Just as you are about to pull on the ring,your ears perk up, detecting the sounds of movement in the brush behind you. Turning around, you spot Nort pushing through the undergrowth. He stops for a second, as if surprised to have seen you. Anger briefly boils over you, but you manage to wrestle your emotions back under control. Turning to face him, you smile nonchalantly, while hiding your hands behind your back and attempting to pull on the ring once more. You have just enough time to notice that it's still firmly attached before Nort opens his mouth.
"So THERE you are," he says, in a jokingly scolding tone of voice. Walking closer, he licks at your nose, seeming surprised that you refuse to lick him back. "What's wrong," he asks, concerned, placing his arm around you. He then looks behind you, to notice what you're doing. "Why are you still fiddling with that ring," he asks, a frown slightly crossing his muzzle in what he apparently hopes is a clever subterfuge.
"I like it," you say, trying to keep up the act of the oblivious vixen. "It looks pretty." You hope furiously that he won't try you to take it off, at least not yet. Your brain is working through several plans of attack. You eventually decide that striking him now, from behind, would be your best opportunity. If he managed to get you any farther back the way you've come, the "grandmother spirit" or whatever she was could potentially interfere.
"Alright, I guess you can keep it on for now." Nort acquiesces, turning around with a chuckle. "Silly little vixen. Anyway, let's get back to the cave. Now that you're pregnant, you need to take it easy." He turns to go, but pauses when he realizes you're not following. In fact, you've already held out your ring hand, and have a rather evil grin stretching across your muzzle.
"Oh no, you say. "No I don't think that's going to happen." As Nort watches in shock, you quickly make a wish that his entire body will be locked in place, unable to move. Walking up to him, you give him a condescending poke on the nose. "You see, I happened to overhear a bit of that conversation you had with your little grandmother spirit." You watch as Nort makes a muffled yelping sound. "Yup, I heard just about everything. And let me tell you Norty, I don't like being used." You place your ring hand over your belly. "Now, I don't really approve of killing these children, but I definitely don't want whatever curse you put on me to remain. So here's what I'll do. Purge the curse, and give these kits to a more... deserving mother." As you say this, a golden light forms around your hand, and washes into your belly. Suddenly, a black miasma is expelled, and five or six golden lights shoot out of you, and into Nort. He watches in shock for a few seconds, and then begins to let out choking little whimpers.
"Oh, I see you feel it already huh? Well, don't worry. I won't kill off your species. However, your species WILL be a bit different from this day forth." Walking up and resting a paw on his cheek, you make another wish, that he be transformed into a doe. As his body shifts to its new form, you walk in a circle around him, gently humming to yourself. As she finishes her shift and stands before you, you place a hand on her head. "Now, just in case your grandmother spirit DOES care one whit about you and decides to try to change you back, I'm going to install a few failsafes. These lock your memories and emotions away, behind some rather devious traps. Sure, you'll still be aware. I WANT you to be aware of everything, but if someone tries to bring you back, well, let's say the doe will be in control." Moving down along her body, gently touching her udder, you place a hand on her rump. "Now, since I'm an incredibly busy vixen, I'm going to speed things up a bit," you say, before casting a spell that makes her immediately go into a heat so strong that any buck for miles would be drawn to her. "Well my friend, I think it's about time I bid you adieu. I definitely don't want to be around when your grandmother spirit wonders what's happened. Hopefully before she finds you, a buck will have had time to do his thing. But just to be on the safe side," you say, before transforming one of the random field mice living in the underbrush into a full grown buck. As he walks over to Nort and begins sniffing her rump, you smirk and walk away, before releasing the freezing spell. Realizing you'll have to move quickly, you shift into a full fox form, making sure the ring is still on, this time as a decorative collar, before you scamper off into the woods, accompanied by Nort's bleats of pleasure.
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Coming to the edge of the woods, you switch back to your anthro form, summoning up a black shirt and jeans to cover your naked form. Walking out into the daylight, you are surprised to see Sarah trotting up to you, riding Cathy. "Hey!" she calls out. "There you are. What happened to you?"
Smirking a bit, thinking back to the fox-turned-doe you've left in the woods, you walk up to Sarah and absentmindedly start stroking Cathy's neck. "Trust me," you say. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."