WinterWhereof

6.42 - Thinking Never Helps

For the first time in a while, Natalie lay alone in her bedroom without someone to accompany her. She'd intended to spend the night with Sofia, but that hadn't come to pass; the white-haired girl had scurried back to her room once it became clear she wouldn't be 'taking advantage' of their bet.

Normally Natalie would have gone and gotten Jordan, but then she would have to explain what happened with Sofia, and more than that, Jordan would have asked all kinds of quest...

6.47 - ❤ Princess II

Even before she'd fully digested the question, Zoey's heart had started slamming in her chest.

Which of them got which hole? That was Delta's plan, today? Zoey couldn't pretend like she hadn't been dreaming of taking Rosalie with Delta's help, ever since the growth potion had shown up. Zoey had thought Delta had been saving it for a special celebration … which, she guessed, this qualified as. Even as her thoughts started running wild, Delta kept talking. 2024-06-23 00:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post

6.41 - ❤ Sofia III

Maybe Sofia had saved herself from further mortification from Natalie's earnest flattery—and where had that come from, anyway?—but having the girl naked, peppering kisses down her chest, stomach, and onto her thighs, was overwhelming in its own right. She was barely able to keep her eyes on Natalie in the first place, her gaze taking refuge instead in the ceiling, panting hot air as she tried to make sense of her thoughts.

"You're more pent up than I thought you'...

6.40 - ❤ Sofia II

Sofia lay on the bed, naked from the waist up, while Natalie ran a tongue around her nipple, blue eyes locked to Sofia's own. Sofia kept her hands by her sides, fingers clenched in the sheets, and didn't make any motion to move them—frozen solid as Natalie lavished attention on her.

She tried to make sense of her thoughts. There was the easy-to-understand aspect: the way her body was responding, her breath coming in heavy pants, her heart hammering in her chest. Th...

6.46 - ❤ Princess I

Seeing Rosalie laid out on the bed, naked from her waist down but still wearing her shirt and bra, breathing hard as Delta ran a tongue up her slit, Zoey couldn't help but think that everything was right in the world.

Zoey had been waiting for a chance to get her hands on Rosalie again. It hadn't been half a week since they'd gotten some extended personal time, but when this was what Zoey got to look forward to, of course she had been getting antsy. Even a f...

6.39 - ❤ Sofia I

As Natalie leaned her chin on Sofia's shoulder, her breath tickling her ear, Sofia tried to calm her racing heart. Natalie's hands ran slowly down her waist, to her hips, then the sides of her thighs, lingering there.

"Get it over with?" Natalie murmured. "Now that's just being mean. You're telling me you haven't been looking forward to this?"

There was a laugh in Natalie's voice, subdued, as if she could read straight through Sofia's facade and found it highly...

6.45 - Approval

"So," Zoey said. "How cool are you two with me knocking up other girls?"

If there was no good way to broach a subject, why not at least make a joke in how bluntly she did so?

Delta blinked, as did Rosalie. Unsurprisingly, the foxgirl answered first, barely fazed.

"Well, first off, it's hot," she laughed. "And second, you should've asked us that before you had a communion with the goddess of fertility."

"Wait. You knew that would happen...

6.38 - A Bet is a Bet

Sofia was having an … interesting evening. Mostly thanks to, of course, the usual suspect. Natalie.

As the team wound down their day over dinner, she had been seated close to Sofia, their thighs touching within the confines of the booth. In all honesty, even that simple skin contact would have been enough to fluster her. Despite their recent dungeon expeditions and Natalie's enthusiastic involvement in their hastily made bet, Sofia could hardly be considered experi...

6.37 - Beaumon Involvement II

"First," Liz said, sticking a finger up—and Natalie couldn't help but have a flashback to the last instance of a teammate structuring an argument for her. Except that had been Ana convincing Natalie to cum inside her, so it was a rather different situation. "I don't think your class is going to stay a secret for much longer, even if you wanted it to."

"Oh? Why not?"

"Not with, you know, um…"

"What?"

"You know." Liz tried to give her a L...

6.44 - Doorways

When Zoey returned to her room, Delta was waiting inside, sprawled out on her bed, shirt riding up to reveal a hint of her stomach. At the sound of Zoey's arrival, she sat up, fox ears pointing upward and twitching in a display Zoey had learned meant excitement—though she could have read that on her face without the help.

She waved a slip of paper at her even as she finished closing the door. "You better appreciate how much restraint it took."

"Huh?"

"Y...

6.36 - Beaumon Involvement I

When it came to reporting to the Baron, they were sparse on the details, at least the parts relevant to Natalie and her class. They had discussed the dilemma on the return trip to Tarenhelm: the balance to strike between the Baron's need to know what was going on around his city and Natalie's need for secrecy. She didn't want to divulge everything about rousing goddesses and her class's involvement.

They ended up giving him a mostly true report, as far as the practic...

6.43 - Holy Energy III

"Ephy's presence definitely overruled your potion," Aria said. She seemed amused that Zoey had thought otherwise. A smile tugged on her lips as she leaned forward to press her forehead against Zoey's. Murmuring in a low, seductive tone, she said, "But, like I said, we can try again. Make sure it took. I don't see any harm in that."

Aria started grinding back and forth again, stroking her ass along Zoey's throbbing-hard cock.

But instead of enjoying herself, Zoe...

6.35 - Surplus

"What's pretty awesome?" Sofia demanded. "What happened to you? That thing flew into your chest."

"I don't even know," Natalie said honestly. "The shard combined with me? But turned into Lust in the process?" She decided to explain exactly, rather than make guesses. "I got a notification saying that 'a fragment of Greed has been subsumed by Lust'."

"O-Oh," Sofia said. That clearly hadn't been the response she'd been expecting. How could it have been? "...

6.34 - Subsume

"What the hell was that?" Natalie exclaimed. "That thing was harder to kill than most bosses. And it's a goblin."

"Was a goblin," Jordan said dryly, stepping up to join her. "Now it's pulp."

Indeed, layering an almost fully-charged [Smite] followed by half her team's strongest attacks had left the creature a gruesome sight. Several stages past simply 'dead.' And Natalie was perfectly fine with that. Anything that guaranteed it wo...

6.42 - Holy Energy II

"The first way is the most obvious," Aria said. "How else would you expect a deity to gain Holy Energy? Through the worship of their followers."

Zoey nodded; that announcement hardly caught her by surprise. "I'd figured it'd be something along those lines," she said. "Even wondered whether it would just happen, without needing a skill for it. " Though it turned out it would be through Aria. Zoey paused. "Speaking of, your skill description is telling you all...

6.33 - Ambush III

In only a second, the [Goblin Raid Leader] had arrived to her. Natalie pivoted, his dagger passing through where she'd been standing a second prior, and she retaliated with a kick, her hammer too slow and cumbersome to catch him in the close-quarter angle. But even the quicker movement couldn't reach him in time. He stepped sideways and slashed a second time. This one, Natalie couldn't dodge. The blade scraped across her stomach, drawing a bright red line. He pulled back. ...

6.41 - Holy Energy

After exploring Mantle for a bit and relaxing from the high tensions of the unexpected—or unexpectedly quick—meeting with Enzo, Zoey and her team returned to the estate at the top of the mountain.

Of the necessary meetings she had to attend to, there was one she shouldn't put off more than the others. After tracking down the portion of the d'Celestin guest rooms where Aria, Adrienne, and Sabina had been luxuriously stashed away, Zoey visited the most immediately ...

6.32 - Ambush II

Natalie met the oncoming wave of smaller goblins. Her hammer swept forward in a prepared arc, purposefully aiming for the lowest level of the front-line enemies—she wanted to thin their numbers, since a number advantage could be prohibitively difficult to deal with, even when composed of weak opponents. Knives in the back hurt no matter what level, and such critical strikes became exponentially easier when surrounded.

The attack landed true. The giant metal head of...

6.31 - Ambush I

They quieted down after those initial discussions, since while this might not be a stealth mission, it was preferable to approach the search as inconspicuously as possible. She also pulled out Malice to join them. She hadn't earlier because she had wanted to talk freely, perhaps even about Malice herself—since she was an agent of the dungeon, captured or not. While Natalie didn't distrust her for that, she did need to acknowledge reality. And they neede...

6.40 - Other Skills

"So," Rosalie said to Delta, once her and Zoey's labored breathing had calmed. "You just had her finish straight into your shadow's stomach. What happens when you dispel it, now?"

The table stared at her.

"What? I'm asking relevant questions. I feel like we've been disrespectful enough to this establishment, haven't we? Even if we somehow didn't get caught."

"That's … a good point," Delta said slowly. She peeked under the table, where a semi-catatonic s...

6.30 - The Search Begins

When Natalie and Ana joined their three teammates down in the inn's lobby, Liz immediately blushed, giving away that Jordan had filled them in on what had been happening. The reason for the delay.

Now that Natalie thought about it, Liz had probably felt when [Divine Invigoration] had changed targets. A person could sense when they gained or lost stats, often quite clearly—much less a boost as big as the one Liz had been accustoming herself to. That must ha...

6.39 - ❤ Under the Table III

Delta's clone sat there obediently, buried onto Zoey's cock, providing a hot, wet sheathe for Zoey's member to twitch and throb against. She didn't continue moving, simply rested on her knees, eyes fluttering as the seconds ticked by, not pulling off.

"Doesn't she need to breathe?" Zoey asked.

Delta's head—her real one—also seemed to be swimming from the lack of air. Even resting her chin on her hand, she seemed kind of wobbly, eyes fluttering not as violen...

6.29 - ❤ The Quest To Prove Herself I & II

A/N: Double chapter today, next release Monday

Natalie looked down at the girl she was seated on. That calm expression of impassiveness, the bored eyes gazing up at her—it got under her skin in a strangely enticing way. She grabbed Ana's wrists, pinning them above her head against the bed. Ana didn't resist. Nor, indeed, did she react at all. Just watched calmly.

"You think you're so unshakable, don't you?" Natalie growled, grinding her hips forward. Her cock...

6.38 - ❤ Under the Table II

Zoey leaned back into the booth seat, taking a relaxed posture to try to calm herself. Which had maybe the counter-intended effect, since the new vantage gave her a peek underneath the table, where her fourteen-inch cock was draped heavily across the shadow's face. She rubbed gently up and down, one hand pressing into the side to further smoosh Zoey against her face. Her eyes were closed, mouth slightly parted as the heavy slab of girlcock ran across her delicate features....

6.28 - New Target

The next morning, after Natalie and Jordan had gotten showered and dressed into normal clothes—Jordan had joined her in bed after Natalie and Malice were finished—Ana knocked on their bedroom door.

"Natalie. Jordan," the mage greeted, her brown eyes impassive and her tone as monotone as always. "Good morning."

"Hey," Jordan said, having been the one to open the door. She looked curiously at the mage, obviously not knowing why she'd chosen to visit. "What's ...

6.37 - ❤ Under the Table I

Zoey's face had indeed been reddening as Rosalie pressed Delta for details on her shadow skill. By the devious twinkle in her purple eyes, Delta knew exactly what had inappropriately invaded her thoughts.

"N-Nothing," Zoey stammered. "What do you mean?" She squirmed in place, not wanting to out her rather inappropriate thoughts. Delta grinned, seeing through her, until she eventually took pity and rolled her eyes.

"Here," she said. "I'll let you f...

6.27 - Hierarchy

"Who was it?" Malice asked.

Natalie groaned, letting the towel drop from her waist. She climbed back into bed. Malice snuggled into her, the wolfgirl thoroughly satisfied by rounds two, three, and then a hastily concluded fourth.

"Alaina," Natalie said. "The baron's daughter."

"You sound upset. Why?"

"It's awkward, for one," Natalie said, wrapping an arm around the girl who had cozied up to her. "I thought for sure that was going to be Jordan, or ma...

6.26 - Alaina

Alaina knew it was probably a bit late to be checking in on the Tenet delvers, but after such a stellar response to the goblin raid earlier, she had wanted to congratulate them firsthand. Hence why she was here, a few hours past sunset, heading up into the second story of The Kraken's Hearth to track down Natalie—who Alaina had gotten the impression was the unofficial leader of the group, despite Elizabeth Beaumon's inclusion on the team.

And that...

6.36 - Around the Table

Mantle was a big place. Like, a huge city—the capital of the Deepshunters. Larger even than Treyhull. The city spilled down the gigantic mountainside in a flurry of colors, growing denser the farther they went. The city did, after all, have the protection of Enzo d'Celestin himself, and the rest of the High Officers of the Guild, making it one of the safest places to live inside the dangerous, shifting realms that were the Fractures. Thus, 'regular folk' fl...

6.25 - ❤ Revenge

"Your patron?" Malice asked. "You mean the passion of Lust?"

"So that is her?" Natalie asked.

Malice tilted her head. "Of course. Surely that's obvious by now?"

"I mean, yeah. But I didn't have any confirmation. Besides a few hints here and there. I just … got the class, one day. The Bestower gave it to me." Was that strange automaton in on all of this, somehow? Who was the Bestower?

Malice considered this. Almost idly, she lifted her hip...