This is an updated version of a previous story.
Thank you, RNebular, for editing this for me!
I hope you all enjoy this story, and as always, I appreciate your comments and emails.
-Guinevere A. Hart
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What's a nice human like you doing in a dark kitchen like this? Well, you're here, so pull up a seat and have a drink with me. Just between me and you, I know where they keep all the best booze.
Oh yeah, I come down to the kitchens all the time. Especially at night, when it's all quiet here in the wizards' tower. You ever go outside and really have a look at the place? From a distance, I mean? The Spire juts up out of the mountain like the phallus of the Gods! Ha!
The place runs like any small town though. People roll out of bed, go to work and school, they fight and love on each other, just like anyplace else. Well, except for the spells, runes, summoning, and such. Then there's the gossip and the scandals, but I suppose small towns have that, too, don't they?
You may have noticed, in the last half a year or so, this place has gone from a college for mages, to a sanctuary for all kinds of people: rebel demons, refugees, and of course, the Sorcerers. The Sorcerers are the mother Goddess Velith's answer to my father's insistence that he conquers this world. But I digress. Who wants to get serious when it's time to get drunk? No, I've got better tales, tales so dirty you'll want a bath when I'm done.
You can call me Hilo, by the way. Everyone does, eventually. My name is actually Ahiloquiin, and I'm a Son of Goja, for all that's worth. Your people might call me a demon, and I suppose, in some ways, you'd be right. My father - now there's a demon for you! - he thinks he's the God of Conquest. But my mother was a dragon. I like to think I take after her.
I know, I know. I look more like a disheveled, worn out elf than a son of a dragon. You see, I'm a Familiar, and the Mother Goddess gave me the ability to change my shape. I can be a Gojan, a ferret, or an elf. I've found elf is the best shape to get drunk in, and this is the shape I like to tell stories in. So, pass the bottle, and have a listen. I think you're going to like this one.
Now, as a Familiar, I've gotten to know the Sorcerers well. Some of them really well. There's this hot little elfess called Lady Kamilyssandre Laurelain Dolvith, for example. I'd say that's a mouthful of a name, but I don't have much room to talk, with a name like Ahiloquiin. Anyway, she goes by Kami. Can you blame her?
Kami's got one of those faces that kingdoms go to war over, with hair like sunshine and the eyes of a clear summer's day. She's got a quick smile so sweet you can feel the very atmosphere change when she grins. If I can get her to stay still, one of these days I'm going to paint her portrait. She's the bouncy type, and Gods, how that girl loves to fuck! Be a friend and pass that bottle back, will you? Oh! There it is, still in my hand.
As I was saying, the Goddess didn't stop at Kami's face. For an elf, she's got serious curves, ones that fit your hands and hug your body just right. And she's got a rack out to here! Honest to the Mother! I should know, because when I'm a ferret, I can get her to carry me around between those blessed bosoms.
No, Kami's not my Sorceress. I'm sort of in between mage-crafters at the moment, so I guess you could say I'm a bit of a free agent. My heart belongs to one Sorceress in particular, but we're not talking about the Mistress now, are we?
As I was saying, I just put on the ferret act, all cute and fuzzy. Then Kami tucks me into her dress, and I ride around in cushy, perfumed luxury. I was hitching a ride with her the night that the High Scepter, Mordas Amorgahn, sent for her...
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Kami walked the dim and quiet halls after her evening shift in the commissary. With one hand, she trailed her fingers along the wall. With the other, she rubbed the head of the ferret, Hilo, who poked his head up from her cleavage. She hummed a nonsense tune to him. Hilo technically belonged to Céde, but the little creature seemed to like Kami, and he kept her company when she was bored. And her work was very boring indeed. She looked forward to finding some fun for the night. But first, she wanted a quick wash and a change of clothes.
Before reporting for work, she'd had studies in the library with the other Sorcerers. Kami hated doing research. It was too quiet, too still, and was even more boring than working the commissary. The books all smelled of dust, old leather, and stale book paste. Most of the tomes they looked through were old and dried out. The librarians weren't much better - except for Céde, that is. She was her dearest friend, the leader of the Sorcerers, and of all things, a librarian.
Kami chuckled softly as she checked her in-box for any messages. There was a note from Céde and one from another friend and Sorcerer, Taziel. There was also a document from the High Scepter's office. It was crisply folded, bearing an official seal and everything. She frowned and asked Hilo, "Now what's this all about?"
Hilo only dook-dooked at her, so Kami blew a long blonde strand of hair out of her face, then shoved her door open. Tossing the mail on the table, she took a look around. Her half of the room - strange that she still thought of it as "her half" - was cluttered with piles of clothes, most of them burying stacks of books she was supposed to be reading. The other half was bare and clean, because Céde had moved out to live with her fiancé, the orc-blood Hellstone smith, Jorak. Céde's half of the room had been just as sloppy as Kami's. Now, the room just looked weird. She didn't want to sleep there alone. But then she hardly ever slept alone, anyway.
"Well, Hilo, let's see what we've got, hmm?"
She opened the note from Céde, who wanted to see Kami first thing in the morning, before their lessons in the magical Simulation chamber. Kami sighed, irritated that she would have to be up even earlier than usual. She tossed the note on the floor into a pile that mostly consisted of opened mail. Taziel's note made her smile. It said simply, "Let's fuck. Your room, tonight. I'll bring friends." That answered her question about what she was going to do that night. That is, until she opened the official message from the High Scepter:
Lady Kamilyssandre Dolvith,
Immediately following your evening shift, you are to report to the High Scepter's office for disciplinary action. I advise promptness.