Ria woke up.
She found herself wrapped between wool blankets. The familiar scent of her knight's sweat surrounded her.
It took her three attempts before she was able to push off the heavy blanket.
As the air touched her bare skin, she found herself quite sweaty. It was quite hot inside the blanket. But the blanket itself was not much thicker than the one she would have had in her bedroom at this time of the year.
The temperature at the lower floors of the fortress seemed to be warmer than elsewhere. It is like this all year round according to the locals.
"Are you alright?" A gentle, booming mid pitched voice came from above.
She turned her head and saw Hikari standing straight, towering over her, the silver hair at the top of her head nearly touching the ceiling.
The giantess was fully dressed. White shirt, black skirt, white knee socks. They were brand new, showing a simple consistent texture. Slightly baggy as always to reduce the likelihood of tearing.
A pair of posh black shoes that seemed to be made of repurposed wyvern skin.
It was not always the case when she was fully covered from neck down to her feet, leaving only a slither of flesh exposed between the edge of her skirt and the top of her knee socks.
Using both arms as a support, Ria managed to drag her legs out of the wool blanket. Slowly, she got up, wobbling as her head still felt rather dizzy.
She walked towards Hikari with uneven steps.
"Ugh.. What happened?"
"Mana poisoning."
"Mana poisoning? Oh, right. You have been absorbing loads of mana out there in the wyvern peaks. I guess my mana tolerance just isn't up to scratch yet."
Ria lost her balance and fell to the side. Hikari slid her shoe forward, catching her, allowing her to sit on her socks.
Badum! Badum! Pulses of the giantess's heartbeat shook her as her bare skin touched the cotton surface atop the socks. It felt warm, like sitting on a stove.
"Deep breaths"
Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Breath out. Ria locked her fingers and stretched.
She feels better now. The mana poisoning had felt as though all of her arteries were blocked.
"I'm fine, It's not too serious."
Ria got up from sitting on the shoe that was the size of a donkey and looked up.
She blushed. Hikari had opened her stride above her, allowing her a full view of under her skirt.
Badum. Badum. Images from earlier flashed across Ria's mind.
The musty smell. The thrill of pleasuring a being many times more powerful than her.
Hikari closed up her legs, placing her feet in a sword stance. One foot pointing out, the other placed behind the first, pointing outwards diagonally.
"This dress is nice."
Ria slaps both her cheek, as though trying to beat the shades of red from her face.
"It is. Herdial is the main supplier of textiles in the region. Since the wyverns stopped raiding the trade routes to RazenHeir territory, the weavers have ramped up their production again."
Hikari turned from side to side, lifting her foot backwards and resting it on the tip of her toe. Her mass of untied hair swung behind her as she bent her head over to check her outfit.
"What's our schedule?"
"None. The rescue expedition has been cancelled now that you're back. The wyvern raid had long been concluded officially."
Using both hands, Hikari rounded up the messy hair draping over her chest, pressing them together into one large ponytail.
Holding up her hair with one hand, she flicked her fingers, telekinetically lifting up the bundle of thick tungsten wires that her Lady had prepared for her.
Clean. Neat. She had the appearance of a dignified noble woman.
Her hair was rough as it would have required the shampoo stock of a whole tavern to smoothen the amount of hair that she does. But it took little away from her perfection and only strengthened the image of her as a strong, steward knight.
"I should get dressed now. Fort Escher is not just a military base, it's also a major center of commerce. There's much to explore around here and we have a rare chance to spend time together like this."
Ria turned around and walked towards her clothes that were placed together in as neat a pile as a giantess's fingers could manage.
Click! Ria flinched. She stops in her tracks. It took less than a second for her mind to register the sound of snapping fingers.
She immediately turned back round and dove towards Hikari's shoe, placing her forehead on the cold stone ground right in front of the tip of the shoe. Her palms resting on either side of her head.
"We have some time together huh?"
"Yes… shivers* … we have time… now-"
Tap! Hikari taps the shoe she placed diagonally behind the first where Ria was.
A gust of wind along the ground briefly lifted the red hair right in front of the shoe.
"Shut up. Did my lady forget how to properly respond?"
Ria flinched for a moment. She lifted her forehead an inch off the ground, holding her hands up above her head, palms facing Hikari's leg, before resting them back down.
She bowed. And she bowed again.
"Hrmp. I almost thought my lady had forgotten. In anycase, thank me for the refresher."
Ria lifted her head and bowed. She bowed. She bowed.
"Deeper. More passion. Tsk. Tsk. Looks like My Lady is out of touch."
Ria lifted her head, paused for a moment before placing it back down, making sure to push it into the ground. She lifted her head, paused, and back down.
In between bows, she shifted herself just a tiny bit closer to the huge shoe right in front of her. She wasn't sure how much the subtle changes in her movements would be noticed, but a brief giggle from above was oddly reassuring.
"Continue~. That's more like it. "
Ria bows. Ria bows.
Click! The sound of fingers snapping causing her to freeze in place.
Tap! Tap! The giantess tapping her shoes felt like siege engines marching past her. Each tap has enough force to crush her bones to pieces.
"Do I have to spell it out? Greet me. My lady really needs some training."
The puckering sound of Ria's lips on the tip of her shoe. It tasted just like her boots as it was made from the recycled wyvern skin from her old boots that had gotten too small for her.
Thoroughly scrubbed clean of mud and other stains before assembled into a new pair of new shoes. Ria had personally supervised the process.
"These shoes are lovely. Thank you, my lady. Is my Lady enjoying them too?"
"Mmm…..!" Ria groaned. She bit her lips on the shoe as the rest of her body thrashed around. Her hand rubbed against her thigh briefly before she snapped back, forcing it back to rubbing Hikari's shoe.
Click!
"Down."
Ria shifted her body back, allowing her head room to bow back down onto the ground, the hair on the top of her head touching the wyvern skin.
Click!
"Greet me again."
Within a second, Ria's lips tasted wyvern skin again.
"Good~. My Lady's movements are sharp again. She hasn't forgotten my training~"
Click!
Ria bowed back down.
"Hehe~" A round of giggles came from above. Ria could feel the ground shake from just the movement of the giantess's vocals.
Carefully, Hikari shifted her shoe back from Ria before sliding it to the side of her. She moved her other shoe outwards to the other side before sliding it in, pincering her lady between her shoes.
She pushed her bottoms back, allowing her to bend forward to see her lady in her prostrating position between her shoes. She looked tiny enough to be stuffed into her shoe with plenty of space left over.
"Hehe~"
Hikari giggles. She felt so big. She was big. Her lady seemed to have gotten tinier before her.
Click!
"up."
Ria sprung up onto her hands and knees. She was shivering at the thought of having a massive tower of muscle hovering directly above her.
"Crawl back in front of me."
Ria began crawling forward to the back of Hikari. There wasn't enough room between the shoes to turn around. She made her way around Hikari's right shoe, prostrating herself before the tips of her shoes again.
"My lady knows that I have gotten bigger doesn't she?"
Ria bows.
"Bigger, more powerful."
Ria bows.
"But my lady has not kept up with me."
Ria bows.
"Does my lady know why she only gets my shoes and my socks?"
Ria bows.
"Because my lady is too weak. The mana from my bare skin would suffocate my Lady."
Ria bows.
"In other words. My lady is unworthy of anything but my shoes and socks."
Ria froze in place as the humiliating words kept piling on. After a pause, she laboriously managed another bow.
Click!
"Up."
Ria got back up on her hands and knees.
"Turn to the right."
Ria turned facing the wall where a pile of dark green cavern caterpillar skin was.
The air around her stirred as Hikari channeled mana into her arm. The pieces of caterpillar skin began floating off the ground, suspending in midair in a mess and then magically fall into place, taking the shape of a boot.
Despite seeing Hikari assemble her outfit telekinetically many times, it never ceases to amaze her. And it makes her wet.
"Crawl to my boots."
Ria began moving her arms and legs.
"Faster"
Ria crawled. She could hear the ground rumbling from the giantess's footsteps behind her.
She stopped just before the warding barrier, a full body length away from the boot tip.
"Back to me."
Ria turned around and saw Hikari leaning against the wall on the opposite end.
She crawled, reaching her shoes and prostrating.
Click!
"Kiss my shoes, you have a lot of catch up to do."
The puckering sound of her lips.
"Another round."
Round after round. It was only a short distance about twice the length of her room.
"Faster."
Ria picked up the pace more. Back and forth she went between Hikari's shoes and her boots on the other end.
"Oh? Looks like my lady has been training on her own. Good~"
As Ria reached Hikari' shoe, the giantess had slid one of her feet out of her shoe, mischievously tilting her toes up, showing her lady the thick grey bottom of her sock.
"Does my lady want my sock bottoms? My lady was good enough for them before, but I'm not sure anymore."
Ria bows. Ria bows.
"Crawl. Begging won't earn you my socks. My lady has to be worthy of them."
Another round back from her boots. Ria kissed the tip of the tip. At the corner of her eye, she could see Hikari rubbing her sock against her calves, wriggling her toes as if teasing her.
"My lady wants to see me become the greatest knight doesn't she?"
Smooch. Smooch the puckering sound on her shoe.
"I have become greater now. But my lady hasn't kept up with my sock bottoms"
Smooch. Smooch. Crawling*
"Faster. Faster. Harder. Does my lady want my sock bottoms or not?"
Smooch. Smooch. Crawl. Smooch Smooch. Crawl. Crawl.
Ria held out well, but her arms were starting to ache.
"Is my lady getting turned on? Bad lady. After failing to pleasure me, my lady should focus on training."
Smooch. Smooch. Crawl. Smooch Smooch. Crawl. Crawl.
Ria was starting to feel dizzy from spinning round and round. Her pleasure had built up to the point of eroding all of her reasons.
"Hehe~. My lady is doing well. I think I will let my lady have her moment."
Smooch. Smooch. Crawl. Smooch Smooch. Crawl. Crawl.
Another round. The sound of rough sock material rubbing against cotton.
"Stop."
Ria reached Hikari's shoe.
Thud. Hikari arched her socked foot, the bore touching the ground in front of the shoe, the arches resting on the shoe tip.
Ria tilted her head back and glanced at Hikari's expression. The smile at the corner of her mouth is a signal of approval.
Her lips tasted cotton.