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"Baroness?" Siv says as she approaches the stables.

"Mm?" Coradel looks up from where she's checking the shine on Samson's saddle. "Ah, Captain.. All is well?"

"Quite grand" Siv smiles, "Done my studies, done my sparring, and done my time"

"Your time? Ah! Is your Month of Terrible Exile complete?"

"It tis," She nods "Was yesterday in fact, but it behooves one to show some decorum" Then a smile "I'll have to try it some day"

"Ha! Well, it's a suitable trait to have when you can make it work for you. But when you have to work for it, that's when you end up with the stick up certain nether regions. Mind you, if you're into that, who am I to judge." A grin, and she sets the saddle in its place.

"I take it you're anxious to venture south?"

"I am, but not to see my sister," She says "i've a quest I'll be on"

Coradel takes her arm and walks with her out of the stables and back into the manor. Her expression gets a bit more serious. "Ah, yes. The traffickers."

A look of surprise on Siv's face for only a moment "Aye."

A blink. "You thought I didn't know about the issue?"

"I thought you did'nt know about my part in it" She says honestly

Bemused. "Well, I can't imagine such a thing would be going on and you wouldn't want a part in it. When you said quest, I assumed. If you weren't already involved, I'd have asked you."

"Ah," She gives a wolf smile, "You're a grand lass, Baroness, to say so. Glad to see I've impressed enough that you'd want me along on a mission."

"Without a doubt! You may still be wet behind the ears, but you're a fearsome fighter, and I believe you'd go to great lengths to achieve your goal, whatever it is."

"Well, me goal is to become a Fiona!" SHe smiles "But I don't mind working for it . Wishing alone never got anyone into a House"

"Well, I know you are not under my command in this, but I hope that whatever it is you're doing, it's a good, meaty adventure. You say you're going south? Down to Feathered Serpent?"

"Aye, though I'd ask you to keep that between us and maybe Zara. Fewer who know, the better I think. Heck, I'm not even telling my own mother about it"

"Or your father or sister, I suppose. None of them will thank me for that...but I did manage to keep you out of your sister's hair for a month, so she'd best be grateful," Coradel teases.

"Ha. If she thinks about it, she's likely to build a statue of you"

"In truth, I think it did me some good too." She says "Love comes first, but it is not without consequence"

A bemused look. "Well, chalk that up to another step towards the House. Speaking of love, though...how are things with your transforming gentleman?"

"Oh, frustrating... I had what I hoped was a chance for a ... well, three way encounter? " A light blush. At home she's the far too bold a speaker, here she feels almost conservative, "A fine gent... but Jonas balked at the last moment. "

"Oh!" Coradel frowns. "Not at the very last moment, I hope?"

"Well not quite but close..." A frustrated grunt "No that's not fair... we only barely got started"

"Oh, but still...all parties had initially agreed? Have you had a chance to find out what happened?"

"Aye" She sighs

"And...?"

"He just wasn't ready... "

"Wasn't ready to share you? Or wasn't ready to be with the other partner?"

A BRIGHT blush "He's not crazy about me playing the field, but he got even shier about being the top part of a Siv Sandwich"

"Ahhhhh....." Coradel nods. "I'm sorry he didn't see it through. If he tries again, he'll have the memory of the earlier event haunting the new one."

"But Jonas has gotten so good in other areas.. we even swapped genders to see what it was like" She says "I have to tell you, tis a good thing I'm NOT male normally or I'd have a bulge in my pants likely to steer a ship wrong at the slightest wind"

Coradel laughs delightedly. "Oh, now there's something I haven't tried! Did you enjoy it?"

"Aye, it ... I think I understand better how to please him... and more the challenges the lads have. Not saying they only think with what swings between their legs, but it's a demanding beast I can say that. As a woman I like to be slow kindled, stirred and built up... as a man, and it was only night mind ye, twas like a bolt out of the gate... trying to contain, feeling it ALL from the main focus of... I really don't know if I have words. I like being a lass better, but there's something to be said with the raging tempest that is a masculine hunger"

"Yes, yes there is," Coradel purrs. "And...what did he think of his feminine experience?"

Siv smirks "Unless he learned to fake something on his first night, he..pardon She enjoyed it very much"

Oooo there's some pride

"Ha. Well, good...but...hm." A thought. "Have you and he been together since then? Intimately? The threesome-interruptus doesn't count."

"Oh surely," She says "The next night after that and some other times besides. Why?"

"Good, then. I was concerned that he might have difficulty performing after understanding your gender's experience of his gender's hunger."

"Not that we don't get hungry ourselves," she adds with a wink.

"Oh lord know, the ancient greeks actually considered women the lustier of the sexes, then again, a lot of them were sexist so... could be some projection there" Amused then she admits "Tween you and me, I go a month without I get snapish, but so help me the fool who says 'someone needs to get laid' is volunteering for a knee in the groin."

"That's letting the jackass off lightly. So...it isn't a matter of gender confusion. Was the other partner in this threesome more amply endowed than Jonas?"

A blush "I.. no and if he were Jonas can ... ye see, with shapechanging magics there's also SIZE changing so Jonas has... let's say I know my limits"

"OOoooooohhhhh...He can be that precise? The man must have quite a circulatory system." Coradel sounds impressed.

"Honestly? He's rather stunned at what I suggest he use magic for, but ..then he thinks on it and gives in and ..well.. I notice it gets used pretty casual after that. " A happy sigh "One time his tongue grew to the..." A cough "Gods. Sorry, Baroness. I think I might be drifting off a happy memory there. I confess, Fiona tutoring has had me speak rather boldly of things"

Coradel laughs. "Oh, Captain, I'm hardly scandalized. But I am puzzled about why he would be suddenly so shy to play with another if he's willing to try so much else."

"It may be....that he fears witnessing somebody else giving you pleasure would make him act in jealousy."