Duza felt a strange sense of disorientation and opened his eyes, the green orbs looking around as he floated.  Panic seized the grey hyena as all he saw was darkness around him.  He flailed his limbs as terror built in his chest and his heart pounded.  His ears laid back as he tried to figure out where he was.  Had he died?  No...that couldn't be right.  He had been doing something.  But what?  The hyena was not sure, his mind felt...disjointed...blurry.  He remembered little bits and pieces about himself and his home but it wasn't enough to make any sense.<br/><br/>He suddenly felt that he was no longer alone.  He could feel something approaching him.  He had no idea what it was, but his mind felt it coming, and straight to him.  He began to whimper in fear as he looked about wildly, wondering how he could not see such a thing coming when his body all but FELT its sheer magnitude.  It was getting closer and closer, he could all but feel it upon him and still nothing!  He finally resorted to curling his legs against his chest and tucking his tail, shivering and clamping his eyes shut and waiting for something presumabley painful to happen to him.<br/><br/>All of the sudden, he felt something touch his mind.  He was flooded with the presence of an entity which he could not even begin to comprehend.  It was focusing directly on him, and he could all but feel that it...she seemed to all but radiate compassion, love, happiness, and purity upon him as her perfect face looked upon him and smiled.  He could not make out her features somehow, but she was wearing a strange flowing garment the seemed somehow revealing and yet seemed utterly perfect upon her.  Just seeing this vast figure in his mind brought an indescribable joy into Duza's heart.  Whoever she was, she cared for him very much and would never hurt him.  He was safe and always would be.  A gentle, almost musical voice filled his mind then, seeming to echo in the vast emptiness of this strange place as his body relaxed.<br/><br/>"Young Duza, you need not fear me.  I care more for you and everyone else under my protection than you can ever know.  I only wish for you to be happy."<br/><br/>Duza took in her words, the voice so utterly beautiful to his ears and seeming to suffuse him with calmness and love.  He felt as if his head was ruffled as she smiled at him, his senses exploding into a pleasurable bliss as his tongue hung out and he panted.<br/><br/>"I took you from your old world to bring you to this one, little one.  I created it to be a place where my children could take part in their deepest desire freely, never needing to fear death."  She seemed to lean in in his mind's eye, her smile all but washing over him as he trembled in happiness.  "You know of the desire of which I speak, Duza.  Here you will be able to do it freely, over and over, to your heart's content.  On this Nirvana that I have created."<br/><br/>Duza was so overcome by her presence now his mind was fogging, his body being overcome past his sense limits by her presence.  Tears ran down his eyes openly as she spoke, knowing exactly what she was referring to.<br/><br/>"Do you wish to live in this Nirvana of mine, young Duza?  This perfect world of unending happiness and life?  Our time together grows short."<br/><br/>Duza managed a barely visible nod of his head, and just before he blacked out he felt his body suffused with warmth and a great sense of movement, and then he passed out, unaware of anything at all.<br/><br/>A voice reached him anyway, it not being possible to ignore the goddesses' voice.  "Be happy, my Duza, and revel in your deepest desires.  Know that I will always be watching you, as I do all my children, and that as long as you do that which makes you happiest, I will be smiling down on you from my temple."