I was beginning to feel outnumbered in my own party. Things were fine when it was just me and Kelly, we made a good partnership. The fact that she was a woman was entirely incidental. Ziura was a strange addition, but welcome given her skillset. The fact that she was a woman was a given in her situation, so it didn't really bother me. Lorna added some much needed firepower, quite literally, but with now three women and only me representing my sex, I was beginning to understand why some female adventurers complained about 'sausage fests' in their own parties. I thought I heard somewhere that most adventurer guilds count about 1 female member for every 5 male counterparts.
Kelly had met Lorna while she was out investigating, coincidentally the night Ziura and I had first had sex. Kelly had gotten herself into some unexpected trouble and Lorna had saved her, so Kelly offered the unattached mage a position in our party.
She was an elf, so she was slender and tall, and her natural colors were centered around a tree species. She was a few inches shorter than me at about 5'8" or so, but couldn't have weighed much more than 150 pounds with all her gear together. Her skin was the pale brown of birch wood. Her hair was the dirty white of the bark from that same tree, and her eyes had a yellow that I had to assume matched birch leaves in autumn.
She was also, at the moment, intruding on my bath. Not that I minded the view, but I was somewhat annoyed that my one moment of privacy away from the girls was being interrupted by one of them so casually. I so rarely got a moment alone to myself anymore, let alone while being able to relax in a spa.
She reclined nude in the opposite corner of the bath from me, her pale skin glistening in the steam. Her long hair cascaded down her shoulders and into the water, spreading out and floating around her. Her gaze remained firmly locked on me, an almost inquisitive look on her face. Like I was a puzzle that she was in the process of solving. It was somewhat unnerving to have someone stare at my naked body that intently.
Although, I suppose it was only fair, because I couldn't much help but stare at her as we soaked there. We were facing each other, and like I said, I definitely appreciated how she looked. Her lithe body was nearly as slender as Kelly's and she had no shame in showing it to me.
Lorna suddenly stood up. She crossed the short distance of the bath, then squatted down nearly directly in front of me. I'm sure she wouldn't have minded, but I still made a point of not directing my eyes toward her now beautifully exposed groin. The only place I could really bring myself to look at was her face, which was just as intense, but significantly closer.
"Don't you find me attractive?" she asked suddenly.
"What are you talking about?" I stammered, feeling my face flush. Lorna was direct, as most elves were, but that question in this context was a degree of forwardness I wouldn't have expected from anyone.
Lorna responded by sinking to her hands and knees and getting even closer. "Don't you find me attractive?" she repeated simply. "We've been sitting in this bath, naked, staring at each other, for almost an hour now. You haven't made any kind of move on me." She looked down at my not-yet-hard dick and added, "In fact, you don't even seem to be reacting to me at all."
"Where is this coming from?" I deflected, shifting my position uncomfortably and trying not to have a reaction to her.
"I'm the only one in the party you haven't had sex with yet," she explained. "You've had sex with Kelly. You had sex with Ziura after knowing her for a month, and every night since until she confirmed she was pregnant. I've been here for three months and you haven't looked at me with any intent that I've noticed. What gives?"
I was taken aback at that. I had only had sex with Kelly once, and had honestly almost forgotten it. She was so sore the next couple days that I couldn't rely on her for much of anything, which pretty well put me off the idea of having sex with her again, especially as she had been my only teammate at the time. Ziura was explicitly with us to get pregnant, so every time we had sex had been at her insistence. Honestly I found the act exhausting with her, so when she stopped demanding it, I let it go without any complaints. It had never occurred to me that Lorna would feel left out.
"Honestly, I had never even considered it," I admitted. "You're beautiful, it's just that most women I've ever known considered unwanted advances, well, unwanted. And difficult to work with afterword. It's also generally not a good idea to date coworkers, so the thought never crossed my mind."