Parole (part 1).....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 5873

Ensign Edward Solomon absently stroked his new fox tail as he looked over the strange equations written out on the chalkboard in front of him.

He was totally out to sea in amazement. He had seen much evidence that the local natural development of this parallel world had been seriously compromised by the Outsiders....but even IF the Alliance had somehow given this....Sigin Vulpine.....the secrets of advanced quantum physics.....

"I don't have a clue how he had come up with this!" Solomon mutters to himself as he traced the equation to it's logical....but brilliant conclusion. He understood what it said, but he was at a lose at just HOW this small....local had come upon it.

Hell, this answered some of Solomon's more vexing questions about the nature of subspace.....

They had said that mages here were able to manipulate the magical ether (at least up until....some type of magical transportation system collapsed) to look into other worlds. He hadn't figured what that exactly entailed until...now!

"Mother of God," Solomon swears quietly to himself.

"More like Mother Tiamat.....if I was in the habit of taking a divine beings name in vain," another young seeming voice says behind the new demifox. "I trust, however, that you DON'T do that anywhere near where I'm standing.....I'd rather NOT be struck by lightning!"

Solomon turns in surprise, his fox ears erect in surprise! He hadn't even heard the other demifox enter the room!

Solomon noted that the demifox mage has a look upon his face that was halfway serious....halfway joking. Given the strange nature of this world....where magic existed.....perhaps Solomon SHOULD watch his language?

"I trust you've gotten used to your new body?" Sigin continues, breaking into a smile. "I trust that that wolfbane extract was palpable enough. Goodness knows, even neutralizing my sense of smell.....I was hard pressed in handling that vile stuff!"

"Uh....it...did the trick, sir," Solomon demurrers, glad that the uncomfortable process of...mutation....had been sped up to an eye blink with the thick drink he had forced down his throat. He'd rather had been cured, but the slow process that he had been going through in his metamorphosis.....bleh!

"Sir, I was curious....why did you want to see me?" Solomon asks, curious. "And....how did you....do that?"

Sigin nods, smiling.

"Actually, that has something to do with what I wanted to talk with you about," the demifox mage says. "I was hoping that my little theorem would intrigue you. I was hoping that....you might be interested in a position with me....working in that line of work. I can guarantee...you'll learn that and much MORE....with me. Interested?"

"Hey," sighs Solomon. "With the alternative is a dull and Spartan existence in that demifox settlement up near that strange town...... Where do I sign up?"

"Here, but I'd....." Sigin begins to say as he, with a flourish, produces a vellum scroll and a prosaic fountain pen from the sleeves. Solomon, an eyebrow raised in surprise up towards the mop of reddish hair he now is.....blessed with....nods and quickly signs the dotted line.

Solomon has time enough to note with surprise how....red the ink is from the pen he used....when he doubles over in surprise as something seems to sweep throughout his entire being.

"Apprentice," Sigin sighs as he rolls up the compact that the naïve ensign had signed. "First lesson you'd better learn real quickly is to READ something before you sign it....and just WHAT the 'ink' actually is!"

Solomon begins to pant as his heart races like a racehorse. A dire need has taken a hold of him....and it's building to painful proportions.

  1. "You signed this compact in YOUR own blood, fool!" Sigin says in a stern voice as he holds up the modified pen that Solomon had used. "Be thankful that I didn't make the compact to where you'd be my slave, forevermore!"

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