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In a distant corner of the land of something-or-other, there lives a curious tribe of mice which, oddly enough, makes its living almost entirely out of fish-rearing. Their ancestors discovered this had an uncanny habit of attracting feral cats, so over the years they bred the fish to such small sizes that no feline would bother raiding the farms. This put a bit more of a bounty on the farmers themselves, but that wasn't a problem: all mice are armed with a bow and quiver of arrowfish, and a sharp fish to the eye or nose is enough to make any predator turn tail and run (besides acquiring ichthyophobia, understandably).

Besides trading in fish, the mice also rear fruit. Their cherry farms are quite extensive, so many workers are required when the harvest is ripe, and there are tons of cherries to be pitted and dried. A common part-time job for young archers in training is in the cherry farms, sharpening their aim with the aid of a more blunt, but lighter breed of arrowfish. These are used to shoot out cherry stones - the less squirt, the better! The best archers are said to be able to take out as many as three in a row with nary a drip.

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Here we see an archer specimen transporting a bag of young arrowfish. This lot's inspired by ~bonnivin 's spiffing doodle of two cherries getting shot clean through by (what appears to be) a fish, and Reepicheep. I blame the random on pre-math stress.

Got lazy on the background, so I just left the wash. Yay for scribbles!

oC, ~1.5 hours

Description
In a distant corner of the land of something-or-other, there lives a curious tribe of mice which, oddly enough, makes its living almost entirely out of fish-rearing. Their ancestors discovered this had an uncanny habit of attracting feral cats, so over the years they bred the fish to such small sizes that no feline would bother raiding the farms. This put a bit more of a bounty on the farmers themselves, but that wasn't a problem: all mice are armed with a bow and quiver of arrowfish, and a sharp fish to the eye or nose is enough to make any predator turn tail and run (besides acquiring ichthyophobia, understandably).

Besides trading in fish, the mice also rear fruit. Their cherry farms are quite extensive, so many workers are required when the harvest is ripe, and there are tons of cherries to be pitted and dried. A common part-time job for young archers in training is in the cherry farms, sharpening their aim with the aid of a more blunt, but lighter breed of arrowfish. These are used to shoot out cherry stones - the less squirt, the better! The best archers are said to be able to take out as many as three in a row with nary a drip.

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Here we see an archer specimen transporting a bag of young arrowfish. This lot's inspired by ~bonnivin 's spiffing doodle of two cherries getting shot clean through by (what appears to be) a fish, and Reepicheep. I blame the random on pre-math stress.

Got lazy on the background, so I just left the wash. Yay for scribbles!

oC, ~1.5 hours