Honestly would your hand even listen to you if you wanted it to

You open the door with one and give Edin a squeeze with the other making him moan softly and lean a bit more into.

No one turned to looked at the pair of you as the door opened and the conversations inside didn't even dip in volume. A part of you was expecting your entry to garner at least some response.

Feeling a tiny bit disappointed you and Edin walked further into the room. To the left of the door was a buffet style serving area which was slightly unexpected. You had been expecting this to be more like a restaurant providing specific meals given the nobility that was being serving. You and Edin approached the serving area and waiting close to it was a small pillar with an inset on top.

A quick glance with relaxed eyes showed that the inset was waiting for your key stone. Your stone was quickly inserted and with a soft click a panel on the side of the pillar open and an empty plate slide out waiting. Taking the stone and your plate you supposed this was a good way to handle feeding students without having someone present to go over the identities of each person individually. Edin copied you and got his own plate.

With plates in hand you looked at the buffet section and caught the trick. You hadn't focused your eyes out of their magical viewing. The enchantment on your plate was another magical key like your stone. The buffet had three sections all of them closed with a thin sheet of glass. The closest looked like the best food and had a magical pattern that did not match your plate. You walk towards it and held your plate close to see if there would be a reaction. There was none. The glass remained covering the quality food.

You and Edin walked past it. Edin didn't look at the higher quality food so it could be he already knew this system. The second section had a pattern that lined up with your plate. You were curious if the second was available to all sponsored students or was available to both of you because of who your sponsor was.

Either way when you held out your plate the glass, surprisingly, disappeared, so magic and not glass. You wanted to spend a bit of time waving your plate back and forth to see if it would pop in an out of existence but thought better of it.

Even if this was the second class buffet, the food on offer was still impressive. Four different types of meat each with their own sauces, a single option of vegetables that was drowned it what was either honey or something equally sweet smelling, a small collection of fruit, and the last option was, based on the smell, a savory pastry. You picked some of the meat and a small selection of vegetables that were not encased by their sauce. Edin picked a few pieces of fruit and a pastry.

"Not hungry?" You whisper into his ear enjoying how he wiggled a little at your words.

"You gave me lots to swallow." He responded pushing his hip against yours a little harder.

You looked at the tables and took a moment to assess. From the groups that were formed it was clear there was some clear cliques. That could be down to noble rank, friend groups or even geographical proximity, the children of Ladies near one another staying together. You had no idea who anyone was, Edin made no move to join any group. He might know someone present but he wasn't going to leave you or do anything that would take the lead.

You walked with Edin an empty table and sat next to each other. Looking down at your plate you encountered possibly your hardest challenge yet. How are you going to eat with one hand? You could let go of Edin ass, it's not like it wouldn't be available for groping later. Yet you just couldn't take your hand off that wonderful spot.

You started eating the vegetables and were sad to find the sauce was in fact sweeter than you thought. It was so sweet it was hard to even eat. But your other option was to take your hand off Edin's ass to cut up the meat so you put up with it, trying to wipe some of the sauce off before eating anything.

Edin seemed happy to just pick at the fruit. Both of his hands were free so he was having no difficulty.

You consider just telling him to cut up the meat but are prevented as you felt someone approach you. You look up to see an olive skinned woman with short brown hair and dark brown eyes standing on the other side of the table. She had gold earrings and on each hand her ring finger had a single gold band. She was wearing a cream coloured dress that hugged her curves loosely enough to not give you any idea what she looked like beneath it but if her arms were any indication the answer was muscled.

"You're handsome." She said looking you up and down before sitting opposite you. Anastasia and Isabelle's predatory glint looked positively domesticated compared to this woman's. At eye level you could appreciate her face. Sharp thin eyebrows and high cheek bones pulled your focus to her eyes, and her strong jaw line made her well built body look as if it had come naturally rather than at the expense of years of work. She called you handsome but the word would apply to her much better. "And he's, pretty." Her voice was husky and you struggled to think of a word other than handsome to describe it as well. She reached over, showing her arm and the well developed muscles on it, and took the pastry off Edin's plate taking a bite as her eyes held your own.

Looking at her aura you saw an uncontrolled mass of mostly red with a scattering of black and deep blues. As she chewed on Edin pastry her aura drifted over the table towards the two of you and delicately grazed Edin's.

"I'm Christopher." You say taking a bite of one the vegetables. Edin didn't respond but leaned a little more into you so you spoke for him. "This is Edin."

"Vatarie." She said it around the pastry and grinned. The name meant nothing to you but you felt Edin's perky butt tense when it left her mouth. Could mean lots of things and when you looked to see how their aura's were reacting you saw his pull back from hers but it didn't wrap around you any more than it was so it wasn't a fear reaction he had.

She kept looking at you as she ate Edin's pastry. This scene felt familiar and it took you a bit before figuring out why. In your last life Vatarie would have been a guy and you and Edin girls. Fetishizing homosexual relationships was apparently not exempt from the flipped gender dynamic. You did wonder what reaction two women being together would get.

Vatarie kept looking at you and you felt the faint tingle as her aura reached you. Your and Edin's lack of verbal response to her name made her speak again. "My family has an estate on the Mount of Taia. I think you should both join me at there." Her aura had started to stoke you and Edin leaving trails of tingles along you skin. "I'm sure I could show you a good time." She held your eyes as said that then glanced at Edin. "He's pretty enough to watch." The dismissive tone in her voice when she referred to Edin was rubbing you the wrong way. Edin's aura was actually moving away from you slightly as hers advanced.

"The implication I would have any interest in you is funny but your attempt to seduce us is just sad." You responded looking down at you plate and taking another bite of vegetables.

Vatarie didn't respond but you saw her aura move further towards you and stroke more of your skin. "We both know you are interested in me, and I don't see, Edin, complaining about my offer." She flicked her eyes to Edin. "Be honest, you want to see me fucking him don't you?" Along with her eyes her aura shifted and almost enveloped Edin.

The sight made you uncomfortable. "He–" You were cut off by Edin leaning slightly into you as he breathed a little heavier. Was he turned on by this? You recalled his open willingness to share you but you hadn't thought he'd meant it like this.

"Christopher." Edin whispered to you as he turned his face up. He looked turned on but weirdly Vataire's aura was all over him. You couldn't see his at all. The sight was a little unnerving, you hadn't seen or heard of anything like this before. You felt another woman approach but didn't look at her as one of Edin's hand had moved below the table and was resting on your thigh.

"See, so why don't you both–" The faint tickling coming from Vataire's aura suddenly vanished. Edin flinched and looked much less turned on. "WHO THE FUCK–"

"Leave them alone Vataire." The approaching woman said. You looked at her and saw a long haired blonde with much softer features that looked a little similar to Edin's. Aside from the hair she looked like a somehow more feminine Edin. Soft delicate features and pale skin, she even looked about Edin's height.

"You bitch." Vataire stood up and walked to press her chest against the new comers. Standing next to the woman you got a much better idea of her height, you didn't know precisely but Vatarie looked a little taller than you so she towered over the new comer.

Her aura had left you and Edin and was pushing against the woman's who was pushing back with her own. Watching this display you wondered if aura had more utility than you thought. You'd been assuming that aura was basically just a subconscious manifestation using unused magic that with practice could be brought forward to some measure of conscious control. Maybe it was more than that. It actually wouldn't surprise you. Since you had no ability at all to control your own you hadn't dug into aura beyond the surface.

"I know you're **** for me but having to stoop to my cousin." The new comer said as she leaned her head forwards to be barely away from Vataire's. Her aura hadn't moved at all but you saw Vataire move back slightly.

"W-what!" Vataire looked scandalised at what the new comer had said.

"Though if you really want me that bad I guess I could let you touch me a little." The new comer raised her arms to grab Vataire's hand and was moving it towards her chest.

Vatarie ripped her hand free and took a step back. "Fuck you." She said as she shoved past the new comer and kept walking back to where she had been.

"Everyone herw knows you would beg to do just that if your mother wouldn't disown you."

The room burst into soft laughter and you realised that exchange had made the four of you the centre of everyones attention. Well you supposed walking in with Edin's ass in hand was going to make it pretty clear you were together, as was the fact your hand was still there.

The attention quickly dispersed now that the show was over but Edin's cousin still stood there. Once you felt the attention was gone you opened your mouth to thank her when she looked at the two of you. "Get your hand off his ass." She said as she walked away. It was a bit cold and you wondered at the relationship between herself and Edin but did take you hand off his ass.

He leaned a bit into you to indicate he didn't mind it's absence and you both went back to eating. You were going to ask Edin about his cousin and Vatarie once you were in your room, asking now felt like you would be exposing the two of you to yet more attention. Suddenly you felt something squeeze your thigh and you remembered Edin's hand was still below the table. You could also see his aura wrapped back around you.

He didn't move that hand any closer to your cock since he didn't have permission. You wondered if anyone would notice you being jerked off and almost told Edin to get to work when you hesitated. Stretching out your perception you could feel two people keeping their focus on you and it took no stretch to figure out which two it was. Vataire would probably be thrilled to see it happen but you doubted Edin's cousin would feel the same.