The Spill over Effect

Synizn

Astra's head is spinning, but she - he? - manages to say: "All right. So where is Fred? I don't suppose he's going to be too happy that I'm a male and in love with someone else."

. . .

Uh, how to explain all of this when I am still trying to sort some of it out myself? The best I can, alas, and hope for the best!

I should think that the news that I and he are already married under the eyes of Tiamat will be difficult enough with just that alone ...and not everything else I must tell her . . . Uh . . . him!

. . .

I . . . don't know just HOW to tell her what I fear has happened to Fred. If that . . . female foxthing (cannot call her demifox . . . too powerful and alien for that) was not lying to me then . . . what has befallen Fred somehow ties into what has befallen Astra.

If Astra is now male and I understand this babbling about "fate links" then . . .uh, I do not feel that Fred shall be having as much of a problem with Astra being a male demifox . . .

. . .

A male demifox with blue eyes? Oh Tiamat, what have we had befallen us today?

. . .

Sigh, the kits have awoken and are signaling--if I am interpreting the snuffling noises they're making correctly--they wish to be fed (again). Astra had already checked them to make sure that they'd not soiled themselves (by tradition and need diapers don't really go . . .well with demifox cubs, usually get chewed them up if a person puts them on the kits in question). . . that's as good of guess as any.

Well, let's get down to this immediate problem. Must say that when I first came out of my eggshell so long ago that I would ever be breastfeeding a bunch of . . . delightful kits, much less actually becoming a fully functional mammalian female!!

I'd thought that when/if I ever produce offspring they'd be . . . coming from an eggshell like I'd come into the world. Now? If I ever have offspring, I'll be doing the live birth thing!

. . .

Hm, I wonder what Astra will feel like when we finally do consumate our union by Tiamat the first . . .

. . .

Mind back to business, Synizn!

Switching over to full fox form (feels . . . rather fuzzy and fun, really), I order the Crystallic to cause me to lactate (with strict parameters so as it'll not "overdo it"). I . . . rather like what it had done to me (or at least didn't mind it), but still . . .

The cubs start to suckle and . . .

. . .

Oh MY, that feels . . . rather nice.

Astra's staring at me right now because I must have a rather silly grin on my face (I know I'm grinning right now).

Yeah, let's get down to it. While the my . . . er . . . Astra's cubs suckle (what's getting INTO me here?!), I contact the Crystallic like I would a living fellow dragon and . . .

At least discover I hadn't been too far wrong with it being sentient and am not making myseld out to be a fool by attempting to talk to a dead thing!

What I learn from this rather odd entity-- who is ENTIRELY unrepentant about having changed me into a female demifox (little comment about it suites me so well . . . can't disagree) --is rather . . . alarming!

What I hade been facing back there HAD been a kitsune female! The bloody things actually EXIST . . . and I guess that I must take back those rather snide internal comments about thinking Lord Fred a foolish human indeed for having done what he'd done with Astra, mistaking her for a real kitsune.

If anything . . .

Well, that's for a later date.

As an aside, the Crystallic comments that it had thought--before itself having been able to pierce by itself the guise that this kitsune female had dawned upon herself--that Lord Fred had remained maled (albeit changed into a kitsune . . . female kitsune have been known to do such thing to males they favor from time to time) but been hexed (it's words) under his enchantment, and would seduce me!!

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Uh . . .like I would have allowed that?

Asked as much after a pause (mentally, of course) to the magical item, and it countered that even though rather randy and spell drunk from the lingering enchantments upon his body, he'd be coherent enough to call upon innate magical abilities to cloud my mind, what with the lack of shields I'd been going around with and . . .

. . .

I should be angry at this thing for it not warning me about what I was facing, but then again as I figure it as a magical item it is not it's place to advise (unless ordered to like here and now).

But when I ask about whether or not I can . . . at least reverse the gender change (and ask about what has happened to my and Astra's eyes), I must say I am . . .

This is totally unexpected!!

It tells me that the gender changes are a side effect of . . . what the entity (this "god" of the kitsune from what it tells me) has done, more or less.

. . .

It adds that this crop god or whatever went onto include ME in this mess by . . . having me "kitsuned" along with Astra and the cubs? And though it will take

It's just a slower process but it has too deep rooted already to your Matrix for even the likes of me to reverse, it sighs, mentally. Alas, there are entities out there even more powerful than Atlantian magicks, though if only if . . . history had not gone as it had . . .

It ends with a wistful tone in it's voice, but then goes onto explain just WHY there was a gender change in Astra and the kits.

. . .

Tiamat's blood, it says that Fred got changed into a female kitsune (confirming a dreadful suspicion I'd been forming). Why that female kitsune would have done this . . . Well, maybe she like . . .females?

Ah, forget it right now!

Almost don't hear it explain just why, with Fred having been changed in gender Astra and the kits should as well. Has something to do with the nature of the origins of kitsune (having them first come from some place called "India" and moving on into some place called "Japan") ...

As for all the gender changes . . . Astra's in particular it was an "appropriate" move, considering the rather Oriental nature of the creature that Fred and I ran afoul of here. Some kind of philosophy called "ying-yang" a bit of Indian mysticism . . . what with the idea that you go first through ONE gender and then the other and all that in that quest to reach Nirvana or whatnot), usually through death and reincarnation and whatnot but it also applies in this case.

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Okay. Remind me next time that IF I ever travel in either of those places I be VERY careful... Sounds . . . Well, let's not be pretentious. Sounds foriegn and this tells me that I must know less about the wider world than I THOUGHT!

Oh boy, what now to tell Astra? Well, nothing but the truth and must be on the go (got to get to my old house and get the magic wards up).

I hope that I and the others can dig in long enough for the moment so when that bitch kitsune comes back I can ward her off... Until I come up with some more permanent solution . . .

Meanwhile, back at the very realm that Lady Akira and her servants (including the newest one) ended up . . .

1. "Oh . . . what hit me?" the one tailed kitsune female mutters.

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