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Ellaria's expression soured a bit, the sheer brattiness of the girl pulling at her memories of her days being a lecturer and teacher.

"I don't take kindly to being talked to that way, girl. I suggest you keep that tongue of yours in check before I force a brick of soap down your throat."

The girl squinted at Ellaria. "You give off weird vibes elfy, like someone mixed a fashionista with one of the strictest lecturers at school."

"Holy shit that's so accurate," muttered Flora under her breath.

Ellaria's annoyance ticked up a notch.

"Is this what the people around here take for nobility? A snotty upstart brat who has zero understanding of how the real world works?"

The girl giggled, it was quite an annoying giggle and Fey got the impression that she had practised it repeatedly to be as obnoxious as possible.

"Nobility? What are you on about you silly idiot adventurer? I'm a merchant's daughter."

"Oh. Ohhhh," said Fey. "Do you know a pink haired and pink scaled lamia by any chance?"

The girl turned to Fey, her eyes flat and unimpressed, that is until she caught sight of the thing below Fey's barrel and then she nearly fell over having to grab hold of the door to keep herself up right. Her extremely cocksure confident demeanor suddenly punctured by Fey's massive cock.

"Wha- what are you doing? With- with-"

"Never seen a penis in real life before huh?" Said Flora.

The girl shook her head without thinking then realised she had just admitted to being a virgin and scowled with irritation. "Of course I have you silly gnome, I've seen all the penises, that's just an a-average one, I think, and I was just surprised is all, people don't normally h-have them out in the open you know."

"I'm sure," said Flora with so much sarcasm that it was surprising that a visible haze of sarcasm wasn't wafting off her body.

The girl pouted. "Think what you like dumbass shorty."

"Permission to launch the brat into the stratosphere captain," said Flora

"Permission denied. Please, the lamia with pink hair and pink scales?"

The girl rolled her eyes. "That's my mother, duh."

The band stared at her.

"I'm adopted, jeez what the hell are you even thinking right now, bunch of weirdos."

"Rina is your mother?"

She nodded. "I suppose she sent you then. Lame. And I was planning on inviting some friends over, now I have to babysit your sorry asses."

"… oh, so that's what she meant by seeing us later…" muttered Fey.

The girl glanced at her. "I wouldn't count on it, if she's just come into the city she will be slithering her scales of all over setting up in the markets and then wining and dining and networking until she passes out in some manse or other. She's not a very good mother you know, but it's not like father is much better."

It was Fey's turn to nearly fall over.

"Rina is married!?" she squeaked.

"Yeah, to a Human, that's why I'm adopted, they can't have kids. Why so surprised?"

"N-no reason!" said Fey hurriedly.

"Hmmmmmmm. In any case, I guess I can show you some rooms or whatever. That is probably what Mother wants me to do." She glanced at Fey, down then back up, "You can call me Tami by the way."

"Fey," said Fey.

Tami stepped inside, pointedly ignoring the others. She sent another glance over her shoulder as she went at Fey. Noticing that Fey was looking in her direction she quickly snatched her gaze back.

The inside of the mansion was as ornate as the outside with marble flooring and large paintings and large cushy furniture that somehow managed to look simultaneously like the softest feathery things imaginable as well as sculpted marble perfection. The endless halls and rooms made it clear that it was a wonder that Tami had heard their knocking at all, but then perhaps it was magically enhanced and she had simply been trying to ignore it.

A tiny purple slime monster suddenly zoomed out of a hole low down in one of the walls and zipped around the band making soft squeaking noises. Vivi for her past nearly leapt into the air and quickly backed up against her wall, pressing her rear defensively against the marble as she drew her long sword and pointed it warily at the little thing.

"What are you doing? Have you never seen a slime cleaner before? Gods mother really does know how to pick them huh, what ass end of nowhere did she find you in?"

"Uhm I think that might be a traumatic reaction more than anything," said Fey as the slime slid over her hooves cleaning up any dirt stuck to them. Fey hesitantly lifted each hoof letting it clean under them too.

"Y-you don't know- It's causing- hnnggg!"gritted out Vivi. The tip of the longsword wavedered as it tracked the slime.

"Pull yourself together Vi it's just a slime monster, are you really going to call yourself an adventurer and a warrior when you're afraid of a little slime?"

"It's not- oh fffuck, it's- godsdammit! Okay fine I'm afraid of the slime, Flora made me not like shiny purple things or something! C-can we just move along!"

The tigerkin girl was already walking away, bored by Vivi's standoff. Fey paused a moment looking at the defensive vulpine as the others followed. As she watched her rounded belly suddenly moved, a slight bump rolling across its surface as her shorts shifted as though something was moving beneath them,

What the hell was that? Fey blinked, unsure if she had just seen that or had mistaken it for just the vulpine's shaking, and she was shaking, her knees turned inward slightly her thighs trembling.

"N-not now, p-please, s-stop," whispered Vivi under her breath so quietly Fey could barely hear. After a moment the vupline's trembling ceased and she rapidly returned to normal.