You know a trap when it wiggles its ass at you

Following behind Green you rejoin the crowd watching Ana's training. It doesn't look like all that much has changed, Ana is still drenched, Mary is dry and the soldiers are still cheering on their fellows trying to knock off balance. Green is whispering something into Mary ear jigging your purse in the air towards you.

Ana tries to charge with Green distracting Mary and gets sent backwards without even making it to the beach. Mary gave her a looking asking if she seriously thought that would work. Ana sat up and blew out the mouthful of water giggling. She was having more fun with this than you think Aurora had intended her to have.

Mary nodded at Green and focused back on Ana, seeing her giggling a big smirk broke on her face. As Green strutted over to you the soldiers started laughing along with Mary and Ana.

"You gonna give that back?" You asked, subtly putting a hand in your pocket, she has a history of being able to take your pants off without you noticing. You don't want her to give the money back then sell you your pants back to you.

"Maybe. Though you haven't said goodbye yet." She lifted an eyebrow and swung the pouch between the two of. She was trying to taunt you into taking it. Something you could do without all that much trouble, possible at the cost of your sleeve. However, you don't trust that that is the same pouch. It looks the same and looks like it has the right number of coins in it but you don't trust it.

Giving her an eye of suspicion you walk over to Mary. Mary waves for Ana to take a break when you reach her. "I'm going back to the city." You tell her and wave at Ana who nods at you, clearly readying to make a run for Mary.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay?" Mary asked, looking a bit disappointed, at you or her sister was a bit ambiguous.

"Yeah, you could join me in the water." Ana called out as she sunk down in the water, wading from her hips to her shoulders, making a few of the soldiers laugh at the joke. She lazily took a few steps closer to the beach.

"I'm fine I think." You say, wondering how close Mary will let her get before calling her out.

"Then I guess we have no choice." Mary said shaking her head sadly. "First one to get Christopher wet wins an extra days wages!" Mary had a massive grin on her face as she shouted that and as you turned to face the crowd you saw them all very eagerly looking at you.

"Don-" You don't get the word out before the chain that had been attached to Ana is thrown around you by the soldier who'd been holding it. "Really?" You ask as Ana starts pulling. "You too?" You ask, unmoved.

Ana winks at you with a huge smirk and the sound of thundering feet turns you back to the crowd. Thankfully most of them don't bother trying to tackle you. They just run for the chains to try and wrap you around them even more than they were.

You aren't moved at all by this, even if the amount of weight they are putting on you shins is decent. "You know this isn't going to - GAH!" You comment of bemusement is cut off by the other chain attached to Ana getting throw around your neck and tugged by almost a dozen women. You grab the chain and pull with enough magic to drag those women off their feet. "Hey no choking." You said turning around to face them all mostly now face down in the water.

"I don't remember you being that opposed to it." Mary said pinching your butt. Her other hand grabs the chain you'd pull away from your throat and slipped it down to your chest. "If you make it out of the grounds I'll give you some actually money." She says quietly.

You roll your eyes. "You know this was cuter when we were just playing chaseies." You comment taking a step away from the water. The pressure on the chain got a lot stronger as more people grabbed it. Including Ana from the sudden spike in strength you had to fight back against.

Threading your magic you keep walking. The sand beneath you does not make this any easier as you start sinking. "I think you look kinda cute with the chains." Mary replied as she planted a kiss on your cheek then grabbed the chains and started pulling.

Your feet were dragged backwards a little. The sand was the biggest issue for you, simply because it wasn't solid ground meant that they had a chance of dragging you backwards. You could just break the chains but much like last time with the wings, it wouldn't be playing fair.

Marching up the beach towards the grass and solid ground it contained more soldiers go charging into the sea to grab at the chains or their fellows to try dragging you back. When you are almost three quarters of the way there the pressure very suddenly lessens and you stumble forwards as the people who'd been holding you got ripped off their feet. As a collective you all face plant and need to spit out the sand you all swallowed.

Rolling onto your side you look back to see what had happened, assuming it had been a chain breaking. Instead you see a very triumphant looking Ana sitting onto of Mary dripping sea water onto her. "HA, I WIN!" Ana shouted. Her moment didn't last past that as Mary stood up, throwing Ana off her, now with a very damp back.

Mary glowered at her for a moment then snapped to look at you as you scrambled up onto the grass and all the soldier who were still holding the chains were dragged along the sand. "I win too." You say pulling the chain off yourself as stand there grinning at everyone. "That make it twice in a row." You say with a smirk.

You sudden feel very wet and cold as a bucket of water is poured over your back. You wipe the hair from your eyes and see a smirking Green and a few of the Captains. "Princess Mary said wet. Nothing about the ocean." Green said with a wink.

You can't think of a reasonable response that isn't being petulant. "Fair play." You say shaking your head as you evaporate the water off yourself. "Guess we're tied then." You correct yourself as the steam rises from you. You held out your hand for your purse. Green hands it over but it feel heavier. "As thanks for all you done." She says as she walked past you. "Princess Mary, please stop trying to throw your sister into the water."

You turn around and see Mary with Ana thrown over her shoulder marching towards the sea while Ana both laughed and tried to struggle free. You laughed along with a few of the other soldiers as the sibling antics. Heading down there you give them both a more sincere goodbye. Mary grabs you for a make-out session with her sister still over her shoulder then spins around so you can say goodbye to Ana, though without any kissing as Green steps in to have Mary put her sister down. The soldiers pat themselves down for a moment, all of them are to some degree soaked.

As you leave you hear a lot more splashing and a parting glance confirms that the training seems to have changed to just plain swimming in the sea with everyone.

On the way out of the grounds you check the pouch and find it is indeed fuller and not longer monotone. Along with your new fifteen coppers you have five silver coin, they are a little bigger and thinner and Aurora's face looks a bit more defined. On the other side in a rather crude depiction of the capital, mostly only identifiable by the coastline and hills.

On the way back to the city you decide to head to Asune's. You haven't spent all that much time with her after she'd rather bluntly told you how she thinks you rate all your relationships. You don't find Oriana, Auria or Cynthia on the jog back to the capital so you assume they must still be back there, hopefully giving some actual lessons about how to set up a field hospital. You are a little curious as to what the current version of the armies field hospital looks like but not enough to go back and ask, you'll leave that for next time. Also looks like the sisters weren't informed of your winged arrival last weekend, credit to Farrah that is exactly what you would do. For all her inexperience and nervousness about being the Mother of this branch of the church when you fist met her she is really settling into her role, and isn't getting all stake burning.

In the city you find a number more people out and about then had been at lunch. As the afternoon sun is filling the city with a warmer light people were gathering outside. The grass at the bottom of Asune's family hill is full of people. Most were eating, drinking or otherwise making merry. A few were performing, juggling or putting no puppet shows for kids.

When you reach Asune's gate it opens for you and a women in a maid outfit emerges and bows at you. "Greetings Master." She says in close to your native language. "The Mistress is waiting for you in your play room." She walks towards the building with you feeling very strange.

"Is Asune teaching you that?" You asked. You've only heard your language from Asune and Clare. Asune had said during the relationship rankings that sharing your language improved her standing. Hearing to come out of someone mouth that you don't know feels like intimacy shared without your consent.

The maid pauses for a moment then bites her lip. "Only a few phrases." She admits. So Asune isn't teach her so much as ...

"What other phrases?"

"Does Master want me harden him for Mistress? Does Master wish to fuck my little mouth, pussy or ass? Does Master need anything?" She repeats in a very ridged tone, the words clearly alien to her.

"You don't know what those phrases mean do you?" You ask, she fidgets but doesn't answer. Well that's, better you guess. You reach the closed door of Asune's play room and look at it for a moment not sure if you should go in.

"Mistress said if you arrive but do not want to join you may make use of any maid you want." The maid in question says in the normal vernacular so you know she knows what she is offering.

Well BDSM or maid sex. Quite the choice you've been presented, can't help but wonder what the options would have been if you'd decided to come with Asune this morning.