Morning begins with the Warden. ENCOUNTER Barbara Torch and ask to HAVE SEX.

Your eyes flutter open and it takes a moment to make sense of what you're seeing, a smooth brown wall with a faint sheen in the dim light. Then the Warden stands up from the bed and you focus on Barbara Torch's broad, muscular buttocks within reach if you stretch out a hand.

You touch the Warden of House Leontes upon one bare buttock with your hand. She pauses a moment, letting you get a feel of her warmth and her firm muscles below the smooth skin, then laughs.

"Good morning, Morgan," she says.

"Warden," you reply.

"Hush," she says. "Wait."

Barbara Torch goes through a morning exercise to deepen her breath, to quicken her pulse, to stretch her sinews and warm her muscles. Taking up her wand, she steps and gestures through an elaborate sequence that tickles at your magical senses. The Seven Lights, you recall. You had been taught it in House Minerval, as a thoroughgoing form of aura-raising, but even Whiplash regarded it as a little recherché, an affectation of a particular dueling school. Perhaps a school that the Warden had studied under before coming to the Boarbristle Academy.

The Warden concludes her exercise with a salute of her wand, sets it down, and pulls out the night jar to make water, snapping her fingers and hissing a little TERGEO to cleanse herself before returning to bed.

"Morgan, you are a chilly little thing," Barbara Torch says. "How did you sleep?"

Little thing in terms of bulk, perhaps. You stand taller than the Warden, but she is broad and dense and muscular.

"Very well, Warden," you say. It's true. She bundled you off to her bed, all out of sorts, and you slept until your eyes opened upon her bare skin as she rose from the bed.

"Did Miss Hornbeam have a useful chat?" she asks you. She runs a warm hand across your brow and through your hair, petting you fondly. She holds her eyes on yours as she listens.

"Yes, she got a good account of the likely culprit, from who had the Sending turned back. But we stayed after in the woods and had a spot of trouble. The, ah, the Cockwalkers jumped us in the Woods, and one of them did the whole thing with the Assistant Warden, and I guess she likes them, you know?"

The Warden tilts her head in a tiny nod. Her eyes sparkle.

You continue, "So anyway, we were all a mess from that, and the Minerval scholar, she'd transformed and flew away, so it was just the two of us. And so late, the baths, we think, are closed, except I guessed that Miss Wormwood would let us use the one behind the Infirmary, and we, ah, cleaned up and ran right back here."

The Warden lifts an eyebrow.

"Did you pull last night, Morgan?" she asks. She narrows her eyes, rudely reading your aura. "You didn't. Well. Are you missing Miss Applebum? Yes."

"M-more than I can say," you say. "And Pip and Miss Hornbeam went at it in the woods, and then Miss Hornbeam got her joys with the Cockwalker, but well. And. I wish."

The Warden smirks. "Do you, now."

"I wish I'd had a chance," you say. "I'm..." You find yourself gaping, at a loss for words before the fearsome Warden of Leontes.

"Your friend Fay would say you're gagging for it," Barbara Torch says. "Would you agree, Miss Woodbine?"

"Yes, Warden," you whisper. Your eyes water, but no tears fall. "I'm gagging for it."

ENCOUNTER the Warden: 2d6 + 0 (Bravery) + 2 (Friend) = 9 + 0 + 2 = 11. On a 10+ she wants to HAVE SEX with you, take +1 Forward.

She laughs. "Very good. I would like to see you demonstrate you casting a solid ward around this bed. And then I want you to come back here, and we'll make the earth move for you. Do you need to piss first, Morgan?"

"No, Warden," you say.

"Then go ahead," she says. "Take your wand and cast us a good strong warding circle. Then hop back into bed and I'll give you what you're gagging for. If the circle holds, I will consider your practical examination complete, and we can reunite you with your little crew."

You have 3 XP.

You have +2 Ambition, +0 Bravery, +2 Cunning, +0 Diligence.

Your FRIENDs are Fay and the Warden of Leontes. The Warden owes you a FAVOR.

Roll +BRAVERY(+1) to HAVE SEX, and resolve the result.