Settling In

Candy started towards the Dragon door excitedly, she'd have much rather gotten Unicorn obviously, but that was a small thing compared to her elation over getting to spend a whole nine weeks with Laura around instead of only a few hours once a month. The district would have a substitute in so her kids would be fine even if she would miss the little darlings and while she'd enjoy the time off Laura needed a vacation more than anyone she knew.

The door didn't open itself like they did for Shar but she didn't take it personally, she probably intimidated them too! inside was an amazing room much larger than her little pokey apartments bedroom. There was a huge black carved wood four poster bed against the far wall, two matching wardrobes on the right flanking a big fireplace that was already lit, a matching desk with a big book on it that said Harem Hotel Rules in big bold letters, and another door on the left wall. No windows, and everything was oppressively gloomy like the rest of the castle had been but she wouldn't let it diminish her mood.

Candy danced across the big grey and black rug on the floor, fluttering her new wings, towards the other door to take a peek. Inside was a bathroom bigger than her bedroom back home had been. It had a sunken bathtub that looked deep enough to completely submerge herself in and was big enough for two people to boot. There was a toilet of course and a big double sink. All of this was in black marble with streaks of white in it. There was also a glass framed shower in one corner and a huge mirror over the sinks.

Looking closer one of the sinks had a variety of familiar items scattered around it. That was her brush! It still had some of her blonde curls trapped in it even. Well at least she wouldn't have to spend BP on new makeup.

Leaving the bathroom she noticed Professor Escarra had followed her into the room and was sitting at the desk going over the big book. It was so weird seeing her math teacher again, and especially weird seeing her looking around the same age! Ms. Escarra had been so kind and patient with her during her Algebra class, so much nicer than many of her other teachers, but she had still been glad she didn't need to take more math to earn her Education degree. Still it was nice to see her again and she was glad she got something nice from Shar as well.

She spun her way over to the wardrobes, trying not to disturb the reading woman, to peek in them as well. The first held several of her pastel sundresses up on hooks and well as a pair of jeans and one of her low backed peasant blouses folded on a shelf. Another shelf held some of her balled up socks and underthings. Her slip on sneakers were sitting in the bottom. A quick check showed that her dresses had all been altered to give her wings room, though not just slit with whatever it was Shar had used. The other must be for her roomy then.

She placed miss sprinkles on the bed then skipped off to meet up with the others at the bar after the Professor shook her head when she asked if she was going. She didn't know why Ms. Escarra looked so worried, she was having the time of her life.

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Gabriella put the book down with a sigh as Candy swept out of the room. It was going to be an interesting experience sharing with her, she didn't think the young woman had even realized she was humming the whole time. It had already been late when she'd been snatched from her home and the rush of energy from her rejuvenation was starting to wear off, bed sounded much better to her right now than a meal or company.

Taking off her dress was much easier than it had been in some time, odd to think that her body was now younger than that of her roommate's. She wasn't sure just how much she trusted these castle servants but she wasn't about to put one of her dresses in a hamper so she laid it over the back of the desk chair, perhaps that would be just fine.

She decided to look in the cabinet Candy hadn't gone through and found a couple more of her dresses as well as the clothes she wore when gardening. Probably for the best, some of these challenges were bound to be more physical in nature and gorgeous as her Victorian ballgowns were practical for sports they were not.

She set her bracelet for a 6 AM alarm as the book had shown and crawled into bed wearing only her undergarments smiling at the huge stuffed unicorn her former student had inexplicable brought from home. It was going to be difficult facing her newly awakened sexuality, and she was greatly worried the nature of this show wasn't going to give her much time.

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Misty stood in her room after Carla and Kim had made their quick look about before running for the pub. It looked much the same as the Dragon room save the bed curtains were a deep royal blue and the carpet was dark blue and grey. Misty had been on the verge of being a nervous wreck all day, and yet held it together rather well she thought. Being able to hide in her robe definitely helped. Being amidst a large group of people, even though she knew many of them, had not...

She could see color again! It was so hard to believe but as she fingered the rich blue of the bed curtain she felt herself on the verge of tears once again. She didn't see a coatrack or any hooks on the wall so settled for hanging her robe in the wardrobe that held the majority of her clothes not owning that many. Thankfully her boots were in the cabinet as well as the hard stone floors were starting to hurt her feet.

In the bathroom she removed the rest of her clothes and scrubbed off the remnants of her tear smeared makeup. Looking in the mirror at her strange new silver eyes was really something. Magic was real here, not the psychological trickery of her past. The other transformations that had been on the table, that were still on the table for next time. Was she to be made into some kind of naked carnival freak? She really didn't want that, hoped that Laura didn't want that. The audience seemed to like her, maybe she could convince them to let her take another path. Maybe they'd give her a scythe and she'd turn into roses.

She drew a bath almost too hot to stand to soak the tension out of her. It had been too long since she'd had a good soak stuck with dinky hotel showers. After putting her stuff in the hamper to be dealt with by unseen servants she stepped down into the bath and tried to think of what she could do. Maybe she could ask Shar to teach her some real magic, maybe the audience would like a spooky spellcaster as part of Laura's harem. Or maybe she could be Merlin to Laura's King Arthur, that would be nice.

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Tracy went over the room with a fine toothed comb. No power outlets at all. If it wasn't for the steady lights you might think they were stuck in the dark ages. This was intolerable! Getting stuck with Susan wasn't so bad, she didn't seem to be bothered by a little ogling and damn she had a lot to ogle right now. She'd rushed into the bathroom right off and was making some... interesting noises through the door. Probably milking herself come to think of it. Damn that was hot.

Tracy couldn't help but think Candy would have rather taken the Unicorn room with it's white on black color scheme, because Unicorn. Where had she found that thing anyways?

So no power, well time to find out how far 3000 BP got you. She marched up to the teleportation ring, or Moongate, whatever, and thought really hard at her bracelet about the shopping kiosks then stepped on and Bam! there she was. That was so fucking cool! If she could take one of these things apart she could revolutionize tech back home. Magic was just sufficiently advanced science and you couldn't tell her otherwise. Still best not to piss off the giant by ransacking her castle. No, thank you!

No kiosks that looked like they carried electronics but she did find one labeled "Devices" that sounded like it had potential. Sure enough the catalogue had a electronics section, paydirt! Hmm a laptop would cost her 1000 BP, that sounded like a bargain. A "ambient flow adapter" whatever the fuck that was, but it's description said it could recharge electronics, cost another 1000 but she'd need it for the laptop eventually and her headphone as well. Done and Done.

Tracy 3000 - 2000 = 1000 BP.

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Stacy couldn't strip down fast enough, once inside the black and red themed Phoenix room, out of the hated cheerleader uniform. She didn't mean to give Anna a show but wasn't going to complain about earning some VP for it. She didn't have anything against her sisters ex either but wasn't feeling sociable so sat herself in a warm bath to try and ease the pain in her ass.

Showed contestant naked body +1 VP.

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Laura's little sister looked better than expected nude with those big fake tits, Anna thought, but she wasn't about to make a move on her after the day she'd had. Certainly not with her ex still fresh on her mind. No she wanted, needed, a drink. So after hanging up her leather jacked in the wardrobe that wasn't full of black cheerleading uniforms she made her way back out to the Moongate and let it take her back to the bar.

The moon was out now, low and huge in the star studded sky she could see out of the big picture window. Maybe that was how you told when it was true night. Odd to think it would be brighter now than at high noon but this place was full of odd.

In the bar the British band members were already sampling shots, small wonder as aside from maybe the cow they'd gotten fucked the worst out of everybody. She shook her head, shouldn't think of her that way. Susan was in the same boat as the rest of them and she wouldn't mind getting her hands on those milkers either honestly.

"Hey don't go drinking all the booze in one go now." Anna called out in a friendly manner to let them know she was there.

"Oi there's more here than all of us could drink if we tried!" Returned Carla who poured out a vivid green shot for her as well.

"Absinthe?" Anna asked getting a grin from the newly and forcefully converted lesbians, damn that had to be rough.

"To the Green Fairy!" Yelled out Kim, who then promptly missed her mouth with the shot and fell over laughing as at that moment Candy came bursting through the bar door.

"What'd I miss?" Candy asked, wings fluttering.

Anna shook her head, downed her shot, and poured another round with a fourth glass included this time. Well at least this wasn't going to be boring.

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The harem left behind Shar and Laura stood on another gate elsewhere in the tower. "And this is the master suite!"

"It's an empty room."

"It's the entrance room to the suite. Seriously, try to enjoy yourself Laura, it wouldn't kill you."

"Says the woman that kidnapped me, but fine I'll humor you. lead on."

Shar led her up a set of stairs than ran up the outside wall of the room into a large living area. The room was dominated by a huge black leather sectional and an equally huge television that hung on the wall opposite it. To one side was a small kitchenette and to the other a small reading nook.

"This is obviously the living room. Anything you want to watch, including the current activities of your harem members, can be brought up on the TV. The remote" she pointed at a huge complicated boxy affair "is right there but the TV is also voice controlled."

"Seriously?"

"What? you might be concerned about them or something... Anyways plenty of good books to peruse there but if you'd like anything in particular just list it on this notepad here and it will turn up. As for the kitchenette anything you want that isn't stocked or if you'd like something fresh and hot just speak your order into that phone and it will be in the dumbwaiter shortly. Anything else you might need you can always ask me and it will be arranged."

"How about a way home for everyone?"

"Anything reasonable obviously. Now up the next flight of stairs is the bedroom."

Following again Laura took in the sight of a massive bed covered in black silk sheets and a black fur blanket with a wealth of pillows that could fit four people comfortably if they were friendly enough. The room opened up into a large bath to one side and had a large fireplace opposite the bed.

"All the comforts you could ask for and more if you do ask for them." laughed Shar. "Now explore a bit and get settled in. Tonight and tomorrow is for the harem to get used to each other and bond a little then after that you will have a date night with each girl. This first week you will be spending all 24 hours of the date with the girl in question here for you to get used to each other and bond. After this week the date nights will be less restrictive but I really want you to concentrate on and give them a fair shake undisturbed so to that end you'll be staying up here until the next challenge."

"Wait. First off that's way more than seven days and I'm going to be a prisoner up here?"

"A week lasts however long I need it to here Laura, you should be used to this by now. The ten weeks of the show won't even be but a moment in time back at your home. And you aren't a prisoner, not really anymore than any of us are. I just want you to focus on your date and not run off being distracted by the other girls. Once we've established a base line with each you'll have your freedom of the castle and it's environs. In fact I expect in the future the girls will be taking you on dates to hopefully romantic locations during their day but you will still both be here at night. In fact you and your date must sleep together in your bed, no exceptions. If they bring a guest with them on their date, which will be allowed after the first week, she or they will have to sleep in the bed with you as well."

"You're really going hard on forcing these women on me aren't you?"

"Harem Hotel. You will have a harem one way or the other, it's up to you if they remain functional women and not a bunch of broken toys. I know you have misgivings and the path ahead of you won't be easy but you can find happiness here if you let yourself."

And with that Shar was gone. Laura was stunned for a second, apparently the host didn't need the Moongates to get around. That was certainly worth noting. She went back down to the kitchenette and after toasting a bagel spread some avocado paste on it and poured her self a glass of Merlot then sat back and thought while she ate.

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Shar sat back behind her desk and looked through the feed. Fairly quiet so far but this was just the first day of the show, hopefully there would be more chatter later. There were some well wishes on the new season, those were always nice to see. She brought the wedding footage back up and played it again. It was possible to find happiness on Harem Hotel, she had to remember it didn't have to end in **** no matter her own past.