Like a moth to a flame...ENCOUNTER Barbara Torch

The prefect on duty at Leontes lets you by when you ask after Barbara Torch. "Warden's at practice," he says, giving you a smirk. "Working up a sweat." Your cheeks feel hot with shame, but you hope you hold a mild expression. The prefect hands you a guide wand giving you direction and permission to proceed to House Leontes' dueling pits.

Barbara Torch is working with her protegée, Emily Leopard, who seems in many ways a younger, more lithe version of the Warden. Where the Warden is tall, broad-shouldered and a little heavy in belly, hips, and thigh, Emily is a tightly muscled fighting-cat of a junior duelist. Each of them wears a more closely fitted exercise outfit in Leontes' red and gold rather than Boarbristle's traditional loose wizard's robes.

The Warden and Miss Leopard take turns loosing fusillades of STUN, DISARM, and DAZZLE at each other, with the defender deflecting and occasionally reflecting the attacker's spells. From the feeling of the ambient magical energy spilling from the dueling pit, either the wards are quite strong or they're throwing the spells at about half dueling strength. Probably the latter, but you wouldn't put it past either of them to run through a practice at full strength. Emily Leopard has a fierce expression on her face, and her attacks and deflections are quick. The Warden looks confident but not casual, quickly answering Emily Leopard's attacks with minimum exertion, and sending back attacks that push Emily to her limit.

You watch, fascinated, from the visitor's gallery, as the spells fly back and forth. Dueling mistress and intent student, both fully present. Just being in Barbara Torch's presence brings on a glow inside yourself, a glow that quickly develops into a decided moisture between your legs. Your face feels warm again.

You're not sure if you're brave enough to ask about the snatches of memory you caught from the Warden, of sucking the Housemaster's cock to apologize for Golondrina joining House Minerval, of Barbara Torch mounting the Assistant Warden from behind, fingering Asteria Hornbeam's sex while grinding her own sex on the Assistant Warden's buttock, finally resorting to casting LUST to make her subordinate pliable.

But you want to see her. Alone, if you can.

Roll +BRAVERY(+0) (-1 Bravery, -1 HANGER-ON, +2 CHARM) to ENCOUNTER Barbara Torch.

⚁⚁ + 0 = 4, Miss.

Lose your CHARM over Barbara Torch. She no longer counts as a FRIEND now that the spell has dissipated. You still have the effect of a CHARM on yourself, in particular, you must always choose APPEASE when you DEAL WITH YOUR HANGER-ON.

Next: APPEASE YOUR HANGER-ON.

You **** in the clutch. When Barbara Torch notices you've been standing in the observation gallery and asks why you're here, you can't get even a word out.

"Cat got your tongue?" Barbara Torch says. "Emily, how do you feel about someone else watching?"

Emily tilts her head at you, gives you a half-smile, and nods back to the Warden. "Isn't that what dueling is about?" she says. "A public challenge of skill? Wands clashing, magic flashing? Engaging all your faculties, magic-weaving, tactics, reflexes, and libido?"

The Warden nods. "Indeed, Miss Leopard," she says. "Was it good, Morgan?" she asks.

"Um, uh, yes yes," you say. "Yes, it was very good."

The Warden leans closer. You scent her body, warm with exercise, and catch a tingle of magic from her. You tilt your face toward hers. She laughs and leans back.

"Miss Leopard and I are going to the baths," the Warden says. "You will of course accompany us."

Emily Leopard tilts her shoulders and rests a hand on one hip, but doesn't gainsay the Warden.

"Of course," you say.

Roll +AMBITION(+1) to APPEASE YOUR HANGER-ON (+2 Ambition, -1 HANGER-ON).

⚅⚂ + 1 = 10.

When you APPEASE YOUR HANGER-ON, on a 10+, choose one and also remove your CONSEQUENCE (Charmed):

• They owe you a FAVOR.
• Expend a FAVOR from them. They become less clingy and annoying. Remove them as a HANGER-ON. They're now a FRIEND.
• They manage to help you out somehow. Take +1 Forward.

"Watch, Morgan," Barbara Torch says. "Watch."

And so you watch. The two women who were just facing off in the dueling pits, are now sharing a struggle that is just as fierce and intimate. Their dark skin, gleaming in the heat and moisture of the bathing chamber, pressed closely together. Their lips, their tongues fighting a battle.

You taste Barbara Torch's lips and tongue on yours, in memory and gasp in the pleasure of the recollection. Barbara Torch laughs, hearing your exclamation, and kisses her way down Emily's body to her small, firm breasts. Indeed, it seems that everything Barbara Torch is doing to Emily, she's doing to show to you. You're convinced when you see her shifting to give you a better view as she licks Emily Leopard's navel and slides her tongue down her belly into the lips of her favorite student's sex. Emily's voice rises as her mentor's tongue touches her there, in that perfectly sensitive spot.

After many heated minutes of mistress and apprentice intimately entwined, Barbara Torch seizes her wand and whispers, "...ejacula..."

A slow wave of warmth travels through your body and concentrates its ticklish heat between your legs. The muscles of your sex tense in a gradual clasping feeling and then the tickling warmth bursts gently out into a river of sweet pleasure pulsing from your sex. Emily Leopard lets out a long, low moan. You see arcs of liquid spurt from between her legs, a pause between each, then another squirt. The Warden sighs. You hear a trickle as her waters of joy dribble out onto the tiled floor.

You all lie there in the warm damp of the bathing chamber, your three breaths finally synchronizing as they slow.

"You do know how to keep a secret, Morgan?" the Warden says.

"Yes," you say.

"Come back and watch me again sometime," she says.

You no longer have a CONSEQUENCE (Charmed).

You have a FAVOR from Pipistrelle Clawson, Minerval Prefect.
Your roommate Fay in House Minerval is your FRIEND.
Golondrina Redmoor, newly of House Minerval, is your FRIEND and owes you a FAVOR.
Barbara Torch, exhibitionistic and voyeuristic Warden of Leontes, casual user of forbidden sex magic, irresponsible, unethical and frequent sex partner of Boarbristle students, is now your FRIEND.

You have 3 XP, Ambition +2, Bravery -1, Cunning +2, Diligence +0.
You know the spell TRANSFORM and the Forbidden Spell SHAMEGASM.

What's your next Move?