Picture of a princess....from five years ago.

While the man and Malachi (and Synizn....who quietly waits at the dragonnes' side) talk quietly in one corner, the others talk quietly about what they've seen in this palace.....a incredibly detailed fresco in particular.

"So....," Astra begins. "This is you before....Minestus got his claws on you?" She points to the picture of a lyrically beautiful, dark skinned woman with startlingly green eyes. Willian and Astra still look a little surprised. Alicia and Fred smile a little. When Alicia had described what she had looked like to Fred before becomine a were-fox, it had been a suprise for him, also. Somehow, he had expected a woman from the area around the area of the Kingdom.....for some reason. So had the others, apparently, from their expression. No problem really. Hey, it was even funny to Alicia.

"Yes, it was," Alicia smiles. "Not that you can tell. For the momment, Fred and I are just foxy looking people."

"Yep," Fred smiles. "Just young furry folks in love!"

"So," Astra says after a bit of mugging from the were-foxes. "I guess I should have put the clues together, but....oh.....I just didn't. Did you, Will?"

Will abashedly admitted that he hadn't, either. Fred nods, and then the discussion tells how Alicia's country was

1. The adventurers, still surprised at the turn of events, settle down for the night and then make plans on sailing through the Sueze Channel....yet another Alateen wonder of engineering that connected two oceans together.....

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