289 Foundation Set

By the time that I had finished digging out the ten by ten hole meant to be the foundation of the first part of the house, the moons were already creeping through the star laden sky and illuminating the lands around us, providing me more than enough light to work by, but I still had a fire crackling beside the cube pit that I had dug out.

Rhefia was still sitting and watching as I worked, her mana never waning as I continued to work and keeping the earth itself from moving so that I could do whatever I wanted.

Everyone else had made their way back to the camp and settled in for the night, though sometimes they came by to check up on everything whenever they got curious.

Or horny, depending on who it was that came by.

Either way, I continued on since I wanted to get everything done tonight, so that I could get a better understanding of what I needed to do when I went forwards with making everything else for our house.

Ten by ten by ten foot, the cube was now completely empty and ready to be filled with the concrete I had made earlier, which I could - apparently - just place and leave to dry over a ten minute period.

Since the air wasn't terribly humid, that should remain true for the time being, so I got to work laying down the flooring over some long metal bars that would reinforce everything, though I did that after packing the dirt and having Rhefia thicken it some, making sure I wasn't constructing something on unsteady ground.

None of this would work nor would it be possible without magic, so I was happy that I had a System to rely on and access to someone who had Earth Magic to make this all possible.

Standing on a plank of wood that I placed above the ground, I poured out the concrete and laid back on the plank, staring up at Rhefia with a tired smile.

"Ten minutes from now, and we should have a solid stone floor..."

She chuckled as she sprawled onto her side, her eyes roaming the pit and my body before focusing on my face as she said "Then you need to do the walls as well as the roof, no? What's the plan with those?"

Wiping the sweat from my brow, I sighed before answering my wife, the exhaustion of a long day catching up to me slowly bit by bit.

"Those metal bars will be placed down, then I put one of the wood walls down and use that to hold the concrete back before either leaving the wood there for style or tearing it away and keeping the stone there. For the roof, I'll use wooden planks to do some wooden flooring for the house, and it'll be held up by supports that I'll build from one side to another, making an 'H' shape."

She nodded before smiling at me again, saying "Never would have thought we'd be making a home of this scale, did you? I certainly didn't... I thought we'd remain inside Geard Forest, or maybe find a village and settle down, y'know? Live a quiet life... well, as quiet as it could be after you had our tenth child~!"

I smiled back at her, before I asked "You don't mind that we didn't live that quiet life?"

"Why would I want that now? Don't get me wrong, it still sounds appealing in its own ways, but as much as I hate to admit it, Sari isn't a terrible woman. We never would have met Prixisia, never met Vienna or Lizbeth. That merchant and her Arazon bodyguards. Suu or her girls. It's been fun, seeing all these new people and getting to know them. Now we're back where I grew up, and while I might need to hide my face, it's... comforting. Being back here. Part of me still wants to show Camara, Aethisia and Ehretia where I grew up, show them the places that I frequented when I was young..."

She flashed me a melancholic smile before looking towards the sky, her long antlers resting against the ground as she continued speaking.

"Meeting you has been the best thing to ever happen to me. In a dozen lifetimes prior, and in a dozen lifetimes after, meeting you here will always be the best thing to happen to me. There's no doubt in my mind about that, Astra. None. Making you happy, seeing you smile... that means more to me than I ever thought possible. Being with you, by your side, it's all I could have ever asked for and more..."

I felt tears spring to my eyes, and as if sensing it Rhefia turned to smile warmly at me, her amber eyes filled with love as she beckoned for me to take her hand, which I did.

Pulling me from the pit, Rhefia dragged me onto her chest and held me close, the Deerkin stroking my hair and giving me a reassuring squeeze as I cried into her chest, my emotions overflowing.

There was something about her saying those things that always caught me off guard despite her having said similar things before multiple times already; the sincerity and how she made it known verbally plucking at my heartstrings and making me feel such warmth inside that I couldn't help but cry, unsure of how I had managed to get someone like her to feel so much for someone like me.

I clung to her and cried until I couldn't anymore, all while she quietly held me and let her actions speak for her, which eventually meant her lips finding mine as we began to make love under the moonlight, the foundation forgotten for now as I got reassured deeply and intimately by my Deerkin wife, who showed me just how much she cared with each thrust of her cock, until she spurted her semen deep into my womb, reminding me of when we first met...