426 426 Naps
Once Cassie and Ella got Wolfe down to their room, it was time for them to have a real proper talk. At least in Cassie’s mind it was.
“Do you have any idea what it does to my brain when the two of you are together? I swear, I nearly passed out because I came so hard when you two got started one night. I was in the swimming pool, trying to work out the strangely aroused state that I couldn’t seem to shake, and then boom. You two were at it, and it was resonating through our bond.” Cassie complained.
“Well, there are worse ways to end a day.” Ella shrugged.
“I could have drowned. In fact, I nearly did, but Ember was there to pull me back to the shallow end of the pool.”
“Alright, I admit that we should have taken a moment to make sure that you weren’t doing something that should have been unsafe, but it was later at night, and unless you were out partying, there weren’t many things that you could have been doing that would have resulted in serious injuries. We did make sure that you weren’t using magic first, so you weren’t flying or anything.” Wolfe conceded.
“And after that, what did you do? You kept going until the sun came up.” Cassie berated him.
“Wait, I can make it up to you.” Wolfe pleaded.
“Oh really?”
Wolfe winked at Ella, who grabbed Cassie from behind and pulled her backward onto the bed.
“We’re pretty sure that it’s going to be even better once we’re all in the same room. Now get those clothes off, and let’s get this party started.” Ella whispered.
Cassie only hesitated for a second before her armour spell was dispelled, and she was splayed out on her back with Ella wrapped around her.
Wolfe dismissed his armour, then double-checked the door and made sure it was closed with the soundproofing spell active. No need to make the same mistake twice in a row.
They were just about to go for a third time when Priya’s head popped in the door.
“It’s time for dinner, and your guests are expecting you. You should probably shower first, though. Then maybe run a cleaning spell over this room because damn girl.” She laughed.
“Fine, we are coming right up.” Wolfe agreed before activating the cleaning spell on the room and getting up to grab a towel.
“We will have to make it a quick shower, but there is still time to make it to the tower if we fly.”
Priya closed the door behind her and went to inform everyone else that Wolfe and the others would be late. Most of the locals would understand, and likely the new witches as well, but she wasn’t sure how much Christa and Sophie knew.
Priya knew that Justine had been travelling with them for a while, as she recalled hearing the radio messages about Wolfe attacking a city, and they were said to have met at an auction house, but she hadn’t had time to learn the rest of the story.
When the trio made it up for dinner, it was clear that they were late and everyone had been waiting on them, but dinner was still being served for a few more hours, so they hadn’t messed up the entire schedule.
“Sorry about that. We had an important matter to discuss.” Wolfe greeted the room as he sat down.
Priya laughed. “I see that by the unstyled wet hair you all chose for dinner fashion. I like that you chose to match.
Justine and Christa have taken the time to explain almost everything to us while we waited, but Sophie just made it here. It seems that she wasn’t informed that Stephanie has a lousy sense of time before she lay down for a nap.”
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm Stephanie looked supremely unconcerned. She would wake up when the food was brought. She always did. They didn’t really need to be at the dining hall before the food, no matter what the schedule was.
“How did everyone like the tour? Did you get to see the whole village?” Wolfe asked as the initial joking settled down.
Sophie shook her head. “I found a room and had a nap with Stephanie. We will check out the rest of the town after dinner.”
Christa was practically vibrating with energy at this point and couldn’t hold in her excitement anymore when she heard that Sophie hadn’t taken the full tour.
“You have to see it all. It’s freaking amazing. They have everything, literally everything. They’ve even got solid crystal tabletops in the dining rooms and a massive library with so many random titles. The Academy Library is all books for learning, but they’ve got fantasy and romance and everything here.”
Wolfe resisted the urge to point out that she was sitting at a table with a false crystal top, the same as the one in the cafeteria downstairs, just smaller. Forest Grove was enough to overwhelm anyone, and Christa knew enough about magic to know what was commonplace and what was exceptional, even for the upper crust of the Morgana Coven Witches.
The others hadn’t seen anything so elaborate in their lives, so they had no frame of reference for what was unusual and what was just way cooler than what they had seen growing up.
One of the witches on kitchen duty brought them over their plates while smirking at Cassie and Ella’s still-damp hair.
“Would you like a hairstyle charm?” She asked innocently as she stopped next to them with the cart.
“No need. We’re just going to mess it up again after dinner.” Wolfe told the Witch with a wink.
For a second, the young woman looked scandalized, then she began to laugh.
“I had forgotten how much fun you have being bluntly honest with us. It’s good to have you back, Mister Wolfe. I’m sure you’ve heard how many projects the Witches have come up with that need your unique help with inscriptions that they can’t manage.
But I will let you all get to your dinner. Have a great evening, and I’ll see Priya tomorrow on the training grounds.”
The Witch walked away with the empty cart, and Christa turned to Priya.
“The training grounds? Are you both still students? I thought that you were older.” She asked.
“I am older. I teach combat classes on the main concourse every afternoon. It keeps the guardians in top shape and gives the Witches who want close combat training somewhere to gather and work on their skills.
But for Miss Sophie and perhaps Justine, there is a choice. The Fae recognize White Witches as separate from the rest. So if you never cast an aggressive spell, not even in training, the Fae will look on you more favourably.
You should likely be aware of that since you haven’t started training yet. Depending on your choice, you can either have well-rounded skills or the favour of the Fae, but you need to know so that you can make the choice before it’s too late. It will limit your magic quite a bit, but for daily life, it isn’t really a big deal.”
Christa looked shocked to the core.
“Who told you that?” She asked.
“The Fae. Or more particularly, one of the Faeries, confirmed by Headmistress Peach’s Nymph. It’s verifiably true. The Fae can sense a change in the aura when you use magic to harm others. So, we have a second path for them here, where our youngest students can choose a second path which might suit them better.” Priya explained.
“Well, isn’t that something? My mother always insisted that it was the way that Witches were supposed to be before the Magi became too dangerous to ignore and the humans betrayed the Covens.” Christa sighed.