Kaylee looked at Zackery with an appraising eye, but more like looking over their new star
work hand than a new male to enjoy, after all, all she needed was Master, nothing more,
nothing less. 'No matter how many more females we add to Master's collection now, we'll
always be able to sate them when the master is not in the mood. ... I saw Zackery last
night, he could have kept going until the cows came home, he only wound down when
Pearl and the others did... It doesn't matter how many ladies we add to the pack now,
Zackery is all they'll need, and Master is all I'll need.'
Already she was seeing some of the ladies look at Zackery with appraising eyes of their
own with much more direct intentions in mind. Yes, they were the master only when you
said he said you were, but Zackery would be much more achievable, making him the
perfect distraction. She leaned against Master letting her paw feel her Master's body,
'Perfect.'
She looked at the three she wolves that now wore copies of her body, 'I almost wish
Master HAD granted Isabelle's request... in spades... it would have been fun to see how big
we could have made the knockers on a she wolf before they went past attraction and went
into absurd territory....' Not to mention all the fantastic (some would say gaudy) colors for
wolf fur she hadn't used yet. 'Oh well, you win some you lose some.'
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Alice pulled the twins through the mirror, Darla of course accepted the victorian era dress
she found herself in, what she hadn't expected was for Fran to suddenly be in one.
"Wha-what is this-?!" Fran hadn't seen what had happened to Darla, and Darla had failed
to mention it. "Alice?"
"Is this going to happen to everyone who comes in here?" Fran point.
"I do think it shall only to those who are directly related to myself Mama."
Fran was now wearing a victorian era dress much like Darla, only Fran's was purple were
Darla's was red, and red where Darla's was purple. While Fran approved of the motif,
suddenly wearing clothes again after nearly two days of going around in the fur was
rather unbalancing, not to mention she had never ever worn a dress.
"Anything else I need to know?" Fran asked her twin.
Darla whispered back to her, pretending Alice couldn't hear her, "Don't eat or drink
anything that comes from in here, Alice said the stuff she takes out if it comes out at all
turns to glass like her."
"Oh..." Fran's imagination took it from there and it wasn't pleasant.
"Please do sit down and dine with me Mama and Auntie." Alice helped them to a set of
chairs and a table out of view of the mirror. Darla noted it was different from yesterday,
had Alice set it up herself when alone in here?
Fran asked, "Alice, we all love the upgrades the game's given it but... somehow you seem
more... happy about it than others..."
Alice turned looked at her aunt her arms behind her back and said, "Adam had no one.
Alice has a mother, a father, an auntie, cousins, and half-siblings... everyone else gave up
something I do declare if I would be so bold when becoming part of the pack, I on the
other hand as Adam lost nothing."
The three blond wolves sat down and Alice provided KNIVES AND FORKS, when the twins
took hesitantly but they were large enough for them to use.
Fran asked Alice, "So when you gave the Transform to Mark and Marcine, why gold fur
with a nuance of brown anyway?"
Alice was eager to explain, "It was for them to be a color that people do not see anywhere
else, and to be an unmistakable marker on any deer they sired and their fawn sired, and so
on and so forth and all of that."
Fran nodded at her niece, "Ah I see. Though don't you think that might attraction
attention? The one thing we DON'T want for the pack?"
"Are there are professors who specialize in deer in Glendale? I did not know that."
"... No they're not... but I don't think it's really needed..."
"Well, we have cross the bridges and we need to ride our train now."
Darla defended her child, "Well, remember sister, there wasn't anything besides the odd
look when we were driving to the household... people will just brush it off as odd. If they
just take a second look at most at naked wolf women, then deer of a different color won't
flicker much on the radar."
"Yes I know sister. I'm just being careful."
"I know also sister."
Alice looked at her mother and aunt, 'Sometimes it is as if they share the same mind and
happen to have two bodies, or maybe the right and left sides of the same brain perhaps?
Or maybe two different sides of a congress, or-'
"So Alice dear." Darla began, "What's on your mind? You seemed plenty eager to talk
yesterday."
"I spoke with Samantha and Abbey as Auntie asked yesterday Mama... Abbey wanted to
come in and play with me, but of course I had to say no since Auntie and you told me I
could not change her into a glass wolf... they seemed quite gay in meeting me after
getting over their surprise."
Fran remembered that yester-century, heck, yester-HALF-century the word gay had
meant simply very happy and joyous. Of course Alice would use the classic term.
"And Julie?" Fran asked.
"I was told that she was busy on the phone, so I could not speak to her, but I was
promised that she would be told that you loved her very much Auntie."
Fran guessed that would have to do for now, Fran wanted all the 'testing' out of the way so
Julie wouldn't be used as an experimental of the game.
"Auntie. Mama."
"Yes dear?"
"I have been thinking. Abbey really wanted to play with me within the mirror... and... you
Julie to join the pack yes?" They could tell Alice was unsure and nervous, usually whatever
she said was precise and crystal clear even if her vocabulary could be odd.
"Yes Alice we do..." Fran said.
"Well... I know you said you did not WANT your family as glass wolves like me but... are
you shamed of me?"
This threw the twins totally for a loop, they simply had no idea what to say to this!
Fran managed to answer first having more maternal experience, "No no no Alice! I promise
we aren't shamed of you! It's just... "
"Just what Auntie?"
".... " For the first time, the twins felt disjointed and out of balance with each other, and it
was a horrible feeling. "... ... "
"I just thought... if Abbey and Samantha were glass wolves like me, then maybe Samantha
could be Julie's daughter, and Abbey could be your daughter, and we'd all be siblings and
cousins at the same time."
Fran started, she hadn't even considered that possible angle.
"We'll... think about it Alice..." Fran relented. With Zackery now in the picture, it seemed
any new male would be surplus. But Fran still wanted to be united with Julie.. but being the
MOTHER of one of her little girls? Something about that felt strangely appealing.
"Is there a reason you want this Alice?" Darla asked.
"Well, I overheard Master saying that after Fran's family we would not be actively looking
for people to add to the pack ... and Abbey and Samantha are already family and... it
wonderful in here... but it also gets lonely... "
Fran and Darla looked at each other instantly understanding.
The twins put a paw each on Alice's seven and a half year old shoulders.
"Alright Alice," The twins said together, "We promise we will seriously consider it."
Alice nodded and bow at the table rather than her normal curtsy which was odd for her,
"Thank you... very much..."
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Jensen scratched at his bandaged leg, he really needed to change the bandages. Kaylee
noticed him scratching and knew she had to ask Darla more about those lessons in first
aid they had talked about.
The lesser she wolves chatter among themselves, sharing stories of their ordeals getting
everything done and up to standard for Master last night (or was that this morning?).
"I never want to look at another antique again..." Lawrence said, while being asked to do
something by a female of the pack was an honor to be embraced with zeal with Lawrence
had done so, he was happy that it was over.
"I wonder if Jenny and Bart want to be friends." The purple boy wolf Ulysses thoght seeing
he eldest wolf kids discussing things.
'Only way to know is to ask them." Roger answered.
"sometimes the direct approach is the best." Megan added setting on her knees close to
her brother, her face covered in blood much like the other wolves here.
Meanwhile Alice led her mother and Auntie out of the mirror world.
"Hello." Alice greeted her siblings.
"Hi." "Hello." "Yo." "Hiii."
"What shall happen today I wonder?"
"Work sadly." Bart said, "We have to rearrange the paper work for three of the shadows.
And I think we're all expected to join in father's inspection."
"If you may indeed call the last one work." Alice pointed at Kaylee who was now
whispering, 'You stand by that portal, you two stand by that room' to the various she
wolves with Caroline being the official 'tour guide.'
"I do hope the inspection does not take longer than two hours."
"Why's that?"
"Because that is when Marcine and Jack will fully change and I think we should be there to
bid fair well before they can no longer speak english. It's only fair, they've been hard
workers and will provide the pack with an invaluable service, shall they not?"
Bart and Jenny looked at each other, then shrugged, "I'll pass it along to dad, I'm sure he
won't mind."
+++++++++++
At ninety one percent, the couple decidedly looked more like deer with some human traits
than human beings. Fran had arrived much to the deer's shock and worry, but she openly
helped them remove the clothing that was now cutting into them. Now all that remained
that was human was their human hair on top of their furry heads, some muscles in their
four legs that made their hooves twitch, Jack's uncovered reproductive material, and
Marcine's shrinking maternal material.
Helped outside by Fran, the almost completely deer in the fur sunlight looked at each
other.
"You are beautiful dear." Marcine said to Jack.
"And you are a beautiful deer." Jack replied, both smiling while those facial muscled
remained.
++++++++++
Thirty minute later the meat not even a puddle on the floor Kaylee said, assuming a
'captain' pose with one hand on a hip and another pointing foreword to nowhere, "Alright
troops! Go wash up and assume your positions!"
"Yes Alpha Female." The subordinates and began to file out, leaving only Martha and her
charges, the alphas, twins, and Kaylee's three alt-copies. The dark blue Caroline remained
at the doorway waiting for Master for the inspection to formally begin.