And after a lot of hard work, thingswere really starting to pay off for me. Then, after a full year had passed, I discovered the horribletruth. A trut... which made my curse even more terrible. I had been atanother New Years Eve party with my new friend's and family, when atthe stroke of midnight the dizziness hit me again. Once again my life was torn from me... revealing that my New Year change was not just aone time occurrence. It was much worse than that. This time, I found myself transformed. She laughed, as she stared at him and enjoyed his frustration and his torment. It only made her press her fist tighter and increase his pain.“Please, please stop! I beg you!”But she only laughed and enjoyed his bucking and squirming. She could sense that he struggled a little too much against his restraints, and his begging was a little too dramatic. After all she wasn’t poking him with a red hot iron. She was just squeezing his balls. When she stopped, he lay on the bed, catching his breath,. The xenophobic engineers let them dock inside a rental hangar above the main planet of the Karthanian Conglomerate.Karthanians openly declared to be neutral and stayed out of the politics and quarrels of the Big Four, but everyone knew they didn’t like the Union much and did not allow anyone not Karthanian to set foot on one of their planets.His mysterious friend, first believed to be an agent of the worm, had changed his appearance and name once again and arranged for this hangar.His associate. ” Her words trailed off as she sat up, hearing something approaching in the forest. “What’s that?”“Oh, that’s Cú Mheá,” I smiled as my feyhound padded into the clearing. “He’s my pet. I made him to love me.”“Made?” Kora frowned, peering at the shape moving around the fire.Cú Mheá stepped into the firelight, the oranges and reds dancing across his body made up of thick, woody wicker wrapped about each other in the vague shape of a hound. He padded forward, his leafy tongue lolling out the side.