Day ~31~

Waking up well before sunrise, thanks to [Insomnia] again, Rea was watching Melody.  For the first time since her days as Noel she had really let loose.  Reveling in the joy of having someone like Melody in her company Rea could only smile.  Thinking more about her current situation she realized that Melody would probably wanna be back home before her son wakes up.  Feeling that it was her duty to act in the woman's best interest Rea got to work.  Melody had been laying next to her and with Rea looming over her, gently caressing her cheek, she began to stir.  Without waiting for her to wake up Rea began to kiss Melody on the lips, then lower on the neck, then lower on her chest, then lower on her exposed stomach, and lower, and lower...

Melody had never woken up like that before.  She vacantly stared down at Rea who was now resting on toned washboard abs with arms wrapped around her waist, gazing back at her.

"I'll have to stay in barns more often."

Melody was still a bit out of it at this point and just chuckled, "This is a bit early, don't you think?"

Rea cocked her head sideways, causing Melody to snicker at the sensation, "I thought you might want to get back home before a certain cute kid wakes up."

Having completely forgotten about her son Melody doubled over laughing, "You're right... umm, about the scales.  I've only ever seen those on an ophidian before..."

Rea smiled slightly, "Now that you know my secret I have to kill you," she claimed in an overly melodramatic voice while repeating the earlier process in reverse.  

Melody began to giggle as Rea made her way up, "Cut that out, haha, stop it, Rea."

Just before kissing her on the lips, to Melody's chagrin, Rea stopped with an impish grin, "Stop here?"

Realizing she'd just dug her own grave Melody rolled over on top of her, "I think we've got time for one more contest..."

Rea giggled helplessly, "You think you've got a chance?"

With a flat look she replied, "No, but I sure as hell enjoy the fight."

A while later two women were sneaking into a cabin under the cover of darkness, sharing a hot bath, having one more contest in the bath, and saying their goodbyes in the dark.

As Rea quietly trekked through Vestlei under the moonlight she sighed in contentment.  It was a different city at night, quiet and eerie.  Feeling a bit off, and starting to scare herself Rea quickly made for the Ainsworth manor.  She really hadn't had any trouble finding it the second time.  Once Rea had returned and climbed the stairwell she was greeted by a half asleep Meril.

"You're up early."

Meril gave Rea a slightly angry look, "I was worried when you didn't come home, what were you doing out this late Rea, it's almost morning."

Not being a very modest person Rea answered honestly, "I was doing my tutor's mom."

*cough*  *cough  *cough*  That answer nearly floored Meril, "Seriously?"

Rea grinned while counting fingers, "One, two, three.... seven times?  Between the single mother and doctor feel good I can give you plenty of reference material for the book, care to hear all about it?"

Genuinely curious about both encounters Meril simply nodded yes, after getting over a bout of indecision her inner writer won over.

"I'll tell you about it later, for now can we get some sleep?  I'm really beat."

Realizing the reason why Rea was beat Meril didn't bother reprimanding her and just let Rea in for a quick nap.

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Days ~32-38~

For the next several days Rea fell into a pretty normal schedule.  Breakfast on normal days with the Ainsworth family, random chatter, lunch with Ella, donate blood, wind up, study with Corn, and on nights when Melody mentioned that she could sleep in the barn, well, Rea had a late breakfast on those days.

Most of the fun she had during those days had to have been explaining in vivid detail many of her adventures to Meril and as much as it surprised her, learning about the world she would be living in from now on also happened to be fun.  Rea was pretty much on cloud nine, she really couldn't help but admire how quickly things were going because of the combination between her memory blessing and this little genius.  Corn rarely ever opened a book or used reference material to teach her.  That alone had taken most of what she found boring about studying away.  However, It was a little annoying at times to watch the haughty kid go on and on about minor events that Rea really couldn't care less about.  She had wanted a vague lesson on the world, how would knowing that a tree in the south called marelik tastes like honey help her?

When Corn had gotten around to geography she paid close attention, very close attention.  Rea knew that this would be, well, necessary for her to achieve her goals.  When Rea thought of that she also decided to work on her ability to navigate cities later.  This part of their study session went a bit slower because every time Rea began to pay very close attention, she would forget to maintain her distance and end up right on top of the poor boy.  To explain, Corn sat at his desk with Rea sitting behind of him.  As the boy spoke and jotted down notes, Rea only listened and absorbed information.  The notes he was jotting down were visual aids to help Rea gain a better understanding of every subject he taught her.  Rea really was impressed with the kid, seriously he was diligent to say the least.  The problem now though was that she found herself so eager to see the roughly sketched maps he often began to feel the sensation of heavenly steam buns being crushed against his back.  The problem also wasn't Corn telling her to stop, obviously the boy wasn't, he was just getting distracted and slowing down the pace.  Rea on the other hand was too focused on the maps and geography of this world to notice.  What Rea hadn't expected though was Corn making a few arrows on the corners of his sketch and pointing out that other continents were in those directions.  He also stated that because interactions between separate continents are low we know next to nothing about them.  

The more Rea looked at the map the more lost she became in a sense of wanderlust.  Corn was happy about it to since by this point she was pretty much glomping onto the kid.  With her head resting atop his own Rea silently listened as he spoke about geography.  What he had been taught was that the continent where they live is separated into three main areas, four if you count the south eastern volcanic islands.  When Rea heard islands she ignored the volcanic part and began to fantasize about scantily clad natives, a mistake she would come to regret at a much later time...  Moving on, these three sections of the continent have little to do with each other.  The reason for that is because it's difficult to cross between them, even though they're all on the same land mass.  The reason for the difficult crossing is because a mountain range separates the largest north eastern area from the second largest western area, and a dangerous river that flows from a lake, that occupies about 40% of the western lands separates the smallest land mass, a southern peninsula, from the north western land mass.  Similarly a much smaller range of mountains separates the western and southern lands, the mountains that separate all of the regions go in a single diagonal south by southwest to north by northeast line across the near center of the continent, and the western lake's river cuts through those mountains emptying out into the south eastern ocean.

At that point, before he could get into what is known about the region they currently reside in, Corn warned Rea that even though there is a pretty large land mass where the river empties out into ocean waters, you cannot cross, that small area of land is home to some of the most dangerous known monsters.  In Rea's eyes, the western region looked like a jagged heart after being sectioned off by mountains... and the lake made it look like a jagged heart with a funny shaped hole in it.  When Corn commented that it looks nothing like a heart, Rea amended her statement to a real heart... she'd torn enough out in her time to know what one looks like in lurid detail.  Corn, being a curious kid, asked if she might sketch one.  Now the funny thing is that in her lifetime as Noel, she'd never taken a picture with her daughter before.  So as the years without her daughter went on Noel had taken up sketching and painting.  Believing that she'd never forget what her daughter looks like, but still fearing that she may, Noel had become a proficient artist.  She did this in order to paint not portraits of her daughter specifically, but scenes of their time together, moments that they had been at their happiest.  Now sketching a heart for Corn she began to remember her favorite painting, her favorite moment...

Ability [Relaxing Aura Rank Up]!

Ability [Sketching Lv. 1] learned.

Ability [Job-Artist] learned.

As Rea took a moment to ponder what sketching would effect she decided that maybe once everything was over with, making a living as an artist wouldn't be so bad.  Corn was astounded by the level of detail in her sketch.  At first he'd thought that maybe she was pulling his leg, but the more detail she added, the more Rea paused to consider, to remember, he knew that this was likely what a real human heart looks like.  After muttering a small complaint that the real thing is entirely different from the hearts that people like to draw, Corn and Rea went back to examining the map he'd sketched.  The only difference was that Corn became lot less haughty about his own skill as a proficient sketcher.

Looking over the map again she likened the small southern region to a common leaf, Corn had no argument there.  The small region, as it turns out, is completely desert.  Rea hadn't been too fond of desserts before, so she made a mental note to never visit.  When Rea realized that he hadn't explained anything about the western region other than its lake, well,  Corn laughed it off.  He claimed that that region isn't even worth consideration.  As he started to explain a few of its known habitats, Rea realized that the place could seriously be something straight out of a Billy Bonka movie.  Between the giant mushroom forests and rivers of water sweetened naturally from indigenous mangrove trees.  Rea liked the idea of a land with flowing streams and plenty of water sources, but somewhere with so much bountiful nature would probably have tons of natural wildlife as well, which means predators.

Corn laughed when Rea likened their own region to that of a north eastern facing toad without legs.  As it turns out, she explained that the mountain range lining the western border looked like warts and the two bumps on the region's relatively straight northern edge looked like eye sockets.  Corn warned Rea to never visit those eye sockets, they were home to some of the nastiest dragons around apparently.  Corn started by marking and pointing out the Luhwan Wildwoods for Rea, she really hadn't been very far from the largest section of mountains.  Rea took a moment to close her eyes and remember the sight of them across the horizon as she first left the lizard cave.  Then on the eastern border of the woods was obviously Vestlei.  Vestlei made its rest at just about dead center of the toad's stomach.  Corn made a long line on the map at that point to tell her that from just out of the river's exit to the south, leading all the way up to the toads neck were beaches.  Rea took another moment to close her eyes, she now began to see in vivid detail certain improper scenes from her last few months as Noel.  That day on the beach had been particularly crazy, seven men... no, was it eight?  Honestly it wasn't her best day as she hadn't gotten her favorite part about getting intimate with someone out of it, which is lying next to them afterwards, just being close.  What she had gotten out of that day was the hangover from hell and knowledge of about twenty new positions.  At that point she asked Corn if they could take a break for about an hour.  He agreed and left to go into the city and buy a few materials, it turns out that Rea had lit a fire in the competitive genius.  Corn had become determined to be her better in art.  Rea on the other hand, sauntered off to find Melody...

Two hours later Rea returned to his room slightly out of breathe and apologized, her business had taken longer than expected.  When Corn inquired as to the reason why her business had taken so long, she merely explained that sometimes during a workout you get so heated up that you lose track of time.  Corn nodded in understanding and stated that training your body to survive the rigors of this world is a very important task and she should endeavor to do so more often.  Rea just grinned like the immature person she is and said that she'd certainly make it a priority... she also took the chance to set Melody up with an awkward situation by telling him to thank his mother for being her exercise partner.  At that point Corn puffed out his chest proudly and stated that his mother was really strong and had the stamina of a monster because of her rigorous lifestyle.  Rea being Rea, she just nodded in approval and stated that if it wasn't for her own high level of experience his mother would certainly beat her when they have their wrestling matches.  Corn, not believing that Rea could beat his mom in a physical contest, innocently asked if he could watch the next match.  Rea snickered, gazed out the window at an unsteady Melody, and simply replied that he should ask his mom.  Tonight Rea would probably die from the suspense of wondering how that hilarious conversation is gonna unfold, but for now it was back to geography.

When they resumed the study Corn quickly realized that the heavenly steam buns had become freshly cooked steam buns, when he asked if she needed to go take a breather Rea noticed that her [Thermoregulation] was still in effect.  Rea apologized and explained that she wasn't actually feverish, just a bit worked up.  Things resumed to normal after that, except now to Corn's chagrin, Rea realized what she had been doing and chose to sit next to him.  Unfortunately that only proved more distracting as the thin fabric of her ceremonial garb did little to hide the after effects of using [Thermoregulation] to quickly cool a heated body down.  With every lean Rea performed to examine the changes of his map Corn turned away and continued to talk.  His mother had taught him that compromising a woman's modesty is rude, and Corn was still pretty innocent for his age.  Rea on the other hand, was actually having a bit of trouble with the more intricate aspects of tying a sash, wearing her hastily rearranged and poorly worn ceremonial garb one could say that she lacked modesty all together.  When Rea noticed that Corn was looking away and had stopped explaining things to her, she placed a hand on his shoulder and asked him what was wrong.  Corn, slightly shocked, had turned around to find that the hills, as stated in books, do indeed have eyes.  Instead of letting this go on any longer he asked Rea to leave and fix her clothing.  Rea, having noticed his bashful behavior could only snicker at the innocent teen.  Instead of leaving to fix her garb she just stood up and turned around to untie, refold, and retie her garb.  Once that was done she winked at the troubled woman outside his window she'd just flashed before sitting back down to study.

Finally getting back to work the two talked briefly about everything on the eastern region that lay southwest of, south of, and along the coast southeast of Vestlei.  He explained that because of the warmer climate in the south there were numerous rocky areas and even some places with deep cliffs.  Each minor region in the major eastern region had at least one city and a few outlying villages.  Villages, rather than existing for living purposes usually revolved around some specific goal, like a mining operation.  When Rea inquired as to why that is he simply explained that in this dangerous world you can only really feel safe raising a family in one of the cities.  Rea made a mental note that she'd have to pick a city to settle down in eventually so over the next few decades she should be sure to visit them all.

To the northwest of Vestlei there were mining villages and even a mining city built right into the side of the mountain range.  Rea really didn't require further details other than, "you can learn the best smith techniques there, my dad was born there."  Rea took a moment to offer the deceased father a silent prayer and realized that's the reason they had an unused blacksmith's forge on the farm.  After he mentioned the mining villages Corn realized that he should make specific mention that there are three widely used writing systems among humans, those correspond with the three largest human settlements.  Their current place, Vestlei was obviously one of them.  The second largest city was in the southwest on a rocky cliff, Tal'ma'tarn.  The third existed on a large open prairie in the central northern plains, Solanis.

Directly north and all the way up to the toad's mouth northeast of Vestlei appeared to be, for the most part, open plains and prairies with sparse wooded areas here and there.  There were supposedly many cities and villages, even some Corn probably hadn't heard about that had been built in recent years.  The reason the northern areas are so popular to live in is due to the varying level of danger.  Corn explained that when people leave the academia of whichever city they lived in almost all of them head to the plains for adventuring.  Rea filed that away for later in her mental "IMPORTANT" folder right next to her now perfect memory "Snapshots of various men and women" folder.  As she did that Rea called to mind the first memory in that second folder of a certain elven doctor.  Rea then asked for a ten minute break before sauntering off... she returned thirty minutes later and apologized once again, this time her garb was on properly though.

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The final thing they went on to discuss that day, that very fun day for Rea, was about a certain village on the northeastern edge of this region called Valhalla.  Rea chuckled when she first heard the name but Corn ignored that.  He told her, while sketching lines and boundaries, the city sat on a small isolated beach just southeast of the dracovian peaks... the toad's eye sockets.  The reason he'd made special mention of this village, instead of just saying it's located roughly here and use these landmarks to find it, was because of the unusually dangerous location.  That village had been created with the purpose of challenging dangerous monsters.  This resulted in an oddly high number of experienced adventurers and heroes turning up there.  Rea was pretty interested in Valhalla now but they were interrupted by Melody.  When she asked if Rea would like to eat with them before she left today... Ha ha, Rea lied through her teeth about having something important or some other to do tonight.  She did this in order to escape the ensuing chaos she'd likely created by misleading her son into asking some rather funny questions.

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Day ~39~

Rea had to be very, very accommodating to a rather angry Melody this morning, she had marched right up to the Ainsworth mansion in a near fury.  Rea also had to promise to not intentionally drop innuendos on her son at every chance she got.  After about half an hour of accommodation in the room next to Meril's, because Meril had begged Rea to accommodate there, well, Melody had forgiven Rea.  After calming down, she realized just how funny what had happened to her last night was.  Melody told Rea that Corn had forced her to go see a doctor after she passed out when he asked to watch them wrestle, as if accidentally spitting dinner in his face when he conveyed Rea's thanks wasn't enough.  After stating, "Please don't put any ideas into my kid's head, I'm trying to keep him oblivious to girls for as long as possible."  Melody was happy to hear Rea say she'd try not to.

Her happiness only lasted for a moment as she stared down the nude woman straddled atop her abdomen.  Rea had stopped moving, leaned slightly forward, and now just silently gazed back at Melody with a vacant smile.  The reason she'd felt vexed at that moment was because she realized that with a beauty like Rea around, a woman who was so alluring, and thanks to [Relaxing Aura], just generally pleasant to be near, well, her son was definitely about to start noticing girls.  Heck, even herself who'd been a straight woman all her life, had started to notice other women.  The only relieving thing was that he'd probably take an interest in older women and not get into trouble with the girl's his age.  Silently hoping that he doesn't find a woman willing to wrestle with him... Melody tried really hard to put that thought out of her mind and got back to business.  Rea let out a lusty moan and slid forwards as Melody ran both hands along her legs to roughly grasp her behind...

After Melody departed that morning Rea poked her head into Meril's room, the young Ainsworth thanked Rea while blushing profusely and pretended she hadn't been caught doing what Rea just caught her doing.  She then proceeded to begin writing what would later become known as a literary masterpiece.  When Rea asked if it was alright to be making last minute hasty alterations to her book, Meril just responded by saying that what she had just heard was far more intense than anything she could have imagined.  Because of that Meril had become more determined than ever to improve her writing and do the character she had modeled after Melody justice.

Following a particularly long study session, Corn announced proudly that Rea had finished all of the required academic material.  Monsters, climates, bizarre weather conditions, currency exchange, geography and cities.  Rea had learned quite a bit in the last few days thanks to Corn and her memory blessing.  After telling Rea to wear something other than one of the four different kimono like garbs she'd been sporting until now, he explained to her that tomorrow they'd be getting around to learning basic abilities for survival and miscellaneous chores.  Realizing that her practical wardrobe was seriously lacking Rea decided to consult Meril tonight.

Rea arrived at the Ainsworth mansion just before sundown, after nearly tripping over Meril in the garden Rea couldn't help but stare.

"Something wrong Meril?"

Looking up the woman answered, "I'm sorry Rea..."

Rea, feeling like something really bad must have happened answered, "What, did, you, do?"

Burying her head down into the dirt Meril answered with a muffled voice, "My publisher took the wrong script...  I was working on making the alterations to the completed script when he took the script I wrote this morning... your name isn't in it but, well, everyone else's names..."

Rea nearly doubled over laughing until she realized that if Ella or Melody read... if they even hear about that book, "Oh... damn it...."  Putting the inevitable reckoning out of her mind Rea decided to get back to business, "I'll need some more practical clothing starting tomorrow, finally getting into the more hands on stuff."

Meril looked up with a dirt covered face and gaped, "Eight and a half days!?  Eight and a half days!?  That's all it took!?"

Rea calmly flexed her hands and helped Meril up while brushing some of the dirt off her mug, "Trust me on this one Meril, if a goddess ever tries to seduce you, let her."

Meril's face drained of color, "Followers of the goddess Airi, I sincerely beg your forgiveness..."

This time Rea did double over laughing, "You wrote about her!?"

"Of course I did..."

"Well, no sense worrying now, about my clothes...."

"Followers of the goddess Airi, I sincerely beg your forgiveness..."

"Uhh, Meril?" Rea began to look a bit concerned at this point.

"Followers of the goddess Airi, I sincerely beg your forgiveness..."

"..." *grope* *grope*

"Followers of the goddess Airi, I sincerely beg your forgiveness..."

Sporting a malicious grin and nibbling on Meril's ear she continued, *fondle fondly fondle fondle* *Grope!*  *GROPE! GROPE!*

*KA-POW!!!* *bam* *pow*

Rea laid on the ground clutching her head in pain as Meril triumphantly waltzed away.  After some careful contemplation Rea decided to give Meril some space.  Making her way back into town Rea searched for a tailor's shop that she had seen nearly every day while traveling to meet doctor feel go... Ella Wyrmwind.

Rea paused outside of the merchant quarter building that belonged to her desired tailor.  While chowing down at her favorite tempura stall she silently admired some of the designs on display.  Rea never really had a flare for the magnificent, but something about this person's simple designs, sporting small intricate patterns, really made her yearn.  Realizing that the setting sun meant she really didn't have the time to lounge around Rea quickly bolted for the door.  Just before a woman could flip the open-closed sign she barreled in.

Seeing a level 57 tailor gape at her in shock, Rea was... sort of pleased.  Blaming [Jester] for that unnecessary pleasure, Rea moved on.  A familiar scent of leather and linens brought her a sense of comfort.  Not really having much room the two stood face to face, Rea being slightly smaller, looked up.  This tall, lanky, dirty blonde twin tail with brown eyes and plenty of freckles seemed to have a problem with her.  Rea silently pondered why the owner of a clothing shop was wearing such plain clothing... wouldn't they normally wear a nice dress to entice female customers?

"Evening madam," Rea spoke on her best behavior while flipping the open-closed sign to closed for her.

"Those clothes weren't made for you, I made them for a different girl..." the tailor shot Rea an accusatory glare.

Rea clapped her hands together, "You're the tailor then?"

A bit annoyed that she'd just been ignored the blonde twin tail tailor answered, "Take them off!"  She really couldn't stand the sight of someone who shouldn't be wearing it using something she had created.

"Eh?"

Rea would later find out that this woman had an extreme personality when it comes to clothing, but for now, she panicked.  The woman was now chasing Rea through the shop and knocking over displays while reaching for her sash.  As Rea dove over a counter to make a beeline for the exit she felt a tug, and the world was spinning.

*gasp* "Sacré bleu!"

Rea was now on her bum in the middle of the store with her sash missing and the garb down past her shoulders, scales exposed.  Ignoring the fact that she'd just heard something vaguely reminiscent of an old french swear word, Rea stood and wrapped herself in the fabric like a towel.  The look of absolute fear on this woman's face as Rea slowly waltzed towards her pleased Rea to no end.  Blaming [Sadism]... blaming her nature as a person for the unnecessary pleasure she asked, "Are we alone?"

The woman stuttered, "N-n-n-n-no, I've got a h-hundred men out back bringing me m-m-materials..."

Rea gave her an appraising gaze, "So we're alone."

The woman collapsed, desperately holding onto the sash in her hands as she looked up at Rea, "Am I about to be eaten?"

Rea grinned maliciously, "I wasn't feeling very hungry tonight, but for you, I'll make an exception."  Rea ignored the [Sadism] rank up as she watched the woman begin to cry and scoot backwards.  While the woman's back collided with a wall Rea slid over the aforementioned counter, knelt down, placed both hands on shaking shoulders, pinned a shivering body to the wall, then proceeded to lick her tears.  "My name... is Rea."

The woman, still fearful and confused, asked, "W-why?"

A gentle smile graced her features as she shamelessly stated, "So you know what name to scream while I'm eating you."

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Covered in about thirty different pieces of fallen fabrics, knocked off of the back wall, Rea looked up at the ceiling and sighed contently.  Realizing that she had come here for an entirely different reason than what just happened Rea started to fumble through the various colors of material.  Knowing that she could only wear something that wouldn't clash with her scales, or colors that would hide them, Rea started tossing all the light ones away.  About two minutes later she found one that pleased her, an earthen silky fabric.  Turning her head sideways to look at the woman who was just vacantly watching her go about the charade, Rea asked, "How would I look in this color?"

The immensely confused tailor closed her eyes and burrowed headfirst into Rea's neckline, "What just happened?"

Rea let out a giggle at the ticklish sensation, "One of the world's greatest pastimes, now really, how does this look?"

The woman gave in, "I think it looks great on you, earthen colors go well with your black hair and aqua eyes."

Rea smiled gleefully, "Think you can make me some practical clothing that covers all of my..." Rea came to the sudden realization that she had devoured this woman, Lisa Kalsworn, without even asking for her name, after staring into the woman's light brown eyes she asked, "...got a name?"

The tailor chuckled ruefully, "Lisa, Lisa Verde Kalsworn, and yes I can make practical wear for someone with your... needs."

Rea made a mental note that her [Psychometry] doesn't pick up middle names then nudged in closer to the woman while toying with her earthen fabric, "I'll need a few outfits, right now I've basically only got the ceremonial garbs... how much are they gonna cost?"

Lisa then turned and pulled Rea over on top of herself, "I know how you can get a discount."

Rea, once again feeling like she'd hit a jackpot, laughed heartily while grinning at the needy woman, "Lucky for me I'm almost always hungry."

Lisa let out a lusty sigh, "Let's just hope my husband doesn't find out I'm feeding you."

Rea nearly fell over... Oops... it's a shame Meril already published that book, she'd love this... oooooh maybe I can get a sequel!

Day ~40~

The next morning Rea was trying on a comfy burlywood color vest, Lisa had made her a few colorful and patterned chokers so she wouldn't have to wear turtlenecks.  Absolutely satisfied with the first vest she slid on a pair of dodger blue shorts, not unlike jeans.  After watching the tailor hard at work Rea had gained the [Apt Pupil] ability and decided that she might even pick up tailoring in the future.  When Lisa looked up from one of her pedal-powered sewing machines to see how Rea was doing she received a very, very thankful kiss...  Rea decided to eat breakfast...

Some time later Lisa gave Rea a pair of long gloves, when Rea took them she noted that they were very high quality and came with a nice, [Dexterity Boost].  After putting on the matching earthen color, burlywood brown gloves, Rea was happy to find that they reached beyond her elbows and left all but her ring fingers exposed.  Lisa explained that this way it looked like she was making a fashion statement, not hiding something.  After looking at, then to Rea's pleasure, absolutely destroying her mortal enemy... I mean fluffy sandals, Lisa went on to slowly put together a pair of form fitting boots.  Lisa explained that the reason she'd done so well with all of Rea's other clothing so far was because she had taken some very hands on measurements.  So before making the final adjustments to Rea's new boots Lisa got hands on.  Somewhere between the laughing and joking Rea decided to eat an early lunch...

Feeling absolutely famished Rea took a barefooted detour outside and visited the tempura vendor.  By the time she returned Lisa had finished the final adjustments to her leather boots.  Rea gratefully accepted the sienna brown over knee boots and hastily put them on.  Once again thankful to see that they were high quality and even sporting an [Agility Boost].  As Rea did a few twirls and brought up the subject of payment a doorbell rang.

Lisa looked over Rea's shoulder and out into the lobby before saying, "Back here sweety!"

Rea broke out in a cold sweat for a moment while the man, a level 67 [Executioner], introduced himself as Lisa's husband who was particularly worried when she hadn't come home last night.  Lisa went on to, and Rea really liked this part, lie through her teeth and spice the deception with tiny bits of truth.  Rea really had been in dire need of new clothing.  He forgave her after hearing all about how his wife, the eccentric tailor, had gotten caught up in her work when she was given a beautiful model to customize clothing for.  Taking note of this beautiful model the man blushed slightly, Lisa repaid him with a swift kick to no man's land.  While the man apologized profusely to his honey bunny Rea decided to excuse herself as it was almost time for her daily doctors appointment.  After agreeing to come back tomorrow and settle the bill while retrieving some more clothing Rea began to leave.  When his wife mentioned that she would also feed Rea dinner again the man only smiled at his kindhearted woman.  Rea on the other hand, grinned roguishly and offered the man a silent apology.

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