I heard a distinctive *clunk* — the sound of the door propped against the tinker’s wagon shifting — & thought ‘the hell, it isn’t windy & I braced that thing REALLY well’. It turns out the answer was ‘cows’.
Curious cows, in fact, which is pleasing to me because the whole ‘stupid cow’ thing is kinda crap & it turns out they’re pretty cool creatures. Who wanted to know what was this thing in their grazing area, & also to scratch themselves on it some.

I decided to duck outside & see how they felt about that. How they felt was ‘pretty unbothered’.

Baby cow! Okay, half-grown cow.

Half-grown cow let me get about twenty feet away & then noped out, which is around when I heard hoofbeats behind me.
Y hello thar!

LORGE. Bull?

Not bull. Momma.
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