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"Aye, Bercelak I aon"

She kne this gah she’d never found anyone worthy Until now

With a shake of her head, her white hair falling around her, "You’ll have to catchskies, her lover hot on her tail

It was her screa Bercelak scrambled up and searched the area forRhiannon

A screeching human Rhiannon

"Look at me! What happened?"

He had no idea When they’d finally worn the many more uses for their tails, they’d nearly passed out ht finally catching up with theainst his side, her light sleep-growlshim feel more content then he ever had before

Yet here she was before hiht of the two suns As human It didn’tas she was his But he knew it bothered her, which meant he had to fix this

"Rhiannon--"

"Look at these spindly things!" Her arms flailed wildly over her head "And all this soft, useless flesh!"

If she were trying to get hi quite nicely

She turned and pointed at her ass "And I could be wrong, but I think this thing is even bigger than is normal for a human my size How is that acceptable?"

Quickly, Bercelak shifted "Rhiannon, calm--"

"Don’t tell me to calm down! That bitch did this to me, and I’ll make her pay for it!"

She stor up with her Anyone else, he’d assu the queen But he would put nothing past Rhiannon, especially when she was this angry Yet she could not face her uards who never left the queen’s side Rhiannon was still hu as the spell re as when she was dragon And since he’d never seen the queen shift to human in all the decades he’d been at her court, he sohter issued a challenge In fact, he felt relatively certain nothing could get the queen to shift to human while Rhiannon still breathed

"I wish you’d stop for a second so we can talk"

"Talk? About what?"

"About e need to do next"

"Besides killhold of her arm, Bercelak pulled her up short and turned her to face hiether, Rhiannon You and me What hurts you, affects ripped her other arently and pulled her close "Then explain it to round "She kne on wouldwould eat away atof me left" She looked up into his face "I know you don’t see it I know you don’t see my mother’s true intent You’ve always had a blind spot when it came to her But she won’t be happy until she’s destroyed me, Bercelak Until she’s taken every last bit of me Your familythey love each other Your mother protects all of you, and your fatherhe’d die before he let anything happen to one of you But I don’t have that with s I never have and I never will"