The tiger’s orange was bright against the snow. Valerie had met tigers before but they weren’t very common. Even less common were wolves of his co...mpanion’s size. She felt her ears flick back as they came near. Valerie’s lioness was cautious, didn’t trust the wolf’s size or the tiger’s magic. Shifters with magic. Valerie felt that unwelcome chill again. She tamped down on her fear. Now wasn’t the time to be afraid. She had been told to welcome these strangers into the pack, and that’s what. Harry instinctively reacted to women as weaker, less competent individuals than men.At the same time, his treatment of men was too distant, too colored by his own ... Harry didn’t want to call it ‘toxic masculinity’, but it was what it was.He didn’t think any of the women he’d ‘white knighted’ objected to his actions, knew for certain several didn’t ... but whether they did or didn’t had no effect on why he did what he did.“Princess ... go get me one of the staff, please?”Esther was off and. Construct was always quick to remind me that this was only a single aspect of my true ability, which was the manipulation of the Light, and that location was one of the more basic aspects of it. Others, he loved to say, would come when I grew into them.In addition to the limitations placed on our focus, the Choctowineh and Seeker descendants who had built Construct had built certain restrictions into him. Primary among these was one which prevented Construct from traveling to our. We figured that from 750 to 800 million miles would be a good place for it to orbit. We placed the black hole there to see if it would draw the planet back or not. We waited for several minutes that soon turned into an hour and then we noticed a definite slowing of the planet. Its speed had slowed by 10 percent. Within 4 hours the speed had decreased by 85 percent. Snart looked at me and said, “I guess you were not so crazy after all. It looks like it will work. We need to move it out a little.