Draiss felt his body smiling, and realize his beyonder was going to do something to Reekesha, and began trying to fight back control of his form. It felt like trying to stop the tide with his hands. "I am the beyonder inside this host. You know him as Draiss, the one who promised to protect you. The one you wanted enough power to kill. So you found a locket to my kyn, and made a deal with something you couldn't possibly understand. You just tried to kill him."<br/><br/>He leaned forward, his fangs lengthening, but they weren't his usual fangs, these ones were the two front most pairs of teeth, and the two pairs behind the canines. It was very wrong, as far as evolution was concerned, but V'elen was making a point. "You forced me to awaken fully to protect the host, and by extension myself. That annoyed me. I do not want to be awake yet, I am still tired from fully merging with my host. So, I have to punish you for your a#$gG<}."<br/><br/>His free left hand reached up, and tore the locket off her neck, before crushing the container and absorbing the tiny shard inside it. It didn't explain what the term that failed to properly translate meant, both Draiss and Reekesha were smart enough to guess. "So, you will serve my host, however you can, however he needs or wants. This is your punishment for betraying the trust he showed in offering to protect you and yours, for the betrayal you forced upon him when you consumed your elder, whom he protected. You will serve for three cycles, at which point I will either release you, or have you serve further, and more strictly. So I have spoken, so it will be. Three cycles of servitude to the host, and then a judgment. He did nothing to you and yours, so your lack of faith has been punished."<br/><br/>It smiled and removed his finger from her jaw, withdrawing the paralyzing energies, and released Draiss, who immediately collapsed screaming in pain as the crystalline growths and the gem in his forehead withdrew, leaving him in control once again. After a moment of thrashing in agony, he forced himself to his knees, and looked up at the liontaur goddess. "Reekesha, are you alright? Where is Keeshara, why did it say you consumed her?"