From the view of a demifox mage...

A week into the journey, they pass into what was formerly Allaria....

"Get ball!" Teresa, the most energetic of Fred 3's brood, coos imperiously to Demifox Sigin.

"Magic word?" the demifox mage asks patiently, tilting his fox head as he looks from the barrel he was perched upon down at the little ones as his tail swished around. He was in full fox form, so as to best understand the little ones.

He had been delights that he was able to have a limited communications with Fred's beautiful children, and was amazed...but not totally surprised that such was possible. After all, though he HAD been able to give them human form.....there were bound to be residual effects from them being born (and conceived) as demifox kits! Their parents had been befuddled when it appeared that even their fiercest hunting hounds seemed unusually docile....and seemed so do certain things whenever one of the babies cooed or cried. Their suspicions were confirmed when magical examination DID prove that the hounds were obeying some type of orders from their children (re: 1764)!

All this was fine and well, but Demifox Synizn was going to at least try to teach these little ones a modicum of good manners!

"Please?" the peanut gallery (as Probe liked to call small children sometimes) said in chorus. Demifox Synizn nodded his shaggy head, picked up a small ball in his mouth, and flicked it at each and every bundle.

Giggles come from each infant for a while, and the demifox sits back and basks in the glow of it all.

Tiamat's blood! Demifox Synizn thinks to himself. At this rate, I think I'll soon be over my....reservations that I built up during my rather...unfortunate time as a were-bear!

Indeed, both he and his newest "brother"....the one that now was the only "Synizn" to have full right to be called: Synizn Draconarysni.....had been heavily under the sway of their were-bear lycanthropic curse. This entailed that they.....well, let's just say that they'd sired a few bear cubs in their time.....despite having no real SAY in the matter when the beast was fully in control.

A warrior woman and a dragon slayer had freed him from that, and now....every day.....he and his brother were healed a little bit more from the terrible memories of that horrid time.

Little wonder why he and his brother had felt the need...no the DUTY and OBLIGATION....to swear eternal fealty to the ones who'd saved them from what was a living hell.

Little wonder why....both he and his brother secretly loved (something that denoted the hold his adopted new race....since only "true" dragons only fell in when Eye meets Eye) the humans that had saved them. Demifox Synizn loved both Fred and Astra 3 and their children, and thanked Tiamat for all this.

1. Later, after the brood fell into an exhausted sleep, Demifox Synizn has shifted back into human form......

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