“Oh, I was wondering when you’d wake up” Her hot words tickle my ear
Ah I’d forgotten that I’d logged off at Thalia’s.
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Wait a second what is she doing in bed with me? Oh wait, it’s her bed…
With my thought processes catching up with the situation they also catch up with the soft feeling of her-Nononono
“It’s been quite some time since you and I were together like this” She happily tightens the squeeze on my back (Oh so goo-NO)
“Y-yes, it’s been a while…I’d almost forgotten what I was here for”
“You were here to…touch me”
“Yes, that’s wha….I mean no, that’s definite-” I see my mistake and feel the heat rise on my face as Thalia digs her head into my neck
“Don’t hesitate” She grabs my hand and has surprising strength as she gives it a forced trip (although her skin is so nice and smoo-Nononono, don’t fall for it!) up her leg
Kal don’t let the soft and supple skin get to-AAah too late nonono!
My hand stops on her knee, still surprisingly smooth and then begins a trip upwards.
Wait…WAIT…I’M NOT READY FOR THIS, MY BODY IS NOT PREPARED!
Her upper leg is as supple and soft as –Nononono! But the thought that I’m getting closer to-NO DON’T THINK ABOUT IT KAL!!
*Pant*
“Ah, Kal, you are verrry good at touching me, but I think you’d do better if you could see my leg too”
I DON’T WANNA nonononono! Whyyyy does this have to happen to me when I’m just starting to move forward with Missy?
I can scream inside all I like but her leg slowly comes into view as she slides it above mine.
“W-Wwwait Thalia”
“Didn’t I tell you, I love to see you squirm” Her hot breath tickles my neck as I feel her desiring gaze.
“B-bbut…How about I write on your upper arms”
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“Tch, you can’t keep me away forever, because I’m getting hungry”
*Shiver*
She lets my hand go and takes her leg out of my sight but instead I feel her arm and her-*Gulp* NOTHING ELSE! Slide up my side and rest those firm yet soft-Nononononono!
Her left arm reaches out and I get a good view of her slender arm; perfect for entrapping others (Like me *gulp*).
She finally stops, with her body pressing on my side.
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I can’t mooove! Not even a little bit, because when I move my left arm it squeezes pas-NOnononononon keep calm Kal, calm!
M-my arm is entrapped by h-her br- NOTHING THEY DON’T EXIST NONONNO!!
“U-um Thalia?”
“Mmm what is it Kal?” She licks my chin, ohh so se-NONONO
“I can’t move anything”
“…That’s the plan” I KNOW THAT ALREADY!
“B-but I can’t do any writing this way”
“Ha, today you’re paying attention only to me” She gazes at me intensely…guess she’s a bit annoyed with being left alone just like Cindy (well in a different way, hopefully)?
“…Ok, I’m all yours tonight”
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“Hehe you said it”
NOOOOOO WHYYYYYYY??
She immediately starts sliding her body towards my front and I can feel those sof-CLOSING MY EYES, IT’S NOT HAPPENING.
I feel the heat transferring to my front and feel softness push against my ches-NOnononono!
Not only that but I can feel her whole slender body press against mine. OH GOD oh god, nonononono, whyyyyy did I have to say that?
She stops moving and I feel her soft lips tickle my cheek. Nononononono this isn’t happening, not again!
With true reluctance I open up my eyes and meet her fully black eyes; they do not feel like cold, empty tunnels but warm spots pulling you into the darkness…
Nonononono! Pulling my head back from her face I shake the thoughts away while Thalia giggles quietly (Ah what a cute gig-Nononono, wait that’s actually fine but still, nonono).
“You’re so cute when you shake your head in denial like that, it almost wants to make me…”
*SHIVER*
“M-make you do what?”
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WAIT WHY’D I ASK THAT! I AM CURIOUS BUT STILL NONONONONONO!!
Her moist lips press against mine but she grips my back with her strong arms and blocks any escape route I had. Her hot tongue coils around mine stroking it gently and it feels so goo-NONONONONONO THIS ISN’T HAPPENING NOOOO!
I thought I’d escaped this since I’d had 3 nights without such a deadly attack but now…now I’m looking deeply into her eyes while being taken to another world with her tong-NOOO KAL STAY IN THIS WORLD, YOU CAN DO IT, FOR MISSY!!
Gathering strength I start moving my arms from between us to behind her-
*Pant*
She releases my lips with a se-NO! pant.
“I’m especially sensitive to your touch…” WAIT SHOULDN’T YOU HAVE SENSITIVE AREAS NOT JUST BE SENSITIVE TO MY TOUCH NONONONONO!
Her tongue jumps back into my mouth with renewed vigor and tickles all my sense making butterflies dance in my stoma-NOnonononono.
My hands are free and I quickly feel them grab a thick bound book and open it up to my next chapter (I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING, JUST READING A BOOK, YES JUST READIN-ohhh that feels sooo-NONONONONO, JUST READING).
Position number 7: Basic Melder
First things first you must make sure your partner is facing you
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THAT ISN’T HELPING!!!
Dropping the book I start to cry on the inside while feeling the heat expand on my face and in my stomach because of the skillful way Thalia t-Nonononononono I’M JUST LYING HERE DOING NOTHING. But my mind is slowly filling up with pink thoughts guided by her to-NONONONONO, MUST DO SOMETHING KAL!.
Grabbing the book once more I continue to read despite my vision getting hazy from ple-LACK OF SLEEP, YES ONLY THAT!
I finally feel her heat leave my mouth and I feel something moist hanging on my chin. Thalia quickly licks it up-DON’T THINK ABOUT HOW SE-NONONONONO!!
Continuing to read as she goes to nuzzle up by my head, I quickly find out that from this position I can do a lot of ni-NONONONONONO, FOR MISSY ONLY…WAIT NONONONO, WAIT YES, WAIT I’M CONFUSED!!
Putting down the book once I’ve read about a page and I’m relatively calm (I’m not thinking about her heat pushing against my ch-nonononono), I pick up my quill and ink. I slowly start to translate on her upper arm while keeping my gaze high (NO I am NOT GOING TO LOOK DOWN THERE, I DON’T WANT TO BE DRAWN IN BY THOSE NICE AND SO-NONONONONO).
And so my first frontal spooning session properly began.
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After about 8 hours I’ve finally translated 30 pages and another 6 positions, HOWEVER ALL OF THEM REQUIRED FRONTAL SPOONING! WHYYYYYY? IT’S NOT HELPING MY SITUATION.
I’m going quite slow for three reasons:
The first being I have to hold the books high up and it’s quite tiring, plus I need to switch between books and ink.
Secondly I only have 1 arm free
Thirdly I have to take breaks because…she likes it when I write on her, and when I see her face when she pa-NONONONO DON’T THINK ABOUT IT AGAIN.
In result if I don’t stop in time I get another tongue exploration, which feels extreme-NONONONO, even after so many times (4 times in total…the 9th kiss is the special one…it must be…).
Also I’ve had a hard time writing things on her. I completed her upper right arm and moved to her side (BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW HOW I’D COPE LOOKING AT HER FACE TO WRITE, I’D BE TRAPPED, TRULY NONONO).
Without a choice her squishe-DON’T THINK ABOUT IT NONONONO-remained in the bottom of my vision as I wrote on her side.
Thankfully I was able to fit the rest of the translated pages onto her side.
Seeing as though my arm is completely dead weight as I’m unable to even move it due to overworking it, I let the translation stop there and rest (KEEPING MY EYES WIDE AWAKE LOOKING AT GANNOR MUTILIATING ME IN MY DREAMS OF COURSE).
After about 23 different deaths by Gannor, Thalia makes a move (other than nuzzling and hugging tighter).
She presses her lips firmly against mine and I immediately feel this is the same as that other time; more pure, more loving than the others.
“I hope that next time you’ll lose yourself and ravage me”
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WAIT SHOULDN’T YOU HAVE SAID I LOVE YOU OR SOMETHING?? I WAS PREPARED FOR THAT BUT TO TELL ME TO RAVA-NONONONONO!!
Ahh she never takes a break trying to ensnare me…
With that she starts moving away from me (CLOSING MY EYES, NONONONO, REMAIN PURE KAL!) and I feel her body leave but her heat stick to me.
When I confirm her presence is not in my immediate view I peek and see that she’s gone to the main room.
Getting out of bed I stifle a yawn (because it has been 1 and a bit RL days without sleep so I’m a bit tired, I can last another RL day or two though, so I’m good).
Heading past Thalia, who hugs me and plants a quick kiss on my neck-ahhhh, nononono, I exit the house into the snowy street.
4 days and I’m still pure…mostly. My mouth has been soiled (although it felt really go-NOnononono) and I feel her heat everywhere.
DIVE
*SIZZLE*
Ah slightly better.
I get back up and head over to Cindy’s.
Opening the door I only find her sitting lonely at the table, looking a bit bored…hmm that’s odd, where are the others?
“Good morning Cindy”
“Good morning to you too” She turns and gives me a cheer, guess she was waiting for me?
“So…uh where is everyone?”
Hey Kal, I’m going to be doing some solo training with Varg, so don’t wait up and have fun with Cindy!
A message pops up from Husky. Training with Varg? Guess he asked Varg to train him after we saw him in action?
Kal, I’m going to be quite busy, so don’t wait up.
Jöt also sends me a message but…it’s a bit ambiguous; I guess he’s doing training?
OK, got you both, How about we meet back at Cindy’s when our training ends
Righteo Brother!
Got it.
With that I close the messages and turn to Cindy who is looking at me expectantly
“So…shall we get started?
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“Now our first lesson is very important” Cindy explains in an almost studious manner as we walk outside the Northern gates.
I swear Gerard raised an eyebrows(rockbrow? Is that even a thing?)at the two of us walking out, his mossy green eyes fixated upon Cindy mostly.
Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.
Yeah I understand the weirdness of having Cindy, the housewife, walk outside the village gates.
I mean she’s a housewife! Though this is a warrior village so I’m assuming she’ll have no problem handling wolves and the sort.
Anyways, we walk outside the village and she continues on, into a pack of wolves.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking; she gets ripped to pieces by a bunch of wolves before my eyes.
No that isn’t what happened(strangely enough), but neither did she massacre the wolves with savage brutality like Varg did….
She just walked through them…
Err what?
She turns back to me while standing inside a pack of 4 wolves.
“This is the first lesson. Come to me” She opens up her arms in a wide hug.
Riiiiight. So erm, I guess it’s a lesson? For what I have no idea.
“Ah, but you can’t attack or hurt the wolves in any way, even if they attack you” She quickly adds, seeing my confusion
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“Kal honey, are you alright?”
You’re asking me to walk into a pack of wolves and try not get attacked….
“Are you crazy?” I ask as my head is cocked sideways
“Kal!” She reapproaches me. Ok fair enough maybe there is a logical explanation, maybe.
Maybe she wants me to distract the wolves or sneak in, or maybe just copy her footsteps (though looking at her footprints, my lord I have tiny feet!).
“Sorry Cindy, I’m just a little confused”
“You’re supposed to be” She gives me a sneaky grin. I have a feeling this new side of Cindy is going to be quite terrifying (even more so that Varg!).
You know that…let’s just go for it.
I have full confidence in myself, full confidence that I am a true nord and that I will not fear anything, even death. I will only conquer it in due time and it will become but another milestone for this great warrior(warrioress…) on his path to Legendariness.
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OMG!
One of the nearer wolves had pounced on me as I confidently strode forward.
And now I’m pinned beneath it.
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It’s teeth bite into my neck(ow!) and before I can do much, the rest of the pack converges on me.
I’m dead…I freaking got slaughtered JUST like I thought I would.
Well there goes all 20% of my beautiful xp, need to be careful or I might lose a level at this rate.
Respawning in Thalia’s bed oddly enough(oh right I did sleep in it…oh god), I try to creep out as she’s busy creating a purplish fumed potion.
“Dear” She turns around(seriously does she have like an internal tracker or something!?), predatory glint in her eyes and small tongue gently rubbing over her upper lip “Are you back for seconds?” She raises her furs ever so slightly, revealing a good portion of her upper le NO NO NO NO.
Rushing out the house I smash into the snow with a nice Pshhhh sound.
Phew, almost got stuck in that situation again.
Getting back up I’m back outside the gate.
Alright, so I can’t die because I get two penalties now; 20% xp loss and having to respawn at Thalia’s…that’s dangerous.
Spotting Cindy sitting while the wolves walk around her without a care in the world, I stop just outside their agro distance.
“Imagine the wolves aren’t there” Cindy adds not so helpfully.
Ok, so if I die it’s due to some bizarre forces of the universe, not wolves, got it…
Imagine the wolves are not there, imagine they are but insects, things I can summarily ignore and believe aren’t there because I can’t see them(also I don’t really mind insects).
Imagine I’m walking through an empt-*Bof*
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OW! The wolf(same one I swear) had pounced on me, but this time I was prepared!
I had sidestepped to the side, only getting a graze from the wolf, but this time I wasn’t stuck underneath (aha!)
I quickly take out my axe and hack it to death…not. Jeesh there’s four of them and usually I can only handle one.
I run like a little girl(oh the irony) towards the gate, diving into the snow for the 170th time, finally.
Dammit! I thought I was done running away from wolves!!!
Ok, back up and out there.
Same thing, imagine they are but bugs, things you care not abooo-No this isn’t working!!
DIVE
Phew, at least my movement speed has increased to the point where I can outrun them if I have a few meters headstart.
Get back up and get to agro range.
Eyeing Cindy, she’s just sitting there watching(and patting a cute wol-No dammit, I want to kill them!)
Apparently the thought is enough to agro them now(seriously!).
DIVE.
Jeesh, so I can’t have any killing thoughts towards them…Maybe if I think like they’re cute doggies?
That may wor-NOPE.
The cute dogg-dammit wolves, come after me. Maybe they don’t like being thought of as cute doggies??
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Ow! Seems like they really don’t.
DIVE.
Ok try five, I can do this! I can (I believe in myself)!
So I can’t look down at them, can’t think of them as cute doggies and can’t think murderous thoughts towards them…Can they read my mind or something??
I mean I’ve been fighting these things for quite a while now, I should’ve noticed if they read minds, especially because they’re wolves?!
Aaargh, maybe it’s a game thing, I don’t know. Whatever, I’ll figure this out one way or another (and probably die doing so, huu).
Ok, so let’s try imagining me running through the snowy plains along with the wolves…yeah, that isn’t happening; all I can imagine is me running away from them.
Funnily enough, that’s exactly what happens a few moments later.
DIVE.
Stomping out, I see Cindy still watching me with a mildly amused expression while she strokes the head of one particular wolf (the damned one that keeps pouncing on me!).
Ok, what to think of now, hmm…
“Try to think of being friends with them” She somehow gives extremely useful advice…I think.
So I look at her and then try to imagine myself being the one sitting down, stroking the wolf’s soft fur.
To aid the feeling I begin stroking myself (the wolf’s head helmet for all of your terribly minded people out there) and begin walking towards them.
1 step into agro range, now 2…now 3.
Hmm, so far so good…I think.
I continue to make step after step, making it halfway through the usual 5 meter agro range, before inevitably, that annoying, pouncing wolf, which was being stroked by Cindy, comes after me.
Aaaagh! Running away like the madman(or woman) I must be!
DIVE.
Phew, at least I haven’t been actually hit much by them.
Right, munch on some bread first since I’ve somehow been doing this for an hour already (wow time passes fast when you daydream!).
Back up, back out there.
“Your clothes can affect how they treat you” Cindy, still calmly stroking that dastardly wolf, points out something which is actually blaringly obvious now that I think about it…I’m literally wearing the dead skins of their kin..huh.
Right, off it goes!
Sadly I did sell my old leather armor and thus have…boxers on(and that thin, almost invisible strip of material on my chest).
Huh, never thought I’d be in my boxers in the snow walking towards a pack of wolves…Lady Luck, you really hate me don’t you?
Immediately feeling the morning chill all over my body, I once again begin to think about stroking the wolves and imagining them licking my face and then us tumbling around in the snow for fu-Aaah NO!
Dodging one wolf’s pounce, I get the hell out of there and back into the village.
Phew.
Standing back up, I send a cursory glance towards Gerard, who is smiling (not quite sure but since the rock formation on his mouth sort of looks like it, sure I’ll have a guess he’s smiling)?
Right, ok, everyone have fun watching me prance around in my boxers and foolishly walk into a pack of wolves over and over again.
Roll up roll up, this idiot’s at it again!
And so I am.
Cuddles and kisses, Cuddles and kisses. Cuddles and oh god no not again!
DIVE.
Dammit, they just want to pounce on me no matter what!
Right, come on, I got closer that time, only a meter and a half till I reached the first one.
Standing back up and heading towards them once more, I wonder what else I can do to make them more friendly, or less caring about me
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Oh that’s right!
Oh that’s right
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Screw it, I’ll try it once.
Activating my Radiating Charm, immediately, I can feel Cindy’s wide eyed gaze as well as the wolves’.
Walking towards them with thoughts of Cuddles and Kisses…exactly the same thing happens.
They pounce on me! Not just one, but all four of them!
Jumping backwards, I just dodge them and begin to charge away.
Though I don’t hear any footsteps but mine…
Stopping abruptly, I turn around to see all four wolves cocking their heads towards me.
Err ok?
I make my way towards them as they stand unmoving towards me, except for the swishing of their tails.
Wait a second.
Swishing of their tails!!
I immediately increase my pace, still thinking Cuddles and Kisses and successfully make my way past them and into Cindy’s arms.
She gives me both a bone crushing hug and a kiss on the forehead, to which I stealthily deactivate my Radiating Charm.
But that doesn’t lessen the hug at all.
Breath, ahh I need air!
Thankfully, she finally notices my face going an unnatural purplish hue and lets me go.
Ah air, air, air. Phew, back to normal.
“Well done Kal, and only took you an hour and a half. I’m so proud of you!” She goes in for another hug, which I stealthily avoid.
“But what did I do really? I don’t quite understand”
“You didn’t get the skill?” She cocks her head.
“Skill?” I open my skills list but there isn’t a change
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Oh, I must’ve used Radiating Charm instead of whatever skill I’m supposed to learn…
“Oh, well guess I’ll have to take back the hug” She chuckles and starts walking off to another group of wolves, standing in the middle of them. “Ok this time, don’t stand out as much; try to blend in”
Right…how?
Ok, let’s think about this: I can’t use my radiating charm, but I want an effect similar to it…so I have no idea whatsoever.
Let’s just go for it…
Nope that was a terrible idea, RUN.
DIVE!
Phew.
Dammit, what am I supposed to do.
Sitting down in the middle of the snowy street, munching on some more bread, I start to wonder what I should do, what I have to do.
Well first things first, how do the wolves tell what I’m thinking. I’ve got a feeling that’s important.
I’m guessing they can’t read my mind, so logically they’ll have to read my body language…which I guess is influenced by my thoughts.
Hmm, let’s go ask Cindy, see if she’ll help.
Walking my way towards her, I stop outside the agro range.
“So Cindy, how do the wolves tell what I’m thinking?”
“Good question, the answer you already know, you just don’t realize it”
Oh really, you’re going to be one of those now…Cindy, I am not going to have fun as your disciple am I?
Huu, guess I have to think then.
Sitting down in the snow, I start thinking all the possible reasons how the wolves can tell what I’m thinking.
I spend so long thinking of some of the most retarded possibilities(they’re all mind controlled by Cindy who herself can read my mind…to be honest probably the most logical out of all of them so far), that I believe an entire hour passes, since I get the cold status, on the verge of becoming frozen.
Running around stiffly in a small circle, I begin to notice something…strange about my surroundings.
As some of you may have suspected…I haven’t been attacked in the past hour…not even once (except if you count those four wolves by Cindy).
I’m in the middle of the plains, I should be getting attacked at least once in this hour and more likely at least ten times.
Though, not a single wolf had gotten close.
Turning round, I start looking for wolves; spotting them milling about 10 metres away.
How odd…
Making my way towards them, slowly and cautiously, I stop a few steps away from them, completely unharmed.
They just cock their heads towards me for a second before continuing to mill about.
Hmm? That’s bizarre, never seen this happen before
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But then again I haven’t seen Cindy outside alone before.
Something strongly tells me Cindy is not a normal housewife, or warrior in fact.
It’s definitely got to be Cindy’s doing, but what has she done?
With raised eyebrows, I walk further away from her, reaching about twenty five metres, when suddenly I get surrounded by two packs of wolves.
Well buggerations…
Yeah, I die pretty quickly, since I quite literally have no armor…or weapon or that fact(I decided to put that away too since carrying a weapon while trying to be friendly doesn’t seem to work. Not that anything else worked mind you).
OK, back in Thalia’s…not good.
Sneaking out, surprisingly she isn’t brewing? Huh.
Walking outside, I do spot her a distance away talking to Rodna.
Turning away before I catch her eye, I sprint outside the village with a feeling of elation!
Not because I escaped Thalia’s house without any danger (ok a little bit because of that) but because I think I’ve finally figure out something!!!
The only viable explanation to this odd calm between me and those wolves(not the ones by Cindy, the other ones) was because of Cindy.
However those same wolves attacked me once I got a certain distance from her, so it’s definitely got to do with her.
But how can she somehow influence the wolves’ behaviour from up to twenty five metres away(I’m guessing it’s then, because that’s when I got mass pounced)? An Aura is my guess.
I mean it’s the only logical explanation besides her having mind control over the wolves.
Plus it actually makes sense why this is a first lesson. If it were mind control there’s no way she’d just ask me to pass the wolves with no prior and proper instruction.
So it must be because she’s got an aura active and I’ve somehow got to learn that I can do that too, somehow.
I mean…oh my god, I’ve actually done it before!
Now thinking about it, Radiating Charm is an aura of sorts, since it influences all within a certain distance, hence why I might’ve not gotten the skill, since instead of using whatever aura the skill was, I used Radiating charm instead!
Wow, this is actually starting to make sense!
Ok, so this means I need to recreate whatever ‘peaceful’ aura she’s doing.
And I’m inside this aura so I should be feeling it but I don’t feel anything…but that might be because I’m used to being around her.
Think back Kal, think back!
When I first met Cindy, what did I feel then?
I’m almost positive she’s been using her aura since I first met her, actually I think I know she does.
I don’t feel any different being within her aura so it must mean that I’ve been exposed to it long enough to feel as if it were a natural part of her.
What did I first think when I met her!?
Hmm, ah!
When she first took me in (forced me, but I’ll forget that for the moment) I didn’t feel like I was being entrapped, rather like I was being tended to by a warm, nice person.
I’d only met her for a few seconds then, but I knew I could trust her, that she wasn’t an enemy…
What was that feeling? I never felt stressed when around her (barring the whole overprotection situation) and every time I saw her it was almost soothing…calming
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That’s right!
An aura of calm?!? I guess that makes some sense?
So that’s why when I was thinking of Cuddles and Kisses towards the wolves it would calm them since I was an ally, of sorts.
But then again, they still attacked me…why?
Maybe it was because I find it hard to be single minded and maybe just a small thought crept up which triggered them?
So do I have to practice being single minded??
Ok…so a lot of this makes sense now, but for me to actually succeed this first lesson, I need to somehow gain this calming aura skill.
According to Cindy’s reaction (forgetting her almost squeezing me to asphyxiation) I should’ve learnt the skill when I walked past the wolves.
So that must mean I definitely need to make sure I’ve got an aura of calm and maintain it thought single mindedness, which I’ve almost done.
Hmm, time to get to work then.
Leaving Cindy’s aura(25 metres, thinking about it, that’s an insanely huge area!) without walking into wolves, I sit down after another few metres of walking.
Closing my eyes, I begin to think; begin to dream about being part of the snow, no…being snow itself.
I am just the snow, peaceful and calm(although how is snow cal-snow is calm snow is calm).
I imagine myself as snow, lying in a flat bed, calmly, unmoving, uncaring of all that trod upon itm whether it be beast, man or nature itself.
I can feel it, the serenity of being snow; how it can remain uncaring of the world, simply listening to the relaxing sound of wind in the air.
Opening my eyes, still entranced with this feeling of calm serenity, my vision is filled with the muzzle of a winter wolf and its golden eyes.
Jumping out of shock, I feel something crack inside me before the wolf pounces on me, tearing me to shreds.
Well dammit, 3% till I lose a level, no more screw ups.
Sneaking out of Thalia’s once more (thankfully she’s still outside somewhere), I start to walk outside, before stopping and looking at Gerard.
“Hey Gerard, while I was sitting down, did the wolf attack me?”
The golem turns towards me, and shakes his head “Not for a little while, though it did after you jumped away” He answers in a gravelly tone.
Huh, so it worked!
Right, so I need to keep thinking like such, but keep my eyes open.
Sounds easy right?
Yeah, it’s surprisingly not that easy to think of yourself being calm, uncaring and serene snow while watching wolves pace hungrily around.
It gets especially worse when they lumber towards me, sniffing me casually while I try to remain calm, try to force any thoughts of fear deep deep down inside me.
This one particular, annoying wolf, continues to walk around me, sniffing, nuzzling my shoulder, before finally resting it’s head on my lap.
*gulp*
Its head snaps towards me (CALM CALM calm calm….), though it quickly returns to my lap because I am calm, much like it.
Ok, I’m calm as I can be right now, any more and I might fall asleep. Plus I’m getting cold, so not good.
Praying to Lady Luck(thought she doesn’t exactly like to listen to me does she?), I use both hands to gently lift the head of the wolf from my lap and start to stand up.
It immediately jumps up, but not aggressively I hope.
Glancing at the tail, I see it’s wagging happily, so phew guess I’m ok.
Walking slowly(because I don’t think I can maintain my aura while running), I make my way towards Cindy, who had been watching me from afar and now looked at me with a bright smile.
I reciprocate the smile as I calmly walk past the wolves and into her large arms.
This time the hug is more bearable; only making me believe I’ve cracked half my ribs (thankfully I didn’t, was just a feeling, phew).
As she hugs me, I hear the ping of a window and, once she let me go I turned to see what it said.
Congratulations! Through repeatedly willing yourself into a mindset and knowledgeably pushing the thoughts to affect your entire body, you have unlocked the ability to consciously create and manipulate Auras.
Talent: Aura Manipulator [Lvl 1]
Levels up due to Aura Skills
Auras are the basis of emitting your innermost feelings and emotions to the outside world.
Almost all can unconsciously create auras, though few know how to manipulate them, consciously deciding what others can feel being emitted.
Auras have a range of 1 metres, 1% effectiveness
Through forcefully creating and maintaining the mindset of serenity and calm, you have learnt to manipulate such emotions into an aura surrounding you.
Aura Skill: Aura of Calm [Lvl 1]
You have the ability to create an aura of calm, soothing living beings, thus lowering agro on you.
10% chance to make monsters passive towards you(same level or lower), 10% less agro towards you when in combat
Cost: none, Duration: Sustained
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Huh, Aura manipulator…apparently I’m pretty talented according to this system, that’s new (not kidding, I’m not that talented at many things!).
Also Aura skills are a new thing too! Ooh, there’s definitely going to be more of them!!
Also this 10% chance to make monsters more passive towards me is actually pretty cool! Means that out of every ten wolves, one just won’t bother to attack me(statistically speaking, though more likely is Lady Luck will never allow anything to be passive towards me).
Plus it’s sustained!! All I have to do is put myself in a mindset and I can train it up! Sweet!
Means I can have it on 24/7 just like Cindy…just like Cindy
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Jeesh, if she has a range of twenty five metres, it must mean that she’s maxed out the Aura Manipulator at least once, if not more likely twice which is pretty insane!
She is DEFINITELY not a normal housewife…But just what is she is the real question???
Glancing towards her, I no longer see the sweet, yet strong and quite bossy housewife of Varg, but a very mysterious and quite possibly dangerous being…
“So Cindy…what’s next”
“What’s next…is fear”
Have you ever looked a devil in the eye…well I swear I just did…for about quarter of a second before falling unconscious due to the constriction of my heart.
I woke up a few seconds later in Thalia’s house, now level nine
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I just died from fear?!?