Through the gates and into the town proper.....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 1698

As soon as the demi-foxes pass through the gates and out of the hearing of the gate guards and officials, both Astra and Fred begin to pant from delayed reaction. Astra shifts uncomfortably, trying to get more comfortable in her saddle while not revealing her fox tail and her animal like feet. Difficult enough to cover her face enough convincingly that her cheek ruffs don't show....her tail sometime seemed like it had a mind of it's own. Fred's tail almost peaked out from a pile of silken cloth that was atristically draped to hide the extra appendage, and only the quick reflexes of Astra prevents it from seeing daylight.

"I....pant.....really am getting TIRED of this....pant....arrangement," mutters Fred as he looks around. "Sure are a lot of guards on patrol for a supposedly shady township."

"Well, that because....pant....the Black Market doesn't want any potential customers mugged here," Astra mutter back as the Fred steers the docile warcharger around a gaggle of merchants. "This is supposed to be one of the classier shadow towns. Sure, you can get almost anything or anyone you want here, but there are rules that must be followed."

Fred looks back at the foxy lady behind him, and arches one eyebrow in a curious gesture, the clucks at his horse to go faster. Then the demi-foxes nearly fall out of their saddle when they see a flock of gayly clad demi-foxes pass by. Several of the pack stops and smile as Astra and Fred gawk down at them.

"What can we do for you?" one asks in a slightly condescending tone in his native tongue. The vixens around (some in their intermediate form...some in their more human form) giggle. They all blink when Astra regains her voice.

"I....thought that were-foxes weren't.....allowed in the city?" she says, wincing at how lame that sounds. The other were-foxes blink because their sharp fox hearing doesn't detect the slight magical twang of a translation gem.

  1. The gayly clad demi-foxes look at each other, then at the strangers before them.....

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