My thanks to everyone for your patience, and sorry this took so long to post. You know how life is.

Speaking of life, it looks like that's handing Taelia a few lemons just at the moment. Let's see how this works itself out, hm?

Credit as usual to Elimmc, who also sent me a few other gift drawings of Taelia. One's still being tweaked, and the other I'll aim to post next week. Until then, thanks as usual for the interest!

For those not in the know, the lovely lady is Taelia Fangaster, an OC I developed for my stories as a kind of civilian liaison with Nick and Judy. Also, since some people asked about it on Discord, I'll mention here that the marking on Taelia's back is in fact natural. Taelia is a partially melanistic red fox, commonly known as a cross fox because such specimens (which owe their markings to a recessive gene) often have very roughly cross-shaped dark patches on their backs. On a real cross fox, you would more likely see something like the darker area on her back surrounded by a light fringe, but when Elimmc rendered it the way he did I liked it better than the reference photos I'd seen, so there you have it.