The Key to the Situation

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 15280

Now, let us turn our attention to Fred the Manfox, who's quietly speaking with Jarlath, who's holding a slightly smoking Key.....Along with the Demifox Fred, Demifox Astra, and the demifox kits.....

"So Dr. Vincent actually got his machine to work, eh?" Fred the Manfox says, looking over the item in Jarlath's hands. "Looks a little peculated if you ask me. Does it work at all, now?"

"Well..." Jarlath mutters, looking over the Key's indicators, "I...don't know. The return function is not working but it seems to still be locked on Terra Prime. That means that Vincent can find us....sooner or later.....I hope."

It had dawned on him and the others of his group that whatever had been bringing these others to this pyramid was also, perhaps, responsible for all the crazy things that had happened. Jarlath, Andrea and most of the others who now called Terra Prime home hoped that was the case. That they could somehow return home, with Vincent's help.

The Manimals, however, had a feeling in their hearts that there way home was still open. Oh, there had been a surge in anxiety in the others of the Pack when their empathic ability detected the sudden sweeping away of Fred and the Alicias from their homeworld. Being that the Manimals had always been, upon them actually becoming a true species vice human beings merely cursed with an ultra-powerful magical curse, a new form of lycanthropy created by Terra Prime's version of Minestus, that had warped them into their humanoid animal forms they shared something akin to a communal mind.....except in this case it was more of a communal heart. It boiled down to an incredible sense of community and comradery...and also worked wonders in informing the entire Pack of when one member was in danger or distress.

Oh, and it also played a large part in why Fred the Manfox had two wives. See, when Alicia 3 was teleported to Terra Prime during the time when it's slipgate system was on the blinks she was mistaken for Alicia (Fred's first wife). Fred spoke her True Name, which was also the same by a twist of fate as Alicia's True Name, and their hearts were bound together for life (and thus the twosome became a threesome).

The Church of Terra Prime, as stated earlier, was more liberal in some things than it's Earthly counterpart for several reasons. The thing was that this Church was an Ethiopian offshoot that had been isolated from the main of the rest of the Church, so naturally things had....developed along different lines. That and the fact that the Prestor John of this world had already been a bit more of a free thinker and progressive than normal. This played a large part in why the Alicia of this world had very green eyes (vice the brown typical of many born in Afrika).

That's an aside, but it is also a glimpse into the background, as it were.

Anyway, the discussion soon drifts to other topics...

"....well, I always told you that you've always needed to raise your voice in those situations," Fred shrugged, tail swishing about in amusement, "Jarlath, you're too polite sometimes."

"I guess," the young mage sighs. "Though I had been hoping that if I just asked for their attention....."

Jarlath was still learning the ins and outs of normal interaction with other people. He'd come a long way since that day he'd regained his eyesight and healed of his wounds. Before, he'd been....well....a bit off. Now, he was just....eccentric at times.

"And how are the demifoxes doing?" Fred the Manfox asks, looking down at the small demifoxs, who were looking down in adoration at the six demifox kit's (currently in full fox kit form) who are presently playing with each other.

Yes, after only an hour after birth demifoxes are able to assume their three forms (full fox form, hybrid fox/man form, and the human form with only a few fox parts). Yes, soon their eyes open and the mischevious kits can, in full fox form, begin skipping about!

"Confused....to put it mildly," Demifox Astra sighs.

She'd been, after birthing her brood, been able to resume a more human.....but.....

  1. "Something more has changed than just our forms," Fred said softly, having slipped into his hybrid form while under the stress of watching "his" Astra.....a woman he feared he'd fallen for.....give birth.....

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