By the time that Dana woke up, everything felt different.
The situation seemed normal enough, as she was holding Skadi’s human form in her arms, and there were still a half dozen bunnies in the room, so she hadn’t been asleep for too long. But she felt much more tightly connected to the little forest lord than she ever had before.
Before she could sense the thoughts of all the beasts.
Now, she could almost sense the content of the little one’s dreams as she mumbled happily. It was a crazy situation, and when she explored the link, she found that there was so much more to the bond now than there ever had been before.
Not just thoughts, but there were the emotions and something more to the bonds than there had been before.
This must be what Cara had meant by "one of us", Dana decided.
Skadi opened her golden eyes and smiled up at Dana. "Good morning. That was a pretty good party, what are we doing today?"
"I should do some crafting, to help stock the store. Did you want to stay with me?"
Skadi nodded happily, "That would be lovely. I don’t have class today, so I can stay with you all day long. Where are we going to work? Sitting on the pillows in the nap room to work seems like a strange choice."
"It would be. Let’s go to the second floor workroom, and we can sit with the others and work."
That sounded very good to Skadi.
Everyone tended to gather there to work on Runecrafting and inscription. But she thought that somewhere else could be fun too.
"Or, we could go work in the forge area. It’s super warm there, but if we work next to the smiths, they can make us special things."
That was also a decent plan, but Skadi was right. The forges were hot.
They had just gotten to their feet when Sam, the Doppelgänger mage, came to see them.
"If you don’t mind, I would like to make some notes on the details of the Beast Bond. It’s a rare chance to meet anyone who has been without it, with a Soul Bond, and with the Beast Bond.
It feels odd just saying that.
But it’s research for my studies on dimensional magic. You see, the mechanics behind the separate spaces are of great interest to me, and I would like to know how the formation of one so closely linked to someone might have altered their aura."
Dana shrugged. "I was going to work on making some items for the shop, but I can help you too."


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