Abbey’s Reviews > Blacktail > Status Update

She knows she’s going to tell because her mother (also a witch) sold her soul to the gates of hell when she was a kitten.
Chester/raze refuses to eat her when he learns who she is and has a dream that night of Blacktail. Blacktail tells him when he dies he will be welcome on Blacktails hill, and also a message for little kitty mother that the gates of hell have closed for her, her soul is hers again.

Until all of mankind expect those who have a close relationship with animals (like mercy) die.
The cars no longer kill people, habitat is no longer taken, areas are reclaimed.

Later Chester now names raze is chasing little kitty mother (not knowing she’s a witch) to eat her with his pack. She reveals she knows he knows Blacktail and he doesn’t eat her although she’s ready to be eaten

He releases all the animals, and heals them with his blood. They are wary of taking his blood as they have been infected with a ‘blood curse’ by the humans but they are healed. The cat stays back to see the scientist arrive at the lab, blacktail attacks him but lets him leave. He is infected with the blood curse the animals had plus whatever illness Blacktail had, he passes it to his family and so on

He will have puppies and they will be hunters.

I kind of think Blacktail might actually be the forest god himself. And this whole journeys been him travelling to awaken his own powers?

He reaches a lab, where they test on animals. The men guarding it die upon seeing him. And he frees the animals trapped there. He heals them. He tells them about the hunt and how they are to go out and honour it.

Plans to find the other abandoned dog and maybe go pay his old owner a visit and rip her apart.

Animals of all sorts know of Blacktail and his quest and come out to see him on his journey. A chihuahua brings him some scraps. He looks in to the dogs mind and sees centuries of inbreeding, his mind a mess of panic, his balls cut off in puppyhood. Blacktail restores them, and tells the dog he is free of man.

Blacktail fights the angel and there is a lot of fire, Chester runs away. He awakes the next morning to find blacktail, he’s beat up. He tells Chester he must be moving on now but Chester will be fine, he tells Chester there is meat over the hill and another dog has been abandoned beyond that, he should find her and help her. Chester finds the meat and it’s an Angel wing… he feels powerful and healed and

Forgetting his task to find the forest god and offers him renren and his puppies back: because she is dead and he can’t bring her back and the puppies never lived, that’s why they would need to stay in this middle land (like purgatory) until blacktail dies then renren and the puppies would also just stop existing. But renren tells him no, to get revenge for her and their puppies!

And he leaves her to it. He’s in the desert and he meets Chester who was abandoned by his human and used to approach people for food etc but then someone threw hot oil at him and now he’s scared. Blacktail teaches him to hunt and they kill 2 hikers. They follow another 2 hikers in to the desert where they start a fire and an angel comes out of it and offers blacktail to stay in this middle land forever

He comes to an area where all the animals are fed and looked after by mercy, they consider her their god (think it’s like an animal sanctuary?) This pisses blacktail off. There is another cat witch there who has reversed mercy’s illness (cancer I assume) and has given it to blacktail. He kills most the animals is going to kill mercy but she shoots at him while he’s attacking the beagle that protected her

Will be their leader now. Quick foot denies this and he attacks her to remind her of her place. When he leaves (he needs to continue his mission) he is bigger and hears the other two wolves bringing little one bear meat and calling him lord. Little one dreams of blacktails mother in heat, there is no one to mate with as no other wolves are on her mountain. She mates with a great power (maybe a god?)