Out here in the harsh, African Savannah is the one of the most fearsome predators of the animal kingdom. We find one stalking amongst the grassland’s tall straws looking for prey, a beautiful specimen of the great ape, the prowling, black negress.
This specie can grow up to 7 feet tall and are highly physically powerful. Born with instinct for solitary ambush predation, keen sense and hunting prowess that matches the great cats of Africa. Their attacks are swift and highly deadly, giving these hunters a fearsome reputation for ruthlessness.
She walks on all fours with her wide, birthing hips raised high above the grass, swaying from side to side while her head is lowered. Her large udders sway too, engorged with milk all year around. Both serves to advertise her fertility to potential mates, and like the hyena, the negress are matriarchal, viewing males as nothing but submissive, browbeaten nest-warmers who are only useful as breeding toys.
She is in heat. Like many mammals she experienced an annual estrous cycle which was stimulated by the rising temperatures arriving with the dry season.
Her keen eyesight makes her able to spot prey at a distance of 700 meters, and soon enough she had one in sight;
A small, young, white cracker peacefully chewing grass, another specimen from the same family as the negress. His fair skin makes him easy to spot, as this kind of animal gets weakened by sunlight and therefore prefers to stay out of it, living beneath shady trees or inside burrows to avoid it. Evolution has given the cracker its short size due to this and was therefore much smaller than the much larger negress.
It’s rare for a negress to capture one as a mate due to their shy nature, so any chance to get one must be seized upon immediately. Lighter skinned crackers were more preferable mates, since the males were more likely to stay in the nest as they disliked harsh sunlight, making them more unlikely to leave or try to escape them.
The grazing, young cracker noticed nothing yet. it will soon be too late for him to reach the trees and climb for safety.
As she drew close enough to catch his attention, the chase begins. The short distance favors her, as she soon tackles the frighten, young animal to the ground. The struggle between those two was a losing battle for the much smaller male, who soon got tired out and pinned face down against the ground.
She then begins to mark him as hers by licking the backside of his ears. Her act met with a bit of resistance which she swiftly deals with, continuing to lick his posterior auricular lymph nodes in order to show dominance. The male now begins to relax, and as a test to see if her domination had been successful, she slowly glides a finger inside the male’s mouth while both keeps eye contact with each other. There is a pause, but the scared and humbled male quickly shows submission by licking the negress’s finger, signaling a willingness to clean her body which is an important social activity among the specie.
Her grasp is loosened, and her newly acquired mate is dragged home to her nest whimpering, biting its neck all the way to make sure the cracker don't attempt to run away. She has made sure that her nest was placed in a shadowy spot in order to entice fair-skinned mates to stay. Cloth rags, fur and dry plants made up her breeding ground, and here she dropped her freshly caught cracker inside, completing her conquest as her prey was now secured.
The male is now subject for days of domination, abuse and grooming, her scent becoming a bigger and bigger part of him and more and more of her scratch marks adorned his fraile, pale body. She never allowed him to leave the bed, feed him the remains of her food, and violently forces herself upon him whenever her heat came up. The wounded male tries to avoid her rough treatment with obedience, grooming, kisses, snuggles. Keeping his body curled up and low to show that he was no threat, greeting her with helpless whimpers when she got home from hunting, always focusing all his attention towards her and reading her body language with care in order to know when she disapproved his behavior.
For many years to come, the tiny cracker would look up with fear at his owner, constantly be overwhelmed and pushed around by the negress overpowering size but would find comfort in her embrace as they slept together, keeping each other warm and comfy throughout the cold night.