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make traveling for you hard are sleeping now. The city isn’t more than a few hours walk from here. I’ll get you to the council, and you’ll be safe.”
    “Ky?” she asked curiously. Was he referring to her as Ky? Her name was Kylie. Maybe it was a nickname, but she never told him her name.
    He lifted his hand and displayed his palm. Red swirls imprinted on his hand read, Ky . Strange she could read the unfamiliar language, but nothing of this world was normal. He reached for her hand, turned her palm up, presenting her similar mark with the word, Cobaaron ; the writing was his name.
    The moment he touched her hand, she felt a familiar urge to be closer to him. The powerful impulse was so strong she had to literally shake her head to expel the feeling. She focused on the name while she took a few breaths trying to calm her desire to seduce him.
    “Cobaaron is my name. See? That is how I knew your name is Ky.” He let go of her in a hurry. He watched her intently as he considered her a moment. “You do know why my name is there, don’t you? You know why I’m so upset, right?”
    “I don’t.” Ky shook her head for emphasis. “I don’t understand a lot of things that have happened since I fell. Like why did I land in water? Why, or more importantly, how I’m here? How is it possible that there are such things as trolls? Why I couldn’t see? Why do I have swirls all over my body? Why is my hair down to my elbows and glowing bright red? Why am I glowing? What other ghastly creatures are out there that I should expect to see on this walk to the city? Why aren’t you helping me go home instead of taking me to the city?”
    “I understand you’re confused, but the council would rather explain things to you,” Cobaaron said. “But I can answer a few things. Your hair is longer than your elbows, by the way. I lengthened it past your waist.”
    “What do you mean?” Ky asked, and looked down. Her mostly exposed body distracted her, remembering how little she was wearing. Sure enough her hair was long, wavy, incredibly thick, and still shimmering with a brilliant glow that was brighter than the rest of her body. Ky quickly tugged her locks over her bare skin, as her hair continued to thicken and extend to mid-thigh.
    “I don’t know where you’re from,” he admitted. “Every Star is from some different place. Even if I did know where you came from, I couldn’t take you home. And as far as our names being on each other, it’s because sharing blood bonds people. That is the only thing important right now, and we need to correct it.”
    “Well on my planet , sharing blood is called blood brothers. I’ve heard of that.”
    “Brothers…sick…no. Partners, unions, bound for life, Ky. You don’t unite with siblings where you come from, do you?” Cobaaron cringed in disgust.
    “No,” she blurted in alarm. That wasn’t what she meant. Slowly, she pieced together what else he said, and the gravity of his words sank in. “Wait. You’re saying you and I are...we’re married? Husband and wife?”
    “If that is what you want to call it. And that is how you’re changing me, and I’m changing you. We’re shape shifting. It’s our bodies’ way of making sure we finish the union. The longer we go without mating the more attractive and appealing we become. Usually people mate long before the lust becomes love. Right now it’s growing lust, and we are becoming more enticing. Like today you smell much stronger of honey, or maybe it’s,” he stared at her with hungry eyes with a dazed expression, and he leaned toward her smelling the air, enjoying it thoroughly, “sandraberries.” He closed his eyes, and breathed in deeply, then his eyes popped open and he gazed at her with intense desire.
    He stepped backward, realizing what he was doing. “Once you go in front of the council they’ll know what to do with you. Most likely, they’ll keep you in the city.”
    “I want to go home,” Ky protested.
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