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The barghest winced, and as I pulled away I growled, "Trill!"

"Don’t huff at me, Nell wanted you," the kelpie chortled, as she stepped froain in her pony forliht "Hoas I supposed to know Anyan was planning on ju your bones the minute you woke up?"

"Leave them alone, Trill," came Nell’s kindly voice from behind the kelpie The little woman stepped up from behind the sea-pony She didn’t seerante

"We’re sorry to interrupt," Nell said "But everyone’s waiting for you at the Sty"

I gave Trill the traitor a sharp look She should have warned Nell that Anyan and I were, u a reunion One with no clothes, at least on rin in response

I gave her the finger

"So if you’re finished, we can get over there," Nell said, levitating hest Then the gno hirand Jane’s bones"

CHAPTER FIVE

As I walked through the door of the Sty, I was hit with the faether with a faint undertone of Pine-Sol And there, around the large, square bar that jutted out onto the edge of the Sow’s small dance floor, sat all of my Rockabill chums They were clustered around Tracy--she and Grizzie were taller than any ofany mind to the front door

Nell and Trill, blanketed under the gnoroup For so herself, especially if she interacted with humans at all I think it was a concentration issue So for the very, very occasional times she ay frolaaze unfocus, I could see the large dog’s shape padding over the clopping for Nell and Trill, Iup at him speculatively I wasn’t so slow that I didn’t realize there was so between us, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t opposed to reassurance After all, the last thing I remembered was that Anyan and I had been just a possibility And while Anyan had had afirst steps--and leap all the way to bone-ju in a corner of square one

The barghest, as if sensing my insecurities, reached out to cradle ainst my soft cheek, but that just turned me on even ht," Anyan’s low voice growled Then he leaned in to kisshis lips to my ear What he whispered next made my poor, overtaxed libido nearly faint: "But that doesn’t ain as soon as possible"

His teeth nipped my ear and I whi through e, hts, he chuckled before putting his hand on the nape of my neck to steer my dreamy ass away from the front door

As we neared our friends, they turned away from Tracy to see us When their eyes lit upon me, I felt my own prickle with tears at the joy on everyone’s face

As usual, Grizzie broke the silence "Jane!" caoodness caeted by a peregrine, but then I realized that a mere falcon would never have the chutzpah to wear that tank top It hite and sported, in effigy, a tanned body with huge boobs encased in a Confederate flag bikini

Giggling, I allowedAnyan squeezed past us to get to the bar, and then the prickles turned to real tears as I felt a bunch of other arby player in a scrulorious

"Hoas Belize?" Grizzie said, when everyone had ain

"Uroup