Emma was reading through the books and notes she had taken the liberty of keeping from the mansion. Magic from textbooks seldom had the same feel as the personal notes from someone trying to do something strange. She also wanted to know just what happened and make sure she understood it.
While she was reading, Liddy walked by her room to find the door open. She stopped.
Cat had tried to call Liddy but saw she was obviously distracted, when she looked in the door she realised why.
Mari had the fairy on her back holding her by the breasts as they went to their room only to find Cat and Liddy there staring through the open door. They joined them and appreciated just what had them so distracted.
"Damn," Blaze muttered when she looked to see what everyone was staring at.
Emma rolled over to see everyone through the door who had been staring at her. She realised she had meant to change and got distracted after stripping to lay on her bed naked while reading. That they had been admiring her bum as she shifted positions to read from the books in front of her. It really surprised her, she was so used to being able to sense when someone's eyes were on her. She hoped Hannah appreciated being lent the artefact while she went looking for the witch in the swamp.
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Hannah had been concerned when Foxy frantically hushed them to silence. Marching through the swamp they had to rely on hand signals because Foxy got really agitated about an hour into the search.
Foxy had been twitchy and irritated with her ears trying to scratch inside them. With everyone quiet, she seemed to settle down but military hand signals can only communicate so much, not why a fox might suddenly get itchy ears.
Hannah kept her eyes open and could feel when others looked at her thanks to the artefact Emma had given her. She knew they were all supposed to keep track of each other, but it never seemed like she would be looked at so often. Some glances lingered, as her own tended to do when something interesting was in her field of view. Suddenly, she snapped her fingers and crouched down as she sensed eyes on her from outside the formation.
Everyone followed suit and waited.
Hannah took cover behind a tree yet the sight was still on her. She laid down in the thick foliage and still eyes tracked her. She looked above and saw nothing, yet was certain that's where the eyes were located. As much as she didn't want to discomfort Foxy, she needed to speak.
"Check shot!" Hannah called out to let everyone know there might or might not be an enemy and fired into the air above her. Yet still the eyes watched her.
Foxy tapped her on the shoulder and started pointing insistently in a direction.
Hannah got up and moved everyone quickly since they had been spotted and made too much noise. The eyes followed her from above constantly and Hannah realised that whoever was looking at her, wasn't actually there. She hated it when magic wasn't working on her side. Hannah slowed down when the shape of a structure appeared in the swamp. She and the others took cover. The eyes suddenly stopped watching her, and it wasn't until a figure emerged from the wooden hut that they returned.
The woman was dressed in bits of snakeskin, bone, and wood. Strange fetishes covered her and hung from her matted hair. Her skin was darker than Inky's and decorated with paints. "What be ye doing in here near my home?" She spoke with a strange accent. "And how did you know I be seeing ya before you arrived?"
Hannah was about to respond when Foxy yelled, "Hazard shot!" and fired at an assemblage of bones that hung from a tree near the hut. What was once a finely crafted piece of artistry was shattered when the bullet hit it. Foxy let out a hard sigh of relief as she scratched her ears again, keeping one hand on her rifle aimed at the woman.
"Messing with your ears was it?" Hannah asked.
"It collected and funnelled all human voices from all over to this area. Things in the trees redirected them, but it wasn't until they got to that thing that it drove my ears insane. It's how I knew where to go, but even a whisper tickled my ears in a very uncomfortable way."
"Right," Hannah stated before turning to the woman and approaching her. "To answer your questions, we were hired to remove you from the land and I've got a thing. So, in the hopes that we can complete the job literally and not the metaphorical manner implied in the bounty, can you please pack your things?"
"You think I will leave me home because you asked politely?" The woman asked as Hannah met her on her porch.
"Hoped so, but I can settle for knocking you over the head and hauling you back."
"I think you underestimate me power," she replied while letting a snake that was in her hair wrap around her hand as she reached up to touch it.
"Shit, Vile? Did we bring any power?" Hannah asked, looking for her.
Vile approached, flames licking her body. "Damn bugs sure as hell know we have. Why are they not eating any of you?!"
"Didn't you get the bottle we handed out before we left?" Conna asked, coming partially out of cover in the trees.
Vile was nonplussed, "I may have not known what that was."
"Anyways," Hannah interrupted. "It seems that we brought some of our own. Also, we have a warrior priestess in full armor in a race ship in the sky that we can drop on you anytime so, ya know, good luck making this difficult for us. Also, why are you surprised to see her? Didn't you look at all of us?"
The woman wiped the shocked expression off her face and looked back at Hannah, "I saw you and you knew it, I was curious. Ya were much closer than I had time for with the fox keeping ya quiet. But my power is much more subtle than ya be used to." She got really close to Hannah as she spoke.
Hannah swatted the snake that was climbing out of the woman's hair away. "Look, that's all lovely but I really just want to pick you up and go."
"What kind of person just ignores a poison snake coming from me hair and into her face?"
"Well, I doubt they find enough to eat in your hair so you just put them there to scare us. Plus, they are black with red scales, not the red with black scales dotted white. So I doubt I'm in much danger. Assuming I remembered that trivia correctly. That guy was chatty and I was thinking of passing the wilderness survival course he was teaching by spending a night with him rather than a week in classes I had already taken." Hannah paused to look at her friends. "They lost the papers saying I completed the training, and I had to do it over. He wanted to talk about the things he thought the class should have covered and took forever to get off!"
"Ye be a solder or a harlot?" the woman asked trying to take a jab her.
"Sometimes I'm both," Hannah replied with a shrug.
"Well, ye be wrong about the snakes."
"Are you sure?" Hannah asked. "Tonna, do you know how to tell what snakes are poisonous?"
Tonna slithered into view, "This might surprise you but no. I don't really know anything other than that some are."
The woman looked worriedly between Hannah and Tonna before Hannah spoke up.
"Relax, she can't turn you to stone unless you are a man." It was only then that Hannah checked out the woman as a woman and decided that what was under all the decorations was quite an interesting womanly figure.
"Ye said I could pack me things?" she asked, finally relenting to the idea that resistance was pointless and possibly unnecessary.
"Yes, though I would like to see how you were able to view me." Hannah extended her hand. "Hannah."
"A fair enough request. Sarasha." She took Hannah's hand.
Sarasha guided Hannah into her hut. Aside from the dilapidated construction out of basic materials, it seemed well kept. On a table was a bowl of water, where the surface reflected like a mirror.
"It canna see far, and only at familiar places. I having already walked all through this land."
"Can I use it? To look at our ship?"
"Just touch the water and think of the place. Tha ripples will settle and you will see."
Hannah decided to check in on Mari since she knew Ving was flying above them, and they occasionally heard her flyover. She touched the water and saw Mari and Easy's room but it was empty. It didn't seem to find people, just places.
"Try Inky," Vile suggested, towering over Hannah to get a view.
Hannah tried to focus on Inky's bedroom this time and finally found Mari.
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Inky was getting her uniform stripped off as she kissed Mari, who was already naked. It wasn't until the skirt came off that they could see Easy already between her legs. The viewers wondered how they had missed her, even at the angle they were viewing at. The three of them were at the foot of the massive bed made to support Vile.
Mari pressed her breasts against Inky's and loved the pressure against them every time she embraced a woman. She assumed any men that embraced her loved getting to feel her breasts on them, but something about being with another woman made it better. Kissing made more challenging by the breasts between them felt more exciting as well. The hard breaths Inky made as she felt Easy slither her tongue deeper into Inky while the fairy hands played with both of them were enough to send Mari to an early climax. A good start to their fun.
"You ate Vile before she left, didn't you?" Mari asked before nipping Inky at the neck.
"And she me. I bet you both taste her." Inky answered, grabbing Mari by the breasts and getting grabbed the same way in return.
"Mhmm," was all that came from Easy below them.
