After that fateful encounter I kept moving west, not having to worry about supplies really helped my journey since I only needed to focus my attention on the road and where to rest, so it didn’t take long for me to arrive at the entrance of another village, looking at it i could tell this place was one of the main villages, there was a lot of different species doing their everyday chores, most people call all this species Bestials since they are part human part animal, as I recall the only bestial that I know the official name are the CT.
As a prince I never went on official missions so I never had visited this place before, thinking back now I should have studied more about their culture to avoid complications, but since I didn’t I only noticed something was wrong when I noticed the villagers looking weirdly at me, at first I thought it was because I am a Human, but them I realized that i didn’t saw any male since i entered the village. So this must be a female only village, I heard about amazons if I recall correctly there is even a small group of human amazons on the south, but this didn’t looked like an amazon village, in fact there were not even many adults on it, most of the population of this village were children or teenagers, even so the fact that there weren’t any males on this village were alarming, maybe it was prohibited and if that was the case i should get out as soon as possible to avoid complications.
As I kept walking I heard someone calling me from behind
-Hey, young lady, are you a human?
it took me some seconds to realize they were talking to me, I think now is a bad time to point out that, although I consider myself to be very beautiful and attractive I am not that tall and I have a long black hair with a single red mesh on it, I also don’t have any facial hair and my shoulders aren’t really broad, so especially when people can’t see my face people tend to confuse me for a girl, but this time it was an welcome mistake that I had to roll with it, I didn’t knew the rules of this place so I could try to use this little misunderstanding in my favor, so I quickly casted a minor illusion spell on my voice and on my face to make it more womanly before turning back to the woman.
the lady was particularly interesting, I never interacted much with the bestials so i never had the chance to see one this close before, if it weren’t for her arms and her ears she would actually look like a human, her arms were long wings that resembled eagle wings and her ears were on the top of her head instead of being lateral to the eyes and instead of being made of skin they were full of feathers she looked older than most of the people here ,if I had to guess I would say she was on her late twenties, she was looking at me confused, she must have found my appearance as peculiar as I found hers.
-Yes, I am indeed a human. Are there any laws that stop me from being here?
finding it weird(in a good weird way)on how high pitched my voice came out i flinched for a second thinking on how quaint, yet confusing , this was but at least I was relieved cause this showed that the spell was working
-No there aren’t any laws like that, are you perhaps lost?
she said with a little concern on her voice, thinking back now she was probably worried about me but at the time I thought she was saying I didn’t belong there, and while she was right it made me feel bad
-w-well, no I am not. I just want to meet new places, that is why i wanted to go to the Nature clan capital. They say it is a lovely place. Do you know if I am going the right way?
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she looked at me with a kind smile as if I were a child saying something silly
-well, you are at it already. This is the multispecies female village of the nature clan, all the children and teenagers stay here until they reach adulthood where they can meet their partners and go to the couple village which sadly does not allow visitors so you won’t be able to visit it. so this is the “capital” , unless you want to visit the male village?
Even though she said in a joking tone I thought she somehow saw through my disguise
-o-of course not…why would I want that anyway?
I said in a really embarrassed tone, if she really could see through my masterful illusion this would not only be extremely embarrassing to me cause she will think I like to pretend to be a woman, which for the record i do not, but she also probably would turn aggressive cause it seemed that males are forbidden on this village and I would have to kill them all reluctantly, but to my surprise she laughed and said
-it is completely healthy for a young lady such as yourself to be interested in flirting with boys, if i remember correctly on human cities it is even common since you live together and all, but here it is a taboo for a young lady and a young lad to meet before the romance event that happens once a year, we would love to have you there miss…? oh right i forgot to ask your name, I am Feather.
she said as she looked at me with a bright smile, if she weren’t being so polite I would be feeling even more humiliated at her implying i was looking for romance on my journey, and with a guy nonetheless.
-I am…hmn….Aywan? I mean. I am Aywan. also is your name Feather, like a bird feather?
I said the first female name that crossed my mind, trying to sound as truthful as possible, she giggles at my commentary
-for a moment it seemed like you forgot your own name, Aywan is a pretty name, and yes Feather like bird’s feathers, here in the Nature Clan everyone’s names are related to,well, nature.
I tried my best to smile back at her, hearing someone calling me by this made up name was weird but not in a weird way, this must mean i am happy i could fool this woman? sometimes I can be pretty weird I suppose, but I didn’t wanted to spend much more time in this village especially since I noticed they probably would ask me to stay if I stayed much longer since the sun was about to set, but at the same time I needed answers so i needed to be quick
-oh that is right I just remember something important I was supposed to ask your leader, do you have a queen or anything similar to one? like the Queen is the person that rules everything, you know what i mean right?
ok, i know i usually complain that people belittle me, but this was different
she giggled at my remark once again, this was starting to really get through my nerves.
-of course i know what a queen is silly, I can take you to her, it will be a good opportunity to formally invite you to our event, we never had a human participating on it before so it will be great!
I nodded and said
-sure I would love to participate in this…dating event or whatever it is called…I would appreciate it if we could finish this quickly since i have to go back to my city before the sun sets…
-Sure!
she said
-Just follow me!