9 - The Moon Bunny & the Sun Lion: The Arcana Glen Major Arcana by Tara Maya

Author:Tara Maya [Maya, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Arcana Glen Major Arcana#9
Publisher: Misque Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

September 21

Sunrise: 06:55

Sunset: 19:04

Moon: Waning Crescent

Daylight: 12:09 hours

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Dahlia ran into the house and headed to the empty nooks in between books on one of the many massive bookshelves. Then she waited to see what the Gentleman Lion would do. She still held out hope for a stroke of luck. Perhaps the Lion would put down the Phoenix Egg that he had been carrying with him. She would recognize it if he put it on a table or in a case. But if he moved or touched anything, she would investigate it when he was gone just in case another object was somehow the Phoenix Egg in disguise.

The first thing Aaresh did was walk around the perimeter of his property, just inside the property line. She noted carefully where it was. His property not only included the round villa, but the bathhouse connected by a covered walkway and a garage. These were at the back of the property. After he finished investigating, and, to her satisfaction, gave no indication that he was able to find any trace of her scent (her invisibility spell should have concealed it) he went to a knob at the side of the house and turned it with his enormous forepaw.

Dahlia grew excited. Was this a secret lever to open a secret door? Was this the answer to how he had hidden the Phoenix Egg in plain sight?

No, apparently it was an outdoor faucet. He turned on the hose, stood up on his hind legs so he was bipedal, and watered his sunflowers. After that, he pulled a few weeds. He spoke words of encouragement to his plants in a deep, rumbling voice. He hummed a song to himself, almost like a purr, as he gardened.

It was so darn cute. Dahlia really wanted to pet him.

None of this was peculiar, as such, for a Shifter in human form. When Shifters were in human form, they behaved just like any other humans. They watered their plants, they sang songs, they talked to flowers that did not have brains and could not reply. The key phrase there was: in human form. Shifters did not do these things in their animal form.

But this Lion did.

Throughout the day, he moved from room to room in the strange and magnificent villa, doing things with the body of a lion that she would not have thought were physically possible, whether or not he had the intellectual capacity for it. All the rabbits in her family liked to embroider. Even the boy rabbit shifters had been taught the skill. But they only did it as humans. Their little rabbity paws had no opposable thumb to hold a needle.

But the Lion fried himself an omelet from powdered eggs in his small bedroom kitchenette. He sat down at one of the tables in the courtyard and ate his breakfast primly with a knife and fork. Then he washed his paws in the outdoor sink. He did lick them clean, like a cat. But he also unbuttoned the cuffs of his dress shirt and rolled up his sleeves.

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