Whispers from my Muse - "A Family Matter"

I had to read this a few times over before I remembered the final Scene in the last file where Brian and Kalindra find the rednecks that shot her in a bar.

I take it then that Wythdantis has a problem with Kalindra geting violent then...

I should re-read the whole thing over again... it's been a while since the last time I read it :)

Wythdantis having a problem with a Velan Mage who can get angry is putting it mildly. Since the time of the founding of the Velan Central Library and the start of what the Velan's consider their modern age, the healers have retained the knowledge about the why Velans don't get angry with each other while pretty much everybody else has forgotten or never knew in the first place. I stumbled across the knowledge because I kept getting my ass kicked by Kalindra, the supposidly non-violent Velan and decided to find out why.

Wythdantis is going to have a royal fit when she figures out that my Velan form doesn't include the genetic safeguard against anger, and my daughter might not have it either, I haven't decided yet how that should play out.

Kalindra will never get angry with another Velan, that's not a subject I want to explore. Because of our blending though, she can and will get angry with anybody else that doesn't happen to smell right, especially when it concerns a threat to the family.

That's enough to scare Wythdantis silly and I'm a handy target to blame.

The scene with Wythdantis rings true to me :)

I'm glad the Mage found a way to be a "proper Klizan" in Velan Society. Being "not-quite" isn't pleasant, to put it mildly.

ps Good for him for standing up to his mother-in-law-equivalent *g* :)

It is very certainly a strange situation. Both Kalindra and Brian understand that she's becomeing more violent as he does the opposite. They started out on the far end of the bell curve and are meeting in the middle because of they way they've blended.

Blended or not though, neither of them takes crap from others where their family is concerned. That is one of the reoccuring themes of the "A Family Matter" story, as will be shown again in the next snippet I write.

They are five people with entire worlds vying to see who can get rid of them first. They've put up with all of that then intend to and they both figure it's time to remind their enemies just how dangerous it is to get a Mage angry.

Especially since they don't smell right to Kalindra and she's easier to annoy now ... :)

Has anybody wondered where that asteroid that didn't hit Meenzell ended up being aimed??? :)