As ever, I want to begin with my gratitude to Andrew "Aethan" French who has allowed me to spin my tale on the foundation he laid in his own story, "A Treasure Freely Given." My interpretation of his protagonist, Halliday Dasker, is my own, but he appears here by Aethan's kind permission. I began my sequel without a copy of his story at hand. My Captain, starcruiser, crusade and crew came out rather differently, but certain themes have carried over from the original, adapted here to the needs of my own fabrications.

This story contains elements of domination and submission, pheromones / musk, behavioral conditioning, subliminal conditioning, psionic influence and mind control, as well as such happy standbys as oral sex, anal sex, oral-anal sex, humiliation, gratuitous cum, knots and tying, and involves an adolescent male with multiple adolescent and adult male partners. Vargyr are wolves, the Doctor is a tiger. Hali's species is left unspecified, but is young, cute and danger...