A night time catch up with Clare

Your eye open to the not a world of your and Clare's dream chats. You are in the same room you went to sleep in but instead of being curled up with Asune it is Clare ass you are pressing against. "Hey." You say holding her against you.

"Hey." She responds sighing contentedly then rolling over to face you. "How are you?"

"Fine why?" You ask trying to give a curious tilt to your head.

"You just told four women you care for a lot of truth in one night. How are you doing?"

"Oh fine why?" You feel like she is getting at something.

"Just fine?"

"Well I feel better about things, coming clean with them was something we should have done so it's not like I'm freaking out now. Beside now that everyone is aware Ana can come up with a way I can get her out of the marriage." You sit up on your non-existent arm to regard her as she keeps giving you the eye. "What?"

"Do you know why Anastasia shouldn't be the Queen?"

"Is this going to be a metaphor?" You ask slowly trying to put the pieces together that don't seem to fit this conversation.

"Why do you think her mother and Blue don't want her to be Queen?"

"She's inexperienced, and hasn't demonstrated an ability to lead even if she can come up with plans."

"Right plans. You don't see it yet do you?" Clare sat up on the bed and crossed her legs, that she was naked made your eyes wonder a bit before you sat up as well.

"See what?" You asked pulling your eyes up from her crotch to her chest.

"She's lazy."

"Huh?" That manages to pull your eyes up to Clare's face. "What does that mean."

"It means she's lazy. When you first met what did she do?"

"Get me to sign a **** contract."

"Correct, if she had offered to sponsor you without the contract what would have changed?" You open your mouth but she shakes her head. "She would have had to earn your trust rather than assume it wasn't needed. The laziest route to her end goal, your loyalty. The next thing she did was throw Edin at you, she spent two years training him to suit you." You nodded. "Wrong, she had Blue train him, Edin trusts her because he assumed his loyalty was ****, you didn't tell him the **** contract was moot. The laziest path. When you arrived did what did she do to support her claim you were a Duke's son?" You were silent as you started to pick up where this was going.

"She spread the rumour and set up."

"No, she had other people do that for her. How did she get introduced to Vatarie and earn her loyalty? You did that, you brought Vatarie into all of this Ana followed along with your actions. Same with Asune. What is her plan for you to seduce her twin, or is her plan to throw you at the problem and have you sort out the plan on your own. Have any of her plans relied on her actions rather than the actions of others done at her vague order. Was she the one who wanted you to wear a toga or was the Black and White and she ran with it?"

"Ok I get it." You say still not entirely on board with this. "She is a royal, telling people to doing things and them doing it is kinda the point."

"And that's where you are wrong. You've seen Aurora's plan talked about then set in motion, who did she rely on? Lady Demise? No Aurora was the one who sent for the **** contracts collection. Setting up your and Mary's connection, no she did all of that on her own expect for bringing you to her. Ruining Ana's plans at her betrothal, nope her on her own again. Royalty does send out order and people act but true royals do not chose the plan of laziness."

"Well," you stop and think about things. "Ok fine but."

"Who came up with the plan to gather the other champions?"

"Huh. ah you."

"Nope that was you. I told you the situation and you came up with the plan. Who was the driver of all of your relationships?"

"See now this is different I've just been inducted into relationship I haven't driven them."

"True, who set up the dates with Asune and Vatarie."

"Me but -"

"Who went to the Church with Auria and Oriana and figured out how to successfully perform a ritual, my sister's involvement or not."

"Again me but they -"

"Why did Vatarie want to keep spending time with you rather than just using you as a momentary toy?"

"Ah," you thought about it closely. That was more to do with the power she was attracted to given to you by the Godesses. Although, thinking about it there was a moment, "I guess when I shared our auras with her and her friends in the baths?"

"And what attracted Asune to you?" You didn't answer, you figured out this was more a lecture than a conversation at this point, it had taken you a while but you got there. "Correct your actions with Cynthia that she miss understood, and why did the relationship keep growing? Nailed it again because you allowed it to, was she pushy, yes, was she controlling yes, is she now a puppy in your hands because you figured out what she wanted?"

You remember the night in question and open your mouth. "That night was mostly your work."

"Was it? Think about, think about what happened and how it happened, was I doing all the work or was I just point the way and let you take over? Why is Edin still with and Blue is so threatened by you? Because you are the one driving that relationship, you set the boundaries, you set the terms. He had a saviour complex reinforced by Blue, is that still true or are the two of feeling actual emotions for each other rather than pseudo-emotions based on remembered saving and getting your dick is his cute little ass."

You mull some things over in your head. "Ok why are you telling me all this?"

"Because things are changing. Now they know about us and with Delilah here the group dynamics will change. Vatarie's a warrior who was only competing with Asune, someone she has a reasonable chance of beating in a fight. Now she has no chance, she will be **** into a role she won't be happy in because she doesn't know how to handle Delilah. That fight they have planned this weekend is the only chance she has to establish control. Delilah is being subservient for now but soon or later Eve will get her over that ingrained deference for nobility and then what?"

"So what do I do?" You ask getting a raise eyebrow in return. "Vatarie's world is going to be flipped when we start bring the other possible champions here even more than it is with Delilah. The only way I could make her feel secure in her place in your relationship would be..." you trail off as the obvious thing pops into your mind. "Do I have to get married if I want to keep every happy?"

"Oh, ah sure," she looked surprised, "yeah that would work, I was going with knocking her up. Satisfying her fetish would mean she doesn't have to be top bitch she can be the breeding bitch but yeah marriage would work."

"Oh right, ah," things felt awkward all of a sudden and you remember the night, "Ah speaking of pregnancy are you...?" you don't finish the sentence figuring that would be enough.

"Nope. When you made me you gave me a cock but no balls. I can cum and it can look and taste like cum but totally sterile dick, magic can ignore anatomy only to a certain degree. My male internals is basically a magically ball at the base of my cock that makes fake cum. But my female parts work perfectly so knock me up whenever."

"Right I'll ah keep that in mind. Back to everything else."

"Right, so I know you've not been feeling like you've been picking your own destiny but you really have, pretty much everything has been at your drive. Well except for Edin seducing you but you are the one got into it very quickly so I'll put that down to a tie. People have been and will keep being drawn to you but so far you've be the one driving the relationships even if you've acted like you've been dragged along with things, literally in the case of Vatarie for that matter."

"So what I need to change how I think about things? Is that what this talk is about?" You ask waving around the not a room.

"Fuck no, you're wonderful as you are, everyone's fallen for you because of who you are, just don't think you have been beholden to the whims of everyone and anyone all the time, without you nothing would have happened. Now lay back down, I miss out snuggles."

"You just want to try and feel my cock between your cheeks." You say back getting a wry smile in response. You smile back and cuddle in the not a place feeling the warmth of her body. "Oh hey." She hopped up and spun around staring at your cock intently.

"What?" You asked looking down.

"Shhhh." She waved her hands at you then blew on your not a cock.

"Hey I felt that." You said as the gentle breeze hit you.

"So close, ok next time you should believe this place isn't not a place for long enough to feel some dream sex."

"We aren't a day's flight from each other anymore we could just have real sex."

She gave you a flat stare. "Party pooper." Sher said then turn over in a huff and pouted. You shook you head and cuddled against her back, letting yourself fall asleep to wake up.