I suppose you could call it a talisman. It was abizarre looking necklace made out of little bones and sinew that wasbaptized in some freakish stewed c...ncoction over a full moon when someplanet and star were in conjunction, or some such.Now, if she would have actually used the thing like she originallyintended then everything would have been fine. There wouldn't be astory, at least, not THIS story, and my life would have turned out verynormal.Unfortunately for yours truly, she didn't. Seems she. She set out to ignore him so he would get the picture that she wasn't interested.But while Jared was all over Dana next to them, Ryan just let her watch the movie, and she was thankful. He didn't even try to hold her hand. He was so funny and she was laughing the whole time at all his little sarcastic comments about the movie, which was really stupid. They both hated licorice and Good N' Plenty candy. But Danny kept creeping into her mind, and she refused to acknowledge that she might like. .. my skin is crawling! There's something wrong with my skin!" Lieutenant Auspus tossed on the pile of furs."Shh, hush space boy. There is naught to fear, naught to fear." Cha crooned and stroked his hair, seeming to not mind that it was drenched in sweat. "It is always difficult, the first time." Auspus looked up at the woman, trying to make some sense of what he was feeling. He was lucid enough to know that he was feverish, his clammy forehead and shivering told him that much."Where am I?. This story is set in a timeline where more or less furries are real, and have been for many years. The animal races known as Animal kin have worked with Humans but kept their races separate , until about forty years prior (the year 2000 for records sake). As Human, and Animal kin ideals advanced and opened up, the two races began to merge, in the year of the story (2040) interracial species are not rare or frowned upon. Some Animal kin are seen as Sexual taboo's and delights and have become a.