The bartender was still talking with his wife and jumped when he was grabbed.<span style="color: #b30000">"H-hey pal, don't get mad at me if she can't handle it. It- it's- the soulstones we offer succubi and other demons here contain sedatives to keep them tame so their masters can relax without any trouble getting started. And before you jump to any conclusions they're not really made of souls, see?" </span>He held one up and crushed it in his hand.<span style="color: #b30000"> "It's condensed energy, mana. But each are enchanted with a weak tranquilizer spell. She shouldn't have passed out like that, she should have felt it before she even finished the first one."</span><br/><br/>"You have months to figure it out." He sat down next to Shauna and stole her apple. "Nyaka was possessed by Mar'li and rained arrows on the city, she nearly wiped out even non-Troll in the city. This woman is also the reason Kitori was thrown in a river as an infant, and I'm still wondering who else she cursed in my life? You and my mother were both trying to make me and Nyaka mate, and when that didn't work she tried to force me and Ibara. Now you carry that child because my mother couldn't leave well enough alone and made Ibara miscarry."  Saerwynn sniffed at Ophidian curiously then slowly sat up.<span style="color: #b3b300">"You smell... like Mistress, you have power like she does?"</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>