I accepted...
Spending the rest of the day with her until she decided to call it and left the guards to continue their duty while she and and 2 other guards followed me. She offered me food and a room and even allowed me to to use the public bath to the inn which had been reserved for her troops, luckily it was only me and her. Though it was still a little weird.
She talks... and laughs a lot.
Genuinely the friendly type, only serious in a fight.
Its hard imagining that this was the same person that hurt master.
"So now that its only us," she stated with a coy smile, I could sense a question coming. "Why did you attack me?"
We were in the part of the bath which led outside, it was a naturally formed hot springs which was usually reserved for the more wealthy people.
A tall wooden fence surrounded the area, it also had many small trees planted around the large body of water to give it an authentic secluded feel complete with many tall boulders, if I had been blindfolded and brought here I would probably thing I was in the mountains except for the light source which shone from the bottom of the naturally formed pool.
Her hair had been tied in such a way that it wouldn't get wet. I on the other hand had no qualms with mine being wet.
I had accepted her offer mostly because like this I could find out more about master 's location so I thought I should probably play along, the more she warms up to me the more info I can extract.
"I've had a tough time the dragon-born always treating me like garbage." I murmured.
She waded closer until we were really close I had my hands covering my nipples at this point.
"You know, its often like that here. They don't treat you with respect if you're a human and worse if you're female." her eyes were really pretty but I couldn't help but notice they had a tint of sadness in them "Don't you ever miss home?"
She reached forward and took my hands in hers, ugh why did she have to come so close?
I nodded before she added, "My story is kind of weird but I ended up here and now with all of this but most of the time I'm overwhelmed to be honest, its just so different from what I'm used to."
"really?" I asked "You seem like you're a natural to me."
She shook her head, if I don't treat them like that they don't listen to my orders when i need them to, remember they're quite harsh when it comes to women."
She interlocked our fingers and leaned into me, "What are you doing?" I breathed.
"Don't resist," she ordered firmly "as my number two I need to know I can trust you and you me."
she didn't have much in the way of cleavage. However she cut a nice figure and to say I wasn't attracted to her would be nothing more than a lie. I wasn't planning on being in a relationship though but I had to play along, either way I wouldn't make it easy for her.
"Lily, Did you know, all past vehatra were female? And do you know why?" She whispered, she'd released my hands but hers were now wondering, making their way into areas too sensitive to allow me to think straight.
"No..." I gasped "I don't."
She smiled a little obviously thinking she'd achieved her goal manipulating me.
Her lips were incredibly close now, the smell of her shampoo a scent I've never smelled before, but it was nice.
"Well for starters, the women who are brought here all have a special constitution where they're more sensitive to certain things for example, touch." She pressed her finger into me.
It felt a thousand times more sensual than anything I'd ever done before. It felt like her fingers radiated electricity
Which pulsates through my core pressing through my whole body.
It felt good.
Way too good.
If I wasn't focused I probably would've started drooling even loosing myself to her... magic fingers.
I tried pushing her away and again she whispered in my ear not to resist.
I was only a second away from accepting her advances when I remembered why I was in this situation to begin with and managed to steel my resolve.
"Do you do this to all your new recruits?" I asked in an attempt to get her disinterested, an attempt that failed seeming only to make her more passionate.
Again, she pressed her finger into me and again what came afterwards made me weak as pulses raced through my body all the way to my toes forcing me to moan loudly.
"You rogue," I stated angrily a comment to which she giggled before placing a kiss in my neck and then another.
The feeling continued to pulsate through me.
"Wuuu hmmnnn," I breathed trying to keep my composure, "What is that?"
She smiled proudly "that was a hou or better yet, refined world energy, do you like it?"
I breathed out my breath jagged and my barely being able to cope. "That's cheating isn't it?"
"Oh so you're familiar with it?" She asked before biting my lower lip softly then kissing me again.
"More than that, I was once a cultivator and a very powerful one at that." I responded desperate to keep the conversation going as to not give her enough time time to use her fingers.
"Claiming to be a cultivator, aren't you afraid that the heavens will open up and strike you?" She teased with a giggle.
"If you don't believe me then that's fine too." I replied "besides, my cultivation was destroyed so I have no way to prove you wrong."
"Oh it's not that I don't believe you, it's just your strength when we fought earlier was far greater than any human I've fought which means you practiced some form of body tempering art but those marks on your hand have a hint of ki intent, meaning you've also studied artifact forging or at least source intent." She wore a more serious expression now. "with all that I'd be lying if I said I didn't suspect you of being an important figure of some great force and now that you claim to have cultivated world energy, a feat so difficult that not even past vehatra with the blessings of the monarchs have been able to do it ."
"Eh?" This surprised me, "you're leaving?" I asked in surprise as she turned away moving towards the changing rooms.
Did she just?...
She stopped turning and casting me a sly smile and a little goodbye wave.
How dare she do this? Even with my situation being as it is, using me like this was unforgivable.
I exhaled loudly trying to vent my frustration before completely submerging myself to hide my embarrassment.
*****
Later as I lay in bed thinking about what had happened it was clear that she had a hidden motive, what it was was not entirely clear to me but still I couldn't help but wonder what it was.
Using such a method, no I was the only one who looked at it like that . she mentioned that not many people would have the skills I have. This was true and usually I'd do a much better job hiding them simply taking the abuse as my way to...atone.
but with this now, what do I do? Surely she hasn't seen through my guise but how long will that last? And when she does find out what path do I take?
My mind wondered to the time I spent under master's care, At that time I was so filled with negative emotions while cultivating and that lead me to do things I never would have otherwise.
The images of the people I'd killed flashed before my mind every time I tried to sleep, to close my eyes.
I sat up deciding to go to the balcony to get some fresh air before attempting to sleep again. I had the room to myself which was much better accommodations than I've had staying in any town weather I had the ember pieces or not.
Regardless of this though miss Aurelia was kind enough to post guards by the door and under the balcony on the ground floor incase I tried to leave.
I had no intention of leaving so soon though if I wanted to leave one or two of these guards couldn't stop me.
Clad in a night clothes commander Aurelia herself had prepared for me as I stood on the balcony looking out at the now silent city and the picturesque view the room had to offer i went back into thought.
Whatever her goal was I couldn't forget mine, whether she was vehatra or not I had to find the location of master from her even thought its been so long.
I knew I needed t make it right at least with master before I could find a quite place to live.
I had also thought about just finding my way back to my world, but my many attempts always left me more tired and without hope than I cared to accept.
You may even be wondering 'why does it seem like you've accepted your life here?'
Well what would you do if the memory of everyone you've ever loved in the only place you knew was suddenly taken from you?
Do you think you could go back?
Even if I did somehow manage to make if back somehow, without memories would it still be a place I could call home?
I sighed.
Regardless of what had happened I could tell, my life was about to be more hectic from now on.
If only I knew that this was only the beginning of something much bigger than me, maybe then I would've tried to escape.