Bastarache, Welcome to the Nightmare

Game Master Rysky

"I ask these things because there are many entities that pretend to be friendly, but are not. Humans even do it to each other. So I want to believe you... but as you yourself said before, I should try to ascertain these things before I take risks. Being intimate with someone is inherently risky - more so if it is someone you do not know," says Yasmin as Sani soaps her foot.

"I've had a few admirers... not many. And some, less than polite. I don't know if I live up to your vision of me - you know only that I've said a few kind words. How do I treat the less fortunate? What values will I uphold when tested? These are the kinds of traits that make a noble soul, I feel."

She looks surprised when Sani grips one of her rings, and exhales sharply, then softly puts one of her hands over Sani's, holding her hand still atop Yasmin's chest. "I do take care to clean them from time to time," she says slowly, "though if you would care to perform that service, please do so, if the color does not offend your sight."

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”I do not think of myself sly enough to pretend to be friendly, or hungry, my Yasmin, besides that sounds like unnnecesary work. Why pretend to be friendly when I can be friendly? Why fake hunger when I can sate it?” she responds as she looks over Yasmin’s toenails.

”A pox on those ruffians then, my dear Yasmin. And I trust you to be who you are, you, who said a few kind words when in a place you knew nothing about, before you knew you were an honored guest in this house. Your’s is truly a noble soul.”

Sani bites her lip when she gets that reaction Yasmin, her hungry grin widening when Yasmin puts her hand on her’s. ”With pleasure, my Yasmin. They are not posseing enough of that color, yet, but even if they were, I have a duty, and other parts to foscus on, my Yasmin.” she growls as she starts to get a feel of the other woman’s breast. ”They feel lovely and fit nicely in my hand, just the right size to grip. Mine take a little more effort, sadly.” she cotniues as she grabs her own flesh and lets her fingers sink in, easily showing off much they dwarf the Sha’ir’s.

Taking her hand off herself she begins attending to the ring on the other breast as she was asked to.

"I think you are quite clever, Sani, but you may not feel a need to use that cleverness against me. At least, I hope that is the case," says Yasmin.

"I will admit that having been pursued, harangued, and threatened for my life for many years... a respite simply seems too good to believe. Yet if it is a trap, at least my struggles will end in peace and serenity."

Yasmin's eyelids droop as she rests her arms back on the edges of the tub and lets Sani do the exquisite work of carefully removing, cleaning, and replacing the small metal rings, with the expected response from her taut flesh.

"You've certainly been blessed in your attributes, Sani," she says. "But you likewise know how to make me feel like I am not inadequate by comparison. You are kind and considerate to a poor stranger - also a noble soul."

”Fear not, my Yasmin, for I feel it is very hard for me to be clever at the moment,” Sani replies while looking over the Sha’ir’s body.

”While your struggles will end here, at least for the moment, hopefully I can continue this respite for you, my Yasmin, so tht you may carry some peace with you.”

Methodically due to practice she goes about the care of Yasmin’s rings and breasts, smiling and licking her lips as she admires the sight before her afterwards.

Looking up into her eyes as she compliments her Sani responds ”A thousand thank yous, I am glad they are a pleasant sight to you, my Yasmin. And I would hope not, your body is a wondrous sight, and feel, and taste most likely too. You should take pride in it, a wondrous gift to yourself and those you deem to share it with. Why compare when I can compliment?” As she talks she inspects the rings with her fingers before moving them to the rest of the Shai’r’s breasts.

”I cannot thank you enough for the kindness you continue to show me, such kind words and compliments feel me with such... warmth. To elevate my soul alongside the radiance of your’s, it is too much for one such as I, my darling Yasmin.” she says as her fingers to continue their work.

"Mmm." Yasmin's head rolls to one side, then back, then around again. She blinks a few times, then picks up the soap bar again and soaps her submerged abdomen. She leans slightly forward into Sani's ministrations and says, "You have a good touch." Putting the soap aside again she looks down at Sani's wandering hands and says languidly, "I almost forgot - I was going to ask if you can leave here, too. But obviously you must be able to, as you are only here for certain hours." She raises her hands out of the water and rests them just below her collarbone as she watches Sani trace back and forth.

Sani licks her lips as she hears the sounds Yasmin makes and watches her squirm in her hands due to her ministrations. ”Thank you, my Yasmin, my duty right now is very demanding of me having it, so I am glad it is up to your expectations.”

At the question she manages to actually Sani nods her head from side to side. ”When my contract is up I will find myself where I was before I took this job. So I will leave, when the time comes, not before, and surely not before taking care of my most honored guest.” she says, her words turning into a purr as she moves her hands down to the Sha’ir’s stomach and then back, scooting forward on her knees their legs brushed against each other.

Once Sani shifts closer, Yasmin says, "Ah, I should keep my word." She grabs the soap again and starts in on running it down Sani's long legs, from her hips to her knees and back again. Conversationally she adds, "So there's no chance that you might leave with me? When your contract ends you are simply whisked away to wherever you came from? You are pleasant company... it makes me a bit sad to think that in a few hours you'll be gone and I may never see you again."

Yasmin leans backward and forward with her hands on Sani's legs, working up a good lather, and continues, "Or is there some way that when I get a key and visit later, I can notify you?"

"It's almost like the fact that your contract has an expiration time is a nudge to get me to leave, disappointed, when it expires," she says wryly. "Though I suppose one can't stay here forever."

Sani stiffens at first when Yasmin returns the ministrations but soon the tenseness in her limbs melts as the two women work in tandem to clean each other. ”Thank you, my Yasmin.”

As the Sha’ir suggests leaving with her Sani’s eyes fill with hope before her face turns serene, then back to sultry. ”You would have me, to accompany you, my Yasmin? I... it would... the honor you... yes. I would love to accompany you in your travels. I would deeply miss you too, my Yasmin.”

She let out an ”unf” and rocked back and forth as Yasmin lathered her legs. ”If I give you a key and you manage to use it, and I am still up for a contract with this Inn I could be summoned. Even so, or if not, I will do my best to find you on the outside, but only with your absolute permission, my Yasmin. I can give you something else so that it may be easier for me to find you.”

The Innkeeper starts to let out a few moans due to Yasmin’s attentions. If not for the steam all around them then her breath would surely be visible by now. ”While my contract has an expiration your tenancy does not, to my knowledge, my Yasmin.”

”But,” she starts before straddling one of the Occultist’s legs, the very distinct feel of that ring rubbing against her flesh, ”no matter how beautiful, a songbird in a gilded cage is still a bird in a cage, my Yasmin.” Wrapping her arms around her to lather her backside Yasmin became all too aware of how much bigger Sani’s were than her’s as their chests pushed against each other.

"What am I doing?" Yasmin murmurs to herself as Sani slides (half-expected) up Yasmin's leg. She wraps her arms around Sami's waist and brings her hands up to Sani's shoulders from behind and below.

"I have to leave sometime," she says. "You are absolutely correct about the gilded cage. But having someone with me on my travels, someone who knows me and cares about me, would be a great boon. And you have been... nothing but hospitable."

"So how can I call upon you in the future?"

A shiver of excitement and need ripples through the magus as Mylyna gives voice to pursuits of a far more intimate nature. It had been so long since she'd been touched by anyone not trying to kill her, or sending her to her fate, she hadn't really allowed herself to think about it through all the chaos she'd been through.....but now.

The sigh that escapes her lips comes unbidden as Mylyna unknowingly teases a weak spot. "Mmmm....we aren't lonely anymore.....and this armor.....is in the way." she whispers, her hands fumbling at the straps of her armor as she gently kisses the lamae.

The following morning
The sun touching her bare skin greets Yelenn with it’s subtle warmth, the fildering light bidding her eyes open as awareness filters in. The silence of the forest but for the soft burble of flowing water, the smells of moss and trees, all fade into the background as the feel of Mylyna’s skin against her own brings her memory alive.

Gazing at her sleeping companion, coiled around her body intimately brings a...

The night:

The next morning:
Mylyna really didn't wake up, per se, she barely heard Yelen and attempted to snuggle tighter to the other woman. The problem with that was that she was a constrictor from the waste down. Snuggling tighter meant the coils constricted. It wasn't enough to cause physical harm, yet, but it was going to be very uncomfortable if Yelen couldn't wake the lamae up and soon.

"What am I doing?" Yasmin murmurs to herself as Sani slides (half-expected) up Yasmin's leg. She wraps her arms around Sami's waist and brings her hands up to Sani's shoulders from behind and below.

"I have to leave sometime," she says. "You are absolutely correct about the gilded cage. But having someone with me on my travels, someone who knows me and cares about me, would be a great boon. And you have been... nothing but hospitable."

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"So how can I call upon you in the future?"

”Me?” Sani can’t help but retort with a wry grin.

”And you have been a most wonderful guest. I would be honored to accompany you, to fulfill you, to give you the warmth you have given me, my Yasmin.” she says in an almost murmur as she writhes in the Sha’ir’s embrace.

”I... may have something I can give you. I’m sorry, it is rather difficult to think on complex subjects right now, my Yasmin. I could... gift you a token. A bit of jewelry, or one of my prized toys?” she manages to get out inbetween gasps of air.

Yasmin lets out a contented breath. She shudders slightly, sending the various rings and chains in the bath to jingling.

"We can discuss it later."

Eyes closed, she leans forward to kiss the water-woman's lips.

And hopes she doesn't get energy drained or drowned or something.

Eyes widening somewhat as the feels Mylyna's coils tighten around her lower body, Yelenn experiences a small surge of alarm, coupled with something else....having witnessed the power of the lamae's coils, being wrapped in them, intimately so despite that power was rather erotic, appealing to the part of her drawn to a touch of danger.

Still, it would be bad for Mylyna to awaken to realize she'd crushed her in her sleep, almost as bad as it would be to be crushed. "Mylyna...time to wake up beautiful." she says a bit louder, kissing her neck, nibbling her ear to draw her from the lull of sleep with a stronger urge.

Yasmin lets out a contented breath. She shudders slightly, sending the various rings and chains in the bath to jingling.

"We can discuss it later."

** spoiler omitted **

Eyes closed, she leans forward to kiss the water-woman's lips.

And hopes she doesn't get energy drained or drowned or something.

Sani nods to Yasmin.

The one thing she had been holding back on against her want since seeing Yasmin, the moment the other woman’s lips touch her own she lets out a muffled and pleading moan as she immediately reciprocates. It’s at that point that Yasmin realizes two things. Sani’s saliva has a pleasant and almost sweet tint to it, though that could just be due to Yasmin’s own thirst. And Sani’s tongue is much longer than it appears.

Yasmin is a bit surprised by the most recent discovery, though this doesn't stop her in the throes of the unexpected love affair. The intensity washes away any other thoughts.

Leaning against Sani with arms draped over her, Yasmin says, "That was one heck of a first kiss. Gods and elements, I needed that."

That was some lousy repetitive writing on my end and I didn't have a chance to edit in the window of opportunity, sorry.

As their lips free and Sani pulls back her tongue she lowers her leg back into the water as her hand rises to gently massage the exhausted Sha’ir’s back. ”I am most glad that you enjoyed it, my Yasmin, I agree.” she replied, her voice husky from her own heavy breathing. Raising her other hand up out to the water she lets her tongue slither out to lap around her fingers.

That was some lousy repetitive writing on my end and I didn't have a chance to edit in the window of opportunity, sorry.

Don’t worry about it, it was fun to read :3

Yasmin shakes out her hair with a "whoo!" and says, "I don't know if it was luck or Fate that we found each other, Sani, but I'm not complaining. Feels too good to be true, having been whisked away from running and ducking and being persecuted, but here we are now, I'll take it, for as long as it lasts. Hopefully a long time."

”That or the cruel winds that travel around us, my Yasmin. Whatever it may be, I have been truly blessed, to have you as my honored guest, my Yasmin. I am glad you were able to find some peace here, that I could provide it for you, however momentarily in the grand scheme before you.”

"We need to figure out what that future will be," says Yasmin, still intertwined with her bath partner. "At some point I'll have to venture out that door... Sani, is there anything else you can tell me? Do you have any skills or magic for our possible future travels?"

Finally gaining the ability to speak again at Yasmin’s question’s she thinks for a moment before giving the Sha’ir an apologetic look. ”Forgive me, my Yasmin, but I cannot offer anything about what lies beyond that door, what world or plane it attaches to, for I truly do not know. I can offer you some of my trinkets, hopefully they will avail you till we meet again, I... cannot move that freely between planes,” she is hesitant to admit. ”But that will not stop me from looking for you, finding you, being entwined with you again, my Yasmin.”

”What little magic I retain is locked while I am on contract here, but even if it still had access to the ability to grant you a wish, I feel as if another wish is already upon you from another of my extended kind. Mixing wishcraft like that, especially if the wishes are at odds, could prove calamitous, my Yasmin.”

Yasmin nods slowly. "Then I'll spend the day here... and a lifetime mastering the magics needed to find you again. So that you can be with your Yasmin." She sighs and leans against Sani. "Ugh. I just met you and already we're going to be taken away from each other. To know such bliss for only a moment, then to have it carried off... a cruel destiny indeed."

Sani smiles truly and happily at Yasmin's declaration. "You fill me with such warmth, my Yasmin, I only hope that I can continue to live up to your most radiant soul."

As the Sha'ir leans against her Sani shifts her arms to a more comfortable hug as she holds her lover in the bath, the water of which has remained the same temperature as when they first entered, despite the time spent and activities engaged in.

"Life and the next is full of nothing but cruelties, my Yasmin, but worry not! If my trinkets work like they should, I should still be able to visit in the lands where reality begins to blur and weaken till I meet you again in the flesh, just hold one of them close to you while you slumber, and I shall do my best to answer your call." she states.

"If that is something you would like and that I have permission for, my Yasmin." she quickly adds.

"Whether by wish or no, there is nothing I should like more, I think," says Yasmin as she leans against Sani. "Should it also be to your liking, for I am your Yasmin, and you have won me over and I would have you find in life what is pleasing to you." She quietly strokes Sani's arm.

Sani keeps her happy smile, not even having to try to keep it from slipping into it's normal sultriness "I have, my Yasmin."

She then closes her eyes before kissing the top of the Sha'ir's head. "I promise you, my Yasmin, this will not be the last we meet."

"And I will work tirelessly to see that through," says Yasmin.

She remains curled up with Sani for some time in the warm water.

Finally, Yasmin untangles herself and stands up. "We have some time left, we should make the most of it. What would you care to do?"

Her smile is finally broken and replaced with a pout as Yasmin deems to stand up, though that is quickly dealt with as she admire the view. "I have some ideas, my Yasmin, but did you have anything in particular in mind?" she coos as she stands up as well, her normal sultry smile adorning her face again.

Her smile is finally broken and replaced with a pout as Yasmin deems to stand up, though that is quickly dealt with as she admire the view. "I have some ideas, my Yasmin, but did you have anything in particular in mind?" she coos as she stands up as well, her normal sultry smile adorning her face again.

"Aside from... fooling around, I've already had breakfast, and a night's sleep, and... I don't know what else there is to do here. Curl up by the fireplace and read a book together? Play a boardgame? Do you have any hobbies or interests of your own?"

Sani lets a silent "Oh!" escape her lips. "We've been engaging in my hobbies and interests," she mumbles while looking down at the tub. "But those other things sound pleasant too, for different reasons, my Yasmin. I could search for some books or games if you'd like? There might be some in the back room that previous guests forgot."

Yasmin helps Sani to her feet, then idly tugs at one of the other woman's chains and says, "Well I like your hobbies just fine, and we should be sure to do them a lot. I could go another round if you want, or we can relax with something comfortable and less strenuous for a bit first." She intertwines one of her hands with one of Sani's.

Sani purrs in tune with how Yasmin tugs at her chain. ”I,” she starts before stopping, looking at Yasmin and smiling, ”I would like to do whatever my Yasmin wants to do right now.”

"I would like to get a key, and a token from you, and a head start on figuring out how I can work the magic to find you again," says Yasmin with another tug to punctuate her sentence.

She steps out of the tub and goes to the cabinet, takes a long towel and sashes it around her waist. "Do you need a cloth?" she asks Sami. "I would guess no, as you like being wet."

”Yes, my Yasmin, right away!” Sani eagerly responds to the commands.

Stepping out after the Sha’ir she shakes her head. ”You are correct, I do like being wet.” she quips while shifting her thighs back and forth in place for emphasis.

"Great! Where do we need to go? Or should I just wait in my room while you fetch the key and the token?"

Yasmin smirks slightly as her innuendo is made explicit.

”What I need is behind the counter, but we can retire to your room afterwards.” Sani replies, returning Yasmin’s smirk.

"Let's go, then," says Yasmin, and joins Sani eagerly in heading to the service counter. "Do you need to be garbed if you're going to be at the front desk, or are there not going to be any other guests for now?"

”I will be alerted if any other guests, if there are any, require my attention, my Yasmin.” she responds while conveniently ignoring the first part of the question.

Going through the door Yasmin opened into her assigned work space she retrieves a well made leather bag off the floor before looking at a the wall where numerous keys hang. Thinking for a moment she stretches out her hand, pausing, then finally retrieving one. Turning to the counter she retrieved a quill from its reservoir and begins to scribble something on a piece of wood attached to the key by a loop. ”Hmm, that should be it.” she says to herself while looking at the key.

"It seems innocuous enough," says Yasmin as she regards the key. "Do I need to do anything to... make it connected magically, or something like that?"

The key looks like a black skeleton key with multiple teeth, and said teeth twisting in multiple directions as if it had been tossed into a fire and beaten severely. The head of the key looks to be a comical rendition of some round Fiend’s or Goblin’s head opening wide to scream or bite. The tags reads Sani From Beneath Once Still Waters in Aquan.

”If you find a door to an Enigma Inn already existing you can simply use it as a normal key, but you can also use it as a focus to summon one at certain places. Somehow.” Sani replies.

Will have to think of what to do to actually summon it.

"May I?" asks Yasmin gingerly, staring at the key as if it's her only link to her new companion. Which, basically, it is.

Sani gleefully offers up the key without hesitation.

Yasmin takes the key delicately between her fingers, turning it over and over again. She silently mouths the words of the inscription, then with a sudden start says, "And I have neither pockets nor pouches on this wrap. I'll just hang on to it for now, and try to figure out how it works later. In the meantime, you mentioned some kind of token might be able to connect us, so that I could use it to contact you in the future, if I could figure out the magic to make it work?" She asks this hopefully, and touches her other hand to Sani's hip.

”Ah yes, the lack of pockets, one of the downsides of my attire.” she says with a wry grin. As Yasmin’s returns to the token and her hand to Sani’s hip the innkeeper licks her lips before reaching into the bag, her arm completely disappearing up to her shoulder down into the small container, and retrieving a set of delicate vambraces carved from coral. ”These have magic of their own, my Yasmin, but if you wear one and I wear one it should establish a link between us. Then you must merely dream, dream and want.”

She then offers up the bag and vambraces to the Sha’ir ”The bag may also be a boon to you, and it’s filled with my favourite toys, if you use one before you slumber it may aid in contacting me.”

Yasmin eagerly accepts the vambrace and places it about her arm. "Those will be pleasant dreams, I'm sure," she says.

She regards the bag curiously and then looks back to Sani and says, "I couldn't take all your toys away. Then what would you do? Maybe just one?"

”Pleasant and enjoyable, hopefully, my Yasmin.” she replies before adding. ”Focus on finding you. The toys would just distrct me.”

"All right, if you insist. If you want to keep one or two, though, you probably should, otherwise you'll get too distracted without them to keep you focused. I'll see if I can pack some things in this bag when I have to go," says Yasmin. "Let's head up to my room. I suppose I should get my clothing out of the bath area, as well. I'll need it later."

Sani can’t help but chuckle. ”Okay, I’ll take one with me.”