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All is forgiven, yes?\"\n\"Of course,\" she replied, kissing his fingers as fur bristled and faded, giving way to bare skin.\nI felt angered and repulsed. She was clearly under the influence of yet another spell, this one intended to paralyze her fighting spirit rather than her body. This wizard was twice the monster Arahnar would ever be. Swinging my axe over my head, I charged at them with a battle cry.\nThe wizard shot a glance at me and barked a command in a foreign tongue. Suddenly, I found myself charging at his two brutish companions; the unnatural sight of Arahnar kneeling before that Thayan creature had blinded me to the real dangers on the field.\nI swung my axe at the lead brute, intending to end the blow he was trying to deliver by severing his arm. To my surprise, my strike didn't even penetrate his pallid skin.\n\"What are they doing?\" I heard Arahnar say.\n\"Killing him,\" the wizard replied. \"He will only impede the growth of our love.\"\n\"But-but-\"\n\"You don't need him anymore.\"\nI swung my axe at the brutes, knocking them back with the impact and scrambling to my feet. The brutes continued to advance. Several swings of my axe confirmed that it was impossible for me to harm them; all I could do was keep them off-balance and continue to retreat away from them. Meanwhile, Arahnar knelt naked in the moonlight, looking from the wizard to me, growing increasingly distraught.\n\"Make them stop! We're looking for my pack! He's helped me! He's my friend!\"\n\"Don't worry, dear,\" the wizard said, gently patting her on the head. \"We-\"\n\"Make them stop!\" She leaped at him, suddenly filled with fury. Fur started sprouting on her skin as she locked her hands on his shoulders and kicked him in the stomach. Her weight sent him crashing onto his back. She slammed her hands against his chest and then brought them up over her head with a sweeping motion and a spray of blood. Now, that was the Arahnar I'd come to know! Somehow, she'd broken the spell! \"Make them stop!\"\nThe wizard shrieked in pain, then shrieked another foreign word. The brutes froze like statues. Arahnar threw me a blazing glance. I signaled that I was fine.\n\"They're stopped,\" the wizard yelled. \"Please, darling-\"\n\"That's the last obscenity that will cross your lips,\" She raised a hand to bring it down to deliver the final blow.\n\"I can help you! I can show you how to cast a spell that will help you find your pack!\" the wizard screamed. Arahnar froze with her talons a hair's width from his throat. \"Really?\"\n\"I have a ring that will allow it. Back in Scornubel. It's yours if you spare me!\"\n\"If you can teleport us straight there, she'll spare you,\" I said. I wasn't about to travel through that cesspool again.\nArahnar drew a deep breath and got slowly to her feet. She kept a talon close to the wizard's throat while gesturing for him to follow. \"Cast your spell,\" she then snarled. \nHe started chanting. Moments later, we were in a spacious room, presumably somewhere in Scornubel. The wizard's knees buckled and I caught him before he hit the floor.\n\"Weakling,\" Arahnar sneered as she glanced around the room, surveying the workbenches loaded with books, bottles, stills, and bizarre devices that I didn't recognize. She eventually headed toward a doorway that led to another room where I could see a bed. \"Bind his wounds while I find something to wear.\"\nI helped the dazed wizard into a chair. As I treated his wounds, I asked, \"Were you the one who almost killed Arahnar shortly before she lost track of pack?\"\n\"Someone almost killed her?\"\nI related the tale of how Arahnar and I came to be traveling together.\nHe shook his head. \"How could someone treat such a beautiful creature in such a brutal fashion?\"\nI snorted. \"That's why you're after her? Because of her beauty?\"\n\"Yes. She is the most beautiful creature I have ever met, in all three of her shapes.\" His gaze shifted to over my shoulder. I turned my head to see Arahnar return from the other room. She was wearing a pair of baggy tights and was buttoning a white shirt. A red wizard's robe was slung over her shoulder along with a weapons-belt.\n\"I'm taking this stuff,\" she said matter-of-factly, putting on the robe. The bottom of the garment pooled on the floor around her feet as she fastened the belt; a sheathed dagger hung from it, some sort of arcane symbol.\n\"Wait a minute,\" I said, as it became clear to me that it wasn't just a red robe... it was the red robe, the kind worn only by the Red Wizards of Thay. \"You can't wear that!\"\n\"I like the color,\" she replied with a shrug.\" And since my beloved Vatsisen here is going to give me that ability to cast spells, I might as well dress the part, yes?\"\n\"Yes,\" the wizard said, swallowing hard. \"You look absolutely stunning, my dear.\"\n\"Stow it,\" Arahnar said coldly. \"Just get the ring.\"\nThe wizard hurried to one of the benches. Seconds later, he produced a golden ring set with two tiny green gems and three tiny blue gems. He gave it to Arahnar, saying, \"All you have to do is put on the ring and concentrate of the spell you want to cast while touching the appropriate gem. The green stones contain detect lycanthropes, a spell I created that lets me track those of your kind, Arahnar such as you. The blue stones are teleport without error spells... they will take you to any place you have been or are able to visualize clearly in your mind.\" Looking at me, he said, \"All you have to do is place a hand on her shoulder, and you'll go with her.\"\nArahnar's eyes sparkled with excitement as she slipped the ring on her finger. \"We can go anywhere?\"\n\"As long as you can visualize it,\" the wizard said. \"But you can only cast each spell as many times as there are gems of the appropriate color in the ring.\" He hesitated, fixing his eyes on Arahnar. \"But, I'll be happy to recharge the ring for you any time you return to Scornubel.\"\n\"I guess that's reason enough to keep you alive,\" Arahnar said with a smile. She got on the tip of her toes and gave him a peck on the cheek. 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