Basic stuff first... Inked with Microns. Bad scanner. (All mistakes should be blamed on it. X3) This is actually a week old, but I left it alone so I could decide whether I wanted to add any color, which I decided might detract from the crosshatching.

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Original character, Embley, belongs to me. Dog doesn't have a name at the moment.

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The story behind this may take a while, so bear with me. This takes place about ten years before "present day." Embley is in her early to mid teens.

Her world is similar to ours; just imagine it hundreds of years in the future after severe global cooling and many technological advances. People live in cities of interconnecting giant buildings. Farms, housing, jobs, restaurants, etc are all indoors.

If you were to leave a city and enter the wilderness without protection, you're dead. Between the cold and the beasties, it's guaranteed. There's also not much to see besides bare ground and the ruins of the old cities.

For reasons not important to the picture, Embley and a group of others are in the wilderness. She unthinkingly wander away from the group to get a closer look at the ruins and the dog, being loyal as all dogs are, follows after. (I suppose it wouldn't complication things too much if I now said that the dog is genetically engineered. Smarter and stronger. Physically similar to a great dane.)

They're attacked by some glacier beasty and have no way of getting to help. Embley is sure they're both going to die, but they get rescued at the very. last. moment. (Unfortunately, the dog doesn't survive.)

For this reason, Embley decides to get more GE dogs and train them to scent for danger. The dogs are smart enough to know what's coming and to be able to "tell" people exactly what's coming. At present, they have at least ten working dogs and one or two in training.

That's a very quick explanation, so I hope it makes sense.