The halls of the magic academy were wide, and well maintained. A few mages, and servants flitted through the arched doorways. After going through a maze of hallways and stairwells. Athelfd stopped at a simple closed door made out of well polished dark wood. She opened the door letting herself inside. The room was a mess. Books with off-white vellum pages stood open on tables. Wooden pques were piled somewhat neatly on the floor by the walls. One table, away from the books, looked like a workbench with a few carving knives. A Sewing needle, a small wooden hammer and other crafting equipment. An older teen around eighteen or nineteen dropped the knife they were holding, and turned around. They wore a dark brown stained apron over their pin white sleeveless tunic. Their dirty blonde hair was short and unkempt. Their hazel eyes stared at the intruders from behind primitive gsses.
“Oh, so they arrived today. I was able to finish carving the talisman. Did you bring dire wolf parts from the docks?” Athelfd’s sibling asked, as they grabbed a finely carved talisman and blew off the sawdust.“Brother, where are your manners? This is why I keep on telling you to submit yourself to some etiquette lessons,” Athelfd said exasperated.“Oh, This is hardly a formal setting, But let me introduce myself. I'm (redacted) the first child of prince Hrothgar, the heir to his Jarldom,” (redacted) said, as they crossed their legs, and made an extravagant bow. They gave their sister a sly smirk after bowing.
Athelfd rolled her eyes and sighed in exasperation. Sapphire stepped forward, and offered her hand. “I’m Sapphire, daughter of the God of Learning, And priestess of the Goddess of Fertility. The woman behind me in the cloak is Nova, my girlfriend, and the padin behind me is my metamour,” Sapphire introduced herself and her companions, “I couldn’t help but notice the gsses on your face. Have you read the writings of the Priestex of the Fertility Goddex?” Sapphire asked intrigued.
“It is really nice to meet you all,” (redacted) beamed. “Their writings are very interesting. I have been collecting their journals and notes, most of them are in old imperial, so I have had to interpret them based off of their illustrations, and a lot of trial and error, but their book comparing and contrasting Imperial and Northern culture should be read by any schor, tutor or academic its very insightful,” (redacted) ranted. “I would love to see those notes. I should be able to decipher them. I have already transted most of the old imperial documents from the temple in the border town near Nochscir. I did find some notes from the Priestex, but as that town is overrun with monsters- Eeek” Sapphire ranted. She was cut off by Nova wrapping her arms around her from behind, and pnting kisses on her cheek.
“Thank you Nova,” Athelfd said, “I’m somewhat pressed for time today. I did not pick up dire wolf parts from the dock, but I have something better. Nova here is a succubus as you know. I think some of her, nail clippings, or horn shavings would suffice,” The princess suggested.“Working with actual demon parts is a tempting offer. Let me draft a consent contract for the succubus to sign. Can we even trust any of the priests from the God of Oaths with this sensitive information?” (redacted) said.“Why do we need a contract?” Nova asked, confused.“All Northern kingdoms are signatories of treaties that guarantee a certain level of rights to humans, beasts and demons. Humans including elves and dwarfs have the most rights followed by beasts then by demons. All those I just listed are protected from parts of their bodies being used as catalysts for magical tools without their written oath of consent that has been verified by a priest of the God of oaths,” Athelfd expined. “I’m getting a headache from all that information,” Nova stated as her head swam with information memories surfaced, and then were repressed. Geneva Conventions? UN? PETA?
Beornia reached over and rubbed Nova’s horns, Sapphire turned around and gave the succubus kisses on her cheeks and forehead. Nova sighed as her stress was relieved. Athelfd nodded to one of her huskarls. The huskarl bowed, and left.“The priest won’t even know that Nova is a succubus,” Athelfd said.“Oh, let me just cast some illusion magic to make you look human. this might feel strange don’t fight it,” (redacted) said.
Nova took off her cloak. (redacted) put their hand on her shoulder. They channeled magic through the talisman. Foreign magic uncomfortably invaded Nova’s body. instinctively she resisted it, but she stopped resisting no matter how uncomfortable it felt. Her horns and tail started itching terribly. Nova tried to scratch at them, but she couldn’t reach them. “Aren’t there other alternatives?” Nova asked. “I’m afraid not, but as I get used to how your body feels it will become more comfortable for you,” (redacted) said.
Soon Athelfd’s huskarl returned with the priest. He was dressed simirly to the priest from Nothscir, and he was totally unremarkable. “Let’s make this quick,” Athelfd said.(redacted) produced three copies of a contract. The contract read something to the effect of, I Nova give (redacted) permission to use my hair or nails as catalysts in magic tools. Nova repeated the oath then burned her thumbprint into each copy as directed. The sibling of the princess burned their thumbprint right next to Nova’s. The priest chanted a spell. Dark chains came out of his hands binding Nova, and (redacted) to the contract. The priest took one of the contracts, leaving quickly without another word.
Nova shattered the illusion. She whipped her tail around and scratched at her horns with her hands. The succubus ran her slime self through her hair picking up the loose hairs. Slime Nova presented the hair to (redacted). They patted the slime before taking the hairs to put them inside a talisman. They chanted something, and charged the talisman with illusion magic. “All you have to do to activate the spell is put the talisman on like so,” (redacted) put the talisman on their own neck. Their look transformed to resemble a beautiful woman, “to deactivate the spell simply take it off,” they took off the talisman, and returned to their normal self, a sad expression briefly marked their face.
Athelfd quickly left with her huskarls in tow. “I guess I will show you three to your room,” (redacted) said.“You don’t just have a servant that can do that?” Boernia questioned. “Why would I have a servant?” (redacted) asked.“Don’t most students here have at least one?” Nova replied.“I’m not like most members of the academy,” (redacted) shut down the conversation.
The walk from (redacted) crafting room was not far. They soon opened a door to a decent sized room. The room had only two beds “The smaller bed is obviously used by the servant. The room is fully prepared for your arrival. If you need anything I will be normally in my workshop. If you can’t find me there I do sleep in the room right across from yours,” (redacted) said. They left, walking toward their workshop.
Nova closed the well oiled darkwood door. As her girlfriends explored the room Nova struck up conversation with them.“What do you think about the princess and her older brother?” Nova asked. “I think the princess sets high expectations for herself, and those around her. I find her to be scary, and she probably has one of her familiar’s in this room right now,” Sapphire scanned the room with her eyes. She focused on every small detail. “Her brother is really great. I can’t wait to get to know him better. I think this tool he made is really neat!” Sapphire said as she grabbed the runic talisman on Nova’s neck to study it closely. “These runes are really small and precise. I don’t understand their function. I couldn’t find any books on runic magic in the temple library,” Sapphire said.
“That talisman is worth a lot. Runic magic is a closely guarded secret of the temple. How he learned to do it is concerning. My guess is his sister may have helped him get his hands on cssified temple documents. Priests are not above bribery,” Beornia said.“Maybe she even got the documents straight from the bishop. She did mention not wanting to make a deal with him,” Nova said. “That is a possibility. That man has surprised me before,” Beornia said with a hard look on her face.
“Hey, we all make mistakes,” Nova said as she removed Beornia’s helmet with her tail, and petted her head with her hands.Seeing Nova’s illusion shatter. Sapphire lifted the talisman off of Nova’s neck, and put it down on the table. “I love you like this. You look so pretty, ancient, and powerful,” Sapphy spoke softly close to Nova’s ear. Nova untied Beornia’s belt and put it gently on the floor with her helmet.“Let's get you out of this armor. We are safe here,” Nova said gently, as she lifted Beornia's mail hauberk up with her tail and hands. I wonder what Beornia’s armor and weapons would taste like. No Nova we can’t feed your slime self such valuable equipment. She would definitely punish me for that. Nova thought with a shiver. Maybe I should tease her to see what she does. A mischievous smile pyed on Nova’s face. Boernia raised an eyebrow at Nova's smile, but said nothing. She lifted up her arms allowing Nova to take off her mail. The padin quickly and efficiently untied her gambeson’s straps. She let it fall with the rest of her armor. Boernia sat on slime Nova to take off her boots. In nothing but her tunic she pulled Nova into her p to hold the succubus.
Sapphire nervously wrung her hands together as if she had something she wanted to say, but couldn’t say it.“Sapphy what’s up?” Nova asked. Sapphire looked from Nova to Beornia nervously. Nova kissed Beornia on the lips.“I will be right back,” Nova said softly to her girlfriend.Nova escorted Sapphire to the other side of the room. She sat down on the bed with her. Beornia awkwardly distracted herself by poking and prodding at slime Nova. Her slime self squirmed under the attention. Will I ever get used to having two bodies. Nova wondered as she tried to keep her succubus body from squirming as well.
“What’s wrong?” Nova asked Sapphire quietly in concern.“I want to show Beornia my true form, but I don’t know how she will react,” Sapphire quietly responded to Nova.“She tried to chain me up when she learned my true form. She did get really aggressive even with Juniper defending me. She probably would have killed me if not for them,” Nova said.“She sounds even more scary now,” Sapphire responded in a shaky voice. “She has changed a lot since then. I will keep her under control,” Nova encouraged, “I would love to see your pretty natural self again. I think you are so adorable,” Nova said with a flirtatious smile.Sapphire gave Nova a weak smile as she blushed a bit.
Nova gave Sapphire a quick encouraging kiss. Then sat her down on her slime self. Nova sat her succubus self betwixt her two pretty girlfriends. She grabbed both of their hands, and rubbed their backs with her tail. “I um have something to tell you-” Nova gave Sapphire’s hand an encouraging squeeze as the wolf-kin trailed off.Beornia nodded and smiled kindly at Sapphire encouraging her to continue.
“I am not half human. My mother was a werewolf, and my father was a dark elf,” Sapphire said.The wolf-kin let her illusion drop after she finished speaking. Beornia looked at Sapphire in shock for a while. She eventually stood up and started pacing the room. Nova pulled Sapphire into a supportive embrace. She petted the wolf-kins head with her tail.
“That all makes sense now. Werewolves will normally leave their wolf-kin children in a vilge. It was so strange that you alone were raised by the pack. Your father’s death may have saved your life. I always wondered about what was the connection between the werewolves and the dark elf that was killed over twenty years ago in a human vilge. He had a tryst and got one of the werewolves pregnant. It was strange how the werewolves killed most of the adults in a vilge. They don’t go on rampages often. It was even more confusing when the werewolves gave a murdered dark elf as the reason for their attack. We were thankfully able to come to an agreement with the wolves. Now if they have problems with our people they will talk to the bishop first,” Beornia connected all the dots.
Beornia approached Sapphire. She got on one knee and held Sapphire’s hand.“I was unable to protect your father, but I swear by the Maiden Goddess that I will y down my life to protect you!” Beornia decred earnestly. The freckles on Sapphire's face glowed brilliantly. She buried her face into Nova’s breasts to hide from the padin. Nova wrapped her tail and tendrils form her slime self around the padin. She pulled her into her p supported by her slime self, and kissed her passionately. The surprised Beornia soon returned the kiss with equal passion.
