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| "Whoever the owner is, he's awfully small. I can't wear anything but his underwear!" FarSeer commented after rifling through the wardrobe. "But then I guess thieves can't be choosers, right?"

"Oh don't worry about that," Udaran replied. "I'll make sure to leave plenty of gold behind to pay for it. I'm sure whoever it is will be worried at first, but when he finds it he'll be glad we came. Besides, anyone who abandons a nice cabin like this in Skyrim HAS to expect it to be ransacked when he returns."

"Is it weird that I feel more embarrassed putting clothes on in front of you girls than just being naked?" FarSeer asked as he was putting on the underwear.

"No need to put on anything as far as I'm concerned!" Muz-Ra said.

"Thanks Red, but I don't need to be flopping around in front of you all day. So where's Ubergard?"

"She went out hunting. Should be back soon."

"Well good. At least my sister didn't have to see me." | |

| "So, FarSeer, I understand you're a lycanthrope?" asked Shabhira.

"A what?"

"Werewolf. You're a shape-changer?"

"Oh, yeah. They told you about that did they?"

Muz-Ra looked a bit embarrassed, "Well, I didn't expect we would MEET you again after all!"

"It's true nonetheless. But not something I advertise. There's too much stigma associated with it. Stigma that I, at least, don't deserve." | |

| "Would it offend you if I asked you some questions about it? The study of Nature is my hobby, you could say. Such things are TERRIBLY interesting to me."

FarSeer thought about this for a moment. "Ok, I'll answer your questions if you answer mine? Sound fair?"

"Your questions? About what?"

"Absolutely anything I want. Take it or leave it."

"Well sure, go ahead. You first." | |

| "What exactly was in that stink bomb?"

"Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that. Just an herbal concoction... with a bit of organic thrown in for pungency."

"You might be surprised at what I'm interested in. Go on. What herbs? What sort of 'organic'?"

"If you really want to know, Chaurus feces mixed with oil of poison oak. Liquified in an emulsion of activated Khajiit urine and milk."

"Milk?" FarSeer asked, touching on the only thing that didn't sound absolutely horrific.

"Well... Hagraven milk to be specific. All under pressure so breaking the vial will cause the whole thing to go into a rapidly expanding aerosol upon release. Really quite inventive."

"So I was covered in shit, piss and poison oak?"

"And Hagraven milk... It's a fixative that keeps the droplets adhesive to skin, fur or scales, and the poison oak oil keeps the whole thing waterproof. The other ingredients just create the stink." | |

| "...and Hagraven milk. Are Slaughterfish are attracted to that?"

"Oh no, I just said that to get you out of the water so we could put the ointment on."

"But..."

"Coincidence. At least as far as I know. Never tested it with Slaughterfish. Although, now that you mention it..."

"Enough! Ok, you ask me your question now," FarSeer interrupted, now keen on changing the subject. | |

| "Oh! Where do I start? No, where do YOU start? How do you initiate the change? Do you, like, work yourself into a rage or something mentally?"

"No. But it's going to be hard to explain if you aren't a Werewolf yourself. You put your mind into a sort of weird state. The closest I can explain is that it's like making yourself dizzy mentally. It's a state you can't achieve without having the ability though."

"And I understand that you have the ability to control yourself while in that form?"

"Well, NOW I do. I didn't at first. When you get 'dizzy' like that, it takes some effort to not just go to sleep. Well, not sleep exactly. Your mind wants to leave consciousness and just let the animal part take over. It takes practice and concentration not to let that happen." | |

| "And where does your consciousness go if you let it? Do you dream? Or do you still see what you're doing? Do you remember?"

"Ok, that's a lot of questions for Chaurus shit! My turn after this. The only thing I can even compare it to is an orgasm honestly. Not the pleasurable part, but just the way you seem to disappear for a short period. Before I learned to control myself, I basically was no longer there. But that's been years now. I don't get lost anymore like that."

Shabhira nodded, then added, "Ok, your turn."

"Where do you get your ingredients?"

"For the stink bomb? Well, oddly enough the hardest to get is the Hagraven milk. But you'd be surprised what adventurers try to sell. Fortunately we have PLENTY of adventurers around trying to sell every weird thing they come across. It's not even expensive, just hard to find. The poison oak oil I extract myself - but I've got some pretty ingenious methods to do it without touching it if I do say so myself! Let's see, Chaurus feces is actually very easy to find if you know what you're looking for. There's a mine near Markarth that used to be infested with them. The Chaurus were cleared out long ago, but they left plenty behind. Fortunately it doesn't lose it's power over time. That's why it's particularly effective. Stinks Strong, Lasts Long! But it's even more effective when combined with Khajiit urine. There's a chemical reaction that happens there. Both increase the potency of the other. As for where I get that... well, let's just say I generate it personally." | |

| "You PISSED ON ME!" FarSeer laughed.

"Well, indirectly... yes."

"Ok, just one more question."

"Wait, it's my turn!"

"Oh, ok. Go ahead."

"What happens to the fur?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" | |

| "When you turn into the beast form, suddenly you gain all this fur. Then when you change back, you're back to a scaled Argonian. No fur. Where does it go? Most hair is inorganic dead fibrous material. Do you shed? Is there fur left all over where you turn back? Or do the dead follicles reanimate?"

FarSeer thought about that for a moment. "No... I guess it just disappears. I don't know really. I never thought about it. But no, there doesn't end up being a bunch of fur laying around anyway. Huh... I wonder where it DOES go?"

"An if I snip a bit off, will it disappear too when you turn back?"

"Damned if I know!"

"See, that's the problem. How can you NOT ask these questions? But nobody ever does! Well, I AM. And I'm going to find out the answers too. If you'll help me." | |

| "FarSeer, do you think I could maybe watch you when you change? Would that be OK?"

"Well... sure. If you want to. You've already seen ALL of me. Hell, between you and Kitty, you've TOUCHED all of me. I guess it would be silly not to."

"I would like that. Very much. You change nightly then?"

"Yes. Pretty much every night."

"Excellent! Then it's settled. Tonight I'll run with the Wolf!"

"You want to stay with me all night?"

"Sure! If you say it's safe that is. I've lots of things I'd like to try!"

"I... Well. I've never had anyone ask to stay with me before. I've never considered it. But yeah, it'll be safe."

"Ok, last question is yours. Ask away!"

The Argonian seemed to be confused though. "Let me save it for later," he finally said when Shabhira asked again. | |