Season's greetings! I've got a pair of early Christmas presents for you all: a new drawing and a new story, both Christmas-themed.
>A Midwinter Feud>https://rentry.org/RibombeeMidwinter>It's the holiday season, but a feud between Sneasel and her nemesis threatens to damage more than just the festive mood. Can Booker broker peace, or will Christmas be ruined?>About 11,800 words>Features Booker, Sneasel, and Taillow; also starring Chespin, Wooper, and Toge>Occurs at Midwinter, likely somewhere around 10 months after the Gathering (assuming the Gathering occurred in late winter/early spring)>Content warning: contains another of my attempts at writing romance. Hopefully it isn't too cringeyThis story does reference some of my previous stories, and continues some themes from them, but I tried including explanations and refreshers about those subjects in case you haven't read all my stories (or in case you forgot them). The relevant stories are: The Echo Chamber, Learning to Fly (Ch. 1-3), In the Dead of Night, and The Shine of a Sneasel's Gem.
Also note that this story may, unfortunately, be incompatible with Debby-anon's Christmas story. That story says Christmas exists in the PMD world, but mine says it doesn't. Hopefully that isn't too big of a problem.
One more thing: I want to give many thanks to KFC-anon, who read the draft and gave me very useful feedback and suggestions.
And as always, I hope you all enjoy the story.
