Iris opened her eyes and was greeted back in Niuran with feelings of having been stretched, crushed and punched all assaulting her at the same time. She moved her head a little and her eyes began to ache from the woozy and sickening blur caused by her sudden move.

Looking around, careful not to move too quickly warding off the drunken wooziness, Iris noticed that the previously empty cavern was covered in blue ice arranged into symmetric shapes. Following what looked to be the thick spine of this icy phenomenon, the elf's amethyst eyes saw that the ice was originating from where she was sitting. The thick spine crept over her shoulder and between her arms before hiding under Kia who was sitting inside her arms, elevated slightly by a thin sheet of ice.

*Purr*

The ice kitten had her cheek mushed against the elf, she appeared even more adorable and precious than before as she rubbed her face against the elf's warm skin causing her porcelain skin to become red from friction.

"Hey, you're going to dig a hole through me." Iris shook the slumbering undead kitten which caused the sound of crumbling ice to come from below her.

"Tha*Yawn*sss not the line." Even while Kia was asleep she ridiculed Iris with no signs of waking up anytime soon.

"Did you sleep well?"

Like a spell the elf's words caused the undead girl to open her blue and gold eyes. Kia shook her body causing the thin layer of ice which built up on her bare skin to fall to the ground before she readjusted her posture, unaware of her nudity.

"I did," Kia said. The two undead's eyes were locked on one another as their hands traced the anchor mark on their bodies. "Mmmm~" Kia's delicate body shuddered causing a wave of emotion to flow through their connection.

"Do you want more of it?" The elf gently pressed herself against the girl's soothingly cold body as her finger travelled alongside the mark all the way down where her womb should be.

"Nyo~" Her hopeless kitten let out a moan as the tall risen began to draw circles on her skin. "No." She protested again, this time her frail arms pushed the elf away a little bit before covering up her neck and chest, to the best of her ability. She let out a quite moan as her body jerked upwards unexpectedly thrusting her hips forward.

The hoplite quickly stopped teasing the girl who still was experiencing the afterglow from the last night. Feeling terrible at what she was about to do to Kia, the love-struck elf wanted to get away from the kitten in fear of what she could do. With a thud of bone hitting bone, Kia rested her head on the elf's chest, unknowingly nailing Iris in place.

The taller raven instinctually wrapped her hands around the smaller raven and got her face as close as possible to the smaller raven's face.

"I apologise."

"Mmmmm," The smaller raven hummed her acceptance of her apology before speaking again while resting her chin on the clavicle. "I want to keep this special and not grow bored of it." The much more mature-sounding words left the hopelessly exposed girl's mouth than the elf expected. The petite girl snuggling hopelessly to the elf shifted her eyes downwards as an aura of experience washed over the eager risen.

"I love you." The risen felt the need to hug the ancient mage who had been stuck alone underground for who knows how long. "Do you love me?" Iris splurged out suddenly, her mind not comprehending her thoughts before they came out off her mouth. "Kia?" She squeezed the mage harder as the kitten's soft flesh had turned to stone.

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"I'm sorry but I don't know what love is." Kia answered. Iris studied the girl's face carefully. Her face bore no sign of lying but rather her usual confused frown which was very familiar to Iris. "Should I love you?"

Iris felt a pang in her torso as something was telling her to tell the naive girl that, yes she should love her, love her with all her being. The risen began to sweat profusely as she fought her own sinful mind over how she will answer Kia's question. I need Kia, I love Kia, I love her.

"You..." Her words hung inside her mouth by a thin string.

"Iris?" Kia cupped the risen's cheek in concern. Her large glowing eyes stared directly at the elf, unaware of the effect it caused to the risen. Their innocent gaze was whispering to the elf that no matter how heinous her reply was she would listen.

"...You shouldn't," The undead risen pressed Kia's small hand against her cheek with her hand. "When you discover what is love, then you know who you really love." In the end, she couldn't bring herself to falsely enthral Kia. Although she had never felt anything resembling love while under the servitude of the human hero, she felt she would be worse than Brad ever was if she had told Kia she should love her right there and then. She would have been worse than that Gor precisely because of the easiness she could have lied to gullible girl.

"Oh." The mage muttered as she felt the clingy elf protectively wrapped her long arms around her.

A long silence in which the two undead secretly focused on the link connecting their emotions together, searching for something both of them didn't know. The elf accidently brushed her mind against the immense confusion brewing inside the ancient about the entire situation she found herself in. Confusion wasn't the only emotion, the elf had found an equally large thirst for knowledge existed inside their link hunting for any information the elf unconsciously send.

Finding comfort in each other hands, Iris basked in the girl's afterglow while her petite body trembled causing her pale skin to flush pink as her body got colder.

"Pull your things from your inventory." Iris said trying to focus on something else as she gingerly rested the girl on the frosted floor, still unaccustomed to the girl being healed.

"Why?" Kia pointed at her clothes lying in a pile with Iris's clothes.

"What about your corset?" The elf asked pressing her fingers against the mage's exposed flanks causing the undead to giggle as she wiggled from on top of the warm lap she used as a bed.

"It hehehe got damaged heheeehe."

"Pull it out anyway and if you can pull out all of our coins."

The elf heard the continuous clank of coins hitting the cave's floor as she quickly dressed herself before dusting off Kia's clothes. Looking over the big pile of coins Kia pulled out of her inventory she estimated that they had a mind-boggling amount of two hundred golden coins worth of coins altogether, at least to her, their wealth was impressive as Kia casually examined one of the coins, looking totally unfazed by the pile. She was used to seeing a lot of money when she was with Brad but it was a different thing to owning such amounts of money.

"You can hide the coins now. I will buy us some good clothes and restock our food when we will have the opportunity to do so." She said as she examined the corset, the inner layer was covered with Kia's glass-like blood. She experimentally scratched off a bit of the blood but the fabric which formed the corset was completely soaked with the blood making cleaning it basically impossible unless... "Can't you cast Clean on this?"

"I tried but it doesn't work. Throw it out, it's useless." Iris glanced at the spoiled mage.

"Put it in, I can give it to a tailor for your measurements... unless you want to have your measurements taken again," Kia's eyes instantly showed fear as her arms attempted to both hide her petite chest and her neck once again from the predator hanging above her. "I'm going to ask Shiro if she has a spare bra and underwear for you. Don't worry from what I saw taking measurements won't be necessary." She said as she snapped what used to be panties in half like a stone table. She casted Sparks causing the fibres stuck in the petrified blood to catch fire before she threw them to the side and began helping Kia put on her long sleeveless dress.

"Iris?" Kia said as the elf was buckling her tall black leather boots with about a dozen buckles on each boot.

"Yes?"

"Was that thing we did love?" Kia's sheepish voice combined with her resting her hand on her stomach caused the elf to turn away in fear of her leaping at the adorably hopeless kitten and doing Aspect knows what.

"Sex? No, but I think it is a side effect of it." The elf who had her face obscured by her hair couldn't help but smile.

"You're biased, aren't you."

"I'm very biased."

"Hmmm." Kia jumped up wearing only her dress and boots, she thoughtfully tapped her finger on her chin resembling a sage while she did so.

"Come on we have to catch the demis before they decide that they had enough of a grumpy elf." The mage glanced at the risen from a side.

"... Just wait a moment." Kia's expression suddenly changed as if she remembered something. Before the risen could say anything the undead mage sprinted in the opposite direction.

The elf waited for a long and lonely moment before she could hear Kia's footsteps echoing through the icy cavern before she emerged from the darkness.

"Something happened?" The risen asked the disappointed-looking mage.

"Not the range I was expecting." Kia responded with a hint of sadness while looking like she was in a world of her own. The elf extended her hand toward the necromancer which the pale undead took instantly looking much more relaxed as she sunk further into deep thought.

*Sigh*

"Always floating in the clouds."