"You, human, Nin is looking for something." Liadanann said to me as she gestured a finger in my face.
"My... Alright, where is he?" I began to say before I changed the topic. I was getting sick of Liadanann's attitude towards me. But, if Nin was finally ready to move and talk again, now was my moment. A moment where I could just be there for him to help out.
"Near the beds-"
"Thank you." I interrupted her with before I went off towards the stated area. Coming to a stop by the door and keeping a light grasp on its frame. Watching at first as Nin ravaged the room looking for something.
"Where is it... Where is it... Where is it!?" he would mutter quietly and repeatedly. Something that at first made me frown until he suddenly stared at me. At which point I tried to smile but then he suddenly went up to me. And I recoiled backwards as I did not know what this was about.
"What're you looking for?" I asked him before he began to tap his skull. He looked about and glared before he then came to a realisation. Then, he shoved past me and went into the room me and Larishazza and Vadei had been using. And I instantly heard both items being thrown about and screams.
At first, I could not get into the room as several of Vadei's people came running out. Either then going on to run for their lives or to hold their ground outside the bunk room. And as so many women were running about scared, the men came on by and held onto their loved ones. I would then go into the room and close the door behind me.
"Nin, what are you looking for, maybe I can help? Have you lost anything?"
"Lost? No, you have it... You had it... You might still have it..." he let out quickly as he flipped mattresses over and threw chairs about.
"Have what...?" I asked at first before I started frowning. Was he looking for what I think he was? Was the bracelet on his mind right now? Did he think it might help somehow or was this about something else?
Just in case, I began to reach for where I put it, "Give it!" he would then say as he spotted my movements. And, in an instant, I had been thrust against the wall, nearly denting it with his claws prying my hand open. Then, also in an instant, as I watched him put it on with haste... I no longer felt angered by this sudden aggression, instead, I blushed and tried to hide my face.
He had put the bracelet back on... And he was now stroking my face very delicately. I gulped and felt weak in the knees. However, I did little else until he suddenly brought me over to a bed.
And my face started burning intently as he just pulled me close. Something I did not react slowly or reluctantly to. I just went up to him and sighed in relief. Tracing a finger on his chest as I felt my heart become light again.
I smiled every time I breathed in his scent and his touch relaxed me completely. All the stress from before was seemingly gone for this moment until he suddenly brought us up. And his grip changed somewhat. No longer tender, it had become greedy and was clasping onto me protectively.
"Where are the others?" Nin asked me as he held onto me from behind. His upper body arched over my head while I was pressed up against his legs and...
"Vadei is either on the bridge or with her father, Larishazza might be in the kitchen and... No, it's fine, I can help you!" I answered at first before getting greedy myself. If Nin was suddenly willing to wear the bracelet again, then I had something I wanted to do.
"Why are you trying to stay still!?" he would then ask me as I began to gently shock him until he let go. And, I turned around and leapt on him, shocking him a bit more until he fell to the ground. My smile grew wider and wider while my face got redder.
"I would have preferred to say it before at that garden but... Nin, I-" I started saying until the door was suddenly banged on.
"HEY! BUG! GET OUT OF HERE!" a man angrily demanded as he banged on it some more.
"Nevermind, I'll find them myself." he explains before his torso shoots up. Bending my back slightly backwards until he picks me up by the rear. And as my legs tightened around his waist, I seemingly choked as I felt his hands on my...
"N-N-Nin!" I tried to let out before he just marched out of the room with me in his grip. Something that surprised those around us and left me even more embarrassed. It got to the point that I tried to hide myself. He was just so boldly carrying me in front of so many and I...
"Uh, Nin, what're you doing?" Liadanann asked us as we ended up going by her. Something that made Nin stop before the obviously jealous woman.
"Your injuries are not healed, why is that?" Nin asked her as he stepped closer to her. An intense gaze likely baring down on her.
"I... I... Don't trust the humans to give me the necessary magic safely..." she admitted to him despite the glare she was directing at me. Yet, it bothered me little as I was mostly focused on enjoying Nin's touch. The way his body felt against mine and how it warmed me up even more.
"Alright, come, we'll sort it out." he told her as he suddenly shifted my weight into one arm. With the hand no longer on my rear taking Liadanann's hand. Something she struggled against until Nin brought us into the shower room. I would then be let go of and gently pushed deeper into the room.
"Nin, what's this about?" I asked while already having an answer in my head. There was only really one reason he might take anyone to a shower room. Either he wanted to clean someone or have himself cleaned. Which, admittedly, he did need even if most of the filth had been put on his bed.
"Get undressed, both of you." he orders us as he begins to block up the door. Locking it up tightly before he would then turn to face us two. Neither of us had undressed ourselves, however. We just stared at him with wide eyes and red cheeks, well, assuming Liadanann could blush...
"E-Excuse me?" Liadanann asked in protest whilst she also slowly let her overalls peel off. Something that caused her some pain but Nin would just shoot over to her and take her chest into his hands.
"Does this help?" he asked with a coo as magic began to flow from his hands as he caressed her swollen chest.
"E-E-E-E-EH!? Ah!" Liadanann stutters out with shocked surprise until she began to relax. And soft moans soon left her lips as Nin applied magic straight to her injuries. And I got jealous for a couple of reasons. One, I had known Nin for longer so why was he so willing to do that to her, and two, was he only doing it because hers were bigger?
"U-Uh... Nin, I have some soreness about here." I lie as I have a finger point at my right breast after I took my top off. Only having it halfway off before he let go of Liadanann.
"Hmmm..." he would let out ponderously before he brought a pair of stalls over. Liadanann was then put down on one and his back we left open. He would take up her breasts into his grip again while his back began to have some magic build-up in it as well.
"This is quite complex, Nin, when did you learn this?" I asked him as I slowly went up to him. Cushioning my chest on his smooth back before I felt a bit of magic flow into me pointlessly. And I was still jealous as I was having to do this on my own while she got his active input...
"In the place where I met Liadanann here," he answered before he forced a louder moan from the red woman, "with barely any magic in me, my body was hard to control, so I had to focus what magic I had left."
"And that has allowed you to better control the flow of your magic?" I ask him as I ponder potentially giving it a try myself. Of course, I should probably look into it before I tried something like that. Because it was clear this wasn't some casual training on his part but rather a thing he learned trying to survive. And to have your body suddenly deprived of magic, well, Vadei's people showed what happens with that.
"I guess, this better?" he answered me first before asking Liadanann something. And, curious, I left Nin's back alone and moved around to look at her. For starters, she was moving her legs and arms about a lot, but, the bleeding was gone. A lot of it had seemingly closed up, but there was still a lot of swelling.
"It's... Better... But this might need to be a regular thing." she tells Nin while smirking at me. Something that made me glare at her before I sent a shock at her. And she reacted with fear and terror when that happened.
"Woah!" Nin would let out as he kept her still.
"KEEP HER AWAY FROM ME!" Liadanann screamed as her toe-claws scraped at the floor tiles. But Nin's grip would just not let her move at all. She was forced to stay there until she calmed down and I grew nervous. Was I about to get a scolding and a dismissal...?
"Alright, Einervaene, be careful. But, also try to remember this is a shower room." Nin tells me in a calm tone as he soothes Liadanann. Mostly with more groping and massaging and that would alter her rate of breathing. She would slow down and calm down as well until she was just smiling gently. Twitching every now and then as Nin's grip adjusted itself.
"It is, isn't it?" I sarcastically said to him in response to that last part. Having waited a little bit at first while he dealt with Liadanann.
"Can you turn on one of the heads please and do my back?" I would then be asked by him before he made light of his inflexibility.
"Of course!" I would gently say back to him as I began to gain an eager smile. Taking a bottle of soap and squirting it over my hands before turning the shower on. Letting some of its water flow onto Nin whilst I began to put some soap on my chest. Moving nervously at first until my chest was firmly placed on his back.
Sliding up and down much to my joy while he focused on Liadanann. The white soap bubbles would steadily change colour as they were washed away. And soon, I was wearing a shirt of bubbles that collected in force around my bottom half and top. I then wrapped my arms around him and just rested my head on his neck.
"Thank you for putting it back on, Nin." I tell him before leaning forward slightly and giving him a kiss on the cheek. Even if my last opportunity to admit that I loved him in private failed. I could rest easy knowing he had it on, and maybe, I could finally get it out. I could finally give my heart the rest it needed.
However, Nin would suddenly turn upset at that moment. His gaze would lock onto that bracelet before he would then shake his head. He would look back at me and smile before he pulled Liadanann in closer. I would then be gestured in closer by both him and my jealousy.
"No, thank you. Both of you, for being willing to put up with me." he said as he held Liadanann tight while I had to get myself involved with this.
"I-It's the least I can do seen as you saved my lif-EEEEEEY!?" Liadanann began to say before she squealed. Nin's body trembled in that moment and I would hear him snickering. And right between the tips of his fingers were one of Liadanann's nipples.
"Okay, that does it!" I then say as I force myself between them.
"What!? Just playing around..." Nin admits before he looks away at the distant wall.
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"Yeah, and not one bit of it involves me!" I tell him while grabbing my chest and pushing it up before him. Letting it jiggle before his eyes while Liadanann slowly got up to her feet. The distinct tap of her claws filled my ears before her hand straightened me out. Not because she was now stronger all of a sudden, but because I wasn't expecting it...
"Can you blame him? I am much more suited to his scale, after all." Liadanann giggles out as her hands go onto her hips. And while her tailed lashed about behind her, she put her chest forward against mine. My pale and milky skin contrasts quite a bit with the pale red of her front body. Not only did she look down upon me with her greater height, she made me feel small!
I was once the one with the largest proportions on this airship... Beating out Vadei by a few little distances while Larishazza was no opponent whatsoever. And now, I was suddenly overtaken by a giantess with a mostly red body. But, perhaps I had one advantage over her, Nin was formerly human...
"Please, Nin grew up with human women!" I tell her as I go up to Nin and huddle up next to him. Guiding his hand back to my rear before Liadanann growled.
She would scoff first, "Those very same humans that locked him up in a cage for me to potentially kill? I doubt he has any affection left for human women... Especially given how one was behind our imprisonment." she snapped at me before enveloping his arm completely with her chest. And she pushed it further down onto him to show their size off even more. It made mine feel small and I felt a lot more aware over how they did not fully envelop his arm like hers did.
"No, still like human women." Nin would confirm with a simple nod.
Liadanann scoffs some more, this time in disbelief, "Well... Just be aware you'll never find anything as bountiful on people like her." she arrogantly declares while hugging Nin tightly. Something I responded to in kind before moving my head towards hers.
"Don't even try, Red, I can see the swelling, they'll be all flabby and flat within the week!" I tell her before she suddenly got angry.
"Why you-" she said as she raised a hand before Nin's arm caught it.
"Ah, ah, ah! That goes here." he gently chastises her with before he returns her arm to hug him. A quick little sigh leaves him before he happily chitters away. A sound I had grown quite fond of as his happiness fed back into me and made me happy.
"What'cha doing?" Larishazza asks as she moves into the shower room. A wide smile on her face as she looks at Nin. Nin, however, then lets go of both of us, races over to her and pulls her into a backbreaking hug. Something she laughs loudly at before he rests his cheek on her petite body.
Upsetting both me and Liadanann because we had just worked ourselves up over our large chests. And here Nin was now enjoying a flat one more than ours... And the fact she was enjoying the attention did not help matters. In fact, it reminded me of why I conflicted with her so much prior.
"Oh, be quiet." I grumble before crossing my arms. Intentionally pushing my arms against my breasts in the hopes it would do something. But Nin paid no heed to either of us and stayed focused on Larishazza. At least, until he put her down with a frown.
"Something wrong? Wait, don't answer that." Larishazza joked quietly before Nin started smiling again. Larishazza would laugh some more as well when she uses her magic to slip out of his grip.
"Well, to answer your first question, I was helping Liadanann with her boob problem." Nin bluntly tells her which leads to the red-skin becoming even redder. His body had also turned around in order to gesture at his handiwork.
"I didn't have any such problem..." she grumbles before going up to Nin once more with Nin's gesturing arm slowly snaking down. Her large body seemed just a little smaller when she stood right next to him. And, then, all of a sudden, she just plants her lips right onto his and pushes him towards a wall. Larishazza laughed in excitement but I just got angry.
"HEY!" I yelled as I went towards her. Feeling some of my magic build up until Nin forcibly moved her off of him. A glare at first on his face that wiped the cockiness straight from Liadanann's face. Yet, he calmed down before just pulling her in for a hug.
"Do not ever do that..." he would tell her and probably me by extension as well. But, I could not for the life of me figure out why,
"Can I ask why?" Liadanann asked with muffled words.
"I... I just don't want to be kissed on the lips by another." he said with agitation that I did not understand.
"Is anywhere else fine, Nin?" Liadanann then asked hopefully. Which, oddly enough, Nin nodded in agreement to.
"I'll let you know if a line is being crossed." he said before I then came up to him and put my lips as close to his lips as possible.
"HA!" I would say to her just before her cockiness returned.
"I actually got one on his lips, human." she would remind me with a haughty laugh.
"What's... What's going on? What happened?" Larishazza then asked in worry. And I assume it must have been related to the fact Nin now wore that bracelet again.
"Nin's put the bracelet back on." I whisper to her with a smile which made her frown more.
"He what!?" she lets out in peculiar disbelief while watching him play around with Liadanann. Something that made me jealous but made her concerned and upset.
"Nin, can we talk?" she asked before I brought her attention back to me.
"Why're you so worried anyway? He's moving again, he's able to relax, let him have this." I tell her. In complete disbelief myself as to why she would take issue with this.
"No! He's bottling it up, this is him ignoring the problem! Nin! Please, if we're going to handle what happened to Tob-"
"QUIET!" he roared at Larishazza as he suddenly shot towards her. Something that shocked everyone present as he was now bordering on tears. Twitching about in anger which he enhanced with an aggressive posture.
"Nin, I didn't mean anything bad by it-"
"I said, be quiet!" he said to her through clenched teeth. Yet, despite his clearly displayed anger, his eyes showed something else. He wasn't angrily demanding... He was begging.
Larishazza gulped while her mouth went agape, "Okay... If you need any help, I'll... I'll be there for you, okay?" she says to him while forcing out a small smile. And Nin's tone just shifts back to how it was. With his hand coming in from behind to grab my breast before he pulled me in. I would then also change my tone.
"That's better." I giggled with a sultry tone as his jaw massaged my neck. A relaxed sigh came out due to both of these actions. And, like before, me and Liadanann were fighting over his attention. Larishazza then left quietly and I watched her as she lingered by the door.
Frowning myself before the loss of Nin's hand on my chest changed my priorities. Something I responded to forcibly as I took advantage of Nin's loss of balance. Landing right on top of him and rubbing my body against his with a jealous Liadanann above. And, despite how much she tried to pry me off, her size was not very telling of her strength.
"Make some room!" she begged as she tried to move around me. But I had spread myself over every part of Nin. Keeping a tight grip on his arms with my legs locking around his while I also enjoyed his smile. Unfortunately, I was having to restrain this urge I had to just go forth and kiss him.
I loved him so much and I was finally able to build up the emotion to say it to him again. To honestly declare to him what I felt and how I could say it without stopping. Memories of that night were no longer going to bother me. Yet, I still feared for the day he might take it off again.
He has already shown a willingness to remove it and if Larishazza was right. He only had it on right now to serve as some kind of distraction. Which, hurt a little, I did not want my feelings to be treated this way. But, I could also not be so selfish and put myself above Nin, not now.
"Nin..." I would begin to say in order to get his attention. Watching with the sweetest smile I could muster as his gaze went to meet mine.
"Yes?" he would ask as I blocked out Liadanann and her attempts to get me off.
"Promise me, when we get back to wherever you'll find the time to have a little alone time with me?" I ask of him. Hoping that if I get him to promise it, I will have my moment to admit my love. I could get it off my chest and see how he truly responds to it. No more playing around like now, I could chase after the dream that vision put within me.
One where he lords over the land formerly held by my mother with the help of my name. With a beautiful child in our arms and no more of these dangerous adventures that left us so exhausted. Even if I would not have minded a few more times where I could save his life. To make it clear to him that I would be there for him like he would be there for me.
"Fine! I'll just go back to fixing this piece of rubbish." Liadanann then said before she stropped off.
"Fix it? You're a mechanic or something?" Nin then asked as he moved my head to the side. Something that annoyed me but I did like how his hand felt on my jaw. And I would not be surprised that I would become addicted to it if he was to pull me in for a kiss like the stories had. Where the maiden has her chin in the grasp of his firm fingers...
It made me blush madly just thinking about it, but what was new about that? In a way, I quite enjoyed how much I blushed while he had this bracelet on. It was a constant reminder of how much he cared. He spent the time with me and he has learned stuff about me because of it.
"I am, but it would be nice if I had more tools to work with." Liadanann then complained before Nin suddenly shoved me off. Something that had Liadanann smiling wide while I looked at him in disbelief.
"Seriously!?" I asked as I started to gather my clothes. Not even bothering with drying off as the pair had quickly disappeared. And going by the sudden rush back on Liadanann's part, she had disappeared too quickly... Because only now had her clothes been taken into her hand.
It didn't take too long to find them, though, it was just a simple case of following the opposite. Vadei's people would avoid Nin and Nin could be left to his own devices. In this case, however, I did not want to leave him alone. I wanted to spend time with him and keep the power of the bracelet in me.
If I had to be clingy then so be it!
"We're going to have to redo these welds... They are awful." Liadanann told him while he nodded at her. The pair of them being right before the work I did before Nin spent some time to teach me about it. And, as such, it made me a bit angry as I did the best I could with what I had.
"Well, I'm sorry." I bitterly told her before Nin went up to me and took my fingers.
"We didn't use tools, we used her magic." he explained while giving me a reassuring shake of the shoulders.
"Should really use the proper tools for the job." was all Liadanann had to say before she inspected it some more. And then, she began to run her fingers around her various pockets. Tapping them before she looked up at the signs above. A sigh left her very slowly before she turned to Nin again.
"The place where we keep the tools?" he asked to which she nodded. Nin huffed a laugh out before standing up.
"What?" Liadanann asked as she moved some of her red hair about.
"Nothing concerning you, just remembering that I don't actually know where it is."
Liadanann moves closer to him and takes his arm into his, "Then I guess you best help me find it." she said to him. And I just pouted at the fact she once again took control of where his attention was.
"I can't imagine it would be far from your workplace, should it, Einervaene?" he then asked me, something that caught me off-guard. Entirely because I was focused on Liadanann, not him.
"Uh, yeah." I would say to him after registering what he had asked.
"There, much better." Liadanann would say as she began to rummage through the various tools. Various groans and sighs would come from her while we watched her pick and drop things.
"Guess we'll have to remember this room."
"There are a couple of rooms we have yet to use ourselves." I would remind Nin as I only ended up in that room by circumstance. I wanted a place to keep my drawings and to work on clothes. The room I used just so happened to fit the criteria I had regarding it.
"Perhaps you'll want a drying room?" he then asked with a smile as he flicked at my still soapy skin.
"Well, I wouldn't mind finding one together?" I offered before Liadanann ruined the moment.
"Who or what made these tools?" she would ask while awkwardly holding the smaller tools in her hand.
"No one here, I can tell you that much." Nin explained with a shrug before Liadanann focused on the larger machines.
"I guess I can try recycling some of these pieces then..." she grumbled before she began to force many of the tools into a heated machine.
"You've used these machines before?" I asked as she was using a lot of this with surprising familiarity.
"No, I have used stuff made by my people, however. And, some of it does have a similar layout. But that is probably because the profession is centred around efficiency and the most effective shapes tend to correlate." she explained in a somewhat lengthy manner before Nin stepped forward.
"And what exactly are you doing?" he asked.
"Recycling the smaller tools into a smaller selection, but one more suited for my hands. Are you perhaps going to want some custom-made tools?" Liadanann would then ask back as she grabbed Nin's hand. And she would mess with his few fingers before frowning at them.
"Not the best, are they?" Nin joked as he moved them against where Liadanann intended to move them. Four digits, each of them thick and blocky.
"I'm surprised your kind would even learn how to use anything that wasn't a stick."
"You'd be surprised at how unique I am compared to my kind." Nin said before he looked at me sadly. Something I tried to counter with a reassuring stroke of his hand. In a way, he was speaking about both his old body and his current one. A human in the body of an osibindah.
"Osibindah, correct? That flaming creature from before said so." she said before she went quiet at Nin's sudden twitch. A portion of bloodthirst from what had happened not so long ago?
"Uh... You lot, would you mind coming to the bridge with me, please." Vadei then said as she slowly came up from behind. And, wow, she looked tired.
"You alright?" I would ask at first but she just gave me a blank stare and a slow gesture.
"Can't you tell us through the speaker?" Nin questioned as he started to follow her. But she would say nothing and we would be slowly trailing behind her. And as Liadanann seemed incapable of minding her strides. I moved aside so I did not have those claws scraping my boots.
And then I realised what had happened, and I growled at her before we then arrived at the bridge. Larishazza was already there and the two slavers were too. By her chair as well, her mother who looked just as tired. Even if she tried to keep up the impression that she wasn't.
"Can we know now...?" Nin would ask as Vadei's mother protectively took hold of her daughter. Yet, she did not do so in a particularly obvious way. I only caught on because this was the sort of thing Mother taught me about it a little. To get an idea of how to handle situations.
Admittedly, being around Nin has made me wonder if those lessons had been forgotten.
"I have decided on a change of plans." Vadei said nervously. Both her own tail and her Mother's were in her grasp.
"I?" Nin repeated, only to get a glare for his trouble. Just another reminder as to why Nin should stay in his attire... At least, when he is meeting new people.
"Y-Yeah... I'll stop at the closest human settlement, be it in the ravines or mountains so I can let those two go. Then, I will be taking the airship back to my homeland... So we can properly bury Dad and the others..." she explained.