Naomi led Morgan into a basement parlor and gestured him behind some modesty curtains. As she had him undress fully, she turned away and slid out of her sundress before gathering up her measurement tools. Morgan had spent enough time in the public baths of the church to not be embarrassed by stripping down, even in front of a strange woman, but there was still an amount of reservation as he shed his way down to just his chastity cage and stood on a raised dais.
"I hope you bathed well before this, because if I'm smelling you the whole time and you reek, I might just spritz you with flea bath and let you sit for an hour or two before I come back."
Morgan sniffed himself self-consciously before Naomi turned around with her needles and tape measures. She looked him up and down before whistling.
"Geez kid, those street clothes did you no favors." She circled him casually, "I had hips and a waist like that, I might be in a different line of work."
"The church put a great emphasis on exercises of the lower body," Morgan explained professionally.
"Guess I gotta get religious." The scrawny elf whistled, "That explains the johnny lockup too."
"Yes..." Morgan felt a slight flush of shame he didn't expect, "I'm hoping to make enough money to buy a replacement key or get an artificer to remove it. The owner of my contract destroyed the only means of removing it."
"That's too bad," She prodded his cage once disinterestedly, "Though you seem like you got off light. Some of the church people had devices like whole belts or sets of undergarments."
"Yes," Morgan replied, "Those were for acolytes who especially struggled with libidinal urges."
"And you didn't?" Naomi asked with a hint of teasing.
"I did, just not very badly, not in the way of trying to stuff things inside of myself."
"Oh," Naomi tittered, "I see. You might regret that."
"Why would I?"
She pinched his ass, "A thief's back pocket can be their best friend. I'm not saying you need to be able to hide a whole crown up there, but being able to store a couple of jewels..."
"Doesn't that... hurt?" Morgan could stop from blushing slightly.
"Not with the proper training and preparation. For some people, it's even more fun than the other stuff. Even leaving aside all the other applications." Naomi made it sound like the most normal thing in the world.
"Is it really that common to do that?"
"Oh sure. Depends on the job of course. Certain magical scanners can penetrate burlap but not muscle. You can strip down and not reveal what you've got. Girls obviously have a second compartment, but even for them, it's not usually as spacious as even a decently-trained ass can be."
Morgan made quiet note of Naomi's seeming attempt to distance herself from being a girl but said nothing. She started measuring him casually, moving his body without a care of where her hands touched.
"So, why a thief?" She asked plainly. "I mean, you're not built like a warrior, but..."
"I suppose I've always been very good at it." Morgan answered honestly, "Almost magically so."
"And what makes you a good thief? It can't be fitting in and out of vents."
"I have this sort of gift..." Morgan started to answer honestly but decided to hold back somewhat. "I've always known what others are thinking. Not true mind reading, more sort of the shape of their thoughts."
"I thought I felt you poking around earlier," She sounded nonplussed, almost bored, "What did you see from me?"
"Nothing really. I didn't have long enough, plus it isn't really telepathy." He lied slightly, "It's not like if somebody has a lockbox, I know where the key is and what's inside. It's more that I can tell which drawers they'd prefer I don't check, what kind of things they're worried about losing."
"Sounds handy for a thief," She made a note on a small handbook and then folded it closed. She looked him in the eye with an almost uncomfortable scrutiny. "So what sort of shape do you get from me?"
Morgan reached out and immediately blushed a little deeper, "You're just thinking about my ass."
"Damn right I am," She made another note in her book, "Seems like it's pretty easy to trick."
"Yes," Morgan admitted, "But nobody other than you and my chapter mother have ever purposefully tried to trick it."
"Seems like if anybody is feeling any one thing intensely enough, it isn't very useful."
"Right, but most people aren't feeling anything very strongly at any given moment."
"Fair enough," She tucked the notebook into her waistband, "I guess if I just keep thinking about your ass, I don't have to worry about you finding all the gems I have hidden in this room."
"I wouldn't steal them anyway, Gordy said not to mess with the other people in the guild."
"Correction," She wrapped the measuring tape around his hips, "He said not to fuck with the other people in the guild."
"Sure," Morgan gulped as Naomi's hand brushed his caged cock, "He probably phrased it more like that."
"Goddess bless him but I think he might be more anxiety than man at this point. I don't know how his stomach hasn't fallen right out of his body from worry."
"Is he..." Morgan tried to find the right way to phrase it, "Do any of the guild members actually want to..."
"Are you kidding? Not in a million years. He's got his rough edges but nobody to hold the chair has done it better and there's a chance nobody ever will. Even ignoring that, why would you ever risk being the person who gets appointed as his replacement?"
Morgan offered a weak "ah" in response as Naomi finished measuring his legs and butt before pinching his ass again and making a few final notes in her book.
"So, your suit is going to be fairly easy to make. We basically just need to take a female fit and pad out the crotch for your cage while tightening the chest."
"I see," Morgan replied plainly. Naomi gave him a look like she had expected him to be embarrassed by this or take offense to it, but female-fitted clothes had become the norm for him a while ago. And the teasing for being as bottom-heavy as he was had ended shortly after it began.
"You have a very androgynous body for the most part, not sure if anybody has ever told you that. You ever think about cutting your hair or not shaving your beard if you want to look more manly?"
Morgan fingered his cheek-length ginger hair nervously, "I've never shaved before."
"Not anywhere?"
"No?"
"And now I'm jealous about two things," Naomi sighed.
"It's not like I don't have hair, it just comes in so light..." Morgan picked at the wispy pale hairs on his stomach to demonstrate, but it didn't seem to do anything to convince Naomi.
"You must have been popular at your church."
"We all took the same vow of chastity, if that's what you're implying." He sounded a little more indignant than he'd meant to.
"Yeah yeah," Naomi went over to one of her cabinets and fished out a box full of metal balls of varying sizes.
"Are we done measuring?" Morgan gestured at his clothing sitting on the ground.