This is Niava Mercy, one of several protagonists of my WiP queer whimsy-horror modern-fantasy webtoon comic PolyAmorKey! Her best friends Kitta & Mias discovered that Niava's Ankh pendant could be used as a key, & they used it to open a small window to peek into an utterly alien world. Just to see. Nothing could possibly look back at them, right? Who would ever be curious about boring old humanity?
...They had never seen so much green.
Once the small window in the shape of a keyhole blinked open, the three found themselves awkwardly staring into the solid black eyes of a very beautiful stranger; oak-skinned, masculine yet androgynous, almost inhumanly tall, smiling with very sharp canine teeth, & casually harvesting strange fuzzy fruits from a grove of twisting trees with bronzed biceps streaked with leaf green, as though this being could photosynthesize like the ancient trees around them.
The edges of the keyhole peephole window began to flicker & glitch, startling the trio of humans out of their brief lovestruck trance. They panicked, calling out, & although he clearly couldn't understand them, their new crush responded to their pleas in an unknown language. As as the keyhole quickly degraded, the alien ran, tossing one of the large knobbly fuzzy fruits towards the portal overhand, like an alien football.
it flew through the air with surprising weight, & made it through the keyhole just before it closed. & on the last rotation, the strange fruit turned, revealing it had an unintended passenger; a small fuzzy creature. It was already busy gnawing on the lumpy alien fruit from another world, as it sat, slightly squashed, & leaking a puddle of juice onto the carpet.
The trio decide that they absolutely MUST find this strange, beautiful, alien world again... & the fruit hurling alien, of course. They have to return his... pet. or wild animal. whatever it is. It's probably endangered. Anyway it can't be too hard; they already have a key, & any window can become a door if you're brave enough. (& also flexible.)
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