He sipped politely but didn't seem to enjoy the aroma."Thank you, Mr. Teanbet. I am honored to set foot in this house. If I would be so bold, I need t...o ask of you a small favor."That was a first in Dan's four years of living in Japan. A complete stranger asking him for a favor without a hint of shame, barely moments after introducing himself. It genuinely aroused his interest."Well, I'm all ears. It's just that I've been away for six months, and suddenly..."Dan didn't have a chance to finish:. My life hasn’t been normal since I was born. I wasn’t born in a hospital, nope. My dad wanted me to be born in the hospital, instead I was born in an IST HQ. My dad and my grandfather were both some sort of wizards. My mother was a very powerful telepath. I didn’t have any of the talent to become a wizard, but I always did take more after my mother. My grandfather took the time to cast all sorts of protection spells on me. My father was just happy if I grew up normal. My mother didn’t care what. My brain was taking in these serious thoughts at the same time that I was doing my best to insinuate my corporal body closer to both mother and daughter with absolutely no preference as to age or beauty. My perception was that they both had sort of beauty that existed without any consideration of the passage of time and that each on had attributes that excited my senses regardless of conventional acceptance that youth was preferable under almost all circumstances.I had discovered in my journeys. .. sniff... play solicits... bark at me... leap, leap, leap... sniff... play with the bed furs... , they had us all laughing aloud. It seemed they had become members of our 'our pack, ' and their only role as wolf pups in that pack, who are fed, doted on and generally protected from danger is to act as a subordinate.A while later Treeya coaxed the pups back into their cage with food, but somehow, I didn't think it was the food as much as it was their willingness to please her. It was as if she.