Risa´s 12th Birthday
It has now been two years since my reincarnation or whatever happened back then.
During that time I was continuously trained and educated. I started being able to fly short distances, had my first rides with Tora, who is now 3m high and around 1.20m broad. The pink saddle I used for quite some time, may the person who ordered it for me be cursed, got too small for my mount and was replaced with a more fitting black one with silver and golden ornaments, made to fit with my choker.
Between Isaac and me didn't change much, I used him as a book-searching-machine and tried to avoid his stories.
Teacher (Narta) and me were pretty good friends though. I learned how to play quite some instruments from her and the manner lessons were not that bad because of her. After we went through all possible situations and she had confirmed twice that I knew how to act in any situation, those lessons became all-purpose lessons. The first thing to learn was cooking, which she too didn't know how to do, so we learned together from the cooks at our kitchen and had quite some fun doing so.
Risa was also now a very good friend of mine. While she was apparently told to teach me how to fly to let her experience organising and teaching, she could not stop herself from putting me through embarrassing situations. I practically had to teach me flying myself from the knowledge I had form my previous world, but, as mentioned before, I could only fly short distances because it was so straining. She did teach me tailoring tough, so she actually learned how to teach properly.
During our more and more common meetings and tea parties we talked quite a lot, still in the manner that she was the more active one and was the main drive in the conversations, but we also started a game of asking each other in turns. It was me who proposed this and the rules were as following: You could ask anything, but you did not need to answer. If you did answer, is had to be the truth, and if you didn't, you got asked again.
We also once rode on our mounts outside the borders of the estate, she on her typical Blackwing-family black pegasus, but we were accompanied by some guards and the still nameless instructor, so we needed to ride slowly.
Anyway, on this day was Risa´s 12th Birthday with a big party lasting several days.
Since I helped cooking and planning the event, I was allowed to watch from a room directly above the hall where the festivities were held. This special room had a one-way transparent floor and was used by servants and guards to look for food and drink shortages as well as troublemakers.
The Party started with the guests arriving at the hall and getting individually greeted by father and his first son, as they were the head of the family and his heir. Both had their wings hidden, as if they were not there at all. It probably was some kind of magic.
When everybody had arrived, father held a speech. During the 30 minutes when he talked, he described their own wonderfulness and greatness, while simultaneously flattering the whole audience. At the end he introduced Risa in a sparkling, dark purple dress.
Then the guests were prompted to enjoy each others company until it was time for the feast.
During that time I looked at each different demonic race I could find and noticed that this was not a tool to find out their alliances. You could see, as an example, a blood fairy, who looked like a 80cm big, quite beautiful humanoid with dark red, slightly see-through dragonfly-wings, long horizontal ears and somewhat creepy black insectoid eyes standing on a chair to talk to an oni, a 2m high muscled ugly beast, who sat on a chair, so they could talk eye-to-eye.
When the guests then had the banquet, I ate in a separate room to not disturb anyone.
After my meal I went back to my observation.
At that time all the tables were already gone and at the front of the hall, at an elevated position, was a pedestal with a beautiful stone which changed colour every moment and gave off a warm aura. Next to it was nearly the whole Blackwing-family, only father´s wife, which I had never seen before, was missing. Also, behind Risa, who stood directly behind the pedestal, was a centaur priest.
I came just right to see the ceremony to unseal Risa´s magic.
The priest held a speech about the gods that protect them and whom they follow, and that this child will be a nice addition to their religion and so on. It was boring and his voice was very hard to listen to, but since I did know that there were gods, through my mother´s knowledge, and because it was forbidden to write information down about gods, I tried to listen to know more about them.
When the centaur was finished, Risa took the stone and held it above her head. Then it changed its colour spectrum to which it changed to pink, blue, and black and Risa was glowing brightly.
The changing colours represented the affinity to the elements, and while the main elements had preset colours, the additional affinities' colours were different from person to person. The brightness of the glowing represented the arcane affinity, as well as the maximum mana capacity.
Then the priest held forth another, far smaller white stone has called out: “Show [status] of Risa Blackwing to audience.”
NameRisa BlackwingAge12GenderfemaleRaceFallen AngelLevel13StatusHealth455/455Mana2300/2300Strength15Stamina15Agility20Dexterity30Intelligence25Wisdom10Faith10Charm200Basic AffinitiesArcane70%Earth0%Water50%Wind0%Fire0%Light0%Darkness100%Additional AffinitiesLife25%SkillsBasic MovementAdvanced Lv.6MannersAdvanced Lv.5TailoringAdvanced Lv.3Demon LanguageMaster Lv.10Common LanguageAdvanced Lv.2ActingBeginner Lv.9ReadingAdvanced Lv.7WritingBeginner Lv.7CalculationsBeginner Lv.7FlyingBeginner Lv.4TradingBeginner Lv.2TeachingBeginner Lv.1RidingBeginner Lv.4Titles, Blessings and CursesRich daughter [title]+100 CharmMember of the Blackwing-Family [title]-other people with this title see you as one of them-other people without this title are scared of you-can enter property of the Blackwing-Family
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The crowded people began to chatter with each other intensively. I could hear things like “So much mana!” and “Look at the arcane affinity”. I could totally understand them.
You were considered a genius if you had more then 1000 mana at your first appraisal, or had more than 50% arcane affinity. Normal stats were 200 to 800 mana and 20% to 45% arcane affinity.
After everyone quieted down Risa was lead out of the room to learn her first spells. This had to be done as soon as possible, because if you could not control your powers they would slowly erode you from the inside.
The guests talked to each other a bit more and then were lead to prepared rooms so they did not need to go to a nearby town to sleep.
On the next day, Risa too had her wings hidden.
This time she sat in the middle of the table which was put where the pedestal was the day before. In front of her was a short line of guests, which all had servants next to them which carried their presents. It was a birthday party after all.
To prevent a long waiting time, the order in which the guests were allowed to offer their presents was predetermined.
While the smaller presents were put onto the sides of the table, the bigger ones were brought away once everybody saw how luxurious and expensive it was.
The most gifts were books on magic theory or fighting stances; light, sleek weapons; rings and other trinkets and some sweets.
The more interesting gifts were:
-a custom made armour, as well as a matching cuirass for her pegasus, those were made in cooperation of several smithy families and clans
-a ominous black stone
-a long, even, black magic staff, as big as Risa, made from a special tree that only grew somewhere special
Of course she also received several marriage proposals, but every time she answered:”I am very sorry to disappoint you, but there is already someone I have set my eyes on. As I am allowed to choose myself, if it is not detrimental to our family, I will reject you.”
There also was one guy who directly asked father how much it would cost to buy Risa, it was a fat dark elf who was so ugly that calling him a pig would be an insult to the pigs instead of him. This person was immediately lead away by father´s sons and was never seen again.
After Risa had received all her presents, another feast was hold. This time nobody held back with drinking, as the next day most of them would depart in carriages and would have enough time to recover. The main person herself was too tired to stay for long after finishing eating, so she was brought back to her room quite some time earlier than any other person.
I for my part already waited in Risa´s room to offer my birthday present for her. Because I had no possessions at all, I had asked teacher to show me how to give a massage properly. I also had made, with the help of a professional, a wooden bench on which somebody could lie while being in the bath. Additional to these I had prepared a maid outfit for myself, which I had put on at that moment.
My gift was very much welcomed by Risa and she enjoyed it very much to be treated so nice after these days.
Then, as I was finished, had dressed her in her sleeping clothes and was about to get out, she called out to me with a slightly embarrassed voice:”Can you sleep with me? Only for today?”
Not knowing what to do I answered with doubt:”I don't think I am allowed to do that. Additional I currently don not have proper clothing with me right now.”
Being like her and ignoring such half-hearted complaints, she said with a excited voice:”Then there´s nothing in the way! Just get in your underwear and get in!”
Taking that as a command I did as I was told.
I have had never slept with her before, so I did not know what awaited me.
For quite some time she told me everything about her last two days, and how wonderful magic felt. According to the priest she supposedly had a very good understanding of magic and therefore learned quite fast how to control her powers. This had left time to teach her a bit more, so she could now hide her wings, make a room dark, heal minor scratches and control the flow of water.
After she became exhausted enough to fall asleep midway during a sentence, I properly covered her with the blanket and then laid down to sleep myself.
Contrary to her daily personality, she barely moved while sleeping, but since I was very sensitive to noise, even more than in my previous life, her cute, quiet snoring kept me awake for hours.
Then, as I was finally about to fall asleep, a poisonous green light came from the gap beneath the door that lead to the room with the presents in. Full awake again, I heard a single person´s footsteps closing in on the door...
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CLIFFHANGER!
Hate me for it!
No, I had to do it that way, trust me....not
anyway, sry that I needed so long for this chapter, but I will probably need the same amount of time for the next one too
@ArchmageNaoki: thx – the typos in the tables are the only ones not corrected by the textprogramm i´m using (since they are never written in there) so this is the only place where you see my "true" mistakes
so, i´ll be happy about any comments and see you in the next chapter