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hands cradled her head as he promised his devotion to her pleasure against her lips. “We will not leave this bed until I have satisfied your pleasures, my dove, that was but a small snack and we have hours to enjoy each other. Come, my dove, let me hear you coo softly for me, and I will give you all of the pleasures a beautiful woman deserves.”
    The sounds of a woman screaming in pleasure echoed through the Hallway leading to the sleeping rooms of those who had permanent quarters there, until nightfall.
    Hawk and Con took to the skies for an early evening check on the area surrounding Hawk’s Nest. Hawk flew lower over the trees when he spied an encampment of people near the road leading from Tremble Castle. He saw two large wolves circling the gathering and continued to watch from above to make certain the wolves were security for the people rather than predators looking for a conquest. Con perched himself upon a large outcropping of rock and watched over the camp, while Hawk was airborne. With the repatriation of people who had fled the Hall under the governance of its old lord, came more problems. Many of the people resented being sent back to their homes and some had taken root at the town of Tremble. Those people had taken spouses and many had at least one child or were pregnant with the future of Hawk’s Nest. The journey was made more difficult since almost every person and family was bringing their accumulated possessions back with them. Laden carts filled two men high were pulled by thickly muscled beasts with horns, that some called Oxen. This encampment was filled with such wagons and people. Hawk drew encouragement for the future of his new home seeing the number of adults and children. He flew lower, intending to drop in on the people when Con let loose a loud call. As he flew higher and in the direction of Con’s perch, he saw smoke in the distance to the west.
    Con was already in the air and heading that way, so he followed. With the larger bird leading, he glided on the wind currents to preserve his strength. There was no rush as of yet, not until the fire was checked on and they made sure no one was pillaging a settler. It was rare for rovers to attack, but not unheard of. In fact, a few of the repatriated humans wished to begin burgs of their own. Places where dual natured beings were not welcome.
    In theory that might have worked a thousand years ago. However, there were more dual natured beings than humans on the island, and some remembered the scorn and ridicule that was heaped on them by the original aliens who landed on this rock called Echo. Much of the problem with the dual natured could be sat at the door of that huge silver spacecraft that he had heard so much about. It still sat, intact, in the middle of a group of buildings where the descendants of the original explorers began to build their city. They could not resist dabbling in the natural evolution of the pristine planet they found upon landing. They experimented on evolving species. Injecting various beings with DNA taken from another being, with human DNA, they attempted to create stronger, less weak humans. The plan was logical, but the execution had been poor. Echo was a newly evolving planet at that time. Yet the prejudices between the evolving species, and human beings, were alive and well. The cruelties visited upon certain species had never actually given the scientists what they wished for. All their experiments had produced were human to animal shape shifters. Given the scope of their experiments, sometimes combining DNA from several species and impregnating the eggs into human females and animal species alike, had been disastrous for the humans. The practice of combining DNA and tissue from separate species was supposed to have stopped a hundred years ago, but since Tremble Island was still the main depository of the creatures resulting from those “mistakes”, every few years more creatures that appeared to be human, but