Chapter 281 – More about the fox

The group had finished their baths and changed into something more comfortable. Something with much less fabric, one has to add. Chloe, Maya, and Sophia had already taken a liking to not wearing much when relaxing or going to bed. Because of that, they decided that Anna and Ari should enjoy it, too.

As the runaway couple had forgotten to bring pajamas, the trio gave them some spare, which happened to be their skimpiest pieces of clothing for some reason. As five lightly dressed girls were a sight to behold, things got slightly weird, especially when all of them were slightly thirsty and most definitely were some sort of perverts. Thanks to that, lots of viewing and appreciating each other was had before the girls could finally calm down and relax for good.

“Alrighty, now that everyone’s got the horny out of their systems and is done looking at naked skin, what else should we do for the rest of the evening?” Sophia seemed to be in an excellent mood as she showed everyone in the living room a great smile.

“Hmm…” Chloe just tilted her head in response.

“Ah!” Hearing the fox-girl make a noise, Anna immediately looked at her. “I’d love to know more about you! You kind of just appeared and became a part of the group in an instant because you fit in so well, but it happened so fast that I still don’t really know much about you. From the bits I heard, you also seem to have experienced a ton just as our Sophia and I bet it's super interesting!"

“Uhh, sure!” She nodded a couple of times. “What do you want to know?”

“Let’s see…” The princess needed a moment to decide on her first question. "Well, I might as well ask about this Fey… Feyfey, I've heard a few times now first. Who is she?"

“Do you have some time?” Chloe just looked at her.

“Can’t say I have much planned for the rest of the evening.”

“Well, it’s actually not that complicated, but…”

“Less beating around the bush!” Anna was getting impatient.

“YOU are not allowed to say these words, my dear.” Maya rolled her eyes while she pointed at her with a highly disapproving expression.

"A-Ahaha…” The princess had no comeback for that. "A-Anyway…" She could not look back at her and continued to focus on Chloe.

“Let’s see… More or less, Feyfey’s my mother. I’m not entirely sure whether I’m her real daughter because she always gets a little evasive on the topic. Still, it feels like it to me, and she also raised me since I was an infant, so… Yep, she’s my mother.”

“I see. If you aren’t sure about it… Is she not a fox like you?”

"Oh, no, she is. Actually, she is a full fox, just like the wolves of Sophia and Maya.”

“Oh! Well, it’s much rarer, but it’s not impossible for her to be your mother. With the use of blessing magic and the right parents, that result is totally possible.” Anna pointed at Chloe while saying the last part.

“Ahhh!" Sophia suddenly looked like one of the world’s biggest mysteries had suddenly been solved for her.

“Hmm?” Everyone except Maya looked at her with a confused expression.

“Ah, uhh… no, I was just thinking about something… Please continue."

“Okay.” Chloe just nodded again. "Well, anyway, Feyfey raised me, and she's the one who taught me magic, too."

“Hmm…” The princess suddenly looked at Sophia. “Raised and being taught by a full, somewhat of a complicated family backstory and extremely creative when it comes to magic…”

“Well, it is a pretty common thing, you know?”

“IT IS NOT!” She didn’t accept the blonde’s answer.

“Really? You are the princess of this nation, Ari's the daughter of two head maids and plays being a maid herself, and Maya grew up in a rural place with her parents being normal.”

“I don’t play being a maid!" Ari felt the need to complain here.

“Anyway,” She ignored the jaguar. “All of you are unique, while Chloe and I are seemingly quite similar. See? It’s much more common than any other of you.”

“…” Anna went silent for a moment. “Is it…?” She looked at the other two.

“IT IS NOT!” Ari and Maya also got loud. “Don’t let her fool you!”

“Hey!” She focused on the blonde again.

“Ehehe.”

“Grrr!” The tall tiger growled at the blonde one. “If the rest of this Feyfey is remotely similar to Sophia’s Fen, then…”

“Fennyfenny, Aura, and Fey actually know each other.” Sophia added a few details.

“Really…? Then, I saw that Chloe’s as creative as our girl here, but are you also as powerful? From what I can feel, you seem quite similar to myself, though?”

“No, Sophia has much more magic than I have.”

"It recovers at least just as fast as mine, though. If not even faster. She's also super efficient at using it. Much less wasteful than I am.” The girl in question felt like praising the fox.

“So, she is ridiculous, after all?”

“Yup.” Maya just nodded in response.

“Business as usual, I see.” Anna decided not to be bothered or jealous about it. “Where is she right now, though? Feyfey, that is? From the bits I've heard so far, you're waiting for her, right?"

“Ahh…” Chloe suddenly looked slightly awkward while she scratched her cheek.

“Eh?! Did something happen to her?!” The princess didn’t like her reaction.

“No… Feyfey’s fine. Something kind of happened to me that made her visit someone to take care of it.”

“Wow, that’s a very vague description of the events!” Sophia sounded impressed. “I have to take notes of that!”

“You’re already plenty good at that…” Maya just rolled her eyes again.

“Uhh…?” Anna wasn’t any less confused when she looked at the fox. “What happened to you, then?”

“We ran into some humans, and they, well… they said some mean things to me and mentioned wanting to try something even meaner…”

“Ahhh…” For some reason, the princess instinctively looked at her fellow tiger in response.

“Because of that, Feyfey got a little scary and decided to teach the humans a thing or two about how she thinks about their behavior…”

“I don’t know her yet, but I doubt she’ll be overly effective with that.” She just shook her head. "Even the war Sophia started against them probably won’t be solving everything at once.”

“Hey!” The warmonger got loud. “I didn’t start the war! I merely fought and ended it!”

"Let's not get hung up on the little details here."

“It’s not little at all!” Sophia felt the need to disagree. “Also, Chloe left out the most important bits!”

“What does that mean?” She looked back at the fox-girl.

“Well… Feyfey can get quite angry…”

“So can be a certain someone.” Her stare went back to the blonde once again.

“Fey seems to be more intense, though.” She defended herself. “Even Fennyfenny is scared of her! According to Aura and him, she can get really angry. They even said that compared to what I did in the war, I might as well have been only slightly upset back then.”

“Oh.” Anna had nothing else to say.

“Also,” Sophia wasn’t done yet. “I got upset because the humans tried to do something to me and threatened my friends. Feyfey got angry because they tried to do something to her daughter. Daughter." She had to say it twice because it was important.

“That is worse, yes.” The princess nodded in agreement.

“Much.” She was glad that she understood. “If anyone ever tries something to my potential future child or whatever, what I did during the war, would not even equal to me being slightly upset. I would destroy a continent.” Her eyes looked absolutely serious.

“And you already are plenty scary without that…” Anna shivered for a second while she was looking at her fellow tiger. “Worst is that I actually believe you…”

“Because it’s true.”

“Scary.” She shuddered again before facing Chloe again. “Okay, I still don’t know where Feyfey went? A place with some humans to vent her anger?”

“Pretty much.”

"Poor humans." She had some conflicting emotions about it. "By the way, what place exactly? I might have to tell father about it so that he can remove that place from the map if she’s even scarier than Sophia in that regard.”

“The human capital.” Chloe was awkwardly scratching her cheek again.

“Oh.” Once again, Anna didn't know what else to say. “I kind of don’t want to tell father about that. Father has way too much on his mind lately, anyway… Any more would probably make his head explode. It almost already did when they found this huge and suspicious lake a good while away from here where they wanted to build a new outpost city."

“Suspicious lake…?” Ari suddenly looked at Sophia. “Why does that sound so familiar?”

“…” She was unable to look her in the eyes. “I-If that already made him lose it, I wonder how he reacted to his daughter having had loud sex in the castle for everyone to hear.”

“…” Everyone went silent while the faces of the couple in question turned bright red.

“Sorry, that was too much…” Sophia really wanted to change the topic away from the lake she had created, but she overdid it a little.

Afterward, as things had gotten a little awkward, Chloe eventually started talking about some of her other trips to cheer the embarrassed couple up a bit and distract their thoughts. She basically told them the same she already mentioned to Sophia, like the desert or the jungle she visited with Fey. Once the jungle came up, Anna and Ari quickly were able to let go of the whole castle fiasco relatively quickly. Something about said jungle made them really twitchy and excited for some reason. Thanks to that, the mood relaxed again, and the girls continued their evening in a cheery manner.