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Green Shade Group, 1 [1]

Landing the Nerissa Altsoba well outside any kitsune habitations or forestry, Nissa turned to the others, "The dragons, Varden, and Flan will need to maximum suppress their abilities. n**, it would be best if you transfigured into your white tiger form."

< Damnit, > Flan muttered. < Xink, I want you to help me about since I won't be able to see. >

"Yes'm," Xink said as he finished locking his powers down. Stepping next to Flan, he held out his arm for the old woman to take hold of.

"This is your only warning," n** said to Ette and Nate. "You two had better be on your best behavior. If either one of you get out of line, Flan has my permission to beat you with her cane."

Flan blindly saluted the twins with her cane and grinned.

"Let's go," Nissa said, leading the group out of the spaceship and towards Green Shade.

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Within a few hours, they had reached the gates of Green Shade. Varda and Varden were riding on n**'s back because they had tired out quickly. Nate had a few growing bruises where Flan had whacked him for singing raunchy songs.

"Halt!" a kitsune said, stepping in their path. "State your business!"

"We are here to see the head of Lady Rose's guard," Nissa said.

"I am that person," the kitsune replied. "My name is Lial."

Introducing herself and the rest of her group, Nissa showed a slightly edited copy of Sahm's note [2] to Lial. As the kitsune read the note, Nissa said, "The original recipient had a prior engagement to attend to when this arrived. She bade me to bring her family here."

"Very well," Lial said, folding the note and handing it back to Nissa. "Lady Rose and the Den Warden have gone to stop the coronation of Lord Estafan and request to be Heard. If you wish, you may remain here or quarters may be provided by the Royal Guard."

"If it is not too much trouble," Nissa said, "quarters would be appreciated. Our young and our elderly need a place to rest."

Flan quickly signed something. [3]

Nodding, Lial snapped his fingers and a few members of the Royal Guard appeared to lead the group to some available resting quarters. In the Guard, there were a few shamans who fell back to walk beside Nate and Ette.

"We ask that you two keep your powers under control," one of the shamans said.

"Don't worry," Nate said, rubbing one of his appearing bruises. "We're too scared of Flan's beatings to get out of control."

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Demon Hunter Group, 1 [4]

"I say we drop in," Nogard said as they circled far above the ground where the slaver demons were hiding.

"Sounds fun," Dragon said. "What do you have planned?"

"We do it in stages," Nogard replied. "You, me, Xangord, Creighton, and Broden go in first. Father, Lunchmeat [5], Wolf, and the kids go in second to catch anyone trying to get a warning message out."

"They appear to be slavers," Larkin said, looking down. Even with one eye she had the best sight. "We should try to release as many hostages as we can."

"Some of them may have been broken," Nogard pointed out. "Take no mercy on them because they will not hesitate to kill you to protect their masters."

"Anything else?" Dragon growled. She was itching to go.

"The second group will want to wait two minutes before going in," Nogard said. "Everyone ready?"

"LET'S GET THIS s**t ON!" Dragon said, dive-bombing the home of the demon slavers.

"Usually I'M the gung-ho one and SHE'S the level-headed one," Nogard said dryly as she and the others followed Dragon.