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The next morning

< We'd better hope the wrong people don't see this, > a familiar, and highly annoyed voice, growled in his head. < Enough has gone wrong this last night without you having a little drunk quartet party last night. >

Opening his one good eye groggily, Broden blinked a couple of times before resigning to rub the sleep out of it to see better. As he moved his arm to rub his eye, Broden felt a curious weight on it that shifted with a soft murmur. Wiping the sleep out of his eye, Broden saw that a kitsune girl was curled up on either side of him with their heads on his shoulders and a third was stretched across his lower legs.

After this thought sunk in, the next thing Broden realized was that he was only wearing half zipped pants and the kitsune girls were down to their undergarments.

"It's not what you think!" Broden said, gently extracting himself from the kitsune girls. As a hangover headache drilled through his skull, he said, "...I think anyway."

< I checked their memories, > Flan said. < You didn't do anything that would get the Dynasty into any more trouble than they are right now. >

"S'I didn't...?" Broden asked. Looking at Flan sharply, he said, "Wait. More trouble than we are now?"

< Aye, > Flan replied. < Apparently the Triplets disappeared sometime last night and Mrs. Roboto was destroyed. Her other two forms seem to be rather pissed about it. >

"I'd imagine so," Broden said. "I imagine so. Isn't the Nerissa Altsoba able to track the girls?"

From the brief close of her eyes, Broden knew that Flan was checking with the spaceship with that odd power of hers. < Between the ship and the home AI, all but a very narrow strip of Gaia has been scanned. The ship confirmed that Dragon and Nogard flew north, but the home AI says that they never crossed into its scanning range. >

"And Xangord?" Broden asked.

< Someone who had a power similar to hers stepped through a portal and took her, > Flan said. < I've sensed other times when the powers arrived when within a few hundred yards of her. >

"Nobodies," Broden mused. "Alright. Send have n**, Wolf, and Dai follow Dragon and Nogard's backtrail. Summon my father, grandfather, Creighton, Shalimar, and Wynn. Have mother and grandmother keep the kids distracted--especially Xink, he'll just go ballistic. If you can, contact either Queen Rose or AUNTIE-D to notify them of the situation. We may need their help."

< Done, > Flan said after a few seconds.

Moving further away from the kitsune girls, Broden quickly got dressed. As those he summoned arrived, Broden said, "We've got more trouble than usual."