Go visit Lisa

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Part of Cassandra wanted to continue to her original destination and visit Margaret at the Academy. Another small part wanted to visit Evelyn's home and... look for Evelyn? Speak to Evelyn's mother? Something else? She wasn't sure. And a third part of her wanted to visit Lisa's place. After about a minute of hesitation the latter part won and Cassandra changed course towards “Traveler's Rest”.

As she walked the young woman got an idea. Hmm, I haven't practiced my skill to... 'borrow' things without their owners noticing. Now seems a good time to change that and start practicing... I just need to find a suitable target. There were plenty of different people on the street at this time of the day and Cassandra started discreetly looking at the ones she passed as she walked. Surely there would be at least a few suitable targets...

Random Encounter roll (1d100): 55

Unfortunately, finding a good target proved to be not as easy as she had hoped. While she saw many different people of various races most were keeping a hand on their money pouches. The rest were either accompanied by guards, or looked like spellcasters that would have magical defenses, or appeared to be people that would not have anything worth 'borrowing'.

Finally, just as she was about to give up, Cassandra saw a couple that was acting all lovey-dovey and not paying any attention to their surroundings. The guy's money pouch was right there on his belt, unprotected. It would be easy to 'borrow' it and take a peak inside... But almost as soon as she decided to go for it Cassandra changed her mind, as a group of armored guards crossed her path.

There were seven of them in total, all armored. Six were holding spears, with small shields attached to their left elbows and longswords on their belts. The seventh one, walking in front of the rest, had just a longsword on his belt and appeared to be the group's leader. A fairy was flying above the guards while in the middle of the group of six was a black-haired man that was saying something.

As Cassandra got closer to the group she could hear and understand the man's words. He was saying – probably not for the first time – that he had known all along that the girl was in fact a fairy, and that's why he had asked her for sex. But he was really not interested in children, no, sir, no way, no, absolutely not! The guards' bored expressions made it clear that he was not the first guy to try the 'I knew all along she was a fairy, I swear!' excuse.

For centuries the guards have been using certain child-sized fairies as bait for pedophiles, and some STILL fall for it! People's stupidity never seizes to amaze me... Cassandra shook her head and waited for the guards to pass. Once they were gone she looked for the couple from earlier, but the two lovers were nowhere to be seen. Oh, well. Maybe I'll get a chance to practice later...

The rest of the trip was uneventful, and none of the people she saw on the way seemed like a good target for practicing her 'borrowing' skill.

The “Traveler's Rest” was a three-story stone building built a few centuries ago by a minor noble. When the descendants of said noble had needed money they had sold it to another noble, and some decades later he had sold it to Lisa's grandfather. So far Lisa's family was doing a great job running the place. The fact that it was built on the side of one of the main roads passing through Syrada likely helped with that.

Much to Cassandra's surprise the inside was almost empty. The only people present were three waitresses, a woman that Cassandra recognized as one of the cooks, and two of the bouncers that made sure arguments did not get out of hand. All six were sitting around a table, eating and chatting. It's pretty rare for this place to be so empty...

One of the waitresses noticed the new arrival, and recognized her as one of the friends of the owner's daughter. “If you're looking for Lisa, she's on the second floor. Or maybe she's already moved to the third floor, I don't know.” The young woman informed her.

“Thanks, I'll find her.” Cassandra nodded her thanks and climbed up the stone stairs. The next floor was empty, not a soul in sight, and all the doors to the rooms there closed. The sound of footsteps above her helped her figure out where to go next. She climbed up to the last floor and saw a familiar girl about to enter one of the rooms. “Lisa!” She called and the girl turned to face her.

“Oh, hi, Cass! Did you come to see me?”

“Yep, that's precisely why I'm here! I hope you're not busy?”

“Well, I need to prepare the rooms for the next guests, but I can do that while talking to you.” Lisa entered the room, followed closely by Cassandra, and both took in what greeted them.

“This is what I don't like about this guy. He always leaves the room a huge mess!” Lisa whined and started picking up various fallen items.

“Does he practice wind magic in his room, or something like that?” Cassandra wondered aloud.

“I wish he did! I bet the room would be less of a mess afterwards!” Lisa sighed. “Anyway, let me tell you what happened last night.”

“Oh? Did something fun happen?” The young noblewoman asked as she checked out her friend. Lisa had cut her light brown hair to shoulder length. Apparently she had also cut the skirt of the dress she was wearing – normally the skirt reached to the middle of her thigh, but right now it was barely enough to hide her butt.

“You could say that... One of the visitors was a wizard I haven't seen before. After he got a little drunk he decided that mom's breasts are too small and made them bigger with some sort of spell.” Too small? Lena is a D-cup! Cassandra thought, but said nothing and just listened to the rest of the story. “And when I say he made them bigger, I mean 'MUCH BIGGER'. When he was done mom's breasts were nearly three times as big as her head! Mom almost fell down from the added weight, but managed to grab one of the tables.”

“Ouch! My back hurts just imagining what it would be like to have tits this big!” Cassandra cringed as imagined it.

“Yeah. Well, I guess even he recognized that he overdid it, because he promptly made them smaller... somewhat. Even with the decrease in size mom's boobs were still bigger than her head – too big for any of her dresses, so she had to spend the rest of the night with her tits exposed. Though it helped her get some extra tips, and he did promise that the spell will wear off in a few hours.”

“I see... Was it just your mother that wizard cast the spell on?”

“Thankfully yes.” While talking Lisa had finished gathering all the things that had fallen on the carpet, making the room appear somewhat less of a mess. She turned to face her friend, in the process revealing that at least the front of her dress had not been modified – the dress' cleavage still revealed only a third of Lisa's ample bosom. “I think I'll take a short break before I tackle the rest of this mess... Say, is that a new dress? I don't think I've seen it before...”

“It's... not really new, but it's the first time I'm wearing it.” Cassandra admitted.

“Come here, let me take a closer look.” Lisa grabbed Cass' hand and pulled her in front of the large mirror that was on one of the room's walls. She then started circling her. “Mmm, very nice. I bet as you were walking to here everyone was ogling you.”

“Not really, unless they were doing it discreetly enough for me to not notice.”

“Really? Well, it's their loss.” Lisa shrugged as she stood next to Cass, on her right. “If it was me I would definitely ogle you as much as I could.” As she said that Lisa reached with her left hand and grabbed Cassandra's ass-

“AHEM!”

-then sharply pulled her hand away and turned to face the new arrival, immediately followed by Cassandra, who was just a little slower than her friend.

Lisa's (attempted) groping had been interrupted by none other than her mother. Lena was wearing a dark brown dress similar to Lisa's but with the cleavage revealing nearly half of her breasts and the skirt reaching almost to the ground. Her breasts were bigger than the last time Cassandra had seen her, but nowhere near the size Lisa had described.

“Hi, mom! Nice to see your breasts are back to normal!” Lisa greeted, visibly blushing.

“Hello.” Cassandra greeted the older woman.

“Hi, Cass, nice to see you.” Lena greeted her, then turned her gaze to her daughter. “They are not quite back to normal, and I don't know if they ever will go back to their old size, but that's not important right now. You were supposed to prepare the rooms for any guests that might arrive, were you not, dear?” Lena questioned her daughter.

“I know, I'm working on it.”

“Oh, really.” Lena took a deliberately slow look at the mess in the room. “You sure fooled me.”

“I was just taking a short break!” Lisa protested and blushed.

“Didn't seem that way to me, but if you say so I'll trust you and leave you to it... I'll just take Cassandra with me, to make sure you won't get... distracted by her presence. Besides, I need to ask her something anyway. I trust you have no objections, dear?” Lena raised an eyebrow at her daughter.

“Fiiiiiine! I'll get back to working!” Lisa said and pouted cutely before sighing. “Well, I guess I'll see you later, Cass.”

“Yeah, later, Lisa.” Cassandra agreed and followed Lena out, curious what the older woman might need from her.

As they were walking down the stars Lena started talking quietly. “Sorry about that, Cass.” She apologized. “Recently sex seems to be all Lisa thinks about. I wouldn't mind if she acted on her desires in her free time, but she does it when she's supposed to be working, too, as you just saw.”

“It's alright.” Cassandra assured her. “So you want to ask me something?”

“Yes, about a certain ruby. You'll see shortly.” Lena told her but did not give any details. I guess I should be patient... Cassandra told herself.

Lena led the younger woman down to the first floor, then to the bedroom used by Lena and her husband. To Cassandra's surprise there was a large purple dildo on the bed, still glistening wet with a woman's juices. In addition there was a strong smell of pussy in the room. It wasn't hard to figure out what had happened there earlier.

“Should have put that away earlier...” Lena told herself, her face red in embarrassment. “Um... did Lisa tell you what happened last night?”

“About the wizard that made your breasts much bigger?”

“Yes, that. Earlier this morning my breasts started shrinking. At that time I suddenly felt incredibly horny, likely a side effect of the spell. Unfortunately it was after my husband went out and he won't be back until lunch time, so... I had to take care of my arousal somehow...”

“It's alright, I understand.” Cassandra assured the older woman while trying not to let her imagination run wild.

“Anyway, that's not why I brought you here. Give me a moment to see where I put it...” Lena started looking through her jewelry box, searching for the ruby while the younger girl waited patiently. “Found it!” Lena exclaimed shortly after and moved back to Cassandra, showing her a small ruby. “It's about this ruby. A visitor... gave it to me a few nights ago.” Cassandra noticed how Lena paused and blushed before saying the word 'gave'. "Take a careful look.”

Cassandra did just that. At first glance it was just a regular ruby, but after looking closer she noticed some sort of small rune inside it. “Interesting. I haven't seen a ruby like it before.” She admitted.

“Me either. I was going to find a mage and ask about it, but when I saw you I decided to ask you first. I figured that since you're a noblewoman you have likely seen a lot more gems than me. And one of your sisters is a mage, right? You could ask her about it... Of course, I realize that you might have other plans and no interest in some possibly insignificant gem, so I will understand if you would rather not waste your time with this sort of thing just to satisfy my curiosity...” Lena said, but then gave the younger girl a rather hopeful – and somewhat pleading – look.

Vote: What should Cassandra say and/or do now?

X. Minor Action

Result: Take the ruby back to Margaret (her mage sister) to take a look at it. (4 votes)

[Another open vote with no listed choices. Of course, you can suggest Minor Actions in addition to whatever you vote for.

This chapter turned out much longer than I expected, so I chose not to describe in detail the inside of the inn.

Please point out any typos you notice – there were plenty when writing, and I'm not sure I fixed them all.

I have added Lena to the list of NPCs, right below Lisa.]

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