Unexpected

Henrietta sighed at the sight she was **** to see. John knew exactly what was being shown to her, as he also had started his conversation with the young elf by standing below him on a tree, looking up and under his skirt.

“You know, all things considered I am not even surprised. I assume you taught yourself how to rip open reality the way you do?” She just ignored what was literally right in front of her eyes and talked to John instead. “Did you figure it out yesterday already, or just today?” And now, finally, for the first time since she appeared, John managed to bring out some words without being interrupted instantly.

“I learned it a few minutes after you left. But can we come back to the ‘explode and kill everything’ part? I believe that is a detail you missed in your explanation yesterday about what these things can do. And I would argue the point that you should have started with that, because it is freaking important!” Again, Henrietta sighed.

“No, John. I didn’t forget to mention it. I tried to teach you an illusion barrier. What you did are dimensional rifts. They are risky, unstable and horribly crafted on top. Do you remember what I told you as I was leaving yesterday? Let me give you a hint: You did the exact opposite of it.” John knew what she was referring to, since it was obvious at this point. She instructed him not to learn anything on his own anymore. But that was only because she thought he was this ‘void type’ or whatever, which he wasn’t.

“Excuse me, female warrior, for I seem to have…” Ashthyn tried to bring up another of his bloomy monologues, but this time it was him who was cut short.

“Shush, I am talking, you little hussy, so keep both pairs of lips shut together till I am done at least!” Okay, weird. He knew Henrietta for years now, even though before yesterday, he assumed her to be a guy he chatted with online about gaming, but he had never heard her be so rude to anybody. And they had been in group chats before. Even misogynistic lines by some other guys were considered funny jokes by her. And given that she was a girl, that alone was probably enough so that some guys must have sent her dick pics before. So what has Ashthyn done, to trigger this **** and unseen reaction by her?

“Now, John, follow me. I will take you somewhere safe, where I can teach you how to make proper barriers. Don’t even try to continue this, I value my existence, so I will make the barrier path you attempted.” John wanted to raise the points she did before, about that being suspicious, but decided against it. After all, she must have agreed at least so far that Ashthyn was not the kind of being you would let run visible through the city.

The moment Henrietta took over control, the area changed. Gone were the trees, or basically anything. It was only a cold hard rock. As if they were on top of a mountain, only that this mountain was as wide as he could see. John had to admit, with the technic he used before, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to ever make a barrier this big. He couldn't even pinpoint where it ended.

As they started walking, John quickly noticed something being odd. He knew Draldover for a while and one thing was certain. This girl could not keep her feet at rest for half a minute. If she was not talking, chatting or browsing something every minute of her life, she would spam messages in the group chat, asking for someone to talk to her. Hence why he had her muted more than once for a few days.

However, today she just walked in front of him and Ashthyn, not even looking at him when she finally started talking again after not less than five minutes of silence. "Where are the others? If you can create dimensional rifts since yesterday, I assume you were busy collecting every horny cunt you could get your hands on? What did you get already? A slime girl? A thousand year old dragon girl in the body of a 13 year old? Some Elementals? Sex Demons? Don't look at me like that, if you thought it was a good idea to bring her along to our 'date' as you called it, I doubt she was the first thing you got for lonely moments. So you better tell me now, or else they will be killed when they try to follow us."

Johns eyes went wide. Sure, if Layklé tried to get to him and would die, it would suck to lose her abilities, but he had no real connection to her, besides mutual hatred. Or something similar to it. But what if Paw would come looking for him. It was unlikely, but given everything he knew and how unhappy she was with her situation, a suicidal act like that would be fitting to her. However, before he came clean about the very human girl he had bound to himself, he wanted to clear up another thing he was sure he had just heard wrong.

"Excuse me, but, whom did you think I would bring along?" He looked to the direction she had pointed at, and as expected, only found Ashthyn following them.

"That elven hussy you caught yourself in the woods. A classic, straight out of the books. Get some submissive elf girl to suck your dick, hm?" Again, she pointed at Ashthyn, who was avoiding Johns gaze now.