Chapter 21:
Breakfast Conversation
Escrya woke to find a purring Katje licking her face.
With each stroke of Erica’s tongue a loud rasping noise echoed around the dorm room.
“Um, good morning?”
“Uh huh.”
The cat didn’t even pause in her work, merely purring louder as her chin moved with every stroke, her black ears raised high and twisting side to side and flicking occasionally as she worked.
The young warrior squirmed somewhat, but did nothing to dislodge her.
“What is happening?”
“Can’t believe I’m going to say this, but you get used to it.” Nina said drily.
She was cross-legged on the bed munching on an apple and watching the Amazon.
The young blonde was more than a little uncomfortable under the giant’s inscrutable gaze.
“Okay?”
Once Erica finally finished with her tongue bath she pulled away just far enough to get one finger under Escrya’s nose.
“So… how was it?”
It would be an understatement to call it a loaded question.
Escrya smiled shyly, but lifted her chin.
“It was the greatest night of my life.”
Nina bit down on her apple noisily before nodding.
“Good answer. You have nice cans by the way.”
“O-oh, thank you.”
While the monsters around her were fully clothed, The Amazon was completely nude, and at some point during the night Nameless had stolen most of the covers.
“They’re different from Milly’s or Ophelia’s, they’re kind of perky like Volka’s.” The Gigas continued.
“I’m a fan myself.” Nameless said drowsily from beneath the stolen blankets.
With her master awake, Erica crawled over Escrya to reach him, deliberately rubbing her own breasts against Escrya’s before jerking the blankets away to give herself room to run her tongue from Nameless’s chin to his temple.
“Morning lover.” She purred; “Did you have a good night?”
Again it was a loaded question.
“You know that I did.”
“Oh, you know that I know. I can taste you on her, it is exquisite.”
She scrambled around again, this time bringing her mouth to Escrya’s breasts and scraping her tongue across it before suckling at her pert nipple.
Escrya gasped at the sensation, turning scarlet at the forward Katje’s hungry lips.
“Don’t mind her, she’s just saying hello.” Milly giggled from the side of the bed, though there was an edge of apprehension in her voice as she reached out and settled her hand on Escrya’s shoulder; “I’m sorry if I made you feel like you were unwelcome.”
A single tear traced down the Amazon’s cheek at the heartfelt words.
“I-I swear to you Milly, I will become worthy of your kindness.”
She yelped though when someone bit the inside of her thigh, looking down she saw it was Volka, the wily angel having somehow worked herself between her legs without her noticing.
“You have nothing to prove to any of us, daughter of Alcaia. If you were not worthy, you would not be here.”
Ophelia leaned in from the other side of Nameless and now Escrya was feeling a little crowded with all the monsters around her, not that she really minded.
The Flutterby gave her a light peck on the lips.
“She’s right, dearheart. And now we are going to kick our master out of the room so we can talk.”
“We are?” Nameless said blankly.
An unrelenting grip seized his ankle and he yelped as Nina dragged him most of the way out of bed before hoisting him in the air with ease.
It was not the first time she had manhandled him so.
“We are. You did your bit champ, now let the girls have a turn. So with all the love that I possess: fuck right off.”
As she stomped towards the door panic filled him and he scrambled futily in her grip.
“Nina, wait! Pants!”
Without ceremony she dumped him outside their room and slammed the door in his face, leaving him sprawled on the floor in the hallway, completely nude.
And of course, of course, Ginger had to have chosen that exact moment to come out of her room across the hall on her way to the showers.
Having witnessed the giant chucking him out of his room, the redhead greeted him with a cheerful wink and a broad smile.
“Dude, your dick is enormous! Congrats.” She kept walking on her way to the washroom, throwing one last thing over her shoulder just to add insult to injury; “And like I said: your life is complicated!”
He slumped against the door to his dormitory with his elbows on his knees, hearing the other cadets stirring throughout the hall as they too prepared to greet the day.
He thumped his head against the unyielding door and heaved a morose sigh.
“Don’t I know it.”
With nothing to do but wait, Nameless waved blithely at the other cadets as they passed, not bothering to cover himself as they jeered at him.
After a few minutes, the door opened again and he fell backwards inside.
“Oh! Sorry!” Escrya blurted as she helped him up; “I had thought you took the opportunity to bathe yourself.”
He shrugged.
“No towel, plus I kind of wanted to see how things went in there. So uh, how did things... went?”
He dearly wished to have something on, since they were still standing in the hall in plain sight. But with Escrya fully dressed and clearly intent on leaving, he didn’t want to miss out on the chance to say goodbye.
She smiled at his awkward phrasing, ignoring the scandalized look that Celeste, Ginger’s Harpy bond-mate, shot them as she left her room to catch up to her mistress.
“Your wives will speak for themselves I think. As for myself: after last night I... I am fine with leaving things as they stand.” Escrya said warmly before quirking one eyebrow; “For now.”
He shuddered at the heat in her tone, before standing on the tips of his toes to give her a relatively chaste kiss on the lips.
Though she still had to bend down to accomadate him.
“Then I guess this is goodbye, for now.” He echoed.
With nothing left to say between them she gave his ass a familiar squeeze and with one final look of longing, stalked down the hall.
He stepped back into the room and closed the door.
“Can I just say, you two are fucking hot together.” Erica sighed.
He smiled at her words, but couldn’t stop the automatic glance he cast towards Milly.
“Milly, are you-”
“I’m okay.” She said quickly.
With his concerned look unabated, she drew in a deep breath as she focused inwards to see if that were really the case.
It was several seconds of silence later before she spoke again, this time with a warm smile on her face.
“I really am okay. I thought, I don’t know, I thought I would be upset or something, but Escrya has always been such a good friend, since the day we met. I wouldn’t-”
She looked away suddenly as her voice caught, and once again there was silence as she regained her composure.
“I wouldn’t say that I’m completely against the notion. And I think it was good practice for when you start making Empath babies.” She admitted with a deep blush.
Erica sidled up to her, purring intensely as she butted her head against the Minotaur’s breasts.
“Does that mean I get to fuck her too?”
Never one to miss the opportunity to voice someone’s name in indignation, Ophelia did just that.
“Erica!”
“What?” The Katje said defensively; “He got to!”
“That is different and you know it!”
Nameless surprised them all when he interjected himself in the debate.
“No it isn’t.” They all looked to him as he fumbled with how best to express himself; “If we end up- no, if we choose Escrya, then we do so together. So if she isn’t opposed to it, I say go for it, Erica.”
“How magnanimous of you.” Nina said flatly.
He blushed at the giant’s tone.
“You know what I mean!”
“Yeah, I do. You enjoyed fucking her, and now you want us to.”
His jaw worked as he tried to find the words to refute her.
But then... she wasn’t wrong.
Fortunately Volka came to his rescue.
“Would that be so terrible? We are creatures of appetite, though some of us more than others.” She gave both Erica and Nameless a meaningful look.
Nina frowned slightly and tilted her head to one side.
Her bond-mate could feel her thinking.
It was a long time before she spoke again, all of them waiting in silence.
Finally, she gave a decisive nod and looked to Erica.
“Sorry babe, but I’m next. She’s an Amazon, so she knows how to throw a punch, but I still need to test her.”
“What does that mean?” Milly asked.
The Gigas took up her hammer and headed for the door.
“It means I’m going to kick her ass. Because Volka was wrong, she does have to prove herself. I’ll catch up to you later.”
Erica extended one hand as she was leaving.
“Hey wait, Nina! What about... that thing I asked you to do?”
But Nina was gone, and she then cast a sidelong glance at Nameless, as if hoping to keep her secret… secret.
For his part he played dumb, avoiding reading her emotions to allow her the chance for some semblance of a surprise later.
Both knew that they were kidding themselves.
Shaking off her own personal mission involving her heartstone, Erica looked around the room with a concerned expression all over her face.
“Is... anyone else really worried about Nina?”
An angel wing wrapped around her as the Valkyrie sidled up to her.
“I’m sure she won’t take things too far.”
But through their bond Nameless knew that Volka spoke with more confidence than she felt.
“There is nothing we can do about it now, let’s go and get some breakfast.” Ophelia said with finality, though her look turned arch as she turned to face Milly; “Or maybe stay in and get some breakfast?”
The Minotaur turned a bit pink as she smiled bashfully.
“If-if anyone is hungry?” She asked coyly as she unbuttoned her shirt.
Nameless smiled and sent a wave of gratitude Ophelia’s way at the distraction; the girls were feeling a great deal of anxiety at whatever it was Nina intended.
Now they were just hungry, and a bit horny.
He strolled over to Milly and helped her unbutton her shirt.
“I am definitely staying in for breakfast.”