Lawrence whispered to Marie-Eliza, "Karthrine found out? But how? Marie lied to her. You
are NOT going to tell me Linus told her, there would be no way that she'd trust him if he
did that!"
Marie-Eliza whispered back, "Kathrine had learned how to read opponents from her boot
camp with the lupmans, and she proved even when burned and recovering she could be a
dauntless and stubborn as ever... finally Marie told Linus to tell her, Marie not able to bear
to tell Kathrine the story herself, sure Kathrine would hate her afterwards."
Lawrence nodded still whispering, "But she didn't."
"No she didn't. Their bound of friendship was as strong as iron."
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1689
When Mahershalal Bialyk's Prime Mate returned she asked where their poor daughter
Aimiliona was, if she had wandered off again, and worried knowing she had be watched
constantly since coming down with the wandering demons.
"She's gone to be made better." Mahershalal Bialyk replied simply. She implored and slowly
pulled facts from her entranced mate. She was in an uproar when she found out he had
side stepped her duty as a mother to decide what was best for the cubs, but he remained
as stalwart as stone (the geass made sure of that) and after much screaming and sobbing
(to which Mal'akh covered her ears and hide leaving her first kill outside) she finally
conceded if the three witches could somehow heal her... maybe... maybe it was for the
best. She still cried.
Mal'akh also wondered what madness this was, sending away her sister to be with those
witches that had driven her mad in the first placce... Not that anyone actually listened
Mal'akh when she said this, most just looked at her with glassy eyes telling her to not make
up stories. Mal'akh promised she'd get her sister back, some day.
At the witch's orphanage/estate.
"Everyone!" Gaal called out as she entered the expanding witch's house with Golgotha
leading Aimiliona inside by the paw, Aimiliona looking at everything with a semi-half
interest still chewing on the gold deer bone like a little cave woman.
The Thirty six human children (instead of thirty seven with Meranda dead), fourteen
children who had been cursed, and twenty who had been part of the gang that had
attacked the witches plus Samantha and Alissa), and the two leomans and two lupmans
(the two pups former part of the mobs).
"This is your new sister Aimiliona." She gesture to her, she looked almost dimly at the
others, but a few days of the witches magic flowing through her would bring order to her
mind.
"Welcome to your new home Aimiliona." Joella said first hugging her. the leoman cub didn't
return the hug. The two Witch Pride cubs also hugged Aimiliona. This was followed by the
pups. (Samantha and Alissa's parents were in the market picking up supplies, where the
witches got their money was best left not thought about or questioned and thankfully most
was 'donated' for the good cause of the afflicted children.).
Lark, Canary, and the rest of the former mob then hugged her. This was followed by the
afflicted children. And finally the Witch Pride leomans.
As Joella took Aimiliona paw and led her on an excited tour of the house's playroom, bed
rooms, garden, kitchen, foyer, living room, out houses, and yes, graveyard, Gaal looked at
the Witch Pride.
Joella had no idea that one day this entire estate would be hers as it's sole legal heir or she
would continue her foster mother's work, or rather, would continue what she thought was
their work: helping the innocent.
"As soon as you are finished with the bedrooms, I want this house made so it can without
an attack by a platoon of soldiers. No one shall harm a member of our family ever again!"
"Yes. Of course. As soon as possible. We'll work, work, work as hard possible." Said
Mondain Renard. The other male leoman now left in the Pride now that Frank was gone.
The witches would debate on weather a replacement was needed later.
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With the mind of the game gone, only the mind of the person making the Transform or
Dare remained to interpret his own words. The punk when he made his Transform or Dare
had precisely said that the leoman love doll would be only for him, and there should have
been no way a Transform or Dare to his victim should have changed him.
But this had apparently twisted with the 'cascade' effect inside all Leoman except Mary.
And deep down, perhaps the Punk, now a 'male' love doll named Leon, had wanted to be
free of the weight of life, and had in the black muck of his soul wanted to be just loved.
And the Transform or Dare, twisting with the cascade effect had granted him the simple
existence he had subconsciously wanted.
The phrasing of his Transform Or Dare however, had insured the threads of fate would
make sure the 'female' love doll Leona, and the 'male' love doll Leon would never be
separated. And Leon was the same as Leona, 'top quality and would never need repairs.'
And of course the fact that the punk had never ever said anything about his victim being
erased from the timeline, showed again, this was due to the Transform or Dare twisting the
cascade effect within the love doll.
Of course how the game would now interpret Leona being 'just for Leon' with Leon's mind
being what it was was anyone's guess.
'What the Hell! I'm Leon! Huh? No! I'm Leon! I'm human! I'm a leoman! I'm a love doll! A love
doll! I really love Leona! I hope we're together forever!'
'I really love you too Leon-tiger.' The other love doll mentally giggled back at her own joke
calling the plastic/rubber imitation of a leoman a tiger.
The two leoman love dolls were in the default position the two closet furries left the two
dolls in when they were away in the seedy apartment they kept in them in so their co-
workers and family wouldn't know and pass judgement on them.
Leon's rubber/plastic permanent excited member inside Leona, the two smiling at each
other.
As afternoon turned to evening a male and female human opened several locks on the
seedy apartment door and opened it revealing just the bed, and the two Leoman love dolls
as they had left them.
The two closed the door behind them.
"Aren't they sweet." Said the woman closet furry.
"Yes dear." Said the man hugging his partner. "Let's join them." They laughed at the
fantasy of the two love dolls making out and the two of them then joining them for a
foursome. The couple stripped off their clothes and climbed onto the bed.
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The game would not, could not, dared not, even with only instinct, to touch, harm or
interfere with Marie-Eliza, for it saw her as it's creator, it's master, it's MOTHER, for Marie-
Eliza was after all, the idealized version of how the delusional Kurse had seen herself.
And she felt every turn of the game used, and she knew a use of the cascade effect... which
should have been impossible since the cascade effect and the game existed separately and
independently from each other. She knew what Transform was gone, but figured Penny
would sooner than later find out by fate and undo the change with her power... but then
she felt the change happen to the punk.
'This is not good at all.' Marie-Eliza thought. 'Best to make sure this doesn't result in a
planet full of latex love dolls...' While she accepted the possibility the leoman cascade
could result in a planet full of lion people being humane to each other, she knew no sane
person would concede a world full of still love dolls would be a good thing!
Creating an avatar of herself, transparent, only with a fraction of her real power, she
continued to tell the tale without missing a beat of how Marie and her friends recovered
while the witches created their fortress to protect their one remaining truly loved one and
their small army of familiars.
Her avatar left the world within mirrors, and became a mass of living solid glass. She
looked at her naked body, now devoid of the black and red dress and blond fur, and now
only indestructible transparent glass remained. She let her senses guide her to the bug
within the game that HAD to be fixed before it resulted in another disaster. 'Not this time.
No snowflake is going to cause an avalanche THIS time!'
Madam Serenity sensed a turn of the game had been used. 'It never ends.' She sighed,
there would always be someone. Which made the need to fix this mess of a game even
more so! Just because she had been cursed to be never be effected by ANY transformation
EVER didn't mean she was going to sit on her rear ever to let this curse run around like
mad.
And her sense was silently different now, it was like a veil was gone. He could sense a turn
had been used. And she could almost -feel- where the game was... she couldn't pin down
a street address, but she could swear she could almost feel where it was and almost who
and what, -almost-. 'Is it because the mind of the game is gone? And it now can't shield
itself from me? Maybe.'
She excused herself from the now mutated half-ape men brothers along with Judas the
descendant of a witch's familiar and took a few samplings of the cure along with her just to
be on the safe side (and made sure to memorize the prayer to destroy the curse).
It would be in the most rundown part of town. Thankfully she was a legal and registered
gun owner and had two life times worth of experience in self defense.
She found a naked humanoid glass wolf pup waiting outside a door leading to a one room
apartment.
"You're not any of Julie and Frank's children."
"No I'm not. Your safe because your curse precisely says you CAN'T be changed by even the
gods themselves. I'm safe because of how this is mixed with the game... and you could say
I'm the last piece of sanity that existed within the mind of Kurse."
"I'm too tired of all this to be paranoid... and you look like that because?"
"When Samantha was made Kurse's daughter, and was freed, she needed a replacement, I
was handy nearby... when Kurse was destroyed I was given my mind back... but we both
have something we need to take care of because it becomes a plague."
"The leoman cascade?"
"That's benign. And it's no longer truly connected to the curse anyway so the curse
wouldn't effect it. But since THIS is mixed in with the game, so perhaps the cure will work.
You have some with you?"
"Yes."
"Good. I'm Marie-Eliza by the way."
"Madam Serenity. Alchemist. PI. Fortune teller. And former cop."
"Nice to meet you." Marie-Eliza gestured at the locks on the door and they became undone
and with another gesture opened the door.