A Way to Grow Faster

Ahsch was thankful that it was a night he shared a bed with Ariin and Mahat, rather than Avery - it was late enough in the day after the initial round of sex with his newest bunny-Thrall that nobody would bat an eye at her staying in the Capital for the night before heading back to the Temple to resume her duties. And that meant that Ahsch had time to put several of his Boons to work on her.

The first was straightforward; giving her milk a little something extra to it, thanks to Mystic Fluids. One heart-shaped 'tattoo' over her womb later, and Elui's milk provided Mana replenishment. A lot of it, they would later find with some experimentation; each milliliter of milk provided just shy of 20 'units' of Mana as per the System Description - nothing that anyone could really measure with precision without getting specialized equipment, but enough to track somewhat easily via known spell expenditures from Ahsch and Ariin. By the end of some experimenting, they figured out that Elui could, on her own, easily replenish most of Ahsch's entire collection of Mana, across all his secondary pools.

The rabbit-girl offered to increase her output, explaining that there were plenty of spells and rituals designed to increase milk production given how large families could get and that not every mother wanted to nurse her own children (making wet nursing a decently-profitable profession, given how many wealthier clients they would have). Ahsch declined, however. As beneficial as it was, he didn't want Elui to define her existence purely based on how useful she was to him. He was happy that she enjoyed her work at the Temple (even if a lot of her dedication there came from her devotion to him, as the god of the Temple), and encouraged her to find her own hobbies and things she liked.

Though he did plan to look into potentially getting more of his girls producing milk. Depending on the exact limitations of the Mana-replenishing properties, he could see it being incorporated into food or something, or even just bottled and sold for a cash influx; not that he was exactly hurting for money, given the whole bit about being a royal.

Regardless, Ahsch spent much of the remaining evening making sweet, gentle love to his newest Thrall, partially just to enjoy sharing pleasure with her, but also to learn new spells from Sexual Learning. In the end, there wasn't much that she provided: two Innate Magics, one a spell that provided her increased speed, agility, and jumping distance and height; the other a 'passive' magic that made her somewhat more stealthy when she was standing completely still. With some work, he could see the spell being quite useful: increased mobility was always good, after all. Definitely something to get for the angels, but he decided that another orgy was maybe pushing things a bit. And he didn't want to overwhelm the sweet girl anyways.

That night was far more sensual than normal, as Ahsch, Ariin, and Mahat all focused their attention on Elui, gently loving on the soft, tender rabbit-girl and bringing her delight after delight. Ahsch wasn't too surprised to see that she was fascinated by Ariin's piercings, the bunny shooting quick glances towards his sister's nipples and crotch when she thought nobody was watching.

After the sex, Ahsch quickly learned that the cuddles were to die for.

With a glare at his timepiece, Ahsch let out a growl of annoyance as he put aside his spell-experimenting supplies and got ready for Butler's next class on being a royal.I don't have nearly enough time during the day, he lamented to himself as the automata knocked sharply and allowed himself into Ahsch's office. It'd be nice if I had some kind of time-dilation field I could retreat into for more time, or extra bodies.

Not to say that it's an option right now, but... couldn't you try and do either of those?

Ahsch mentally frowned at his familiar. Come again?

I'm good, Master, but thanks! Mahat giggled. _But think about it, you already have time-related magic in the form of Entropic Revelation, your own Earthian knowledge suggests that Float's connection to gravity and mass and space could affect time, so theoretically, like your 'soul plane' you're trying to make, you should be able to make an area of space that's out-of-sync with time. On the other hand, Dollify could provide a way to create a puppet for you to control, not to mention one of your wife's business focuses is automata... you know, like the one standing right in front of you? You'd have to figure out the mental shenanigans to pilot two bodies, but again, theoretically..._

Ahsch was staring into the middle distance long enough and far enough that Butler had to physically shake the hrafthi's shoulder to stir him from his thoughts. With an apology and an attempt to focus, the lesson began. It was stopped only fifteen minutes later when Butler realized that Ahsch had gotten distracted again, roused him from his thoughts, and suggested they reconvene the next day. Ahsch apologized profusely, but agreed with the suggestion.

Then he pulled out his notes about making that soul-plane and started up another page about time-dilation.

"Do you remember when I warned you off of fucking around with Fate?"Ahsch sighed at his mentor's slightly-more-annoyed-than-usual tone. "Yes, I remember. Let me guess, time is another no-no?"

Rwnil glared at her pupil. "Don't get smart with me, boy," she warned, crossing her arms. "Though you're not terribly far off. Fate has a mind of its own, or so it seems, and does not tolerate meddlers. Time, however, is only a fundamental reality, and the consequences of playing around with it can be... severe."

Ahsch crossed his own arms, leaning back in his seat. "Rwnil, remember where I'm from. No offense, but my understanding of the workings of time may well be more advanced than yours."

Another glare greeted that statement. "Your world's understanding, you mean. You've said yourself, your understanding of many of the things you know about - or simply know of - that we Euphorians don't is limited. You know about 'bak-tyr-eah,' but you don't know much of anything about how to treat them or about Euphorian illnesses. You know about this 'gon-powder,' but not how to make it, or how to make the various machines to make the things to use it. So is it wrong to say that you know about the interplay between space and time, but have little in the way of useful understanding of time's inner workings."

He clenched his jaw, but remained silent. He'd learned it was admission enough for Rwnil, and usually prevented any further dressing-down of his mistakes. A firm nod later, and he knew it had worked again. "So while I encourage you to experiment, I advise that you do so carefully."

"And with you there?"

An almost mocking smirk graced the corner of the woman's lips. "And with me there," she agreed with a nod. "After all, who else of your little harem would be able to save your sorry tail if you fuck up?"

Ahsch squinted at his mentor. "Why do I get the feeling your version of 'saving my tail' would involve a hard reset on this life?"

The smirk spread to the other end of Rwnil's lips.