Elly watched her inject the last girl, and the results were predictable. The girl got very sleepy and instantly fell asleep. Then fluids began to secrete from her skin, as she curled up into a ball. Within minutes she was surrounded by a cocoon. Finally, she looked at the Swarmling, and asked, How long will this process take?
It will depend on the individual, but about one week maybe two. In the anti, we should make sure they are warm. Also, we will want plenty of food and water available for when they wake up. They are going to be very hungry when they wake up.
She nodded, and replied, That sounds reasonable. The girls had all eaten recently so she wasnt too worried about them. She knew the human body could go for a few days without food, but it still didnt sit quite right with her. Just there was nothing she could do about it. So after she was certain that they were going to be alright, she asked the swarmling to follow her. Elly was hoping the Swarmling could provide her a few insights into the idiots that had let these girls get infected in the first place.
She had a lot of questions for them and now was a good ti. Well at least for her. It was rather late in the day for them. The last few days had not been easy for them, but they had worked out a routine of sorts. Only about twenty n and won had survived the wreck, mostly n. The lack of wood on her island had proven problematic for them, but a few enterprising individuals had used the remains of their ship and salvaged tools to make the tools they needed to survive. The won spent the day foraging around the island, while the n typically went spearfishing. One of them, a woman was a half-decent fire mage and had beco the village cook. She was responsible for cooking their als, with the aid of a couple of other girls. Most of the won were slaves, a fact she hadnt noticed earlier during the storm, but it didnt change much for her.
Aya collapsed onto her bed and resisted the urge to cry. Today had been terrible for her, but so had the day before. She was careful not to let her sore butt touch her mattress. Her mistress had nothing to do with her sore butt. As much as her mistress treated her as a naughty little girl, she had never spanked her. She was also very true to her word to the point that since her reincarnation she had never been given solid food. Instead, the vampiress personally breastfed her.
Problem was she found being breastfed, very embarrassing. She often found herself wishing she had never forced Reia to drink from the breast. In addition, she just plain missed solid food. Aya would have been happy with anything solid, even so plain bread. Before she would have dismissed many food items out of hand as peasant food or slave food. Now that was no longer the case. She wanted solid food so bad, that she no longer cared about those things. Then when the opportunity presented itself, she had taken it to make a foray into the kitchen.
It had gone well at first. She had gotten in without being detected by anyone. There were a few cooks and maids moving around in the kitchen. She had taken advantage of her small size to remain unseen, and managed to get into the pantry. Grabbing the first thing she found, a small loaf of bread that had been baked earlier and was resting in a rack. She tried to leave but barely made it a step out of the pantry before the head chef caught her. The worst part wasnt the spanking, but that she never even got a chance to take a bite of her prize. Part of her was also dreading the next encounter with her mistress. She had no doubt the vampire would hear of this. Aya was already imagining punishnts she might receive for betraying her trust. This was the first ti that her mistress had left her unsupervised since she got here, and she had gotten caught stealing food. One thing she was certain about was that she wasnt going to be left unsupervised again anyti soon. The rest she couldnt really be certain about. Her chest was empty as her mistress hadnt given her anything to store in it. Also why she was still naked. Mistress hadnt given her anything to wear. Aya had told her that she needed to earn that privilege.
Then she glanced at the thin blanket next to her. It was the only thing she had been given, and now she was worried she might lose it. All because of a small piece of bread that she didnt even get to taste. She clutched the thin blanket to her bare chest and wished she had at least gotten to taste it. Maybe then it would have been worth it, but she was now worried that she was going to lose her only possession. It occurred to her that these were worries she never would have had in her last life, and it also occurred to her that her mistress might consider the spanking punishnt enough. It didnt change the fact that she was worried it wasnt. Trying to distract herself she opened her status and looked at the screen. Her level hadnt changed at all since her rebirth. Not that she had expected it to change. Sure she had earned so experience and gained a couple of skills. Just not enough for a level.
Looking at her skills window, she sighed. She had gained three skills since she had gotten her. The first was naturally called basic cleaning, and she had it at level three. Mostly because her mistress was always making her clean things. Below it was another skill, she never would have had before. The skill had co about as part of her religious studies. It was a lore skill, just like the last of her new skills. The two just covered different aspects of the dark faith. Lore skills helped a person to rember things they had been taught. While she wasnt exactly happy to see these three skills in her list, her mistress, on the other hand, was very happy when the lore skills ca up.
Suddenly her door opened, and Aya closed her status window. Shifting over, she winced a bit where her butt touched the mattress. Standing in the doorway was her mistress. A part of her was glad that she didnt have to wait long for the dreaded encounter. She was hoping that any further punishnts would just be handed out, and they could get this over with. Instead, she was asked a question. Was it worth it?
She spared a glance at the vampiress and noted that she didnt seem as mad as she feared. More along the lines of disappointed. She glanced at her feet, and clutched the blanket tighter to herself, and quietly replied, no.
She had already answered that question herself, but she chose to omit the fact that she only felt that because she didnt get a bite. She was rewarded with a mild shock. It didnt really hurt but was just enough to get her attention. Dont look your feet. Look at , and speak clearly. Now was it worth it?
Aya adjust herself a bit, and then answered again. This ti she looked at her mistress and spoke more loudly. Her mistress showed a brief smile, and then asked, If it wasnt worth it why did you do it?
Aya glanced at her feet again and remained silent. Not because she didnt want to answer her, but because she needed ti to consider her answer. Thankfully her mistress was being patient today, and she was given the ti to think about it. I wasnt thinking. I had just finished your task, and no one was around. The kitchen was right there, and I let my desires lead .
Her mistress smiled and crossed the short distance to the bed. As she sat down next to her, she said, Glad to see you finally admitting to your mistakes without having to prod you too much. Now knowing you, you only think it wasnt worth it because you didnt get a bite.
She sheepishly looked away. Her mistress knew her way better than she did her mistress. She knew why of course. The day they t, her mistress had rifled through her mories. Aya had barely been aware of it at the ti. Her mistress suddenly pulled her over her lap, and said, Thats what I thought.
Aya felt a rush of fear at first, as she thought her mistress was going to spank her. Then she felt a gentle warmth spreading across her rear, and that was followed with pleasure. It took her a mont to connect the sensations with dark healing. She could have healed herself with the spell, but she hadnt because she wasnt allowed to use magic without permission. Mostly because she didnt want to risk compounding punishnts.
Before she could even ask why she was suddenly being healed, her mistress said, Now since you decided to try and take soone elses dinner you are losing yours.
By this point, Aya already knew better than to complain about a punishnt. That was often a good way to make things worse. A couple of monts later, her mistress left the room. She was grateful that her butt didnt sting anymore, but she had mixed feelings about losing her dinner. On one hand, she was spared the embarrassnt of being breastfed again, but now she was going to bed hungry. The punishnt did, however, fit very well with how her mistress liked to treat her. As if she was a naughty little girl.
The vampiress left happy with what had happened. Ayas training did have its rough spots. She was very defiant at first, but she had been broken of that rather quickly. Aya still resented her, and it was quite obvious. Well, at least it was to her. The young elf still tried to get out of things or misinterpret her orders on occasion. The first few days though had been the toughest, as she hadnt yet accepted her new role in things. The crest helped her a lot. It forced the girl to accept reality, and for the vampiress that ant she was able to skip the months of denial and escape attempts, she otherwise would have been forced to deal with.
She knew Aya wasnt happy with her current lot in life, and she often dropped reminders that things could be worse. So far it seed to have worked, as she hadnt tried to run away, but she knew it was because she was afraid of ending up a slave. One thing she was working on at the mont was getting the young elf to pray to her patron. She still wont do that without prompting, but it was sothing she needed to do if she wanted to earn Ruminas forgiveness. Having her help out with the rituals would be another way to help her gain favor, but the vampiress didnt think she could trust her with that at the mont. Regardless, she was having her study the rituals carried out in the temple. It wasnt too hard to keep her attention during a lecture, as she knew all of the girls little tells of boredom. Having rooted through her mind before had helped with that. In addition, she regularly quizzed the girl on her lectures, and while she hadnt really paid attention the first ti, she did after failing the first quiz. Aya hated chores, so a good way to get her attention was to dump extra ones on her. Once she realized that failing a quiz ant extra chores for her, she started paying more attention to the lectures. The Vampiress knew she wasnt a fan of the religious schooling either, but it was for her own good. Being disfavored was not a good thing, and if she didnt shape up and repent Rumina could easily make her life hell.
Regardless, breaking her down, so that she could be rebuilt into a better person as the goddess desired was a slow process. The girl had actually refused to eat at first. She was initially unable to overco her embarrassnt at the prospect of suckling to actually do it. The vampiress had let her go hungry for a few days and may have used a small spell to give her the push she needed. What was most important about doing this was that it helped tear down her nearly bottomless pride. That pride of hers was really her greatest failing. It supported her self-image and blinded the young elf to reality. Having rooted through her mories, the vampiress knew that her parents in her last life were in-part to bla for that. They had done nothing to discourage the erging behaviors when she was young. They werent the only cause for it, but she was most thankful that the goddess had chosen to land this girl in her lap when she had. When she was done training the girl, she was going to send her to Bordertown and have her apologize to young Reia. Reia had not deserved what Aya had done to her, but she wanted to make sure that Aya sincerely regretted those actions first.
As she entered the altar room of the temple soone called her na. Hey, Reina! I heard your new pet got caught trying to steal bread.
She stopped and looked over to see it was her friend that had called her out. A fellow high priestess who had been there when they had found Aya magically bound to the altar and wearing only a sign. The sign had simply said, I am a naughty girl that has displeased the goddess, and needs training from the temple.
It was very straight forward and told them what they needed to know about her. It was why Aya ended up as the talk of the temple the day she arrived. It wasnt often that the goddess herself sent soone in for training. The temple regularly accepted young girls for training. Most of them were unruly children, and more often than not nobles. Nobles whose antics had embarrassed their families. Not all the nobles in the city agreed with the light temple, and they sent their embarrassnts to Ruminas temple for training. The other group was young elven children that had been caught by slavers and rescued by these noble families. Most were just employed as maids or other jobs in the household, but so proved a little unruly and were sent to the temple. Most of their worshipers, in fact, ca from these households, but they had seen a sharp rise in attendance of late. A certain primordial goddess was responsible for that.
As her friend got a bit closer, she noticed the small elf girl hiding behind her leg. She was dressed in a tattered rag, and her hair was a bit unkempt. Her face even had a little dirt on it. If she had to guess, she placed the girl between eight and ten years of age. So it ca as no surprise that she had yet to develop. Her hair was currently black, but Reina didnt think that was her natural hair color. Even from here she could tell the child was in desperate need of a bath.
Yeah, I already spoke with Aya about that, then she knelt and with a gentle smile she asked, Whos this hiding behind your leg.
The priestess replied, this is Violet. She lost her parents, and just needs so guidance from the temple.
OH? Has she been up to no good or sothing?
The priestess shook her head, and said, She had a premature awakening thanks to the stressful event. Turns out she has talent as a nature mage and cleric. I was hoping to add her to your class. You are already training one acolyte, and I figured Aya could use a friend close to her age.
Reina could see that, and it could help if Aya had a role model. She gave the girl a gentle pat on the head, and said, Sure, Ill help her get settled in, and then tomorrow we can introduce the two.
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