{"sf1_id":782724,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Earning His Stripes, Part 6","author":"StGeorgesHorse","words":5068,"posted_at":"2014-11-16T19:47:00.000Z","tags":["Anthropomorphic","Emotion","Female","Human","Human female","Human male","Love","Magic","Spellsinger","Tigress","Transformation","Unicorn"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/782724-earning-his-stripes-part-6","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/782724","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=782724\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"#7 of The Spellsinger Tales\n\nA little longer here, but it wasn't enough to split, and I figure if you plowed through the first five, you'd be determined to finished this one too.","content":"             They finally finished. She\nchanged herself back into the tigress she was. \"You know sugah, this has\nbeen a real learning experience. You can never tell what another form is like\nuntil you're in their paws...or hooves. I can never thank you enough for this\ngift, really I can't.\" \nHe felt like saying any number\nof things, but he was beginning to understand that his mouth got him in\ntrouble. He moved in and snuggled next to her, wrapping his arms around her\nneck. She purred and said, \"Why Jon-Tom, you're speechless?\" He\nsmiled up at her and said nothing. She rumbled deeply and said, \"You are\nlearning, aren't you?\" His only response was running his hands gently\nacross her fur.\nThey were now only days away\nfrom her home. If they had wished to hasten the journey, it was well within\ntheir power. But home meant parting, something they were not yet ready to do.\nRoseroar was still pondering her ability to change on her own. It had been\nnagging her for some time, though Jon-Tom had simply accepted it as fate. She\nwas sitting there running through different species, not so much with an eye to\nsex, but to see if there were limitations. There were none. Whatever she said,\nshe became. Jon-Tom watched her for a while, but the transformations were\nmaking him dizzy.  All at once she called out to him. \n\"Hey sugah, what do you\nthink of this one?\" He turned around, half expecting a rabbit, or a\nwolverine, or something more exotic, like a polar bear. His jaw dropped. She\nsmiled at his loss of composure. \n\"I take it you like? It\nnever dawned on me to try this one out until now. I must say that it's not\nnecessarily a favorite of mine, but then, it hasn't been run through its paces\neither.\" He sat and listened, barely comprehending.\nWhat he was staring at was, to\nhis mind,  the most perfectly formed\nfemale he had yet laid eyes upon. She had Roseroar's eyes, but everything else\nwas quite different. Her fur was not nearly as white as it had been in the\nlioness form. For that matter, she had much less of it. Like him, she only had patches\nof it on her head, under her arms, and covering her crotch. She had turned into\na human! \n\"Uhhh. Roseroar, is that\nreally you?\" He knew the answer of course, but he had never dreamed of her\ntaking this form. For some reason, it just never occurred to him that she\ncould. It must have been that old bias kicking in, distorting his perceptions\nof this world.\n \"Of course it's me, you stupid man. Who\nelse would it be?\"\n He immediately apologized. \"I'm sorry. It\njust never entered my mind that this was a form you could take.\" S\nhe smiled, a real smile from a\nreal human mouth. \"So, do you like it?\" \nWhat could he say? Of course he\nliked it. The lady sitting there was too mature-looking to be a co-ed, but she\nhad all of the beauty of a diva and the body of a Playboy model. She had well\ndefined nipples jutting out from small pert breasts. The fur, that is, the hair\non her head fell down around her shoulders in a cascade of blonde.  She\nknew he was taken in by her newest form. The slack jaw and stiff cock seemed\nlike pretty strong clues.\n\"Well sugah, are you going\nto stand there all day, or would you like to show this here gal just what you\nthink of her new form?\" \nHe needed no more coaxing than\nthat. They fell together on the ground. For the first time, the tigress found\nthe true sensuality in kissing. The two entwined in a passion that heretofore\nhad been impossible, for these two bodies were made to be together. It didn't\ntake her long to make it known that she wanted more, and he was happy to give\nit.  But he was in no hurry, finding that making love to a human Roseroar\nwas an act he didn't want to rush. He started with his fingers, working them\nin, feeling her wetness. He also found that tightness; she still had a hymen.\nIt was no surprise, seeing as he had been dealing with it all along. He slid\nalong her belly, kissing her skin and running his tongue along her curves. She\nmoaned and arched her back, straining even harder when he reached her cunt. He\ngently but firmly sucked on her clit, causing her to arch so hard he heard her\nback crack.\nHe remained where he was until\nshe came. When she was done, she lay flat, gasping for breath, fluid dripping\nfrom her cunt. He then shifted position, pushing her legs apart. He slid up her\nbelly to her chest, running his tongue across her nipples. It was a feeling she\nhad never experienced. He continued moving until he reached her mouth. She\ngreedily attached hers to his. With a slow purposeful motion, he pushed his\ncock in, causing her to bite down on his lip.  As he pusher harder, she\nbit harder, until in both locations blood flowed. With a cry she released his\nmangled lip and clamped her legs around his hips. Her arms wrapped around his\nneck. She whispered hoarsely in his ear \"Sorry about that!\" He felt\nno apology was necessary. They went at it until they both were racked with bone\nshattering climaxes.  They lay together locked in a tight embrace, neither\nwanting to let the other go.\nAll at once she stirred, and in\none swift motion managed to flip them over so that she was on top. \"I\ndon't know about you, but I intend to get ever last bit of pleasure out of you\nbefore I return home. Are you ready to go again?\" \nSadly, he was not.\n\"Roseroar, I am finding\nthat I have my limits.\"\n She snorted, literally. In the time it took\nhim to provide an excuse, she had turned back into a unicorn. He abruptly had a\nfew hundred pounds extra weight on his groin. But she leaned down with her\nhead, touching his with her horn. And then, as quickly as it had happened, the\nhuman girl was back. \"How about now?\" \nHe was amused. \"You learn\nquickly, don't you?\"\n \"Quicker than you, I think. So how about\nit?\" As it was back in working\norder, he had no excuse, nor a desire for one. And so it went the rest of the\nday.\nAs they were relaxing later,\nshe asked him. \"How many times did we do it today?\" He sat on the\nground contemplating her question. He really had not been counting.\n \"I'm not completely sure. I think is was\none less than we should have.\" \nShe let loose with a laugh of\npure unbridled joy. \"OK, I take it back. You can be quick witted when it\ncounts!\" \n\"Are you ready to go\nagain, Roseroar?\"\n \"Oh, I think so. But I think a break is\nin order, don't you?\" He agreed, thankful for the respite.\nThey instead set to talking.\nSoon she would be home, and he would be leaving. He had never been able to\nfigure out a way of giving her the gift he so desired to do; the ability to\nhave children. He didn't bother mentioning it, as there seemed little point. On\nthe other hand, she brought up the matter of her changes. She was still puzzled\nby the sudden independence in her ability. \n\"It couldn't be random\nchance. Something had to have caused it,\" she insisted.\n He looked mystified. \"I suppose so, but I\ndidn't sing any other spells.\" \nShe agreed. \"Right, so\nsomething happened to change its workings. We need to figure out what. It all\nstarted, I think, after I turned into a panther.\" She sat there,\nremembering the experience. She had decided to mock him for his \"little\npussy\" remark by threatening to change into a smaller cat. She had figured\nthat her little cousin's body might be ill-suited for sex with a human, at\nleast one endowed like this one was. She just had not counted on them being\nlocked together when the change occurred. What had he said in regards to the\npanther? Then it hit her. You can be anything you want, whenever you\nwant it.\nShe rolled over and looked hard\nat the spell-singer. \"YOU! You did do it!\" Her abrupt shout nearly\nspooked him.\n \"What? ME? How?\" \nShe fell back with a chuckle.\n\"You did it and you didn't even realize it. Jon-Tom, you are a damn\ndangerous, ignorant human, but I so love you!\" He was dumbstruck. What was\nshe talking about? He finally had to ask, as her mirth was keeping her from\ntelling it on her own.  \"Think back. When I wanted to turn into a\npanther, what did you say?\" He thought about it, but couldn't quite\nremember his words. \n\"I said, yes, or something.\"\n\nShe was laughing again.\n\"What you said was; you can be anything you want, whenever you want\nit.\"  He ran the phrase across his thought processes. Indeed, he had\ngranted her free range to change as she pleased.\n\"So you see, from now on,\nI can be whatever I want, whenever I want to be it. There isn't another\nmagician alive that could do that. You have given me a gift that will bless me\nthe rest of my life. For that, I need to repay you.\" So, for good measure,\nshe changed to the unicorn again, and held her horn against his body for a full\nfive minutes. It was good enough to restore him for another couple of hours of\nintimate togetherness.\nThe next day they lay together\nwatching the clouds float by. \"You know Jon-Tom, you have been great. I'm\nglad your magic plucked me out of my life and dumped me into yours. It has been\nthe adventure of a lifetime. It is really too bad that we can't have a life\ntogether. I would give up everything to be with you.\" \nHe responded in like. \"I\nwould love to stay. I'm missing you already just thinking about leaving. But\nyou spoke wisdom before. Like begets like, and I don't think that I will ever\nbe able to change myself into a tiger. You deserve to have a chance at raising\na family. I only hope that it comes your way.\" \nThey lapsed into silence for a\nwhile. Roseroar chose to speak next. \"You know sugah, I think that you\nhave finally been able to make some headway against my hormones. I'm not nearly\nas horny as I was, but let's do it again. Tomorrow at this time I think I'll be\nhome.\" Knowing it was going to be one of their last made it their best\nyet. They fell asleep, not waking until late morning. She morphed and they\ndressed, setting off on the final leg of their journey.\nAs she predicted, they arrived\nin her city, a large sprawling metropolis called Colivra, populated by many\nspecies, but mostly carnivores. No one seemed to notice their arrival. There\nwere no guards for there was no need, as each of the denizens was well equipped\nfor handling his/her own problems. But all at once, a jaguar, dressed in regal\nclothes took notice. \n\"Rana?\" she called\nquestioningly. \nRoseroar looked embarrassed. \n\"Yes Yallah, it's\nme.\" \nThe jaguar bowed deeply, then\nturned and bounded away. Jon-Tom raised his eyebrows. \"What was that all\nabout? And who is Rana?\" \nShe looked embarrassed.\n\"I'm Rana, and that was, errrr, a friend.\" \n\"Rana? Is that some sort\nof nickname?\"\n \"No, I'm afraid not. It's more like - a\ntitle.\" \nHe knit his brows. \"A\ntitle?\" Then it sank in. \"You mean like a princess or\nsomething?\" She was still trying to formulate an answer when the jaguar\nreappeared, complete with an entourage.\nThe tigress spoke to her\ngathered subjects. \"Please tell my father that I have returned. And please\nescort this human to the best accommodations the palace has available. If it\nweren't for him, I would never have made it home.\" Jon-Tom's mind was\nracing. He was going to be in so much trouble! He had been screwing a princess!\nHe was glad it had been worth it, because he had the feeling he was going to be\nlosing his head over his escapades.\n They made their way into the palace, and\nindeed he was shown into a well appointed room, tastefully decorated in\ntapestries, furniture and weapons.\nHe had hardly finished\ninspecting the room and settling in when a bevy of \"ladies\" entered.\nThey consisted of a variety of feline species, some of which he did not\nrecognize. \n\"You are Jon-Tom, the\nwizard?\" asked the senior member of the group. \n\"Yes, I'm Jon-Tom. I'm not\nsure that I am a wizard though.\" \n\"Rana Roseroar speaks\notherwise, and it is not my place to contradict her. You should not either. We\nare here to see to your needs. She is with her father, detailing her mysterious\ndisappearance. In the meantime, she said that you could have anything that was\nwithin our means to give you.\" \nShe batted her long eyelashes\nfetchingly.  He had no interest in furthering his sexual conquests,\nleastwise not now and not here. \n\"Some food and rest is all\nI need for the moment.\" This brought forth titters from the ladies. The\neldest one hushed them.\n \"The Rana did say that you should be\nbathed. It was her hope that you would relax and enjoy it.\" That didn't\nsound so bad. That is, until they pulled him into the next room and stripped him\nof his clothes. His outfit vanished, and as he turned to protest, found the\ngroup similarly naked.\nHe wasn't certain how to react\nto this. If Roseroar sent them, was she testing him? But if so, then why? They\nwere soon to go their separate ways. He decided the best approach was to ask\nthe matron. \"Might  ask if this is normal?\" making an expansive\ngesture with his hands.\n \"You, human, are not normal. You are the\nfirst within the city in years. The Rana has given you leave of the palace, and\nhas vouched for your integrity. She says that you are to be considered as\ntrustworthy as anyone in the royal family.\"\n He nodded for her to continue. \n\"Therefore, your presence\nhas piqued the interest of a good number of females. They wish to be with a\nhuman, sort of a trophy, you see. Even if you wish not to lay with them, they\nwill have the chance to know what a human is like by bathing you.\" \nHe relaxed a little. Roseroar\nknew that he loved her. Perhaps she felt that the sooner he got over her, the\nbetter. But he intended to do that on his own time, in his own way.\nThe bathing pool was immense,\nlooking in many respects like a Turkish bath. The ladies pulled him in, some\nrubbing his shoulders, others washing him with sponges. He did his best to\nrelax, but when one of them started washing his privates, he had to protest.\nThe problem was; his voice said no, but his cock said yes. Luckily for him, that\nsolved his problem. Once they saw the size of his manhood, every one of them backed\noff a little. They were mostly smaller varieties of feline, from bobcats to\nocelots. And not one of them wished to tackle anything that big. The matron was\nquite open about it.\n \"Sir, you are hung like a horse. I don't\nthink any of these girls wish to suffer what you would put them through.\"\nHe was embarrassed, but glad\nthat nothing was going to happen. He eased down into the water and let them\nwork.\nBy the time they were finished\nwith him; bath, massage with oils, as well as some intrepid touching of his\ncock (they just couldn't help themselves, he was told) his clothes were\nreturned cleaned and mended. He got dressed and was escorted to the throne\nroom. Sitting high on a huge black chair was the largest tiger Jon-Tom had ever\nseen. \n\"Come forward!\" he\ncommanded. His voice was authoritarian, with just a hint of anger. Seeing no\nchoice in the matter, he stepped forward. The regal ruler spoke again.\n\"Are you the reason my daughter was taken surreptitiously from my\nhousehold?\"\n He could only nod.\n \"And are you the cause of her forced\ntravel across the ocean, being placed in danger, and exposing her to perils\nindescribable?\" \nA waggle of his head affirmed\nhis role, though he was thinking that he could describe those dangers quite\nwell.\n \"And did you assist in returning her back\nto my kingdom unharmed, being her companion and standing by her at all times to\nget her back home?\" \nJon-Tom couldn't speak, a good\nthing for at that moment he thought that \"standing by her\" wasn't\nwhat had been happening. He finally found his voice. \"I did. I assume all\nresponsibility for all that transpired. I still don't understand how it\nhappened but...\" \nThe king roared.\n\"ENOUGH!\" \nJon-Tom stood still, quivering.\nHis majesty stepped down and walked around the human. He stopped in front of\nhim, and leaning down, glared in his face. \"I know what has happened. My\ndaughter has filled me in on all of the details.\" \nJon-Tom shuddered. \"All of\nthe details?\"\nThe king held his stare for a\nlong time before roaring in laughter. \"Yes, wizard, all of them. Because\nof you, she has had an experience she would never have been allowed by nature\nof her position. I am most envious of her experiences. She will have stories to\ntell for years to come, I am sure. Pirates! Wizard turtles! Magical boats! True\n- I am not happy at the way you stole her away, but the end seems to have been\nworth the means. She is far happier now than I have ever seen her before. This\nis good. When one becomes ruler, there is little time for adventure. To quote\nher own words, you certainly know how to\nshow a lady a good time!\"\n He was unsure how to respond to that. Had she really\ntold him everything? He didn't think so, for most fathers would take exception\nto the activities they had engaged in.\nJon-Tom spoke carefully.\n\"Like I was about to say, it wasn't my intention to pull her away. To be\nhonest, until she materialized, I had no idea she existed. But I am very glad\nthat I got to meet her. She is the most exceptional person I have ever\nmet.\" \nThe king looked on approvingly.\n\"Don't you mean tiger?\" \n\"No sir, I do not. I mean\nperson. There is no one on this planet who can come close to her...in any\nrespect.\" \nThe king looked at him with\nwonder and appreciation. \"You know wizard, that says a lot coming from a\nhuman. Furthermore, I believe that you are sincere. My daughter made it known\nto me that she never discussed her rank, so that your assessment of her was\nbased solely on her as a person. She is right. You too are a great person. If\nyou were a tiger, you could be my heir.\" \nJon-Tom choked.\n\"I wish that that were\npossible. But I have no way of transforming myself, at least not one that I\nknow would work. Even if I did, it would be cheating, me being something that I\nam not.\" \nThe king rubbed his chin with a\nbig paw. \"You have more integrity than most. You are right. The people\nmight not accept you. But then, as you say, you can't be what you're not.\"\nHe stepped back a little and addressed those in his chambers. \"This human\nwizard, Jon-Tom, is the most honored guest of the realm. While he remains with\nus, he is to be treated with the respect shown to me. Let it be known!\"\nA while later Roseroar met up\nwith him. \"How did it go with father?\" \nHe grimaced. \"You could\nhave warned me a little sooner what I was getting myself into!\" \nShe knit her eyebrows and\nwrinkled her nose at him. \"I thought you liked what you were getting\nyourself into.\" When he got that stupid look on his face, she pointed to\nherself. \"Me! I thought you liked getting into me!\" \n\"Shhhh,\" he warned.\n\"Not so loud!\" \nShe laughed. \"Everyone\nknows, Jon-Tom. I keep few secrets, because they eventually come out in the\nend. That's not to say I was explicit about it, but we don't have your prudish\nnotions. I told you that.\" \nNo wonder the ladies had been\ninterested. He brought that matter up. \"Did you send them to me on\npurpose?\"\n \"Maybe. There wasn't one in there willing\nto try having sex with you, was there?\" \nIt was his turn to laugh.\n \"No, I can't say there was. Just as well.\nAfter the fiasco with the bobcat...\" \nHer paw went over his mouth.\n\"That is the one thing I have not told anyone. That, I have to demand,\nmust remain a secret\" \nHe looked confused again.\n\"The bobcat...?\"\n \"No, you silly human, the changes. I\nthought it out, and as long as no one knows about them, I can come and go\nfreely in any form I want. But for now, I will remain who I am. In the\nmeantime, father has made arrangements for you to tour the city.\"\nSo it was that the spell-singer\nwas shown about the many neighborhoods and plazas. He drew much attention,\nespecially from the ladies. Something told him that his prowess had become the\ntalk of the town. This likely stoked the ire of many of the males, some of whom\nwere not specimens he wished to anger. But he did have royal protection, so he\nbreathed easy. He had a new appreciation for variety, but in the end left the\nladies to their own devices. Despite the urging of Roseroar that he needed to\nmove on, he wasn't ready yet. Besides, she had hinted that they might have one\nmore rendezvous before he left. He had no intentions of spoiling that.\nIndeed, his last night there a knock came on his door. His excitement grew with\nevery step towards the door, but he kept his emotions in check. So many\nservants came and went that it could be anyone.\nSure enough, it was an odd\nlooking little animal carrying a tray of food. \n\"A meal for you, great\nsir!\" she said with deference. She noted he was looking at her.\n\"Would the great sir prefer something sweeter?\" Before he could\nanswer, she set down the tray and slid out of her clothes. She was cute,\nwhatever she was.\n \"Uh, just what are you exactly,\" he\nasked, partially to forestall her advances, and partially because he really\ncould not identify what she was. \n\"I great sir, am a jaguarundi.\"\n\nHe thought that over, quickly I\nmight add, because she was still approaching him, her intent obvious. \"A\njaguarundi? I'm afraid I've never heard of such a creature. But then, I have\nbeen told that I am quite ignorant.\" \nShe smiled. \"The fault is\nnot with you, great wizard, for I am lowly among cats. But maybe you can help?\nI have been told that you can treat a feline to an uplifting experience.\"\nShe had advanced on him,\nworking loose his trousers. He started to protest, but she rubbed her cute paws\nacross his crotch. \"I see the rumors are true. You are well endowed.\"\nJon-Tom jerked away, but she persisted. \"I'll just bet that if I got a\ntaste of you, you'd be sweet as sugah!\" \nHe maneuvered around a chair,\nbut tripped on his fallen pants. Suddenly she was on top of him, smiling. She\nwas on his crotch, rapidly rubbing herself across his cock. She was wet and\nslick, but he knew it wasn't going to work. Unlike the other smaller cats, this\none seemed unconcerned about the obvious size difference in their respective\nanatomies. Then it dawned on him. \"Sugah?\" \nShe busted out laughing.\n\"I was wunderin when you would figure it out!\" \nHe was so relieved that he just\nlay there laughing with her. \"I thought you said that you weren't going to\nbe changing anymore!\" \nShe shrugged, simultaneously\ntransforming. \"I didn't promise it, if that's what you mean.\" The\ntigress offered a paw, and he gladly accepted the help up off the floor. \n\"Maybe not, but you\ncertainly caught me off guard. Is that creature, a jaguarundi, even real?\"\n\n\"Yes Jon-Tom. I haven't\ntaken to flights of fancy just yet. I took Sala's place. She was supposed to be\nbringing you your food. But there will be time for that later. Right now, I\nthink there is more pressing business.\" \nHe couldn't help but correct\nher. \"You mean pleasure, don't you?\" \n\"Sugah, when I get going,\nyou'll know I mean business!\"\nShe was right. It was weird,\nreally. After all of the weeks in the wilderness, with only bowers and the\nstars for a ceiling, making love in a bed seemed completely out of place. But\nit was built to withstand even the punishment they were giving it. And she did\nmean business. By the time they finished, bed coverings were strewn on either\nside of the mattress. The two were nestled in the middle, breathing heavily.\n \"Well, sugah, I guess this will be it. I\nwant you to know that you are welcome to stay. Father says that you are an\nhonorary member of the city, complete with all of the privileges that come with\nit.\" \nHe considered the offer.\n\"It is a most gracious gift, and not one that I can put aside lightly. But\nyou and I have discussed this already. I cannot stay. Anything that moves us\nfrom that path only threatens to get us lost.\" \nShe purred, rubbing her face in\nhis chest. \"You know, father is right. You would make a great king. You\nhave the chance to have that, and to have me, and you give it up to save your\nideals.\" \nHe began to verbally back-step,\nbut she halted him. \"I know what kind of person you are Jon-Tom. The best\nkind. You cannot stay, because to do so would diminish who you are. You cannot\nstay for if you did, then you would no longer be the person that you would wish\nto be as king. It doesn't need to make sense; it doesn't have to be fair; it\nonly has to be.\"\nHe was crying now.\n\"Roseroar, I don't want to leave you. But I must, we talked about\nthis.\" She stroked his hair. \"We did. You are a brave man Jon-Tom;\nsometimes foolish, usually thinking too much, but always brave, loyal and\nloving. I will carry your love with me always. And you will carry mine. Indeed,\nthe light had sprung up between them again, and they both felt a mixing of\ntheir souls. His crying evaporated as he felt a wave of warmth spread through\nhim. She felt it too. \"There. See, I told you. We will share our love until\nour dying days.\" \nHe knew it to be true.\nThe next morning he set off,\nfollowed to the city gates and beyond by a large following of citizens but not\nby Roseroar. She was too disheartened to watch him leave. His posse petered out\nwithin a mile of the gates, so his journey back was quickly reduced to tedium.\nOn the second day, he sat down and pulled the duar into place across his chest.\nHe was bored and lonely. He strummed a few notes, looking for a good song to\nsing. At this point all he wanted was to go home. Even Clothahump's tree could\nbe considered home. The notes his fingers struck sounded familiar, and in no\ntime he was playing a song by John Denver. Country Roads wasn't a favorite, but\nit was a good tune with the right feelings for his present state of mind. As he\nsang, the air around him burst into light. Gneechees were everywhere. As he\nfinished the song, a path materialized out of the forest. He stood up and\nstepped on it. His brain told him it might be a mistake, but his heart said to\ngo for it. With his first step the world rushed past him in a blur. It was like\nriding the unicorn, only he was standing on his own two feet.\nThe scenery passed by swiftly,\nsome recognizable, others not so much so. It was making him dizzy, so he closed\nhis eyes. He found the effect disconcerting, for when he did, he suddenly\nseemed to be motionless. He cracked open one eye and sure enough, the scenery\nwas still blurring past. He closed his eyes tight shut, waiting for the magic\nto end. He stood in place for a long time, not wanting to open them to the\nvisually disturbing scene. Therefore, it came as a surprise when he heard his\nname called out. \n\"My boy, do you intend to\nstand outside all day or what?\" \nHe knew the voice.  The\nold turtle was cleaning his glasses. He put them back on and peered over the\ntop. \"I told you it was just as well that you suffer your own magic, and\nnot foist it on unwitting strangers.\" \nJon-Tom sighed. \n\"I'm glad to see you too\nmaster.\"\nBack in Roseroar's land some\nweeks later, the tigress and her father sat in private discussion. \"My\ndear, he was the best you would ever find. Are you sure you don't want to call\nhim back?\" \n\"No father. He loves me,\nbut I know he would never be completely happy here. He is many things, but\nneither being ruler or tiger is in his blood. He is a human and a magician; a\nspell-singer and he has much yet to learn. Someday ours paths may yet cross,\nbut not for many years to come I think. Please don't ask me to make him come\nback. He has already done so much for me. I cannot him ask for more.\"","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/782716-earning-his-stripes-part-5.json"}