The long road to Novigrad (Part 7)

[Sundays are my day off so see you all Monday!!!]

I fell asleep fast after I brought Ciri back to bed. I was so tired after honoring our bet. Today we are taking care of the Griffins in the Ursten forest. We will have plenty of coin for high quality rings, I was always going to help her pay for one. I just wanted to see her motivated mood, it makes the days together even better. I am not getting us up early today, we have crossed the border and now we can take a better pace. I have been really stern with our schedule, I picked up that trait from Yen. She hated being late or when others were late.

I come in and out of sleep for the next hour and a half. Soon I feel movement and I unwrap from Ciri and sprawl my body out. Letting her out incase she needs to go to the bathroom or something. I feel movement on the bed and then Ciri gets up and walks to the bathroom. She must be half asleep as I hear her bump into things. "*BUMP**CRASH* Son of a....." She sounds really groggy. I hear the sound of things rolling all over the ground. After some shuffling I hear water hitting a surface. I am to tired to care right now.

After the noise stops I hear her come back just as slow and as loud as before. This time she falls on what she knocked over. "Woah!! *THUD*." That didn't sound so good. "Who puts acorn's in a bowl for decoration!!!" I feel bad for her now. I decide not to say anything as she finally makes it back to the bed and crawls back in. She immediately finds her way to me and wraps her naked soft body on me. The thought and feeling of being a body pillow is now ingrained in me. I wrap my left arm around her gently since she is hugging my left side.

It is not even close to the time I want us to get up so I should just tell her. "We aren't going anywhere any time soon....You can go back to sleep...." I don't know how easy it will be to find a bed again on our way to Novigrad so might as well enjoy it. Yen drilled that when woman don't have to get up then they won't. I feel myself fall back into a slumber as I know Ciri is not so far behind me.

As I am dreaming sweet nothings a big room begins to form. One I have never seen before, soon decorations line the walls and portraits of people I have never met before are visible. It is quite rare for me to have vivid non nightmare dreams. As I walk through the room I notice a very tall elven woman. She is extremely beautiful and very familiar. I could have sworn I met this woman somewhere before. I am embarrassed I don't remember someone so beautiful. I try to speak, but nothing comes out of my mouth.

After a couple seconds of trying to speak, she turns and I hear her talk to me. "I need you to listen right now Cera....." She sounds so much like my mother. I have heard this voice before, but the memories are hard to place. "You will come to know the power and birthright you truly carry. When that time come's, you will be given a choice...." Her sweet voice is almost lulling me to sleep. I don't know what she is getting at though. I have no birthright, except to maybe the land my mom and dad owned. "Whatever you choose, just remember these words..." I know something important is coming. "The sins of your ancestors shall fall unto you.....I am sorry Cera...." I am very confused right now.

As I think she is finally done talking, she walks up to me and leans down to kiss my cheek. "I love you very much Cera....I will always be with you....." After she said that everything turned dark again and I go back to dreaming nothing. I don't know what that was, but I should find out what. That woman looked so much like mom. I know it wasn't her though, she was too tall. Her pointy ears also told me she was elven. Mom never had pointy ears. I should heed this warning.

I soon exit my sleep and feel the light coming through into our room. After a few minutes I unwrap my arms from Ciri. She wont let go however, I need to get our clothes from the bathroom. I still can't get Ciri off me though. I get up with her still attached to my body. "Hmmm...Don't leave Cera....Your so warm...." Still asleep it seems. I make my way towards the bathroom with her nude body squeezing mine. I enter the bathroom and make our way to our clothes.

I grab them and come back to the bed and lay them down. I wont be able to get dressed with her still on me, so I unpeel her from me as she visibly shivers. I lay her back in the bed and cover her with the blanket. I quickly get dressed and strap my sword on my back. I turn and lean down to her. "*Smooch* I am going to ask the locals about the forest, I will be expecting you." I get back up and see her slowly waking up. She got my message then.

I walk out of our room and make it to the innkeeper. "Can I perhaps have any information you have about the forest?" The man looks at me and sighs.

He puts down the mug he was washing. "I don't know much. However the Armorer would know something. He lost his brother to those god forsaken woods." I guess that helps. As I am walking to the door I hear low heels running after me.

I slow down at the door as I hear her fast approach. "Wait up Cera!! You aren't doing this without me!!" I never planned to do this without her. Guess she just wanted to make sure I didn't disappear again. She stops right beside me and grasps my hand.

I look to her with an amused smile. "Is monster hunting a date between us?" She only grabs my hand when its suppose to be bonding time between us. I do love the affection she shows me though. I shouldn't complain should I?

She cocks a smile at me and grips my hand tighter. "Do I make you nervous? Its okay to be embarrassed." I am not embarrassed. I will prove it top.

I quickly lean in before she can respond. "*SMMMOOOOCCHHHH*" I give a long and physical kiss as I move our mouths and tongues together. "MMMM~~." I proved my point it seems. I pull away and give her a look of victory.

She gains herself fast and sees my cocky face. "Guess you aren't embarrassed. You get better and better every time we kiss." I know how to kiss you Ciri. You are the only one I have ever done that with.

I push open the door and walk out hand in hand with her. "We need to go speak to the armorer. He has information we need." I am sure we can handle the griffins, we are both fantastic fighters. I need to know the terrain though. If we aren't careful they could have an advantage that we could have taken.

We slowly walk to the hut on the edge of town where he is located. I knock on the door and hear a man welcome us in. I push the door open and see that he has a decent range of weapons and armor. I don't wear armor. I just where combat clothes. I walk up to the man and shake his hand. After about 15 minutes of asking questions and getting the information we needed I now know that we can do this 100 percent successfully.

I walk out with Ciri and we make our way into the forest. We still have plenty of daylight left. So we may be able to kill, collect the reward and leave for Novigrad. "Do we want to single a griffin out and neutralize it or do you want to take them on by ourselves separately?" I know Ciri can handle a griffin by herself since she can use the basic's of her power. If things get sticky I'll use some magic.

She gives a thinking look and gives a confident grin. "We should see who can kill theirs first. The loser buys dinner next time. Also gives the other a massage." Sounds like fun. I guess she wants another massage, but that is if she win's. Typical overconfident Ciri. It's not like she shouldn't be, I also love that about her.

I lean closer to her and we rub shoulder's. "Sounds fun to me. I hope you are ready to lose. I am not planning to fail again." Most people would call us crazy for doing this. Then again we aren't most people.

She gives me a joy filled laugh that melts my heart. "I will be winning that massage Cera. You can count on that." So she wants the massage more than the dinner. She must have liked what I did last night.

I lean in and kiss her cheek. "I'll give you a massage every night Ciri, all you have to do is ask. You are my future wife." I can see that has an effect on her.

~~~(POV Ciri)~~~

I always lose to him with words. He also makes me embarrassed when he should be the one embarrassed. "I love you Cera....I don't know what I'd do if I lost you again." He captured my heart when we were young. Now he has captured my future too. I want to spend the rest of my life with him. Plus keeping him close will make it easier to keep other woman away from him. I refuse to let a single woman or man near him. It may be a little obsessive and possessive, but I'm crazy about him. The best part is he is crazy about me too. I thought I would never love again.

I stop him and wrap my arms around his neck as I go on my tippy toes and bring him down. His height is a problem sometimes. "*SMMOOOCCHHH*." I give him the same treatment he gave me earlier. He gives me a big grin, all of a sudden he picks me up bridal style as I still have my arms around his neck.

He gives me a loving smile that lowers all my guards. "I love you too Ciri. You are the most important person to me." I lean into his neck and lay my head there. He carries me as I start to drift off to sleep.