"She started when?" Evian asked as Ember notched another arrow and prepared to shoot.
"As I said, a few days," Zayda said smirking at Evian.
She knew he had enough reason to be amazed. Despite the abilities that you gain as you progress in Martial Order, strength and speed hardly help with accuracy, and even extending your senses can only get you so far. Archery takes a lot more practice to get as precise as Ember currently is.
"She's a natural," Zayda said while looking back at Ember and catching the moment when she let the arrow go and hit yet another perfect target.
"It would appear so," Evian said gently.
Ember let out a breath when she prepared to notch another arrow and then she looked over at Zayda to find that Evian had already arrived. It said a lot about her concentration on the Bow that has had not realized Evian had arrived.
Her lips stretched into a smile as she lowered her Bow-wielding arm but when she was about to let out a loud call to her lover, her eyes seemed to only now notice the part of Evian's cloth that was open ans dyed with blood.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"Huh?" Evian let out confused and then he looked down at his clothes to see the reason for concern.
It was funny. Despite the distance he had walked and even when he boarded a commercial carriage, Evian had not raised any eyebrows. Either people didn't care or they cared so much they decided to look away from someone who dared to walk around as tattered as he did.
'Heh, they might have looked at me like I was mad. Come to think of it, the Ladies were also grimy and bloody as well from the Forest ordeals.'
Even Zayda had not mentioned it but that was likely because war wounds were something she was used to and she believed that if Evian was still able to stand on his two feet, then he was healthy enough for her not to be too concerned.
"Dangerous stabs but I'm fine now," Evian said and gently waved off Ember's concern,
"I'll tell you more about it later so don't be too bothered. I'll see you again soon."
He turned around and left the Courtyard entirely so he could run himself a bath and clean off all the residues of his battles in the Forest.
Ember and Carleine would have wished to go after Evian immediately but Zayda stopped them before they could, claiming the training had to continue well into nightfall. The duo of Gillert and Bryon were totally exempt from this exchange as they were totally engrossed in their attempts at gaining insights.
Meanwhile,
In his Room, Evian had on a robe, and feeling refreshed after his bath, he sat cross-legged on his bed and continued to increase his understanding of the Slave/Subjugation Seal.
'Shame... But I should have expected it. Something that would allow me to break free of the majority of the System's microtransactions would not be so readily available.'
[You wouldn't be breaking free of 'Some' but rather 'All of it.]
'I'm glad you told me that much at least. Don't worry... I'll indeed get stronger and we will indeed talk.'
*Knock* *Knock*
Evian looked over at the door and smiled. He knew who was behind the door. He had been expecting them after all.
"Come in."
The door opened and the duo of Ember and Carleine walked in, dressed in silky robes that were in abundance in this mansion for leisure nightly use. The two ladies had gotten better at corresponding with each other in regards to this sort of joint activity.
They walked in side by side to see Evian on his bed, cross-legged, and of course, they joined him. Ember grabbed Evian's face and pressed her lips against his.
Evian raised a hand and grabbed the back of her head to keep the kiss going so naturally, Carleine grabbed his free hand and pushed it past the cover of her robe so it could have direct contact with one of her breasts with an indication to be honked.
Evian had only made the first squeezes that the two ladies let their weight press against him until his back hit the bed and there they wrapped their legs around him, crossing body parts over each other but paying hardly any attention to that when they were touching the one who caused their bodies to burn— In an Ecstatic way.
Evan felt hands pulling his robe open, roaming his chest but his attention remained on the mouth his tongue was currently exploring. As he kissed Ember, and she pressed herself against him, silently humping her wet center against his tighs, Evian was well aware of what his other hand was busy with, and of course, he did not neglect that delightful mound.
He squeezed, he kneaded and he pinched, and rather than let her yells ring out and ricochet against the room's ceiling, she muffled the sounds by biting into the side of Evian's neck. She bit as hard as she could and even as she screamed, she ran her tongue all over the area her mouth covered.
Evian didn't hate the feeling and as his rod began to rise, he was quickly sinking into Debauchery but he had not sunk so deep as not to detect that there was now a fourth presence in the room.
A presence he recognized.
"You've returned."
Zayda said nothing. This was the first time since Kalkao City that she would allow herself to come over for her characteristic voyeurism.
The reasons she had stayed away had not gone away -Not even close- but her self-control had.
"Welcome back," Evian told her, "We're glad to have you."