Tomorrow I'll post the last of the section and then Monday starts the Blog Hop.
Section #3:
Over the last
two hundred or so years, the concerns about the suffering cat population were
brought to a head when the women started disappearing. Most would receive their
bracelet and try for a child the first time, but then they never returned. The
cat council had some theories about who was helping them disappear, but nothing
could be proven.
Hoping to demonstrate
that the cat council members heard and understood how outraged modern women
felt about the week forced upon them with a stranger, last year the cat council
passed a new decree. It stated, after the first time a cat shifter fulfilled
their duty, they only had to return to the council if they wanted to. Instead
websites and get-togethers were created around the country for shifters to meet
and talk to other non-mated shifters. Everyone hoped this was a better solution
to help cat shifters find their mates.
Slowly the woman
regained consciousness and Simon’s assistant Barnabas helped the lioness up and
escorted her to an appointed room. After she rested from the effects of the
magic, she would go down to the dining room and share a meal with her partner for
the week. Once in a great while the chosen partners found they were
incompatible. If this happened new partners would be
introduced.
Simon was well-known throughout the shifter
world for his conceit and most assumed he was too superior to help anyone after
a ritual. But what they didn’t know, was while he may be the epitome of
arrogance, his body wasn’t truly capable of helping anyone after performing
magic. Simon would will himself to stand there until they left the room, and
then he would stagger to his luxurious cream-and-gold suite attached to the
office and collapse for a few hours. The larger the ritual, the longer it took
for him to regain his strength.
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