| Dredrick feels like shouting for joy as the strange boylike creature....with
foxlike ears, tail, and coloration finishes his tale.
"......and you cried openly and without shame at Charles' funeral."
Fred whispered, choking at the memory. "You said that you felt like you
had failed your duties as a fahter. I piped in after the funeral, like
the precoscious ten year old I was, that Charlie was old enough to fend
for himself and you had nearly driven YOURSELF crazy to try to make Charles
see the insanity of his actions. If you had been a hair faster, YOU'D be
a blacken corpse and burried along with Charles."
"Son!" Dredrick shouts in joy as he scoops up the little demi-fox. The
duke of Suffex weeps in joy along with his now enspelled son. A gentle
cough breaks the touching scene.
"Uh, Father," Fred begins hesitantly, then swallows and continues. "This
is Princess Astra from Aqualaria. She too was cursed by Minestus and now
wears the form of a demi-fox. I had encountered her in the woods after
the wyrm had changed her. She.....was in the thrall of her....cannine nature....and
I....mistook her for a Kitsune......" Fred and Astra then explain rapidly
how they had been aided by a rogue dragon, who had killed Minestus, but
was mortally wounded. Then they told how before her death, Malachi the
rogue dragon(ness) had told the them that their hope lay in a were-bear
named Synizn. Finally they told how they got sidetracked by a greedy lawyer….and
somehow ended up here.
Dredrick's grey eyebrows shoot towards the top of his head with the
last words. He then shakes his head and makes a quick decision….the only
one he knows he can make.
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 "Let's
go and find this were-bear of yours," the Duke of Suffex says grimly. "And
may the gods have mercy on his hairy pelt if he refuses us!"
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