"I'm sorry Christopher."

"Huh, what?" You ask Mary who doesn't look down at you.

"I said I'm sorry. I, I didn't mean to, fuck up."

"It's not-"

"I'll do better next time." She said, walking out of the room before you had a chance to stop her.

"Wait Mary." You get up and try to grab her but she ducks out of your way and out of the room. "Mary stop it's not your fault." You call out following her out and down the corridor. "I had just as much sex with her as you did." Actually you don't think that is technically true but not the time to bring it up.

"I want to be alone Christopher." Mary called out but didn't slow her escape attempt.

You stopped following. You really wanted to keeping going after her but she is an adult. Not really right to impose your presence upon her. She and her mother have clearly done this more than once, in fact you've seen it twice now. Not really happy about that yourself.

You watch as Mary disappears down a corridor. You really hope that doesn't happen again. At least with you she might have more of a chance to avoid such repeats. You take a second to appreciated how good Aurora is at this while you decide to spend more time with Mary to avoid her getting into trouble with her mother. With no reason to stay in the palace you make your way to the exit and back to the academy.

On the way out you saw Lady Demise talking with a woman. They both nodded to you but didn't stop their conversation. You thought about approaching to eavesdrop as a bit of pay back for all the reverse that had been happening to you. You decide against it because you are pretty sure the woman in question is the scribe you'll be talking to this weekend.

Leaving the palace you walked the city in the night time. An idle thought occurred as to what would happen if you walked down a dark alley. You have no idea if there is any sort of crime in the city. Given the technology of the city the lack of decent street lighting would suggest there is crime. Nothing inspires quite like a lack of public eye. Though considering the consequences you aren't sure a coin purse would be worth possible enslavement.

You aren't going to go looking or anything so it's a purely theoretical exercise. You wave at a few people who are walking down the street and they wave back. Part of you wonders if they have the same thoughts as you when it comes to crime.

When you reach the base of the academy hill you take a moment to recount everything you just thought. Maybe you shouldn't be alone on these walks you are kinda weird. Climbing the hill you wave at where you think the gate guard would be and walk through. It shuts behind you and you earn a 'welcome back sir' from the guard. Maybe you've managed to earn some respect after your work healing people.

Heading to the Dorms you see a lot of students on the grass outside it, a few were running around kicking or throwing a ball. Most were gathered around watching Lucia. She had her dragon out and was performing for her audience. Dancing while her dragon did tricks and darted around her body.

You walked over to watch and felt a bit of proud of her. The dragon looked remarkable real, the scales well defined. When the dragon moved the scale stretched and scrunched up creating wrinkles. It even had eyes that looked real, something you hadn't work on with her.

She saw you and smiled. Her dragon flew at you and danced around. You got the message and conjured your dragon making it dance around and play with hers. The audience laughed, cheered and grew.

You decided to kick things up a level and landed your dragon on a woman's head. Using your magic you directed a bit of constant wind to simulate weight. The woman ducked her head under the fake weight and reached up to touch the dragon. Using a tiny barrier to simulate scales just around her hand she let out an amazed sound. Other reached up but you didn't want to break the illusion so you had it jump off her head, a bit too much magic was used and she ended up pushed onto her back. But she she was laughing so it wasn't a bad thing.

You sent your dragon to dart around Lucia, moving in time with her dancing along with her own. As the performance came to a close you had your dragon leap into the sky and start to glow. Lucia looked at you then sent her dragon up as well making it glow as best she could. She had to stop dancing to focus on the light. It was a lot hard that she probably expected. Magic an illusion is easier than producing light, not that much but after a performance it was a noticeable one. Lucia seemed to be struggling to match your dragon's light and height so you detonated. A shower of golden sparks rained down, dying out before reaching the ground.

Lucia dragon did the same, a rainbow glittering down, fading a little before yours did.

The audience applauded and Lucia gave a bow then pointed at you for your bow. You did and the applause felt nice, easy to see why Lucia wanted to do this forever.

You walked over to Lucia and she said, "Just think how much louder it would be if you'd worn your outfit." She smirked. If anyone else had said that to you you'd think they were being pervy, Lucia was just being honest.

"Is that why you are wearing your academy uniform?" You asked with a raised eyebrow.

She laughed and gave you a 'yes kinda' look. "How'd you do the landing thing?"

"Use magic to create the illusion of wind, and a shell only at their hand. So long as you make sure there aren't too many hand reaching for it you'll manage." You answered as best you could. Lucia asked from more detail as she conjured her dragon and tried the tiny barrier and wind tricks.

A few students hung around thinking there would be another performance but they caught on quick that it wasn't. Teaching Lucia further you noticed someone approaching of the hornier persuasion. "Hey Lucia." Auria said brightly. "Cool show." She planted her lips on Lucia's neck and her dragon disappeared. "Hey Christopher."

"Hey Auria." You said looking around for her sister and not finding her. "Where's your sister?" You don't feel like being ambushed with religion right now.

"With Cynthia, someone asked about the church so I snuck away." Auria answer, her arm was around Lucia's side and you had the impression on where her hand was placed from Lucia's goofy smile. "Wanna go back to your room?" She asked Lucia, then looked at you. "If you're done."

"Yeah we're done. Have fun." You said waving goodbye. Lucia and Auria hurried away, as they went you looked and saw your impression was correct. Auria's hand was under Lucia pants and deeper than just groping her ass. Well there is a very healthy relationship if you've ever seen one.

You looked around the other students but didn't see a face you knew. You could try and mingle, getting to know some other purely platonic people would be a nice change. You look around the faces of all the women, a few of whom had face locked with some of the guys present. Strangely you feel like purely platonic might be more a question or an if than a certainty.