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03Groomfight
CanisRoyal


By
MaryJaniceDavidson




GROOMFIGHT
Chapter 1




PrinceShakar was the queen's own child, which was why he missed all the excitement. Unlike his
brothers,Shakar could not get enough of his mother's world, and the only way to get there from the
SandLands was through stories.

As a child he had heard about The Hitchcock, The Chubby Checker, Chocolate Sodas, the Dirty
Stinking Commies, and the king of the land, Eisenhower. When Princess Lois came, she regaled him with
tales of Those Bastards in Payroll and the World Wide Web, marvelous updates to a world he had come
to love as much as his own.

In short, becauseShakar was his mother's son, he spent quite a bit of his time wishing he was somewhere
else.

Thus, hunting trips.He could never get to his mother's world by hunting, of course, but it helped to get
out of CastleRoyale for a fewsunrounds .
In fact, if he had not been his mother's son, he would not have missed the dark travelers and Anne's
great cleverness, her mating ceremony, his trip, the farm, theGroomfight , and Rica.

He owed his mother everything.


Chapter 2




He had almost caught up with the herd oftoans , and supposed it was time for the kill. Although he
doubted he would, in fact, cull; his father had taught him never to kill unless he was hungry. He was
tracking thetoans to keep in practice, and out of boredom.

He sniffed some offal, judging it to be from just that morn, and thought,HowI wish I were anywhere,
anywhere but here , and then fell.

This was startling, to put it mildly, and he instinctively shifted back to his two-legged form. He had fallen,
somehow,through the sand, and was surrounded by golden light, so bright it made his eyes water, and