Now Nicola,just like the Knucker Princess before her twenty years
earlier,was unawares of what exactly the Power of the Touch was.
However,they should both have looked up to the Sun and clouds above
them for a part of the answer.
For you see,being once a Fair One turned into a demonic
lookig creature,the light of the Sun on the Knucker Princess
( and Nicola ) had become perverted so that their touch when the
Sun shone apon them was a curse.
Remember that golden light shining apon the Knucker Princess when she
had regained her Fair Ones beauty?
That was the Sun shining on her.And she'd been grasping Lady Alice
flesh to flesh,at that time.Which had tuned Lady Alice into a knucker
dragon before the kindly Knucker King had undone his daughters
mess and turned Alice the knucker dragon into plain old Alice,
who after decades as a dragon,returned to her humanity as a aged pucker faced
woman,a Witch.
Incidentally the sight of her human friend Alice in the throes of
transformation had driven the Knucker Priness into a
hysterically shrieking and laughing madwoman pixie elf,from
which she'd never recovered.
The Knucker Queen was insane.
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So there Nicola was,clueless about the Power or what switched
it on or off,running away from Dame Alessa,who was firmly
gripping her magical sword Fiers Bane,and hoping its magic would
fight off the raging Urge to turn ito a Knucker that was tearing at her
mind and body.
Now just like radio waves,the Power was being broadcast from
Nicola and was still tearing away at Dame Alessa's human defenses.
Maybe if Nicola had run away,the Urge would have weakened in
her stricken victim to the point where Fiers Bane the sword could
overcome the Power.
Instead what happened is the clouds slid over the Sun,
which stopped shining on Nicola,who stopped unknowingly beaming
Power at Dame Alessa.
The Urge went away,which certainly was a relief for Dame Alessa.
Meanwhile Nicola was feeling chilly,very very chilly.
Some innate instinct told her to go back to
the stricken knucker-dame and kiss her three times,to return Dame
Alessa to her humanity.
( or perhaps she knew her dragon mythology )
So it was that a frosty feeling Nicola,with the
cloudy sky above,returned to the scene of Dame Alessa,
who by this time,thanks to the magic sword Fiers Bane,looked
relatively human again,except her nose and jaws still jutted out several
inches from her face.
Nicola bent down and gave Dame Alessa three frosty kisses.
And watched in amazement as Dame Alessa's somewhat snouty face
shrank back in till she looked like her old self again.
Dame Alessa looked up and smiled on Nicola,happy to see
her (lesbian ) love again.
Then Dame Alessa realized Nicola was shivering from the cold.
Every the Dame,she took off her cloak and draped it over Nicola
Together the two headed off to the village,while the Evil
Mad Knucker Queen followed them silently,plotting mad thoughts