Destiny by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Solanda walked the cobblestone streets of Nir the capitol city of Nye her tail up. She had ameeting with Rugar the son of the Black King. He had sent a Wisp to find her and it had takenthe little creature nearly a day to do so. Solanda was in her cat form as she had been since the Fey captured this repressed country --and thus very difficult to find. The Nyeians had many faults --they were prissy overdressedand pasty faced not to mention abominably poor soldiers --but they did treat their animalswell. She had found a family who fed her to excess allowed her to roam outside and pamperedher as no cat should be pampered. How appalled they would be if they ever discovered the goldencat their daughter had adopted was really a Fey Shapeshifter. Solandas tail twitched once in amusement. Every day she imagined eating her lovely tuna dinnerin the glass plate that the family gave her and then Shifting into her Fey form just to saythank you. She didnt know what would appall the Nyeians the most: the fact that she was Feyor the fact that she would be naked. She doubted any of them had seen a naked woman before: thewife managed to change her clothing one piece at a time without ever taking it all off atonce and the husband didnt seem to think this unusual. He would probably be more shocked thanhis wife at the appearance of a naked Fey woman in his house. He would probably fall over in adead faint. Only the daughter a girl of five was redeemable. Esmerelda was a good child. She had to be.She was raised Nyeian. Her mother trussed her in layers upon frothy layers of clothing makingmovement nearly impossible and then yelled at the poor child whenever she did somethingnatural like running. Sometimes Solanda thought she went back to that household at nightbecause she felt sorry for the child. But in truth she stayed there because they gave her fishproperly deboned and they brushed her and they put a warm cedar bed in