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I think I made good time on this one, a good 8k words in about two weeks. Next story will be a side story with different characters set in the same world(I'm even partway into it)that I will dump into this folder. Enjoy!

I awoke as the first rays of light leaked into over the land to wetness on my chest. Veira was slowly licking me making an effort to flick the point of her long tongue over me before starting with again with a slow, long lick running across my chest. Noticing me stir she looked up and smiled a lovely content smile.

"Sleep well my mate?" She asked sweetly, moving so she could rest her head on my shoulder.

"Well enough, we should move quickly and get out things together." I told her looking over at the blackened ashes of our fire to notice that the naughty little blue thing was missing again.

"Ah, she was already gone when I awoke my love, yet the grass that was under her is still bent so I should think she did not wake long ago. Perhaps we could wait for a moment for her return to gather our things and continue our journey." She said as she pressed her hips against mine trapping my erect shaft between us. "Ah, it would seem you perhaps would not mind to help me in my need this morning as well it seems." She said as she rolled on top of me and down my body. She buried her nose again in my pubic hair before moving down between my legs, giving my balls a good lick before sucking on one and then popping the other into her mouth.

They dropped back against me with a wet 'smack' which seemed to amuse her as she ran a single claw lightly down from the tip of my cock to its base. The light pressure making me shiver involuntarily. Taking that as her cue she slid her mouth over my cock and pressed it to the back of her throat. Then pulling out she starting again to take my cock this time biting down ever so slightly every half in or so like she was imagined she was eating a meal. The little pricks were light enough not to hurt but hard enough to be stimulating as my dick twitched inside her little muzzle. Her head bobbing up and down my shaft as she forced it across the roof of her mouth and down her throat, her tongue switching between massaging the underside of my shaft and wrapping around it as she moved. Then pulling off it with a satisfying last, uncomely slurp she smacked her lips and straddled my hips.

"May I have the privilege to take your maleness inside me Tal?" She asked as she looked down on my pulsing member. She had one hand around it at the base her short fingers unable to go fully wrap around it. "I should like to again take this beast inside me. You did take me deeper than I thought should be possible, yet I accommodated it, proof further that we were meant to be mates. She happily said as she still waited for my reply. Her glistening engorged sex just above my tip. Such a lovely view to see that little thing and remember how it looked with my meat spreading it wide apart.

"I think you are mistaken Veira. You barely took half my cock last night, I had a good couple inches left waiting outside getting cold in the night air." I teased her as it seems she doesn't realize exactly how last night went.

"I am your female it is a sure thing that I can take your maleness, the beastly proportions of it notwithstanding." She said with a mock frown.

"No, you truly did not even come close to taking it all, but if you want to try, go ahead. Then after you fail lets pack and move on, just try not to hurt yourself." I told her, we really don't have time for this. Lexi can catch up with us if she doesn't return soon. Her nose should find our scent trail with Veira like this easily.

"So be it then Tal. Veira said as she positioned herself over my cock and then with one quick motion plunged herself down on my member with all her might, letting my dick quickly split her hole open before being pressed painfully hard against the end of her vagina.

Her teeth were clenched, claws flicking open and closed and her whole body was still as she impaled herself upon me. With strain and tears in her eyes she forced a stupid smile with her mouth half open and laughed a little as she said "Ah, ah, see Tal, I am of a surety your mate and can easily conquer your beast."

What can I do but return the smile of such a foolish act, as the last two or three inches of my shaft was still clearly sticking out from her. "Perhaps you can move your hand down to your sex to inspect your feat Veira."

Her hand tentatively moved to her sex and to the fleshy protrusion filling her and then down to its base, her eyes going even wider. "No... no it can not be." She said as she gave a disbelieving laugh before becoming suddenly very worried. "Ah, Tal I, ah, I am still your mate yes? I should say, ah I do not know what to say. I have failed again to please my male." She told me giving way to wretched disappointment and looking like she was almost ready to shed tears.

I just laughed a bit and helped her to lift off me. "How compatible we are for sex had nothing to do with whether we are mates or not. You ARE my wife Veira, your kind is just smaller than mine, more so in some areas than others it seems. That does not disqualify you from being my female" It is nice to make girls squirm as they get fucked with a good sized cock but in this case it isn't so good having Veira's already low confidence take a hit. "Come on now lets get our things together and go. Our pursuers will be on us quickly. Or no? I want to check the offering I poured last night first I think."

I grabbed Veira by her hand as we headed over to the towering speckled grey monolith. The glow of the moss seeming to have dimmed with the rising morn. A strong breeze blew past us as we approached, causing the ley energy to well up into the rock, which in turn made the pale blue moss pulse with light for a moment before dying down again.

The depressions for the offerings stood plainly in sight within the monument but to my surprise they were neither empty nor filled with my potion. A strange blue ball seemed to be in the first depression. Swirling with white and green inside it. It looked like the sphere was almost spinning with how the colors moved inside it, but the colors inside were pure ley energy that my eyes could now see effortlessly. Behind the blue ball in the second depression was even more surprisingly a second sphere this one yellow looking to be more solid and giving off a strong glow with just a few traces of white moving around inside. There was no ley energy that I could see in it. It was something different that the first.

"Ah, Tal! How wondrous, you were correct to give an offering to the spirits that reside here. Ah, yet what do you make of these spheres my most wise mate?" Veira said excitedly wrapping her tail around me tightly and reaching over giving me a kiss on the cheek. Genuinely pleased that something had happened after I made an offering, not really caring that we don't know at all what exactly they are. "Ah, this one matches my fur, Tal do you suppose..." Veira said as she reached out her hand towards the yellow globe. The thing jumped to her finger and disappeared before it had a chance to make contact and before I could say anything to Veira. "AH." She cried as she fell back on her furry ass.

'Veira, are you alright?"

"Ah, yes Tal, I do think that I am fine. Forgive me for my foolishness, touching such a thing that I can not comprehend with my small mind." She said as she looked at her hand where the ball had touched her. There was no sign of injury or the sphere just a confused, rather attractive female staring at her hand in shock.

"It's too late to do anything about that now. And no I have no clue what that was, it's not ley energy like this other one is."

"I'm sorry Tal, for taking your boon or ah whatever it may have been. What of the other one?"

"Don't worry about it Veira. I actually think that if left to myself I would of only touched the blue one. I trust ley energy more then that thing you touched, well I just don't know. In-fact I don't know if either is actually a boon or some type sustenance for the creator of this place or even another phase of some ritual. Magic isn't something we should play around with." I told her while staring at the swirling ball still sitting in the lower basin. Should I touch it? I really don't think that it will harm me but is it really something that is meant for me to use or not. I don't want to anger some dragon that built this or even a pack of Synwyn that might be the caretakers. But of course if it really is some type of boon meant for me.....

"Why not we'll be gone in a moment and if it has some use other than being a boon for us we'll be away before whoever would use it should come." I told Veira as I reached out to grab the ball.

Just as with Veira it shoot towards my hand before I even touched it. But instead of a getting surprise and jumping back, it stung like the void. I chariot of pain flashing up my arm like lightning. Across my shoulders, to my head and then running down to one leg and then to the other before stopping. The sudden pain made every muscle in my body jerk, but just as quickly as it started it was done, leaving me in a cold sweat.

"TAL!" Veira cried in alarm and worry, tears already flowing from her eyes. I just held out an arm to her to help support me for a moment while my muscles recovered. Looking down at the ground panting for a moment, the little beads of sweat upon my brow falling to the grass. A strange little blackish glob beside my foot. I jumped back as soon as I noticed it. Veira did as soon as I jumped back as well. "Tal what is that? I think that I should not like to touch it." She said with a smile trying to lighten the mood while her eyes still reflected her alarm at my state.

"A good decision. Lets just get away from here. I'm feeling alright Veira. You can let go of me it perhaps didn't like the manashock in me. I'm a fool for thinking to do something like that with a negating agent inside of me. Are you ready to get out of here? Veira?" I asked as she was still staring at the sickly looking glob on the ground as it seemed to be starting to bubble.

"Sorry Tal, ah, I mean yes we should make haste." She said as we moved back to our campsite her emotions in flux, her heat doing her no favors in that regard. She sniffed at the air cocked her head and quickly went over to the edge of the clearing bending over by a tree, likely looking at the spot where Lexi left earlier but at the same time giving me a very tempting view.

Her tail was wagging in the air held high her reddish sex with a little oval gap between her lips on full display with her tight puckered little tailhole above it. A single strand of grool oozing down from her pussy catching the first ray of the morning's light, like the sign from some fertility god to perform my duty as a man. It's no lie when my father said I liked the furred ones because this little thing was making me use up all my willpower not to just rush over and start pounding away at her. And then she turned back towards me, putting a hand on the tree she was bending over by. Tail still high sex still in full view and her innocent face looking at me with concern. If she said anything to me when she turned around I didn't hear it.

"Don't move" I told her as I walked quickly over to her, still naked from last night as with my cock now being at full mast again, awkwardly swaying to and fro as I made my way. "Hold on tight you little temptress." I told her as I grabbed her hips and pulled her tail out of my way, realization dawning on her about what I was about to do suddenly and happily coming to her eyes.

"Oh, yes, my sweet mate. Take your female, leave me full of your kits." She said as she braced herself against the tree. She almost shrieked in joy as she felt the tip of my cock enter her, but managed to muffle it so she didn't seem too unbecoming.

"I'll give you a good fuck for the road seeing how you're such a bad little vixen taking my presents."

"Please do punish me then, lest I forget whose bitch I am."

My cock slid easier int her slick sex than before, the angel being more natural for her allowing me to sink in filling her with my thick shaft. The erotic sight of my thick cock spreading her lips apart making me harder. The lovely musky smell of her heat making me want her all the more.

We should be packing up and starting to make our way deeper into the forest where we will be all but impossible to find. But Lexi isn't here right now, and Veira might not be able to keep up if she is worrying about her heat. So giving her a nice strong fuck and busting a nut inside her is an alright course of action for the moment.

I leaned over her nipping her on the neck causing her to gap in surprise before giving one of her delightful, sexy murrs. My cock slowly pushing in and out of her digging deeper and deeper into her little treasure with every thrust until I was pushing against her sweet spot over and over again. With every thrust she bucked her hips back to meet mine. Every time I hit her spot she tried to grind into me, wishing that I would leave my cock buried so deep inside her. And each time I would quickly take it out and thrust into her again. Increase in strength, making her call out with every thrust as I forced my way through her tight exotic sex. Her muscle rings squeezing down on my cock as I was working her over in time with her breaths, which started coming hotter and faster.

I moved my hands to her small breasts roughly grabbing them as I plowed her good, my fingers digging into her milky white fur, her moans becoming louder and louder. Her claws digging into the bark of the tree she was propped against, leaving lines of bark missing as she ran her hands back up every time they slipped too far down. A small pile of wood shaving at her feet, her legs starting to wobble as I pushing her up as I quickened my pace being careful not to push too deep, stopping short with each thrust of her her sensitive spot, trying to prolong the fuck. I was lifting her up onto the very top of her toes with each push, my balls swinging freely ready to pump her full of sticky white sperm.

"Ha...ha...Tal...please...slow down,....it is too...much....let me cum,....please..." She managed to say through panting breaths. I wasn't letting her adjust to my cock as I pumped her hard and fast seeing how sensitive her sex hole was. But I was close anyway her constant squeezing had put me close for some time, so I might as well.

Grabbing her meaty tail underhanded I popped my thumb into her tailhole, making her jump and squeek before pulling out one final time and slowly forcing my cock inside her. Pressing up against the hard little sex spot and then trying to stretch her further. Grinding back and forth, her body tense as she turned her head to bite her arm and came hard. Her muscles trying to lock me into place so they could milk the precious cum from my balls. The sensation of her velvety walls contracting around me sending me over the edge as I poured my seed into her fallow field he needy pussy taking every drop.

I lent her my arm smiling at her as we made our way back over to our things and helped her put her robe on. Her eyes were slightly glazed over, her face was flush and wearing a very content smile.

Veira had recovered a bit, enough anyway to slide up against me and kiss and nuzzle me as we packed up our small camp and dressed. "You are most adept at making a female happy Tal'keelis. A male of amazing proportions, yet still in possessing of a tender touch. I am a such a fortunate female." She said as she gave me a quick peck on the cheek.

"I hope that will last you the day, my horny little fox."

"Mmmm, no it won't. I will not be nearly enough, yet I shall make due."

I was about to respond when the bushes to the east of us rattled as Lexi came bounding out fast as aylote on the hunt. "Bad people!" She cried her eyes wide open and full of fear as she bounded over to us.

Shit! they're here already. How did they manage to chase my trail so easily. If I only just made haste after waking up like I said we should. But now now what? Run? can't hide if they tracked us here. Fight? How many will there be and what quality. Outnumbered I can likely only get one poorly trained city guard before being overwhelmed, maybe two. But what if they're the mercenaries from earlier? Veira won't be able to use a feint to get out of this. Lexi will only be a liability. I can't worry about her, she will have to defend herself if she wants to live. What of Veira, she may have them hesitate to attack her, which mean they will circle and attack from behind if we get separated. But if we stay together we will be surrounded with no chance to break away. If I separate from her she will likely get struck down. I could likely kill one with a rush , quick parry and a slash to his side and then run. But I can't leave Veira can I? Do we run now and try to escape or fight in the forest or is the open better? Can't bring the packs, they will be too slow only weapons.

"Veira run north!" I shouted as I jumped up, unsheathing my dagger and handing it to her as I started for the edge of the clearing. Distance is all that matters right now, we can't fight more than three or four in the open and have any chance to win, too risky.

A black skinned Breck emerged straight ahead of me blocking my way from the grove. His white loin cloth bearing a familiar symbol. His beady eyes stared unblinking at me as he smiled, spread his wings and pointed his polished halberd at me and took his stance.

Around the clearing two, ...three...four, six...seven others emerged encircling us, cutting off any easy escape. Lexi bounded off towards the south her feelers starting to glow as it looked like little blobs of light started to form around the feathery,stranded ends. Then suddenly they shot out straight for the guard ahead of her as she rushed full speed at him. His eyes opened wide at the strange sight of the balls of light and quickly dove towards the left out of their path. The lights had a different idea as they changed direction and followed the man as Lexi sprinted by him. The man getting hit with them as he was standing up. The balls disappearing into nothing and the guard turning to pursue the escaping Synwyn.

"HOLD!" the breck called as the man turned his attention back to Veira and myself. The guards slowly starting to close the gap between us. 4 with halberds, three with swords and one with a pair of axes. Eight to one or two I guess.

I looked over to Veira, her eyes were firm and fierce staring down a beige striped Ah'komeli with glowing blue eyes from among the other human guards. Jacks, and he took a potion like I had. I could see the discoloration the manashock caused in the ley energy within him despite the tell in his eyes.

"Ah, these seem to be worse odds than I would care for my love." She said in an easy manner giving me a smile. She set her legs wide apart one hand outstretched in front of her palm open, her dagger held in the other with a backhand grip, low and to the side. A rather convincing pose but, I can't think that anything but blood will get us out of this and a lot of it. Still why not try? There's no way we can kill these eight, I doubt Veira can do anything before being struck. And I, if I have to face this Breck who seems to be the leader, I doubt I can handle him singly.

"Come now Breck, tell me your mad that I didn't kill Tsarano as well? My little toy didn't exactly play her part as she was meant to." I shrugged my shoulders and gave the mirthless male a smile.

"Jacks might be a fool and the damn fire mercenaries might be cowards and fools, but I am neither, hunter. Or no, you are not even a hunter. Your trail was far too easy to follow, you relied too heavily on your guidestone and you didn't continue until exhaustion. Rookie mistakes all of them. You won't have a chance to correct them however. You are sentenced to death for the murder of the honorable councilman Nokato. Lay down your arms and die with honor wretches." The Breck smiled as he said this, a blue glow starting to form at the end of his halberd as well as on the tips of his stunted wings. He muttered words under his breath as his eyes rolled back into his head.

"Fight as the Wilders, servant of the flame!" I cried as I charge him. I can't let him start to use spells, that would end us before we even start, and besides if I can cut him down the others will hopefully falter and give us some chance of coming out of this intact.

I was too late the Breck lept into the air on swirling blue mist as the spell he cast enlarged his wing so he could take to the air like his ancestors before stopping and pointing his weapon at me folded his wings and dove. The whole weapon now covered with the same blue energy, likely some kind of hardening or sharpening spell. If I try and block or parry it will likely cut straight through my sword and me. But he's fairly cocky and aloof. He probably thinks I don't really know how to fight and maybe that's true compared to these others but I bet I'm still quicker than him and diving he can't easily change direction I just have to wait for the right moment.

Faster and faster he came down in two blinks of an eye. I crouched low, setting my sword in front of me, bracing it with my other hand, looking like I will try to absorb the blow. I could see him smile but he didn't seem to notice as both my feet dug into the earth as I rested on the balls of my feet. Just another moment and...

I rolled hard to the left as he came down upon me missing me by two good feet. I grounded myself and came around to face him as I rose up, both hands on my sword as I swung at his backside. He turned in an instant, whipping his halberd around to meet my blow. A clang erupted as he hooked my sword with a loud clang, but the force of my swing was too great for him, with setting his feet. He hadn't had time to set his feet after his dive and I pushed his weapon back and out of his hand changing the direction of my swing causing my sword to rise before setting itself into his arm, sticking him unto the bone but no further.

He jumped back in rage and raised him hand a quick blue flash and a hundred pins of energy shoot forth from his good hand. I turned to try and shield myself not being able to move quick enough to escape the projectile. I was too slow, pain ripped through me was dozens of the little things hit me. Most of them fell into the protected shoulders of my shirt but some catching my on the neck and back of my head.

I blindly charge towards him, turning around as I started to rush. His normally cold eyes were burning with rage. He had no weapon but his talons now, I can slice him and then go onto the next. I took a large swing over my head as I moved in. I'm going to cut him down with this one, he won't be able to block or get inside me to use those nasty fingers of his.

As my sword came crashing down on what should have been his head he disappeared. A haze dissipating from where he was. I looked around and saw him running towards his weapon shooting at the guards to stop watching and kill us. I couldn't let him get to his weapon, a blue band around his arm where I sliced him was giving him at least temporarily use of it again.

He's more of a mage than a guard with this magic, but then again he is a Breck, I should have expected such from his kind. Still magic drain strength. He should be weaker now after a few spells, I should be able to overpower him. I can feel a few trickles of blood running down my neck but that's nothing compared to what I've felt recently.

All this charging is reckless but I can't let him get comfortable. I ran at him with my sword out in from my second hand on the pommel . Out of the corner of my eyes I could see Veira blow a guard a kiss as they slowly started in on her. There were two more that were closing in behind the Breck, if I don't get him in a swing or two here I'll have to contend with the other ones behind him. What can I do to make sure? Is there anything I'm missing? He has an advantage over me in weapons and he can cast minor spells quickly. He's starting another one the breath he's sucking in is coated in magic. Spells, yes the manashock is coursing through my blood. I can...

I drew my sword back as I ran, concentrating trying to force the tainted ley energy inside my into my arm, I cutting across the back of my left arm deep enough to draw a lot of blood It streamed down my arm covering my hand as I changed tactics to try and slice him. I brought the sword across trying to slice at his gut. He blocked easily with his halberd and smiled as he opened his mouth the light blue energy he uses collected there and started to shoot out as I dropped my sword and jumped towards him, bringing my left blood covered hand towards his face. He recognized too late my plan as the spell was already released. My hand made contact with it inches from his face. A deafening crackle went through the grove as an explosion pushed him back. He gave a hawkish cry as he fell to the earth his face burnt and smoldering, two streams of blood flowing down from the smoldering craters where his eyes should have been. He rose up to his knees and cried out again in rage his whole body enveloping with light.

The guards stopped for only a moment seeing their leader fall before being filled with rage as well. I grabbed my sword from off the ground and ran towards Veira just as the first of the guards slashed at her with an poleaxe. "Behind!" one cried as I closed in on his friend, Far too late. You have to have better awareness than that in a battle and the seeing potion I took feels like a sixth sense. Each step they take a can sense it as soon as they come into contact with the ley energy coursing through this place. Each one of them is a disruption to the natural flow. My sword easily pierced his leather armor as I stuck him through his heart a sword tip suddenly appearing in his view, before I roughly pulled it back, kicking the man down as his life drained out of him.

Two to six, doable perhaps but we were encircled now. Jacks called out for them to take a defensive posture saying they could wear us down and pointing out my blood covered hand and arm. Blows came fast and hard one after another, after another each from a different guard. I blocked and parried the best I could, Veira was able to dodge them for the most part but each dodge put her dangerously close to the next blow coming down on her. Her dagger cannot stop the force from a pole weapon and with them this close to use she won't get a chance to get inside his defense and give him a poke.

I got a few cuts in one one of the guards but Jacks suddenly sprung forward towards Veira as she was dodging out of the way of another blow, she rolled away from it only to find a third guard was trying to skewer her as she moved. The blow came down straight on her she stopped mid roll on her back and held up her dagger only slightly being able to lessen the blow. The sword cut her right between her breasts, like a butcher breaking down a beast. She gave a throaty groan as she was hit but pushing herself back towards the guard with the dagger the blade of the halberd just missing her head as she slid a foot closer to him and kicked him square in the balls with both feet, claws out before spinning up and back to a fighting stance a nasty snarl on her face teeth bared her robe half cut open her small breasts open to the air a line of her blood standing out from the snow white fur of her underside.

I gave a roar of challenge in response and stepped towards the greenest looking remaining guard, he took a few steps back and tripped. Luckily for him his comrades came at me from each side causing me to focus on them rather than putting my sword in him.

"Tal, to the earth!" Veira cried in urgency. I looked around and couldn't see anything else the matter or what could be wrong. She ran three steps towards me where I had broken their circle moving just barely out of the way of a sword slash a few strands of her hair getting cut and getting caught up in a suddenly strong breeze and blowing behind me.

A feral roar erupted from behind us in. Turning the Breck was awash in energy the wind swirling around him violently grasses being ripped out of the ground, twigs and leaves starting to circle around him in a cyclone. He laughed like a madman as his wings started to be consumed by the light blue magic. Each feather seemingly making the force stronger until his wings were gone completely. It took only seconds, Veira had barely reached me when he completed his spell it seemed.

The world slowed down. Jacks called out the the Breck to stop. The guards all looked on with fear. The mad Breck smiled as the winds around him suddenly stopped. Thousands of thin crescents several inches long of blue magic appeared out of the swirling storm. Holding still for only the briefest of moments. Those thing were going to shoot from there just like the pins only these were larger and more numerous. Veira tackled me to the ground and laid herself on top of me.

She's trying to shield me. Do I let her stay or roll over and put her under me?

A crackle sounded and then a scream and another and another and more. There was a flash of light and then nothing. No sound, no light. Darkness. Silence and darkness.

If am I dead, if so why do I still hurt. I can feel the cut in my forearm and my sword arm is sore from defending blows, my neck stings and I think I hit my head a bit hard when Veira tackled me.

Green light. Pulsing, flowing and ebbing all around me. Yellow strange energy making a shell around me. Cracking and then shattering into nothing. Green grass below me, the ley energy flowing through me connecting me to the earth.

"Tal'keelis Alos you fool!" a muffled voice below me said. "A proper male should not endanger his life for a mere female." She spoke sourly. I just used my good arm and pushed up off the ground a bit and then bent down and kissed her.

"Shush you." She's truly mad at me even a kiss not making her smile.

Quickly I stood up looking around the grove. The trees surrounding the grove were hacked and slashed. Some were fallen down others had limbs and branches missing. The guards were bloody messes in dozens to countless pieces. An earthen circle with a figure in it held the Breck, blood still streaming from where his wings would have been. I heard rumors of spells that consume part of your body as a reagent but such recklessness is hard to believe. Killing friend and foe alike, and the male would have lived had his men won. I just can't understand that.

"Tal'keelis do not turn from me! I am your female, what wretched ancestors do you pray to that you decide to try and give your life for a lowly female such as myself. All these problems you face are my fault yet you have nerve enough to mimic my poor choices and attempt to kill yourself for me." She was seething, her ears were down and back, lips curled fully and she was actually snarling at me. She really is adorable when she's mad, her whole face brimming with such emotion. So angry, fiery and fetching and such sharp little teeth she has as well.

"Forgive me then Veira"

"I shall not forgive you, it is inconceivable that you would act such as you have..."

"Are you sure you not the one who is inconceivable?"

"Tal'keelis I make no play on words."

"No? Forgive me for what I'm about to then, for I won't ask forgiveness for what I've already done." She just needs to understand her place and worth.

'SMACK' I stuck her hard across the muzzle. Yet she didn't even flinch. "If you want to kill yourself so badly Veira take that dagger of mine and run yourself through with it." Her eyes still stared at me without any hint of change. If I can't snap her out of whatever dumb Gre'nahk notion has hold of her like that I'll just have to leave her mad at me then it seems. Damn I hit her for nothing, mother forgive me.

"You dare to, I ah, Tal. "She started breaking out of her little anger induced trance. "Curse you Tal! Can you not let me do anything to aid you? Must I continue to be a burden to you. You ask me to be a companion to you, you not taking the place as my master as a proper male should, yet I obey. I love you as I know how, I try to do as you ask. I try to understand with my weak mind your talk of masks and being myself. I even chance to think that I have understood as the past days passed well until yesterday. Yet still, I try to do as a female should to her betters and then you do not allow it. Why Tal'keelis? Why do you allow me to continue with you as such. I love you Tal, you are my mate. I shall do what you ask of me as is proper, yet why? What do I still lack, that you will not let me be either your servant or your female. What should I be? Why do you drag this out? What lack I?" She was crying now tears raining down upon the scarred earth beneath our feet. The outburst had left her staring at the ground with a defeated look on her face.

What doesn't she understand? A lot I think but why is she still stuck on this now? I've been ignoring any talk of her actions the past few days because I didn't wish to engender strife for her. But still she thinks so little of her self. I don't want a servant or a breeding female like she seems to think her choices are I want a partner, a companion someone who can be equal to me. But even if I want that and I force her to change and become something like that could she still really be considered my equal? She would be no more than wearing a mask that I crafted for her. Even then is that really so different from what someone in love would to to begin with? Wouldn't they try to change and present themselves in a way that enkindles affection from that one?

I just don't know with her. I think, I think all I can do is encourage her to do what makes her happy. If she chooses to take on some personality or another because she think I like similar girls then so be it. But what I can't have her do is thinking that she is dumb, worthless or unloved. Do I love her?...... No, she frustrates me even when she's not trying but at the same time she can be....desirable? Not just her sexy lithe body with her curves, long sexy tail and fair face but I think even her company is. Yeah, I really do enjoy sleeping with her on me and her nativity easily make me smile.

She's changed so much in just a few weeks already, I have to think that she will continue to do so. That she will start to see herself in a better light. Then perhaps also part of the problem is that I don't value her enough yet. If I truly loved her I can't help but think that she wouldn't act this way because if I did then I wouldn't try her as I do perhaps. And if I was clearer with what I wanted from her she would just do it, she already has an aversion to causing me grief despite that fact that she actually does. Whereas now her actions are just more annoying to me than anything else. So then...the problem between us.... is.......me?

I wrapped my arms around her holding the back of her head and just hushed her in a calming voice until her breathing returned to normal. Just the two of us in the silent grove a gently wind stirring up the countless leaves scattering the ground. Carnage spread around us, blood and parts of flesh littered the ground. The blood from our own wounds smearing on the other. "You're a good female Veira, don't be too hard on yourself. You've helped me more than any other woman has, we just need more time together. Time we seem to have been granted."

"I am a woman to you Tal? Not just a female or a furred one? Ah, like that Karen who you were in love with?" She ask looking up at me wondering. I don't think I really mean to call her a woman she isn't a human after all but it seems like she was taking my separation of words to mean more than they do to me. Silly thing thinking that because I call her a female or girl instead of a woman it means anything different about how I feel for her.

"They're all the same to me really Veira. A woman is a human female just like a vixen is a Gre'nahk female. You are my wife Veira, my mate. That is what matters. Please stop berating yourself thinking you are unworthy, insufficient or other things like that. You are fine as you are and I'm sure you will become a stronger woman, vixen, female, girl, bitch, furred one, whatever you want to think of yourself as."

"Ah, I am sorry Tal. I do not know why I said many of those things."

"You're in heat Veira"

"That is hardly an excuse Tal, were you a female you would know this."

"And if I was I wouldn't be here with you, so go fetch the packs they seemed to have survived."

"Ah, but what would be if you were indeed a female and then I the todd?"

"Then we still wouldn't be here, you silly thing. We are neither Vestige nor mages we can't changes what we were born as, so fetch the packs, enough with whatever reason you said what you did for and don't start it again. I don't want to stay here any longer. That Breck defiled this place.

Lexi will have to catch up, if she even comes back I guess. I don't blame her for running, they weren't really after here after all. Really I think I would have told her to do the same thing, if she gave me the chance. She did come back and warn us so there's that. I won't hold any type of grudge towards her after all I wasn't planning on trying to defend her.

A rumbling from the ground made Veira and myself stop from our casual thoughts as the ground seemed to break up and push up out of the earth. Rocks, clumps of grass and soil made way and were thrown to the side as something emerged from nearby us. A figure on all fours gave a loud grunt. I quickly grabbed my sword. Perhaps we are not yet through this rough patch. But what is this? Some creature buried and sleeping near the obelisk?

With a roar more dirt and dust flew into the air as a figure stood up on two legs before quickly bending over and retching once and then again. Ears perked up on the creature as it straightened itself out and through the haze of dust were two glowing blue eyes. The Ah'komeli.

"I'll cut you down now so you can join your foolish comrades." I spat through clenched teeth. Enough of this day already. Can I not have any peace?

"Hold man" Jacks said as he leaned over putting his hands on his knees. I could see blood coming out his ears, mouth and eyes. If not for the potion he would be blinded. If he was under the earth like that it means that he cast a spell while having the manashock potion within him. He grimaced and was trying to catch his breath to continue. There was not a cut on his body his armor was whole, so all his pain must be from either casting a spell he had not mastered or more likely a reaction to the manashock. It has never been clearer to me why it is banned in the Hawks' lands.

"You want me to live." He started again, trying to lift his head enough to look me in the eyes.

"No, I really think that I don't. No witnesses this time."

"Hmph, no the matter is already over." The cat smiled a little before coughing up a spot of blood covered flem. "You win, guards all dead, but if I live as well then it can be made to seem like you died but if no one returns then Terrace must think that you have won. Is it not better to put this to rest now, than have a chance to revisit it in the future?" He said as he labored for breath.

"Why should we trust you mister Jacks, seeing how we told you to leave already and yet here you are again. You even still guided the guards to our position. It should be that you value your duty beyond your life already. Why then should we allow you to return and inform the council that we did in a surety escape the hunt?" Veira spoke coming over to me suddenly aware that her robe had been cut mostly open her wound and breasts open to the air as she kept a hand to her robe to keep it closed.

"I came because I was ordered, and now with everyone dead I will be disgraced, there will be no more place for me there. I shall say that Thuan-Duc killed all but me in his anger for loosing to the Ish'ra'nahk's handler. They will be satisfied with this. Did I not let you leave without a fight to begin with. Ish'ra'nahk my furry balls, I will trust my instincts better next time I think. Be reasonable, we are all Wilders. In the end I have done you no harm, I ask only for my life. I care not that you have killed who you did, or did you sense in your conversation with Nokato, that he cared for me or my kind as he sold them as slaves? Mercy is all I ask, do not defile this place further."

I planted my sword in the ground in front of Veira and turned my back. Whatever she decides is fine by me. It will give her confidence and hopefully show that I do value her to let her decide the mer's fate.

"Leave Mister Jacks, I do not like all this death for it makes me uneasy. Do not trouble my precious mate and I further." She said as she grasped the sword and pointed with it for him to leave.

He straightened himself up, gave a short bow before reaching down to his halberd and used it as a walking stick as he exited the clearing slowly stepping over downed branches and trees.

There we go now we can perhaps get on with the story a bit more and see where Tal and Veira are going. Do they even know at this point? Nope they don't have a clue.

_ On a separate note, I think that the sex scenes are more distracting for me. I never really wanted to add any on screen sex as it were to the story but i felt that I could use it to both flush out the nature of the characters while they were not under stress a bit more. I guess they also add a bit towards the feeling of Veira and Tal towards each other, but that should be covered well enough in Tals thoughts So I'm not sure if there will be another one or not yet._