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A young man joins a role-playing game, but the game-master is a wizard, and turns him into his character: a female kitsune bard. Then he sends her on a quest to find a lost book....

We entered the gloomy first story of Abremalin's tower. Inside, it was a wide stone room about 30 feet in diameter. Stone stars ran up to the ceiling through an opening to the second floor. The only furniture was a single rotting table, on which was a golden platter with what seemed to be a fresh loaf of bread, and a golden goblet filled with purple wine. In the corner was a three foot tall statue of a bird, resembling an Egyptian Ibis, brightly painted and with large blue jewels for eyes, probably sapphires - the biggest I had ever seen.

Koleb walked up to the statue. "Look at these gems", he said, taking out a dagger. "I could pay a years rent with these!"

"Don't touch that!", shouted Pindar, but it was too late. Koleb touched the statue, and it came to life! It pecked at him, tearing out a piece of his leather armor, and then it flew to the other side of the room, and turned back into a statue!

"Okay", said Koleb, looking genuinely surprised, "don't touch the statue..."

"Nobody move until I cast detect magic", said Pindar. He closed his eyes and started gesturing and making incantation in a weird, guttural language. Then he opened his eyes and said "The plate and goblet are magical, with some kind of conjuring magic. And so is the statue - it's transmutation magic!"

"You mean it turns you into a statue?", I asked.

"No", Pindar replied. "I think all the magic does is make the statue come to life."

I looked at the loaf of bread, sniffing it with my kitsune nose: it even smelled fresh....

"What do you think the bread and wine do?", I asked Pindar.

"Well, the bread isn't magical, only the plate is", he said. "Hold on a second, and I'll cast_identify_".

He took a small cup out of his component pouch, poured some wine into it from his canteen, and stirred it with a feather. He gazed it into it, and said. "All the plate does is conjure fresh loves of bread. Possibly valuable."

"And the goblet makes fresh wine though conjury as well."

Then he looked at the statue, still swirling the wine with the feather. "I see... it's some kind of guardian statue designed to come to life and attack when a code word is given, or when touched."

There was a moment of silence. "He sure did live simply, just bread and wine...", said Koleb.

"Let's check upstairs", I suggested.

We climbed the stairs to the second floor. This appeared to be a wizards workroom, with a large table on which sat dusty alchemical equipment: something that looked like a chemistry set, a mortar and pestle, an oil lamp, and other things I couldn't name. Against the wall was a book shelf, and another flight of stone stairs wound up to an opening in the ceiling to the third floor.

Score!, I thought, looking at the bookshelf.

"This is worth some money", said Pindar, looking at the equipment on the table. "Hold on while I cast detect magic."

Pindar did his gestures and incantations, looking around. "Nothing magical in here", he said.

Well, maybe the book itself isn't magical, I thought.

"Koleb, we have to take all these books", I said.

"Right", he replied, and began to take the books off the shelf and put them in his backpack. I joined him, putting them into mine, and Pindar walked up to the bookshelf and began reading titles.

"Books on every subject, as far as I can tell - even cooking. Worth gold, to be sure." And with that, he went to the table and began dismantling the chemistry set and stuffing it his backpack. "I've been needing more alchemy equipment", he said.

We ran out of space in our backpacks for books, and Koleb produced two large bags and handed me one. We put the rest of the books in the bags. It's a good thing I'm athletic, I thought,because these books are heavy!

That done, we took the flight of stairs up to the third floor. This room turned out to be a bedroom, with a large feather bed and a chest-of-drawers, as well as another flight of stone stairs leading up to a trap door on the ceiling, probably to the roof.

We searched the room, but found nothing but old moldy clothes. No "lost book", not even a diary. So we headed up the stairs, Koleb in the lead, throwing open the trap door and climbing out onto the roof.

In the center of the roof was a reflecting telescope, lying on the ground as if it had toppled over. Other than that, there was nothing on the roof but a great view of the ruins of Ib.

Koleb walked up to the telescope, his tail wagging. "This is worth a lot of money!", he exclaimed.

"Let me cast _detect magic_first", said Pindar. He did his thing, and announced "It's not magical."

Koleb picked it up, gently cradling it in his arms. "Now what?", he asked.

I thought for a moment. "I think we have to get these books back home and read them...", I replied.

"All of them?", Koleb asked.

"I guess so", I replied. It would take months to read them all, but one of them might be the lost book.

"Okay", said Pindar, "this mission is over. Let's take our loot and get out of here before darkness falls."

Koleb and I agreed, and made our way downstairs. Pindar loaded the magical plate and goblet into his pack, and we left the tower and wound our way through the streets of Ib back to the pier and our skiff. Once aboard, we dropped our packs and sacks, and Koleb sailed us back to Sarnath. By the time we arrived, the sun was setting.

"Well, I think we all got what we came for", said Pindar. I wasn't so sure, but then I had a lot of reading to do....

"Let us part ways, then", said Koleb.

"Until next time", said Pindar. "If you need me again, you know where to ask...."

And so Koleb and I walked out into the streets, found an omnibus, and got a ride nearly home, walking the last few hundred yards from the main thoroughfare through the side streets.

Koleb unlocked the door to our house and we walked in, setting our packs and bags in the living-room. We took off our armor and shields, and I unbound my breasts from the cloth straps binding my boobs to to my chest, feeling much lighter.

Koleb went into the kitchen, and came back with a small jug of wine and two copper goblets, setting them down on the dining room table. He poured, and and brought me a goblet. "To our quest", he said, and we touched goblets. My tail waged as I drank: Koleb probably wanted to celebrate....

I touched him on the side of the muzzle with my hand-paw: "Let me make dinner first", I said, downing my goblet and going into the kitchen. I cut up some roast beef, cheese and bread, and gathered some fruit onto a platter and came out.

As we ate, Koleb asked me if the this was the end of my quest. "I don't know", I replied, "I'm not sure if the lost book is among the ones we found. I'll just have to read them, and that could take months."

Koleb smiled at that. "So I guess you'll be staying here until then?", he asked.

I smiled back. "I guess so", I replied, giving him my best coy look, eye-lashes fluttering.

We finished our meal, and Koleb got up and took my hand-paw in his. "Let's go make love", he said.

"Let's", I replied, getting up.

He led me to the bedroom, and and we began to take off our clothes.

"So what happens when your quest is over?", he asked.

"I'm really not certain", I said. "I have to get the book back to a wizard, and that could be a problem...", I trailed off. I still had no real idea how I was supposed to get the book back to Earth, except that the wizard had told me to cast a spell out of it....

We finished undressing, and stood naked before each other. God, Koleb is such a handsome todd, I thought, so muscular and... male. Koleb ran his finger down my furry chest, drawing tingles that settled in my underbelly, then he put his arms around me, hugging me tight and kissing me. I kissed him back, and we started making out, our tongues in each-others mouths. Then he slipped a hand-paw down beneath my belly, cupping my pussy, sending warm butterfly-tingles through me, making my breasts and underbelly feel warm, and my nipples come erect. So I ran my hand-paw down to his sheath, caressing it, and he slowly came erect.

Koleb broke off our kiss and led me to our bed. We climbed in, and I rolled over on my back, knees up and legs spread, and he climbed atop me. He started playing with my tits, licking and sucking my nipples, making me moan as electric jolts of pleasure shot through my body from my nipples to my pussy with each suck. Then I felt the tip of his erection against my little pussy lips, and he spread them and found the opening of my vagina. I whined as he entered me, pushing his penis into my vagina, spreading my slick flesh apart and stretching me with an electric sensation. Then he looked down at me, kissed me, and began to thrust.

I began to cry out as waves of pleasure roared through me to the tempo of his thrusting, my arms around his back, my hips bucking into his, my tits jiggling and bouncing with every thrust. And the pleasure only became more and more intense until I couldn't take it anymore, and I was crying out his name. And then I came, feeling as if I where floating as a momentous wave of pleasure rolled through my body, making me see stars and white light behind my eyes. I moaned and writhed, impaled on his thrusting penis, unable to escape the pleasure he was giving me, panting....

Then I slowly started to come back down to Earth again, the pleasure fading, his erection still sliding back and forth inside me....

Then Koleb came in me, his penis pulsing his warm, wet seed into the top of my vagina, and he collapsed atop me, groaning.

I held him close to me, and he licked my mask and ears as his penis grew flaccid inside me. Then he got up off me, pulling his slick penis out of me, leaving a feeling behind like it was still in me....

He laid down beside me, and I cuddled into him. God, having sex was Koleb feels so good, I thought, wondering if I really ever wanted to leave him and go back to Earth. Then I thought of the friends and family I would be leaving behind, not to mention my band-mates, who where all probably wondering what had happened to me, and I shook my head and closed my eyes, thinking:this isn't my home... I need to get get home....

I put my hand-paw in his, and we rested, eventually falling asleep.

The next morning I awoke to Koleb kissing me awake, and we got dressed and I made breakfast. We ate, and Koleb left for work. I turned to the pile of books, and began to read them.

Not all where in common, so I separated those books out, knowing I would need a translator. Of the rest, there where almanacs, history books, quite a few cook books, and several books on magic. I put them in piles by type, cooking dinner as the sun set, and when Koleb got back that evening, I had them all arranged into piles in the living-room.

"We need a bookshelf", Koleb said, seeing what I had done. I agreed, and the next day Koleb took some time off so we could go furniture shopping. We bought a large bookshelf in pieces, and two furniture workers carried it back for us to our house for us and nailed it together in the living-room.

I placed the books on the shelf, separated by language and then by content, but by then it was too dark to read well, even with the oil lamp, and so we went to bed together.

Koleb set up the telescope on the rooftop garden, and sometimes we would look at the stars and planets together.

Weeks passed as I read the magic books while Koleb worked and paid the rent and bills, looking for the spell that would send me home. But I found nothing on dimensional teleportation, and none of the books seemed to have been written by Abremalin himself.

That left the books in the unknown languages. Hiring a translator wasn't going to be cheap. So I went back to work at the Temple of Pleasure. I raised enough money in a few days to have all their titles translated: most where in Elvish, with some Draconic, Ifreet, and Djinn. I got a price for getting them translated: it would cost "over a hundred gold", I was told, and take about two months.

So I began working full time at the Temple of Pleasure, and actually started to make fans. The same people, mostly rich merchants but also craftsmen and other professionals, would show up to chant my name when I danced or sang. I was building a fan club! I also got several overtures for sex, sometimes several proposals a day, and one marriage proposal from a nobleman!

I could, I realized, make far more money on my back than I could as a bard. And, as I found out by gossiping in the bathing pool, a number of the girls that worked at the Temple actually did.

I had to show them my ring and tell them I was engaged to be married.

And so time passed as the books got translated one by one, and I read them. The histories of various dragons, Efreet, and Djinn, their works and and philosophy, their discoveries in magic, their lives and adventures in other dimensions, but still no lost book.

My period came again, and a week later I took another Potion of Infertility. I continued to sing, dance, and play at the Temple, and continued to pay translators, while Koleb worked as a cartographer.

By now, my life had fallen into the routine of domestic housewife and Temple bard, as I performed for money and took care of Koleb and tended the rooftop garden. Weeks passed, and I was starting to worry that the lost book wasn't among the books we had taken. But where could it be? If it wasn't in the Library of Sarnath, or in Abremalin's Tower, I felt I was starting to run out of options. Maybe I had missed something?

Then it came time for my next period, and it didn't happen on schedule. After a few days, I started to get worried. After I week, I was alarmed. I went to see the Temple healer, and told him I had missed my period. He told me to go to the Temple of Pelor, and ask a priest if I was pregnant.

"How can I pregnant?!", I sputtered, "I was taking the Potion of Infertility!"

"The potion isn't perfect", he replied, "and some alchemists are better than others...."

I stared at him.

"Thanks", I said sourly, and asked him for directions to the Temple of Pelor.

He gave me the directions, telling me it was the second largest building in Sarnath after the the king's palace, near the end of the main thoroughfare. So I thanked him, and with some trepidation headed off down the main thoroughfare towards the temple.

The temple itself was monumental,it's spires towering into the heavens, all of pink granite except for it's marble pillars. In it's courtyard, cunningly wrought fountains splashed scented water, and the path to the marble steps was made of semi-precious stones laid to resemble flowers. It was the most opulent building I had ever seen in my life.

Beyond it's entrance was a vast oval antechamber of marble, it's walls adorned with frescoes of what I took to be saints, judging by their halos, and scenes of armies battling and depictions of heroes, sunlight streaming in from above from a vast circular oculus. Men and women in sunset-dyed robes carried censers of incense, some muttering prayers. I looked around for a greeter of some kind, but couldn't find one, so nervously I walked up to two of the robed figures that where talking and interrupted them.

"Excuse me, but I need to find a priest...", I managed.

"We are but humble acolytes", said the first, "but I can take you to a priest. Might I inquire as to your business?"

"I... need to know if I'm pregnant...", I stumbled.

"Oh, how joyous", he said. "Follow me."

Yeah, joyous, I thought. I followed.

He led me through a back door and up a flight of marble steps, to a long corridor with many wooden doors, all intricately carved with sun symbols and flowers. He knocked on one. "Father Dove, there is a maiden here to see you", he called.

"Come in", came a man's voice in reply.

The acolyte led me in to a small study crowded with books, where an old man in sunset-dyed robes was reading an ancient tome by lamp-light. He looked up at me, and asked "How may I be of service to you, fair maiden?"

"I need to know if I'm pregnant...", I nearly whispered, my nervousness infecting my voice.

He stood up and walked in front of me. "I shall cast detect life on your womb, for the donation of but one piece of gold", he said.

Well, that sounded fair. I handed him a gold coin from my belt-pouch.

He placed his hand over my lower abdomen, closed his eyes and muttered a brief prayer as I held my breath, crossing my fingers. Then he opened his eyes, looked down at me, and smiled beautifically, in that way that only clergy can.

"Congratulations", he said, "it's a boy."

My world spun dizzily, grew dark, and I fainted.

I awoke in the arms of the acolyte, gently patting me on the cheek. My eyelids fluttered open, and he looked down at me. "Are you all right, miss? You fainted."

"Yeah... yeah..., I'm alright", I managed, slowly getting up.

I slowly shook my head. Oh my God, I'm pregnant, I thought, putting my hand-paws to my lower belly.Now what am I going to do?, I wondered. Going to an alchemist for an herbal abortificant came to mind, but I pushed that thought aside angrily - it just wasn't in me to kill my unborn child. Maybe, I thought, the wizard could help when I completed the quest....

I wondered what Koleb would think when I gave him the news.

I thanked the priest for helping me, and he replied with "it always lightens my heart to give good news."

Yeah, good news. Still somewhat stunned, I let the acolyte take me by the arm and lead me back down to the antechamber. From there I walked out onto the main thoroughfare and home.

I filled a bucket with water and went upstairs to the rooftop garden and watered our fruit and vegetables while I thought. So I'm going to have a baby boy....

This, of course, changed everything. Now that I was pregnant with Koleb's kit, could I really leave him and go back to Earth? And how could I get changed back into a man if I was pregnant? Was that even possible?

What was I going to tell the wizard when I met him. If I met him, seeing as how I couldn't find the book....

Face it, you might just be stuck here with Koleb and your child-to-be, I thought. Well, there where worse fates....

Evening came, and I picked some fresh fruit and went downstairs to prepare dinner for the two of us. I wondered how I should break the news to Koleb. I decided to tell him as soon as he got home....

I had just finished setting the dinner table when I heard the door open and Koleb shout "I'm home, my love".

Grimacing, I walked up to him, one ear flat, the other twitching like my tail. I put my hand-paws on his shoulders and looked up at him. "Koleb, I... have something important to tell you...", I struggled.

"What is it, Elysia?", he asked, a look of concern coming over his mask.

"Koleb", I gulped, "I'm pregnant."

His mask lit right up with an expression of joy, and we grabbed me by the waist in his strong arms and spun me around, the tresses of my dress flying, then he kissed me.

"Oh, Elysia! That's wonderful", he exclaimed. "is it a boy or a girl, or do you know yet?"

"It's a boy, Koleb", I answered. "our son."

"I'll find a priest so we can get married right away!", he said, grinning. I had certainly made_his_ day....

Sure, I thought, get married. And what about Earth, and my friends and family? What about my quest?, I thought. And then:I can't believe I'm really going to have a baby... and get married!

What would Mom say?

I shut my eyes as he kissed me again, and then I told him, "Come on, we can discuss it over dinner."

And so we sat down at the table and ate. Koleb kept saying things like: "what should we name him?", and "do you want a traditional marriage ceremony?"

I could only smile and nod my head.

After dinner, he took me by the arm and said, "come on, let's go make love", and I let him lead me to the bedroom.