Peak 7: Einervaene

"What'cha doing?" Larishazza asks as she moves into the shower room. A wide smile on her face as she looks at Nin. Nin, however, then lets go of both of us, races over to her and pulls her into a backbreaking hug. Something she laughs loudly at before he rests his cheek on her petite body.

Upsetting both me and Liadanann because we had just worked ourselves up over our large chests. And here Nin was now enjoying a flat one more than ours... And the fact she was enjoying the attention did not help matters. In fact, it reminded me of why I conflicted with her so much prior.

"Oh, be quiet." I grumble before crossing my arms. Intentionally pushing my arms against my breasts in the hopes it would do something. But Nin paid no heed to either of us and stayed focused on Larishazza. At least, until he put her down with a frown.

"Something wrong? Wait, don't answer that." Larishazza joked quietly before Nin started smiling again. Larishazza would laugh some more as well when she uses her magic to slip out of his grip.

"Well, to answer your first question, I was helping Liadanann with her boob problem." Nin bluntly tells her which leads to the red-skin becoming even redder. His body had also turned around in order to gesture at his handiwork.

"I didn't have any such problem..." she grumbles before going up to Nin once more with Nin's gesturing arm slowly snaking down. Her large body seemed just a little smaller when she stood right next to him. And, then, all of a sudden, she just plants her lips right onto his and pushes him towards a wall. Larishazza laughed in excitement but I just got angry.

"HEY!" I yelled as I went towards her. Feeling some of my magic build up until Nin forcibly moved her off of him. A glare at first on his face that wiped the cockiness straight from Liadanann's face. Yet, he calmed down before just pulling her in for a hug.

"Do not ever do that..." he would tell her and probably me by extension as well. But, I could not for the life of me figure out why,

"Can I ask why?" Liadanann asked with muffled words.

"I... I just don't want to be kissed on the lips by another." he said with agitation that I did not understand.

"Is anywhere else fine, Nin?" Liadanann then asked hopefully. Which, oddly enough, Nin nodded in agreement to.

"I'll let you know if a line is being crossed." he said before I then came up to him and put my lips as close to his lips as possible.

"HA!" I would say to her just before her cockiness returned.

"I actually got one on his lips, human." she would remind me with a haughty laugh.

"What's... What's going on? What happened?" Larishazza then asked in worry. And I assume it must have been related to the fact Nin now wore that bracelet again.

"Nin's put the bracelet back on." I whisper to her with a smile which made her frown more.

"He what!?" she lets out in peculiar disbelief while watching him play around with Liadanann. Something that made me jealous but made her concerned and upset.

"Nin, can we talk?" she asked before I brought her attention back to me.

"Why're you so worried anyway? He's moving again, he's able to relax, let him have this." I tell her. In complete disbelief myself as to why she would take issue with this.

"No! He's bottling it up, this is him ignoring the problem! Nin! Please, if we're going to handle what happened to Tob-"

"QUIET!" he roared at Larishazza as he suddenly shot towards her. Something that shocked everyone present as he was now bordering on tears. Twitching about in anger which he enhanced with an aggressive posture.

"Nin, I didn't mean anything bad by it-"

"I said, be quiet!" he said to her through clenched teeth. Yet, despite his clearly displayed anger, his eyes showed something else. He wasn't angrily demanding... He was begging.

Larishazza gulped while her mouth went agape, "Okay... If you need any help, I'll... I'll be there for you, okay?" she says to him while forcing out a small smile. And Nin's tone just shifts back to how it was. With his hand coming in from behind to grab my breast before he pulled me in. I would then also change my tone.

"That's better." I giggled with a sultry tone as his jaw massaged my neck. A relaxed sigh came out due to both of these actions. And, like before, me and Liadanann were fighting over his attention. Larishazza then left quietly and I watched her as she lingered by the door.

Frowning myself before the loss of Nin's hand on my chest changed my priorities. Something I responded to forcibly as I took advantage of Nin's loss of balance. Landing right on top of him and rubbing my body against his with a jealous Liadanann above. And, despite how much she tried to pry me off, her size was not very telling of her strength.

"Make some room!" she begged as she tried to move around me. But I had spread myself over every part of Nin. Keeping a tight grip on his arms with my legs locking around his while I also enjoyed his smile. Unfortunately, I was having to restrain this urge I had to just go forth and kiss him.

I loved him so much and I was finally able to build up the emotion to say it to him again. To honestly declare to him what I felt and how I could say it without stopping. Memories of that night were no longer going to bother me. Yet, I still feared for the day he might take it off again.

He has already shown a willingness to remove it and if Larishazza was right. He only had it on right now to serve as some kind of distraction. Which, hurt a little, I did not want my feelings to be treated this way. But, I could also not be so selfish and put myself above Nin, not now.

"Nin..." I would begin to say in order to get his attention. Watching with the sweetest smile I could muster as his gaze went to meet mine.

"Yes?" he would ask as I blocked out Liadanann and her attempts to get me off.

"Promise me, when we get back to wherever you'll find the time to have a little alone time with me?" I ask of him. Hoping that if I get him to promise it, I will have my moment to admit my love. I could get it off my chest and see how he truly responds to it. No more playing around like now, I could chase after the dream that vision put within me.

One where he lords over the land formerly held by my mother with the help of my name. With a beautiful child in our arms and no more of these dangerous adventures that left us so exhausted. Even if I would not have minded a few more times where I could save his life. To make it clear to him that I would be there for him like he would be there for me.

"Fine! I'll just go back to fixing this piece of rubbish." Liadanann then said before she stropped off.

"Fix it? You're a mechanic or something?" Nin then asked as he moved my head to the side. Something that annoyed me but I did like how his hand felt on my jaw. And I would not be surprised that I would become addicted to it if he was to pull me in for a kiss like the stories had. Where the maiden has her chin in the grasp of his firm fingers...

It made me blush madly just thinking about it, but what was new about that? In a way, I quite enjoyed how much I blushed while he had this bracelet on. It was a constant reminder of how much he cared. He spent the time with me and he has learned stuff about me because of it.

"I am, but it would be nice if I had more tools to work with." Liadanann then complained before Nin suddenly shoved me off. Something that had Liadanann smiling wide while I looked at him in disbelief.

"Seriously!?" I asked as I started to gather my clothes. Not even bothering with drying off as the pair had quickly disappeared. And going by the sudden rush back on Liadanann's part, she had disappeared too quickly... Because only now had her clothes been taken into her hand.

It didn't take too long to find them, though, it was just a simple case of following the opposite. Vadei's people would avoid Nin and Nin could be left to his own devices. In this case, however, I did not want to leave him alone. I wanted to spend time with him and keep the power of the bracelet in me.

If I had to be clingy then so be it!

"We're going to have to redo these welds... They are awful." Liadanann told him while he nodded at her. The pair of them being right before the work I did before Nin spent some time to teach me about it. And, as such, it made me a bit angry as I did the best I could with what I had.

"Well, I'm sorry." I bitterly told her before Nin went up to me and took my fingers.

"We didn't use tools, we used her magic." he explained while giving me a reassuring shake of the shoulders.

"Should really use the proper tools for the job." was all Liadanann had to say before she inspected it some more. And then, she began to run her fingers around her various pockets. Tapping them before she looked up at the signs above. A sigh left her very slowly before she turned to Nin again.

"The place where we keep the tools?" he asked to which she nodded. Nin huffed a laugh out before standing up.

"What?" Liadanann asked as she moved some of her red hair about.

"Nothing concerning you, just remembering that I don't actually know where it is."

Liadanann moves closer to him and takes his arm into his, "Then I guess you best help me find it." she said to him. And I just pouted at the fact she once again took control of where his attention was.

"I can't imagine it would be far from your workplace, should it, Einervaene?" he then asked me, something that caught me off-guard. Entirely because I was focused on Liadanann, not him.

"Uh, yeah." I would say to him after registering what he had asked.

"There, much better." Liadanann would say as she began to rummage through the various tools. Various groans and sighs would come from her while we watched her pick and drop things.

"Guess we'll have to remember this room."

"There are a couple of rooms we have yet to use ourselves." I would remind Nin as I only ended up in that room by circumstance. I wanted a place to keep my drawings and to work on clothes. The room I used just so happened to fit the criteria I had regarding it.

"Perhaps you'll want a drying room?" he then asked with a smile as he flicked at my still soapy skin.

"Well, I wouldn't mind finding one together?" I offered before Liadanann ruined the moment.

"Who or what made these tools?" she would ask while awkwardly holding the smaller tools in her hand.

"No one here, I can tell you that much." Nin explained with a shrug before Liadanann focused on the larger machines.

"I guess I can try recycling some of these pieces then..." she grumbled before she began to force many of the tools into a heated machine.

"You've used these machines before?" I asked as she was using a lot of this with surprising familiarity.

"No, I have used stuff made by my people, however. And, some of it does have a similar layout. But that is probably because the profession is centred around efficiency and the most effective shapes tend to correlate." she explained in a somewhat lengthy manner before Nin stepped forward.

"And what exactly are you doing?" he asked.

"Recycling the smaller tools into a smaller selection, but one more suited for my hands. Are you perhaps going to want some custom-made tools?" Liadanann would then ask back as she grabbed Nin's hand. And she would mess with his few fingers before frowning at them.

"Not the best, are they?" Nin joked as he moved them against where Liadanann intended to move them. Three digits, each of them thick and blocky.

"I'm surprised your kind would even learn how to use anything that wasn't a stick."

"You'd be surprised at how unique I am compared to my kind." Nin said before he looked at me sadly. Something I tried to counter with a reassuring stroke of his hand. In a way, he was speaking about both his old body and his current one. A human in the body of an osibindah.

"Osibindah, correct? That flaming creature from before said so." she said before she went quiet at Nin's sudden twitch. A portion of bloodthirst from what had happened not so long ago?

"Uh... You lot, would you mind coming to the bridge with me, please." Vadei then said as she slowly came up from behind. And, wow, she looked tired.

"You alright?" I would ask at first but she just gave me a blank stare and a slow gesture.

"Can't you tell us through the speaker?" Nin questioned as he started to follow her. But she would say nothing and we would be slowly trailing behind her. And as Liadanann seemed incapable of minding her strides. I moved aside so I did not have those claws scraping my boots.

And then I realised what had happened, and I growled at her before we then arrived at the bridge. Larishazza was already there and the two slavers were too. By her chair as well, her mother who looked just as tired. Even if she tried to keep up the impression that she wasn't.

"Can we know now...?" Nin would ask as Vadei's mother protectively took hold of her daughter. Yet, she did not do so in a particularly obvious way. I only caught on because this was the sort of thing Mother taught me about it a little. To get an idea of how to handle situations.

Admittedly, being around Nin has made me wonder if those lessons had been forgotten.

"I have decided on a change of plans." Vadei said nervously. Both her own tail and her Mother's were in her grasp.

"I?" Nin repeated, only to get a glare for his trouble. Just another reminder as to why Nin should stay in his attire... At least, when he is meeting new people.

"Y-Yeah... I'll stop at the closest human settlement, be it in the ravines or mountains so I can let those two go. Then, I will be taking the airship back to my homeland... So we can properly bury Dad and the others..." she explained.