Ele was worried about her state food reason, it seemed. The fight was a vicious one, one she was gd that Eternia had apparently prevehe rest of the camp from seeing. Kiko felt less of a person and more like a beast during the fight, and Ele kind of mirrored her. A little more coherent, but a woman who was enjoying herself far too much to really pay attention to what she was doing. Though for Ele, it seemed to be a temporary thing, as Kiko was eventually bodied by Eternia when whatever ushing her ran out of charge.

  The few days were painful. Not only did Eternia decide to take Kiko’s grounding as a reason to double her lessons, and didn’t bawk Kiko’s attempts to run away from them as before. Still, that did help with her gettier with proje and sustaining creations. She was no longer in the ‘going to kill yourself by existing’ area anymore, which was always goardless of situation.

  The other thing that she was getting tutored on, was the Tao. And that, was a heavy subject.

  “Why sex?” Kiko asked, dangling upside down and doing pull ups. That was a good thing about being uernia, you didn’t skip workout.

  “I don’t know, particurly. I bEleeve it has something to do with the intimate joining of bodies as that happens during sexual retions. An idea reinforced with the variable application sexual transfer” Eternia was sat, watg while sipping a cup of tea in a fine a cup.

  “Ehh? You got that in my nguage?” Kiko asked, stopping the pull-ups for a moment to stare.

  “Sorry. The better the sex, the more you get out of it. Lying there like a pnk aing someone grunt and gyrate above you will not help you much. But if you and your partner have a loving exge of passion that rides for hours before finally reag a crest that renders you insensible…that does a lot more for you”

  The creative description had Kiko blushing and just fog on the pull-ups till she did her set, and then dropping off from the bar and half-flipping to nd on her feet.

  “So…me, and, Ele…” Kiko ented, scratg her head.

  “Will do little. As much as she is fident, and as much as you are being a dumbass aing your Yang burn away inhibitions, her of you have any actual experien that area, and will be awkward, grabby, and probably won’t get anywhere with it” Eternia voiced her disagreement in such a firm but still polite to make Kiko feel cowed and awkward.

  “...Hmm. So someorustworthy, that also won’t feel any obligation around or after the fact. That sounds hard to find” Kiko excimed, shaking her head and using an Hydros spell to take away the sweat and flick it outside. She was still no good at Soul-Speech, but it sounded awesome, so she took every opportunity to try it out. And then, like a light-bulb clig on in her brain, she remembered something.

  “Ohh! What’s Bloodsoaked Orchestra? Mum sa-” Kiko asked, her chipper tone immediately getting smashed by Eternia’s cold reply.

  “Not for you”

  With that said in such a final manner, Kiko couldn’t argue, and so didn’t. Just accepted it and nodded. It seemed a secret she actally stumbled into by being nearly killed by it. Aernia’s voice was not a ‘hey, maybe press me for some secrets’ kind of voice. So, cupping her hands, she would exhale and spiral air within it. It was a good way to exercise her spiritual muscles without having to have too much of an impa the surrounding areas. First, one plumb of air, and then a sed one, spinning them in ter to each other, quid quicker.

  Then her tration was destroyed when Yeered to the tent. Arms crossed under her breasts and with a stern motherly look, she gred at Kiko for a few moments.

  “You are still grounded” she stated.

  “....Ok?” Kiko asked, fused at the excmation.

  “Good. Now get dressed and follow me” Yeni replied, turning and leaving the tent, leaving Kiko to get her robes ba, and g Eternia. A shrug from the other woman was all she got, so she left the tent and followed Yeni into the town again. It was much more lively this time, with SIR Foot Squads outside the Warehouse and the st of Kitsunes she had never smelled in the air. Seemed the cultists had kicked the hor’s with their presence.

  The hole had been expanded as well, made into a full tunnel system that allowed easy access into the whole honeyb byrinth that the cultists were using. Kiko stayed silent because she was amazed at the whole thing, and so just followed, to a room where a woman in a rge ice crystal was floating.

  “So, we’ve spent the st few days trying to get her out of that. It’s an emergency capsule spell that protected her from the people trying to hurt her. But, because she is pretty young as her race goes, and this was such a sudden thing for her, she ’t undo it. We eventually decided to make use of some more extraordinary assets under our and to try help her”

  Yeni’s expnation was a good ohough Kiko was lost, admiring the beauty of the woman inside. She was..otherworldly. Taller than most, with a lithe beauty and slightly elongated proportions. It suited her size, but was still pretty amazing to see.

  “H-” Kiko started, before being cut off suddenly.

  ‘Thank you’ a voice came in her head. Gentle, like ringing bells carried by the wind. ‘Your mind is quite beautiful yourself’ it spoke. Kiko’s eyes bulged and she jolted backwards, smming against the wall.

  “She read my mind?!” Kiko excimed, lightning crag at her fingers in an attempt to protect her from the thing that had just shocked her.

  “It’s ok” Yeni spoke, at the same time as the gentle voice spoke.

  ‘I am sorry! I, I was told everyone ing into this room was told about that. I didn’t mean to pry!’ he spoke, a stuttered haste in its shod dismay at hurting Kiko’s emotions.

  “I fot to mention that part. Sorry” Yeni ented awkwardly, exhaling. “But yes. She speaks by pnting words into your mind. The crystal disrupts normal telepathy so she o use Fae Ara to unicate. She’s not reading your mind on purpose, it’s just that your surface thoughts are as real to her as the wall you are currently pressed up against” Yeni expined, helping Kiko’s hackles drop, and being repced with curiosity and i.

  “She’s a Fae?” Kiko asked. It was quite amazing that Ele, who had made a deal with a Fae, was so close to another.

  “Yes. In fact, that’s what drove Ele to be so persistent iing down here. She felt the Fae, and though didn’t know it in her heart, wao be close to her. It’s a thing, Fae are addictive” Yeni would then turn to the crystal, and shake her head. “We don’t want to hit the crystal with anything too powerful that might hurt her, but the lighter stuff is just boung off. We hoped you could help”

  Kiko would, taking some breaths, detach from the wall and walk up to the crystal. Putting her hand on it, there was a chill,but no radiation of temperature even this close.

  ‘Here, let me help you out here’ Va spoke, filling Kiko with a deep, heavy energy. It was like being charged with static, her whole body lit up and wao move aive. Sending this energy into the ice crystal, it would quickly melt, freeing the girl to colpse onto Kiko, who repared to catch her.

  “Thank you” the Fae spoke. Her mental voice was exactly the same as her physical one, which was both amazing and made Kiko envious. Getting her footing and standing up, she would look down. Her eyes were the freakiest part of this whole thing, like they were just all Iris and no pupil or Sclera. A gentle blue, not deep but not light, shined from them.

  “You are young. What are you doing here?” Yeni ented, stepping up to support Kiko, who was subtly slumping downwards as the energy Va had lent her drifted away.

  “...It’s an awkward story. Mother told me not to e here, that I was too young. But I thought ‘I am a Blue Fae now, I handle myself’. And, apparently, ’t handle myself as well as I thought” she spoke, hooking some hair behind a pointed ear.

  She would then lean down, and kiss Kiko gently on the lips. tact sparked for a moment, like a static shock, but it quickly dispersed.

  “e visit me in Agartha some time. I’ll get Grandmother to throw us a party for your help. You even bring your mother if you wish” The Fae would stand, before standing, giving them a nod, and vanishing. ly and instantly, there wasn’t even that popping hat Eternia’s teleportation made as the air rushed to fill the suddenly vat space. She was simply, gone.

  “...Why do I get the feeling I just met a baby Cthulhu?” Kiko asked, stu the whole event.

  “Because you have. Now e on, you are still grounded” Yeni, not oo be dissuaded, got to the crux of the matter and took Kiko back to the camp.