lepus - hare/rabbit, + odon - tooth Leporodon takes the one animal history keeps forgiving and wraps it around the one animal history never tried to. The body is unmistakably shark the fin, the black unblinking eye, the rows of teeth left in full view instead of hidden by the disguise but the skin has gone to fur, soft and slightly wild at the crown the way an animal's coat looks when it's never been groomed for show. A single pale blossom sits above the eye instead of a full crown, small and almost incidental, the kind of flower that means new life rather than warning. The pearls loop at the throat as they always do, the series' one constant, worn here on a creature that has never once needed the reassurance