(2:57:00 AM) Earthflame: Luca seems very much at home, taking the time to tidy and organize the room that is to be their basecamp for investigating the mines. Packs have been deposited, carefully unpacked and made use of, as the maid dusts, cleans, polishes and generally makes it homelike. She's still wearing the rather provocative leather outfit, and lets out a surprised little moan as her new bust rubs
(2:57:00 AM) Earthflame: against something as she moves. "Damn it all..."
(2:57:44 AM) ***Ashryn_Ironleaf snickers from on top of the desk where he's reading the journal.
(2:58:38 AM) Earthflame: Luca pouts over at her, brushing her long blonde hair over her ear. "It's all well and good to laugh, Mistress, but... Don't you think this is all a bit strange?" Luca looks down to herself. "I know we have bigger things to worry about, but... Well, it's still confusing to me..."
(3:00:32 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Being a woman? Oh yes, it sounds terrifying~" She grins.
(3:01:21 AM) Earthflame: "Well, I don't have nearly as much experience!" Luca crosses her arms under her chest, looking to Ashryn. "...I mean, aside from everything I did before, but... This isn't the same!"
(3:04:12 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Oh? You worried about what that orcish boy might think about you?~"
(3:06:00 AM) Earthflame: "S-sevrak? Why would he think..." She bites her lip again. "I mean, that isn't the current issue! Unless you're aware of some common phenomena that causes young men to turn into girls?" She raises a hand, holding the chalice again, pouting at it. "...It must be something to do with those fae..."
(3:07:55 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Hmm...not completely and not suddenly. Given a few months and 'Mostly?"
(3:09:09 AM) Earthflame: "...Oh?"
(3:16:40 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Oh, I know some drugs that will make someone more feminine over months. Promote correct body growth and such..." She shrugs.
(3:17:11 AM) Earthflame: "...You never gave those to me, did you?"
(3:21:00 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "What do you think?" She grins at him.
(3:21:21 AM) Earthflame: He pauses, biting his lip. "...You probably thought I didn't need them."
(3:23:24 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Exactly! Gold star!" She nods
(3:24:09 AM) Earthflame: She can't help but smile and chuckle at that. "After knowing you so closely for five years, I think I've gotten a good impression of how you think, Mistress."
(3:24:56 AM) ***Ashryn_Ironleaf tilts her head at the maid. "Oh?~"
(3:25:49 AM) Earthflame: "A good servant is able to predict their Mistresses desires, acting to fulfill them before being asked, and sometimes before it's even considered."
(3:44:42 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "And how do you think I think?~" She smirks.
(3:45:57 AM) Earthflame: "An unusual combination of playfulness and genius. You are quite brilliant, Lady Ashryn, and yet you apply just as much thought to entertaining yourself as to your latest innvation." Luca smiles at her. "It's all I can do to keep up."
(3:46:42 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Interesting theory...not entirely correct but interesting~"
(3:47:35 AM) Earthflame: "...Oh? What about it is inaccurate, Mistress?"
(3:48:42 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Several parts~" She smirks, leaning back on the desk. Posing a bit.
(3:49:23 AM) Earthflame: Luca can't help but look at her, biting her lip a little. "...Well, I should probably have mentioned your beauty..."
(3:50:18 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Perhaps~" She poses a bit more...
(3:51:30 AM) Earthflame: "...Could it be that you put More thought into entertaining yourself than anything else? You're certainly very inventive when it comes to teasing me..." Luca crosses her arms under her chest again, unconsciously raising and emphasising her bust... Still significantly smaller than Ashryn's~
(3:54:08 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Perhaps...or perhaps not~ Perhaps my thoughts are not limited in such ways~"
(3:54:53 AM) Earthflame: "I'd never assume any limitations on your thoughts, Lady Ashryn... Morality and common sense in particular seem to virtually never restrain you."
(3:55:56 AM) ***Ashryn_Ironleaf pouts at her. "I have an excess of both, thank you!"
(3:56:58 AM) Earthflame: "Having them is not the same as acting on them, Mistress."
(3:57:59 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "When have I ever been unethical?" She frowns at him.
(3:58:28 AM) Earthflame: "I wouldn't call it so much unethical as... Indecent."
(4:01:13 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Decency is not ethics." She shakes her heads. "And you are judging me by human standards."
(4:02:32 AM) Earthflame: "Those are the only standards I'm familiar with." She points out... Before looking down at the chalice in her hands. "But... I'm finding there are many others which are far stranger."
(4:07:11 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Oh yes. Watery tarts?~"
(4:07:49 AM) Earthflame: "Mm, that strange Fae..." Luca nods slowly, pausing and looking contemplative.
(4:08:27 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Oh?~" She stretches, sending her bust jiggling...
(4:10:45 AM) Earthflame: "Just... I wonder what their intentions were. Why they gave me this, what that stone I swallowed was, why I'm now..." She sighs, gesturing to herself again. "...But I know that there's nobody better in the world at figuring such things out than you, Mistress. I have faith in you." Luca offers her smile... Although her eyes still dip to Ashryn's bust~
(4:11:50 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "So you should, for I am like a goddess to you~" She smirks.
(4:12:32 AM) Earthflame: "Does that make me your priestess, as well as your maid?~"
(4:13:04 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Slave, maybe~" The smirk gets wider
(4:13:45 AM) Earthflame: "...Well, it's true I don't actually get paid..."
(4:14:47 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Such is life~"
(4:15:11 AM) Earthflame: "...Then again, I'm not sure we'd actually pay people With these days."
(4:15:32 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "I'm working on that!"
(4:17:05 AM) Earthflame: "I'm not sure teasing is an accepted form of currency, Mistress."
(4:19:20 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "You doubt my genius?~"
(4:21:20 AM) Earthflame: "I don't doubt your genius, but I don't think you could really get people to accept it..."
(4:26:02 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "I'm not basing the economy off teasing~"
(4:26:38 AM) Earthflame: "I could guess, Mistress." She chuckles. "What, then?"
(4:26:54 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Still working on it...still, you'll see~"
(4:27:19 AM) Earthflame: "Am I to be the test subject again?"
(4:30:53 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "For an entire economy? Not likely~" She smirks
(4:31:57 AM) Earthflame: "Oh good. Then it isn't your plan to mass produce me."
(4:41:40 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Why would I do that when I could keep you?~" She laughs musically
(4:42:28 AM) Earthflame: "You did seem to think it was a good idea when you first came up with it..." Luca blushes. "I distinctly recall you coming up with a good number of things you could do with multiple of me... Despite my protestations."
(4:43:06 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Despite your protestations was the fun part!"
(4:43:17 AM) ***Ashryn_Ironleaf pauses, pondering over what she just said. "...anyway, I have plenty of ideas!"
(4:45:10 AM) Earthflame: "As ever, Mistress. What's on your mind at the moment?"
(4:46:43 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Mutant underdwellers, changed by generations of living in a mine."
(4:48:57 AM) Earthflame: "...Generations?"
(4:49:47 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Oh yes, who knows what's happened!"
(4:51:19 AM) Earthflame: "You think they were there before the Arch was sealed?" Luca frowns, confused.
(4:54:34 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Humans do live tragically short, brutish lives~"
(4:56:18 AM) Earthflame: "...It was only Five years, Mistress. I know you lose track of time, but..."
(4:59:41 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "That's enough for what...two, three generations?~"
(5:01:50 AM) Earthflame: "..."
(5:12:37 AM) ***Ashryn_Ironleaf smiles at him. "What?~"
(5:12:54 AM) Earthflame: "I'm Sure you know better than that... Don't you?"
(5:14:36 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Hmm? Oh, right. Four or five?"
(5:26:30 AM) Earthflame: "...If that was true, Lyndis would have kids by now."
(5:28:25 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "Hmmm...I'm going to need to update my models in that case."
(5:28:39 AM) Earthflame: "...What are you planning, Mistress?"
(5:29:50 AM) Ashryn_Ironleaf: "All sorts of things~" She leans back on the table, returning to her book.