She walked past me and began circling me like a shark getting ready to capsize a lifeboat. “It’s of the utmost importance for sheath stance to become second nature to you,” she said before promptly falling backwards onto her butt to sit on the grass. “Do I really have to stay like this until noon?” I asked, already starting to feel a little soreness setting in. “You do,” she said with a knowing grin playing at the corners of her lips. “And you're just going to… sit there?” “Well, I can’t leave you unsupervised out here, can I?” “No, I guess not.” An awkward pause yawned between us, only the faint breath of wind brushing over the grasslands breaking the silence. Our expressions mirrored each other as we watched one another with quiet contemplation. “Would you tell me something of your life before coming to Thaessa?” Her tone was gently curious, sounding like she was trying to balance her genuine intrigue with a desire to not sound nosey. I considered the question, not parti

“Only ranked ‘highly’? That’s unacceptable!” I said with mock indignation. The feet of my chair rasped across the floor as I rotated it to face her more directly. “Oh?” she asked, a pale pink blush appearing in her cheeks. I placed an elbow atop the table and rested my head against my knuckles before giving her the cockiest smile I could muster. Erection obvious and fully hard beneath the loose gray fabric of my pants. I leaned back in my chair. “I won’t rest until I’m your favorite!” “How ambitious,” she purred with delight. “Think I have good odds?” “You’ve had a good showing so far.” Her face tilted down ever so slightly as she eyed my tented manhood and slid from her chair. I parted my knees to make room for her as she knelt down between my legs, the lower half of her long black coat pooling on the floor. Tucking a loose lock of midnight-colored hair behind her ear that had been left out of her messy ponytail, she looked up at me expectantly. Her mouth curved into a wide

The instant I removed my hand, her head pulled back. She looked up at me with a pleased grin, still kneeling between my legs, but not making any physical contact. “My, you’re certainly full of surprises.” My rock-hard erection twitched in displeasure at the sudden change in its environment. “I aim to please,” I said aloofly as I screamed internally, desperately hoping she’d continue sooner rather than later from where I’d left off. “Most pleasing among those surprises was your restraint in not attempting to force your cock down my throat,” she said warmly. ”Thank you, Bryan.” A breath of elation fluttered in my stomach at her gratitude, but I was unsure of how to respond to it. “Yeah, uh, I remembered you said you were ‘out of practice’,” I said with a faint touch of embarrassment coloring my voice. Her smile widened at my answer. “Hmm, perhaps sometime in the near future you can help me… ‘practice’,” she purred, “but presently, you deserve a reward for your restraint.” A sing

The warden had returned a few minutes after I’d finished my lunch, still wearing her boots and the black coat over her white button-up and tight pants, and took me out to the same spot in the grasslands we’d been in earlier. Standing two or three feet apart, we faced one another, the gentle breeze of the grasslands feeling good against my face and lightly rustling the warden’s messy ponytail. “As I mentioned in the dining room,” the shadow primal said, “I will use my magic to hopefully grant you a measure of experience in facing ranged threats by firing small stones at you. Due to your specific situation and magic, you will focus on avoiding these attacks.” “How small is ‘small’...” I asked, a bit annoyed at the slight trepidation in my voice. She raised her arm forward, open palm facing the earth. A tiny something shot up from the ground in a gray blur and into her waiting hand before her fingers closed around it. Turning her fist over, she opened it to reveal a pebble the size o

A dirt clod sailed towards me as though it were thrown underhanded at a toddler. My hand rose and the lump of earth thumped into my palm, catching it easily. I crushed the earthy projectile before letting the damp soil crumble and tumble to the ground as I opened my fingers. She sent a stone at me in the same gentle manner, which I easily side-stepped. “I know I came off a bit worried about it earlier, but this is– Ow!” One of her little rocks darted through the air like it was shot by a BB gun, hitting my thigh with a sting of quick pain. “What was that?!” the warden called through a cheshire grin, leaning forward slightly as though she didn’t hear me. Another stone came at me, rushing towards me at a speed somewhere between the one that’d just hit me and the one that’d come before. I was ready for it, but wasn’t certain where she was aiming, causing me to clumsily hop to the side to get completely out of the way. My feet landed atop the grass awkwardly, causing me to wobble mo