Tully didn't have any guitar strings, but he did have plenty of fruits and vegetables and seed crops. So, I stocked up everything useful, including a pot of yeast, which I can almost control like the plants.

Apricot talked me into getting her a sweet roll bigger than she was, but ate the whole thing on our way over to the bowyer.

"Hello?" I call out to the empty bow makers shop.

"Boy, go see what they want." A bellow rings out from upstairs, swiftly followed by a tow-headed boy of around nine clomping his way downstairs.

"Hello sir, how can I help you?" He says perfunctorily.

"I'm looking for a good bow and, more importantly, information about what makes a good bow." I answer while Apricot does her usual examination of everything new. "I'm also wondering if your dad makes strings out of anything besides sinew. I need guitar strings, but don't know how to make them." I know they're made from intestines and silk, but that's about all.

"Okay, he'll be right down." He clomps back upstairs without saying anything else.

I just look at Apricot and try not to laugh when I see her pantomiming the boy.

"I don't know about the strings, but I can get you a bow and show you the basics." A balding man with a ruddy complexion says while walking down the stairs with much more grace than his boy. "For the right price, that is."

"The bow is secondary to the strings truthfully." I sigh. "But, let's see what you've got."

"Now, I didn't say that I couldn't do the strings." He quickly adds. "I'm just not used to working with gut, so they may not sound just right."

"I'm sure whatever you make will be better than my attempts." I tried with some flax, and even the cotton I just got, but they just wouldn't hold the tension. "And, I'm willing to pay for the effort, even if it doesn't work out."

"Then I think we can do business." He smiles and guides me over to a wall of unstrung bows. "This one should be about right for your height." He plucks one down, seemingly at random, and strings it up faster than I can blink. "Give her a test pull."

I do and it's really easy. "Uh, maybe a higher draw-weight. I'm stronger than I look."

"You can say that again." He mutters and replaces the bow before snatching a slightly larger and much thicker bow. This one he actually has to put some effort into stringing. "Here, try this."

"That's nice." I nod while giving it a full draw. "It's got a good feel to it."

"Damn, I keep that one around for beastkin." He snorts. "You really are strong. So, what do you want to know?"

"What steps you took to make this beast? I just need the basics, so don't worry about any trade secrets." I use my magic to unstring it.

"You're that nature mage that caught the bandits, eh?" I can see the calculations run across his face. "Twenty silver for the bow the info and the strings." I just snort and turn around to walk out the door. "Okay, okay. Fifteen."

"Throw in a bundle of arrows, and I want a half-dozen strings in a dozen different gauges." I say over my shoulder.

"Deal!" He puts out a hand and we shake on it before he explains everything about bow making. "Pleasure doing business with you. I should have those strings ready by morning."

"Thanks." I put my new purchases into storage and head out to just wander around the town for a bit.

"You know he ripped you off right?" Apricot says after landing on my shoulder.

"True, but I'll never need to buy another bow again." I shrug the shoulder she's not sitting. "And, I doubt money is going to be a problem in the future."

"Are you sure you just weren't missing a certain merchant, and haggling reminded you of her?" Apricot teases.

"It would be nice if she came around." I admit. "But, I did just meet her yesterday..." I shrug again.

"Well, she did hear you out earlier instead of just getting angry." I'm not sure if she believes that, or is just trying to cheer me up. "Ooh, look some tea plants." Okay, she's definitely trying to cheer me up.

I was able to charm the owner of the tea plants into giving me a cutting, she was a really sweet old lady who just wanted to chat for a bit. We wandered some more afterward, but aside from buying a couple more snacks for the flying piranha, we didn't find anything else interesting.

"Hi, Fred." I greet the innkeep when we head back at sunset. "Do I smell stew?"

"And fresh-baked bread." He answers with a smile.

"Two plates please, and give me an ale. You want something to drink, Apricot?"

"Juice, if you have any. The sweeter the better."

"Coming right up, that'll be ten copper for the meals and another ten for the room."

I pay and we head over to the same table we used this morning. A man in dusty clothing comes in just as we're sitting down.

"Evening, Fred." He sits at the bar and calls into the kitchen. "Are the Rialta's still here?"

"Hey, Shane. Everything alright?" Fred questions while carrying our food out.

"Yeah, but their aunt must be the most accident-prone person I've ever met." He laughs. "Not one day after they leave and she goes and breaks her wrist. Since I was heading down this way anyways, she asked me to see if they were still here and if they'd head back and help her out again."

"Oh, they're still here, had a bit of business with bandits on the road. Actually, young Sorrel here was the one to save them." Fred says after setting our plates down.

"It was mostly luck that I was in the right place at the right time. And, Apricot really deserves the credit for spotting them." I gesture to the tiny woman who's already tearing into her meal.

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"I'm not the one who healed them, or charged two armed men." She mumbles around a mouth full of bread that she dunked into the stew.

"I was just about to bring up their meals." Fred tells Shane. "I'll let them know you're here."

"You're a healer?" The man pulls a chair over and sits himself at our table. "Would you be willing to head up there and help her?"

"Mhm, that could be a tad difficult." I say and take a drink. "Amelia might be a little mad at me right now."

"I'm not mad at you." The person in question speaks up from the hallway. "I was just surprised." She pulls up a seat opposite Shane. "Is Aunt Carmen alright?"

"It was a clean break." He nods. "Salem treated her and got it wrapped up right. She's just in pain right now, and since it was her primary hand, she can't do much for herself."

"Okay, thank you for letting us know." She gives him a perfunctory smile. "Could we have a little privacy."

"Sure thing." He gets up to head back to the bar, but not before giving out a bit of unsolicited advice. "Whatever you did lad, just apologize and buy her some sweets."

"Thank you, Shane." Amelia glares at his retreating form. "So..." She draws out the word.

"I'll help your aunt if you want." I offer before getting Fred's attention and signaling for two more drinks.

"No... well, yes and thank you. But, that's not what I wanted to talk about. Thanks, Fred." She takes her mug and hands him a couple coppers, I do the same and we wait for him to retreat. "I know we just met, but I do like you, both of you... I just don't know how to feel about you two... you know."

"Sex." Apricot laughs. "The word is sex."

"Not helping." I give the pixie a look. "Amelia I like you too, and I know Apricot does. But, like you said, we just met. Things don't always work out, and I'm happy to remain friends. Or, just leave you alone from now on, if that's what you want."

"No." Amelia says a little louder than I think she meant to. "I mean..." She drinks half of her beer in one go. "I think I'd like to try."

"With just me, or with both of us?" I ask before Apricot can get her hopes up.

"I... I mean, would that even work?" The blonde blushes after looking down at the pixie whose eyes are filled with longing. "I guess we can try." She says shyly and downs the rest of her drink.

"We'll take it slow." I say mostly to curb Apricot's exuberance. "Neither of us will do anything you're uncomfortable with. And, if you start getting uncomfortable, just speak up."

"Okay." She breathes out. "That medicine Maddie gave Rodrick messed him up worse than the arrow." The smile that crosses her lips makes me feel a little giddy. "So, I'm gonna make sure he eats, and then put him back to bed. Afterward... I'd like to stop by your room. I'm not saying we'll do anything, but I want to get to know the two of you better and anything beats listening to Roddy snore."

"I think we can manage that." while trying not to laugh at Apricot who's just nodding over and over with a giddy smile on her face.

"I'll see you in a little bit." She smiles at the over-excited pixie before walking back to her room.

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"Can, I come inside?" Amelia taps on the door that I left cracked open for her.

"Isn't Sorrel the one that's supposed to ask that?" Apricot quips, and I swear I hear the echo of a *Ding*.

"Hush." I warn the tiny terror. "And yes, please come in." I motion to the seat across from me at the tiny table that came with the room.

"Thanks. And, please quit trying to embarrass me, Apricot." Amelia sits down and locks her eyes with Apricot's. "I've never done anything like this, and I'm embarrassed enough."

"Never, never?" Apricot stops flying around the room and lands on the table.

"Oh, I've kissed a couple boys... and girls, but never anything more than kissing." Amelia confesses.

"Sorrel, you have to treat her right, you hear?" My orange-haired lover scolds me before I can even react. "A girl's first is special."

"I thought we were just going to get to know each other better tonight." I reply cautiously.

"I keep forgetting that you lunkers can't sense everything I can." Apricot huffs out an exasperated breath. "She wants you. Wants you so badly than I'm surprised she hasn't thrown you down and torn your clothes off yet."

"Didn't I just say to quit embarrassing me." Amelia mutters through clenched teeth. "But, you're also not wrong." I almost missed her words, but when she looks at me the heat in her eyes makes her meaning clear.

Not saying anything, I stand, take her hand and guide her to the bed. Sitting her on the edge of the mattress, I kneel down and start to slowly remove her clothing. Button by button, I reveal her smooth, creamy-white skin. She's not wearing a bra, or breastband or whatever they wear here, a fact that I did not miss when she entered the room.

Apricot may have better senses than me, but I'd have to be a fool to not know that Amelia came here for one reason tonight. I was just trying to make it a little easier for her.

""So, beautiful"" Apricot and I breath out in sync as I slide Amelia's top down to reveal her full breasts.

"Come here." Amelia beckons Apricot closer. "I'm not just here for Sorrel."

"Lie back." I guide the virgin blonde back on the bed so Apricot can land on her breasts.

"Mmm." Amelia moans as Apricot starts teasing her nipple by brushing her wings across it. "Your wings are so warm."

"And, you might just be heat incarnate." I let my hot breath wash over her other breast before darting my tongue out to lick it.

"Oh yes. Please more." Amelia is already panting from just a few light touches, I think we may have found her weakness already

Grinning the same grin, Apricot and I nod to each other before sucking Amelia's nipples into our mouths. Or at least trying to in Apricot's case, the round nub protruding from Amelia's breast is just a little too large for her mouth.

I don't know if it's my light chuckling or Apricot's desperate struggle to engulf her nipple, but something sets off Amelia. Her breath quickens as shudders rock her slim body. "Yes! Yesssssss. Ahn." She pants and moans as the orgasm washes over and through her.

"Oh, we are going to have so much fun with you." Apricot's throaty purr sends shivers down my spine. "Sorrel, get naked." The pixie shucks her dress off in the same instant as I use magic to tear my clothes off.

"So big." Amelia's eyes lock on my hardness, her hand extends seemingly unconsciously to grasp it. "Aah, so hot."

"Are you ready?" I ask as my vines remove her pants.

"Can you... together?" She looks from me to Apricot.

To answer, I pick up Apricot and lay her down just above Amelia's downy pubic hair, I'm careful of her wings, but she's already told me that they're tougher than they look. Shapeshifting mini-me on a thin umbilical, I position myselves between their thighs at the same time.

I try to be slow and gentle, but as soon as the tip goes in Amelia bucks and takes the whole of me in with a hiss.

"Silly girl." I smile down at the impatient beauty and use some healing sap to heal up the edges of her torn hymen.

"Fuck her Sorrel," Apricot commands with a growl. "I can feel her, feel you in her." ""Fuck us, please."" They plead at the same time.

Grabbing their hips with my vines to hold them steady as I slowly pump my length in and out in long teasing strokes. At the same time, I caress and tease their breasts with my hands, paying special attention to the nipples.

""Oh, Sorrel. Yes!"" More of that weird double voice, but I'm too lost in the sensation to care. I didn't think it would be, but somehow mini-me's cock is just as sensitive as the real thing

Fighting not to lose control, not when we've just started, I start upping the speed of my thrusts as they rock their hips in unison to match my every movement. Their breaths start coming in faster and faster, and I can feel them starting to squeeze me tighter. Soon, I give up playing with their breasts and use all four arms to hold on as I pound into them harder and harder, faster and faster, trying my best to make us all cum as one.

"Fuck!" - ""Yes!"" I grunt and they moan. """AAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN!!!""" And we all lose control at the same time.

Collapsing half off of them, but still buried inside, I struggle to catch my breath.

"Holy" - "Shit!" "Wow, what the hells was that?" Amelia asks after finishing Apricot's oath.

"I don't know, but can we do it again, please?" Apricot chuckles and the extra stimulation finally forces me to withdraw. "It's like..."

"Like we were one." Amelia says as an aftershock shudders through her. "I can still sorta feel you, it's strange, but good strange. Is that going to happen every time we have sex?"

"Only one way to find out." I chuckle. "Just uh... gimme a few minutes, and some water. That was intense."

"Take your time." Amelia giggles. "I'm good just riding this double orgasm wave. I definitely made the right decision coming here tonight."

"Thank you for joining us." Apricot turns over so she can stare Amelia in the eyes. "I've never felt anything like this. I didn't even know it was possible"

"Oh, sweetie." Amelia gently strokes her finger down the pixie's back, right between her wings. "You were so lonely, and I was so... hungry"

"And, we just reached out and connected to each other." Apricot finishes her sentence.

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