Gean was a man of honor and a man of duty. And even after gaining the details from the
angels, he found that while he had no love for Jasmine, he also had no hatred towards her
for the death of Robert, it had been war after all, and Gean had been a solider too long to
hold anymore malice towards soldiers on opposing sides, in particular when he was just
programmed and body hijacked almost into serving the side he did to begin with. Some
might have darkly joked that for Gean it should have been same old-same old, but
contrary to popular belief, in Gean's opinion of course, you did not get a personality
transplant after becoming a soldier.
Gean's career as a solider had been respectable, but nothing extraordinary. He had made
one mark on history now. He was the first -male- shiva fennec fox to exist!
Gean realized that while he had no desire to cheat death, he had no desire to return to an
assist living home. He had gone back of course, to deliver Robert's final message to his
family, and told his house mates what had transpired. Naturally they all felt he was crazy:
what for depended on who you asked. Some thought he was crazy for going, some
thought he was crazy for coming back, and some thought he was crazy for giving up
another run at life, thankfully as of Project Return no one thought he was crazy for his
story in of itself.
And Gean, as a man of duty and honor, took one look at the kid now on the throne of
crazy little kingdom Gean had been service contracted into working for, and knew this
couldn't end well. Oh he knew the kid was a vast improvement from the two lunatics that
had previous been king of these foxes (who the real deal were now coming out of hiding
with Karther/Tamthis gone and Project Return on at last). But he also knew that this kid no
matter what experience he had gleaned from Karther, was still totally knew at ruling a
country. Gean wouldn't say he had any experience either, but he knew this kid was going
to need all the help he could get.
He knew Alexandra was really just some geek who got mutated into one of Karther's work
hands... but he was sorry to see her go, she was cute. From the reactions of Kathy, who
had apparently been once Karther but wasn't anymore (he had no idea how to figure that
one out!), some were going to miss her a LOT more than he was...
In a way however, Alexandra leaving only reaffirmed Gean's own choice. With Alexandra
gone, this kid had one less person he could turn to in trouble.
So when Jennifer came face to face with King Tommy and he offered to terminate her
service contract with the kingdom of the fennec kitsune, Jennifer had refused, but -did-
request some major modifications.
For starters she was allowed to hold citizenship of both her native and adopted land. Then
she landed herself a promotion, and a pay-right, and some private leave to tie up personal
ends. Finally he requested that her RNA and Y chromosome be restored. Gean had been
very precise that he did not want his biological age altered. This of course meant the now
nine tailed fennec kitsune only had about one hundred or so years left of life.
Now holding nine tails the fennec kitsune elder was quickly respected by King Tommy,
Kathy, and the precious few others that had chosen to stay at Tommy' side.
Of course Gean's kids thought he was crazy, but he was an adult and didn't need their
approval, one of his grandkids even demanded he become a fox person too which his
parents immediately shot down.
Of course, Gean was also a splash of cold water to any furry who laid eyes on him, a harsh
reminded that old age didn't go away simply because you changed genders or species.
Gean got quite a bit of satisfaction from that.
His King had regretfully informed him that since Roberta was dead, there was no way to
transmute her corpse to resemble her original self. Gean didn't know the first thing about
magic and wasn't about to argue the point. Gean had taken Roberta's body back to the
states where it could be given a proper burial and Robert could be given a proper
goodbye.
As it was now, Gean was effective captain of the guard, chief of police, and possibly
general of the army. They'd likely have a more coherent hierarchy once some more willing
recruit could be found for the fennec city state and possible when that Lucy girl decided
where she wanted to go and what she wanted to do with herself and that woman Natalie
got enough of her wits back... Maybe they'd join Gean on the male side of things, it was
possible.
Even with the angels themselves keeping the mostly theologic arabs from declaring the
fennec kitsune all trespassers, Gean was glade he was there with the kid to make sure his
king didn't say the wrong thing at the wrong time or accidently start a war. It had taken
everything just to convince the arabs even begrudgingly to -let- the kitsune -buy- the
land the city state was standing on. Thankfully some of Karther's gold and jewels wasn't
just sand.
Gean flexed his multiple sets of arms, and looked down into one of the palace's fountain
and saw his new furry and wrinkly face and muzzle looking back at him. "I won't say I'm
glade bastard Karther got me to sign that damn contract. But I will say I'm satisfied with
how things have turned out. And that'll do I guess."
"Mi'Elder Jen, er, Gean...His Majesty desires you within his presence. He seeks your
wisdom in the lawful acquisition of willful volunteers for our city's protectors to replace
the near mindless constructs that still make up the majority of our forces..."
Gean turned his head and looked down at Kathy. This was supposed to have been Karther?
He guessed his king was right when the kid said there was nothing left of the bastard
inside this sweet thing.
"Okay, I'm coming." Wearing nothing but a loincloth and a decorated sash, the shiva male
fennec kitsune made his way through he palace of the fennec kitsune King Tommy.