She deserves some time with you

"I'd be happy too." You said. Kiyo smiled at you.

"I'm sure Asune will be overjoyed." She walked out of the library as you started to wonder if she had any grasp on the sort of person her daughter was.

"Do I have to attend, Master?" Hanna put a lot of tone on the last word and you skin crawled.

"Please don't call me that. And only if you want to." Hanna stood and walked out of the library without another word. Yours is a complicated relationship, and you don't see it getting any easier any time soon. You still think you were right to 'claim' her, Mary's officers didn't seem like they had anything good in mind when they looked at Hanna after the parade. However the reality that you own a person is just wrong to you, acceptability in this world is irrelevant. But you can hardly free her. Whatever her reasons she did lead a bandit group that pillaged and raped. Freeing her at this point, aside from the moral issues of letting her get away with any crimes her people committed in her name, send a very clear message to everyone on how you value the lives of the people who suffered at her hands.

You scratch your head. Why'd your mother have to tell her mother she'd save your life one day. It wouldn't impact the moral issue for you but it would affect how much time you need to spend around her. If nothing else you don't want the person whose going to save your life feeling disappointed in doing so.

The library door opened and a staff member you recognise walked inside. She bowed and waved for you to follow her. "Why don't any of you speak?" You asked as you did just that.

"It is a request of our Mistress." She answered. "If we start talking to Lady Kiyo she will never get any work done."

"Oh ... wait Kiyo isn't your." You trailed off looking at the woman and saw a slight curl in her lip. Yeah that tracks. "Right. Where are we going?"

"You need to tidy up before dinner." The woman answered. You looked down at yourself and saw a few ink stains on your sleeves, Next lesson with Hanna will on the appropriate amount of ink you put on your quill.

You are led to small room with a basin filled with steaming water and a change of clothes already set out. "Thanks for showing me the way." You said the woman who walked inside the room before you and knelt down by the basin. "Um, what are you doing?"

"Oh Mistress has told us that if neither she nor one your pets is available we are be of service to you. I could go and retrieve -"

"Nope." You interrupt, the thought of Hanna being dragged for, that, thoroughly ensuring you were not going to be needing any service. "And that's not necessary, really." You stepped out of the doorway, holding it open for the woman to stand and leave.

She stood and left with a bow, no comment, disappointment or relief on her face or aura as you closed the door behind her and got to cleaning up. She considered this to be a part of her job and not something worth more attention than cleaning a stain on a fork. You wondered if every member of staff had similar instructions and attitudes before quickly concluding they do. You were coming the conclusion that Asune's ability to get people to do what they want, rivals or maybe even dwarfs Aurora's. The real clincher would be if Vatarie hadn't figured it out and gone to exact some revenge on her earlier today. Aurora certainly wouldn't be caught out so easily, but Asune had a lot more room to grow.

You finished cleaning up and getting dressed in a deep blue top and pants. They fitted so perfectly Asune must have your measurements already. Opening the door you find a new staff member waiting outside for you. She bows and led you outside where Kiyo was sitting at a small table with her husband, gently stroking his hair. You escort clears her throat and both turn to smile at you.

"Hello Lord Christopher." Asune's father says standing up and pulling a chair out for you. "Asune is on her way home now." You sit down and he returns to being stroked by his wife.

"It is nice of you to stay for dinner. Asune can be so jealous when it comes to those she spends time with." Kiyo said warmly, again making you wonder how well she knows your daughter. Asune was the one who'd suggested the Hanun, and the dual marriage with Vatarie. "But I and glad she's found someone to bring her out of her shell."

Alternatively, Kiyo know's her daughter very well and is messing with you, that you would find extremely fitting for Asune's mother. "Sorry for not trying to arrange a dinner officially. I've found I do not have as much time on my hands as I used to before coming to the Capital."

"Well being courted by two soon to be Duchesses, two Princesses, and according the rumours, Queen Aurora herself must be exhaustive." Asune's dad says with a smirk. You are glad there aren't any drinks present, if there were you would feel an obligation to take a moment to drink for the sake of a spit take.

"Oh be nice Bear." Kiyo says pinching her husbands cheek. "Forgive my husband. He can be so bratty sometimes." her hand stroked his cheek gently for a moment but you saw her fingers tense slightly and some colour entered his face. Ok maybe Asune didn't fall that far from her family tree. "How is the academy going?"

You delved into a conversation about the academy, your classes, how well you were doing in them, how Asune was going in classes and in general. The excitement in her parents faces whenever you mention the friends she has makes you smile. They do really care for their daughter, even if they don't really understand her.

Asune arrived just as you were talking about how Stephanie's other students admire her. Which is true, even if you haven't seen her interact with them much admiration in aura is very easy to spot. "Hello Harea." Asune said sitting on you lap and planting a deep kiss. "I didn't know you were waiting for me." She put a hand on your chest and added with a whisper in your ear, "I can have Pet brought here for you."

"Daughter please, we are having dinner first." Kiyo said. "Go and clean up."

Asune looked at her parents and rolled her eyes. "Fine mum." She said in an impressively bratty tone, standing from your lap she made sure to let her hand on your chest slide down a little and bent more than needed as she stood. "I will be back shortly."

Asune left and a staff member arrived to explain that dinner will be a Liven steak with plum sauce and a red wine. You remember Vatarie saying your dowry would a chort of Liven, you wonder if the two are connected. When Asune returns you can see from her satisfied expression they are, or she made use of one of the staffs services. She said on your lap again and leaned her back against you, her head lulling back to rest on your shoulder. She felt cooler than usual so probably the latter. Only person in the whole who gets colder as they get hotter.

Kiyo resumed your conversation about her daughter and all the friends she has at the academy. Asune corrects her by listing the names of those she considers friends, Edin being the only obvious one absent. The clarification did nothing to lower Kiyo pride in her daughter and saw quickly comments, "So many. Who would have thought our daughter would be so popular." To her husband who nods.

Asune rolls her eyes but you do detect a faint glimmer of satisfaction at the praise. "It is all due to Christopher's influence." She leaves it at that and in what is a vanishingly rare moment there is no need for you to correct someone when it comes to your influence. She's right, without you she'd probably only have sycophants, Pets, and enemies, Vatarie being the latter and dramatically so.

"I'm proud of you for getting along with Vatarie so easily though." You say kissing her neck earning a coo from Asune followed by a soft suggestion that teeth could be used a bit more freely in future, not in so many words but 'bite' is open to a lot of interpretation.

"As are we. Honestly we were worried our houses would be going to war when the two of your took your respective titles." Asune's father joked.

"We wouldn't be going to war. Our holding are too far away from one another and no Queen would allow combat close to the Capital." Asune answered the joke seriously. "I would simply have made claims on a few of her Lords using the trade agreements and old territory rights granted by those agreements my great-grandmother had made with hers." Again totally serious in her words.

"And now here you are in a Hanun with her." Kiyo said. "Oh, remember our first Hanun?" She asked her husband who smiled up at her.

"Oh yes, Mona, she did make such -"

"DAD!" Asune's embarrassment of her parents made everyone laugh, aside from her who bite your neck as punishment for laughing. She didn't draw blood which you took to mean a guide for how hard to bite her neck time.

"Dinner My Mistress." The announcement settled the laughter and food was swiftly brought out and set down.

The steak before you was huge, almost the size of your head. "What is a Liven?" You asked as Asune's collapsed into tiny cubes thanks to her wires.

"Asune." Her dad threatened. "What have I told you about wire's when we are eating. Showing off to your fiancé doesn't give you an excuse." He chided as Asune got off your lap, weird that chiding from her dad is so much more effective than from her mother.

"He isn't my fiancé." She corrected, it was a lovely change of pace having someone else do that for you. "Vatarie and I have agreed that she will marry him first and only at the end of our education, or if she become pregnant before then." She sounded a little peeved about that but before you can say anything she answered your question, "A desert dragon domesticated to be ridden in battle about twice the size of a carriage horse and two or three times as fast on the ground. The Ayad family holds them extremely dearly, and no other noble family has ever been able to achieve a breed pair."

"Oh." You weren't going to bother with the marriage thing. You aren't apposed to it in the future and its not like you have a plan after you finish at the academy anyway, aside from beating Clare's sister which could take decades for all you know. "So being offered a chort as a dowry is a lot?"

Everyone was quiet for a moment until Asune broke the silence, "Three silver mines, one gold mine and the mining rights to Jutia mountain. Assuming the chort offered was the Long Fang or Black Tooth, otherwise just the silver mines."

"That's our daughter. Isn't she just so smart." Kiyo boasted to you. "You would be a very comfortable husband Christopher."

"Dear please don't test our daughters patience." Everyone but Asune laughed, who took it very seriously so you bite her neck to make sure she was in a good mood.

As you all ate and chatted lightly you made a mental note to not eat Liven anymore, it is absurdly tough, like chewing a rock that is trying to punch you. It's only after your third bite do you notice everyone else is swallowing tiny pieces whole. Asune's being the perfect size for it. You have the impression no one had told you this to not make you feel silly.

As you finish half your dinner you consider asking if you can take the rest with you for Delilah. With how quickly they normally inhale meat a tough meal might satisfy them. Or they'll choke the death trying the eat it in one bite.

You aren't the only one to not finish your meal and as everyone sits back comfortably full Asune appears to fall asleep against you. Kiyo points and looks down right thrilled, her daughter trusting someone enough to go to sleep against them without a collar, restraints or whips involved. She doesn't mention those last few things but you hear them none-the-less. She directly you to take Asune to bed and with the help of a staff member to direct you, Asune is put to be, cradled in your arms.

Looking at her sleeping face all the other stuff about her falls away. She is stunningly beautiful and asleep she looks rather sweet. When you walk into her room and put her into her bed she grabs your shirt so you can't leave. The staff member see this and kneels beside you with her mouth open, clearly intending to provide a pre-sleep relief since Asune is unable due to food coma. You are going to stay at least until she wakes up, and you doubt she'll mind all that much if you did make use. She has been sitting in your lap the entire evening happily resting your cock between her ass cheeks. You just refused to acknowledge it because her parents were right in front of you.