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After a few days he started to look a lot less emaciated which seemed really fast to me. This is a magical world so I try not to over think it and just be thankful that he is healthier. Again as Liz used to say "It is in the script" if this life were a story. He likes getting underneath the covers with me and Ash. Also Vi, when she shares my bed as well. The way he can disappear while underneath the comforter into the shadow of the comforter when someone we don't trust comes in is really cool. Our little disappearing act. After those few days we were finished with healing wildlife in the surrounding area being fair to all the life and races with magic in the area awakening everyone's magic. I wake up in the morning after finishing healing wildlife and Vi isn't in here yet so I do a workout. Ash is still sleeping and Sid used the shadows to get up without disturbing Ash and watch me workout.
Once I finish Nat arrives with food and lots of it knowing since I have awakened my magic I eat a lot now. She didn't take any time getting used to our new arrival. She was smitten with Sid immediately. Sid spins a few times when Nat arrives, excited his friend that pets and feeds him is back. The wheels of the cart spinning summoned Ash out of his slumber and he zoomed to the table awaiting his tiny saucer of food. Nat has them trained well. I giggle to myself and we all chow down. Vi still isn't here yet I use purify on myself to clean myself and I clean the workout clothes I was wearing as well.
I go ahead and change while Nat is cleaning up plates and throw on my goddess garb concubine outfit. No need for modesty around Nat since she has seen me naked second most in this castle. Under Vi. Well third, if you count Ash since Ash sees me naked more than both of them, but we are talking humans at the moment. As I am changing I think about how I love this purify spell so much. My chest burns hot with my love for my magic. I feel with all of the magic I have used since being here I can now do more with my magic as if I leveled up or something if this were a game. I feel like I can make shapes out of light that I can freely choose. I feel all the possibilities in my head, bo staff, katana, kamas, knives, and I can even summon a kusarigama which I haven't even used before in real life. I only used a kusarigama in Ninja Gaiden on the XBOX, so I would never actually summon one because of that. If I did, I would definitely cut off a limb off my own body using it from mere inexperience. I feel the imagination allowing me to even make an energy sword like from Halo or a lightsaber from Star Wars. I feel so many different possibilities. I just have to have a clear minds-eye of what I am trying to create. I haven't used it yet but it is nice to know I have the ability if I need it. I want to test it out later if possible.
My favorite weapon when I did martial arts was a bo staff so that will probably be my go to. I can also see myself using finger guns with magical light bullets emitting from my fingers. I feel all of these possibilities almost as if a game menu were in front of my face and I could actually see them but within myself like an innate understanding of myself. When I think of 'if' I can do something my magical ability basically answers the question for me for the most part. I am sure everyone else is the same way, an innate understanding of what they can and cannot do with their abilities. I guess they just have to have the imagination to ask the right questions to themselves. Like those mini 'super saiyans' I was enjoying watching them have fun in the street with their imaginative earth magic. Such free magical expression and it was beautiful.
After I finish getting dressed I am full on Iron Man mode because of thinking of all the possibilities and my sheer excitement of what I can do now and love for my own abilities. Nat looks up, "I still think it is really cool how your core does that." as she looks in continued fascination. I touch my chest and say, "It reminds me of a superhero from my first life. They were fictional of course but his chest lit up like this too." Nat says, wearing a beautiful smile that warms my heart, "Well, you are our superhero and you are very real." She says still wearing that warm smile as she wipes off the now clear table. I think about it. I have done some hero things since being here but I don't know about me being a superhero. Everyone here uses magic and has special abilities. I say embracing reality, "I am just another person with magic just like you." Nat shakes her head, "That is so not true. It wasn't anyone else that healed everyone or fixed the main source of the epidemic. No one but you. YOU are our hero. You saved our capital city of Lilia. You are MY hero. My family would not be alive right now if it wasn't for you. I am very thankful." She sheds a tear at the thought and quickly wipes it away.
I then say while feeling my core, "Well, I couldn't have done anything without Ash, Vi, Sir Stirling, or Sir Brody. If I am a hero, so are they. They took care of me when I pushed myself to the limit. I wouldn't be alive if not for them from magic depletion." Nat still smiling with her eyes shimmering with wet from her previous bad thought while wrapping up cleaning my room, "They sure are. Everyone is abuzz with how amazing Princess Riviera and her concubine Saint Zoe and how amazing the party is." I laugh, "Me, a saint?" I start laughing very hard, "I am no saint. I am a very fallible person that can also feel very unsaintly emotions." Nat shakes her head, "Everyone knows you are a human who is not perfect. They are judging you by your actions and your sacrifice, fully depleting your magic twice for the people. Everyone is in agreement that Saint is the best title for you." I sigh rubbing the back of my neck a little disappointed at my newly appointed title, "I don't like it. I think I would much prefer Priestess or Warrior Priestess since I am fighting for the goddess." Nat smiles, "Oh, I like those too." I sigh again, "One doesn't choose something like this though everyone has already decided it seems." Nat says while shrugging, "What can I say? The people have chosen." I sigh again, then change the topic, "Hey Nat, where is Vi?" Nat replies after she ponders a moment, "I think she may be in the courtyard sparring. If I am not mistaken that is." I perk up at the news of sparring, "Sparring huh? She never did get around to inviting me with all of the craziness that was going on." I clap my hands in excitement, "Let's go watch a sparring match" When we leave the room Nat and Stirling walk adorably hand in hand and I see a warm look on that stoic face of his as he looks at Nat with love.
We get out to the courtyard and I see Vi skating on skates of water with her rapier. As graceful as she was when I first saw her, she is just as graceful now in this moment. The way she moves is like she is dancing even though her opponent looks like they are clearly trying to fight. The way she is moving seems effortless as she dances elegantly that it is almost condescending to her opponent. She also summons walls of water for defense when she can't block with her sword with a fluid motion continuing to appear effortless. Her opponent is using fire magic so they are at a fundamental disadvantage. He shot a fire attack at her and she blocked it with her water shield creating a steam cloud she used to close the distance gracefully with her water skates to catch him unawares in close quarters. Thus winning the match. I start applauding very loudly and let out a celebratory "Woooo! Go Princess Vi!" She looked up and went from her serious yet graceful fighting demeanor to very perky spunky graceful and waved at me.
Then she winked and waved me over to join her, "Hello my beautiful lover." She says as she kisses me grabbing me by my waist and continues, "Would you by chance want to spar with me as well?" I smile and say totally excited with my eyes probably sparkling like Ash's, "I would love to! Though I haven't used any of the abilities I will use with you so I don't have any way of knowing what is too much or not." She shrugs nonchalantly, "We have your healing magic, it should be fine." I shrug as well unsure, "If you say so." We then take some magic buff elixirs that are fast acting and temporary to prevent too much damage being done in this sparring match. Once we are done drinking the elixirs we take our starting positions. She is about 10 paces from me at the start of the duel though there was no official stepping we just guesstimated. I summoned my most familiar weapon, a bo staff and I wanted to start slow and work my way up testing weapons. I did a few practice swings and then spinned it above my head like I used to do in between transitions sometimes when just swinging it around. I would never do this in a combat situation. Not practical in that sense but in this case it does great for testing a bo's balance in motion. The bo staff feels so light yet it has enough weight to it to gain some power in strikes.
After getting a feel for it I get in my ready stance and look to Vi. She asks while holding her sword raising her eyebrow, "Ready?" I nod, "Whenever you are. Please be gentle." I say with a wink. Also being a little serious because this is my first magical fight. I have fought many people on Earth without magic, but this is totally different. Magic completely changes the fight game. I am actually very nervous right now. We start and she starts skating around trying to find openings but I am parrying with my bo staff and flowing with that momentum into counter attacks. When she realized her current strategy was not working she mixed it up and she is using her speed and the skates to gain a distance out of my bo staff reach and shoot water attacks from a distance. I got my bo staff and blocked them. I take this as an opportunity to test my finger guns so I dismiss my bo staff and point my fingers at her shooting light magic bullets at her. She blocked most but one managed to sneak in her defenses and now she is bleeding.
She immediately turns to the worried onlookers, "I am alright." I then say worried myself not intending on wounding her, "Are you sure? I can heal you real quick?" Some of the onlookers like that idea and beg Vi, "Yes, please let her heal you, your highness!" She shakes her head and waves dismissively with her hand not holding her sword, "I will heal after the match is over. I still have more fight in me." she says as she gives a mischievous look at me. I am getting very turned on right now. I really do love a woman who can kick ass. I switch to a halo energy sword I mentally envisioned completely made of my light magic. It is really cool looking if only Bungie Studios/Microsoft saw this sword here they would probably lose their minds since it looks so fucking cool. I am so loving this energy sword. I hear the crowd's awe as they gasp in surprise then chatter in excitement at its magnificence. My chest burns hot and I am full iron man.
Fighting her with this totally awesome sword though I am just simply outmatched here. She is too quick and her skates just outmaneuver me. I put up a great fight, but I end up conceding defeat and Vi takes the victory. I immediately go to her and heal her immediately. She chuckled while catching her breath from our workout, "I really enjoyed that. Those were some interesting weapons and attacks. That sword at the end was very impressive." I laugh while feeling a little bit like a cheat since I plagiarized the idea from Earth, "I actually stole that design from my first life. Since my magic works if I have a clear mental image I just thought of a sword from a game I loved to play and replicated it. I was so happy to see it in action." I start giggling again as my core continues to light.
After our bout I see Prince Julio looking very creepily giving me the heeby jeebies. I heal and purify myself and ask Vi, "Princess, would you like me to use purify on you to clean you up so you don't have to go to the baths?" She pouted slightly, biting her lip in a cute and sexy manner, "Oh and here I thought I was going to be able to go to the baths with you. Though I guess it would be more efficient. Sure why not." I think 'PURIFY' and clean her as well and she says while examining her exposed skin touching it giggling at the results of the purification, "Now THAT is handy. My skin is so soft and perfect now too. That is it. It is settled, I will need you to use that on me everyday." I agree with her and smile at her excitement over my magic feeling my core burn bright, "Your wish is my command, Princess." I say with a light bow, then she pulls me in for a kiss. She pulls me in close and purrs quietly in my ear, "I need you now." When she says that she pulls me through the crowd of knights to the closest unoccupied room.
I slam her with passion against the wall and kiss her. Pinning her like she likes and I drag my fingers slowly up her side while still keeping her pinned kissing her and she moans in my mouth. She says with urgency and her face fully flush with desire, "I need you to take me now" as she removes her trousers and underwear laying on the floor very hot and very ready. Like Liz used to say, just like Little Caesar's pizza. Always hot and ready. It has been a while here in this world and it still feels like yesterday I lost her. The hole in my heart is just as big as when I arrived in this world. I continue to imagine Liz when laying with Vi. Now I am envisioning my wife Liz looking up at me all Hot and Ready and it just makes me so excited. Especially after that foreplay we did out in the courtyard. I LOVE that shit. She was really hot when fighting. I waste no time and dive in and I use my mouth licking around her lower lips teasing her some while she moans in anticipation. I get my fingers and start swirling around the hood of her clit and she moans with pleasure.
I finish teasing her with my tongue and stick my tongue inside her and start going in and out. This tongue on this body is a lot longer than my old body so this move is possible. I couldn't do this in my old body. I curl my tongue to drag it on the sides as I pull back and straighten it back out to pump back into her. She is moaning and yelling with pleasure, "Goddess, yes!" I keep this up and her moans get more intense and more frequent. I start rubbing the hood of her clit faster and tonguing her faster. When I feel she is getting dangerously close to an orgasm I decide to bust out the 'soul snatcher' and remove my tongue from her and latch on her clit and suck. She screamed in ecstasy and came hard almost instantly when I applied suction. Screaming very loud in ecstasy through the length of her orgasm. I kept up the suction and swirling of her hood during the length of her orgasm until she collapsed after she was done.
Her body was now limp and she was breathing very heavily like usual and I came out from between her legs putting my head on her chest. She breathily sighs, "Wow. I needed that. I needed you. I have never needed to have you more than today." she purrs breathily, "my little saint." I groan at her words, "Oh no. Not you too" Vi replies, "What? Do you not like your new title?" I sigh as I wrap my leg around her naked leg, "It isn't that I don't like it. I just would have preferred something like Warrior Priestess or something. I do not feel like much of a saint to be honest." Vi giggles, "Well you can be MY warrior priestess." I purr and bring my face up to kiss hers, "You always know what I need to hear. To be honest I actually was a little anxious over the title. Everyone is holding me to this very high standard when I feel like an average woman that is just going to fall beneath their expectations. The reason I like Warrior Priestess is it takes a lot of that pressure off." Vi replies while stroking my now messy hair from having passionate sex, "To me you are everything but average. I have never once met a woman like you." She then takes her hand from my messy hair and she traces her fingers across my skin warmly smiling at me, "you are always putting the needs of others before yourself at the risk of yourself. I feel like if you are selfless to a fault though, and it worries me. You will push yourself to magic depletion if it means helping others and I am scared one of these days it will mean having to lose you." She says as she starts crying, "I can't imagine a life without you, Zoe." she says as a few tears flow down her face.
She pulls me in for a brief and tender kiss and continues, "From the moment I met you I was immediately intrigued by you and the more I was around you the more I just had to know about you. You are an open book, yet such an enigma. It has been a blast these past several weeks just getting to know you bit by bit. I feel like I am a better and stronger princess all because I have grown as a person from meeting you. Like earth magic users get powerup up and their hair grows out by your power, you also power me up." She pulls me in for another kiss and continues while changing the subject, "So I have been thinking. Thinking about this hard and losing a lot of sleep over this decision. I am going to abdicate the throne and renounce my royal status when you leave and I will join you on your mission." I gasp from the shock of the news, "That is a huge deal. What are your parents going to say about this?" I say genuinely concerned because of her position as the crown princess.
Vi sighs while reaching for my hand, "Mother definitely won't like it, but father will probably let me go if I told him I was going with you to do the goddess's work. I am going to have a sit down with my father soon and talk with him about it. I just don't feel like now is a good time." I reply, stroking the exposed skin on her arms, "I understand. While you are mustering up the courage we can go around Hedia to the different settlements to awaken their unawakened populations." Vi says with a soft smile, "That sounds perfect." I then continue with laying out future plans, "Then after you muster up the courage we can take a holiday to Pacifica and get Sid his enchanted tattoo and awaken their unawakened population there. We can try to see since their population isn't sick if they can meet us instead to make it faster and more efficient. We will have to talk with their leadership first to organize something like that though." Vi replies, "That sounds amazing, actually. That is exactly the kind of thing I want to be a part of."
She kisses me again and says after groaning in frustration from not wanting to get up, "I probably should be getting back to my duties. You can take it easy today, you have earned it. Oh, if you decide to go into town here is some spending money. You have more than earned it. You actually deserve a lot more, but that is all I have on my person at the moment." She says as she hands me her money pouch. I sigh, "Well I guess I can do that, and since I have no idea what to do I might just go into town. Oh! I can go clothes shopping. I can get more clothes besides this goddess garb I was summoned here with." Vi groans and sucks her teeth in disappointment, "Oh by the Goddess! I hate to be missing out on that. I would love to be there while you try on clothes. Whatever you buy you must wear for me." She comes in for one more kiss, "Alright, let me get up before we stay in here all day."
She gets up and throws her underwear and trousers back on and finger combs her hair to help remove some of the sex hair. She helps me up and she gives me yet another kiss, "Sorry, I am greedy. Have to keep getting more of your sweet kisses." Vi says then finally she groans and leaves, "I will be missing you all day, Zoe." reaching out to me as she says it and walks out the room.
Before I can leave as I am dusting off my garb with my hands and finger combing my 'sex hair' to fix it, Prince Julio comes in and I instinctively back away and he chuckles, "Now that is an interesting reaction. Why must you avoid me so? Don't think I haven't noticed. Did I do something to offend you by chance?" I shake my head while still retreating, "You did try to force yourself on me at one time. So yes, yes you did. I am Princess Vi's concubine and only she can touch me." He laughs while peering at me with those creepy eyes, "Only she can huh? What was that fling with my mother then? Huh?" My stomach is in knots and I ran out of room to back up into as he continues to close the distance. I say after a shaky and fearful breath, "I was only following Princess Vi's orders. Once she said I was hers and hers alone then I haven't laid with the queen since." He continues prowling closer cornering me like I am his prey. I whistle loudly hoping Sid could hear it and alert Sir Stirling, Sir Brody and or Ash and guide them to me. Or maybe they can hear it themselves. Hopefully someone heard it. The training courtyard was pretty loud with all of the sparring matches still going on that they probably haven't heard a thing to include Vi and her screams of ecstasy from earlier. He laughs, "What was that for?" I reply with venomous words, "Tsk. None of your business." He reaches out to me to grab me and remembering Vi's blessing to defend myself so I parry his hands and grab his torso and pull him in to knee him in the groin. When he doubles over in pain, I elbow him in the face and try to make a run for it.
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Something grabs my leg as I am running and I trip and fall. Vines then grab me by all my limbs and I am now spread eagled on the floor immobilized. Bad memories are coming back and I am trying to keep my shit together. I take a deep and very shaky breath and make a knife with light magic and try to cut through these thick vines. I barely make a nick in the vine before my knife vanishes before my eyes and gets absorbed into the vines. I go to scream for help but he gets a vine and stuffs it in my mouth like a gag. He isn't getting a power up but it is healing his wounds. I can see his face returning to normal and he is laughing, "I was really curious about you at first, but since you awakened I have had a hard time trying to get you alone. Those damn knights are always by your side but not today it seems. Lucky me. I just couldn't pass up a golden opportunity to play with you like this." He now ripped my top exposing my breasts and he also ripped my loincloth. I am struggling against the vines with all my might. It seems like the more I squirm and fight the tighter the vines become. The pain from the tightness doesn't bother me as much as what is about to happen. I am fighting with every fiber of my being. Please oh goddess. Please help me.
He then says starting a villainous monologue, "I read an interesting thing when researching the feeling I feel around you in the forbidden library. Apparently earth magic users can obtain a permanent power up through a process called Photosynthesis. They obtain this by feeding off of the despair and tightening of a light magic user. When I read that I was filled with immense joy. I happen to be very good at eliciting despair from women. It brings me so much pleasure and my core burns bright. When I heard I could gain so much more power from doing something I loved I could hardly contain myself. I just had to have you even more. Photosynthesis became forbidden when the goddess realized that Earth magic users were using it for hate not love like she intended. She wanted us to wait for a light magic user to experience despair then help. That is fucking stupid. Why wait when I can make you despair by force and right here and now. Downside through taking photosynthesis by force is that it forcefully drains the light magic user's power. So sorry that you might not survive this to see me ascend to greatness." He says as he is removing his clothes coming closer to me wearing a dark expression. He grabs my breasts so hard it hurts. I start to cry realizing what is about to happen and that help didn't seem to be coming.
That was until the glass on one of the window panes broke and Ash flew in slicing the vines with his magic and Sid appeared from his shadow and lunged to Prince Julio's leg and latched on tight. Prince Julio screams in pain, "Where did this rat and dog come from?! Why can they use magic?! Is this what that whistle was for?! You little bitch, I will get the power I deserve! This is not over, come back here!" I got up and ran out of the room not caring that I was naked I had to get out of there.
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Sir Stirling and Sir Brody found me first and I collapsed when I saw them and I started trembling. Sir Brody ran somewhere real quick and returned with a sheet and wrapped me up and picked me up and took me back to my room. Vi was there not long after she heard something happened. She sat down on the edge of the bed, "Can you tell me what happened? You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." I shake my head and take a shaky breath trying to summon the courage to say what just happened, "If it is you, it is fine, Vi." I proceed to tell her the whole story about her brother, photosynthesis, and how Sid and Ash rescued me.
I then continue crying from the fear and adrenaline still present in my system, "Now the person that we didn't want to know knows about Sid and Ash we might as well just 'come out' with them to everyone. It will be safer to be able to have them with me at all times. Can we have a talk with your father about them?" Vi nods as she strokes my hair, "Ok sounds good. I will get it set up. I am so sorry. That must have been so terrifying. If only I was more vigilant. Where was Stirling and Brody?" I reply after thinking back on today's event's, "They were there during the match but I don't know what happened afterwards. We went straight into the room quickly so they may have lost track of us through the crowd of knight onlookers during our match."
She sheds a few tears and says, "Ash and Sid are to never leave your side again. I will talk with my father and I will bring him here to meet with Ash and Sid so you don't have to go out there." Vi realizing I am still naked goes to my armoire and gets some of my workout clothes and brings them back to the bed, "Here lift up your arms." She says as I do. She slides the shirt on and slides some of the workout trousers I have. She continues after wiping the wetness from her face, "I can't have you completely naked meeting the king can I? You are mine after all." She says with a wink and bends down to kiss me on the forehead, "and don't you worry about explaining the situation with my brother to him. I will talk to him about that for you. You have already been through enough."
She then leaves and it is just me, Ash and Sid. I start sobbing uncontrollably, probably ugly crying if I could see myself. Though knowing the goddess, she probably made me unable to ugly cry as with everything else which I am particularly not appreciating after today's events, "Thank you two, so much. You saved me." Just the mere thought as to what was about to transpire made me filled with immense fear making my heart beat fast again. I hug both of them, "I am so lucky to have you both." I stay here crying with them a while while they are comforting me by cuddling me. Ash says with his ears bent backwards in worry for me, "We are lucky to have you. We had no one before you." Sid nods in agreement. I reply after attempting to wipe my tears, "Well as long as I am here I promise you will never be alone." I bend down to kiss both of them on the top of the head then continue to cuddle with them.
We stayed like that for a long time. Until my tears stopped. Then next thing I knew there was a knock at the door and Vi and her father, King Juan, entered along with a few of his guards for protective measure. His majesty then says, "I hear we have some additional guests I need to meet?" I nod wiping the wetness from my eyes from the tears that were once there but no longer present, "Yes, your highness." I lifted up the comforter and Ash pokes his head out and Sid comes out and sits on the side of the bed right beside me. I then introduce them officially, "This little guy here is Ash. He is very proficient at wind magic. The big one is Sid. He wields dark magic. Both of these guys are my family. I hope I didn't bring any offense by sneaking them in here, your highness." I gave a slight bow while seated in the bed. He shakes his head, "Everything is fine." He looks around examining the place, "I was expecting a pig-sty in here after being told animals were in here but it appears to be one of the cleanest rooms if not the cleanest room in the castle upon inspection. The walls definitely pop more than they did with more color. I don't know how you did that with these high ceilings."
I reply feeling proud of my magic which helps elevate my mood since my feeling makes me giggly and I respond with a faint smile, "It isn't a big deal with my magic. Just a few purify spells and this place is immaculate with not a speck of dirt. It is probably my favorite spell. I definitely use it a lot." King Juan then says, "Ok enough idle chit chat to be honest I couldn't care less if you have animals in here, the main reason I came here was to get you to heal Julio. Sid here really ripped apart his leg." I go pale. If I do this he is probably going to use the power up from the 'heal' to do very bad things.
I take a shaky breath as my giddy mood from feeling proud of my magic disappeared suddenly and fear immediately replaced it, "Y-y-your highness, I am not sure that is a good idea." He then says confused, "Why not? You will just be cleaning up your own mess." I take a staggered breath trying to find courage, "This all started because he wanted to take my power. If I heal him, he will kill me, your highness. Please reconsider." He shakes his head, "He is following the creed of his magic feelings. There is nothing I can do to stop that." My stomach is in knots. I don't like this. I don't like this one bit.
Then before I could say anything to object to the absurdity of his words, Prince Julio limped in with the help of one of his retainers who appears to be really afraid of him, understandably so. He is wearing the most disgusting smirk on his face almost as if he was the one to ask I heal him knowing it would power him up temporarily. I try not to show him my fear since this sicko gets off on it. Knowing I have no say in the matter and I don't have any ethical medical reason besides my own safety to refuse his treatment. I start sweating profusely in fear as I place my very shaky hand fearfully on his thigh where the bandages were at and I think intently 'HEAL'. Prince Julio starts evil chuckling as his hair starts to wiggle and glow. "This is just what I expected and more." He says as he continues to chuckle. He turns to his father, "Don't worry father, I won't do anything right now to her. Like you asked." King Juan then says, "Good. Now that everyone is good, let us give Zoe some privacy." He says while waving everyone out. Vi stayed behind and sat on the bed next to me wearing a very worried expression and squeezing my leg supportively, "I am so sorry. I tried my best to get him to not make you heal him knowing it would power him up. My efforts were in vain because of my father and his traditionalist view. I am going to double security tonight because I don't trust that piece of shit brother of mine at all."
I reply thinking tonight might be my last opportunity for this, "Speaking of tonight, do you want to visit the goddess finally? We never got a chance to do it when everything started happening. That and while we are asleep she can let us know if something is wrong. The first time I visited her here she was able to tell me Nat was in the room with me while I was sleeping. Letting me know it was time to wake up. It will probably be safest with the goddess. That and if this really is the last night I am alive, I would really like for you to experience being with the goddess at least once." Vi looks at me sadly and tenderly and starts stroking my face, "Please don't talk like that. There will be plenty of nights to visit the goddess…Though you may be right. It may be safer if she can alert us if something is wrong. Please don't talk like you are going to leave me, I can't bear it." She says as a tear leaves her cheek and continues, "I will not leave your side at all tonight." She climbs in bed and wraps her arms around me. I bask in the safety that being in her arms makes me feel. We stay there for a few hours and it is getting close to bedtime. I touch her and think 'HEAL' knowing it will also wrap her core with light from remembering how it feels when healing people this should work. Vi then asks as she examines herself, "Was that your heal spell? I feel all nice and warm inside like before."
I reply while wiping some of her hair out of her face, "Yea, it should wrap your soul in light magic for a brief time allowing us to soul travel. If my gut feeling is right. I just have this feeling that this will work." Vi replies touching where my iron man chest usually lights up, "Remember, magic is all about the feeling. Trust your gut." I nod my head, "Yea, you're right. So far I have completely felt at home with my magic. Now, even though I have only lived with it a short while. I don't know if I can live without it now. I love it so much. You guys that were born in this world must feel even more strongly than I do." Vi shakes her head, "Just because we feel differently doesn't mean it is necessarily stronger. We have just had different experiences. It doesn't make your feelings any less valid." She says as she strokes her fingertips gently across my arms. I sigh, "I guess you are right." I look up and say while looking at the very ornate ceiling, "Goddess, can we talk tonight?" Vi giggles at me, "I think it is a little funny sometimes how you talk to the goddess. Anybody who didn't know better might think you were crazy." She continues to giggle. I lightly chuckle, "I already know. I do try to not talk too much to her when around other people besides our close group of friends for that same reason. It will be hard to complete this mission if people think I am crazy and unhinged." She kisses my shoulder and continues to drag her fingers across my arms, "Good night, my 'crazy' lover." I grab her hand and hold it close, and we drift off to sleep together.