Follow yet another queen.

King Agam splits away to his own business, the servant Vaddund escorts your party another way, and then Queen Iri escorts you a third direction, past through the door on the opposite side of the dining hall and down a hallway. Her beautiful hair waves backwards as her bottom half pushes her swiftly through the water, making it rather difficult for you as a land dweller to keep up the pace. At least from behind, she's quite the sight to behold. Of course with no legs there isn't exactly a rear, or at least not in the same sense as with a human, though there are still curves around where her tailfin begins, and the shape of her bare back is accentuated further by her graceful movements.

It isn't long before she brings you to an impressive bedchamber.

Much of the fabrics inside are translucent and of many colours, with decorations made from coral, and there's a massive bed in the center with pink silken sheets. She swims up to the foot of it and runs her hand down the delicate material of the curtain which extends down from above. Then as she hears the door behind you shut, she turns her head to once again meet your gaze. But your Kitty Sense feels something off.

With a bright smile, she brings her hands in together to cross them over her belly, which just pushes together her tits in such a way that you swear the shell bra is about to come right off. Someone could be squeezed to **** between those and die happy. Suddenly you think back to Selina, the kraken, though that was far more ****. You really could be crushed between those ones.

"I guess we're all alone now, aren't we? Hehe. I hope you don't think it's too weird having our meeting here, next to my bed."

"Oh. No, it's fine, Queen Iri."

With yet another giggle, she makes her way over to her armoire. There she opens up a drawer and retrieves a brush, which she uses back along her hair as she keeps her eyes on the mirror. "You're quite the man, Kyle."

You look down over yourself, almost forgetting about your strange wardrobe. Though your keep your hand near your sword just in case. "And you're quite the woman. But you need to be careful. I know you're all calling me a hero, but you did just bring an armed back into your room alone."

She stops. Then through the reflection of the mirror, you spot a smile. "I did." Then she lets go of her brush, allowing it to slowly float away. She lets out a long, exhausted sigh, rubs her hands over her face, and then continues her fingers through her hair. "Today was exhausting. Sometimes it's hard to keep this up."

"What?"

She finally turns back, showing her expression to be quite different--more tired yet also more composed. "I feel like I can trust you. Or rather, I have to trust you. Things have grown too much for me to handle alone. When I heard of your arrival, it was like my prayers being answers. Aid, when I didn't even request it, and from a source so unlikely."

What's going on? She's even talking differently. "You're gonna need to stop speaking in riddles, because I've run into surprise villains before."

"I'm no villain." It's so difficult to see her as anything but a bimbo after everything, yet she swims closer with her hands behind her back, and suddenly she seems even more mature than the man she was previously beside. This is Queen Iri. "Though the rot of the Witch has yet to be completely extinguished. There's something far worse down here, Kyle. The Witch of Decay wasn't working alone."

"... All right, but uh. Why were you acting like, you know."

"An airhead? Bimbo? Ditz? Cutie-pie? Because it was the only way I could infiltrate. Bless King Agam, but he's such a simple man. Kind and confident, though entirely naïve and would certainly be in danger, or endanger us all, if I were to tell him the truth. I met him not long ago, and he fell completely in love with me so quickly. It went far better than I had planned. But don't look at me like that. I'm not here to break his heart. I could learn to love him as well, after this is all over. If he loves the real me. Though something tells me he would."

"Still a little weird, but I guess if it was the only way to find the source of the problem."

"Indeed. Not only that, but King Agam is ah... Well, it's nothing I would call a problem, but it is difficult to say without sounding insulting. Let's just say that if he were to find me with another man, he wouldn't exactly be upset. But never mind that. We have important business to discuss. I will gladly give you the item you seek, but first we must purge the corruption from our beautiful city before it falls to the Demon King."

"There's a Demon King around here?"

"There has been for years, though thankfully distant enough to where we've been mostly safe. Though that darkness has always lurked just over the horizon, and it grows ever closer as time goes on. I have reason to believe there are multiple individuals in this palace alone who are either under her control, or work for her. That's why even the king must not know."

"If it helps, I've slain a Demon King before, though that was along with an entire army to carve the way."

"Fear not. It isn't the head of the Demon King I'm asking for. It's to cleanse the darkness from Coral Caelum before somebody gets hurt."

Another Demon King. Of course. We're so far from Tivera, and naturally there'd be more elsewhere. It looks like we found one of the sea. "I assume you have a plan already then. Something as vague as rooting out the corruption won't be easy without one."

"A bit. I've been gathering information while I'm here, but I can't be the one to investigate too closely. Though if you're the one asking around, it won't look nearly as suspicious, at least to the queen and king. On top of that, we still have the Witch of Decay herself in the dungeon."

"I could talk to her. Though she won't be happy to see me."

"I imagine not. I'm not saying this'll be easy, though I'll help you in any way I can." She brings her hands over her neck, and back through her hair as she stares down towards you--floating above the floor, on top of being slightly taller already. "I've even been told I'm a wonderful masseuse. If you have any stress you'd like to relieve first."

Wow. That caught me off guard. It's almost hard to tell if she's being as forward as she sounds, but I think I'm still recovering from her bimbo persona. She's definitely being bold with me, even with the king possibly not far away. She did say he wouldn't mind though. "I do feel pretty tense."

"Good. I'd feel bad giving you nothing in return. But would you like a massage from a girl like this?" She pauses for a moment as she takes a deep breath. Suddenly, her demeanour shifts completely. She has a big bubbly smile and bright eyes. "Uhm, or like this?" she says, almost like a valley girl. She smiles wide.