So, "Mongrels and Music" does not get the love I think it deserves. Though Roscrow has been with me much longer, Kupper is my favorite Q'Hu. He is so sweet as far as the Q'Hu are concerned. They really don't come any gentler- or more terrifying. His voice has grown louder and clearer over the years. As such, his world has grown clearer for me. When he started bugging me to retell his tale months ago, he told me quite clearly that he would not settle for simple escape. There would be no less than the total elimination of all those who laid their hands on his woman and her son.
There I am, so innocently writing about Roan giving Cylthan another good dicking to remind her who she belongs to and why she shouldn't go rubbing on other boots when Tiesto throws out a banger in his Clublife and it hits home. "Sunshine (My Girl)" by Wuki. Kupper reached out and snagged it and said "Yep, that's mine. Oh hey, btw, I BLEW SHIT UP!" Just, um, with considerably more eloquence. Thanks, Kupper, lulumi, but I asked you how a month ag... "HEY YO LOOK! HERE'S YOUR ANSWER! YOU'RE WELCOME." Ah, finally. Thanks, my guy. Just in time, too, because I was about to panic that I was out of material. Though, now I have a headache. His voice is so LOUD! What started as a whisper that required everyone else to shut up to hear has become a boom in my head that shuts everyone up, anyway. Where Roscrow strangles and overwhelms when he wants my attention, Kupper simply speaks and that is enough. Even the natives will make mention to the power of his voice. "... for when he speaks, he shakes us like thunder."
Basically, everything at the start of the song is everything before chapter 6. When she leaves is the breaking down of the song to the blank bit. When it comes back, buildings are exploding, dead bodies scattered all over, everything's on fire, and there's Kupper, standing in the middle of it all like a legend, telling Zigz she belongs to him and he'll take down empires for her.
To those few of you who are enjoying the story, I'm really glad. Maybe Kupper and Zigz will never be as popular as Roan and Cylthan, or even S're and her boys, but I'm really happy that he has told me that he's not done telling me more tales, and I hope that makes you guys happy, too. I was so sure that once he was satisfied with the story, he'd simply disappear and that really made me sad. Then, like a revelation, he says "I think I missed one." Maybe not just one. And they aren't very happy with him. Who better to fuck up a Q'Hu than other Q'Hu? Only problem with this whole plan is that the music of the Festive Fairy has brought all the [civilized] Q'Hu to her yard, so when thugs make Kupper return home to get his woman back, he'll be living up to the legend he left behind.
That's really what makes the Q'Hu scarier than their predecessors. Q'Ra don't even bother to fight their designed instincts to kill each other, like betta fish, and eventually do go extinct. The Q'Hu, once they have established dominance, work together with human proficiency (good thing for Jasper). They can even come to like the company of their own kind. Enough so that they colonized their own planet (also open to H'elflings) and have a loose government. That's where Kupper and Zigz end up, and that's the one hive in the galaxy you don't wanna poke, even if you are also a Q'Hu.
Just a last bit of fun lore for those attentive few of you who check the blog. The H'elflings come out female as often as the Q'Hu come out male. Almost like some devious, horny god really likes seeing big powerful men taking advantage of little elf bitches. Huh, who'd a thunk it? Speaking of elf bitches, I'm sorry Cylthan, but god can't hear your screams, only your moans, and you won't be doing any of that for a hot minute. Roan did warn you.