“Please tell me I didn’t miss anything?” She said, still unbuttoning her coat as she entered the kitchen. She planted a quick kiss on Dad’s ch...ek as he lit candle number fifteen before playfully dashing behind my chair. She hugged me tightly and then proceeded to plant eighteen kisses on my cheek (I counted every one). At forty-five my mother was still an exceptionally beautiful woman. She was taller than both me and Megan, and bustier if truth be known. Although, she had always promised us. . I didn’t have a lot of reasons to trust any Grand Cleric, really.But what’s she really going to do to me? I’ll have Aedan, Zevran, and Alistair with me, and even if I was somehow separated and captured, I’ll just disappear and reappear – or can I do that, anymore? It’s been a while ... But it’s going to be fine either way.I watched the guards for a while longer, eyes drooping as I tried to reassure myself and stay calm. I’d probably have fallen asleep there if Alistair hadn’t crept up behind. And unlike men who gained female equipment, they didn't gainany either. Tim had what would later be known as Gender 6, while Andreawas a Gender 8.They had the same reproductive organs and function, although I imagineAndreas's was substantially larger. But, fundamentally, they both hadpenises and they both produced mobile eggs. Since they were just marriedlast summer, I took for granted they had been trying for a baby beforeall this happened, or had at least been planning to start soon.. "They say you learned some magic spell or somethingwhen you were out in the Orient. Why don't you tell us about that?"I sighed. I'd learned it while in Austria-Hungary, not the Orient, and itwas a trick, not magic. But it was mysterious sounding and weird and I'dshown it off at a couple parties, so it had only been a matter of timebefore word of my "magic spell" had spread."I'd really rather not, not right now. It's an odd thing, honestly, andI'm not sure it fits what should be a merry.
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