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"Are they that bad, the guys of your race? Will I not survive after their abundant caresses? So what? Why so much concern?"

"How do I know what will happen to your psyche after such adventures," Adivaris emphasized. "You might go crazy. This usually happens to people who, like toys, fall into the clutches of some individuals. And you are too beautiful for them, they will do without such joy!"

"Do you think I'm handsome?"

"You will stay with me for now for your safety..." my mentor muttered angrily and left the room.

... What is this ... strange guardianship over me? Adivaris is so worried about me... Does he care about me? Fell in love? That's exactly what I might think. He locked me in his bedroom and did not answer my question. He didn't want me to be used in nasty way?

It really is so touching and romantic! I don't mind becoming his companion at all if he is lonely, as he claims. He replaced many women who could not survive with his characteristics. Could I live with him? However, Adivaris is so dominant!

Since he was so concerned about my mental health, I spent the night in his bedroom. It never occurred to me that the next morning I would wake up in the same bed with him... He was sleeping peacefully next to me... naked! Wrapped in his white wings. Such a muscular handsome man... I admired him and began to carefully untangle the stuck strands of his silver hair from the protruding feathers, laying them out over his massive shoulders. He shuddered, woke up and frowned, squinting at the ray of light in the slightly curtained window.

"There was nothing!" Adivaris blurted out guiltily and rushed to get dressed in a thick robe.

"And how should I know?" I doubted what was said. "You know how to deprive me of memory, and I just don't remember anything about last night."

"It's a misunderstanding, I'm sorry for lying down next to you. This is my favorite bedroom and I am used to always sleeping here."

"So you could move me further to another bedroom..."

"No... and in general, I had to protect you from the concerned fans whom you teased yesterday with your appearance in public. They will now stalk you and try to get you a date."

"And why protect me? Is it all that serious? But I don't mind! Let it be, I want it! Let them pursue me!"

"But I do not want!" Adivaris suddenly blurted out, turning away.

"And what does this all mean?"

"What is unclear? I don't want you to participate in their orgies. None of them love you, they will just use you for their insatiable libido… don't you really care so much, as long as you're with someone?"

"I care!" I spoke sharply. "And you are too protective of me, as if you have... some kind of feelings for me..."

"And if so, what bothers you?"

"But you prefer women... what other feelings for me? Haven't you emphasized this constantly? So many times I've been told you don't sleep with guys and herms!"

His excuses immediately rushed to splash out in a stormy stream:

"I didn't emphasize this, but simply shared my experiences, was it really not noticeable that I want to be close to you? Would I pour out my soul for no reason? Were you so obsessed about Eurol that you didn't notice anything?"

"I don't understand such indirect hints of closeness... You could have said right away that you like me..."

We were both embarrassed by the excessive mutual emotionality and froze in silence for a long time, turning in different directions.

"I like you..." followed by his quiet confession. "It's not about appearance or gender, especially since you have now become a polymorph, capable of taking on any physical form. Your character is special, you achieve difficult goals while being in slavery... It did not break you, on the contrary, you became even stronger. I personally was very much against your kidnapping and that I would have to look after you. I expected a hard process of your adaptation, but everything went much easier..."

"In fact, I was broken until Eurol visited me, his radiant beauty filled me with the desire to fight for a better life. It was like magic pierced right through me."

"Do you still want to be with him? I'll tell you a secret: he is a bait for souls so that you fall into his nets, and Eurol always copes with this task perfectly. He is the Lord's love weapon and he has a mystical penetrating power that forces fans to adore him immensely, despite the fact that from the outside he does not seem so attractive, an ordinary person, so to speak, without any special talents.

"Is that why the Lord values him so much?"

"It seems that He himself is in his nets: he has been in love with him for thousands of years, endures his whims, but also uses him for such purposes as to keep especially valuable entities with him. Therefore, the illustrious prince is his personal treasure, which should be pleased and pampered..."

"Are there so many of them? These souls who flew to his radiance?"

"Many... The prince has a harem, whom he himself chose for his pleasure. These are very beautiful men devoted to him... You can, of course, strive to get there, and perhaps you will achieve it... but I invite you to become my partner so that we can live together as a family."