"The Celestial Court is the name of the elven religion. It is a well-known fact that the Celestial Court is the direct predecessor of the Divine Court.

According to some scholars, upon the dawn of the Elven Empire, humans took the opportunity and replaced the elves as the dominant species of Edor. Not dishearted by that, some elves traveled to the human tribes converting them to worship of Celestial Court which over the course of numerous human generations, slowly transformed into the Divine Court of today.

Many of the lesser Aspects in the Divine court still bear their elven names but unlike the elves who worship eight primary Aspects we humans venerate six, abandoning Arel and Leral as Aspects of Sun and Moon respectively reasoning that Arel and Leral are simple elves who bare little divine qualities and are only venerated because of their status as founders of the two royal branches of elven aristocratic society."

-Extract from "History of Niuran"

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Iris didn't know why but Kia really wanted to follow the human adventurer as it would only bring problem upon them. The elf's mind worked hard to produce believable pretexts and fallacies for any oddities of Kia's snow-white body, the main one being the luminous purple crystal embedded in her body just in case the human would gain a glimpse.

"How do you know where to go?" Iris stalled for time.

"I-I just hear it." Anna answered.

"That's quite impressive for a human to level their hearing so high." The elf said with genuine amazement as her hearing could not pinpoint the exact direction where the quiet sound of moving water was coming from because of the dense foliage around them.

"Heh, I wasn't the best acolyte the Order had." Anna's long blonde hair swayed as she peeked at the two following her.

After a bit of walking in the not so quiet forest filled with mating calls of insects. Anna walked through a bush, lifting a dark green branch a small river revealed itself. The river meandered its way through a series of deep pools similar to man-made baths.

"Praise Tinnbera." The blonde human excitedly raised her hands in the air, causing the held branch to smack into Iris.

"Some local women must have a great time in here." The elf said sarcastically.

"Do you not believe in the Divine Court?" The cleric turned to face the fair-colour elf.

"That would require me to give no thought to the world around us but claiming everything is divine diminish the divine to be quite the mundane, "Iris said as she walked passed Anna. "Don't you think?" Anna's mouth worked silently as she contemplated the tall risen's response eventually her face relaxed, evidently finding her answer. The two female adventurers silently started to undress unfazed by each other nudity leaving the shortest of girls to watch helplessly through her fingers.

"Come on." Iris lead Kia where the human could not see and helped her undress her long black garment which disappeared into thin air. The familiar warm assaulted elf's body upon glancing at the perfectly shaped petite body.

The water felt cool to Iris as she and the now naked Kia entered the water, her sense of touch did not help in judging the temperature of the water, she already found the ice-cold water of the deep ocean to be satisfactory warm because of her race.

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"There you are," The fuzzy feeling inside Iris's body quickly fizzled away upon hearing Anna's voice. "Aspects..." The human stopped in her tracks and stared at Kia's face.

"Thought you wanted to be alone." Iris spoke to the stunned human standing naked at the edge of the pond, trying to not make her own annoyance visiable..

"No, usually I quickly washing myself and come back but I really like what you did here." Anna walked towards the two undead, careful not to slip on the wet rocks. Upon entering their pond, she renewed her staring causing the poor undead to try to hide her face under the surface of the water.

"Anna, for how long do we stay here?" The elf asked.

"As long as possible," The female adventurer answered strangely excited. "I wanted to ask you about this. Why did you join me, usually other women don't accept my invitation?"

"That because of her," Iris pointed at Kia's half-submerged head, her glowing eyes observing them with shy curiosity. "Second, you do ask people the question to go with you in the middle of nowhere and bathe naked, no wonder no one accepts your invite."

"I never said anything about nakedness," Anna argued. "You started to undress first, I sort of followed after you, shameless elf.

"And how do you expect people to wash themselves?" The pale elf retorted.

"I-I guess you're right."

The sound of forest grew louder as the women rested their heads on the edge of the pool and let the water brush against their skin.

Kia submerged her head fully underwater, "𝐹i𝑠𝒉!?" she asked upon surfacing with innocently adorable Common. On the two older-looking adventurers' faces, a wide smile grew uncontrollably.

"So you are tainted," Anna's eyes narrowed, suddenly pointed at the purple crystal. "You poor thing."

The long blonde hair dragged behind Anna as she quickly dashed closer to the standing girl. Kia who just realised her upper body could be seen quickly hid herself under the water, rushing to cling onto Iris's soft body as the human cleric hesitantly reached towards her. The elf instinctively put herself between Kia and Anna.

"Sorry." Human retreat her hand back and swam to the opposite side of the pool.

The two of the women silently sat in the water. The previously embarrassed girl started to snuggle shamelessly into Iris's arm in front of Anna trying to hide her delicate body from the human but her snuggling quickly turned in nature as Kia began to purr while claiming as much of Iris's body as possible.

"I think we have to go," Iris said wresting the kitten like undead of her back. "Come on wakey, wakey."

Anna stood up and gave the two undead a respectable bow before walking where she left her clothes. Iris stood up shortly after the cleric's departure having to drag the sleepy Kia out of the water, thankfully girl's long black dress materialised on her body.

"Iris?" Kia said, her arms outstretched towards the elf.

"My Sleepyicu~?" The elf tried to tease Kia, but the half-asleep girl swayed weakly in the wind. "Sleepyicu it is." The elf happily lifted Sleepyicu allowing her slender arms to wrap around the elven neck.

"Mfimmsh?" The sleeping Kia asked.

"Mmfish tomorrow." Iris could not stop smiling at the girl's imported inquiry.

Kia hummed a satisfied noise into Iris's shoulder, as she gently stroked the girl's silky onyx black hair.

"My..." Anna who was fully clothed and standing at the edge of the forest brought her hands in front of her mouth after turning around.

"Cute?" Iris whispered. She pride swell up in her chest that the girl in her arms had chosen her that she felt unable to not share a little piece of it with another.

"Too much cuteness." The Golden adventurer answered in a whisper.

"Could you not tell anyone what you saw today." The elf tapped her chest.

"See what?" Anna winked.

"Finni-!" A young adventurer called Cisil shouted, causing Iris to scowl.

"Shhh!" Cleric beside her hushed at her compatriots.

"Alright." Cisil answered weakly.

Iris nodded at the two men sitting around the campfire a glass bottle in between them reflected the orange light of the flame. She entered her tent and carefully tried to peel Kia from herself but the girl only tighten her grip on the elf. Iris laid down on the sleeping bag, watching carefully to not squash the sleeping girl's hand in the process.

The outside world appeared to not exist to Iris as Kia snuggled deeper into her with a brilliant smile adorning her sleeping face while doing so.

The elf felt her heart beating as she watched that smile attempting to burn this image into her memory for the rest of her life, or unlife.

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POV Anna

"What you did with them?" Cisil casted a judgemental look at me.

"Nothing exempt washing ourselves." I answered.

"Come on boy, these ladies will not steal Anna away," Albert tried to cheer up Cil. "How would that even work?"

"Did those elves do something to you?" Cil was not satisfied with leaving the matter at that.

"No."

"Cil grow up." The sound of metal plates sliding on each other could be heard as Albert leaned closer to Cil.

"You see that they are shameless in front of Anna trying to steal her from me I mean Light Sigil."

"Your drunk, go to your tent," Albert ordered, making Cil grimes but he could not argue with the team leader. "Want some." He presented a mostly empty bottle.

"No thank you," I declined. "You should also rest I will take the first watch."

Must be good to have a such a lovable family. I smiled as I stared at a blueish tent with small bloody hand imprint on its side.