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Adaeze's eyes widen as the sweet sugary substance invades her body, filling her with that strange sensation, going past her stomach and infiltrating her fingers and her toes. When the Nymph finally pulls away, Adaeze's vision of her blurs and shifts, until it is the only thing she can see, a strange shadow in a sea of green.

Slusk's voice fades away, and she hears the nymph's words for the first time from the melodious voice. "I want you to imagine something now, Adaeze... imagine what you find to be the most absolutely beautiful in this world."

Some figures move around in her view, blobs of greens and pinks and other natural colors, but standing amidst them is the nymph herself, the trap mouth disappeared, and all that is left is that blinding feminine beauty. She titters, shaking her head. "No, no, my dear. There are more beautiful things you've personally desired."

"I..." she closes her eyes, taking in as much of a breath as she can, despite the vines around her neck. "I..."

"Yes, can you see it?"

"Y... yes..."

"Tell me, what it is..."

"She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Everyone loved her, and she took care of everyone... she even took me in when I was... when I was lost and alone.

"A mother figure to you?" The nymph asks.

"No... something different."

The woman, dressed in a simple tunic, carries the bruised and bloodied Adaeze toward the river. There, she undresses the gnoll and runs a cloth over her aching body. "Don't you worry," she whispers. "I'll take care of you..."

"She sounds wonderful," the nymph says. "Whatever happened?"

"Miss..." Adaeze says, dressing up nice in slacks and a tunic. She holds flowers out to the woman and says. "Thank you... for being so kind to me..."

The woman places her hands upon the larger paws of the gnoll and says. "I'm sorry... but I can't. It's just... you remind me... too much of..."

"Ah, gnollkind isn't kind to the humans, yet you weren't raised among your kind, were you? For all intents and purposes, you are a human, trapped in the body of a monster, a murderer, a rapist."

"S... stop..." Adaeze says. "Please..."

"That is the tragedy of Adaeze," the nymph says, her voice disappearing, and the soft fingers that touch her behind her ear spark the gnoll into awareness. When she looks back up, she sees her--the object of her desire, the one she loved, the one who had saved her life. Her tail wags as she laughs. "I... I thought... I thought you hated me."

"Here, there is no hate," her lover says. "There is only what you want, and what you want is for me to love you. You can become that woman I could love, just submit. Your pain will all be over soon..."

"I..." Adaeze says, her smile wide, but frozen as she catches something from the corner of her eye. The pink blob from earlier, sitting down... upon a petal. It's Tik Tik, watching everything with hazy, hypnotized eyes.

"Is something the matter?" the nymph asks, and Adaeze's gaze upon her changes. It becomes less focused than ever before. The nymph tilts her head and then leans in closer. As she does, her face changes once more, showing now a woman, strong, toned, with skin the same brown as Adaeze's fur. She smiles down at Adaeze and says. "This is what you could have. If you just relax and lay down and let me do what I have to do..."

"Relax...?" Adaeze says, but she glances back at Tik Tik. The kobold's seated form staring at her, unmoving, not saying anything to her, yet the plan they had... for Adaeze to see her as she really is... did that fall? Is she really under the nymph's control. "I can... relax?" She rolls his wrists, the vines giving to her movements. Surely, the nymph wouldn't make it so she could just break free. So, she lowers herself down onto her stomach, her chin resting on the ground so she can keep her eye on her 'lover.'

The nymph steps forward, the illusion wearing off as she gets closer, Adaeze's head throbbing as clarity returns to her. She suppresses a growl, letting the nymph get closer to her. Just a few more steps and-

She leaps, the vines tightening around her again, threatening to pull her arms back, but Adaeze's hands grab the nymph by the legs and pull her down with her, knocking the fey's head against the grass. The gnoll chokes and gags as vines constrict around her throat, but she fights against the tugging plants to pull herself up onto the downed nymph, to grab onto her leg, and to roll onto her, pinning her down.

Her blood boils in her body, her fighter's instinct finally kicking in, burning past the headache and the dizzying chill that once filled her. She is Adaeze again, and she sees clearly.

A scaled hand grabs at her, digging claws into her shoulder. Adaeze snarls,but keeps the Nymph down, her eyes focused up at Tik TIk. "Boss!" she barks.

The kobold blinks, then shudders, hopping up to her feet on the petals of the flower. She points her finger forward, shouting the incantation, and fire bursts out from her fingertips and strikes the lizard woman right in the face.

Slusk stumbles back, patting off some of the burning scales, staring over to the un-hypnotised kobold with rage in her face... but then she glances over towards her companion. Kera shakes her head, looking to her hands, and screams as she covers her chest with both hands.

"No..." Slusk says, in a quiet voice, then rushes towards Tik Tik. "You are ruining everything-EVERYTHING!