Another super strong chapter. Can't wait to see how this pans out.

I love the magical realism in this story and the vivid descriptions that accompany the setting and its supernatural inhabitants. Daki and Taba’s interactions are very convincing and already foreshadow an interesting relationship between them. (I also enjoyed the description of the food that Daki ate under the tree - it made me hungry!) The concluding sentence of the chapter > The 22-year-old would be lying if he said he wasn’t excited. is a fantastic cliffhanger. I can’t wait for the next part of the story!

OMG A FELLOW FILIPINO

I think I'll never get tired of the way you manage to add warm feelings into the hottest scenes lol And it never ends up being corny (only horny): How?? Since we are close to Christmas time, can I also ask for a tall, sweet faced and big eared cowboy that misses my lovely bones? If only I could sneak into one of your stories :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: And Mr Main Character was great. I like that he ends up using the shapeshifting skill for therapy! And as expensive as therapy is these days, and as pleasurable as his methods seem to be, I'm sure he'd have a very successful career ahead if he ever decided to open a clinic Very eager to read what's to come, I'm really liking what I've read so far :smiley:

Its nice to read a story concocted from filipino culture and mythology, i thought there was no other filipino here. Nice to finally see another one.

Today years old… I wondered about the tag (Cupid’s Arrow) and clicked on it! Who knew?! Also looking fwd to the next chapter - what will the snow globe do?

Accidental wishing! The beginning of a hero’s downfall??? This story is hot and heartwarming. Can’t wait for more. Happy holidays.

OK, so I did really like this chapter. It was a bit different for me than the first one. In the first one when Danny is put under he's kind of a blank. But it seems that when he gets told he's going to be going under for at least a month at a time, he prepares another personality that he's going to take on when he's under. Now that's very different. I don't know what it says about me that I am more turned on by a blank drone than the sexy slutty version that appears. Don't get me wrong -- I'm turned on by both!... but if I had to choose... LOL So it wasn't until the end that I asked myself "What was the little trick that Gerald told him at the end that we weren't privy to?" And then I decided it must be to use the wooden chest and have Danny put what he wanted to be into the chest first, then take everything away, and then bring back just what Danny had put in the chest. But that wasn't immediately obvious to me as I was reading. I think maybe the reason chapter 1 and the blank Danny turned me on more than super slutty Danny is that I could understand Noah's horror at what he had done, and that made his lust and all the sex they had even hotter to me because it was despite that horror. In chapter 2 since this is the personality Danny hand picked -- and apparently with no input from Noah because it was a total surprise -- then it's just what Danny wanted to be. So Noah interacting with the new slutty Danny doesn't have the same conflict on Noah's part for me. If anything Noah pulls back because of the really needy and bratty behavior of slutty Danny. As for a name... I don't have a specific suggestion but depending on what you plan to do with this character, I thought something with a little nefarious edge to it might be appropriate. I just got a feeling that the new personality might have a darker side. His desires are on overdrive and he's very insistent that he wants what he wants. I think a character like that would perhaps do some darker/evil things to get what they want. Or if the new personality begins to realize that a return of the old Danny means he will cease to exist he might want to prevent that. It occurred to me before it occurred to Noah that bringing Danny back means having him open up that jar of all his old self and take it all back on. It probably also means taking the slutty personality and removing it/putting it back into the trunk first. Neither of those things is guaranteed that slutty Danny will want to do. I also had this little idea pop into my head -- although I'm hesitant to voice it because once I suggest it I doubt you'd want to use it. Spoilers and all that, I guess. But here goes. Danny didn't really like the idea of being brought back every month. So what if Danny thinks he outsmarted Noah on that point. What if he created this slutty personality to take over when he was under, and one of the hidden directives for this slutty personality was to prevent Noah from bringing him back at the end of a month, even just for a check-in? Now there may be various ways of doing this but one way I thought of was for the new personality to PRETEND to be Danny again just for the brief check-in. But the old Danny was never really brought back. Maybe Noah would have suspected something at the end of the first month when he did the check-in.... something about the old Danny that just didn't seem right... some mannerism or personality quirk the new personality isn't doing quite right and doesn't even know it... but he puts Danny back under (which isn't actually doing anything because he was never brought out of the trance) and then the next month during the check-in he already has his suspicions and is watching for signs that it isn't really Danny. It was just an idea that went through my head is all. And then as for a vote for what to do next... I say go back to Gerald. Whoring him out to strangers doesn't seem like something Noah would want to do, and taking him to a bar or club and letting slutty Danny go at all the men is basically the same thing... it's just taking Danny to the men rather than bringing the men one by one to Danny.

Just making it through this series for the first time, and very happy to see that some of my fave authors like Dace and Nutiper have already sung its praises. This is quickly becoming an all-time favorite for me, with its warm, fun characters, its delicious tension-building "will-we-won't-we" scenes, and it's hot hot sex. All the little supernatural types are a lot of fun too, and a fresh twist on the mind control theme that I'm thoroughly enjoying. Thank you so much for sharing your work!

Oh! Christmas is early this year! So happy to find out this new chapter when I opened GSS this morning. I just love Talley, but I also feel so much for Arik. Hoping hard he’ll find his way too. In the meantime, I’ve never seen such a long, loving, sensual description of a rimjob, and I guess Talley’s not the only Siren out there…