Anihyr Moonstar

Oh, fiddlesticks. It's your character and a female character, to boot. XD Good luck with this. (To explain my comment, I really only write slash and prefer to work with my own characters...in fact, always work with my own characters, unless I'm writing fanfiction. But again, g'luck.)

nemo About Baisyl's dream on previous ch, can you tell me if it's a precognitive dream or not? I'm afraid that Baisyl will reject his own child once he know he's pregnant, and although some part of me understands, I really don't want that to happen It's ok if he's confused and conflicted, but I hope in the end he can love his child.... Baisyl’s dream is not necessarily explicitly precognitive, but it is meant to be a warning to the readership. The concept of having a child is absolutely foreign and terrifying (and in some ways repulsive) to Baisyl, and I wanted to at least touch on that before we get to the part where Baisyl actually finds out so that it’s not “surprising” to anyone when he’s really not happy – at all – about it. Whether or not he will be eventually persuaded to come around on the matter is another thing…and one of the main subjects of the second book. =) games for days Yay new chapter! I loved all three parts, oh, but what will happen next? *bites nails* and I wonder why is the magic getting stronger, because of the baby or is it maybe because of Loveeee... haha. I wish they could just accidentally meet their brothers on the street while going to the meeting with the captain ! I can't wait for the next chapter... Haha, well, I’m glad you enjoyed this chapter. =) The increase in magic (as I actually mentioned briefly at the bottom of the chapter) isn’t related directly to the baby, but it IS related to something else Baisyl did the same night he conceived (when he sank some of his magic into Kedean and Kedean asked him what he’d done and he gave some nonsensical “I have no idea” reply? Yeah, that…xD). Details will be explained later in the story, though, so no worries. :3 addiena saffir "it's magic" the answer to many a thing we wish to do but have no logical answer on how to accomplish. ah how i wish it would work in real life. lol Phhh, I know, right? But, I do try to use that excuse as little as possible in any case, because even in fantasy, things are better and more believable if they “make sense” at least on some level. Whiiiich is why I gave my wacky attempt at trying to explain my logic. XD Writer11377 Thank you for the explanation! I understand you're logic perfectly! Another update, another great day Can't wait for the next one / book two XoXO Oh, good, phew! My logic always makes sense to ME (well, most of the time…) but I never know when something will be confusing to others until I attempt to put it in words. XD It’s looking like this story is actually going to shape up to be around thirty two or thirty three chapters long in the end. Part of me wants it to be over now so I can start on book two; I’ve never actually “finished” a story quite this long before, lol. Midnightsscream WOW! I seem to have lost track of this story. It's so very good and a lot to catch up on as well. Poor Basil though I must admit I love when he flirts and shows interest in Kedean. They do make quite a stunning couple. I am curious about all the staring at Kedean. Is it because he's so tall or does it have to do with the color of his skin or maybe something else entirely? I really like the the innkeepers and the caravan leaders were so friendly. Hopefully things continue to go so well for them. great job! I totally flipped out when I saw you’d reviewed. XD I thought you’d left for good! I assumed you’d either lost interest or forgotten about it or just weren’t reading at AFF anymore, but after so long gone I was incredibly happy to see you back; you were like, the ONLY person who actually reviewed after every update at the beginning. =D Ahem, right, responding to the review. The staring is mainly because of Kedean’s skin. There’s basically no one around in the area they are with skin much darker than a “dark tan” by Caucasian standards, so he stands out like a fleck of pepper in a sugar bowl. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s seven feet tall. And built. That kind of…attracts attention too. XD But mostly his skin. =) *dreamy sigh* Kedean is such a sweet man and I love how well developed Basil is with his thoughts/concerns about his body as a woman and how people react differently to him. It's very realistic I feel. I do love the dancing part of this chapter. It was so incredibly sweet and fun and Basil is falling for him so hard...or at least I think he is with all the cuddling and kissing in the rain. I love the kissing in the rain.. Hmmm, I wonder if Basil will have sex in the rain so he can have sex with Kedean as a man. This chapter (12) was pure awesomeness. Very great job! =D Aye, Kedean’s my type of man, lol (big and gentle…;] ) , and I had this one new age/folk song thing on repeat the whole time I wrote the dance scene. o.o Trying to describe what they looked like dancing in my head. xD Go Kedean for handling a drunk Basil so well. I think they needed to have that conversation if only to make Basil feel more secure about things. They do heartfelt so well. It just gives me hope that even though it may be a hard road everything will be okay in the end. The pregnancy thing is a bit concerning though. I think when it happens though Basil will be at least a tiny bit more prepared and in love for it. great job! Yeah, that conversation had been put off long enough at that point (and the readership was starting to wonder too, lol), so it was important that it at least get addressed. At the point we’re at in the story now (chapter 28/29~) I feel very guilty as far as the pregnancy is concerned. It’s like as soon as Baisyl JUST starts to come to terms with his female body…bam. He’s gonna find out he’s pregnant. XD So it will be a tough road, but in the end I do like happy endings best. ;P *Snicker,snicker, snicker* I LOVE Basil. He's a sly little thing, isn't he? Kedean doesn't seem very impressed though his muttering about kitten boys was quite amusing and endearing. They both like each other and they're both witty enough to make it fun and interesting. great job! ^^ XD Yes. >:] I had a lot of fun writing that interaction. I can just see him pulling it off so well, and no, Kedean wasn’t entirely impressed…but mostly he just didn’t like Baisyl fantasizing about bending other boys over in his bed. =D Poor Basil and being confused...and spontaneous in the most adorable and attractive way I must wonder. Is Basil shifting from female to male going to kill the baby? He already changed so I'm hoping not, but at the same time when he's a man he has not womb in which to hold a child so where exactly would the baby go. Yay for Kedean being tender when he needs to be and for Basil finding more of his badly needed self acceptance. great job! No, shifting from female to male will not kill the baby. x) I actually put a reasonably detailed description in at the end of chapter twenty eight because someone else asked more or less the same question (their question was, “How can Baisyl still be pregnant as a guy?” and this was my response: ‘I’ll preface my answer by saying that I never should have gone with the word “illusion” to describe the mechanics of the curse, because in practice I see it working like a fully functioning, co-dominant body type that exists and will continue to exist side by side with his male one until the curse is fully removed. In that vein, I see it as being subject to, on occasion, certain biological cycles that “trump” even the normal workings of the curse (I’m thinking specifically, before he was pregnant, obviously, when it came time for his ahh…’time of the month’ he could be standing in the rain and still be a woman, because his female body would take “precedence” of sorts over his male one in that particular case since it had specific biological needs to attend to; you can imagine how much that annoyed him). In that way, I see his body “recognizing” the first time he put the pendant back on after conceiving that it was already carrying the start of a baby and thus keeping all the biological attributes absolutely necessary to grow that baby even as his outer appearances changed. Sort of a survivalist technique, nature over science/magic and/or the trump card of nature’s endless desire to procreate, yada yada. (You could argue that technically it should have resisted the change altogether, buuuut…I wouldn’t have a very happy readership if I didn’t let him go back to “mostly” [for all practical purposes] male just because he was pregnant.)’ And yeah, Kedean’s slowly working on Baisyl’s self-acceptance. xD I really do love writing for them, especially when they get their rare few chances to be sweet and cuddly with each other, and it makes me feel guilty about how many hurdles I have yet to throw their way. ^^; Wow Zyric and Rhys REALLY don't get along, do they? It's odd, but they seem to be flirting even while they're insulting one another, but maybe that's just more hopeful thinking on my part. Poor Basil and trying to confess his love only to be interrupted and like always Kedean handled it like a pro. While I doubt it's going to happen I REALLY hope Zyric finds Kedean before Kedean meets up with the fairy. I'm so worried that something is going to tear Kedean and Basil apart for quite some time and Basil will have to be pregnant all alone!!!! *sniffle* Oh, I wonder how Basil will handle it when he starts to figure it out. great job! Hope to see an update soon! XD As far as I can tell, between ages 7 and 17, making fun of, pulling hair, calling names, bickering, one-uping, etc., are more or less the definition of flirting. From 18 or so to 25, everything’s an invitation for sex, and after that…maybe one starts thinking about a family. By this logic, yeah, Zyric and Rhyan are flirting their asses off. XD Or maybe they’re just building a friendship. :/ I actually think they’re doing fairly well so far…Rhyan hasn’t knocked himself unconscious from banging his head against a wall at Zyric’s antics and Zyric…well…he’s still tolerating Rhyan…more or less. I think the most recent chapter is probably the most suggestive Zyric/Rhyan wise to date.

Re: Title. Here, I will reply to your reviews, great and small. Each time I post a new chapter, I'll update this thread with a post containing replies to all the reviews left for the previous chapter. Or I may just edit this main post to contain replies to all the new reviews. Not sure. We'll see how it goes.