In the waiting room...

The demi-foxes are so nervous that they have accidentally shifted to their hybrid form. After this happening several more times, they both conclude that they might as well just stay that way until they calm down.....like after their Astra delivers their offspring.

The human Fred chuckles in sympathy. He remembers all too well how his body shifted from one form to another during times of certain emotions. It had been most ackward during that one night when his body had gotten aroused at the thoughts of foxes and Astra (don't ask). Apparently, the same unententional shift happened during times of extreme stress (such as a faher awaiting news about his wife's condition....and the children from childbirth).

"Fred?" the human Frederigo calls out, and then chuckles ruefully as both demi-foxes turn.

"Yes?" they call out together. Then they both laugh at the absurdity of it all.

"Do any of you have any word yet about the Synizn's finding a way home for us all?....after we find a cure, of course." The human asks.

The demi-fox Fred on the left sighs and sits. A look of intense frustration is plastered on his vulpine face.

"I've been talking to your Synizn, Fred" the seated demi-fox says, looking up at the others. "The one who's a demi-fox...and used to be a dragon?.....Anyway, what he told me was pretty bad.

"The demi-fox mage.....Well," the seated demi-fox swallows and looks like he's trying to eat something sour.

"What did he say?" the standing demi-fox Fred demands, tail swishing in dread.

"He said that can't find our way home," the human Fred sighs, suddenly feeling a hundred years old. In the time that the young human knight had known his Synizn, the one thing he had come to admire was the former dragon's vast knowledge of the arcane arts. If a former elder wyrm admits HE can't do it.....

"Actually," the seated demi-fox hurries to reassure his.....brothers. "We can't use the Crystallic to get back, but there might be a way out there....something Atlantian. We just need to go out and find it."

"No," the standing demi-fox says, surprising the human and the other demi-fox. "No, not until we have established ourselves here so we have enough resources to go out and actually find.....this supposed way back to our homeworlds. Maybe if we ask nicely, if we do ever discover a cure for this Phage.....these Golems could give us a lift home? They say that they come from different....universes than ours....." The Freds fall into excited discussion about this, only to be interrupted by their host, the Leader of the Pack, and their manfox brother.....Frederigo D'Honaire of this universe.

"All fine and well gentlemen," the manfox says with a sly, foxy smile. His tail twiches as he walks over to the suddenly silent ohterworld Freds. "But let us not forget our vows of knighthood..

"Let us not forget we are here to help those who need aid." The manfox says softly. "This worlds people have been beaten, battered, all but pissed upon by Minestus....the Lizards..... Gentlemen, I come to you with a task that neither of you sought out, but through a spell gone wildly wrong, has been placed upon you.

"Now, I know that even a D'Honaire can't cure all the ills of my world," chuckles the manfox without a trace of humor. "But each of you can use your skills....your gifts to lessen the suffering of those people around you. I do what honor and duty dictated and the Golem destroy what I thought was any chance for a cure of my condition and a cure for the Phage. Turns out that the Crystallic could have been a cure for me and the other manimals.....if I and they were still interested in being human....But that's to the side. I and the Golems agree on one thing: Minestus was a deadly threat who had nearly killed one world and could possibly be a threat to others. The dragon HAD to die, even at the cost of what was in his Hoard since it's destruction would pretty much destroy the wyrm (Re: 2231). I couldn't take the chance of him walking away from this fight. He had won the last one, and while I turned into a manimal he was out murdering the world! Honor demanded his death....shear deadly necessity for the human race's survival demanded it.

"Do the honorable thing. Help those who are left. Help them for yourselves....and your children. Go out and help my father-in-law, Natthias, to help bring some order to the town of Wallents, just as you said you would awhile ago."

The manfox's ears twitch....as does those of the demi-foxes. They hear some tiny yippings in the next room......

1. "Speaking of children, lets go see them " murmurs Duke Dredrick, who had come in at the end of the manfox's speech.

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