Duke Dredrick D'Honaire breaks out into a cold sweat at the array in
front of him. Bold though the noble man is, he's not an idiot. The odds
don't look good right now…..
"FATHER?!" a voice rings out from besides the beastmen….a human man!
"What in God's name are you doing here? I thought you were visiting the
surviving members of Mother's side of the family!"
"In GOD'S name?" blinks the startled Duke, a true son of the Norse church.
"What in Thor's name are you talking about? Why do you appear like my son…..before
Minestus got to him?" He keeps his hands away from his sword hilt….maybe
he can talk his way through this mess!
A small demi-fox who's carrying a staff suddenly seems to make a connection.
"Excuse me," the little fox calls out. "By any chance that those two
demi-foxes with you be named Frederigo and Astra?"
"It is," Astra and Frederigo say together guardly.
"And your condition you find yourself in," a rather busty red headed
woman continues (who Astra and Fred are shocked to realize is herself…..or
at least looks like her as she was as a human being). "After an understandable
mistake by….Fred in thinking that you were some type of wood spirit….a
Kitsune? After a bout of…..well, it produced Fred's condition. You are
looking for Synizn to cure you of your tainted blood, correct?"
"Yes we are," Duke D'Honaire states guardedly. He's about to say more
when a man (with glowing red eyes!) suddenly speaks.
"Look!" the man says. "I'm tired of this f***ing beating around the
bush!"
"We have the Synizns and the Crystallic right here!" he goes on, tired
of it all. "Lets get one of them to cure you two….if the Phage doesn't
kill them!"
This causes yet another babbling discussion. It's revealed that there
is supposed to be some type of deadly disease in the air that can kill
a person in second upon contact. The demi-foxes on horseback and the Duke
keep the first thing that comes to mind to themselves. Best not upset the
very people you were seeking help from. The Duke's years of political skills
tells him that he can somehow trust these…..strange people. He trust them
because…..they seem to be his sons only hope of a cure from his demi-fox
curse! True, it's dismaying that Synizn (the demi-fox one!) will have to
accelerate Astra's pregnancy so he can deliver the children in time to
change them, Astra, and Fred without killing any of them in the process….but
beats the alternatives!
As Duke Dredrick's Astra is telling an increasingly nervous Astra demi-fox
analog the trials of being a demi-fox (going into gross details about the
events surrounding…..er…..Fred's close encounter with her while instinct
was ahold of her), yet another set of figures comes out of the fog!
"Pardon me," a man in leather clothing of a mountaineer says. "We appear
to be having a slight problem….."
-
 Change in POV
Go Back
|