<~> Chapter 159We sat across from each ain. Our emotions were still running a little high right now. If the temporary bond did anything, it strengthened our shared emotions, put us on the same page. Revealing how I saw Torien really made a strong impression on her.

  I cleared my throat. "Now that we've shared that experience, I wao ask once again if the two of you would like to bee Succubi." There was o ihem to be part of my family, they were already my family, no matter their choice.

  Ay swirled off of both of them. Torien still seemed unfortable by the idea itself but Man was ied. I could tell her reservations came from her sister's reluot her own.

  "I'm not sure..." Torien scratched at her arm. "It feels like a big ge and I'm not sure what it will mean for us. For me and Silva... and for me and my sister."

  She turan. "Will we look different from each other? Will one of us ge radically and the other stay the same? Will we even still be sisters?"

  Man's brows furrowed and she pulled Torien into a hug. The question had irritated her and the offense could be felt through the bond. "Don't be silly, of course we'll always be sisters. I'd still accept you as my sister even if you turned into a giant bug. ...but please don't turn into a giant bug."

  Torien squeezed her, with an amused look on her face. "Don't worry, I don't want to be a giant bug."

  Tisha waved. "Uh, if the two of you are ed about looking different, Jade and I were able to pn out the transformation together. That's why we look so simir, it was iional. Maybe you could both decide what the two of you will look like the way we did. Not that you'd necessarily have to look the same to be sisters of course, but if looking simir is a factor, that be pnned around."

  Nervousness filled Torien. "I still don't know... I'd like to talk to Silva at least. See what she thinks... if that's okay?" She turo look at me with the question on her face.

  I smiled at her. "I'm not going to push you into a choice. I would like you to bee a succubus with me but I will never force you to make that decision... Besides, being a succubus would mean you o have regur sex. Not that um, you're incapable of course but I'm not sure if that would be something you'd want."

  Torien flushed and looked away, the emotions running through her were hard to read. Probably because they're not solidly formed in the first pce. She doesn't know if that would be something she wants or not.

  "What about you Mori?" Torien asked her sister while pulling back from their hug.

  Man got a sour look on her face. "I... I would like to bee a succubus. I enjoy sharing the bond with Lilith. I enjoy the sex..." She turo look at Bel and Mimi who had mostly been quiet this eime. "I love all of my girlfriends..." She took a deep breath. "But I also love being your sister. I'm... not sure if I would want to bee a succubus without you. But I also don't want to push you to do something you don't want to do either. We don't have to choht away and I wait for you to make a choice. Lilith promised to keep us with her until she free us, we have lots of time to decide. So no rush."

  Ay built in Torien through the silence so I decided to step in before she made any rash decisions. "Don't decide now. Not while you're affected by the bond. Take some time to think about it. This is not a choice you should rush into. You've heard the speech I keep telling the girls living here, uhem you have plenty of time to think about it. Go ahead and talk with Silva about it first at the very least."

  Torien took a deep breath. "Okay. I'll talk with her. But I feel like this isn't a decision I should keep putting off forever."

  After a moment of quiet, Jade cleared her throat. "Now that you've talked through all of that, are you ied in feeling more of the bond? A tighter e like this is more intimate but it might be a good experieo feel the full scope of the bond while we're ected."

  "Yes! I want to feel it!" Excitement and anticipation poured off Man and Torien smiled wryly at her rea.

  "Sure, let's try it then," Torien agreed.

  Tisha and Jade's trol over the bond was iing. They had lowered the scope of the bond for us to only include this room and it wasn't until I was feeling more of it that I realized it had happe all. Maybe I was still more used to the smaller es I had with the members of my party but it was a surprise I hadn't noticed sooner.

  Once again the bond opened up and I felt ected to all the women of the brothel doing their own things. As we ected to them, they ected to us, and it led to no small number of them giving winks and flirtatious feelings back through the bond. A few of them were with ers or paired up themselves and echoes of their pleasure flowed through as well. Curiously I could feel three succubi with Theo who had at some point made it back to the brothel. Raya and Sibyl were now chatting with Silva in the on room.

  "Amazing..." Torien mumbled with wide eyes. "Do you feel them all the time?"

  "Not quite," I answered. "Most of the time it is a little bit more limited in scope. Maybe 30 feet now? It's Tisha and Jade's powers that are extending the reach to every succubus in the brothel."

  Raya looked Torien's dire and gave her a wink.

  "...I feel how attracted to Silva Raya is... It feels kinda odd." Torien chuckled. "I also see how useful this could be in bat. It's like having eyes in multiple pces at o it doesn't feel overwhelmiher."

  I nodded. "It be. It's good for sending messages or quickly sharing impressions but the biggest be is the spatial awareness you gain. Even if you're not paying too much attention to the bond you feel the others' positions ahe emotions enemies and allies draw out from other succubi. It makes it easy to track people even in a hectic situation. It's never been too distrag either, at least not for me. What about you two?" I asked Mimi and Bel.

  "It helps me judge how much pain Lilith and Mimi are in and when they get hurt. It make it easier to know who to prioritize when healing in fights, not that Mimi needs much healing of course. ...That hasn't stopped me from panig though, like when that dulhan smashed Mimi into the floor that oime..."

  Mimi shrugged. "Shariions through the bond feels normal. It feels less weird than talking out loud for me. I don't have to pn my words out, I just share my feelings. I like it better."

  I had noticed that Mimi seemed to prefer sendiions through the bond even when speaking to me. She wasn't as fident in her vocabury despite her overall nguage being really good for someone who had been all alone in a dungeon all her life. I wasn't going to question it holy, so many weird things were happening all the time I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

  "My favorite thing is how much easier it is to be hohrough the bond," Tisha added. "Jade here used to keep everything bottled up and hidden, the night we ged we had the best heart-to-heart ever and now I feel closer to her than I ever have before. She doesn't o hide her affe for me behind teasing and mean pranks anymore."

  Jade turned bright red and the embarrassment ing off of her was thick. "It's easier to express yourself like this. You don't o worry about saying the wrong thing or someoaking something wrong. It's also harder to hide things though."

  I nodded in agreement, "Yeah, it's much easier to read each other's true iions. It's not exactly like reading each other's minds but with the emotional aspect it's a lot harder for misuandings to happen."

  "Yeah." Jade nodded. "When you share emotions it makes it a lot easier to share and ect holy."

  Tisha stretched. "Alright, I think that's enough for today. We'd love to share the bond with you again sometime if you still haven't e to a decision but I think this is good for now. There's still a bit of daylight left and I'd like to take care of a few things before the sun goes down."

  "Sure, thank you again for sharing this experieh us," I said.

  I could feel my e to Torien and Man fade away. It was kind of cold and lonely for the two of them to be cut off like this. Man slid between me and Bel aed her head on my shoulder.

  Tisha and Jade stood up and opehe door for us. Jade stopped nearby and waved. "See you tonight Lilith, I assume the rest of the girls will be doonight, right?"

  "That's the pn I think. It's been a lot of... work to transform everyo we're not going to stay in Goldeh for much longer. I want to make sure everyone who wants the opportunity to join our family before I leave town and I'd rather not dey our trip muce everything with the city leadership is taken care of. We have already stayed in Goldeh a lot lohan we inally po."

  Jade nodded. "reciate everything you've done for us. It doesn't take ah to know how much you've helped all of us," she said with a wink.

  Tisha ughed. "We'll see you ter tonight then!"

  ***

  When we walked through the lobby Silva was animatedly talking with Raya and a few of the other Succubi girls. She seemed to be having fun so we decided to head to our room to talk about the experience we just had.

  Torien leaned ba the fortable cou our suite. "I admit that experience was intense... I could see how all being ected and shariions like that could be addictive."

  "You should try it during sex, I almost came my brains out when I was ected to them in the middle of the y," Man joked.

  Torien's eyebrows rose. "What's... that like?"

  Man face grew into a smug grin. "It's amazing. Just like you share emotions, you share sensations too. Imagine what it feels like to be in a room filled with succubi, you feel everyone fug and being fucked at the same time. It's crazy."

  Bel perked up. "It's also really nice when it's just the two of you too. It's not as intense as the um, ies are, but sharing absolute focus on each other feels amazing, it's like you bee both of you at o's easy to get lost in nothing but each other. It's a nice feeling"

  Torien began to squirm a bit. "Let's ge the subject. What are our pns after you finish up the... business in the Ruby Vixen?"

  I scratched the base of my horn. "Well... I still o speak with Nathaniel about the 'cult of Lilith,' we were supposed to talk about that today but with the raid and... Jasper, I'm worried that will be deyed further. After getting that information and finishing up here at the Brothel, I suppose all that remains is finding a carriage to the capital."

  "Hmm..." Torien looked down at the floor. "I wonder if it will be easy to find a carriage going that dire. It struck me as strahat most people leaving the city are headed toward Traehall. Between that and the general fusion, I wonder if it will be easy to find one. We may have to walk there."

  "Is that safe?" Bel asked.

  "Should be," Man replied. "Walking isn't ideal but it should get much safer the closer we get to the capital city. Camping will require watches but just roup shouldn't attract the rge groups of monsters caravans do."

  "What about things like the stream stalker? I don't think roup could take on something like that alone," I asked.

  Torien shook her head. "Nothing that big could get this close to the capital. The roads betweeer baronies and the capital city are patrolled by knights. They're not as high level on average as higher-tier adventurers but their coordination and training more than makes up for it. Knights would make the guards we fought with look like a joke by parison."

  I swallowed at the memory of Jasper anding the guards against the shadow behemoth.

  "Even if something did," she tinued, "it's not likely that it would chase us far. We could probably just hide and wait it out if it was just roup."

  Sighing I leaned ba the couch. "Would buying a carriage help or hurt us in this situation?" I asked. "I doubt they're cheap but maybe we could find something."

  "Help, for sure," Man said. "Sihe roads are patrolled we would make much better time with a carriage. It might be a different story when we head back to Traehall but this close to the capital, taking a carriage is uo attract many mohe same way it might on the frontier. And on the way back we could probably link up with a caravan headed that way."

  I nodded. "Sounds good then. Maybe I ask Oe to introduce me to someone iy who could help us with that. We would o find a horse or an uuna for it as well. If everything goes to pn I'd like to leave in the wo or three days."

  I looked over roup before realizing Silva wasn't here still. "Uh, Torien, do you mind filling Silva in about all of this? I didn't mean to leave her out of our impromptu strategy meeting."

  Torien smiled wryly. "Sure, leave it to me."

  Saine

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