§ The crawling, prickling feeling I felt all over my body at 10:1 immediately ramped up into a feeling of crushing pressure. I don’t know if this makes sense, but it felt like it should be overwhelming, yet it wasn’t. As long as I continued my tempering technique and continued swimming as hard as I could, it remained tolerable. I …

§ One hour and forty eight minutes had passed on Huade, while I spent seventy five days in Sky Ocean. Still no answer from HR. It’s annoying being left on hold. I had no fear of blood hunger taking me over at this point, and my vampire hormones were at last stabilizing. This form was apparently the best for my …

§ Honestly, Robert Stewart would disapprove of my behavior, wouldn’t he? This is basically a boss taking advantage of her subordinate, isn’t it? I had no excuse for my behavior. That was my thought as Khortys guided my hands and mouth around her body. My fangs remained grown, and I needed no further stimulation. With the elven beauty giving herself …

§ Immortal Mother led everyone out except for Khortys, whom I chose as the maid to serve me first. Austrydhur and Pirkitta tried to convince her to let them stay too, and I could clearly see they were aiming to feed me as well, but Immortal Mother told them firmly that in my current condition I could only feed on …

§ Only a very short time before this moment, I was complimenting myself for being comfortable with nudity, contrary to my usual nature. Yet, here I was, defending my chest with crossed arms. But I couldn’t help it! The eight newcomers included Princess Amelia and Oberon of all people! And my three maids from Tëan Tír, too! With me wearing …

§ The mermaid’s pelvis differs from that of either a human or any aquatic mammal. In dolphins, evolution has eliminated the pelvis entirely. Merrow, like dolphins, have tails that are grand extensions of their spines, but unlike dolphins, only parts of the pelvis have disappeared. The ilium bones and sockets remain, to connect thigh muscles and ‘bones’ (actually cartilage) that …

§ Once the little ones finished working through their emotions, reassuring themselves that I was alright and they didn’t need to keep hugging me, Immortal Mother made me slowly scull around the pool, just gently waving my flukes for several laps as she confirmed that I would remain stable. Weirdly, even though she sat on the shore and I was …

§ Water, darkness, light, and the green of the deep forest. The dreams ebbed and flowed for far too long, long enough for me to become aware they were dreams, but only ran clearly enough to know I wasn’t in a normal environment. Despite being a lucid dream, I could not control the narrative at all. In fact, I could …

§ A quick note: I made a rash promise that there would be an appendix following this afterword, and I have labored ever since to make it. It was to be a cast of characters. I failed to anticipate how badly distracted I would be while going through the last nearly 1.2 million words to create it, by constantly stopping …

§ We had the battle half-won, but we still had to deal with an army that had no right to exist. Multiple liches, fiends, skeletal knights and imps face us when ordinarily such creatures would only show up on their own, as the commanders over lesser demons. Perhaps a real ‘Miss Hiléa’, the role I was playing, would not have …