Well with a few notable absences

Lucia and yourself make some small talk about the finer points of flight. Lucia was focused on how it impacted her dragon but she made a few remakes about how easily it would be for you to adapt to additional weight. You figured you should start working out the mechanics of carry another person while you fly because she not letting this go.

When you walk into the dinning room you grab your plates. You pile your plate with meat and some fruits and make your way to a table. Lucia makes some eyes at you food while nibbing at her less impressive selection. You time together was very quickly cut short by the appearance of Auria, Oriana and Cynthia. You guess that means the three of them were a unit from now on. You actually rather liked that religion wasn't as prominent in this world as it was in your old, you'd feel bad if you were the reason it took hold in this world, indirectly at least.

"Good evening Master Christopher." The three said in almost unison.

"Evening. I see you are all getting along."

"Oh yes Cynthia has been fascinated to learn about our Church." Oriana answered. Her usage of the plural was rather presumptive but at this point you knew any engage would lead to her preaching at you or those around you.

Lucia shifted away from you so the sisters could sit on either side. Cynthia sat next to Lucia and was looking at the non-noble like she had see had seen an animal speak. "Cynthia Lucia, Lucia Cynthia." You say hoping to break the ice between the two.

Cynthia kept staring and Lucia said, "Hi."

Cynthia looked even more surprised. "Hello." She said then looked at Oriana. "Is she ...?" She trailed off considering she wasn't a noble and just have a rich mother you would have thought they would get along.

"She and Master Christopher are friends." Oriana said, no hesitation at all as she said that. Weird that the noble had an easy time with that, though she had seen you and Lucia together a few times.

"Oh." Cynthia said and started eating.

Lucia started eating and everyone descended into awkward silence. You missed Anastasia bring your dinner to your and Edin's room. At the thought of Edin to stretched out to try and see him. Unsurprisingly he wasn't here. You hoped he'd show up at your room tonight, you missed him.

"So why couldn't you imbue?" Auria asked.

"Auria." Oriana mumbled more tired than angry.

"A lack of practice." You answer. Now you understood your failing you felt much better about it being brought up. "I'm going to start practicing now."

"Is that also why your au – OW!" Auria shouted as Oriana hit her with some magic.

Your lack of talent with your aura still didn't make you happy and you shifted uncomfortably. "How was everyone classes."

"I enjoyed my classes," Oriana said, "It was our first day of management classes."

You assumed that is what the women did while the men were in home ecc. "What is that about?"

"The first lesson was just about the principals of managing property." Oriana said. "We'll be studying it more in depth over the year. How were yours?"

"This morning was interesting the other two not so much." You answer.

"Oh yeah the guys are doing household management." Lucia said with a grin. "That has gotta feel kinda beneath you huh?"

"Little bit." You answer glad she was making light rather than prodding.

"But men should learn how to manage a house." Oriana said and you felt a religious overture begin.

"Hi Vatarie." You say. You'd felt her enter the room a bit ago but she wasn't close enough for your greeting to be natural. However, it shut Oriana up, you needed to remember that trick.

"Hello Christopher." Vatarie said as she sped up her approach a little. You were hoping she would take Oriana's spot but instead she sat opposite you. She was breathing through her mouth but as she say you saw her eyes dilate and she took a breath through her nose. "H-hi." She purred out as a smile broke out on her face. "Want to go the baths?" Her plate hadn't even touched the table yet.

"Shouldn't you eat first?" You say instantly worried about her. She looks at her plate as starts shoveling food into her mouth. Your worry about her smelling you quickly replace with worry she was going to start ****, "V-Vatarie don't you still need to breath."

Vatarie looked up already halfway through her dinner and she took a deep breath through her nose. "You smell amazing." She resumed her inhaling

What had caused this? You tried to think back to all the times she'd lost control like this. It had happened after you'd been away from her for a while, maybe the more short interaction gave her some kind of a tolerance. The only way to really test that would be to deliberately appear and say hello every hour or so then disappear and hope the tolerance lasted.

While you were thinking she finished her plate and stood up. "Baths?" The eagerness in her voice seemed a little more innocent than you knew this was going to be.

"I –"

"Yeah Christopher, baths?" Lucia asked. That she was talking in Vatarie's presence was something of an improvement but her encouraging wasn't.

"I could use a bath with you." Auria said to you. Her aura was filled with excitement so you were confident she would have joined any bath you had.

"Yeah." Lucia said. You looked over Oriana and Cynthia to see her aura glowing with excitement. Clearly she thought this was a chance to get into the upper class baths. Not a bad assumption considering.

"Great." Vatarie said jumping up and hurrying around the table to grab you.

You were more than capable of breaking any attempt to **** you into compliance of that you were sure. But you also knew that if you didn't go to the baths she was going where ever you went. She'd understood enough last time this had happened to know that asking you for sex was the way to do it, but that didn't mean she wouldn't strongly encourage you public or private.