What do you do when the friend you grew up with, the soldier you fought alongside, the soul you'd sell your own to protect, and the woman you love more than life itself are all wrapped up in one oblivious package?

If you're Zero, you let a little thing like the species barrier get in your way, keep mum, and hope for the best.

(Seriously, man, 'fess up already. The poor girl can't read your mind.)


...Brought to you by my creativity demons, who consider it their sole purpose in life to keep me from getting anything done, even if it means reaching back a decade and a half in search of sacred cows they haven't lobbed into the path of my train of thought recently. :P

Micron inks on drawing paper. This started out as a warm-up sketch, and kind of mushroomed from there. Presently I love the lineart so I'm posting it; I need my computer for other tasks at the moment and thus will probably attempt to color this in traditional media first.


Zero (the squirrel) & Roxy (the fox) be © me, myself, and I, though by all means those with L33t $k1llz may take and color the lineart if they so desire....provided I'm informed and linked-back once you're done. ^_^