Well, it's not exactly a treehouse... it is not built on top of a tree but from a tree. If it feels more like Mother grew up, then its roots started to spread and create a city around it, Mother is the center of everything and clearly the God of this town, most important being that it must be protected and served… at least that's the feeling I'm getting.

Speaking of Mother… The last time I saw her was on Drei's birth, and she had no leaves, but now it is back to full green dense leaves. Beautiful. Magnificent. Magical.

It is like an instinct, I WANT to serve and protect Mother. But...I don't think it is really me that has this impulse, this feeling is coming mostly from Drei… probably…

...

Maybe not… I'll have to compromise on this, Drei is definitely feeling the urge to worship Mother, but now that I'm seeing how grandiose and godly Mother really is, I'm also getting the same feeling of servitude. Mother is truly a godly existence that must be protected.

I'm in awe, but thinking further… Is Mother brainwashing me? Because… How can I, an otherworldly soul that cannot even interfere in this world, have the urge to worship and serve Mother? It makes no sense whatsoever. But it is also true that thinking about it will not solve anything or give me an answer.. Will it Alexa?

…

Like I thought. Lets just leave this problem to my future self, maybe I'll have more information that allows me to get into a conclusion or so. Until then… Let's assume Mother as our true goddess!

While I was thinking useless stuff Drei and Zwei were just following Adel to somewhere where she started to actually talk to someone.

"Mia!"

"Adel! Oh, I missed you..." as she hugged each other very… very dearly.

Mia was almost a head taller than Adel, and a lot stronger too. Ash-green skin with strong brown for hair and clothing. She was one of the few wearing leggings and a cropped loose semi-transparent top. She was pretty hot too.

"I missed you too, how are you doing with the kids?"

"They are fine, I haven't lost any until now, but Mila lost one, she is as unlucky as always… how about you?"

"Mila is the strongest of us, by far... I still think all her unluckiness is just a way the universe has to balance us... and me… well, I got lucky with mine, they are great and all 5 doing good until now, not genius like Mila, but doing great nonetheless. "

"Oh, you got 5 of them? I only got 4… "

"Should I recycle one of mine, that way we would be the same...?"

"Adel, don't recycle them for a stupid reason like that"

"Hahahaha, sorry sorry, I was just kidding"

"Yah right, I know you do stupid shit like that without thinking"

"I won't, I promised you I would be responsible and I will"

"Good"

"I'm even keeping up my training in free time"

"Free time?" she looked suspiciously at Adel. Ahahah I guess Adel is the normally irresponsible type?

"Well, yes, while the children are passed out and such..."

"Oh, this free time… ya, that's good. What are you training?

"Mana compression..."

"Uhmm" at this point… Mia stared very strongly at Adel boobs, analysing something and with a small smile.

"You can try me if you want to know how much I improved you know..."

"Yea?"

"Yes… you know… they sleep a lot so… maybe we can meet soon?" Efalem can blush too? Especially Adel?? New surprising finding!

"I really want to, but let's not. You know it's against the rules while we are in Mother protected place"

"I know..." OHHHH, I feel love in the air! Ohh my oh my!! I had no idea Adel could be so cute! And they make a very nice pair… with Mia being more assertive, tall and with a light loving personality.. Adel more delicate and… mad? How good would these be as main characters in a yuri fanfic?... They don't just look good together, they are perfect together!

Oh, sorry, I got off topic again with all my wild imagination… their fault tho, no one asked them to be so good looking and loving, making a perfect couple and all that on top of being elfs.. Efalem, who named them Efalem and not ELF?? They are obviously elfs! That's so wrong.. ALEXA? Can we rename them?

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I get the feeling that I should not proceed with this line of though, so… let's not.

I didn't think they would have a love's relationship here… not that it is unexpected if I stop to think about it, they are sentient beings and as such they probably crave for contact with others, that's how it normally is, but still a surprise.

"So, Adel, are you going to let your kids outside already?"

"Only these two for now" She pointed to us

"What about the others?"

"Well, they are still a work in progress, two are still passing out and the other missing a bit at the end, and losing the mana, but at least not fainting.. Tho she is still too tired to come out"

"I see… not surprising I guess. Starting today these 3 will be allowed out" Mia pointed to three shy girls behind her. At least they are no longer ignoring our existence…

"Three already uhm? You are amazing as always"

"Hahaha, thank you" a sweet smile forms on Mia and Adel's faces

"..."

"Let me introduce mine to yours, maybe they can play together in their free time outside. This is Vier, Drei and Einer'' The same names? Really? Do they not have any creativity at all? Or is it like tradition to temporary name the new kids by numbers? That's going to complicate things… I'm just going to call them 'M-Vier', 'M-Drei' and 'M-Einer' and if I'm guessing right, 'M-Zwei', M from Mia if it was not obvious enough.

"Hello" Adel greeted them, "I'm Adel Di Hanne, generation 858"

"Hello" they answered unsure, but together

"Oh, this is a good opportunity to teach you these. When others introduce themselves to you, you should introduce yourselves too, in this case I already did for you so it's ok. But when saying hello please add the person's name too, like 'Hello Adel', try again", she corrected them, but she was not mad or irritated, she was actually smiling like a good mother teaching their children with love and care.

"Hello Adel"

"Yep, better" Mia approved and that's it.

"Mine are Zwei and Drei" Adel said in turn and pointed at us, in order.

"Hello there" She said smiling

"Hello Mia" we replied, obviously listening to what she thought of her kids.

"Oh, did you already teach them how to greet people?"

"Not really, no… They are smart enough to pick it up from your explanation, it would not be different for them… I don't usually like to explain things twice, you know me"

"Yea, I almost pity them… " She turned back to us with a smirk and continued "I'm Mia di Hanna, generation 858" Oh.. they were from the same generation and friends from the same teacher uhm? Is that why they are so close? I'm shipping them so much right now!

"I was going to explain the boundaries up to where they can go when outside, do you wanna go with us?"

"We are just coming back from the first tour, sorry Adel..." Oh, what a shame, we almost got a loving person to tour with us instead of the brute Adel…

"No helping that… " So cute, she so doest want to leave Mia…

"Our house is that one" She pointed to a relatively close house "When you have time visit us" I think that made our brute woman a little happy, good, maybe we will have an easier time now that she is happy.

"I'll..."

"Ok… uhm… I'll let you guide your kids, we will go back now. " And hugged Adel again, this time a bit longer.

"Bye… Mia" Oh stop it with all the drama Adel, it's a lot like you will never see each other, and you actually live what? 3 minutes walk from each other!

"See you around"

"Yea"

She turned around and pushed her kids to her house. Adel keeps looking at her back for a few seconds then turned to us with a TERRIBLE face… oh damn, I thought she would be a bit happier, but she is in an even worse mood than before…

"Let's go"

"YES!" Yea, the kids are smart, they noticed the bad mood Adel is in and answered like they life depended on it, which probably does.

We went around and Adel explained that this section from the city is mainly used for housing new kids, like us. And we would be allowed to walk freely here, but not outside this area, the rest of the city is still off limits.

All the houses are pretty much the same here. There are well kept sports courts or something very similar to that, with grass on the floor… it is to be expected since we are living in a tree and all, but the 'roads' were made of wood and grass too. There are several smaller trees between the houses, and flowers and plants everywhere… it feels like we are in a dream land really, all really well kept and organized, it's a very beautiful mixture of somewhat modern architecture and nature.

I didn't see any form of transportation being used, only people walking on foot. Not so many people as a busy commercial street that I'm used to, but also not so little that it would look like a ghost city. Just the right amount of beautiful woman walking around to compose the clean flourless fantasy Elf..falem city.

The division of this area to the others was very obvious and hard to miss too, there is this very big 'wall' dividing the areas… it was actually a big root from Mother, but the feeling of a 'wall' is the same.

So, we were allowed to play around and investigate in our free time, the entire area until the big roots. Adel also said we could talk to other kids and do whatever, that she didn't really care as long as we were home by the agreed time, which would depend on each day and training we would do. And that we would need to teach these rules to the other tree when they were ready to go outside. She did not want to have to explain it all again.

Then we went back home, the entire time both Drei and Zwei were just listening, and did not say a single word if not asked first.

"You won't be able to enter other houses if you are not registered. We didn't have to do this on the first day because it was not activated, but we will need to register you today, come here Zwei" of course Zwei complied and got closer to Adel

"See this stone that looks like a Seontto? Put your hand on it and send your mana"

"Yes!" and she did, Adel was touching another the Seontto-like-stone at the same time and making it glow.

"Thats enough, now you will be able to enter and leave the house without me. Drei, your turn, do the same"

"Yes!" And she did, nailed it!

"That's it for now, we will start another training session with Seontto after sundown, you do whatever you want until then. I'll be in my training room . do . not . bother . me . before sundown. " She said as she madly entered the house and closed the door before Drei or Zwei could do anything.

The two lonely kids outside looked at each other

"What do we do?"

"I don't know?"

"..."