Nelly led the "Boy toy" to the courtyard and lookd for a secluded area. Once she reached the open air, and the sunlight struck her, she yawned and stretched.
"Ah...that feels so good."
She then looked around for a secluded area, leading the soldier there, Nelly immediately pushed him playfully to the ground and laid over him, her hands on either side of his head, her eyes staring right at him.
"Tell me, boy toy-" her tail reached up and delicately caressed his face, "-have you ever felt what it's like to spend some time with something as wonderful as me."
She kissed him on the lips. The intocicating taste filled his lips, her scent was impossible to hate, slowly his heart twisted and he felt...incomprehensibly infatuated with her.
"of course not!" She replied with a giggle as she tapped his nose with a single finger.
Nelly laid down on the ground and slowly maneuvered her into a vulnerable position, giving the soldier a lustful grin.
"So go on...use me boy toy...show me how much of a man you are."
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She chuckled. "Well, the Federation has...well...had to have ships with metal because it was the easiest thing to use...plus, it could be used as armour to help protect the ships if the shields broke, and it could block the radiation well."
She maneuvered the ship a bit more, her maneuvers were crude and infantile in comparrison to the skill of the captain, but it was to be expected due to her lack of experience with piloting cosmic craft.
"It also let them place big guns on the ship to fire at the enemies."
"Guns?"
"Yeah, the Federation had a massive fleet of warships, some of them even reaching four hundred meters long!"
The soldier was inexperienced in such activities, but nevertheless tried his best to fulfill his desires.
******
Vara's kiss with the Royal Emperor lasted a few seconds before he suddenly shoved Vara off and onto the floor. Vara caught herself and gave an ashamed look. "Sorry, Master, I did not mean to displease you. You may punish me as you see fit."
The Royal Emperor thought for a few seconds. "Indeed...you are to go to the soldiers' barracks, undress completely, and lie on an empty bed, and tie a blindfold of some sort around your eyes. You are not to move or to speak. Let the soldiers do to you whatever they please." Vara would hate that, he thought.
I hate that, Vara thought. But she smiled as though it were a gift or a dream come true. "Th-thank you, Master! Right away!" She cheerfully skipped off to do as instructed.
******
The woman smiled. "Well, that is fairly large. Not as large as our largest warship, though."
To say the Soldier, after the...affair...felt nothing but euphoria, would be an understatement. To say he craved for more would also be an understatement.
However, to say that he was brought to the brink of dying from exaustion as Nelly sapped his strength away to just the edge of life and death would be on the mark, to say the soldier would gladly do thusly again would be an understatement.
As the soldier was left on the ground, chest heaving, softly murmuring Nelly's name, the Matriarch in question stood up and stretched. A keen eye would notice her horns had grown a millimeter longer, the air around her that little bit sweeter, and her appearance that little bit more appealing to the eye.
She knelt down and kissed the soldier once more. "You're so sweet...boy toy...i'll let you live."
She kissed him a final time before she left, leaving him lying awkwardly in the courtyard.
She returned to the Royal Emperor's office, adjusted her hair, righted her attire and waited to be summoned once more.
*******
"It's not the size of the ships or the navy; it's what you do with it...but I'm sure you've a lot of experience with flying around space."
As Nelly was walking through the courtyard, she saw a woman dressed in fine clothes run towards her, face full of desperation. She grabbed Nelly's arm. "You...you aren't from the base, are you? You live somewhere else? Can you take me there? Or anywhere that isn't here?"
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"Well, yes, but this isn't a true warship. It lacks the hull armor for that."
She caressed the hair of the woman, pulling her close.
"You must be especially desperate grabbing me, darling...but...I suppose...something could be arranged...but it'll cost you, darling..." She smiled. "Why are you running so fast, you seem to be in too much of a hurry, darling," she purred, "walk with me, calm your nerves, just listen."
As she said those words, a feeling washed over the woman, her breathing, while still quick, was not quick due to fear, her heart fluttered as a familiar, comforting scent filled her nostrils and the hair on the back of her neck bristled.
"Don't worry, Darling...i'll try to make you one of my girls...but you just need to trust me...darling."
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"Yeah...scout ship, right? or a civilian vessel? You don't seem armed like soldiers...i've seen a fair few in my time."
Carissa nods. “I know.” She sighs softly. “When I died for Connie...” she looks up, absently fingering the tri-colored string on her wrist. “I wouldn’t take it back. I would— I did— give my life for her. So she could survive. But then I had to come back, and... it was awful. Seeing what both of them went through because of me. Seeing that my parents, all my friends, my home... all just gone.” she shakes her head. “I’m not taking this decision lightly. I’m not 30 like my brother and sister, but I’m not just some 10-year-old kid either. They both work every day to make things better for people, and now... it’s my turn. I have to do this.”
Ken shakes his head. “I can’t think of anything, sorry. It’s all just legends and myths.” “I don’t believe in any kind of god in the first place,” Lucas says softly.
A female voice came from the corner of the bridge room. "Like poisoning your friends." The voice was followed by maniacal laughter as the captain turned to her and gave her a disappointing look.
"Officer Maria, that is quite enough! You really ought to know that these people have been through tough times and don't need you scaring them more!" The Captain turned to the girl. "Sorry about her, she has...the worst sense of humor...no, we aren't using it to poison your friends. The sap is used in some important material-making processes and is used in high-strength adhesives."
Luca noticed that Corali's ears were looking slightly pointier on top.
Nelly smirked and allowed her hands to wander over the woman's body before she stared into her eyes.
"And...sleep."
The woman's head drooped as she fell into Nelly's arms. The Matriarch, carrying the woman, walked back to the Royal Emperor's office and knocked on the door with her shoe.
******
The girl waved her hand. "Eh, I don't really mind, having a tens of millions of your people die from poison after being placed there by a brutal empire is actually better than the slew of alternatives; laugh away if you want, by the rate things are going there isnt going to be any Aerlanicans left."
A shrug. "To be honest, with the people back there, killing them wouldn't be off their cards of requests; they've lost everything hundreds of times over...we've not really anything in our posession."
The girl sat back. "I've come to terms with the fact we'll just die, no one will care, and everyone will just move on with a shrug."
William shrugged. "Well...I don't think "Having" to do this is a very good justification. Having to do something for the sake of doing something isn't exactly a good reason.
"Furthermore, if Connie were in your place, and you were in hers...wouldn't she say it was her fault you suffered?"
William shrugged. "How about you ask yourself "why" you wan't to do something, and when you find an answer, ask why again until you reach the root of the issue. For example; I wan't to eat food, why? because i'm hungry, why? because I haven't had food in a while, and so forth."
Nelly smiled. "Master...it appears someone doesn't love you enough; she wanted to avoid bearing your child so much she launched herself into my arms."
She turned to the Royal Emperor. "Don't worry, I didn't use her...she's yours to command...tell me, Master, what shall we do to her? Shall I...discipline her as a disobedient toy?"
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The Roodem turned over and gave a look of confused annoyance herself.
"Girl, you aren't even good looking enough to be such a bitch; everyone tries to kill me, including my own people, and I still look on fleek while you're over there with a hair more tangled than barbed wire in Palaria, a face more pockmarked than no mans land and an attitude as caustic as a river. Sit down and shut up because I didn't survive almost eight years of hell by having a demure attitude and a shy personality; I will rip your throat out without thinking twice and if you don't believe me I'm more than happy to send you to the people who shared the same sentiment and tried to find out whether or not I was bluffing."
She gave a firm nod, sat down, and continued to fly the craft.
"I may be a Roodem who don't know how to fly, cook, clean, or live a normal life, but I'm a roodem who will steal your kneecaps and sell your organs for a day's meal if you give me a good enough reason, you tread on me and it'll be the last step you take because I've been through enough s#@% for one lifetime and I don't need you starting anymore drama or putting any more sass into my life."
She turned to the Captain. "Is she usually this annoying and rude? or does she only do this to gingers and genocide survivors.?"
Luca tilts his head. “Your ears are different.” (Aerlanica)
Macy blushes lightly. “Yeah, we did...”
Noelle gets out her camera once again. “Okay, ready?”
Kira smiles brightly. “You make me happy.”
Carissa thinks about it for a second. “This is the right thing to do. Cait and Connie and Tsarina and everyone I care about, they always try to do the right thing. So that’s what I’m trying to do here.”
Corali, confused, looked between Eastrid and Luca. She put her hands to her ears and felt them. "Huh...that's weird...I didn't do that...do you think it might be related to whatever Delegata is doing to me?"
"Just set her down, I'll deal with her. As for Vara, she is in the soldiers' barracks as punishment for...let us say...getting too intimate without permission. Though, I suppose whether or not she views it as punishment is up to her. You may collect her in four hours."
A buzz came from the Royal Emperor's desk and he flipped a switch on an intercom. "What is it?"
"Your daughter, sir, she's still asking for a 'Nelly'."
"Hmph. Tell her to return to her room."
"Yes, your highness."
The Royal Emperor turned off the intercom. "Nelly, what exactly did you do to my daughter?"
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"...actually, no," the Captain said. "She is a rather good biologist, which is a rather important job for staying safe on our travels. It is what has helped inflate her ego and self-worth."
Corali squirmed uncomfortably as a hand instinctively went to her stomach. "She...uh...put some sort of spell on me, but I don't know what all it does."
Nelly shrugged. "I simply kissed her and allowed her free reign of my body, after which she started refering to herself in the third person; "Evie" she called herself...very strange."
She shrugged. "Almost as if she's a different person with me, Master...not anything i've ever noticed, sorry I just...flirted with her and allowed her to use me, as is to be expected of course...quite aggressive as well."
Nelly turned to the Emperor.
"I was actually going to ask you for some clarification on the matter, Master but...I wasn't sure if it would come across as rude or inconsiderate, so I thought not to ask out of deference to you."
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"I guess so...thing is, that Biologist could also probably kill you all if her father says so."
"Is there...ah...did she put the spell in your stomach like a..."
She frowned, unable to find the right word in Augustan.
"Like a...Geblevin."
The literal translation in Aerlanic was Gut Worm, however the definition was more akin to "Parasite". Corali knew that the Aerlanics had several different ways of dealing with parasites, many were hogwash, some while on the right track were ineffective, and others were just plain stupid.
"She isn't your responsibility, so you don't need to worry about it. That will be all, Nelly."
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"She is rude, but she does her job."
Another officer, a man sitting to the right of the girl, spoke up. "Captain, we are approaching a metal field. We should correct course."
The Captain nodded. "Alright. Sorry, young one, but I'm afraid I have to ask you to leave the bridge so the crew can focus as we traverse the metal field."
Officer Maria smiled. "Finally, let's get this runt out of here."
The Captain turned to Officer Maria. "That goes for you, too. Your station for metal field navigation isn't here."
(Skip to four hours later when Nelly was told to get Vara?)
******
Maria shook her head. "No, you just aren't worth respect. But, believe me, I'm the least of your worries. You're so pale, the sun itself will kill you."
Corali squirmed uncomfortably. "It...is...like a Geblevein, but it carries a spell that I am absorbing over time. In time it will dissipate, and the spell will be affecting me to its full extent, whatever that may be."
Nelly walked into the barracks, looking around for Vara.
******
The Roodem tilted her head and raised her eyebrows. "Spent plenty of time both in the sun and out of the sun and it hasn't killed me. So how about you take all that attitude and shove it up your ass, hell, probably wouldn't be the biggest thing you've taken in your rear end."