"Problematic" is the word for today....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 18154

Andrea

"Should we go ahead?" the Doctor asks Exotica.

"Yes, by all means," she says quietly, "This way she'll have a more normal life than what she could otherwise have.....I'll just have to think of some way to help her adjust, though knowing my mother it shan't be too difficult for her. Beats the alternatives by a legue!"

I groan quietly, knowing that a bit of out of date information has been circulating about here. Apparently, I guess, Synizn 3 hadn't gotten to the pertinent part about me and demifox kind of Terra Prime.

.....

Wait! I think to myself, suddenly remembering how those Synizn's who'd been infected with the more traditional form of lycanthropy (making them were-bears) had been able to (where returning to dragonkind would have carried a death sentence from their world's Council of Wyrms) "upgrade" their curse into something less objectionable to them.....

That and there was the fact that those Astras who had the demifox neo-lycanthropy had not gotten it through a nip (or....hurmph....other transfer of body fluids).

I glance over at Synizn 3, who's perked up a bit from his tired stupor and now was listening intently to this conservation.

Exotica then turns towards me (having not noticed me groaning or the distraught look on my face), but I cough a bit in consternation before Exotica can continue on to ask me for this favor that I can not give, directly, as the Doctor is under the mistaken impression I could give her.

"Afraid that while a nip from me would be as helpful as you'd like it to be here," I begin to explain, "There is still hope here....."

I quickly explain that demifoxes of Terra Prime, while still having the regenerative characteristic they'd inherited with the neo-lycanthropy, the curse itself had been "cured". That was fine by Andrea because it mean that she no longer was in danger of going into heat. Oh, it could have been controllable with the right herbs and such, but still the problems what could come up if she should slip up chilled her (see episode 1562 for examples). Anyway, bottom line, the demifoxes of Terra Prime were no longer humans who's form had been warped into that form, but now an actual race...and as such could not just create new demifoxes by biting a human being (or a dragon in human form).

"But that's where the Crystallic can come in," I hurry to put in when I see Exotica's look of alarm, "After all, that's how Demifox Astra (re: episode 1527) and many of her kind came into the realm of the demifox!"

Astra 9

All eyes then turn towards Synizn 3, who is frowning a bit.....

I don't like that frown, speaks of something he knows about this particular Crystallic that might scupper our hopes here.

That's what I believe anyway.

I also think that he is, despite the rather free seeming atmosphere about how we are banding about the secret true nature of Terra Prime demifoxes (something that we and they all wish to keep in the realm of rumor), I'm rather uncomfortable with this subject! Point in fact, we'd made both Exotica and the Doctor swear upon their professions (the Doctor's and Exotica's patient/client relationship) to not discuss this with others outside this room.

"It could be done," he begins slowly, "But due to what I could only call a 'security feature' left on it by this particular Crystallic's creator that could prove problematic to the one who'll have to use it."

  1. "Ouch," I mutter to myself, "'Problematic' raises all sorts of alarms in my book."

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