But the terror of a moment ago was melting away. A flood of new sensations was rushing in. My legs, always strong and muscled before, now tensed, ready to spring with a new kind of force. Power, thrumming through every part of my body, greater than anything I’d ever felt before. I felt the goddess strike my head, her palm reverberating against the golden fur that cloaked me now. I saw her fingers twisting in the tawny mane of the lion at my side, my lover, but it was joy that pulsed through me as she commanded us to run, a pure animal joy that eclipsed any I had felt before. We fled into the
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