Matter of Course...

Chiana

"Heh," I coughs, looking at the demifoxes as they soul kiss each other. "Hey guys, get a room or something why don't you?"

Can practically FEEL them wanting each other from back here!!

That seems to have gotten their attention, anyway.

Yeah, their frellin' attention! Gotta say I do NOT like the way they're glaring at me, growling!

They then blink, realizing that they had been in a rather public spot, as it were. That and there had been a decided change. . . .in them.

Sure are a lot more . . . loosened up around each other over each other since the last time they'd been out! All prim and proper and now, wow!

"Uh . . . sorry," Fred sputters, blinking first at us and then looking over at Astra, who herself looks out of sorts. "Kind of . . . got carried away in the moment or . . . something . . . ."

Oh boy, he's forgotten about us again, only staring at Astra(who's staring back at him).

Oh yeah, they've got it BAD for each other. Some kind of side effect of them being "blockified"?

Another cough, this time from Fertal, interrupts the peek show.

"Wha-what happened?" Fred blinks, coming out of it again. "What happened to us?"

"The short answer is love," Fertal explains, as he and Artizza take their demifox kin aside to explain the situation.

....

I know I sure want to know what the frell is going on here! Something magical, I am sure!

Which . . . the perfect person to ask on THAT matter would be Sigin!

Sigin

"Hey," Chiana breaths in my ear, coming up besides me. "Gotta micro- Got a second?"

For you I'll give a lifetime, I say softly, tickling her mentally.

For a long second, Chiana closes her eyes and shivers a little bit in . . . delight.

Frell, you don't know how good that makes me feel, she sends back, leaning on me (which sends electric jolts of pleasure up my arm).

Oh, I'd beg to differ on me not knowing how I make her feel. If it's anything like the way she makes me feel by just....

....

Well, she gathers herself, reluctantly breaking the mood. It's only noontime. A touch too early for foreplay and all that.

Later, we'll go and do . . . things. Not right now, though.

"Uh yeah," she sighs. "About what's going on with the demifoxes back there. What is going on with the demifoxes back there?"

I smile.

"Just a matter of nature," I say.

I go onto explain that their situation is very much like the other Freds and Astra in Eternity Inc. Seems like fate, but honestly I could argue it's not that. See, I have studied and found out that by this time in the various Freds' and Astras' lives of the Clan, they'd been at some level (unconsciously or consciously ) looking for someone else as a partner. Maybe a temporary partner or a permanent one, who knows. But when Fred (now Fertal) had laid eyes upon the Astra (now Artizza), chained to the walls of the Southern Caverns (re: 38) things started which could (and did) show each was compatible to each other. In Fertal's and Artizza's case, things had been sped up mightily by their elfin nature so by the time we'd changed them into blocks, their love had been symbolized by us needing a crowbar to get one block away from the other!

"At a guess there is something more to becoming a block," I finish up. "Something that allows a more . . . clear view of things. Maybe while a block their souls were somewhere on a higher plane? Maybe as blocks their psyches are open to each other at some level. They saw each other and fell in love with each other AND their unborn children!"

Yes, let's not forget that the blocks who'd been the unborn had clinked together with their parents....

"Alright," Chiana says, following the logic. "I mean, after all, you tell me that this 'doppleganger reaction' only happens between people who are so much alike that they're psionically drawn to each other and a bond either forms like brother/sisterhood. That or they hate each other with a passion."

"The later happening when the other senses some kind of characteristic of personality that they find abhorrent," I nod, agreeing. "Something that they find as a unacceptable mar in what is otherwise an almost perfect copy/mirror of themselves. Basically, anyway."

There is a LOT more to it than just that, but that's enough for now.

Kind of why I knew that sooner or later I would fall for another, really. After all, I had seen my analog brothers with their wives and lifemates: Dragon Sigin with Regent Malachi and Sigin Vulpine with Rosepaw. Had taken great care with my pupils, Betty and Ragan, to prevent an accidental "Eye meets Eye". They were not looking for partners, thanks. Were perfectly happy being single, okay? Wasn't going to force it upon them if I could help it IF what had happened to me eventually, my overreaching myself magically and collapsing. I could have just rested to recover at a slower pace, but then again time had been against us (usually is on a Quest, despite us having the TARDIS). I'd been very careful in instructing them to stay well away during that time. But of course, Chiana hadn't known about that...

Not that I'm complaining!

Though, the romantic side of me is happy with it being a matter of fate, her and I...

Chiana

Okay, I can see that, I send, really actually understanding.

So MUCH to learn, this magic dren!

...

Wait, just had a thought with all this stuff about doppleganger natures. I fall in love. Saw that some of my analog sisters have these relations with others. D'Argo. What about Aeryn-Pip? Is something going to happen with her and one of the other blocks here?!

Hey, nothing against love and all that. Hey, you just gotta remember who you're talking to here, right? But . . . I just cannot see someone like Jake with someone like . . . me.

Besides, I do believe that the guy's father, Roland, would object to such a relationship. Hey, on some planets such relationships exist. Even healthy! But . . . somehow I don't think Roland, Inquirer's adopted brother and Gunslinger, would see it that way!

He's kinda old fashioned, I think . . . And from what I've seen and heard of him makes me . . .shiver . . .

Note: actually, Roland IS older than he appears and is KINDA set in his ways. He might have issues about such an unexpected pairing, if it occurred, but Chiana's fears are groundless. Oh, and by the way, in Farscape the character named D'Argo had his first . . . thing when he'd been around Jake's age, so Chiana's observations aren't as strange (by Uncharted standards if not human standards) as it sounds. She was and still is from an alien species and culture, you know.

Well, that question causes Sigin to blink, let me tell you! But then....

"Being that they'd been next to each other for so long and nothing happened," he says slowly. "Probably means nothing will, but...."

1. "Hey Inquirer!" I shout, a little bit worried. "Come over hear a second with those blocks, please?"

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