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"She hasn’t done ainst me? You’re sure?"

"Positive," Dayne said "I wouldn’t be able to undo her spell, but I would know if it was there You’re clean"

The deh of relief,"Can you giveone?"

"You’re asking me to make her helpless," the sorcerer said, his expression closed

"No I’y balls She can resist a lot of my thrall" Perhaps he shouldn’t share so much information "I just don’t hat happened to Luc to happen toasked to protect her, then I should be protected from her It’s only fair Remember, I could toss her on her ass out of my dis went to shit, he could be affected with theIt would be a dehtmare But the sorcerer didn’t have to kno seriously Cain took the threat, not when he had hed "I know All right I’ of ed to ilded box off the shelf and retrieved a ring from underneath several s you’ll wear that won’t draw attention to you If you take this off, you’ll be unprotected The spell will last three moon cycles at the most, so if this isn’t resolved by then, you’ll want to return to have it recharged When all of this is over, you will return this ring to me"

Cain nodded He didn’t like the way he was being spoken to, but at this ic user with the proaudy It was a sis carved into it Probably no one would notice it

He stood out of the hile Dayne prepared for the spell Greta ca the preparation

"Hey," she said, keeping a wary eye on Cain

The sorcerer put the ring on the table "Hey So as that weird behavior about a few o?"

The therian looked confused "What weird behavior?"

Dayne pointed to the area where she’d acted so oddly "You were pacing and growling and looking really intense and sniffing, like so happened there"

"I have no idea what you’re talking about I was down here for a few e Then I came back down I wasn’t even over there"

"Is this kind of memory loss normal?" Cain asked

Dayne stroked his chin "Sometimes It depends on a lot of factors I think she was a little anxious when she shifted, but she was hue with , so her ical reason for this"

"Could she be under a spell of so that would affect her as a human but not as a cat?" Cain had paid close attention to the various ways ic could be used to fuck with someone

"It’s possible, but if someone else cast a spell on her, I wouldn’t be able to undo it"

"True, but at least you would know Besides, what if you did it?"

Dayne looked offended "Why would I do it?"

Cain shrugged "I don’t know To protect her fro? Isn’t that what men in love do?"

The sorcerer see I don’t remember either?"

"Good point Nevermind, then"

"Even if I’d done it, I can’t even undo my own spell if I don’t knohich spell I used As you can see, I have hundreds of books down here Me motion to the shelves behind him with all the books

"Well you can work on this Nancy Drew " Cain needed Dayne to stay focused and not get off track on so that didn’t involve or affect him

The sorcerer shot him an annoyed look "In a minute Greta?"

The therian bit her lip, her anxiety rising "Yeah?"

"Will you shift back? Maybe you can help me in cat for so later, but she closed her eyes and shifted anyway, her height dropping several feet in seconds The black cat wrestled her way out of her clothes

"Greta?"

"Mrawrr?"

"Do you remember what happened over there?" Dayne pointed "Blink once for yes, twice for no"

Two blinks

"But so happened?"

She tilted her head to the side, looking from the area of the room he’d indicated and back to Dayne One blink

"Do you re done?"

A pause and a look of concentration, then one blink

"Did someone else take your memory?"

Two

"Did I do it?"

One

Cain stood back and watched the kitty charades, less than a his ring, he didn’t know

"Can you remember which book I used?"