Spotlight on Original Nonsentient Species – Linfep
People have to eat, and not everyone is a vegan. Therefore, I had to devise some alien food animals. Hence, I created linfep. They are a wholly original species.
So they are essentially hares with tusks or fangs. They are native to Lafa XII and live and scamper in undergrowth. They are one of the chief foods for another nonsentient species, perrazin, but are also hunted or raised for food for the sentient Calafans.
Since they are very rabbit-like, children are somewhat fond of them. In Fortune, a little Calafan girl has a stuffed linfep doll. In Friday Visit, Chelben, who is about four or five years old, shows Doug a picture he has drawn of a linfep.
Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse
Admittedly, I was thinking a little bit of the comic strip Prickly City and its character of Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, when I came up with linfep. Essentially I envision – like I do for much of the Lafa System – a place similar to Australia. So this is where interesting or seemingly harmless animals can pack quite a punch.
Hunting
Linfep (the plural does not have an S) are vegetarians. They are the subjects of a hunt with phase bows in Temper. Melissa and Doug – the hunters – have to be quiet when approaching these shy creatures. A rustling in the undergrowth reveals one, which they dispatch with one shot.
Etymology
Like much of the Calafan language I have created, the name of this species is a compound word. Fep is also the name of the second-smallest star in that system, and the word means small. Lin means mouthful, so a linfep is a small mouthful, and a grown human or Calafan will want to eat more than one in order to be satisfied.
[…] I already had elekai (a large flightless bird) and I already had perrazin (a blonde buffalo with fangs or tusks). But I wanted something smaller, a kind of quick and easy hunt. Plus the perrazin are omnivores. Therefore, they needed something that they could readily hunt. Therefore, I hit upon the idea of linfep. […]
[…] they have all set, there is a true night. Elekai are native, and live on the southern hemisphere. Linfep are also native to this […]
[…] chef, but with very little to work with, she either fries vegetable tube paste squeezings in linfep fat and passes it off as chips, or fries elekai meat, again in linfep fat, but this time with hot […]
[…] action moves to an open-air market, where a number of Calafan delicacies are to be had, including linfep, tofflin and elekai. Even prako (procul) are shown, but they are too expensive, as they have been […]
[…] Doug and Melissa use phase bows, they are seen bringing down either linfep or perrazin. So far, I have not written any scenes of anyone bringing down an elekai with a phase […]
[…] and will eat olowa much of the time. But if the opportunity presents itself, they will also eat linfep. Prickly and unpredictable, they will charge at anything they find strange. And, as Doug says while […]
[…] bracelet for Melissa in Fortune. Chelben, who is still a rather small child, is given a stuffed linfep toy. Treve and Yimar, at least, see through Polloria, at least in her efforts to insinuate herself […]
[…] among Malcolm, Lili, Doug, Melissa and Leonora really works. Doug and Melissa are out hunting linfep, and then perrazin, with phase bows. Malcolm and Lili are going on vacation to Fep City. And the […]
[…] decided on a play on “Rabbit rabbit rabbit.” On Lafa II, linfep are the closest thing. Hence the story was not only about near-rabbits, but also about what rabbits […]