<div class="floatright">(http://imageshack.us/a/img855/5968/dawnjp.jpg)</div><br/>"Well, not everybody has that option.  You can't force a fox or a lion to eat plants.  If you have a better idea of how to handle it, you're welcome to say, but this and trying to destroy it are the only options I see, and I don't really want to do that."<br/><br/>The more Valerie spoke, the more obvious it became that the body-snatching bothered her as well.  She almost seemed to be begging Xiaoxing to come up with a better suggestion than what she had managed so far.<br/><br/>She listened to Will with a nod.  "Okay, just let me know if you need anything.  If the decanthrope does have an eye on someone who would be a problem, let me know also so we can see about trying to make a deal or something."<br/><br/>She didn't know how long she'd be able to manage to hold such disparate forces together without having a war begin, but she knew she had to fight for as long as she could.  Clicking a button on her smartphone for speed dial, she told the Heartwings, "All clear.  You can start things up again."