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Soap hunched forward a little

"Soap! Are you unwell?" Vieve lurched forward Sophronia had al

Soap’s teeth were beginning to extend "I’m sorry I’m so sorry But I think you both should run" His hair was becoht curls and descend all over his body as fur His ears looked like they were stretching slightly, and his eyes were turning froold

Sophronia couldn’t help but back away

Vieve, with casual grace, reached over one shoulder, pulled a blunderbuss from a strap on her back, pointed it at Soap, and shot

"Wait, Vieve, what are you…?" Sophronia trailed off, for no e es like a fisher Soap

"Ouch, that stings" Soap looked like a disgruntled bride

"Good" Vieve was unsyet ahold of yourself"

"Yes, Captain" Soap ca about hi in on itself His hair went back to the tight black coils Sophronia was so fond of petting His ears returned to their roundness, his eyes to their liquid brown

"How do you feel?" Sophronia h the net

"Ashamed Trapped"

"Controlled, I hope" Sophronia hid her worry

"I think you should kiss hirave

"Thank you for the advice It shall be recorded for posterity that you once encouraged public courtship" Sophronia pretended outrage

Vieve was offended "No, silly Wolves respond well to touch His instinct for protection and preservation should kick in through concentrated affectionate exposure This ht limit his capacity for shift under constraints of eh the lish, but I’hed "She thinks if we kiss it will control my desire to shift, convince my wolf side to see you as family, not food"

Sophronia considered "And what do you think?"

"Can’t hurt to try"

"Opportunist" Sophronia bent forward and kissed him, mostly because she wanted to The cool metal of the mesh between their skin seeer under the barrier

Sophronia drew back

"Also, you two need totoward theion of their ?" Sophronia asked

Soap closed his eyes, as though running an inventory of his internal organs "Feels like"

Vieve looked to Sophronia "Ready?"

Sophronia nodded

Vieve whipped away the silver net and Sophronia stepped into Soap’s arain--for medicinal purposes only, of course They eency than passion, but it was firone--fro

Meanwhile, theheads peeking out of the hatch of engineering

Sophronia went red as a beet They had been observed!