisted and ran as soon as her touch had parted from him, clutching the vial tight to his chest.

Behind the counter once again, the cat tilted her head where it rested atop the back of her paws raised, elbows up on the countertop. "Have fun little one." She giggled to herself as he finally managed to get the door open and scramble out into the marketplace outside.