I'm in the middle of three phoenixes. Three true phoenixes are hugging . It's really warm in the middle, and they were nice enough to be in the humanoid form. But I can see Victoria sweating off to the side, but that may be due to the heat inside the cave instead of her charge being in the middle of three beings that can kill us both.
"I'm sorry," Ryze says. "I should've helped you. I'm excited for grandchildren and that your life is finally changing. We've been stuck doing the sa thing for too long. I'm a little annoyed you're married to that snooping fox and nearly got mated with the lizard, but I did miss you."
"Yes, things are nice," Eterna says.
"Sorry for ruining your date," Ryze says. "I should've waited for you to co by. Sorry for forcing my way into your day."
"Could we have so ti?" Eterna asks.
"Of course," Ryze says. "Sorry for yelling and getting mad. I was scared about everything changing and overreacted. You're safe and happy and pregnant. Congratulations."
She says that, but she doesn't let go. Is Eos going to stay as well? This is so strange.
"Mother," Eterna says.
"I'm going, I'm going," Ryze says. Slowly, I feel the arms around loosen, and the hug finally breaks up. "Have a nice day. Sorry for the interruption. Shimr, congratulations on your kids as well. Sorry for saying I don't care about you all. I sit around here to help the people; otherwise, I would leave more often. I said a lot of things in anger today. Sorry, everyone, for my anger. Phoenixes keep making bad first impressions. Sorry."
"It's ok," I say. "I'm getting used to terrible first impressions. I'm starting to wonder if I make people behave terrible when I first et soone."
"No, you didn't do anything for to have an outburst. That part is on ," Ryze says. "You're kind. That much is obvious with how happy Eterna is. Have your date. I shouldn't be saying that. We're both too old to be acting like you need my permission. I've gotten too angry to be doing this. Thank you, Eos, for coming around and helping . I feel stupid. Enough saying things. I'm leaving now."
Ryze walks past us. Once she is far enough away, she turns into a ball of fire and appears in the bird form and keeps walking out.
"I should go as well," Eos says. "I told her to leave you alone several tis before today, but you know how she can get. Have a nice day. I'm excited to et the kids. If you need help flying kids around, you just need to ask. We know how to control the temperature around us enough to keep them safe. You're married, right? So Eterna already has kids if you ever want to bring them around, or if Kiyomi won't get overly mad about coming down."
"She'll live if you want to et the kids," I say. "I know a few of the older kids would love to fly around with . I'm still limited in my form, and I trapped Eterna like this for a bit. We can try to set sothing up or bring them up here for so fun. Thank you for coming by. Eterna said you like to hide."
"Ryze is a bit much to be around," Eos says. "I'm happy to be around Eterna. But I'll go fill in my normal role and hide away so you can finish the date. Fourth mountain, if you do want to co by for sothing."
"Ok, bye Eos!" Eterna says. "Thanks for visiting. I missed you."
"Missed you too, cousin," Eos says, walking out after Ryze.
"Quite the fucking family," Victoria says, walking deeper into the cave. "And what the fuck am I supposed to do when you were getting fucking hugged by two damn true phoenixes? Like I'm fucking fast enough to do any fucking thing if those shits make a move, they're just going to fucking do what they want."
"I was there," Eterna says. "Mother likes to yell more than act. Then Eos is nice. Things were fine. Just a little way in and..."
"Fuck this damn bed is massive!" Victoria says. "Why the fuck were we standing outside when we could've been in the bed!"
"You'll enjoy the bed," Eterna sighs. "Well, let's go join her for a bit. Maybe she gets pregnant today."
I think we can trust Victoria on how good a bed is. I wonder if the person who made it is still alive. See if I can have an addition made to my massive bed for the heavily pregnant won to rest in, like myself or Elyne. Maybe Yzzorres will co around to a soft bed? Do I want that? She's just as bad as Ryze, with nonstop complaints.
They'll fit right in with the other Goddesses in the divine realm. I would say they would make a good Goddess, but I don't think many good goddesses exist. Well, maybe so of the ones with niche affinities are good, and they just don't have the power to make the world better.
I really need to work with Fertility on filling the divine realm, and I feel that there is soone else, but who? Space? But that still needs Fertility to make it work, and Hearth. Whatever, it's probably that I'm thinking about. Life would be a nice affinity. I need to give life to more Goddesses and teach them how to be nice before more people like Justice, Ryze, and Yzzorres beco Goddesses.
I turn the corner in the cave and see Victoria stuck in the middle of a massive bed. Room for more than one true phoenix inside. Soone was hopeful. Probably explains why she's so much nicer than her Mother.
"That is a big bed," I say. "You could get lost in there."
"It's fucking comfortable," Victoria says. "I'm fucking sleeping. You two have your fucking date or sothing. Pick up tomorrow or so shit."
"Are you trying to copy Yzzorres or sothing?" I ask.
"She seems like a bitch, so I fucking hope not," Victoria says.
"You are more willing to work than Yzzorres is, but you both have the sa priority," I say. "But we all need to test the bed."
"It is the best part of my nest," Eterna says. "Most of my ti was dealing with Mother or flying around. We can do that when we both transform. It'll be a lot better when we're using the big wings. It feels better."
"That sounds nice," I say. "A long flight would be great. I haven't had many chances to have a long flight. I think my longest has been when I was carrying my kids around the castle grounds." My flight with Syro ended rather quickly and suddenly. I didn't have much ti in the village where my wings were strong enough to lift off the ground for any amount of ti. I've spent a lot of ti on the ground as a dragon.
I crawl into the bed and make my way over to the lazy warrior. Eterna just jumps into the bed while Shimr just curls up on the edge. Does she worry that sothing is going to happen in bed? Ready to hand off our kid to Kou? I think the only thing that's going to happen in this bed is sleep. I'm practically in the clouds. Maybe so days there are clouds in the cave, given how high up we are.
"I see why you're so happy being in here," I say.
"Don't get too fucking close," Victoria says.
"Oh, soone worried?" I tease. "You chose to wear your leather instead of the steel. I think you wanted this."
"Don't fucking tell about damn leather," Victoria says. "If I'm fucking fighting, then we're all fucked, and I would rather not die burning in my own damn steel to fucking death. I'm not going to be a fucking slow roast!"
"You are a slow roast," I say. "Slowly, I've worked to get you into my bed. Sure, you're in Eterna's bed, but we're here together."
"Then I'm not fucking leaving this damn bed," Victoria says. "Just fucking bring Stacy here."
She really is just like Yzzorres. Just with a sense of duty that overrides her base instincts, and, despite the foul language, a lot nicer.
"We can rember that for later," I say. "I'm going my best to keep so won from getting pregnant to be guards and whatnot. ssed up a little getting so many warriors pregnant, and then I got Elora pregnant again. She kind of needed it and everything. But then Nanoka and..."
"Yes, yes, I fucking know you've gotten almost everyone in the damn harem pregnant," Victoria says. "Can't fucking believe I ended up in this group. Married to a fucking empress when everyone said I wasn't worth a fucking baron. If you ever want to get fucking pregnant, you can, just don't fucking bloat up. I'm going to be fucking annoyed if I struggle to fucking move."
"I'll see what I can do," I say, snuggling up against her. "I should warn you that I struggle to rember that in bed. Nakuma was supposed to have only a few, but ended up with ten kids. Nanoka just really didn't want to get healed, so that one isn't on . And the won in the ritual deserved their counts. But the others were either getting tricked or kind of forgetting to control myself."
"Well, fuck," Victoria says. "I want so fucking kids eventually, I think, so I'll fucking live with it. Our pregnancies are a lot fucking short than they're supposed to fucking be. I'll fucking make it. If Kou doesn't fucking kill for my damn tongue."
"I would never kill you, Lady Victoria, just take the troubleso part out," Kou says from the edge of the bed, one tail dangling in front of Shimr for our kid to play with.
"Fuck, you would fucking heal , right?"
"Maybe? Your tongue is a problem," I say.
"What's so bad about her tongue? She's pretty. I'm not overly attached to human forms, but I can see so things to like about her," Eterna says. "I certainly don't see anything wrong with her tongue."
"It's not a sight thing," I chuckle. "She curses too much."
"Oh, that. I don't think that is too much of a problem," Eterna says. "She isn't an to anyone. I've heard people speak more politely, and all they do is tear people down. Queens are terrible about this. They think themselves so high and forget that so beings are a lot stronger than they are. The worst of the bunch I would general scare. Peeping through their window at night, then shooting off into a bunch of flas, does wonders for correcting behavior. I don't think that would fix Victoria's problem. Probably just make it worse for anyone standing near her when I did it."
"I agree," I say. "I wouldn't be surprised if so nobles have insulted to my face without even understanding they did it. Nobles are a strange group. The others can sleep here for a bit if you want to show the rest of your nest. I think we're safe now, so Victoria doesn't have to follow us around."
"I would love to!" Eterna says. "Just, there isn't too much else."
"Still want to see it all," I say.
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