I decided to go to town, as I had recalled that Melisa the Laundress in town, also had a daughter who might help with the laundry. In all the scramble to get everything situated, I had forgotten all about her, and I didn't want to leave her out, assuming she was interested in the job.

Upon reaching the laundry, I saw a Racoon kin scrubbing away, with a big smile on her face. "ahem." I coughed to get her attention. "Oh, hello there, can I help you with something?" She asked me with a head tilt. I smiled at her. "I assume you're Melisa's daughter?" She nodded her head, still smiling. "That I am, is there something you needed with my Mother then?" I smiled back at her. "Actually, my mother came to talk to Melisa about a potential job for you, I'm Mark, and I'm the one you'd be working for, assuming you're interested. I did get two Laundresses who were bond servants, though my signing bonus allowed them to pay their own bonds, so that's a non issue, and then they both got accepted as wives, so that negates everything anyway. Still you were offered the job, and there's plenty of work to warrant me hiring you, assuming you were interested."

Her tail twitched in surprise. "You got two laundresses already, and still need me?! Also, you accepted them as wives, have you had no luck getting someone pregnant yet?! I'd love that opportunity as well!" I chuckled. "That opportunity only needs my current wives approval, but so far, they haven't refused anyone who's asked, and God knows I never will. As long as you'll get along with the others, I'm always happy to have another woman to love, and pamper. That and I've got a LOT of daughters, and sisters to take care of. Counting the boys from the Orphanage, and my own two daughters, Undines, that's currently 42 kids at my place. I feel like a bad dad to some extent, I never have had the time to really get to know them all, too much real life stuff making me run all over the place, but their mothers are doing great so far, nobody is unhappy at least."

She was confused, but also obviously hopeful. "So, let me get this straight,...you've already got two daughters,...AND you adopted a bunch of Orphans,...but you'd still let me join, how many wives do you have now?" I chuckled again. "As of this moment, Wripple, Spashta, Marina, Marie, Theresa, Veronica, Rose, Vera, Harmony, Penelope, Grace, Kora, Fiona, Senna, Mona, and lastly, Alian. So that's, 17, and to be clear, I do love them all, and i spend as much adult fun time with them as I can. Everyone goes to sleep, panting, and sweaty, pretty much every night." This bit of intelligence made her eyes seem to pop out of their sockets, and onto the ground. "You do it more than once?!"

She was eager at this point. "Yeah, the pain, and blood only happen the first time, so all the guys who are avoiding their wives due to the mess, well they're just missing out." Melisa came up just then, and, like most mothers, she had the perfect timing to hear what she needed to hear. "Is that true Mark, about the mess?" I nodded. "Indeed Melisa, and both Mother, and Ruth the Quest guild master are Pregnant by my Father now."

Melisa, and her Daughter's jaws hung wide open, but Melisa was the first to recover. "Christy dear, you are going to take that Job, and do your best to convince the others to accept you as a Wife. I've heard some of the things Mark has been up to, and how much wealth he already has, plus he, and one of his wives are knights now, and he's our Mayor too, as well as North Haven's Mayor." Christy's eyes, as impossible as I thought it was, seemed to widen further.

"You're a Knight?!" I groaned. "Please don't remind me! I don't take any stock in that Title, even if it does come with duties, I never asked for. I've left both Mayors in their places, even if they're deputy Mayors now, they still do what they always did, but call me for anything that needs a signature, or is too big an issue for them to deal with, as I'm also their Lord now. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if they all just said welcome home right from the start. They seriously haven't ever said no, but just in case, here's your Gold signing bonus, that's yours anyway, shall I pick you up in a bit, or will you hire a wagon to take you and your stuff out later?"

With hands trembling in shock, and an abundance of joy, she took the Gold coin. "I'll hire a Wagon, and get my things loaded, and be there before dinner. I need to pack, and I still have a little work here." Melisa bodily picked her up. "Nonsense, you get packing now, you know letting you work was only ever out of kindness, not need. Get yourself to your new home soonest,...besides your Mothers and I need to attack our husband tonight, and try for some siblings for you."

Christy's face flushed, and in an almost panic she fled to start packing. "How soon do you think I can expect Grandchildren hmm?" I laughed. "Literally nine months after she askes me to start one, cause I have control of exactly when it starts, even if the gender is random, perks of having Sexual Technique at level fifty, well fifty three now. There's two perks, certain pregnancy comes first, no clue what level, but that even removes infertility status, so if your husband gets that, keep going till you unlock the fertility toggle, I don't care how sore, or tired he is, just keep at it." Melisa giggled, as I gave her a side wave, and started back to the farm.

As I was passing through the town square, I noticed a person with leathery wings, crouched down, and huddled under their wings. Though they reminded me of my Demoness' wings, they seemed more,.. natural, more like a bats. I approached her, and realized she was a batkin. her ears reminded me in proportion to what was called a Flying Fox on Earth. At every loud sound, she flinched, clearly the bustling town was too much for her sensitive ears. As I was wearing a cloak against the slight chill in the air, I spread it out to further muffle the sounds, which she instantly noticed.

Her head came out from under her wings to try and get a look at me. "What's a batkin doing here, and in the middle of the day no less?" I whispered to her, knowing that full volume would be very painful to her. "Trying to find a man to be my husband, but it's too loud, and too bright in the day, but that's the only time your kind is awake. If only there were some Undines here, the sound would be muffled by their presence." I smirked. "Why not come to my farm then, I have two Undine wives, as well as two Undine daughters, even if you don't become my wife, I have quite a few Orphan boys at my place so maybe one of them will suit your fancy."

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I kept whispering for her. "I can't even move due to the noise, but I do want to." I nodded, clicking my tongue so she'd sense my nodding with her ears, instead of her eyes. "Wrap yourself tight in your wings, and I'll carry you then." I whispered again, and nodding she ducked into her wings. I picked her up gently, and smoothly, but quickly carried her home. We went straight to the greenhouse over the mill pond, as it was not only where Wripple and Sphashtar were, but protected even more from sound.

As I approached the Greenhouse, the Batkin girl had poked her head out from her wings, and clicked her tongue so see what's ahead. "That's strange, my eyes see empty air, but my ears see a solid wall. What's that thing ahead?" Still keeping my voice low, but no longer at a whisper I answered. "That's a Glass covered house. Glass is melted sand, and this sand when it cools, is perfectly clear, so much so we need to worry about birds hitting it on accident, the Undines are inside there, so hopefully you'll find the space restful at least for now."

The poor girl sagged in relief as we entered the structure, and the doors closed behind us. "Thank you so much for bringing me here. I never would have thought a Human would willing let Undines stay with him." One of my daughters giggled, while Katy climbed out to take another dive. My other daughter spoke out though. "Our daddy's not silly like most men, he's going to make us sisters later, but we'll move out to other waters before that. I'm Raindrop by the way, or at least that's the best you fleshy's can do in saying my name, my Sister here is Waterfall mist, and the human swimmer is Katy." "Nice to meet you!" Said Waterfall Mist. Katy merrily waved from the pond, as Wripple, and Spashtar came closer to talk.

"Welcome home Mark, and greeting to you young Batkin, I am Spashtar, and beside me is my Sister wife Wripple." "It's a very great pleasure to meet all of you, I'm Eavena, I don't suppose you'd let me join you as a Wife, I really don't want to go back to that Town to find a man, it's too noisy! Plus I should be asleep right now, too bright." Wripple answered. "As long as everyone else agrees, and I don't see any problems with that. Still you need to ask everyone."

Katy had climbed out of the pond again, and this time ran up the stairs, and instead of slamming into my leg, as I had expected, she instead tackled Eavena with a soppy wet bearhug, much to my amusement. "Oh, I should have realized you had another wife, what with this cutie here." She hugged Katy back "If you ladies will excuse me, I need to do something, it will take a little time, but I should have it finished before dinner, I'm assuming you'll be welcomed, but I'll wait for the good news."

I bowed out, and went to the Glassworks building, where Marina was practicing some of the things I had taught her. I found a couple pieces from a broken pane so the correct size, and began to cut, and shape the glass, then polished it until is was clear, at which point I then smoked the glass, in order to get a thick layer of carbon embedded in the glass, tinting it, and then made wire frames to house them. Marina was intrigued, and watched closely.

Once I was done, she questioned me. "Why is it shaped like that. Those are meant to go over someone's eyes right?" I nodded. "Exactly right, but the person's ears are different than mine, or yours, closer to Alians. You should have a set for yourself, so you can look into the bloom without risk, I should too for that matter, but the person I made these for needs them more. Her name is Eavena, and she's a Batkin, who came specifically to find a Husband, so you should meet her." She shook her head, in exasperation. "Why do you do that, you know we're always going to say yes, sure it's nice making things official and all, but there's no chance anyone is going to say no, like ever. If you decided to invite all the unmarried women in town to be your wives, we'd still say yes,... though it would be really crowded in that bed, massive as it is, it's not THAT big." She chuckled. "Besides, she's the reason you made those eye covers, so for me, that's a big plus, the fact I get to see something new, and learn to craft them because of her, only makes me love her more."

"This world really is weird, I figured you'd all say yes, oh, and Christy the Laundress' daughter is coming to work at least, though she too wants to be a wife, so there's that." "Seriously, just put the stupid ring on her finger, and kiss her already, no point in pretending we won't be happy, it's another woman to love, what's to be upset about?!"

Shaking my head, I left the Glassworks building, and returned to the pond. The sun was getting painful to me, so Christy must really be suffering. I came up behind her, knowing she was fully aware of me, I slipped the sunglasses over her eyes, and fixed them to her ears, I had designed the ear pieces to go around her ears fully, like rings, rather than the traditional hooks. Her ears twitched as I positioned the shades, but she turned, and embraced me tightly as soon as I had removed my hands. "Thank You! These are amazing! I might actually be able to function in the day with these, it's still a tad bright right now, but only like a full moon night!" I chuckled. "You're very welcome Christy, I hope they serve you well, regardless of anything else that may, or may not happen. Marina is fully in support, and seems to be of the opinion that nobody will ever say no to anyone, but still."

"She's right you know, even if you wanted to take siblings, we'd still all say yes. Alian's not withstanding, as they've been rather rude to her growing up from what I understand, otherwise though, we still would say yes, even if it was your own actual sister, though I know you'd never even think of that, we still wouldn't object." "Well I still find it weird that my wives are so accepting of adding more wives. When Christy gets here, she'll be asking to join as well. She's a Racoonkin, and another laundress, which will help a lot."

I pulled Eavena along, and went to the dining hall, with a very damp Katy in her arms. Penelope was holding a towel, and a robe for Katy to wear, having given up on clothes in general. "Another cute wife I see." All of my wives just smirked at me, as if to say, 'why isn't a ring on her finger already?' however, Christy entered behind us just then. The smirk on their faces grew, and they stared intently at me. "I assume your collective glare means get on with the rings already so we can eat?" Synchronized nods were my answer. Smiling I turned to the two women, and placed a silver ring on each of them. "These rings symbolize that you are mine, and I am yours, and the Gold rings are for after we've bedded, which I assume will be tonight, but that's up to you." With my current wives chuckling as they shook their heads, my two new women hugged me tightly.