A day with a goal in mind

Waking up you find Asune gone and Vatarie laying mostly on top of you, her head on your shoulder snoring lightly. You nudge her and she stirs, stretching against you and moving to plant a kiss on you. "Morning Harea." She said going on to kiss your neck.

"Morning Harea." You say back, your hand is trapped underneath her but within groping range is her butt. Giving her a quick goose she growls and you feel teeth on your neck.

"Early for breeding." She mumbled against your skin, a hand wraps around your morning wood and strokes you gently. "Wouldn't be opposed." She kissed your ear and whispered. "Just touching you makes me wet." She shimmies her butt until your fingers can reach between her legs. The sudden heat and slickness against your finger tips proves her words.

"If you are going to fuck now, I will meet you at the training arena." Asune said flatly from the side of the room. Both of you stopped canoodling for a moment to look over and see her almost finished dressing. "If you wait until after our morning exercise, I can join in."

Vatarie sighed against you. You could still feel how wet she was but the excitement seemed to left her. You guess she isn't used to Asune waking up early to watch you sleep, you remember it being rather off putting the first few times. "We'll join you." Vatarie got out of bed and started getting dressed. You took a second to admire her naked body before doing the same.

the three of you go to exercise, those two spend a wile sparing while you keep trying to figure out your magical flow. Ana and Nika arrive a bit later and watch the dueling for a moment before Nika walks over to you. "Have you tried move the magic through a different part of your hand?"

"What?" You asked looking up at her.

"If you cut your palm, move the magic through the back of your hand then through it to the cut, not all the way through your hand from your wrist." She said holding up her hand and demonstrating. She cut her palm and showed your the back of her hand, a line of magic ran up then through her hand she showed her palm and you saw the magic on the cut but not anywhere else.

You look at your palm. "Thanks for the tip." You cut yourself again and try to focus on just a single thread of magic. It starts to work, you can feel and see the thread working up the back of your hand. But when you send it through to the cut your magic, upon finding the wound floods your hand to heal the cut. "It's something to build on." You said giving her a smile.

She rolled her eyes. "I am supposed to help you aren't I?" She walked back to watch the duel. You'd actually forgotten that was why she was here, Stephanie had punished her with trying to help you, you were supposed to use the opportunity to redirect her from fighting to leading. You don't know how successful you've been but she is talking to you without overt antagonism, that seems like good progress.

You go back to work until it is time for a bath and breakfast. In the bath Nika doesn't scoff when Vatarie mounts you, nor does she look away when Asune sits on your face while Ana sits to the side fingering herself.

When you all leave the bath it is a group, again a change from the normal. You even manage to sit together for breakfast, until everyone else arrives and she leaves, not that you can blame her. Oriana's continuing silence when it comes to religion had been a relief, now it feels like she is trying to build up to something. Religious fervor you can handle, something she feels the need to build up courage to say is worrying. Today does not seem to be that day.

Your morning gender focused morning class is as frustrating as ever. At the end of it Adam joins you to make some quips, Edin seems a bit offended that he didn't like the idea of learning how to cook for his partner. If he was thinking about you or Blue when he defended the class you weren't sure. When he joked that they should be teaching how to practice oral sex and Adam looked somewhat horrified you knew he was referring to you. Adam departs to go and meet with his friends while you and Edin do the same.

The next class holds a lot more interest to you. Magical theory with an elf in her previous short-stack form. She paces back and forth at the front of the classroom, her tits and ass bouncing is a distinctly non-woody manner. She spends the class going over the previous understandings of magic, saying the name of a spell, creating magic circles to help focus. This time she adds some more context, how certain methods were developed and their usefulness.

She also went into why magic circles were eventually outdated. If a magic circle works, why? Is it because that specific form concentrates magic or is it because the person drawing the circle believes it does? Easy way to test, make new forms see if they work, then give those forms to people who'd never learned of the original ones and see if they work.

The lesson drew to an end by her explaining the more practical reasons that verbal spells died out. Covering your mouth in combat to avoid an enemy reading your lips to see what you were casting was really annoying.

As everyone started leaving the classroom you made a quick beeline to the student the elf keeps holding back. If anyone could remember the elfs name, surely it was the woman she talked to more than anyone else.

"Excuse me. I'm Christopher, I was hoping to ask you if you know her name." You were in the class room so the elf was clearly aware you were asking.

The woman looked at you then at her table. "Hello, I'm Bou - Bella." She cut herself off and coughed. "Bella, and what?" Around you students were leaving making you have to step out of the walkway and closer to her to avoid being run over.

"The elf, I wanted to know if you knew her name?" You asked again. Ana, Vatarie and Asune looked at you, all standing in the doorway expectantly.

"Oh, yes I do." Bella said then blushed and coughed again.

"Can you tell me?" You feel like that was implied in your question but whatever.

"No." She said, closing her book and standing up quickly. You heard a moan from her lips and her seat looked damp for a moment.

"Oh, alright, have a good day." You answer, you'll have to find someone else. The elf said she was a gift to the royals centuries ago, you figure there must be a record of it, cataloging who gave what to whom seems like the sort of thing a royal family would keep track of. Maybe when she was given a name was recorded. So either palace or Royal Library, you'd bet the library, a record that old probably wouldn't need to be easily at hand.

"That's it?" Bella asked.

"Huh, oh right, sorry for disturbing you." You said getting out of her way to leave. She didn't, just chewed her lip for a moment.

There is the sound of throat clearing from Bella's desk. "Ladies why don't you leave for lunch, I need to speak with Lord Christopher in private." The elf said. Ana, Vatarie, Asune and Edin looked a bit disappointed but all left. Bella took a step around you but was stopped by a branch growing out of a desk. "Not you Bounce." Bella face went crimson.

"Bounce?" You asked.

The elf, in her short-stack form that was still at the front of the class, smirked but didn't answer your query. "I take it you can't meet the first condition yet." You shook you head. "That's a shame. But maybe you'd like some help." She walked over and stood just before you. "Tell you what, you let me add one more condition and Bounce here can tell you what you want to know."

"What's the condition?" You ask, you don't need the help, at least not yet. You're pretty confident you'll have success in the records or with Aurora so it's not like you'll have to agree to whatever she asks.

"Tell me what Phile looked like." She smiled polity up at you.

"What?" Phile was the woman who'd befriend, betrayed then tortured Eve that you'd seen in Eve's mind. Not a surprise how the elf knew about it, you'd spoken about the event in your room. You really should find a place the elf can't eavesdrop on.

"Just tell me what she looked like, that's all. I can even make a model to help you." A blank bust forms on the desk expectantly. "As a sweetener I'll even let you know how Bounce got her name." Bella coughed in shock and looked at you, then the short-stack looking up at you. "It's worth it, trust me. And she wants you to know, don't you?" Bella looked at the ground and fidgeted for a moment as her head made a tiny nod.

"Why do you want to know what Phile looked like?" You asked. Considering the women is dead by a few millennia her appearance doesn't seem all that relevant.

"Idle curiosity." The elf said. "So taking the deal or not?" Bella let out a squeak and you say her skirt flip up exposing her underwear.