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Karo Ranock was propelling himself through the air a few feet above The Great Road when he spotted a large host of riders approaching from the North, where he was headed.
He moved off the road and hid behind some large boulders to let them pass.
As they got closer he realized they weren't riding horses as he had expected, they were riding Rankir, the giant lizards of The Sands.
Of course, the dragons must have heard the humans have a spatial mage and gone to steal it away. He thought.
Karo took a deep breath and then did the dumbest thing he had ever done, he stepped out onto the road right in front of a horde of dragons.
As the riders approached and drew to a halt before him Karo realized he recognized the lead dragon, which scared him even more.
"Do you wish for death, human?" The Empress of The Sands asked.
Karo gulped and dropped to his knees. "Empress, I apologize for delaying your journey but I must know, do you possess the spatial mage?"
She regarded him for a moment before responding, "What need have you of the spatial mage?"
"He murdered my brother and burned down his estate, freeing all of our prisoners and slaughtering the entire household." He said angrily before remembering who he was addressing and going pale.
Sirenia Sandscale smiled a terrifying smile at him, baring her pointed teeth.
"I like your fire, human, but I'm afraid you wont be able to take revenge on the spatial mage himself as he is already dead."
Karo felt empty, What do I do now? I have nowhere to go and no purpose. He thought sadly.
"I have a proposition for you though human." Sirenia said, dragging him out of his thoughts of self-pity.
"The spatial mage you were seeking left behind a widow carrying his child, I was going to bring her back to The Sands until the child was born but the elves snatched her away from me."
"I doubt you will be able to retrieve her from the elves, but if you somehow manage it I will pay you handsomely."
"And of course I could make her life very miserable if that would satisfy your hatred of the spatial mage, what better way to take revenge on him beyond the grave than to hurt the woman he loved?" She said with a wicked grin.
Karo thought about it for a moment, infiltrating Edgewood would not be easy due to the elves' wariness of outsiders, especially males.
"Is there anything you can do to help me on this task?" He asked.
Sirenia snapped some orders in a language he didn't understand causing one of the men behind her to ride his Rankir forward and dismount, offering the reins to Karo.
"I believe you already know the woman who you will be seeking Lord Ranock, she's your niece after all." Sirenia said.
Karo was surprised she knew him, though he was a Ranock he wasn't a very important one being from a branch of the family without shadow magic.
"And now that you are aware I know who you are let me give you a final warning."
"If you bring harm to the unborn spatial mage or try to just run off with that mount, I will find everyone you care about and kill them slowly." She threatened.
The dragon empress shouted a command in the language of the dragons and urged her mount forward, riding right past Karo.
He stood there in terror as the four lines of mounted dragons split down the middle and rode past him on either side.
When the last of the dragons finally passed him by he mounted his new rankir with some difficulty, having never ridden one before.
Then he set off after the host of dragons at a much slower pace, he didn't want to catch back up to them after all.
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Cal woke up to Lumina kissing her on the forehead.
She looked around and realized they were hovering in the air and it was nighttime, she must have fallen asleep during the flight.
"Why are we still flying?" She asked, sleepily rubbing at her eyes.
"Because of that." Lumina answered.
Cal looked around to see what she was talking about and finally saw something other than The Great Road off to the East.
"Is that Edgewood?" She asked in astonishment.
Despite Kyla's reaction to Sophia suggesting all elves lived in forests Cal had still been expecting them to, but that was far from the truth.
There were sparse forests around the city, but Edgewood itself was built almost entirely of stone.
It rested at the base of the most massive range of mountains she had ever seen, rising into the sky like a row of jagged teeth from horizon to horizon with a slight curve.
"Yep, we should be arriving in about half an hour." Lumina answered.
"You are so cute when you're sleeping I didn't want to wake you. But I thought you might want to see the city from the sky." She said.
"I asked you not to call me cute." Cal said in irritation.
For some reason over the last week of flying her around Lumina had begun doting on her like she was a little girl, brushing and tying ribbons into her hair and remarking on her looks.
It was irritating being constantly reminded she was a girl now, but at the same time it felt nice to have someone dote on her like her mom used to.
Just a matter of time until she betrays you. She thought bitterly.
"Well then maybe you should switch into a body that's not so small and cute." Lumina said.
"That's a great idea, why didn't I think of that. I'll just go get someone less cute to murder me." Cal sarcastically replied.
"So what's going to happen when we arrive? Will we sleep here or charge the portal and head through to Vale tonight?" She asked.
"It's late and I have business in Edgewood anyways, we will rest tonight and charge it tomorrow." Lumina replied as she started moving again.
"What are those mountains called?" Cal yelled as they sped through the air.
"The mountains aren't individually named but the entire range is known as The Eastern Crown, it's a massive circle of mountains that juts out into The Endless Deep." Lumina replied loudly to be heard over the wind.
Cal stared at the city as they flew, she was eager to see an elven city.
Lumina picked up her speed as they grew closer, likely eager to arrive as well.
Edgewood appeared to be even more well fortified than Ranock, the walls were higher and there were far more watchtowers.
The city was built at the base of a cliff that rose thousands of feet straight up the side of the mountains, which the walls connected to.
With her nightvision Cal could see sentries standing every hundred feet or so along the massive wall and wicked looking balistae pointed up at the sky, likely defense against dragons.
As they neared the city the gates opened, which seemed unnecessary to her as all the elves returning were flying.
Lumina began to decend sharply causing Cal to wrap her arms around her neck tightly and shut her eyes once again as her stomach lurched.
They touched down on the ground and she released her grip and opened her eyes.
Lumina had landed outside the gates and began to walk forward, still carrying her.
"You can put me down now." Cal told her.
Lumina ignored her.
"Welcome Queen Dawnwing, we have several rooms prepared for you and your family in the keep." A tall male elf said with a bow as they entered the open gates.
"Thank you Drygen, your hospitality is always my favourite part of visiting Edgewood." Lumina said.
"This is our new spatial mage, isn't she adorable?" She asked.
Cal groaned, "Ok that's enough put me down right now Lumina."
"Very well." Lumina said, placing her on her feet.
Cal's legs were numb from dangling over Lumina's arm the whole day during their flight and she stumbled, grabbing Lumina to keep from falling down.
"Just let me carry you Cal, it's a long walk to the keep." Lumina said.
Cal looked up the long packed dirt road that led through the city uphill to the keep far in the distance.
She sighed, "Fine, you can carry me a little bit further."
Before she had even finished speaking Lumina was scooping her back up into her arms.
Drygen had a big shit eating grin on his face and Cal was trying to decide if it was for Lumina's antics or the fact that she had brought a spatial mage.
The straggling members of the Dawnwings began landing behind them as Lumina walked into the city with Drygen at her side.
After Lumina told Drygen to keep Cal's identity as a spatial mage secret they began discussing boring things about running the city and Cal quit paying any attention to them.
Instead she spent the walk taking in the sights of Edgewood at night, this late at night the streets of Ranock would be mostly empty with only a few bars remaining open for the night crowd.
But here in Edgewood there were elves with grey skin going about business like it was daytime.
"Are those dark elves?" She blurted out, interupting whatever Drygen had been saying.
"Night elves." Lumina told her.
"Elves are born with different skin color and abilities based on what time of day they are born, obviously night elves are born at night and day elves during the day." She explained.
"How come none of your family members we've been travelling with are night elves then?" Cal asked.
"Some elven households have abilities that only work for either day elves or night elves, like the way my family manipulates dawn energy."
"When a member of my family is going to give birth we bring a dryad to make certain it happens during the day." Lumina explained.
"Does that offend the night elves? That the royal family purposefully avoids having any night elf children?" Cal asked.
Lumina and Drygen laughed. "You're right Your Highness, she is adorable." Drygen said.
Cal scowled and wished she were walking so she could punch him.
"No Cal, night elves and day elves are considered the same people. There are no tensions like you humans seem to have with different colored members of your race."
"There are several families of both night and day elves that only have children that match their abilities but the vast majority do not influence it either way." Lumina said.
Cal yawned, the excitement of exploring a new city was dimming and her tiredness returning.
"We're almost there Cal." Lumina told her.
"Why aren't we just flying there?" Cal complained.
"Flying isn't possible in Edgewood, we have several defenses set up to prevent airborne attacks by the dragons." She explained.
Cal closed her eyes while they walked and Lumina resumed her conversation with Drygen quieter than before.
The next thing she knew Lumina was laying her down on a soft bed, causing her to wake briefly.
"Goodnight Cal." Lumina said softly as she pulled the blankets up to her chin.
"Goodnight Lumina." Cal mumbled right before she fell back asleep.
The next morning Cal woke to the smell of bacon and was delighted to find out elves did in fact eat meat, she had been worried when all they had on the journey was fruits, cheeses, and bread.
A tray of food and glass of juice had been set on the nightstand beside the bed while she was sleeping but whoever placed it there was already gone.
She dug into the food in delight, it reminded her of breakfast diner food from Earth.
There were a few links of a super sweet sausage, scrambled eggs with bits of various vegetables in them, biscuits covered in a heavy gravy, and of course the thing that had woken her, thick strips of delicious bacon.
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She finished eating and gulped down the glass of orange juice before carrying the dishes out of her room to find where to put them.
When she stepped out of the door one of the female elves she recognized from the flight was waiting for her.
"Princess, Queen Dawnwing asked me to wait until you woke and bring you to her." The elf said in a surprisingly masculine voice.
Cal looked her over closer trying to determine if she was in fact male or female but couldn't be sure, she definitely looked entirely female.
"I recognize you from the flight here which means you're part of Lumina's family, but I never caught your name." Cal said, trying to determine the elf's gender by learning her name.
"My name is Floren." The elf said in a masculine voice.
Cal decided to just ask, as she still wasn't sure. "Are you a male or female if you don't mind me asking Floren?"
"Male, Princess. We should not keep the queen waiting." Floren replied irritatedly.
"Where should I put these?" Cal asked sheepishly, lifting up the plate and glass she was carrying.
"Just bring them with you, the queen is waiting in the kitchens." He replied.
"Alright, lead on then." She said.
Floren turned and walked down the hallway they were in at a brisk pace and Cal strained to keep up with her short legs.
"In here." He said, opening a door and standing to the side for her.
"Thank you Floren, I apologize if I offended you with my question." Cal said as she stepped past him into the room.
Floren sighed, "You did not offend me Princess, I am just upset at being away from my family for so long. Forgive me if I have been rude to you." He said with a slight bow before closing the door.
"Good morning Cal, now that you are awake you can come assist me with the dishes." Lumina said.
Cal turned around from the closed door and saw Queen Lumina wearing an apron and doing dishes in a tub of water.
"Good morning, don't you have servants for that?" Cal asked puzzled.
Lumina laughed, "Elves do not have servants dear, we cook and clean for ourselves."
"Then who cooked that delicious breakfast for me?" Cal asked.
"I did, I'm glad you liked it." Lumina replied.
Cal walked over to the tub Lumina was scrubbing plates in and slipped hers into the water before grabbing a rag and joining in.
"Once we finish with the dishes we will go bathe and get some fresh clothes before charging the portal." Lumina informed her while they cleaned.
"Do you have a disguise ready for me?" Cal asked.
"The portal is a secret remember, it's in a hidden place where no one will be able to see that you're the one charging it." Lumina replied.
While they washed the dishes Lumina hummed a nice tune that felt soothing and calm to Cal, and she was almost sad when they finished their work.
"Alright." Lumina said while drying her hands, "Drygen's daughter is around the same size as you and she said she would be happy to loan you a dress."
"I can just teleport home and get some of my own clothes." Cal said.
"You should dress in elven clothing while you are here, it will calm the people's fears some." Lumina responded.
Cal didn't believe her, it sounded like a flimsy reason. Elven clothes didn't look much different from her own, but she couldn't think of a reason Lumina would be trying to make her borrow a dress from Drygen's daughter.
"If you say so." She responded.
"I do say so, now let's go bathe dear." Lumina said with a smile.
Cal sighed and followed her. They went back down the hallway she had just come from, passing by the room she had slept in and arriving at a room with a large in-ground square of water.
"Ok, you go first and I'll wait outside." She said, turning around and stepping back out the door.
"I'm not going to bathe and then stand around by the door waiting for you to bathe after me. We are both grown women and we can bathe together, besides it's nice to have someone to wash your back." Lumina said.
Cal reluctantly returned to the room and undressed, pulling off her green sundress and stepping out of her slippers before slipping off her lacy panties.
Then she walked down the three stone steps that led into the pool of water and sighed in appreciation at the temperature, it felt like a hot tub.
Lumina's clothing took a little longer to remove as she was wearing a dress with several belts and buckles along with a pair of thin green pants.
Cal sat on the underwater ledge along the edge of the pool and began lathering herself with the bar of soap that was in a basket beside the bath.
She began to make smalltalk to feel less awkward. "So I spoke with Floren while he brought me to meet with you."
"He looks a lot like a female, is that common for elven males or is he a special case?" She asked.
"Elven males range in feminity from men like Drygen who are very masculine to men like Floren who are very feminine, the more feminine an elf the more powerful their magic." Lumina answered.
Cal looked over Lumina's figure and decided she must be a very powerful elf indeed.
"We believe elves were created by the mixing of fae and humans in the world we come from, fae are always female and like elves are more powerful the more feminine they are."
"However, many don't believe the stories from the old world as the fae that were in this world were unable to breed with humans." She explained while she washed herself.
"If fae are always female how do they reproduce?" Cal asked curiously.
"It's said that when they wanted a child they would simply become pregnant, but I cannot say for certain, there haven't been fae in this world for a long time." She answered.
Cal uncorked a bottle of thick white liquid and sniffed at it, it smelled like lavender. "Is this shampoo?" She asked.
"I don't know what shampoo is but that is used to clean your hair." Lumina answered.
Cal lathered her hair with some of the elven shampoo and washed her hair in the water.
When she came back up Lumina was right beside her on the bench. "Will you wash my back please Cal." She asked, turning her back to her.
Cal grabbed the bar of soap and washed her back, turning away when she was done and presenting her back to Lumina in turn.
Lumina washed her back and they both rinsed off a final time before getting out of the pool and drying themselves with the towels.
"Thanks for not making any weird comments about my body while we bathed Lumina." Cal said as she pulled her dress back on, deciding to forgo the underwear until she got a clean pair.
"I know you don't like being a girl Cal, but unless you plan on getting yourself killed soon you really should embrace who you are now." Lumina replied as she got dressed.
"I never heard you calling all the female elves we were travelling with cute or adorable, and just because I'm a female doesn't mean I need to get used to that." Cal huffed.
"None of them are nearly as cute or adorable as you are." Lumina said with a grin.
"Now you're going to try on some dresses with Drygen's daughter Celia, you better be nice to her Cal."
Cal sighed, "What's that supposed to mean, when have I not been nice."
Lumina left the bathroom and held the door open for her to follow before leading her further into the keep and up several flights of stairs.
She knocked on a door and a young teen girl who stood eye to eye with Cal answered the door.
"Celia this is Cal, the one I told you about. I'm going to track down some clothes of my own, have fun you two." She said before turning and walking back down the hall.
"Um hi Cal, nice to meet you." Celia said shyly, half hiding behind her door.
"Nice to meet you too, should I come in?" Cal replied.
"Oh! of course, sorry. I don't get visitors very often." Celia said as she tripped over her own feet trying to get out of the way of the door to let her in.
She ran to a large wardrobe and motioned Cal to come over. She seemed incredibly shy and hardly met Cal's gaze.
Cal crossed the room and Celia started pulling dresses off the bar they were hung from and holding them up to Cal before replacing them or setting them on the back of a fancy wooden chair.
"Um what are you doing Celia?" Cal asked.
"W-what? Auntie said you would try on dresses with me. I thought you... nevermind you don't have to, you can just pick one." She said sadly.
"No no, of course I'll try on dresses with you." Cal said hastily, scratching at the back of her head.
She mentally sighed at the mound of dresses that was already piled on the chair.
Celia smiled and continued pulling dresses out of the wardrobe and holding them up in front of her.
When she was finally finished removing all the dresses she wanted from the wardrobe she led Cal over to a smaller dresser with drawers full of underwear and something she didn't realize this world had, bras.
"Pick out some undergarments, you can keep them." Celia said while beaming a smile at her.
Finally some non-sexy underwear. Cal thought as she picked out a pair of normal black fabric underwear that looked more like a pair of tight briefs instead of the lacy thongs Alex owned.
The bras were much too small for her but she decided to ask Lumina to be fitted for some of her own later now that she knew they existed here.
Having breasts was probably her least favourite part about her new body, they ached and strained her back when she walked around too much, maybe a bra would help.
"Where's your bathroom?" She asked Celia, who was watching her look through the undergarments.
"It's downstairs, do you need to go?" Celia responded.
"Uh no, nevermind." Cal said, and slipped the panties on under her sundress. "Ok which dress should we try first?"
"You don't want a bra?" Celia asked. "Aren't those huge uh uncomfortable like that?"
"Yes they are, but I don't think your bras will fit me." Cal replied.
Celia rifled through her dresser drawers and pulled out a few stretchy circles of cloth.
"Here, try these." She said as she held them out to Cal.
Cal chose the black one to match her underwear and pulled it over her head and arms, but it squeezed her breasts uncomfortably against her chest.
Celia giggled, "It goes under your breasts silly."
Cal blushed and pulled it down off of her breasts, it fit comfortably around her middle and raised her breasts up a bit, providing a great feeling of relief.
Celia took her hand and led her over to a floor to ceiling mirror next to the chair that couldn't even be seen anymore under all the dresses.
Then Cal started trying them on, Celia helping her get into and back out of some of the more complicated ones.
She would get into a new dress and look at herself from different angles in the mirror while discussing how she looked with Celia, and soon realized she was actually having fun.
Celia began trying on some of the dresses as well and by the time they made it through the huge pile Celia had picked out hours had gone by.
Cal chose a small ocean blue dress that matched her eyes with a plunging neckline, a belt around the waist, and slits on the sides that showed off her legs as she walked.
Celia had tried to get her to choose something warmer as winter had arrived, but Cal explained that her passive magic made her hardly feel the cold.
She helped Celia hang all the dresses back up and then Celia grabbed her hand and sat her down in the chair that had finally been cleared of the mound of clothing.
The chair was in front of a desk covered in various hair ties and ribbons with a large mirror at the back. Celia picked up a fancy looking hairbrush and began to brush out Cal's hair.
"Will you come visit me again sometime?" Celia asked with a slight tremble in her hand as she brushed Cal's hair, her gaze carefully avoiding her face in the mirror.
"Of course, I have a couple friends who would love to come too if you don't mind vampires." Cal responded wondering why Celia seemed so nervous, they had been getting along great.
"I would like that." Celia finally met her gaze in the mirror and smiled.
"Do you like dogs?" Cal asked as Celia tied back most of her hair with a blue ribbon, letting the rest fall to the sides of her face.
"I don't know, I've never seen one." She replied.
"Great I'll bring our puppy too, you will love her." Cal grinned.
She stood up from the chair and gave Celia a hug. "I should get going but I'll be back soon to visit, I promise. I had a lot of fun, thanks for the clothes." She said.
"Next time we will do makeup too." Celia said with a smile. "You are really pretty, Lumina's right you do look just like her."
"Just like who?" Cal asked curiously.
"Uh nothing, no one, goodbye Cal see you next time." Celia hurriedly blurted out, ushering her out of the room.
"Goodbye Celia." Cal said confusedly to the door that just shut in her face.
She turned to the hallway and saw Floren once again waiting for her.
"Hello Floren, here to escort me again?" She asked with a smile.
"Indeed princess, that dress looks good on you." Floren replied as she turned to walk down the hall.
For once Cal didn't feel any irritation at the compliment, she was pretty happy after the relaxing hours of trying on dresses with Celia as well as the relief of having support for her oversized breasts.
They made their way out of the keep into the courtyard that Cal was seeing for the first time, having been asleep when she arrived.
Lumina and Drygen were waiting for them.
"Cal! You look so..." Lumina began but stopped herself.
"Go ahead Lumina you can call me cute just this once, I can tell you're trying hard not to." Cal said with a sigh.
"I was going to say beautiful actually." Lumina smiled at her.
"Thank you, you look pretty good yourself." Cal said, admiring her longsleeve green winter dress belted around her middle.
"Thank you Cal, now let's get started we have a portal to charge. My family is rather eager to return home, we are not usually gone for so long." Lumina said as she began to walk towards the keep's gate.
"Drygen, Celia said she doesn't get many visitors, why is that?" Cal asked the question she had decided not to ask the timid girl.
"She is a half elf, the other elves are always awkward or rude around her so she prefers to stay secluded in her room." Drygen sighed. "Thank you for spending time with her."
"It was my pleasure, she is a sweet girl." Cal said. "If you don't mind me asking how did you fall for a human woman?"
"I didn't. Her mother was raped by humans and we decided to keep the child, but shortly after Celia was born she took her own life." Drygen responded bitterly.
"I'm so sorry, that's horrible." Cal said, feeling even worse for the lonely half elf girl. "Do you mind if I come visit her sometime? She asked me to come back."
"I would appreciate that very much princess, it would mean a lot to her." Drygen said, wiping at his dry eyes.
They walked in silence the rest of the way to their destination, each stewing in their own thoughts.
Lumina led them straight to the mountain rising straight up at the far end of Edgewood and used a heavy metal knocker to pound on a thick steel door set in the side of the cliff.
A slat slid open in the door at eye height (for the tall Lumina, it was well over Cal's head) and a set of eyes appraised them for a split second before the latch slammed shut and the sounds of many locks tumbling came from the door.
A moment later the door opened and a female elf in a full suit of dark leather armour stepped out of the way and bowed, letting the trio pass into a tunnel.
The door shut behind them and a handful of thick looking bolts were slid back into place as they walked down a long tunnel lit by glass balls of light that reminded Cal of lightbulbs from Earth, but circular and placed on sconces with no wiring running to them.
They passed by many thick steel doors set into the sides of the tunnel that Cal was curious what was behind, but Lumina wouldn't tell her when she asked.
Finally after walking for what felt like ten minutes they came to a massive door at the end of the hall and Lumina produced a huge skeleton key from seemingly nowhere, inserting it into a hole in the door and turning it before it just dissapeared again.
She pushed the door open and they entered a tall circular room with nothing in it except the massive obsidian archway that must have been at least thirty feet tall and ten feet wide.
Cal moved over to the right arch and placed her hand on the infinity symbol, beginning to fill it with energy.
She had to stop and wait until the exhaustion faded three times before it finally stopped accepting any more energy and after a few moments it lit up with swirling silver light.
Drygen whistled. "I never thought I'd live to see that again." He said.
"Again? I thought spatial mages died out five hundred years ago." Cal said.
"I've been the ruler of Edgewood for almost two thousand years now." Drygen remarked.
"I should have guessed." Cal grumbled, no one was ever the age they seemed in this world.
"What about your family Lumina? Aren't they going to come with us to Vale?" She asked.
"Floren is off gathering them, I didn't want to wait until they were all rounded up." Lumina responded.
"Shall we?" She held out her hand for Cal to take.
Cal grabbed her hand and they stepped forward into the secret elven city no human had set foot in for over five hundred years.
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Sophia would never admit it to anybody, especially not Cal, but she actually enjoyed feeding the vampires over the last four days Cal had been staying away for.
The strange feeling of the blood being pulled through her arm into the vampire's mouths was actually kind of nice, and the blood loss gave her a slight head rush.
She finished feeding Mia and left her and Lilly to play in the courtyard while she went to find Kyla and get her to join in on some exercise like they had planned.
She was feeling sluggish from sitting around doing nothing all day for so long.
She found Kyla in the kitchen putting together some sandwiches for their lunch and gave her a hug.
"Thanks for making me one too, you're so sweet." She said.
"These are both for me." Kyla said with a grin.
"Yeah right, I've never seen you eat close to that much." Sophia smirked at her.
"Maybe I'm making one for Vera." She joked, and they both laughed.
"Speaking of Vera, I asked her if she might be interested in fooling around with other women sometime..." Kyla began.
"Kyla!" Sophia shouted.
"She said no, she isn't into girls." Kyla finished.
"You promised you would ask me before trying to include any of my friends in our sex life!" Sophia said angrily.
"I was just finding out if she'd be interested first, she isn't so you don't have anything to worry about." Kyla said.
"Well congratulations, you get to feed her whenever Cal isn't around from now on. Since you just made it incredibly awkward for me." Sophia said in exasperation.
"Oh cmon Soph I didn't even mention any names, just asked if she was interested in girls in a super discreet way, I promise." Kyla grinned.
"Whatever, are you still up for joining me in getting exercise?" Sophia asked as she grabbed the sandwich Kyla had just completed and took a bite.
"Sure, what are we gonna do run up and down the stairs?" Kyla asked sarcastically.
"Yep that's the plan." Sophia grinned at her.
Kyla groaned.
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Zatira sat in the foyer of her sister's house sipping some of the best chamomile tea she had ever tasted, and told her as much.
"This tea is delicious sis, some of the best I've ever had, thank you!" She said with a smile.
Her sister glared at her, "I saw your release from the humans months ago, it hurts that you took this long to come visit me." She said, folding her arms over her bare red chest.
"I'm sorry Zaphora, I had a lot of work to do cleaning up my place after my absence." Zatira responded with a wince, she really should have visited sooner.
"So what do you want now? Who do you want me to show you? I know that's the only reason you ever come here anymore, the last four of your visits have been just to use my talents." Zaphora snapped, and some angry tears formed in her eyes.
"Oh Zaphora, I'm so sorry. I promise I will make an effort to come for more social visits in the future, I have been so selfish." Zatira said sincerely.
She set her cup of tea down on a coaster and rose to give her little sister a hug.
"I missed you so much Zatira, all our other siblings have been so mean to me while you were gone." Zaphora sniffled into her neck as she held her.
Zatira decided she could come back in a week to check on Cal and the man that had sworn an oath to take revenge on him, her sister deserved her company with no strings attached.
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