"I know, it's unbelievable isn't it?" Chiaki said once she had finished telling Qianhuang everything and answering all his questions. By now the sun was rising.

"It's- amazing." Qianhuang said, looking at his mate with wide eyes. "A whole other world." Then he looked sad. "You will want to return home, wont you?"

Chiaki thought for a moment. "I do miss my home and everyone I knew, but I don't think there is a way back. If I was brought here by a God, then that's the end of it."

"Then you will stay? Stay as my mate?!"

Chiaki looked at him. "Key-ang, I made that decision back at the Shamans hut, I would never have agreed in the first place if I thought I'd be able to return home." She smiled. "You're stuck with me buddy."

Qianhuang pushed forward and kissed her. "You are the most beautiful female ever. Let's mate."

"Ha! Where I came from I was considered overweight and average looking. Ji Mo is the beautiful one." Chiaki argued.

"Not to me, you are my mate Chiaki, no other female will be as beautiful as you."

o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o

It was noon when they saw the return of Ji Mo and the males that had went to the ocean. Chiaki knew they could help, now that they knew what Ji Mo wanted to do. "Let's go down to the village and help. If the sick females get the salt soon enough, no more of them should die."

"Then the Beast God sending you and her really will save the Winged Lion Clan."

"Ji Mo is saving the clan." Chiaki held up the scraps of her clothing, seeing if any of it would still stay on if she tried to wear it. "I don't know why I was sent here yet. I'm starting to think it's because I'm hard to surprise and I'm easy at adapting to new situations." She shook her head. "You really did a number on my clothes."

Qianhuang looked down in shame. "I'm sorry."

"No, don't be like that! They aren't made to last anyway." She looked at Qianhuang, who no longer was looking at his feet. "You said we could use the Okapi hide for clothes right?"

Qianhuang nodded. "Yes, I scraped it clean, washed it in the river and it will need to dry for a few days now."

"Ah, then we can't use it right away."

"That is okay." He smiled. "I have several tanned hides ready that I can use to make you a wrap." He grabbed a wooden beam above their heads and pulled himself up into the rafters. It was now that Chiaki realized that Qianhuang had many more things stored overhead.

Qianhuang dropped back down to the floor, several rolled up bundles tucked under one arm. "I have another... Okapi you called it. One from the striped horse, red fox, gray fox, tan horse."

"This looks like a Zebra hide." Chiaki said looking at the bundle Qianhuang said had came from a striped horse.

"Yes, that one is the largest. I can make you a whole dress from it alone."

Chiaki imagined herself in a Zebra-striped dress and laughed. "Let's work with the tan one." She said, as she placed the Zebra hide to the side.

"Anything my mate wants!" Qianhuang said happily.

When Qianhuang was finished and Chiaki tried on the dress she was amazed at how well it fit. It was a soft tan colored hide, cut as a shoulder-less one-piece dress, that came down to mid-thigh on her. He had at first tried to make her a two piece outfit, but she didn't like the thought of showing her chubby belly to the world. He had been confused, but made the dress the way his mate wanted. She was very thankful.

They could finally return to the village, and were there quickly. This was because Qianhuang was the fastest flier in the clan. He was also considered the strongest and most handsome. Chiaki thought the other males praised him too easily. Sure, he could prove he was the fastest or strongest, but most good looking? The entire male population was a mix of hot boy-band members and clothing models. She could have seen herself being the mate of any of them, as long as they had a good personality. But she'd met Qianhuang first and he had shown himself to be kind, and he was the only male she had known anything about. Of course she had picked him as her mate when the Matriarch told her she needed to pick a mate!

She wondered if Ji Mo understood the situation yet. Hopefully, but probably not. Chiaki hoped she would finally get to talk to the other traversed female.

"Lord Qianhuang has brought the female into the village!" One male said loudly, getting the attention of many others.

"Female!" "Hello female!" "Female, you are so pretty!" "Female, would you like to be my mate?!" "Female!" "Female!"

They were quickly surrounded, and Qianhuang put an arm around Chiaki and started to growl lowly. She gently pushed his arm away. "It's okay, Key-ang." She said, her pronunciation of his name having become something of a pet name for him. "Hello." She greeted the gathered males. "I'm Chiaki." There were many more murmurings about her beauty, her name being beautiful, and her even being so nice to talk to them. Finally when they had quieted a little she continued. "I have only just taken my first mate, please let me have time to get to know him... and you other males... before I have to think about taking another mate." They were all so excitable, you just had to take time to explain to them. The males slowly dispersed back to doing what they had been doing before Qianhuang and Chiaki arriving.

They started to look for Ji Mo. "That should keep them from asking me to be their mate for a few hours?" She said quietly to Qianhuang.

"Will you really consider taking another mate?"

"Well, not right now. I do mean that I want to get to know you first before even thinking about anyone else... Plus, being with several mates wasn't common where I came from, remember?"

Qianhuang nodded. It was easy to forget she wasn't from this world, only because it was such a magical and exotic idea to him.

They found Ji Mo on the outer edge of the village, with a pink haired female child of the Winged Lion Clan, being protected by three males.