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by
Ursa Dax
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May 6 - May 8, 2025
A gentle sound, like a stream of cool rain hitting rock, shook me from morbid thoughts of my own death and what might happen after. An uncomfortable heat began to creep beneath my hide. Chest tight, I shifted from boot to boot, unsure where to look even though Magnolia was not even in my sights. She made the act of pissing sound pretty. How was that even possible?
“If you try to take her from us,” Killian said, his eyes massive and murderous white, “I will kill you. And no one but Garrek will ever know because they’ll never find your body.” “It’s a little scary how much I actually believe that,” Oaken said, regarding Killian warily.
“Do you know what I thought when I first saw her?” “No.” “I did not think, ‘Oh, what a beautiful female. How I desire her!’ Of course, she is beautiful. But I noticed it in such a distant sort of way. Because the only thing I could really think when I saw her was, ‘This is someone beloved by Garrek. This is someone precious to the only family I have left. This is the wife of the person who saved me.’ And I loved her then, instantly, as I would love your wife and nothing else. I do not think I am even capable of wanting her as my own wife, now. Because from the first moment that

