M Moving Into A New Life

[Jack Pine]

Asteri huffed as she carried a backpack stuffed with clothes to Belme’s and Gale’s apartment. She hadn’t visited the apartment after the events of cosplay dressing with Gale, and then the events that transpired on the beach. ...Asteri flushed even thinking about the mention of those events. Why she hadn’t visited the apartment the day after they came home, she had no idea why. Belmes and Gale were fun. LOTS of fun.

Asteri shook her head, and began lugging her bags down the long hallway trip to the apartment- okay, the trip was relatively short, but carrying that backpack, satchel, and suitcase that was carrying two other bags filled with all sorts of stuff made it feel like a million pounds! But she managed to make it through, though she struggled with the keys for a bit. After fumbling them out of a pocket, Asteri fitted it into the keyhole, and opened the door.

The apartment was empty. Like, there was no furniture there. No drapes. None of the paintings, displays, books, or anything else that made it seem like home. Asteri’s ears and tails drooped, and she just made a shocked sound: “Huh?”

There was a soft bump in the bedroom before Heinrich came walking out of said room with a small box in hands. “Oh hey Asteri, I was just about to call you. I figured that with three of us, this place was gonna be rather small for that many people. So uh, I kinda got us a new house.”, he said with a surprised smile as he hadn’t been expecting to see her arrive during the move.

“If you want to come with me, I figured I’d get everything moved over before Gale came home from her trip to her home she went on for a couple days as a surprise for you both. Though it looks like you caught me red handed.” He chuckled a little nervously in good fun now that she was in on the surprise itself.

“Oh!” At that, Asteri dropped her backpack and promptly hugged Belmes for a moment, nuzzling him for a solid second, before letting go. “Well, how in the nine hells were you intending to surprise us!? Just, let us walk into an empty apartment? ...How did you even get a house within, like, what? Five days? Where is this place? It’s not in the city, is it- they don’t have houses. How did you take care of all the moving in here by yourself? How did you do it without me noti…”

Asteri’s tirade of questions trailed off as she looked around, a dreadful thought occurring to her. “Uh. I guess that means I have to lug all of my stuff down Loki knows how many floors.” She held up a finger to forestall Belmes’ comment. “And yes, I know there’s an elevator, but imagine doing this trip TWENT- er, THIRTY times?” At that, Asteri pouted. “Do we at least have a bell hopper?” Asteri was not looking forward to having to lug all that stuff down. Not at all.

He looked a little surprised at the sudden barrage, before coming to a clear enough thought to answer her. “I had some help yesterday, forgot one thing though, so I came to get it. Also I can just carry those if it’s that heavy for ya.”, he answered after setting aside the box and hugged her back closely. “I was going to call and have you meet me at the park for a hangout, then mention a surprise then drive you there. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting you to move in until tomorrow since you were still getting your residency paperwork handled.”

Not even fully letting go of her, he helped slip the backpack and satchel off, before slipping them on to carry himself. With one more squeeze, Heinrich then picked his box up once again, “So let’s make this one trip, and I can take you there for a tour.”

Asteri practically nodded her head off with how energetically she nodded. “That would be wonderful, Belmes! You’re helping me out a ton, you know! I really couldn’t have done it all by myself!” Perhaps the praise was a bit too thick. ...Nah. “I’ll even see about trying to reward you for being this nice!” Asteri practically wagged her tails as she leaned against Heinrich. “So, where’s this house at? How big is it?” Asteri tilted her head at the slightly taller man. “I’m sure we can surprise Gale. It’s just that we can’t make it too obvious with her, since she probably knows everywhere that isn’t Obsidian City.”

As Asteri chatted away, the two of them made their way down the hall and to the elevator, whereupon the door opened to reveal a somewhat crowded elevator. Three people. One man in a business suit, and another two that looked like they themselves were a couple.

Heinrich stepped in, keeping Asteri close as they did, trying to fit in their own corner of the space available. The prince didn’t say anything, not wanting to start more on the gossip train then he already had at this point. The business man was first off after they got going, Heinrich not so sure when the couple were getting off. Hopefully they were on their way out like them, doing whatever it was they had plans for that evening.

“I’m sure we can, and it’s somewhat under her nose. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t really been around the green zone outside the city.” He leaned in close next to her ear before saying further, “It’s three floors, and 70 acres, with plenty of room for a whole clan if need be. I want to make sure we are all really comfortable with plenty of room.”

Asteri’s ears flicked a bit as she shivered somewhat. She whispered back somewhat furtively, “N-no fair. You know my ears are sensitive!” She playfully swatted him on the chest, before she got more serious. “You seriously went that big? How on Ydd- yeah. Right.” She lowered her voice to a whisper again. “Archduke and all that.” She smiled cheekily at him at that comment, before the elevator began to slow down.

As Asteri glanced at the floor number, the elevator stopped and the door opened, before the couple finally exited the elevator, the two whispering to each other rather excitedly. But soon enough the elevator door closed again, and began descending again. Asteri promptly spun around and squeezed herself against Heinrich, chest squishing against his torso.

“So, how long of a drive is it away from here? Or do we take the LRT, or monorail? D’you think we can stop by Keanu’s Bakery? I love their scones and muffins!” Asteri smiled on cheerily, before continuing on. “I got a thing called a hackey-sack.” Asteri pulled out a small bean bag from her pocket. “I dunno if you know much about it, but back in Andraeste, we would kick this to each other in a circle. While there were different ways to play it, the most common way we would play this is after enough kicks, we were allowed to slap it with our hands. The goal is to hit someone else when you do that!”

“Well it’s pretty common as far as simple entertainment goes. Also we’re driving, and it will take 20 minutes to get there. A bit longer in the slower moving truck I have out front." Heinrich was already smiling as a hand took the devious opportunity to pat Asteri's head, and rib between the ears. The prince knew pretty well that those ears were, and that pats were like slooty addiction.

Chuckling as they started to disembark, then make their way out into the parking lot. "We can maybe get something along the way, as some pastries would be nice for house warming.", He added as he led her towards the truck.

Asteri would have pouted at the headpat. If she wasn’t busy leaning more into Heinrich in order to have it done in a heavier fashion. Headpats were heavenly, especially when they rubbed against those bits where her ears met her head. Thankfully, or maybe not, the headpat wasn’t that sensual. Belmes was doing the kind of headpat that just felt good- a bit lighter, and he would have Asteri panting red faced.

Eventually, though, the delightful feeling had to end as the two separated in order to get on the opposite sides of the truck, with Heinrich depositing the last of his things, as well as Asteri’s, in the truck. When he entered the truck, Asteri smiled at him, as she closed the door to her side. “So, Belmes? I know you just finished grading midterms like, a week ago. How long of a break do you have left before you have to get back to teaching? Because, well, moving right now seems like it’d be a lot of trouble if you’re also having to teach at Obsidian University.”

Asteri was also handling a medium sized package she nabbed from the front of her door; she had stuffed it into her suitcase, and had taken it out before Heinrich had put the suitcase in the back. Catching Heinrich’s puzzled glance, she shrugged at him, saying, “I dunno what it is, but it’s from daddy. I honestly wonder what he’s sent me. It’s very light for its size…”

Heinrich eyed the box weirdly, remembering all the trouble they had gone through back in Andraeste. “Are you sure it’s from him? Because anyone can mail a package addressed as someone else, I just want you to be careful after all that happened when we met. Someone is after you, or was, but until sure otherwise I’d consider it possible.”

He wasn’t going to tell her no in opening her own mail, but he wanted her to be aware and be cautious just in case. As Heinrich started the truck, he didn’t really bother to let them sit there, and instead opted to get them going while it came up. “I just don’t want to see you hurt, and I want to keep the promise I made to your dad.”

Asteri chuckled, slightly darkly. “I don’t think you need to worry. Eius’ mansion had been blown up very shortly after we left by those Iron Company folks. They found his dead body inside a safe room.” After that, she brightened up considerably. “And besides! Daddy sent me a message as well asking if I got his gift in the mail. I asked him what it was, but he really didn’t elaborate much on it, saying I should make sure to check everything in it.”

Asteri handled the box a bit lightly. “But if you’re still worried, I can wait until we make it to the house?” No need to make Belmes worry any more than he already did. Deciding preemptively, she set the box down below the dashboard. She then went ahead and crossed her feet on the dashboard, as she idly began looking outside, looking at all the buildings zooming by. Eventually, though, she turned her head back around to look at Heinrich. “So, what classes are you going to teach this semester at the university?” She knew, as a professor, Heinrich’s class schedule was fairly set, but it didn’t hurt to ask to make sure whether or not he was forced to add a new class, or maybe drop one.

Very shortly after Asteri asked her question, however, something caught her eye: “Oooooh! Jaimon’s Ice Cream Parlor!?”

Heinrich shook his head with a smile, as Asteri was being typical Asteri, making him question if just a bit of squirrel had been slipped into those genes. He pulled the truck off the main road, and into the drive through for the ice cream place, “History this semester actually, as someone has to pass on our history to the youngins.”

“Yessssssssss! Thaaank you!” At that, she reached over and promptly kissed Belmes on the cheek. She then continued to jabber on, “Make it caramel, please? I know you probably don’t want this car to get sticky, so if possible, make it a milkshake? Does this truck have a cupholder?” After looking around furtively, she found none. But she shrugged, and continued on. “Anyways. Who are you to call everyone else young? You’re only two years older than most graduates! Unless, of course, I’m missing some sort of weird time-skip that you normally see in comics.”

At that, she looked suspiciously at Heinrich. “You AREN’T secretly 20,000 years old, riiight?” Yes, she was holding back a smirk. Though, she didn’t do it well, unfortunately, as she let a giggle escape her.

“No, hahaha, but I am chronologically older than some of those graduates. I was orphaned years ago, when I was 15, but that was back on Haran. My parents died during the last world war, and I was left without any living family.” The prince said, letting that sink in for a moment, not one to usually talk about it. But if they were going to be living together, and maybe more in the future, he figured it best to be open about it.

Clearing his throat a little as they waited in the driveway line, he continued. “My parents had left a fund and a plan that I should be one of those put in cryo, a method to reduce resource drain with all those with less to live for from casualties brought on by the war. It came about very early on, those fighting it, knowing our days were already numbered on Harran.”

Heinrich paused as they reached the order screen, getting them a chocolate peanut butter shake, and a caramel shake. Driving up to the pickup window, he was oddly quiet, taking their order after swiping his wrist to pay. Once they were back on the road, he made sure they were back on the main road towards the bridge, before letting his mind wander back to the topic that he had been explaining.

“The war saw the most casualties in its earliest days. The first ten years were the worst, and that was around the time they passed. The war itself started to this date…. 260 years ago. So doing the math, I am currently in chronological age, roughly 250 years old.”

Asteri blinked for a moment, putting the cup holder below the dashboard and holding it with her feet. Then, she proceeded to lean over and hug Heinrich as well as she could, in such an awkward position. “Be- Heinrich. I’m.. so sorry. It must be terrible, having lost everything to not only a war, but time as well.” At that, Asteri was quiet for a moment, holding her position for a few moments, before letting go and smiling at him. “But hey. You have me and Gale now. You’re not going through this alone, you know that, right?” She leaned again, this time putting her head on his shoulder, ears twitching a bit. “So don’t be afraid to come to us, you hear? We’ll always be there for you.” Asteri then gave a rueful chuckle, continuing on. “I know this sounds a bit cliche, but it doesn’t make it any less true. Plus, you have a great dad who adopted you, just like how dadd- er, Dylon adopted me.” Asteri rubbed her face against his shoulder for a moment. “D’you know any friends who survived the war on Harran? I know they might be old, but, well…”

“I do actually, he’s currently 170 give a few years. We grew up together, and were born at the same time, and apparently he even enlisted after I went on ice. Now the whole family calls him uncle Zeke, as he was a war buddy of my uncle Jack.” The man tapped his chin in thought, still for the life of him, unsure how the numbers worked on Zeke having fought alongside his uncle. “I’m not entirely sure how that works though, especially with age being weird given how long we live on average.”

“Age doesn’t matter right now. If this Zeke is still alive, you have a chance to meet him!” Asteri beamed at Heinrich, continuing on with, “And while you may not be able to see all of your friends, you still at least have one.” At that, Asteri gave one more vigorous rub against Heinrich, before peeling herself off of him. “Now, let’s not dwell on matters like this when we’re discussing moving into a new house, for Freya’s sake! C’mon, drink your milkshake!”

Asteri held out Heinrich’s milkshake for him to grab, but right before he could grab it, she snaked it away from him, before leaning against the armrest console, chest extended, before placing the milkshake firmly between her cleavage. “Don’t be shy~!” There was a hint of concern in her eyes, though she tried hiding it.

He gave a surprised look at what she had just done, but he wasn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth, as it brought a smile to his face. Setting course and letting his geist auto drive the vehicle, Heinrich leaned over a bit, “I actually see him at every family reunion, and get together. That being said, I still very much appreciate the effort to cheer me up.”

Not breaking eye contact with her, he leaned down more, and took a long drink of the cold shake, before swallowing. What he did next might have been unexpected though, as he placed a hand on her cheek, and kissed her on the lips. “You’re very sweet, and quite lovable, all the more reason I don’t want to see anyone ever hurt you. Dylon may have asked me to look after you, but I think I have a reason of my own now to do so.”

Asteri giggled at his statement, replying, “Awwww. Stop being so cute.” Asteri leaned up and kissed him again, before she took out the milkshake with an audible pop, grinning a bit cheekily. “Now, here you go. I would love to stay in this position all through the trip, and I could very well fit in my milkshake as well, but it’s cold!” After sitting back up in her chair, Asteri took a few sips of her milkshake, before asking Heinrich, “So, when’s the next family reunion?”

The landscape around the car had changed abruptly from bustling city to a wide open lake, as the truck finally broke through the metropolitan atmosphere, and onto the great bridge that connected Obsidian City to the rest of Sirris II. Asteri took a moment to plaster her face against the car window, oohing over the scene, but she forced herself off of it and returned to face Heinrich expectantly.

“Next month actually, though it’s not like we can’t visit any time. Other than Nora and her father, everyone in the family lives here in the city.” Heinrich said with a chuckle, mind somewhat distracted by the lingering touch and taste of her lips. He hadn’t kissed anyone but Gale so far, and it was a different feeling, but uniquely similar. “Also the ocean is quite nice right now still, gonna have to have a family beach trip again soon. This world is paradise I swear.”, he said with a very thoughtful smile.

The bridge was rather impressively long, one of the many testaments of how the NDC had learned to build things to withstand much greater stresses than conventional building methods. It was more impressive in his mind though, coming over it into the city, and not the other way around. The looming black wall of starship armor that surrounded the outside of the city, making it a bastion of safety against what used to be such a hostile world. The scale was easily forgotten within, but to drive from the mainland all the way to it’s gates, the armor reaching far up to the sky numerous kilometers above.

It was rather breathtaking, and made one feel rather small from the difference of scale, always reminding Heinrich in some philosophical way that they were always a small part of something greater.

“Yeeeep~! This world IS very nice! I sure had a fun time at the beach!” Asteri giggled at that. “I bet the house will be a lot closer to the beach. I bet we’ll even have our own personal beach, with a dock for a boat and all that!” Asteri’s eyes were shining as she continued. “And then in those shows, where they have all these cool things like a giant slide that lets them slide into the water, a swing, a zipline… And then the house itself will have all sorts of cool stuff like a walk-in designer room, a giant greenhouse, and even- and even a warehouse sized pantry!” Asteri practically drooled at that.

...And yes, Asteri did have an imagination.

She paused however, her feet hitting against the box. “But when we get there, I can open the box without you worrying to death, riight?” She flashed him a teasing smile at that.

“Hmmmmm, I dunno, I may need a hug to feel calm. All teasing aside though, yeah, enjoy your gift from your father. Gifts from family should always be treasured.” He said with a chuckling giggle, listening to her list off so many fantastical features to their home. Heinrich found it all the more endearing, as much as it was entertaining, “Nothing quite that grand sadly. But I don’t want to spoil the surprise, as there will be plenty of rooms to visit.”

The bridge gave way to land, the huge trees passing by close beside the road, as the vehicle carried them ever more onto shore. After a short bit, Heinrich turned off on a side road, which they would travel down for a few, then finally onto a dirt road.

Asteri’s enthusiasm turned a bit skeptical as they turned onto a dirt road. “A-are you sure the house is in decent condition?” The house Heinrich was describing surely had to have some sort of road that was at least paved, right?

Heinrich wasn’t going to take her to some sort of ruined house, right?

Right?

“Of course it is. I didn’t buy used, I had it custom built to specification. Don’t let the road fool you, I just had it built to a homey rustic aesthetic is all, a place that will feel like a generational home.” He had a reassuring grin, already loving the unsuspecting look on her face. Her doubt would be replaced by wonder, he was confident at that, and he wanted nothing more than to blow her mind at their new home.

“Okaay…” Asteri settled back into the seat, elbow on the car door handle, looking idly outside. “It’s very woodsy. Do we have anyone else living near us?”

Her face changed as they rounded a corner, though. “Oh, wow. Belmes…”

The house was indeed fitting with that woodsy theme that Asteri has so kindly voiced, the structure three floors high, and looking like some modest yet grand estate. Despite the fact it was of a log cabin design and construction, with numerous windows, touches of stone on the lowest floor and lots of wood. There were even tall iron oil lanterns lining either side of the drive for the last third of its length, that used magic to create, and fuel their flames. They gave off a warm glow, even as those inside began to light as well, Heinrich giving the signal as the first lamps were lit. “Sooooo, it may not be some palace, but it will definitely be our own kingdom getaway of sorts.”

Asteri got out of the car in a daze. Though, as soon as Heinrich also got out and moved next to Asteri, she tackled him to the ground in a gargantuan hug. “Beeeeellllllmmmmmeeeesss! IloveitIloveitIloveit! Eeeeeeeee~!” After she finished nuzzling him for a solid five minutes, she finally got up, offering a hand as she did so.

When they were up, Asteri laughed, and promptly ran towards the front entrance of the estate, her skirt jumping up and down as she skipped the last few steps towards the grand double doors that graced the building, leaping over the small step that ascended towards the house’s door. She tried to open the door…

...And was promptly stopped due to the fact that it was locked.

“Hey Starshine, forgetting this silly.”, Heinrich chuckled as he walked up, tossing her a biometric key rod. It was a small hexagonal piece of crystal built into a key style grip base, and emanated a faint glow when either he, or her held it. “It’s set to all four of us.”

Joining her beside the door, he gestured in mock grandeur, for her to use the key. He wanted one of them to be first to enter the finished house afterall. The surprise was theirs to enjoy, he had only arranged construction and design of the place.

Asteri felt her breath be whisked away a second time. Wow. Belmes had this whole surprising her thing down to a science. But, well, she couldn’t help but be surprised.

The entrance room was a grand interior, that was an open space, connecting the entrance, the living room, and the kitchen all in a large room. Off to the side in a small extension stood the dining room with tables, chairs, and all that wonderful fancy stuff. The room itself was overlooked by a balcony, where more doors led to what Asteri presumed were studies or bedrooms, where a set of stairs nooked in another little extension led up to. Here and there there were doors leading to other areas. In one little door, where stairs led down to a depressed area, Asteri swore she could even see a.. Hot tub!? Spa!? Hotspring!? Asteri began promptly looking around the place, jumping over a couch in her excitement to see everything the house had to offer.

“That’s an indoor hot spring, the house was built on it, and feeds from it for the water source to the whole house. This house can comfortably support up to ten people if we needed to, with enough room for everyone to have a study even of their own.” He explained, before telling her more of what the estate had to offer, and what the layout was like. She practically looked like a kid in a candy shop, still going on even as he entered the large and spacious kitchen. Placing their shakes in the freezer for now, he walked her to the other areas.

“....This floor has the largest bathroom, a communal style one with a large tub, enclosed toilet, several sinks, and rinsing faucets for after baths. Also it has a large walk-in shower, big enough for 5 people at once. The upper floors are just as nice, with different styles for each, and smaller sized for each floor upwards.”

“Oooh! Lots of-” At that, she leaned forward towards Belmes, and practically purred, “-Fun.” But then, while leaning forward, she saw what just outside entailed. “W-wait... Is that-!?” She nearly toppled over in her excitement as she rushed outside to see… a walled off area, filled with pots, with a glass roof providing a dome above the plant area, with what obviously looked like a force field filling in the rest, making it seem as if it was an open walk in with a back-wall of ancient stone, while preserving a greenhouse’s effects.

That, Asteri wasn’t quite so familiar with, Andraeste being so abundant with whatever was planted in it, she never had the need to have a greenhouse. But all she knew was, after college, she found out that lots of spells actually required some sort of knowledge or substitute that a plant-based compound could provide. And that purely scholarly pursuit turned into a hobby as Asteri found that she loved growing plants.

Let’s specify. Plants. Not Gardens. PLANTS.

Regardless, the greenhouse was the real deal. Asteri giggled as she looked around it, and saw so many possibilities with it. Though, looking back, she saw that she had just ran past a rather intricately patterned stone square, with chairs and a fire in the center of it. Asteri flounced back, sitting on the chair, beaming at Heinrich. “I love it! Did you seriously commission a greenhouse just for me!?”

He took a chair beside her, sitting down as he took in the verdant woodland air, the forest around them alive with sound. “Well given we have two healers, a botanical garden with an added greenhouse setup, seemed invaluable for you both to have materials. But I know you would get a lot of use out of it specifically.” Heinrich almost contemplated walking over to share yet another kiss, he really liked the last one, and he really liked it.

But he kept the urge in check for now, and smiled warmly at her, enjoying the company and fresh air. It was like they had gone to some fairy fantasy land, some grand manor out of one of the fairytales of old, that he remembered reading hopefully as a child. “This is our home, in a far off place, and a special one at that. I wanted it to be the best for everyone, and be someplace we all loved to call home.”

“Well, I already love it! ...Except for the dirt road. But that’s it!” Asteri was beaming from- well, cheek to cheek? She didn’t have ears like Belmes, so saying from ear to ear would be really weird… But she plowed on despite this rather interesting philosophical questions. “And I’m sure Gale would love i-”

Wait. TWO healers?

“...Gale’s magic is fire. She can’t be Life as well, right? ...Are you in the school of Life? Are you Botanical or Vita?” Asteri was a bit confused for a moment, her face scrunching up in puzzlement.

“Gravita actually, Sute is our resident doctor, a bond mate of Gale’s.”, Heinrich replied casually, simply giving his answer as if she had asked for the weather today. His smile never left as he stood and came over, “There’s still a lot more to see, and an important question for when we get to the end of the tour.”

“Bond mate..? You mean Gale has fun with someone else…? And she never invited me!?” Asteri pouted a bit, until Heinrich assured her that there was more to see. To which Asteri brightened up considerably. “Well, then!? Let’s get a-move on!” At that, she began skipping along as she returned to the house, popping back a moment later with milkshake in hand as she looked at Heinrich.

“C’mooon! We gotta do lots of stuff now! We gotta take the tour, you gotta tell me what this question is, then we gotta open my gift from daddy, and then we gotta unpa- oh!” Asteri placed a hand on her chest, brow furrowed for a moment. Then, she burped.

“Whoops. Must’ve been drinking too- Hicc - fast. Hicc.” Asteri shook herself, jiggling this way and that, frowning for a moment. After a couple of moments, her face returned to a smile. “Gone!” Asteri shook herself again, seemingly checking again, before she started humming in her beautiful voice and skipped off again.

Heinrich wasn’t going to question it, taking her hand as they started to walk through the rest of the house together. First he led her to the library and lounge that was also on the first floor, which was a collection of book shelves, and game tables. Pool tables, and even a jukebox was present as well.

Next, he led her to the next floor up which had their studies, each one personalized for each of them. Also on that floor were extra rooms, as well as another bathroom, although somewhat smaller for maybe three at once. A secondary library and reading room combo were also on this floor, which was no surprise as Heinrich liked his books with his background as a professor.

Asteri made sure to peek her head inside each different study. Gale’s, she could figure out easily enough. Hers, she could also find easily enough. Though, she would have to put her own finishing touches on it, such as putting various pots, different plushies, card holders, some books, etcetera… Asteri shook her head, and looked at the third study, presumably this Sute’s. She looked up and down, before popping back out. And then there was Heinrich’s study as well, full of the typical books, an astrolabe- though not as fancy as Asteri’s own solar system model!- with a view looking out onto the road leading away from the mansion.

The game room had her excited. “Oooh! A pool table! Is that a ping-pong table as well!” During their little tour of the room, Asteri heaved herself onto the pool table edge, pool stick in hand, and giggled a bit at Heinrich. “I wonder what sort of bets we can make around this table.” She was quickly distracted by the jukebox, as she jumped off the pool table and rushed over to the jukebox and singing out, “We can do karaaaoookeee~!” She performed her most dramatic idol pose, swinging her hips this way and that, bumping into Heinrich, before she burst out laughing.

The bathrooms also earned her mark of approval, as she poked her head this way and that around the bathroom. The main thing Asteri seemed to enjoy, however, was the balcony overlooking the main living room on the first floor. After poking through everything, as much as she could reasonably, she dashed into Heinrich’s study, grabbed a piece of paper from the printer, and promptly made a paper airplane, before throwing it off of the balcony. She giggled a bit at that, explaining to Heinrich: “We can just throw notes at each other if we’re on different floors now!”

Asteri finally stopped at the bottom of a spiral staircase, looking back at Heinrich. “So, the third floor. Is there anything to expect? I didn’t see any bedrooms, so I guessed you saved the comfiest for last!” Asteri beamed at Heinrich. Yes, the foxgirl was indeed in a candy shop, based on the way she oohed and ahhed over everything so far.
“That floor is the second living room which is smaller and cozy for us, a smaller more nicely designed bathroom for us, and the master bedroom. So that brings me to my question, which I think I know the answer to, but I rather not assume.” Heinrich looked her in the eyes, taking in those still lingering glimmers of wonder and excitement, and for a moment he could have gotten lost in them. But he had a very important question, one that would reflect on their relationship as a group. He cleared his throat and as casually as possible asked, “Are you okay with sharing a bedroom and bed together, all of us if that is what they so choose as well? Even if not, I would still like to ask if you and Gale would, even if a bit early seeming of a question.”

Asteri blinked at Heinrich’s suggestion, before she took on a very pensive look. “Well, now, we shall have to see about that, shall we?” She grabbed Heinrich’s hand, leading him up the stairs in a rather determined fashion. However, she stopped as soon as she saw the third floor, and turned around to face Heinrich.

“Well, Belmes. It seems as if you passed the first test. This room is very well designed. I love the view, I like the hominess of the small living room, and the bathroom….” At that, she poked her head in the bathroom, tails swishing. “...The bathroom is just fine. I’m sure it’ll fit all of us.”

Asteri’s face became very severe. “However, we now have to do the SECOND test…” She grabbed Belme’s arm, and led him to the bed, before forcing him to sit down on it. She eventually joined him, bouncing on the bed as she sat on it. “Hmmm… Yeah, this bed seems comfortable enough….” After a couple more experimental bounces, Asteri lay down on the bed, hair, which had grown out over the past two months, flung out behind her. “And it certainly feels good to lie on..”

A moment later, and she sat back up and looked at Belmes. “My rating is…” Her serious expression broke into a giggle as she leaned in and kissed the idiot very forcefully. Belmes was actually very cute when he was worried. She only broke off the kiss to giggle her answer to him: “Of course it’s fine with me, if you’re fine with the fact I don’t like wearing clothes under a cover.”

Seeing his slightly dazed look at that, she giggled. “Y’see, I can get hot with an extra layer of clothes piled on top of a blanket AND some rather beautiful-” At that, Asteri flicked her tails- “trio of tails like mine.” At that, she seemed to realize something. And promptly returned to kissing Belmes.

He wasn’t expecting quite as dramatic as this of an answer from her, but thinking back, he felt dumb in should have expected it fully. With a chuckle, he put his arms around her and pulled her down to lay with him for a bit, seeing it as the perfect chance for a perfect wholesome and loving break. “I have no problem with that whatsoever, Gale does the same. I usually just wear some shorts at the most, but I could learn to adopt this trend too.”, he replied in between kisses as he held her close, hands petting her tails, and rubbing her back as they laid.

Asteri moaned a bit at the pampering, before she managed to roll herself on top of Heinrich, giggling all the way as she put her hands on his chest to raise herself up. “Well, then. It’s settled! For me, at least. Now, I dunno how Gale would exactly feel about me being in bed with her, but I have a feeling she’ll be fine with it too!”

Asteri then leaned down to press a bit into Heinrich, kissing him lightly, before jumping off the bed. “Now! We have to move everything in, but before we do that, we have to see what present daddy dearest has gifted me!” She gave a mischievous look at Heinrich as she reached the top of the stairs. “First one to the bottom has an IOU from the loser?” She didn’t even give him a chance to respond as she started sliding down the railing of the spiral staircase.

Pretty sure with her line of work, she’s more than fine with it, he thought to himself even as she jumped off of him. As Heinrich watched her race down the stairs, he simply grinned with a shrug, before just walking to follow after her. “Just don’t trip on the way down, would be a bad first day in the new house if you did!”, he called down to her as she was way ahead of him by now.

Casually going as he did, he met back up with her at the moving truck still parked in the drive, slurping his milkshake gently as he did. It was good, he’d have to add that place to his favorites, almost to the point of being sad that his milkshake was almost gone now. But he couldn’t be sad at all with the new woman to love in his life, and how much he now knew he loved to kiss her. “Opening it out here, or in the living room?” Heinrich asked simply as she was pulling it out of the truck cab.

“Why not the living room! This will be the first box that will be opened in the house!” At that, Asteri zipped off back towards the house, stopping for a moment as if realizing something. She skipped back to Heinrich and grinned at him, hooking an elbow around his. “I suppose I better put up with you being a slowpoke.” She poked her tongue out at him.

After they made it inside, Asteri placed the box down on the table, and waited for Heinrich to sit down next to her. Then she began tearing the box open.

...Which revealed, after peeling away layers of wrapping and cushioning, another, smaller box. Asteri’s brow furrowed a bit as it revealed itself. “Huh?” Repeat the unboxing and unwrapping process again, and this time she was met with a sealed envelope package, to which Asteri let out a slightly irritated growl.

“Okay, why is this wrapped up so many times?” After tearing off the top, yet more stuffing and wrapping poured out of the now-exposed interior, which showed… Another box. But this time, this had a letter in it as well, judging by the envelope. But at this point, Asteri just flung the piece of paper away in irritation as she set about trying to open this small box.

When this nuisance was finally breached, it revealed a small lens that was placed inside a carefully made inset. Asteri’s initial annoyance was gone, as she gingerly picked up the tiny item. Upon first touching it, she was surprised to feel that it was a crystal.

The crystal lens itself was a beauty of a thing, with the edges being a sea-blue color, with the occasional greener swirls. But as it approached the center, the color changed rapidly from the sea to a pastel-white. But what was more, Asteri could smell the remaining ozone- this crystal was obviously exposed to either a lot of lightning, or mana. ...Which could only mean, considering it was a crystal…

“Dad got me a mana-crystal lens? B-but, how?”

Asteri clutched the lens close to her chest in surprise.

Heinrich got up from the couch and retrieved the paper that had been flung, “It looks like a letter.” he simply stated as he handed it over. After she would take it, he’d retake his seat, gently leaning on the kitsune. Not really to read, but just to be close, as he smiled infectiously as she did so from her gift.

“That’s definitely not a cheap component to come by, especially with as high quality as that one is. He must have sourced from a top notch company to get it.”, the prince offered in observation as he recognised the crystal lens for what it was.

Asteri nodded a bit, keeping the mana lens clutched close to her chest as she tore open the letter with a hand, and clumsily took out the letter. As she was doing so, another slip fell out, and Asteri furrowed her brow. Her occupied hand managed to snatch up the slip of paper, and Asteri brought it up to look at it, before spluttering, pressing her hand into her chest. “T-Two thousand and one hundred Script!? What in all the nine Realms was dad- How did he get this sort of money!?” She fumbled with the paper in her hand, dropping the check onto the table, before moving it around and reading it aloud for Belme’s sake.

Dear Asteri,
I hope this letter finds you in good health. Cliche and old fashioned of me to send a letter, I know. But, I wanted to at least explain as to why and how I managed to get this stuff before you had a heart attack from surprise. Calm down, my Refr.

First off, I just want to let you know your mother also wanted to wish you well; I know she sends you messages daily, just like me, but don’t fault an old couple for wanting to send their love.

Let me first explain the check. Put simply, I want you to attend Obsidian University, expand your knowledge in Vita. Yes, I know Andraeste’s college had cutting edge tech and research in the Life department, but they focused on the RESEARCH aspect. I assume that, if you’re staying with an Archduke who seems hellbent on getting himself involved with investigations at the very least, that you’re probably going to be taking a much more practical and field role in Vita. Obsidian University should help provide for that.

I managed to get this primarily thanks to my new role as an ISD agent has benefits, though I only get my bonus by bringing in the criminals. And Eius was a rich catch, indeed. Also, Aodh managed to pitch in with some of his funds as a Jaeger, though we demanded that he keep it for his medical bills, the stubborn boy. Try sending about a hundred Script back his way, could you?

Asteri broke off and giggled at that. “Typical Aodh.” She looked back at Heinrich for a moment, before starting, and ruefully saying, “I’ll keep on reading.”

Now, as to what the Crystal is. As I’m sure you guessed what it is, roughly, but it is a mana crystal lens. But this crystal lens is special. Remember KiCom? Well, apparently they hired the terrorists to try and steal mana crystal blueprints from Aliask; something about KiCom being afraid that the government would find Aliask more appealing than them. But enough about KiCom. This crystal actually came from Aliask; apparently, their planetary rep was so thankful that he managed to procure this special crystal for me. One of Andraeste’s crystals that was supercharged with lightning, and overloaded with mana, before they decided to drain it. It’s fantastically attuned to Life. Unfortunately, I’m not in Life school- you know I’m in Solar. However, you’re not. And this mana-lens just so happens to do Life spells extremely well.

Keep in mind, be a tad bit careful with this crystal. While it’s not dangerous, per se, from what the rep told me, and from what me, Elliath, and Aodh have experienced, this crystal had a tendency to cause various biological processes to speed up. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to shave, or cut my nails. However, I do believe it follows a sort of order: First, it attempts to heal any cuts and other injuries to a normal system. We quickly learned that we had to keep it away from Aodh-

At that, Asteri broke off and grimaced. “Sorry, sorry.”

-and the few cuts I got while machining this thing quickly healed. It then continues down the line to already-performing processes. A note I found says that Aliask tested it on a drunken individual, and their liver broke down the alcohol far faster than usual. After that? Hair and nails, in that order. But, despite this warning, I THINK the effects should be fairly mild? Between the fact we greatly reduced its original size and that it was machined and refined, I think that it shouldn’t be too annoying to handle.

I’m sorry I couldn’t do any more, my Refr, but I firmly believe your education should be your primary focus. Maybe you’ll get a scholarship, and use those funds to increase your DEF! And yes, I am making you a new duelling deck holder. This kind of thing takes time, though; putting lots of love and all that.

I love you, tell that archduke that, while I am grateful for him taking you in, that he better be treating you well- Asteri giggled at that- and stay safe and well.

Sincerely,
Dylon

Asteri put the piece of paper down and put the crystal up to her face. “I can’t believe daddy really got this for me. I can’t believe he’s paying for another college session, either!” At that, she beamed, before turning thoughtful. “However, I am going to have to start trying to upgrade my DEF caster now; I can’t simply insert this into my old one.” She shoots her bracer around. “No, I don’t think it’d be good at all to have only one thing good while everything else is subpar. I need to make sure the circuitry is fine, maybe expand the memory banks, upgrade the energy capacity…” The fox girl’s voice fell to a mutter as she started considering all the various things she needed to improve in order to have her DEF match the beautiful mana-lens.

“I mean I can just get you hooked up with one. I could even get you a mil-spec one like what the royal armed forces use. Consider it a gift for something else I was actually hoping to ask you. Would you consider signing on as one of my guards, and operatives?” He offered this with a smile, half tempted to offer it as a gift as a boyfriend, but figured he’d wait from saying such things. Heinrich actually wasn’t quite sure how they both labeled their relationship, but it felt like something too soon to ask just yet.

“Would you really!?” Asteri squealed at Heinrich as she, yet again, tackled him onto the couch, the mana lens on her chest getting stuck between her ample cleavage. Blinking, she reached inside, pulled it out, and set it on the table, looking back at Heinrich. “Of course I’ll join!” She made as if to hug Heinrich again, but suddenly paused as her breath hitched a bit, face flushing suddenly. Before Heinrich could ask what happened, Asteri flung herself at him again, kissing him hungrily.

However, there was a distinct wetness in her top, and Asteri was visibly rubbing herself against Heinrich, her moans rather needy.

The prince eeped in surprise at the sudden tackle, and bought of heat she went into. He couldn’t get a word out as she was deep into tasting him, his tongue a little more than willing to play back with her’s. Heinrich wasn’t going to question this at the moment, as he simply wrapped his arms around her, and turned to let her rest against the couch a bit. “Your chest is all wet, are you okay?”, he finally asked as they broke for air.

Her top was practically leaking, and when he looked at what soaked through, a white liquid. He didn’t need to ask what it was, but his baffled mind still thought “is that milk?”. Was it the crystal that had done this, as odd as it sounded, that was the only reason he could think of why she was lactating like a mother after birth.

Asteri didn’t respond to the question at first, as she groaned as she struggled to pull off her top. “C-can you help me take this off?” Continuing struggling, panting heavily, Asteri muttered to herself, “M-maybe I shouldn’t have had that milkshake…” Giving up on trying to get her top to fit over her bloated breasts, she let it go and looked at Heinrich. “B-belmes? I-I, uh, need to unload.” She held his gaze, though her face was getting increasingly more flushed as the flow steadily became stronger. “H-help?”

“Oh um, do you have a pump, or do I need to do it by hand? A-a-actually we better do this in the k-kitchen!”Heinrich stumbled vocally after the shock of Asteri trying to whip out her breasts to no avail. That being said, she seemed to really need help getting her top off, so the prince was quick to grab it by the hem. He pulled up, sliding it as far as it would go up, even slipping his arm in under to tug on the front to stretch it a bit if needed.

Asteri moaned in relief as the weight of her breasts were relieved, if only temporarily. But that could only last for so long. With a mighty pop, Asteri’s shirt broke free from her body, and Asteri promptly topped onto Heinrich again. “L-let’s go in the k-k-kitchen. C-C’mon.” Asteri tried to stand.

Tried to.

Her legs wouldn’t listen, however, as she let loose yet another moan, milk pooling on the floor around her. “I-I think it’s too late for- ah~!- a p-pump.” She looked at Heinrich again, her flushed face drooling slightly at the infuriating feeling in her chest. She needed the pressure released. “Y-you need to m-milk me.” Commence rubbing again, though her pants were also substantially wetter this time. But each rub sent a white stream rushing out of her breasts, though guessing from Asteri’s frustrated groans, it wasn’t enough.

There wasn’t any way around this it seemed, and as slightly awkward as it was, was definitely a big turn on. With a palm up gesturing of the hand, his fingers spread, and were suddenly tightened. The floor vibrated everfaintly as Asteri would feel far lighter then before, her feet actually starting to lose contact with the floor.

Heinrich was quick to get up and scoop the woman up, in a way to let her straddle him at the waist, as he took a dripping nipple in mouth. Giving a firm suck on it, he carried her off to the kitchen, before flipping open a couple cabinets. Grabbing a funnel and jug, Heinrich sat them down, before helping her adjust to sitting sideways in his lap.

“Figured it best to not let all this go to waste dear.~”, he said after licking his lips of her milky goodness. Setting the jug with funnel down, and bracing it between his legs, his other hand began to squeeze and milk her other breast, squirting streams into it. His lips and tongue returned to the nip he had already been drinking from, while his off hand moved down to flip her skirt up.

He hummed from the taste, as his hand slipped down her panties with her own hand, and began to rub at her sex with her.

Asteri yipped a bit at the suddenness of it all. The change in gravity. Belmes’ carry. His mouth on her oh so sensitive nipple. It wouldn’t have been lying to say she screamed a bit at the sensation. But eventually, as Heinrich began settling down, Asteri was reduced to moans as the man settled into a steady rhythm. One of her hands reached behind Belmes’ head, and proceeded to cup it and keep it firmly in place. The other began trying to unzip his pants.

Heinrich’s efforts were not in vain. Asteri’s breasts had been building up over the course of the day, and they had a strange burst in production in a very short time. So Asteri had plenty of milk to give- plenty.

“I- ah~AH~!- don’t stop, B-belmes. Th-this feels so good. S-so much better than my pumps. I- ah~!” Asteri was in absolute bliss, her tails joining in her firm hand as they wrapped around Heinrich to form a cocoon around the two of them, her lowered hand finally freeing his stiff member, and promptly servicing it.

The bottle was actually filling up rather quickly, soon to have a full bottle that they could store in the fridge for later. Maybe they could use it to make more milkshakes even, as an ironic, yet romantically odd way of commemorating this intimate moment. At least that was the horny yet wholesome thought that crossed the prince’s mind at the moment.

He sucked a bit harder, tongue lapping around the edge of her gushing peak, wiggling and teasing it to excite even more milk out. His hand working downstairs, pulled her panties further down her legs, giving more room to work with. He made sure to switch between rubbing her clit firmly, and sliding two fingers in deep. With a pop, he let go of her nipple, tongue still teasing the nip where she could see. “I’m glad you like, it tastes good, and I really like your breasts.~’, he managed to say in between licks, before going back down on her milk laden breast in full again.

His off hand was still milking her other breast like an utter, the stream it gave on each squeeze, still very thick and strong. He moaned, vibrating his tongue and mouth on her breast, as he felt her stroking his erection.

Asteri giggled at Heinrich’s compliments, which only caused her to resume rubbing against him. Though, she managed to keep enough sense about her to say, “N-normally, there i-isn’t this much, even when I do overdo it on the milk intake..” She eyed the milk bottle, as milk began to fill the funnel without draining. Though, Heinrich’s mouth was rather insistent~!

As well as his fingers, as Asteri moaned and arched her back, clenching her hands, which invariably forced Heinrich’s head into her breasts. She began humping Heinrich’s fingers as she tried bouncing up and down on his fingers, only to pull it out before Asteri could get into a rhythm, to which she expressed her displeasure via a groan.

Her hand busy with his member sped up as Asteri began to pant. And the bottle started to overflow. In her normal mindset, she would be wondering what made her produce so much. But she wasn’t thinking normally now. She was full, and she wanted to be drained. Her movements began to quicken in tempo.

His hand had left to use gravitas to pull yet another bottle down from the open cupboard. Using it more to move the funnel and it’s load, then swap bottles, the process resumed. At this rate, he thought they may need a few bottles more, even as his hand returned to her pussy. This time, he started to use three fingers, the middle rubbing the clit as the other two fingered her deep.

He had lost count of just how much milk he had consumed, the only gauge being the bottle now full. Heinrich was rather glad to be lucky, as to not be lactose intolerant, otherwise this wouldn’t be nearly as sexy as it was. His lips eased up, kissing her areola, before giving a sucking nip again. “We won’t be lacking for dairy any time soon.~”, he teased with his short break, moaning a bit as she stroked him harder.

The prince was biting his lip as a load was coming, knowing there was about to be a lot more white than just her milk around. Holding back his groan until her hand worked him hard enough to pop the cork, and his cum to come splurting out with a gasp of relief.

Asteri gasped as Belmes came. She rode his erect fingers a bit longer, essentially ramming her folds onto his fingers at this point, until she stiffened, and let loose another cry as she came. Milk came bursting out, and Heinrich’s fingers were soaked as Asteri came. As Asteri slumped against Heinrich, she smiled as she idly stroked his hair. But then she noticed down below.
“Awwww. I missed it.” Before Heinrich could even ask what she meant, Asteri began licking his cock. She didn’t linger long, however, as she was in a much less aroused mood than she was before.

...It did taste good, though.

Asteri came back up rather quickly, chuckling as she nuzzled Heinrich, asking him while poking his stomach, “Are you full now?” She heaved herself off of him shakily, leaning against the counter for support for a moment, her panties falling to the ground as her legs shook. But she stabilized soon enough, turning around to face Heinrich topless. “We have a washing machine, riiight~?”

“Yes, there’s a laundry room in the basement next to the wine cellar room.”, Heinrich replied, eyes not able to help but linger on her now mostly bare form standing over him. Why was his luck so high, that he was surrounded by hot, constantly naked women. Getting up himself, cock still hanging out of his pants, forgotten in his ecstasy addled mind. He stepped around the bottles, and her panties, before hugging her with another kiss. “I love you.”, he said softly as he did so.

Asteri chuckled at Heinrich’s statement and hug, returning it in equal zeal. “Love you too, Belmes. Stay adorkable.” She eventually slipped out of the embrace, however, dancing forward to grab her panties, before skipping back to the stairs, one of her tails brushing his exposed penis, giving him a playful smile as she continued on, “Let’s get everything cleaned up, so we can finish putting up all the stuff in the truck up.”

After saying that, Asteri pattered down the stairs to the basement, intent on her task of making sure her clothes were clean.

In all honesty, it was as hot to look at her, as it was to watch her leave with how she was dressed. Looking down after realizing what her tail had teased, Heinrich blushed as he put his long john back in the brig. Clearing his throat as if to make it less awkward to anyone else, he collected both of the two full milk bottles, before putting them away in the already stocked fridge.

Afterwards, while Asteri was downstairs getting her laundry done, the prince was content to simply handle box unloading. With his magic, it wasn’t too difficult, simply doing it in stages. Backing the truck up to have the bay face the door, then moving the boxes to the ledge, then to the next floor, and finally to the third floor living room. He was sadly, a little underestimating on the mana drain though, panting as he came up the third floor stairs and flopping on the couch.

“Awwww.” A weight fell on Heinrich’s head. “Did you push yourself too hard?” Yes, Asteri had put her chest on Heinrich’s head. Asteri giggled for a bit, before she languidly slid over the couch, sitting next to Heinrich. She was naked. Seeing his confused glance, she explained, “It’ll take the dryer a bit to dry the clothes. Now, c’mere!” The foxgirl grabbed Belmes’ head, and guided it to her lap, stroking his hair as he laid on her thighs; her tails performed their duty well, moving to cover Heinrich’s body in a blanket.

Asteri looked down on Belmes fondly as she asked, “So, Belmes. Which classes d’you suggest I take at Obsidian University? I’m in the Life school, focused on Vitae.” Her nose also crinkled. “Also, we need to wash and dry your clothes. Look at the mess you have on them. I can only clean so much by myself, you know!”

“As much as I would love to strip for you, I really like this spot, so warm. Just being against you right now in general feels great, especially after that intimate moment.” Heinrich sounded rather pleased, relaxed deeply even, as he spoke of being with her like they had been today. He had meant it, what he had said in the kitchen to her, so he treasured these moments.

“Nursing definitely, then perhaps a full proper doctorate in medicine. Have you done your general studies already?”, he finally asked her after replying to her question. The prince was already pulling up a class listing in his head, and a class planner for submission after their talk.

“You DO realize I finished college already, riiight~?” Asteri chuckled at Heinrich’s question. “Andraeste has a college of its own, and it's actually pretty advanced and specialized in the Life school. The problem is, as you’ve probably heard from daddy’s note, is that Andraeste was TOO focused on life. They focused on the cutting edge, the research aspects of it, not any of the practical ones. So, yeah. I have a five year degree from Andraeste College, in Artificial Vitae Growth.” Seeing his confused look, she elaborated. “Basically, my degree focused on things such as manipulating the genes of animals, researching with Electros to create realistic prosthetics, stuff like that. I think there was even an elective course to try and experiment with dead bodies!” Asteri wrinkled her nose. “That got shut down quickly, though.”

Asteri couldn’t help but sigh for a bit. “I, uh, mainly chose that because I thought I could learn how to do something to help my brother. He has this rare…” Was it rare? Or unique? Or was it unique because he was still alive, and he would soon become a case of a casualty of a rare affliction? ...Asteri didn’t want to think about that. “...thing going on with him, so I thought maybe if I could figure out how to redirect the flow of his natural life away from his curse, then we could at least prevent inevitable death. ...Unfortunately, not.” Asteri was quiet for a moment. “And then Aodh up and decides he wants to be a Jaeger.” Asteri sighed gustily. “I suppose I can’t fault him for deciding to do that, though.” All the while, Asteri kept on stroking Heinrich’s hair idly, kicking her feet back and forth.

“Then you take the advanced royal course in vitae specialist casting, that we only give our most elite. You take the medical courses, and you save your brother.” Her delicate hand, would be taken in his with a slight squeeze in reassurance, as he looked up to her with hopeful eyes. Heinrich gave her the same warm smile as he had times before, “We will be there with you, to do all we can to help him. You’re part of this family now, and therefore so is he. We take care of our own.”

Asteri smiled at Heinrich. She continued rubbing his hair for a moment, before grabbing his head with both of her hands, lifting his head up, and kissing him soundly for a good long minute. When she stopped, she buried his head between her chest for a moment, rocking him this way and that, nuzzling herself in his hair this way and that. When she raised her head out of his scraggled mess, her eyes were slightly puffy, but Asteri just continued smiling at Heinrich.

“C’mon. Let’s get your clothes clean, then let’s get this moving stuff finished. I think I can get my hacky sack, or we can finally do our foretold match in Arcana, at least until your clothes finish drying. Then we can head to the University and get everything finalized.”

He just kissed her chest as he was pressed into it, tender in show of how much he cared, before he got up. Stretching with a few pops from the exertion, mana gradually being drawn back into his body as well as what it could naturally replace, Heinrich offered her a hand up before stripping. They were collected into a neat pile before scooping them up, “I’ll run these downstairs then, and meet you back here to move those to the bedroom. Just sit back and relax until I do ‘k.”

“Also you know, snuggles are always an option too. I have grown to quite enjoy laying about with you.”, the prince added as he was walking off to do the laundry, teasing as he smiled at her with a wink. Quickly making his way down, Heinrich was quick about starting the process, and tossing things into the second dryer. It was a bit odd walking around home nude, his john flapping between his legs, actually kinda annoying now that he thought about it. But he’d get used to that given how the girls were, the smile still on his face as he walked back in later.

About an hour and a half later, Asteri popped out of the laundry room, throwing Heinrich’s clothes at him, before she stepped out, showing she had put her own back on. “C’mooon, noisypants. Or should I say pantless?” She smirked at him. “Let’s get ready to head to the university. I have the mana-lens safely inside the box.” Earlier on, when Asteri confessed to Belmes as to her confusion at the sheer volume of milk, they had managed to puzzle it out to a combination of the milkshake and the mana-lens. Dylon wasn’t lying when he said the mana-crystal had some acceleration of biological processes!

As Asteri skipped back to the truck, she called out to Heinrich through the door she left open, “Sooo, where exactly is the admissions office in Obsidian University?” She leaned against the truck side, waiting for Heinrich to finish getting ready, resuming her previous humming, her tails flicking this way and that.

Heinrich came walking out dressed in the same outfit again, not having been willing to dig through his freshly unpacked wardrobe for something new. “Main administration office of the university. Also we need to take that truck back first, and get my jeep I left.”, he answered simply as he did, before climbing back into the cab as she did. The prince started the truck, but paused as he registered something she said, “It wasn’t that loud was it?!”

The man had been naked around her for hours now, and they had done a kinky in the kitchen. Yet the mention of him being noisy as he slapped around, suddenly made him blush at the suggestion. “I didn’t even know you could hear me- Oh right fox ears.”

Asteri simply smiled and twitched her ears. As the two entered the truck and began driving back towards the city, Asteri quietly began singing along to the radio as she rocked her head this way and that. Shortly after they entered the city, however, Asteri lowered the volume on the radio, and rested her elbows on the dashboard console, supporting her head as she looked at Heinrich. “Sooo. How’re you planning on surprising Gale? She’s gonna be a hard one to pull the wool over.” As the duo stopped at a red light, Asteri kept her eyes on Heinrich, only removing one of her supporting arms to draw circles on the dashboard. “I suppose we could try labelling it as… hummmmm….” Asteri scrunched up her nose in thought.

A stray thought entered her head. Yeeeep. Belmes is so cute when he’s trying to concentrate. ...He’s cute in general. But cuter than normal.

Returning a bit to reality, she sat back up a bit, and leaned on Heinrich’s shoulder. Well. Lightly. No need to make it hard for him to drive. She also asked, almost idly: “Also, do I need to sign up for any elective classes?”

“Won’t know until we get there. I might be a professor, but I’m not usually the one who figures class lists out.” The car ride was as long back as it was the first time, that looming view though, all the more immense as they came up to the city. The daze in thought made him think about the really vague questions she had, the idle comment of “Probably as an early marriage maybe?” as they entered the main gates.

Asteri made a small “Pffft.” to Heinrich's proposal. “You make marriage proposals secret as well, silly. As soon as you let her know it’s for a marriage proposal, she’s gonna be suspicious.” Asteri drummed the dashboard in front of her. “Maybe tell her you have to meet someone important-” At that, Asteri broke off, giggling as she pointed to herself- “And that you want her to come as backup?”

As the truck pulled into the parking spot, Asteri jumped out, looking at the rental service’s building. “Huh. Johnson’s Rental Storage Carriers. ...Gotta love people who rent out different things just for bulk storage transportation.” She looked at Belmes. “I guess you gotta go pay for the rent on the truck now?” She skipped over to his side, wrapping her arms around his left arm, and hugging it close to her body, practically enveloping said arm in her generous bosom.

Heinrich stepped down from the cab, ready to be rid of the large unneeded vehicle. “Well two things, these rentals are free as long as you leave your vehicle as collateral. Also, we have plans to marry already, I’m just…. Trying to get something done first, before I feel like I would be her Drale properly.” Something sounded almost wistful in how he said that, a small thoughtful smile on his face as Heinrich thought of the plan still going in motion after so many years already.

“I can always just say that there is an urgent matter that I need to bring her along for, and say we’re visiting the home of an important person. Then reveal it to her as we walk in, that she is the person.” He added with a chuckle before walking in and retrieving his keys from the kiosk.

Coming back out, he waved Asteri to follow him as he led her to a jeep. It wasn’t exactly a new model, but it was definitely refurbished well, modified a touch, and had seen some use. The man smiled fondly at it, “As much as showing up in a sport to school would be hilarious. I still prefer the old tried and true.”

Asteri tilted her head at Heinrich’s wistful look, but before she could ask, he continued on. She smiled at his statement, and as she climbed into the jeep, she also remarked, “Mmmhm. Plus, A sports car is TINY.” At that, she rolled the seat back as far as she could, and languidly stretched out her legs against the dashboard, stretching out her hands above her head as she took the time to stretch.

“Hehehe~ This jeep almost feels like what Mama took me and Aodh out in when we went to the Camelot Mountain Ski Lodge on Andraeste. It was one of the very few big mountains on Andraeste, and it was always fun to visit. Though, I could never get the snowboard down like Aodh could… I could do the skis and ice skate rink very well, though! In fact, I remember the time….”

Wait.

Asteri sat up suddenly, looking at Heinrich as he started the jeep. “YOU AND GALE ARE GETTING MARRIED!?”

It was his turn to look confused for once now, “Um yeah, I’ve known her since I was 15, and we’ve been together since I was 18. We’ve talked about it and made plans, I just want to get something done first as I said before.” Heinrich had kinda figured that their relationship had made it obvious, on top of having lived together for quite some time. “Seems like a normal enough kind of step forward doesn’t it?”

“B-but… you’re getting married!?” Asteri was absolutely floored by the announcement. She sat there for a moment, stunned, before she squealed and threw herself at Heinrich to hug him. “Yaaay! Congratulations! Where’s the wedding gonna take place? Can I join in on the fun? Do you have a honeymoon planned? Who all is coming to the wedding? Maybe this Zeke? I bet he’d love to see you get married! Is Gale’s family coming? It’d be so cool to meet even more Vaigarins! Luna and Uledor were fun to talk to!” Asteri jabbered on and on as she continued nuzzling Heinrich.
“I don’t imagine it will be a massive ceremony, but it will likely just be a small gathering at home. Technically it would be a double wedding of sorts, since it would by default marry me to her existing bond mate Sute.” Heinrich said this in idle thought as he answered, “Ideally I’d like to do them all at once, which should be long enough for us too I would think. Be a nice family all together, me, you, Sute, and Gale all together much like we are now really.”

Heinrich’s explanation of his plans made Asteri giggle. “Okay, Mr. I-got-this-in-the-bag. I can handle only so much cuteness, y’know.” She raised her head and kissed his cheek. “If it would make you happy, I’d be happy to be that third person you’d have to kiss on that stage.” Seeing his startled glance, she elaborated. “You’re a lot more fun than anyone else, y’know that, riiight? Plus, so is Gale, and I wanna meet this Sute!” She waved her hands around. “And, y’know. Out of all the other people I’ve had fun with….” Was it four? Five? Asteri internally shrugged. “...You’re the only one I’ve met so far that’s given me the feeling you’ll be fun for a loooooooong time.”

Of course, Heinrich probably wouldn’t understand what exactly she was talking about. But Asteri just knew, out of the two, two and a half, months of knowing Belmes, and Gale, that they would be… well. There? Asteri twitched her head. She knew Professor Kronus probably would have had some answers, but that was Aodh’s kind of show, not hers. But, Asteri gave it her best shot.
“You’re cute. Especially when you’re trying to be gentlemanly. You're decent- admittedly, not great-” She did NOT want to admit that he beat her a couple of times in Arcana- “but you do well enough in Arcana. You’re willing to make cute little duo outfits for cosplay with me, even if we haven’t been to one yet. You’ve gotten a house that accounts for me, for Freya’s sake!”

Asteri scrunched up her nose. “You were willing to take me off Andraeste, even when you found out that Eius had sent people to kidnap me, even when you knew there was likely a terrorist organization after me. You’ve promised to help my brother, even despite the fact that pretty much every other medical institution has given up on him, you’re helping pay for a new DEF caster, you’re helping me with school…. And none of that is even factoring in Gale!”

Asteri shrugged. “What’s a girl gonna do, then?”

The look he gave was pure surprise, because that was the answer he sure as hells was not expecting. “So uh, I guess that means, we’re officially dating then?” Heinrich asked confused, even though it seemed like that would be the obvious assumption. He at least was managing not to stutter from shock, and thankful they hadn’t even pulled out of the lot yet. “Or I guess technically betrothed if that’s the case?”

First it was milking her in the kitchen, playing with her while nude, moving in together, then an outright aggreeance to marriage when he hadn’t planned on officially asking just yet.To say he was so mind boggling mind blown, was an understatement of massive proportions.

Asteri cocked her head at him. “Sure? I mean, you haven’t actually officially asked me, sooooo….” Nevermind that she flat out said that she would marry him on the spot if he asked. He was still confused. Poor, cute, dense Belmes. Asteri sighed. “Look. I think I have a knack for this sort of thing. I WAS, after all, designed to be a companion. There was a slight, rare twinge of bitterness in that comment as she pointed to the nearly invisible seams that ran above and below her eyes. “Granted, I was rescued from my ORIGINAL intent, but as it stands, you think I would be able to know who to stay with.” She crossed her hands over her chest. “Seriously. Stop acting so surprised. If you want me to be engaged, I’ll accept.” ...Maybe she shouldn’t be so snappy now. But she hated bringing up the fact that she was kind of meant to be a toy. Asteri turned her head to face outside. Unfortunately, there was no other way around it to explain to Heinrich that she knew.

“You’d fit in quite well then, most of the Pine family that are around in large numbers are combat clones. Manufactured for a purpose like you were, but I see you not as a doll. If they manufactured you for a purpose, you came out as far more than that. It’s why I love you so much. Because of who you are, Asteri, not what you were made in mind for.”

This was the cue to get going, not wanting for anyone to be around as she poured out such private details, a stray hand finding her yet again to offer reassurance. He squeezed her hand gently, “You’ll make a wonderful wife, for Gale and Sutes as well. You’ve already made me happy, and I love every moment I’ve gotten to spend with you since that day on Andraeste when we met.”

Asteri kept her face at the window, though one of her tails showed her approval by basically wrapping itself around Heinrich’s shoulders. She stayed that way for a while as Heinrich drove the jeep out of the parking lot, and through the streets of Obsidian City. Finally, as Heinrich started pulling forward after a light changed to green, Asteri quietly said, “Heinrich? Thanks. For everything.” A moment later, and she began humming a slow song quietly. We’re almost at the University, it looks like. ...Unless parking is bad. Then again, Belmes was a professor.

That in fact was a very handy perk, not needing to press anything as her tails told him all he needed to know. He had a parking spot in the faculty parking lot, giving them free parking access near the administration wing of the university. It wasn’t much different looking from either the outside, or inside in all honesty, the halls rather well furnished. It afterall, was the nation’s center of learning, where their best and brightest were trained with access to the full base of knowledge the NDC had accumulated to date.

Taking Asteri inside, holding her hand, he led her to the offices of those who put together review processes, as well as coming up with needed courses that the potential student may require if accepted. But to be fair, the school rarely turned away applicants without special reason to. “Yes, I’m here to enroll this woman in classes, preferably anything medical that would be required of a medic, or healer mage. I’ve already prepared a signup sheet with all the info, and her previous school records.”, Heinrich offered to the person behind the desk as they simply skipped the receptionist all together.

“Right, I know your handiwork with paperwork Mr. Oaklen, so I know it’s all in order. I just need the young lady to sign the sheet, and confirm the deposit for the course curriculum she’ll possibly be assigned for her chosen field of study. Then it is just waiting for confirmation of acceptance by the headmaster, which knowing his efficiency, Mr. Pine should have word back soon within an hour at the most.” The clerk simply took all of it in stride, already speed typing away at her terminal as various sets of files were flipped through and cherry picked as she spoke.

“Uhm, Belmes?” Asteri asked a bit hesitantly. “I think we need to be a bit more specific than that.” Asteri held the sheet of paper, and told the nurse: “I think I need to start off with Professional Concepts in Nursing, uh, NUR 301? I think I’ll refer to them by their number for now. A-anyways, I think I’ll start with NUR 301, as well as the Health Asse- er, NUR 303 and NUR 304. As you can already see, I took Clinical Informatics and Clinical Calculations in R&D, so that should also cover for the Nursing equivalent? And I think NUR 310 and NUR 321 should finish it off?”

“I don’t think you need to worry about the Health Assessment; you took Gene Therapy Recovery; that should classify well enough. Also, you took Experimental Pharmacology, so I think you don’t need to worry about 321.” The clerk gave her an apologetic grin. “Just trying to keep the load down. If you took all of those, it would be around 15 credit hours, with 225 Clinical hours.”

Asteri thought for a moment. “I don’t think I want to stick any gene-altering drugs in Bel- er, Heinrich. So, I think it may be a good idea to take 321?” The cleric aqceusciesed to that, nodding in agreement. After some more moments of typing, the clerk looked up at Asteri and said, “So, you want to take Professional Concepts, Applied Pathophysiology, Professional Practice in Nursing, and Pharmacology in Nursing, for a total of twelve credit hours and 180 clinical hours?” Asteri blinked and looked at Heinrich for a moment, blushing slightly. “D-d’you think you could also sign me up in Pre-Modern History, uh, HY 243?”

“Sure, I can do that! So fifteen credit hours?” Asteri nodded. “Great, that leaves you on track for Nursing Care for Adults, Nursing Care of the Critically Ill Adult, Professional Practice in Nursing II, and the associated seminar as well for the next semester, for a total of 15 credit hours and 225 clinical hours. And I see you were in.. an ROTC program at Andraeste?”

Asteri nodded at that. “Great, so you have some experience with injuries, at the very least?” Another nod. “I can sign you up for a couple of four week electives, a surgery/IT internship, and then a Medicinal internship. You’ll probably start with the Medicinal internship the first four weeks of the academic break, and the surgery one right after.”

Asteri nodded, and the clerk waved them off as she moved away with the necessary files, datapad covering the papers in her arm. The pair only had to wait twenty five minutes or so before she returned, smiling. “You’re accepted, Ms. Renelon! Congratulations, we’re excited to see you next semester! You’ll receive your uniform in the mail tomorrow, and you should keep in mind…”

Shortly afterwards, Asteri and Heinrich exited the office, Asteri clutching a bundle of papers and brochures in her hands. A moment of walking later, and she nervously giggled to Heinrich, “I suppose I won’t be a Ms. for much longer.” Upon making it into the parking lot, Asteri turned to face Heinrich. “Soooooo…. What next?”

“Well we can either go home and just do whatever until tomorrow, or we can go thank my uncle for getting your stuff processed through so quickly. I have a feeling he nudged the paperwork just a tad to get you into my specific history classes.” Heinrich said with a grin, finding that having gone as smoothly as he had expected, but not sure why they had walked back outside. They could have talked about what to do next there, but also he had wanted to mention visiting his uncle sooner, and was surprised she hadn’t suggested it given his mention of who the headmaster was.

“Wait, your uncle is the headmaster? Well, why didn’t you say so earlier!?” At that, Asteri grabbed Heinrich’s arms, and promptly dragged him back inside. “I was so focused on classes, that it completely went over my head. Asteri turned to face Heinrich and gave him a pout. “Well? C’mon, I’m sure he’s a busy person; the sooner we get there, the more time we have to try and say hello to him!”

“I mean I figured the clerk saying “Mr. Pine”, would have tipped that off.”, the prince giggled as he was pulled away suddenly by Asteri, dragged back into the administrative wing. When she looked confused at where to go from here, it was his turn to take her by the hand again. “Top level.”, was all Heinrich said as he took her to the elevator and they rode it up. He had ignored the surprise look of the clerk as they came back in already.

He also didn’t care about the grinning of the few students around at this time of day, a number of them he recognized from his own classes. He only offered a grin, not thinking of the rumors that would go around as they saw him holding some woman’s hand.

Asteri giggled as Heinrich started pulling her towards the place. Well. Turnabout is fair play. She waved a bit at the students she passed by, looking at the various classrooms and, well, rooms in general as she passed by them. Eventually, though, they made it to the elevator. ...Though, their run through the University had given her ideas.

As soon as the doors closed, Asteri turned around, grabbed Heinrich’s head, and kissed him. Deeply. She panted a bit as she tried wrapping her tongue around his for a moment, before she suddenly let go, twitched her ears, and said, “That run through the college was quite the mood setter! You’re gonna have to gimme the tour through the college.” Then the elevator dinged as they reached their destination, and the doors opened.

“You make it sound like I’d need to find a secluded room afterwards when you put it like that.”, he chuckled as they left the elevator and walked into what was an even nicer floor. It looked like an executive office space, which wasn’t far from the truth, as the board worked up here. Most of the offices were empty however, including the small waiting area. Heinrich took them to the very back of this floor, where an office with a large, full windowed view had been seen from outside.

Knocking on the door as he grinned at her, he popped the door open and curtly gestured Asteri in first. Inside was a really nice office with well done furnishings, but an odd mix of military and woodsy to the decorations. The man sitting behind the desk was almost just as odd of a mix in features. His hair was a mix of white and black, his eyes being one red, and one blue. The goatee on his face framed his grin, as he saw Asteri accompanied by Heinrich come in.

“Yo, Heinrich, causing mischief after school hours again? Haven’t had a chance to come see you since the last rave, think you can come to Nytemare’s next gig?” Came the man's voice, cheery yet casual. “Who’s the lady friend? I’m Talos by the way, headmaster, nice to meet ya. Must be the Asteri girl I just signed off for.”

Asteri first went to salute, but stopped and blinked at the man’s very… hipster? Casual? Tone. She could swear she could feel sweat coming down from her head at how very hard he was using slang. It was almost as if he was cosplaying for a meme, or something like that.

But she quickly forgot about that as he began actually talking to her, and not referencing some sort of party. “Helllooo~! Yes, you’re right, I’m Asteri Renelon!” At that, she kicked up a leg behind her, and waved with the opposite arm. She held that pose for a moment, before she giggled slightly apprehensively, leaning over one of the chairs meant for guests. “Belm- er, Heinrich was very insistent that we go see you, and, well, who am I to refuse him?” At that, she held a hand up to her mouth and giggled in it.

“Says the girl who dragged me through the parking lot. Didn’t realize my charisma was quite that strong.”, Heinrich said with a good laugh, patting her on the shoulder when she seemed nervous at what his uncle said.

“He may be a smart man, but I never knew he was quite the charmer with the ladies. Victor is still rather surprised from when he saw Gale on your arm at the last event. Then I heard one of our recent Senti visitors is now shacking up with you. Hein, you adding Ms. Renelon here too? You know Kolorsha is never not gonna let me hear the end of it of how much this will amuse her.” Talos took to casually leaning on his hand with a cheeky grin.

Asteri pouted a bit at Heinrich’s shoulder pat. She would have preferred a headpat. That would have felt- Wait. Mr. Pine probably didn’t want to see her moaning as Heinrich petted her head. ...Shame.

But upon hearing Mr. Pine’s words, Asteri glanced at Heinrich. Kolorsha? She mouthed at him. ...Of course, she didn’t know if he knew mouthed words. He should, based on how much they’ve kissed. But anyways. “Beeellmmmmes, what else did you want me to do? Let you carry me?” ...That would actually be nice. Depending on what he said, of course.

But at least Asteri didn’t forget her manners. Question mark? “Oh, yes, Gale! Gale is fun! It’s kinda tough to explain to her type matchups in Daniaom, though; she doesn’t seem to see how Fey types can beat Wyrm types. Of course, we all know Psionic is superior, but noooo, everyone wants to point out that Umbral is immune to Psionic powers.” At that, Asteri became quiet, muttering to herself. “B-But anyways! Gale is fun. REALLY fun. You should see when me, Belmes, and Gale get together. And I’m personally excited to see this Senti! The more, the merrier!”

Was she babbling? She hoped she wasn’t.

 

[Jack Pine]

Talos gave a deep laugh, at her enthusiasm as well as her confusion at the name he dropped. “Kolorsha is my fiance, and the DJ called Nytemare that I mentioned before. “Belmes” seems to have found himself a lively one. Bet I know what you were doing when you met her too, with a nickname like that.”

“Yeah yeah yeah, stop your snickering at my weird side hobbies. And yes it was a convention in fact, on Nora’s world. You’ll also be surprised to know she might be Misses Oaklen soon.”Heinrich quipped back with a tongue stuck at his uncle. Before leaning over and whispering to Asteri, “I would have done more than just have carried you.”

The fox girl rubbed the side of her ear on Heirich’s side at that comment. “I would have enjoyed the ride.” She whispered back. She very quickly returned to answering Mr. Pine, however. “I meaaaan, where else are you going to find a girl dressed up as Antoinete, from Clockwork Dance?” Granted, Antoinete was, well, a dancer in Clockwork Dance. Specifically, a belly dancer. But maybe Mr. Pine didn’t know that.

“And yes. I’m now very much in the same situation as your fiance!” At that, Asteri grinned at Mr. Pine. “Just have to waaaiiit until…. Until the wedding.” Yeah, when WAS Heinrich going to marry the lot of them? WAS he going to marry them all at once? She supposed that meant the night would be of epic proportions if that was the case, buuut… Well, she didn’t know the date.

“Besides, you can’t say that Belmes fits the role perfectly. And he looks ESPECIALLY the part when he has the entire suit on.” And cute. “The only problem is, we don’t have a proper pipe. The closest we have is a repurposed duck-tube that I managed to convince Gale to heat up, and then I bent it in shape. Don’t ask; I don’t even know who wanted a duck-themed pipe.

“Well you sound like you two have a lot of fun, and are looking forward to your marriage. I’m sure my brother is quite happy to see you overwhelmingly succeed at that, my dear nephew.”, Talos said with a knowing grin, not detailing any further. “That being said, I’ll try and make sure Kolo wears a shirt when we go to the wedding.”

“Yeah, I swear she must hang out with Gale or something, with how…. Free she is about her body.”, Heinrich said remembering the finale of the last rave.

Asteri cocked her head at that. “Does your fiance not wear shirts often?” Granted, Asteri could understand if it was at home. Asteri would often wear only a light t-shirt or bra, and panties, or nothing at all, depending if she just got out of the shower/bath. But to not wear a shirt in public… Well, it wasn’t Asteri’s place to judge. Especially since she was also around Gale a lot.

“More like it’s hard to get her to keep one on when others are openly flaunting. She loves showing off what she has when she has the excuse to, part of her being a party horse I guess.”, Talos chuckled as he explained further. “Don’t get me wrong, I can’t complain, I enjoy the show myself. Just always a hassle when others want to frown upon it on those rare occasions that there is someone who disapproves.”

Heinrich wrapped an arm around Asteri’s waist pulling her close, gently to rest against him, “Maybe it’s just our family’s luck to find such exciting women. To be honest, I’m surprised uncle Jack hasn’t found someone yet. Zeke certainly did.”

Asteri giggled as Heinrich pulled her close. “Wellll, maybe give him some time? After all, I’m pretty sure potential partners are multiplying daily. Just take a look at all the different Vaigarin clans, the Tummesians, the different colonies popping up, and THEN Obsidian city! Surely he can’t beat odds of one to… uh, ten million? Billion? I dunno.” The foxgirl tilted her head one way, then the other. “But, I suppose that no matter how full of fish a pond is, the fisher will never catch it if he never fishes.” She attempted to shrug in a stoic way, but couldn’t quite manage the calm look it required.

Chuckling to herself, Asteri tittered out, “Say THAT ten times fast.” Asteri then took a brief moment of silence to snuggle into Heinrich, whispering to him, “Y’know, I wonder what Gale would even wear to the wedding. Could you imagine trying to fit her in one of those puffy wedding dresses?”

“I can’t and that somehow makes me think that the only person needing a tailor is gonna be me.” The prince replied as offered her a warm smile, holding her even closer, “And I suppose what you said is true too. But that is likely more to him being our leader, and our founder. He’s been at the game of being a leader since long before we left home.”

Talos only gave a small nod to all of that, not really saying anything anymore, “Well I do appreciate the visit, and you should definitely visit the others more too. I’ll make sure Kolo slips me tickets for her next show for ya, for all of ya.” He said this with a knowing smile bordering on a smirk as he thought of the company that Heinrich might be bringing to the next rave. “I won’t keep either of you any longer, you two seem rather ready to go home, and get a little closer as it is.”, Talos added in a small teasing chuckle to the couple.

Asteri nodded a courtesy to Talos, smiling at him. “Well, it was nice to meet you, Mr. Pine! I’m looking forward to coming to a rave- they’re quite something, based on your description of Kolorsha.” Asteri gave a glance at Heinrich. “I’m sure it would be exciting to participate in!” Keeping herself slightly turned away from Talos, Asteri winked at Heinrich, and licked her lips. Something only for Belmes to see. “I do think we need to leave, however. Belmes has promised me a tour of the university, and then we need to work on a new DEF caster to complement what I’ll learn in the upcoming semesters!”

Asteri then grabbed Heinrich’s hand, and started pulling him towards the elevator, turning around to wave at Talos as she dragged the man with her. “It was nice to meet you, again, and I hope you have a good day!”

As they were given a wave of goodbye, Talos waited until they left to giggle, “As wild as the gals he keeps meeting.”

Heinrich on the other hand was too busy making out with her as the doors closed, “You are such a delightful tease. I’d almost think you have alternate plans from this tour.~” He was more than willing to tease her back, flirtatious as they had privacy, wondering if she indeed had something in mind. Happily taking her hand as they reached the bottom, and he began to take her around the building with a bigger smile than before.

Asteri wiggled her ears at Heinrich’s teasing. “Oh~? Do tell me what you think my plans are. Also, I think I may need to visit your office. Knowing history, I’ll probably have to be there a lot~.”

....Okay, fair. She wasn’t the greatest at History. Buuuuut she had Belmes, riiight?

As Heinrich began touring her around the university campus, Asteri oohed and aahed over the much more advanced facilities that Obsidian University offered compared to Andraeste, in general. Sure, Andraeste had excellent equipment for dealing with, well, the Life School. But not much else. So seeing all of the fancy equipment was definitely cool.

But equipment wasn’t all that Asteri was interested in. There were other places as well. For example, the food court. Asteri practically drooled as she stared at the various foods on display. But there were also so many other people, too! Sure, while most people around the Fine Arts sections seemed to whistle a lot at Heinrich, in general, most people were happily surprised when Asteri waved at them. In fact, when Asteri was at the Nursing section, she began greeting some people, beaming at them as she introduced herself.

There were several to meet in fact, all very eager to introduce themselves, even not outwardly so in every case. The first one to approach was a girl with long white hair, highlighted red at the bangs. She also had wolven ears which shifted eagerly in canine fashion as Asteri and Heinrich had come by. “You must be a new student here, pleased to meet you, I’m Araena. I see you are here with 'teach’, a friend I assume?”, came her sweet and energetic voice, tail swaying in pleasant fashion as she smiled at Asteri.

Asteri froze for a moment, looking Araena up and down for a moment. After that brief moment, however, she perked back up. “Hello, Araena! I’m Asteri; and yeah, I’m a new student. I’m transferring from Andraeste; I wanted to learn how to actually heal people, not just figure out how to make bigger things, like what most of the stuff on Andraeste is dedicated to. And yeah, Bel- er, Hei- uhm. Professor Oaklen!” At that, she suddenly blushed. “Yeah, Professor Oaklen is showing me around.”

The wolf girl gave Heinrich a teasingly pointed look, “Yes, I’m sure he is… My nephew seems to be quite adventurous of late. Though it’s nice to see him still promoting learning as a professor, as he should be.” Her gaze returned to Asteri with a grin, “I hope you enjoy your time here at the university, I look forward to classes with you. Also please keep him out of trouble if you can prevent it.”

Asteri gave a slightly cross-eyed look at that, but she quickly recovered, and said, “Oh, he’s been very willing to show me the campus! And don’t worry. Heinrich isn’t going to act stupid while around me.” She gave the topic of their discussion a look. “Though, to be fair, he can be a bit eccentric at times. But eh! Gotta love him for what he is.”

Asteri had some questions for Heinrich, too. Some very serious questions indeed.

“You’re one to talk missy, and I still love you for your eccentricities as well.”, Heinrich said with a smirk as the next person came up. This one a more vulpine woman then the last, but the same colorations of features. “Ah, hello Neera my cousin, how is your dad Jack of late?”

“Overworking himself and worrying about everything under the sun, but ya know, same him as always. He’s still sharing chuckles and cracking jokes with your dad, so he must be doing okay am I right?” Neera said as she came up, before returning her gaze to Asteri, then unceremoniously hugging the other woman. “Welcome to the university! I look forward to classes with you!” She said while squeezing the fox girl.

Asteri blinked in surprise as the next person, Neera, as Heinrich called her, enveloped her in a bear hug. Well, it wasn’t an unpleasant one, as Asteri could definitely feel her chest being squeezed against hers, but still! It was surprising!

It took Asteri a moment to register what just happened fully, and although she flushed, it was only slight. “Hellllllo! Thanks for the welcome, I’m Asteri.” She then returned the hug. “And with people like you, I’m looking forward to classes too!” At that, the fox girl giggled. “Having people to study with definitely would make things easier!”

She finally disentangled herself from Neera, making a mental note to try and convince Gale to also give her hugs like that. But she eventually refocused on Neera, grinning at the other. Eventually, though, Asteri turned to Heinrich, and asked him, “What DOES your dad do, anyways? Besides being an archduke, I mean.” While asking him that, she made sure to lay a tail over Heinrich’s arm, and she did scoot a bit closer to him.

That hug of Neera’s made her want to hug Heinrich.
...Maybe she could convince Gale to have Heinrich between them.

“Well whereas Neera’s dad is the commander of the army, mine commands the fleets. Both are in charge of overseeing their operations, and coordinating ground and space in time of war, and defense of the nation.” Heinrich answered simply, hand brushing the tail on his arm, finding the question almost unexpected. He figured after all, that everyone knew what the Archdukes did as their jobs, “That’s of course, on top of doing their work as the executive power of the government, making decisions in political actions, and the actions of the nation as a government.”

“It keeps them both quite busy in fact, sadly more so than allowing for normal lives, or getting off the thrones often. It’s a shame, as I wish the family had more time together outside of visiting them during what is technically work. Daddy deserves more breaks.” Neera chimed in, after leaving the hug, and having let Heinrich give his answer before adding her bit to it. She smiled at the both of them, “Also let me know, or the class rep over there if you need anything anytime Asteri. Kayla may come off tsun, but she is a big sweetheart trust me, she just puts on the facade for her job as rep.”

Asteri nodded to all of that. So, basically what her teachers in ROTC told her. ...Sure, she was asking for the archduke’s hobbies, but this answer was fine as it was! She then glanced at the mentioned Rep, Kayla. Blonde hair, and green eyes- obviously, a woman after her own heart.

Green eye superiority was not factoring into that at all.

“Don’t worry about it! I’m sure I can break through almost any tsundere’s cold exterior defenses~!” To prove her point, Asteri feigned a puppy-dog look at Neera, before breaking off, chuckling. “But if she's the class rep, she must be really good at classes!” At that, Asteri practically shook herself in excitement. “I can already see a fun little group between you, me, Kayla, and Araena!”

“Someone sounds rather boastful over here, and who’s cold exterior would be the target of such a triumph?”, came the voice from another woman, who turned out to be Kayla after coming over to investigate all the fuss. She carried the professional exterior at least, armband marking her as a class rep, “As for sharing classes, I look forward to it Miss Renelon. I just got the file after you were added to the class, wonderful to meet you.”

“Look at you making so many friends, and not even on your first day yet.”, Heinrich said, finally commenting from the sideline of the meet and greet. He gave her a grin, “They’re a good class of people, and very kind. I’m not saying that either just because two of them are family.”

Asteri blinked a bit, surprised at Kayla’s stealthy approach, before grinning at her. “Well, look at you! A regular scáthai!” Asteri giggled, but then Heinrich had to drag her away. While she pouted a bit, she brightened up soon afterwards. “Yeah, I can tell that they’re all good people. Especially if they can put up with your craziness.” Asteri lightly jabbed Heinrich’s side with her elbow.

“Speaking of, is there anywhere else we need to visit? I DO think I may need to see where your office is. I’m probably gonna be visiting it a lot~!” While Asteri was cheerful at first, her ears were flattened slightly as she admitted, “History really isn’t my strong suite. I think I barely passed the history course back home.” She shuffled her feet a bit at that. “Yeaaaah, let’s just say I get dates mixed up a LOT, as well as different names.”

“That’s fine, there’s only 6, or 8. Wait, or was it 10, maybe 12? That you really would even need to remember anyways. Lot of information was lost from before the war, so there are gaps in our records. Most of it is really just passing on what we know of history as we do now.” Heinrich was not going to comment on how her statement of needing to see his office, or being there a lot sounded. At least in his mind anyways, but it was already lustfully biased from their earlier activities that day. So he smiled, and took her by the hand again before leading her away, “Then we better start heading for my office then.”

It wasn’t too long of a walk thankfully, and on the upper floor at that. When he opened the door, it was rather basic, with full wood furnishings in a dark sort of oak style wood, all finely polished. His and the two chairs before his desk were leather, the whole space screaming professor with the degrees on his wall, right beside some commemorative photographs. It wasn’t nearly as large of an office as his uncle’s, but still decent in size. “Welcome to my own personal hell of paperwork.”, Heinrich said with an exasperated sigh before giving a small chuckle.

As Heinrich amended himself again and again, Asteri’s ears drooped with each iteration. “Haaaah. Not a lot, he says. Twelve isn’t a lot, he says.” She devolved into muttering, before perking back up. “Do people ever go visit Haran, to try and see what happens? Or do people just, y’know, want to let that past die?”

Asteri did a double take at all the degrees. “So, just tell me, Belmes. HOW many times did you go through college?” Asteri pranced around the dance, taking a moment to put the paperwork piled on the desk onto a nearly-vacant bookshelf. Seeing Heinrich’s confused look, Asteri explained: “I was wanting to see if you had any pictures underneath a glass top, like what daddy does on his desk at home.” She also blinked a bit irritatedly at the beams of light coming through the window. Late afternoon was making its way into evening, and Heinrich’s window was not helping matters! She distractedly called to Heinrich, “Belmes? D’you normally keep your curtains open like this in the late afternoon? It’s rather… Annoying?”

He seemed confused indeed at her behavior, a raised eyebrow at her question, “Not normally as I sit with my back to it. I generally close them during the morning and late evening, saving power by using natural light. Old habit….” He in fact did have photos under the glass top, but those of a much more personal nature, particularly those slightly less appropriate to mount on the wall. In particular were group photos of him with the girls, as well as places they commonly went, such as the brothel, raves, and most recently in terms of conventions. The picture he took with Gale on the day at the con, where they actually had met Asteri.

Asteri had closed the curtains, and as she rounded around the desk and looked at the pictures, she smiled. Heinrich was a cutie. And Gale was stately indeed, though it took her forever to convince her to come to a convention. But all in all, once she did finally manage to come, it was a good time in general.

But those memories did make her realize something very important. She leaned back against the desk, and asked Heinrich: “So, I’ll probably need a textbook, or maybe even just a small paperback book for history class?” At that, she looked at him and batted her eyes, ears twitching around. “D’you think you have any copies in here?”

...Oh, right. The door wasn’t locked. Oh, well. She didn’t have enough time to do that, if what she had in mind actually worked.

He was starting to catch the cues, and picking up what she was putting down. Having been standing by the door, he simply flipped the switch for the lock, before walking up to her as she leaned on his desk. “I certainly might have a few, but don’t you want a private study session first, I wouldn’t mind laying out the syllabus… In rather fine detail.~”, Heinrich said with a smirk as he joined her, hands resting gently on either side atop the desk.

Asteri blinked, and admittedly pouted a bit, at Heinrich’s sudden maneuver, but eventually smiled coyly at him. “Fiiiirrrssst, you gotta get the source material the syllabus needs. Go on, I’ll be waiting veeeeeerrrry eagerly~!”

Heinrich gave her a very bruh look, wondering why the hell books had anything to do with getting it on atop his desk. Maybe she was more eccentric than he thought, or just was teasing him, either case he wasn’t too sure now. So with a sigh, turned around and moved to his shelf for the books and a folder, one of those he had prepared ahead of time for students attending next semester. “Yeah yeah, I’ll get them…”

Go time.

While Heinrich lowkey reacted like a poor puppy that had been scolded and turned around to look for… whatever it is, Asteri got to work. First, she slipped off her shoes and socks. Next, pants. Jacket and shirt next. Now bra. ...And the last bit was the hardest, her panties. ...she had to be very careful around her tails!

Finally unburdened from her clothes, Asteri quickly scrambled onto the desk, trying to do so quietly as well. Once she was on top of it, she turned around, belly up with her elbows supporting her weight, spreading her legs wiiiiiiide open, her breasts bouncing a bit as they settled after her furious movement, and her tails moving to cover her legs.

No way in nine hells was Heinrich going to refuse this.

He still thought she was messing with him until he turned around to find quite the sight. Tits up, legs spread, and laid out on his desk. That sneaky kit, she pulled a hentai move on me! Saying nothing, he set the gathered items aside, a smile creeping to his lips, as his zipper felt tighter. Stepping forward, he leaned against his desk, placing himself between her legs as he looked over her bare figure. “I call dibs on stripping you next time. And how we might now need to try this again with you in your uniform. Actually…. I’m going to do just that, and you can wait until then for a full playdate.~”, he said, willing to wait and get back at her for the distraction.

He did however, give her unprotected clit a gentle flick, fingers pressing as they slid over her entrance. Leaning down with a chuckle, kissed her lower lips while waiting for a reaction to all that.

“Wait, what? Hold on, you can’t just-” She was cut short as he got to work on her nethers, letting loose a gasp as his fingers flicked her, before turning into moans as he started playing around with his mouth. Her previous protests were very soon forgotten, as her legs and tails wrapped around him, and began trying to force his head deeper into her folds.

He gladly accepted the invitation, face pressing into her sex, tongue slipping in to taste at her flower. His lips brushed at first until he got deeper, now letting the roll of his tongue rub her clit on each lick, as he sucked her pussy. Heinrich’s free hands felt along her generous thighs, before coming down to cup her firm rear with a fond squeeze.

Asteri wished she could have kept her arms up. Unfortunately, she wasn’t that much of a deity in terms of willpower, and she plopped back onto her back as her arms gave out. Her waist was still very responsive, however, as she began shoving her vagina into Heinrich’s face in tune with his licking. Even in her surprised, muddled state of mind, however, she had an idea. She just...had...to regain control of her legs.

Heinrich decided to switch it up, pulling his tongue back before letting his lips suckle her clit, tongue coming out to tease it every so often. He was quite enjoying this, even if just foreplay, and thinking of just how messy it would have been to have full on sex in his office. The prince wanted that first time to be a bit more special, and maybe a bit more prepared. She was eager at least, and he hoped she didn’t hold his change around against him too harshly.

“Ahh~! Ahn~!” To say she was enjoying it was a bit of an understatement, as she desperately tried forcing Heinrich’s face into her pussy harder than what he was attempting. But eventually, she regained some control, and managed to put her idea into action. Asteri’s legs closed around Heinrich’s head, and as he was engulfed in her thighs, she began rubbing them back and forth against him, her tails thrashing back and forth around Heinrich’s torso as they lost their grip on his face.

This was very much a case of feeling like Dejavu, having remembered it being like this the first time he was face first in Gale too. It actually made some part of him wonder if Asteri had been that far yet too, and knowing just how much her training showed now. Heinrich smiled to himself as he continued to eat the fox girl out, slurping her wetness up, her pussy becoming quite wet under his attention.

The way she pressed him in, also told just how much she wanted it too, and he happily obliged. Humming a bit as he did, his tongue lapping back in as the hum sent vibrations down his tongue. He wanted to please her so much, wanting her to wiggle and moan, gushing from all the pleasure he could give her. The prince wanted to make his fiance very happy indeed.

Asteri moaned as Heinrich just kept on going. But she knew that she was close, and that she wanted to finish with a bang. So, off she slid from the desk, using her weight to force Heinrich down and onto the floor, taking care to slide him so he wasn’t bent over backwards , but instead laying on the floor. Once that was done, Asteri began humping Heinrich’s face like there was no tomorrow, going faster and faster until…

“AHHHHN~~!” She came. After that high, she slid down until her face was pressed up against Belmes’, and began kissing him hungrily, seemingly doing everything possible to rub herself against him in every conceivable way, from her vagina rubbing against his still-enclosed manhood to her breasts against his chest, to her tails on his back. She eventually broke off, a trail of saliva coming off her mouth, as she asked Heinrich: “When’s my uniform cooooming in~?”

“Tomorrow afternoon by mail.~”, Heinrich replied with the catch of his breath, before returning the kiss. He didn’t care if she rubbed against him, getting him wet with her excitement, because at this point he just wanted her in his arms. It had been a fight to not take her these last couple of days, but he wanted their first to be the best, and what better way then to celebrate her admittance in her new uniform. For now, he would enjoy the feel of her every curve, and the taste of her lips on his.

“That’s not faaaaair. You can’t just tease me like this, and then go on and leave me waiting!” Asteri was panting heavily as she resumed the kiss, before breaking off again to pout at him. A moment later, however, a coy light came into her eyes. She slid down some more until she was facing his pants, unzipped the article of clothing, before pulling down not only the pants itself, but the underwear as well, freeing his rod from their confines.

She had a glint in her eyes as she said, “Fiiine~. Since you’re gonna make it hard for me, I have to do the same to you as well~!” She hovered over his manhood, a smile playing on her lips as she stared at him for a moment, before she began licking it, slowly and sensually.

“You are one feisty fox, and I like that.~”, Heinrich said with a shudder of sensitivity, as he tongue lapped over his length. Grinning, he began to pat her head, rubbing between the ears as a reward. Perhaps he was too devious for his own good, because at this rate, he was almost starting to be like his black sheep uncle when it came to being a dom. He knew soft and sensitive spots, at least some of them, so he was not without advantage in this sexy chess game they played.

Damn it, Belmes! Asteri visibly shuddered in delight as Heinrich began caressing her ears. While her ears were beautiful and excellent for finding noises, they were susceptible to the slightest of touches. To which Heinrich was obviously familiar with. Asteri only responded with a slurping noise as she turned her lick into a full on covering, as her mouth engulfed his rod, and began bobbing her head up and down its length.

...At least Belmes wasn’t going too hard on her ears right from the get go. That gave her time to try and break him down first. ...And besides, she had a card up her sleeve, if things got really bad. He is NOT getting away with this little stunt he pulled on me!

He steadily increased the rubs, using it as an excuse to help leverage her movements, as he stroked those lovely soft ears more and more. He gave a sigh of pleasure though, Heinrich rather enjoying being sucked off so vigorously as she was. A small moan left him as she got him stiffer and stiffer in her throat, feeling himself expand with stimulation, her tongue bringing on a slight throb in time with her motions. “That feels amazing, have you been getting pointers from Gale on me?~”, he asked through an intake of breath at the feeling.

“Mmmmph, mmmmph.” Asteri really couldn’t speak anything coherent, her mouth currently busy trying to take in his girth. His increasing pace of the headpats wasn’t helping at all, as she let out more and more moans as he fondled the folds between her ear and head. But that just meant he was setting the pace. Which, admittedly, was unfair, but Asteri really couldn’t complain, as his rubbing was now getting to the point where she would pant, if she had her mouth out of Heinrich’s rod.

..Speaking of. She could feel it pulsing. ...She really didn’t want to stop the headpats. They felt toooo good. But, Heinrich had to get what he deserved. After another moment of sucking him off, she pulled off of him with an audible pop, pulling her head away from the ambrosiac headpat. Totally not regretfully. Once she was out of it, she managed to, admittedly unsteadily, regain her coy look as she looked at him, and said: “Since you’re gonna be playing it like that, you can’t waste a single bit on something like this.” She gave him a very severe look for a couple of moments, before breaking out of the mock look, giggling.

She had decided enough time had passed for the next phase- he should be calmed down a little bit. Enough for her to unleash her next weapon at her disposal. She slid up his body, before grabbing her expansive breasts, and shoving Heinrich’s poor penis into the valley. Then, she began to shake her breasts gently, setting a slow pace for the titjob.

He held back his groans as she had sucked him deep, but also not complaining when she stopped, only returning her serious look with a grin. If she wanted to play, he wasn’t going to argue, and it meant she would just have a greater load in her tomorrow. In essence, she was just making things better for tomorrow, so getting to her was just making things better for him. In the end, Heinrich was not sure if she was at all worrying about pregnancy, as she was just making it a larger possibility.

“Even if I’m not being allowed to come, I’m just enjoying this.~ You feel great, and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been thinking of you ever since our time in the kitchen.~”, Heinrich said with a sigh of pleasure again, as her breasts began to jostle him to full mast again. His tip was just running with pre at this point, under the mistaken impression it would be blowing sometime today.

Asteri flushed at Heinrich’s words, before she began pumping her breasts up and down much, much harder as she gasped out: “Stop. Being. So. Cute~!” Asteri’s breasts gave a definite sloshing noise as she went rather forcefully for those four strokes. However, upon feeling the wetness in her cleavage- because, honestly, there was no way Heinrich would ever have the size to poke through her breasts, unless he somehow grew an absolute monster. ...Alright, maybe that wasn’t what Asteri should be thinking about; she was already starting to drool at the thought.

After slowing down after that initial forcefulness, she began speeding up again, keeping her breasts in sync, occasionally switching tunes from time to time by alternating which one went up and down, before returning to sync. One time, she even forced her nipples to rub against the pulsing cock, leaving white trails behind. But in all that time, she was slowly speeding up, letting her breasts’ weight and warmth do the real work at first.

“I blame yours for rubbing off on me, no pun intended.~ You rub me any harder, and I might just become fluffy and adorable.~”, Heinrich joked with a snicker as she worked on him in so many ways. His grin creeped into his smile as he just enjoyed what she was doing, fond of the fact she was basically having her way with him. The competitive spirit wasn’t much his thing, but if it got him such intimate pleasures as this, then…. He could learn to hold more sportsmanlike rivalries.

Asteri pouted at him upon saying that. “Not cute enough, apparently, if you can decide to not take me when I present the opportunity to you!” A short while later, though, and her actions belied her words.

After pushing Heinrich to the brink yet again, she stopped abruptly, and after extracting his rod from between her cleavage, took a moment to look at him. Suddenly, her eyes gleamed, as she realized she had to play her trump card. She very slowly and sensually slid over Heinrich, though, she stopped for a moment and almost whimpered as her vagina paused on rubbing past his manhood. Eventually, however, she respected Heinrich’s wishes, and slid past that to sit herself on his chest, a triumphant look coming on her face.

“And now, for the best feeling ever~! Not even Gale can come close to what I can provide in this regard.” And then she set her tails to work. Facing Heinrich’s face as she, her face framed by her ample bosom, she smiled as her tails began wrapping and sliding themselves around Heinrich’s cock, sometimes working in unison, other times going completely different ways. Sure, her tails might get wet with precum, but honestly, she didn’t care at the moment. She resumed rubbing her hips, even while sitting on Heinrich’s chest, though she kept on looking him dead in the eye as she did so.

Like she said before, Heinrich was almost unbearably cute.

“I take it back, looks like you have a few tricks you could teach her too.~”, Heinrich commented slyly as he just enjoyed what was going on. He could feel her wet sex atop his chest, along with the generous cheeks of her ass. Sure she had sat in his lap before, but to feel it all in detail like this, well there was more than the view to enjoy with it.

The prince grunted as she stroked him with soft, fuzzy friction, with what felt like multiple appendages. That being said, he wasn’t one to sit idle, his hands sliding up her thighs, and gripping the round shape of her ass. He squeezed and fondled the pert masses sitting on him, before one hand began to move up and rub around the base of her tail in exploration.

Asteri squealed a bit as Heinrich grabbed her butt, before the squeal got louder as she felt him rub the base of her tail. She ground herself a bit harder against Heinrich, saying, “If you’re gonna touch my tails like that, at least massage them! You wanna know how tense my butt gets having to move these things around?”

Asteri eventually slowed down her pace, taking her time as she leaned forward, lying down on Heinrich and just taking things slow. While, true, her head was kinda hanging off of Heinrich’s body, she enjoyed it nevertheless. The only thing ruining this was the fact that Heinrich was not going to actually put it in her. All that effort for nothing.

And with a grin, he did as requested, stroking the lowest parts of her tails. While his free hand continued to grope and squeeze the cheeks of her ass. His cock was just enjoying the ride at this point, being slowly worked over, to the point where the build up was halted. At least for now, the feeling without worry about cumming, because he wanted to save all of that for her tomorrow. “Just imagine, I’ll be so overfilled tomorrow, that those issued panties are definitely going to be getting a load test.~ Something important to know if we try doing it here again later.~ Might even get some stomach bulging with how much you’ve worked me up, and all of it will be for you.~”, Heinrich cooed as he pampered her rear and tails.

The fox girl wriggled her waist back and forth a bit upon feeling him take care of her tails, giggling at Heinrich’s words. Her earlier annoyance was forgotten at the moment, her breasts enveloping the top of his head as she settled down on him.

Though, she raised herself back up as she heard his word, her face slowly breaking into a grin. She didn’t know why, but that appealed to her. “Yeeep, that’s goood~. I’ll make sure to milk you dry, just like how you milk me.” Her tails increased the pace, going faster and faster, until… She stopped again. She grinned cheekily at him as she slid off him to the side; unfortunately, This entire endeavor had left her quite wet, so she left quite a bit of wet trails on him. ...Double unfortunately, it seemed like Heinrich’s clothes were doomed to always be wet around her.

“I suppose you don’t have an overcoat, do you?” Asteri queried as she took out a tissue from her bag and began cleaning out around her slit, moaning every so often. But eventually, she cleaned herself up, and began moving around to redress herself. “I sure hope your office is soundproof, dear Belmes. I don’t want your fel- er, colleagues? Yeah, colleagues. I don’t want them knocking on your door asking why it’s always so noisy~!”

“With Gale involved, it’s practically mandatory.~ As for the overcoat…. At home in a box… Hmmm, you know what, meet me in the lot outside. I’ll meet ya there.” Heinrich had a sneaky grin on his face as he pointed a thumb out his own window, which the lot conveniently was on this side of. Popping the window open, he looked out and down, then looked back at her. “I’m going to be taking the more subtle, and possibly express way down. I’ll just float myself as I did you earlier.”, he added with a mischievous wink.

Asteri’s green eyes reflected her astonishment as she blinked a couple of times at him, before she just shook her head. “If anyone sees you, I hope you have a good excuse~!” She grabbed her documents and pamphlets, and she suddenly stopped. She set the papers down, and winked at Heinrich. She reached up her skirt, and pulled off her panties, slowly taking her time.

When she was done sliding them off of her, she plopped the now-wet panties on Heinrich’s arm. “Keep these safe, by the way~! If you’re gonna be risky, I guess I gotta be as well!” She grinned deviously at him, before she headed out of the door. As she skipped along the hallways, she ignored the glances and looked at her side bag clutched to her side. Eventually, however, she made it out of the maze that was the University, and looked expectantly at the window where she supposed Heinrich’s office was.

He had to clench the waistband between his lips for a moment as he climbed out the window, grabbing the pipe beside the window for a foothold. Once he had, and closed the window, Heinrich looked down below him. At least this would be good height training for his plans later, but now was the fall before him.

Taking the wet panties in hand, holding them tight with a slight squish, gave a good kick off the wall to buy him at least a foot of space. The wind which was once calm, now roared past his ears in an upwards direction, the other hand reaching towards the ground under him, the sudden feel of weight against his body reversing. As he fell, his body slowed it’s descent, coming to a floaty stop before the ground before even starting to list upwards again slightly. Cutting the spell, Heinrich dropped to a roll next to the bushes, before peeking over to make sure the lot was still empty of watchers save for Asteri. Still holding her precious treasure of a garment firmly, he hopped the bush and casually walked out towards the vehicle.

“Okay, maybe not doing that again any time soon if I don’t have to, but at least now I know I can pull it off. So, remind me to keep a change of clothes stashed in my office from now, and spare underwear for you. Ready to go?” He said this all cheerfully, but with a slight increase in breathing, the expenditure of mana having to be something he practiced more. The prince wasn’t used to using his magic this often, and he needed to fix that.

Asteri grinned at Heinrich, and walked over to the jeep, calling over her shoulder, “I dunno where you’re gonna put that-” She nodded at her panties- “But I don’t want to hold that wet thing on the trip back to the house~.” Upon reaching the doors, she waited for Heinrich to unlock the jeep, before she hopped in, crossing her legs as she maneuvered her tails around the seat to be in the most comfortable position for her. “Unless, of course, you wanna go out to eat. I do recall a spaghetti place that would be good, though the cheese on their alfredo can be like glu- oh!”

At that, Asteri put a hand on her mouth. “I completely forgot! I have a book I was intending to make for a cosplay set. I have all the papers written out, and I got the coffee to stain the paper. I just need to bind the papers afterwards, and make a beautiful cover.” She tilted her head, looking at Heinrich. “While spaghetti would be great and all that, I do think we need to head home. I really wanna get this book binding stuff started. And besides.” Asteri frowned a bit at Heinrich. “No need to make me more excited than I already am.”

“Tell ya what, how about this. We save dinner til tomorrow since we’re already set for a special day for you and me. Since we’ll have other things on our mind than cooking, and we can make more of a day of it then giving the bed a thorough test run. Does that sound good to you dear?” Heinrich wasn’t fussed, or in any sort of rush, down for whatever they decided. He was just happy with everything as it was going right now, and was just happy to see Asteri happy. In either case, her panties were somewhat dryer now, and kinda wrung out from how tightly he had been holding them for dear life on the jump down. So being his cheeky self, the prince simply stuck them in his pocket with a smile, before leaning over and kissing Asteri.

To which the fox girl giggled, promptly agreeing. She laid back in her seat as Heinrich started the jeep, and just kept her eyes closed for a good portion of the trip, sandals on the floorboard while her feet were on the dashboard. When they got onto the bridge exiting Obsidian city, however, Asteri changed positions, moving her legs to where they lay across the dashboard and across Heinrich’s lap, and she smiled at him, simply saying, “The Dashboard’s nice and sunny, but you’re warmer.” She hummed a small song as they drove through the bridge and back home.

Heinrich tried to keep his focus on the road, but with the way she was laid back now, he had a very clear view of her sex right now. His eyes wanted to wander, it was right there after all, spread open to him. There was no way he could drive like this, and he needed to do something, but what? Thinking about it, there really only was one thing he could do, and they had just calmed down too.

“Okay you are flashing me, and it’s distracting me with wanting to look, so I’m going to distract my hand instead so it isn’t my eyes.~”, Heinrich said in warning, his hand gliding over her leg, before rubbing at her slit again. Finger tips massaging around her entrance, while also lightly sliding over her pearl, a single finger slipping in and rubbing around inside.

Asteri gave a small intake of breath upon feeling Heinrich’s finger. “Wh-wh-what?” She moaned and shifted around as Heinrich began playing with her slit. She managed to get out, “I-I thought th- ah~! I thought that the Geist could autodrive for you- uh~!” Damn it, why did she have the seatbelt on now? She so wanted to jump on him, but she managed to restrain herself, and pulled out of Heinrich’s grasp, sighing in disappointment. “I’m sorry, Belmes, but I can’t be wet ALLL the time~.” She gave a wink at him, before her face became a tad bit more serious. “That, and I’m probably gonna have to get this skirt off when we reach the house now.” She gave a mock annoyed look at Heinrich. “Well, we’re gonna have to wash our clothes again, aren’t we?”

“That doesn’t work out in the middle of the woods! In the city there's a transit GPS system.”, Heinrich said in his defense, hand lifted with wet fingers. Now at least he was able to keep completely focused on the road, and in time too as he turned off onto their road. “So nude arts and crafts with snuggles, hell yeah I’m down. I’m beat so making some dinner, then hitting it early for our date tomorrow sounds good. I’m beat with all the excitement today.”

He wasn’t drowsy yet, just a bit tired from having such an eventful day, having her more than once on his fingers. Perhaps he would bake a cake, or have a bowl of cereal with that extra milk that was in the fridge now, but relaxing was definitely in order tonight. Especially with the busy day in bed they would have tomorrow.

Asteri raised an eye at Heinrich’s seeming excitement. “Just don’t get any coffee on yourself. Or glue. I’m sure you don’t want to have a sticky adhesive and you somehow can’t get your hands apart. I don’t want to have to wash warm water over your hands all night.” She felt a distinct shift in the jeep’s suspension as they turned onto the dirt road, and she muttered to Heinrich: “We really need to concrete this. I know it’s not gonna fit the aesthetic, but honestly, when it rains, I don’t want to get stuck in mud.”

To be honest, he just figured he’d have it graveled eventually, but her point made it clear that it was best done sooner rather than later. “I’ll have a gravel truck come in this weekend, as for coffee… I was actually thinking of baking us a cake. I don’t actually know the first thing about arts and crafts to be honest.”, Heinrich answered even as they eventually pulled up in front of the house. His excited nature never left, though at the idea of he naked on the couch making a prop book.

“Figured it would make up for having to wait a day for our special time, and the dinner date. I’ve got you, but you deserve something sweet too.”, he said with a grin, smooth talking in his usual flirty way.

“Uhm, Belmes? The coffee isn’t for us, silly. We need to stain the pages, make them look like a proper parchment meant to hold spells, wizard-y style. ...N-not that I’m saying no to the cake! I would LOVE some cake!” Asteri broke off and blinked as a thought came to her. “...Besides, do we have eggs, flour or cake mix, and mil- er, just eggs and flour?” Right. Earlier today. “Seriously, though. You call yourself a cosplayer, not having to make things on your own!” She puffed up in mock indignation, before breaking down into giggles. “And I do think the book binder should be in the attic- I’m very glad I managed to get it from that storage box sale!”
Asteri frowned, muttering to herself as she remembered something: “Need to make sure to press a flower into a page, though, before we stain it. Should be easy! And thanks to the new greenhouse, I should be able to save some seeds and be able to grow lots of herbs from it! I’ll show you what it is when we get in the house!” She finished as the jeep rolled to a stop in front of the house. Asteri jumped out of the jeep, stumbling a bit as she remembered she never put her sandals back on. After hopping back into the jeep for the sole purpose of putting her shoes back on, she returned to her beeline to the door of the house.

“I will have you know that I carved that cane I had at the con where we met.”, came his smart remark back, as she followed her into the house. Once they were both indoors, and assumedly stripping, he went ahead and took his clothes off on the way up to the room. Leaving them there, the prince figured he’d get started on the cake while she got started on her project. So padding back down to the bottom floor, Heinrich did a quick wash up, and went to the kitchen.

He donned only an apron as he began to prep their spacious kitchen, gathering the ingredients he needed. Instead of the store bought milk, he used Asteri’s figuring it would have gone bad first then the store bought. He also made himself a bowl of corn flakes, and used some of it for that too, to have something to eat as he worked. Even as he ate a few spoonfuls, the prince got started on the batter.

Asteri flounced off as soon as she threw their clothes into the washer, before heading into her- their room as she grabbed the larger suitcase, and pulled out pieces of something. She struggled a bit as she attempted to go down two flights of stairs, but she eventually made it, clattering the pieces of the book press on the table. She ran back upstairs and grabbed the few final things, including the flower- note to self: Do not mix up this flower with flour- and ran back down. Looking back at the kitchen, noting how he was… wearing an apron? JUST an apron?

She gave him an exasperated look as she grabbed the screwdriver, calling out to him: “It really doesn’t work unless you have THESE puppers.” At that, with her free hand, she hefted one of her breasts, sticking a tongue out at Heinrich, before letting it fall as she resumed her task of reconstructing the book press. Soon enough, she managed to figure out where all the pieces were supposed to go, and the finished product stood waiting on the table, sheets of paper stacked neatly next to it. Asteri stood up, and moved around the counter to the kitchen, bumping her hip against Heinrich as she passed him on her way to rummage through the drawers, idly asking: “Do we have any wide trays here?”

Luckily for her, she found the ground coffee and the coffee maker- Heinrich really did prepare the house. She began brewing the pot, padding out of the kitchen area only to grab most of her papers, setting all but one on a counter, a fair distance away from Heinrich’s cake making. Reaching into her cleavage, she pulled out the flower she wanted to show Heinrich. “While I’m waiting for the coffee to brew, I can press this flower into this last page, and make a really nice outline! This is Dycethia, or more commonly known as Wyrmfire. I remember showing this off to Gale, and she was explaining how the Vaigarins used it… but we got interrupted before she could really explain what they did with it. Something about how the roots and stem were a very good hallucinogenic toxin, while the petals were very good foooor…. Either for fertility, or for treating infected wounds.”

Seeing Heinrich’s rather nonplussed look, she defended herself: “In my defense, it was at the beach and we were having to deal with a pair of rather competitive girls in Volleyball! We didn’t have much time for discussion!” She just shook her head at him, before brightening up. “I do remember her telling me that the petal was actually fairly tasty, too. Wanna try that and bake it into the cake? One missing petal won’t do too much; I’ve already removed the seeds, and have them ready to be planted in the greenhouse!”

“Yeah, but I have these..”, Heinrich said before pressing the apron down to show his bulge under it, and shaking the bottle of her milk. “Don’t lie, you think it’s sexy, plus it’s a total reverse. I might even do this more often.” He was cheery and enjoying himself, even as she came in and bumped bare hips which got a rear pat from him, and a return tongue stuck out. When she came back and offered the petal though….

“Are you sure it’s safe for consumption?”, the prince questioned, before muttering to himself. “Really hope it’s the former effect at this rate. More useful than biotics in this house.”

Asteri squealed a bit as she felt her rump jiggle, before she giggled at Heinrich. “Ehhhhh. The skirt and your di- nevermind.” She wouldn’t be able to convince him otherwise, would she? Asteri sighed internally. Upon hearing his question, her ears flicked back and forth. “Of course, silly. I even handled some back at the labs in Andraeste. Had an idiot lab partner of mine eat one from a dare, he was alright. Come to think of it, he said it wasn’t half bad either…” She put a finger on her chin. “But anyways, yeah. If you’re just uncertain about the stem, I can just..” She ripped off half of a petal, wincing slightly. “We can just use half a petal, if you’d like.”

That matter done..ish.. Asteri turned to searching through the drawers again, leaning down to rummage through the cabinets, tails waving in front of Heinrich. “Nope, these are pots… Pans, but those are skillet-type…. We have an air fryer? Uhhh… Aha!” Asteri finally emerged from the cabinets, coming up with her prize- a rectangular pan that, while being relatively thin, had a wide area. “Here we go. I can soak the papers in this!” She set the pan next to the coffee brewer, before she started rummaging through the pages. Various pictures of magical circles, exotic looking plants, some obviously fantasy, animals, and even an elaborate picture showcasing how a ritual was supposed to work were part of this library of pages. Asteri was rather proud of this- she had spent a good six months just drawing the pages.

“After I soak these pages, I should be able to press the flower in when I press the pages. ...Seventy two pages, though, and only one pressed flower.” Asteri pursed her lips. “Oh, well. The Dycethia was rather expensive.” Setting the papers down, she took a look at Heinrich’s work. “Ooooh. That looks good. Are you using vinegar? I know mama liked using applesauce instead of vinegar; her cakes were always great, although a bit sticky!”

Heinrich held up a jar of applesauce, “Mom never did use vinegar either, though her applesauce was homemade. A somewhat mixed outcome of things of our time. But damn were they good…” Something distant seemed to settle into his look, even though it was really subtle, it was there. He got a bit more into making the cake then he had been before, hell, he may just bake another after it.

Asteri tilted her head slightly at Heinrich’s sudden shift in tone, her ears flicking as they strained to tell exactly what changed. She glanced at the half empty- half full? Half-half? ..Anyways, she looked at the partially used bottles. Those cakes don’t take that much milk, do they? There were still two other bottles in the fridge.

...Wait. An idea began forming in Asteri’s mind, though, as she thought it through, she realized it would have to wait until they went to bed. Or right before, anyways. Satisfied with that, she turned back to face Heinrich, only to see him focused on making a cake much more intently than he was before. Now Asteri was concerned. But the beep of the coffee pot announcing it was finished caused her to jump slightly. Taking one last look at Heinrich, she trodded to the coffee pot, grabbed it, and dumped its contents into the pan, before taking two sheets of folded paper, and putting them in the now-full pan.

She made sure to glance behind her, looking at Heinrich, before she made another decision. One of her tails extended, basically grabbing the spoon from his hand, as her tail began moving, stirring the batter mix. Not even looking at him when she spoke, “Belmes, could you set the oven to 177 degrees? The cake would probably bake well enough at that temperature, and the papers would also probably dry fairly quickly…”

“Yeah… yeah, I can do that.”, was all he said before walking over to the double oven. Giving a few strokes of commands on it’s interface, he set the temperature for both, so as not to disturb one when opening for the other. He set a timer for the cake in the top oven, and just set a general one for the other oven that Asteri would use for her pages. “Might make another cake after this one. Preference on flavor and icing?”

Asteri glanced back at Heinrich when he asked for flavor and icing. “Mmmmm….. For icing, how about buttercream? And as for flavor…. Do we have.. Red velvet?” Asteri licked her lips, almost drooling at the thought. Hopefully by the time the cakes were finished, her papers would also finish staining. Then it would be time to put holes in them, binding up sections, then putting them in the book press…

She shook her head slightly, looking back at Heinrich again. “Hey Belmes?” She remained silent for a bit, before continuing on, a bit tentatively. “I think our mamas would’ve gotten along really well; granted, my mama is a bit of a… excessive green thumb, but she would always say people who don’t use regular rules in cooking have this sort of bond together. Something about how we subvert the formula to make something just as tasty.” She smiled softly at him, before she returned to her task, setting another paper into the coffee-filled pan.

“I think she would have liked that sentiment, and why she was always proud to have married a farmer. She never did like using the synthetic store bought stuff, always preferred those natural flavors, not that I could have ever argued with the results.”

As Heinrich slid the first cake in, he was already searching for the ingredients of the next. Asteri was even in luck, as he found a few boxes of red velvet mix, which brought his grin back somewhat. “Looks like we have enough here to make enough red velvet for the rest of the month. Pantry was stocked after the house was built, and it looks like we almost got five of everything just about.”, the prince commented as set the ingredients aside.

Cleaning up the left overs of what was used before, he put it away and wiped the counter down before starting on this new mix. There was just enough of her milk for this one too, a very useful quirk indeed, and one they both seemed to enjoy milking for all it’s worth. Heinrich smiled at the humorful idea, chuckling even a little as he went about things.

“What did you stock for, a party?” Asteri rolled her eyes at Heinrich, before she dropped the spoon from her tail as the papers occupied her attention. Soon enough, all the papers were stained, and the last batch was drying in the oven as they continued on baking the cake. Asteri was moving to put the mixing bowl in the dishwasher, when an idea came to her. She glanced at Heinrich, giggling as she asked: “We can at least eat the dough, right?” As she asked that question, she scooped up some with her fingers- although, admittedly, there wasn’t that much left, there was enough for a couple of globs of dough to be eaten.

As he put the ingredients away from the second cake now that they were done, he turned at her question with a puzzled look. “I wouldn’t, you’re welcome to it though if you like that stuff. Always prefer my cake baked to unbaked.”, came the man’s reply as he finished, wondering if she was just going to sit there and lick the bowl clean. For some reason, Heinrich felt the hinting smile on her face, said she had other more teasingly mischievous plans in mind for that batter.

“Why do I get the sense you want to do more then simply eat it, because your giggles tend to mean your plotting sexy things usually.”, he commented as he leaned back against the counter, apron now draped down his front against his body. The grin on his face said he had his suspicions about what she was thinking, recognizing just how kinky she was more and more. At this rate, she probably gave Gale a run for her money in that department all by herself.

Aw. So Belmes wouldn’t rather take the risk. ...She supposed not everyone liked cookie dough. ..But this was cake dough. There wasn’t that much of a difference, was it? Asteri tentatively licked the glob on her finger, before she made a face, and flung it back into the bowl. “Yep. Yep. I actually can see why you prefer cake baked.” She set the bowl in the dishwasher, muttering to herself: “Well, why does cake batter taste bad compared to cookies? It doesn’t make sense at all! Stupid cake not being like cookies…”
After some more muttering, Heinrich’s other question caused her to perk her ears up and tilt her head at Heinrich, as she gave him her most innocent look she could muster, eyes wide. “What do you mean, ‘plotting sexy things?’ Was just wondering if you liked cake dough, that’s all!” Totally not because she was going to have an ‘accident,’ and convince Belmes to lick the dough off her breasts. Nope.

She glanced at the oven, and upon seeing that the last of the paper had dried, pulled it out. She hummed as she stacked all the papers together, and put the coffee-stained pan inside the dishwasher as well. Asteri then scooted over to the sink, where she washed her hands; only then did she grab the papers and saunter back to the table where the book press lay. She picked up the screwdriver, and began poking near the edges of the spine of the paper, having separated the paper into nine groups. Some twine wrapping later, and she had finished getting the groups tied up.

She then grabbed the flower, and stuck it in the page she was intending to have it showcased in, glueing one side on, and covering the glue and flower with another sheet of paper, this one not stained. As she scrabbled around the table, scissors in hand, trying to cut one, she glanced back at Heinrich. “By the way, if we’re gonna get married, you ARE gonna have to meet mama. AND Aodh. And daddy, when he’s not working. And Lokison.” Her left eye twitched a bit as she mentioned the last name, but aside from that, her tone was very eager. She finished her task at the bookbinder, by finally setting the nine different sections into a stack, gluing the sections together, and then screwing the press down on them.

She glanced out one of the windows, noting that it was getting dark. She glanced back at the book press, sighing a bit as she realized this would take all night to set. She then looked back at Heinrich, crossing her legs, asking him: “Sooo, are we gonna save one of the cakes for later? Because while I will admit I love cakes, I don’t think I can eat two of them in one night!” Maybe that was a lie, but Asteri didn’t want to pig out too much tonight.

...She was preparing for a lot tomorrow, after all.

“The plan wasn’t to even the whole of one tonight, so yeah hahaha.” Heinrich chuckled at the question until something about what she said made him pause in confusion. Lokison, who the hell was that? The man tried scrolling back through his memories of their time together, and not once could he remember that name being brought up before. “Uhhhh, who’s Lokison?”

“Oh, Lokison is just mama’s flytrap. Mama would probably insist you meet him; but be mindful! He’s a bit of a snapper, especially when you get too close to his favorite branch.”

The look on his face only intensified in confusion, to a just dumbfounded level, “Say what now…” A venus flytrap…. As a pet…. That has a favorite branch…. This was sounding more and more like a bad drug trip, and he was starting to wonder if he really did eat some of that batter, with the flower in it. Because holy shit, was he starting to think that flower was some fucking whack drugs.

Asteri tilted her head at Heinrich’s dumbfounded look. “What? I told you mama was a green thumb fanatic. Lokison the IV is kinda the result of mama refining the previous Lokis. ...Although, daddy was kinda mad when Loki III ate his pet chameleon ....” At that, Asteri trailed off, lost in thought, before she shook herself. “Annnyyyways, I’m still not used to Sirris’ day/night cycle. We woke up aaaat, like, what, midday, Sirris Time?” Sirris Time? “It must’ve been seven or eight hours since I woke up, right? 35 minutes getting to the house from the apartment, some extra from that ice cream place…. A good two, two and a half hours in the house getting stuff done. Milking was what? Fifteen minutes? Drive to university, 25 minutes. We spent around an hour and a half at the university itself. The drive back.. Twenty five minutes… and now this!” Asteri frowned. “How do you stand so much daytime?”

“Well to pull from flora studies, the research shows that planets with longer cycles of day and night tend to adapt to hold more energy, and in compounds that retain them for longer, even after digestion has begun. Therefore the local food keeps you going for longer…. That’s the boring reply though.”

Heinrich smiled as he gave her a more exciting answer though, “But the fun answer… You realize who we live with right? How on Sirris does anyone fall asleep during the day in a household like this, save for it was in the apartment before.” His initial shock of what she told him had worn off as she explained, but boy…. Was he going to have a hell of a book to add to his curriculum later probably, especially with such strange developments as that.

Asteri chuckled at Heinrich’s answer. “Back on Andraeste, we typically had a lot of dusk and dawn; our typical day consisted of 6 hours of day, 6 of night, and 4 each for dawn and dusk. Winter often meant that we had 4 hours of day, eight hours of night. Summer would be the reverse.” Asteri turned silent at that, but a moment later, she grinned at Heinrich, and said, “I mean, with three wives, you better expect busy days, silly Sultan.” She seemed pleased that she came up with that. But she continued on: “So, which cake are we eating first?” She bounced on her feet as she asked that question.

“The red velvet you were so fondly asking about actually. Figured as I don’t necessarily have a preference, we’d go with your’s.”, Heinrich simply answered as he gave both cakes a quick check. With all this talking as well as back and forth banter, the prince wasn’t feeling all that tired as he had been before, and the desire to wear the apron longer had grown stronger.

“I still feel the urge to bake, so now my question for you. What do you want to help me make next? We have a full pantry, with an abundance of baking supplies, and two more members of the family to welcome to our new home. I think a bit of indulgence and a selection of sweets would make a very nice housewarming gift wouldn’t you say?” He leaned on the counter a bit as he grinned at her, already having fun just hanging out and doing some casual baking with his fiance.

Asteri blinked at him, before grinning, putting a hand over her mouth. “Oh, my. We DO have lots of people to really prepare for, don’t we? Tell me, Belmes, how does Gale react to spicy food? Do you know?” Asteri walked back around the counter, her grin now mischievous.

“”It’s not causing me to breathe fire yet”, is what I believed were her words, the last time I gave her some peppers and beef for dinner.” Heinrich offered a humorful smirk as he remembered fondly that particular night, and what they had done only a couple weeks prior to that dinner. “I’d be more worried about you, sutes, and draco.”, he added before starting to shuffle around supplies. Putting away the cake mixes, and pulling out the ingredients for some lighter fare, like muffins and bread.

“I’m assuming with that question though, you were planning some sort of meal for everyone? Something particularly spicy given the question?” The prince was keeping delightfully busy, but all the same, very curious to see where she was going with this.

“I meaaaann…..” Asteri’s lips were curled into a devious smile, as she leaned in towards Heinrich, and whispered conspiratorially: “How about we give them something really hot for homecoming?” She put her head on Heinrich’s shoulder as she continued on: “Don’t worry about me; I’m used to spicy stuff.” She blinked, before continuing on. “I mean, I don’t exactly LIKE it, but I can deal with it. At least, the moderate stuff.”

She bounced off of Heinrich, as she continued on: “But don’t think that’s all I’m planning for them! Once they get properly pra- er, initiated!- then we give them the actual good stuff!” Asteri bounced up and down, before she suddenly deflated a bit as she yawned, her nose scrunching up. “-Annnnnd maybe after this, we should go to bed. Baking cakes and making books is surprisingly tiring- though, I guess that wasn’t all we did today~!” Asteri batted her eyelashes at Heinrich.

A moment later, and she frowned. She was also thirsty. She licked her lips a moment, before heading to the fridge, opening it, and leaning in, digging through things as she searched through it. Eventually, she sighed, as she popped back out with a familiar bottle of milk. Moments later, it was empty as she put it on the counter next to the sink as she started rummaging through the fridge again.

Heinirich finished the last baking project before putting away all that they had made, making sure they were kept fresh in sealed trays across the counter. Hearing her yawn though, he started to usher her upstairs with him, once everything had been cleaned up. “Sounds like it’s about a good time for both of us to sleep now. Going to have a busy day tomorrow as is anyways, and you’re going to need your stamina.”

Admittedly, her flirtatious attitude had put him in the mood this time, but he withheld to save such a thing for tomorrow. So with an arm around her waist as he set their aprons on the hooks for them, the prince held his fiance close as they headed upstairs to bed. With care and a loving gentleness, the man tucked them in, cozying up with her nude under the covers.

Night time would pass quickly in their embraced and restfully deep sleep, the sunlight creeping up through the window before it’s warmth could be felt growing through the covers over them. Birds and other natural creatures of the woods could be heard doing their morning sounds, unfiltered and from their own home. Heinrich rustled as he rolled over closer, arms and legs entwined with Asteri’s, as another appendage was already quite at home being rigid within her thigh gap.

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Asteri slowly blinked her eyes open, squinting through the light shining through the window. She yawned a bit, stretching her arms a bit- or, at least, she tried to. It was a bit hard to do so when they were entangled with someone else’s arms. She looked at Heinrich, and beamed as she rubbed her face against his, before she registered another feeling rubbing against her thighs.

Her smile grew lazily wider, as she began rubbing her thighs together. Unfortunately, a stray thought caused her to stop, and frown. Damn it, Belmes. Stupid Belmes and his stupid rules. He was just outright begging her to… with that… She devolved into silent muttering, before the feeling returned to her thigh.

...At the very least. She slid down Heinrich, scrunching up the blanket a bit, as she wedged Belmes’ rod between her breasts, before realizing something, and muttering to herself silently again. Oh. Right. He’s not big enough to go all the way through. Time for a… Asteri pushed down on her ample chest, wincing a bit as the crystal she slotted between the chest popped out and fell on the bed, before falling on the floor due to her movements.

That, and milk was starting to leak. Was she a cup size bigger? Two? It probably wasn’t a good idea to squeeze her chest after what she drank last night and combine it with that crystal lens… And.. did it survive that fall? Yes, yes it did. Tough little thing, aren’t you? Or was it the carpet? She was distracted, however, as her goal finally came into sight. She opened her mouth in delight, tongue poking out, before clamping down on the tip of Heinrich’s cock, finally releasing the pressure on her breasts and she got to work. Remember. He. Can’t. Cum.

And so Asteri got to work underneath the sunny dawn and chirping of birds.

“You know… If you’re that eager, you could just go grab the package at the front door. We were only waiting on that, so might as well get it, and we get down to actually doing it hon.”, Heinrich said as the sucking of his dick, caused him to stir awake. A hand gently rested on her head, as if encouraging her to go on, despite what he said in his half awake voice. Granted, he was soon fully awake, as she would feel in her mouth as he went to maximum rigidness. A soft smile came to his lips as the prince sat up and looked down at her.

Asteri didn’t bother answering, as she continued on; her tongue started swirling around the tip, and she grabbed her breasts and began shifting them forward and backward, since it was a bit hard to go up and down. She hummed as she felt his manhood stiffen, and she sped up her pace. When she felt his cock throbbing, she stopped suddenly, mouth letting go of Heinrich’s rod with a distinct pop, and as she came up, there was a bit of drool. Or was it precum?

Asteri had also let go of her breasts as she suddenly stopped her movement with them as well, one finger on a hand moving to cover the top of Heinrich’s rod, the other coming up to wipe off the wet trail on the corner of her mouth. With her mouth finally free, she was able to speak.

“Wait, you mean the mail comes early here? I thought there would be a wait, especially considering how far we are from the city!” Asteri cocked her head. After that moment of talking, she had decided that Heinrich had calmed down enough to the point where she could remove the restraining finger, and she also extracted his rod from between her globes; she used her newfound freedom to plot herself onto Heinrich, her breasts pressing against his chest, as she looked at him.

Surprisingly, there wasn’t a lot of milk that leaked… Asteri chased that idle thought from her head as she smiled lazily at Heinrich. “And good morning to you, too, you silly detective.” She stretched forward to kiss him, the action causing her to scoot up a bit on Heinrich. “What d’you think we’ll be having for breakfast?”

“Are you on the menu? You’ve got me excited now, so maybe a simple meal before getting to it would be best.”, Heinrich said with a grin before patting her rear repeatedly. He was still rather ramrod stiff, standing proudly from her pleasurable attention, the member poking her in the stomach. “Hopefully a quick bite, because we have a lot of things to do in this bed, and I did promise all you all that you had built up yesterday.”

Leaning up, the prince kissed Asteri back, pulling her back to make it deep. He held her close and tight, hands sliding over smooth and soft skin, feeling along the curves he had explored some already. “If this is what it feels like to be with a wife in bed, even if not married yet, everything feels so much better. I love you…”

Asteri giggled at Heinrich’s praises, snuggling into him as she ground herself against him. She stopped eventually, and she entwined her tongue around his. Breaking off with a small gasp, she smiled again at him, putting her head on his chest. Soon, however, she swung off the bed, legs swinging a bit, before she hopped off the bed, and turned to face Heinrich.

“Well, then, Belmes! I guess we just have to get the uniform on reaaall fast, then, huh?” There was a smile on her face, as she cocked her head at him; then the fox girl turned around and walked downstairs, hips swaying and tails swishing as she made her way to the front door. Though, she did scramble back up from the second floor once to pop her head up at Heinrich to stick a tongue out, saying: “Hurry up, sleepyhead,” before racing back down to the first floor, giggling.

“Then hurry back to bed, it’s the place to do it after all.” Heinrich called down as he found where they had unpacked the breast pumps too. Sitting back on the bed with them beside him, he wondered what position she would like first, or if she had prior experience. He was already thinking of a few himself, and unconcerned with the idea of maybe grabbing a condom.

Asteri whipped her head around on hearing Heinrich’s call. She grumbled a bit to herself, “Well, we wouldn’t have to even worry about getting up if you didn’t have to insist on waiting ‘till I got the uniform…” After some grumbling, Asteri opened the door, and saw three packages on the doorstep. After leaning down to pick them up, she set them on the table and sorted them out.

Turns out Gale and Heinrich also had received something in the mail. Asteri pursed her lips for a moment, before shrugging, and taking her own and trotting back upstairs. She popped her head up from the stairs first, noting that Heinrich was holding one of her suction cups. “Yeah, we need to really unpack, don’t we? We just have stuff scattered everywhere, but eh. We can do that any time, riiight~?”

Asteri then sashayed over to the bed, sitting down next to Heinrich, taking the bottle out of his hand and idly dropping it onto the floor. “Those things were always a bit annoying. They’re fiddly to work with and put on, and I don’t like the way they dig into my chest, especially when pumping.” Asteri stuck out her tongue at that, before plopping her package on both of their laps, saying: “Well, now, shall we see what the uniform is?”

...And wait a second. Did Heinrich already change hi- er, our- mailing address as well? That was the only way it made sense.

“Well I can’t milk you if I’m railing you, especially if we go with the positions that I'm thinking of.”Heinrich answered with a small grin. He already had plans for doggy, and mating press, with maybe a cowgirl in between. Either way, he wasn’t going to do more than grope her breasts, and in the press, her legs would be blocking him from even that. At most, he’d likely have to leave it to being an aftercare thing.

Pulling some of the outfit of the box with a bit of opening, he looked her in the eyes as he raised them, “So we getting you in the new uniform? Got to start the scandal training sometime.” Heinrich was more then a bit cheeky in his teasing now, but at this point, she was his more then willing partner in crime with what the two had pulled together already at the school prior.

“Suuuuure you can! ..Sure, it’ll mean a mess on the floor, but hey! Apparently, I have too much for you to drink it all~!” At that, Asteri took the moment to press herself into Heinrich, giggling as she rubbed herself up and down on him. But she broke off as he held out the uniform, tilting her head as she looked at him.

“So, wait, you’re telling me you’re going to be training me with what Gale taught you?” Asteri’s face broke into a slow smile, as she bounced on her feet and exclaimed: “I’m in!” She practically snatched the uniform out of his hands as she began walking over to the other side of the bed, telling Heinrich: “Now, don’t look! I want your opinion when I’m fully dressed!” The exuberant foxgirl then sat down on the floor next to the bed, getting her skirt on first.

Yes, no panties. There was no need for them for what they were about to do, anyways.

The real problem, however, came when she tried buttoning on her shirt. The torso buttons were easily done. ...It started getting harder the closer Astri got to her chest, and she realized with a sinking feeling that it wasn’t going to work. Nevertheless, she continued on in hopes that she was wrong.

She wasn’t, as the fourth button from the top slid out of the slit in the shirt.

...At least it didn’t break.

But, she had a problem. And much as it pained her to know what was causing it, she knew what she had to do.

“Hey, Belmes? Um… can you milk me? So that I can actually wear the shirt?”

“Suuuurrreee, come take my lap, and I'll drink what I can. I’m going to need the energy for how much I'm about to stuff you. Don’t worry, we’re both leaving the bedroom full in one way, or another by the time we’re done.” His soft chuckles filled the room a bit as he gave his bare lap a pat in emphasis. ”Might as well mount me while you’re at it, just so the lubing you gave this morning isn’t wasted.” Heinrich added with his own slowly growing smile.

Asteri popped her head out from the other side of the bed, and gave a small squeal at that. She jumped from the floor onto the bed, and quite literally used Heinrich as a base to swing around as she darted at him. Her top was a bit disheveled, as she was in the middle of undressing when Heinrich said that, and a sleeve was dangling behind her as she began hungrily kissing Heinrich again.

Meanwhile, she began shifting around on Heinrich’s lap, maneuvering herself so that her skirt wasn’t in the way, and she was directly, finally, rubbing her wet slit against Heinrich’s manhood. But she still didn’t take the chance to put it in her, instead breaking off the kiss and looking at Heinrich and asking in a panting voice: “Can I really put it in?” She slid a hand off of the back of his head, and moved it to cup one of her breasts, doing her best to move the behemoth up to Heinrich’s face.

“Did I stutter?”, he said as his hands firmly hound the tops of her hips. Heinrick jerked his hips up, thrusting just the top of his cock into her awaiting sex. “We’ve been waiting to do this since yesterday, of course you can put it in Mrs. Oaklen.~” He grinned before kissing her moistening nip, tongue giving it a playful flick as he watched her expression at having put his tip in.

Asteri squealed again, this time much longer and louder than the previous one. It was cut short as Heinrich started playing with her nipples, as she was forced to gasp and moan. She gripped her breast, the other one gripping his shoulder, as she was teased so cruelly, and after putting her head on Heinrich’s shoulder to take a moment to gather herself, she began in earnest, slamming herself down on Heinrich’s lap and rocking back and forth, moving up and down while forcing the man’s head into her chest.

“Mrs.- ah~! Oaklen? I..like-oh~! I like the sound of that!” She went quiet for a moment as she focused on riding Heinrich, before she caught her breath and continued on: “And.. and make sure to drink- uhm~! -drink a lot, ‘k-kay?”

Well so much for not being able to milk her, guess it’s for the best to do it on round one then. Heinrich thought this as he clamped down on her teat, feeling the milk dribble and spritz generously onto his tongue. Sucking on, his hands took firm grip of her hips, helping her ride him as she so eagerly began to already. He applauded it, but was disappointed he couldn’t take the lead, but that was just the side of him who liked to have a plan for giving the best time speaking.

He could only hit so deep right now, but as soon as his turn arose, he drank his fill. The crown prince would take his future wife to the next position, and rock her world. Heinrich was aiming to stuff her womb tonight with all the cum the teasing of yesterday had built up.

Moaning as Heinrich started nibbling on her sensitive nipples, Asteri arched her back into Heinrich as she instinctively tried to get closer to the pleasure. Meanwhile, Asteri’s pace began to quicken already, and she began ramming herself harder and harder onto Heinrich. Asteri certainly liked going at it hard, and she was going to prove that by grinding Heinrich’s pelvis to dust.

She shifted milk tanks rather quickly; after popping the first one out of Heinrich’s mouth, she presented the other one to him, herself grinning, mouth slightly agape, as she explained: “W-w-we’re… AH~! -Going to b-b-oooh~! -be d-doing this alllll- Hngh! All day!”

Her walls gripped his length like a vice, unwilling to let go as it would near the ends of her entrance. Heinrich stifled his groan filled moans on her teat, suckling further as she asserted a lustful dominance. She was either a hellion of an energetic switch, or one hell of a power top. His cock was screaming towards the latter.

Hands moved from her hips, to feel up the spine of her back, tracing with each jolting rise and fall of her body. Asteri truly was so full of stamina, and it made him wonder just how much experience she had, as it was strongly suggested that she wasn’t a virgin. Not that it mattered, as he gave up his years ago to Gale, and likely most of his future wives had already lost theirs as well.

Asteri gasped and groaned as she bounced, hands letting go of his head and her breast to move them to a hugging position around, smothering him against her as she rode him, almost desperately so. Eventually, however, she gave a moan of frustration, pulling out of Heinrich- admittedly with some difficulty, as she really didn’t want to let go- before plopping herself onto all fours on the bed beside him, facing the headrest as she practically waved her sex in front of him, tails trying to pull him in.

“Please…. Harder!”

Heinrich figured he’d oblige, but perhaps not in the position she was suggesting. Instead he rolled her over, before stradling between her legs. The prince pushing her legs up and back, planted himself deep again, deeper even as he put her in a mating press. Pressing her down by the pelvis into the bed firmly, took hold of her breasts as he resumed where they left off. Throttling his length deep into her core, tip thrusting into the entrance of her womb with a growing force.

The bed creaked and rocked, dealing with the punishment of the two lovers hard at work atop it. Heinrich panting and groaning with effort, let the jostle of it, guide his hands in their work as they kneaded in time with each pass. He was getting close to release, holding back from just letting go just yet, as he wanted to build to the largest nut possible if he was cumming this deep.

Not that Asteri was making it easy for him, with how tightly she was clamping on him. As milk stained the blanket and pillows, Asteri eagerly began replying to Heinrich’s force, pulling back herself when he did, and slamming back into him when he thrust back into her.

Thank goodness Asteri had ample cushion, or else both of them would have substantial bruises. As it were, her tails flailed around Heinrich, one in his face as she let loose moans, gasps, and yips to the entire process. However, even Asteri couldn’t keep this pace up forever, and she managed to let loose to Heinrich: “B-belmes, I… I think I-I’- AH~!... I think I’m gonna-!” She went quiet with concentration. If she was going to cum, it was going to be with him!

“‘Nuff said…”, was all he’d manage before driving himself in as deep as he could reach with a moan filled grunt. Heinrich braced his hands on her wide hips for leverage, helping him make the distance, and push into the entrance of his beloved's womb. “I’m letting go!~ I can’t hold it back anymore.~”, he said before letting his pent up load release in a euphoric burst of his cum, hands squeezing her figure as finally was letting loose at her signal.

As he felt it pump out with each deeply felt throb, leaned over in relaxment, his body settling over her. Burying his face in her chest, let his hands slide up Asteri’s body to hold her close during their shared orgasm. Heinrich was very happy, enthralled in the moment they were sharing together, and wondering how such a sweet woman could be so wild in bed.

Asteri stiffened as she felt him finally release, herself letting go as she felt herself being filled. Her insides tightened yet even more around Heinrich, as if she was milking him for all he was worth. Meanwhile, Asteri herself had thrown her head back and let loose an exuberant cry as she lost herself to the pleasure. A moment passed like this, before Asteri finally began relaxing, and settled back against Heinrich, feeling him wrap his arms around her as she shifted around a bit, never letting him pull out.
She got to the position she wanted whereupon she grabbed his face with both hands and kissed him. “That was wonderful, Belmes.” She had a glint in her eyes. “I’m so glad that we have the entire day together~!” At that, she returned to kissing Heinrich as she collapsed on him, her body already moving up and down…

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It seemed to go on for some time, all day plans seemingly forgotten as the two simply flipped in their bedroom activities. By the time they were both just done, Heinrich barely had the energy in his muscles to even turn his head to look at the clock. Being too tired to be even surprised at this point, it was well past the afternoon now. A small weak chuckle was given, as he thought about the fact that he hadn’t gone this long with anyone since Gale. If women with this level of stamina continued to enter his life, the prince may in fact hit and early grave with such sexual ferocity as theirs.

With more effort, he looked down at the sleeping kitsune laying against him, head on his chest. Her still wild hair from their activities, brought a smile to his face as he cleared some of it out of her face. Kissing the top of Asteri’s head with the stroke of her hair, laid back again to accept sleep, his body protesting for nothing else but rest. Dinner would have to wait along with her DEF shopping, as the two simply slept for the rest of the day.