Raven had left Tanya's house a while ago and nobody but him and just one more person had any idea as to what had happened back there. Arche, being too big to be let out with the other girls, had been watching it all unfold and could even taste Raven's murderous intent oozing out of him like a trail of smoke.
"You know, I feed on corruption too. If you want I can reap that murderous voice out of your heart, but I doubt you'd wanna lose your crafty edge~" Arche whispered through the gem, but Raven didn't even give her words a second thought. "Ughh fine, be as you are; ignore help when it is offered, and complain later as if you were offered none."
"Just say what you have to say!" Raven complained, his feet picking up the pace as he wandered through the streets late at night.
Chuckling to herself, Arche decided to make matters a bit more exciting and demanded something of her own right that instant.
"First get me that warm bath you were offering, and we can talk to our heart's desire," although a bit frustrated by her tone, Raven reached for his teleportation necklace and whisked them away at the party's side.
Neither Erika nor Aria had any intentions of coming back to the Inn tonight and they'd been very vocal about their wishes, so Raven teleported himself on Mel's side. But right after being teleported he noticed Melicia sleeping in the room he used to stay in, all dolled up and wearing a transparent white gown.
Not wanting to wake her up, Raven decided to take Arche to the bathhouse so he could first know whatever it was that she was offering before meeting up with anyone. Slipping the potion to make her small inside the gem by having her poke her nail stick out slightly, he gave it to her on his way to the bath.
'Nobody's around, didn't know that long had passed.' With everyone asleep, sneaking into the bathhouse was a breeze. However, seeing as to how the bath in the boartooth wasn't exactly that big, he grew slightly concerned about someone walking right in. And so blocking the door behind him with a wall of darkness, he ensured that nobody else could enter.
So far her children have all been Arche–at least the surviving ones since the spiders fed on her mixed-born children.
"Quite strange isn't it?" She muttered, right as Raven walked into the bath completely naked as well.
Looking at him, Arche beckoned him closer. As he did, she grabbed his hand and moved it onto her womb, and already the mage could feel–an intense throbbing almost as if the very organ was aching for his love.
"I've never been with a man and yet I've birthed children from the carcass of those I've consumed, but now for some reason, it's not my belly that's aching, but rather this–" Slapping her pussy with her free hand, Arche chuckled and continued. "This pussy and my womb, and they both wanna feel your dick again~"
A devious smile rode on Arche's lips, she was ready to try and do anything just so she could get Raven's seed. But the moment his hand retreated, the smile disappeared completely. Sharing a stare with others for a moment, the intensity of the situation quickly became clear.
"Well, maybe another time.
For now, shower me with your doubt and I'll help you deal with that monster sleeping within," a monster herself in every sense of the word, the mother who devours her own child before their births, was the last person Raven would've listened to, but that also made her the only one he knew to control the monsters in her heart–something Raven was struggling with to the point where he had to leave Tanya's house.
'Doesn't seem like I have a choice.' He thought, hoping this was the right choice.