One Rule, Iro

Iro trotted through the city, furiously shaking his shoulders every now and then, tail twitching. How could he have just been kicked out by that stripeless bastard? Furthermore, he knew he was about to get a beating from his father in law, because he broke protocol for snakes. When it came to feral beasts, there were different laws for different species. There was a strict no scorpion policy, even if they were mated - not that they had seen such a thing in their lifetime, a woman accepting a scorpion. Other ferals were, cautiously, allowed to dwell in the city as citizens, if they had a spouse that lived there, with special considerations to be decent to snakes, because of the history of the Snake King, Curtis, protecting the city in its infancy. That said, none had ever actually taken them up on the offer, though the city had communication with many of Curtis's descendants that lived outside the limits. They had a tense but well kept truce; the city and all its citizens would let t