Lazarus

  Primordial limit.

  Primordial 1.

  Paragon luck.

  Paragon strength 2.

  Presence detection 3.

  Regeneration 11.

  Centaur riding 4.

  Sex 8.

  Sword mastery 1.

  Blink 2.

  Resistance 1.

  Centaur pleaser 10.

  Skill points - 0

  "What do you mean by her freedom my love?" My centaur mare asked as we made our way out of the markets.

  There was a lot more I wanted to browse through back there but after spending three gold coins on the djinn I didn't think it wise to window shop. No need to tempt me just yet.

  "There's a story from where I'm from that's about a genie that gives three wishes to a young d with nothing. When the d can't decide what he wants he asks the genie what he would wish for. The genie replies with freedom as only someone else wishing for his freedom will actually set him free." I replied the story of Addin one of the movies from my childhood.

  "And you think she was the same?"

  "Why do you think djinn twist wishes?" I counted her question with my own.

  Arath opened her mouth to answer them shut it not believing her answer. She thought for a long while unable to think of anything and when our house came into view I decided to give her a hint.

  "If you were forced to grant everyone else's wishes but could never grant your own would you twist those wishes around?"

  Arath for the first time ever since I meet her had a look of misery on her face. "I never thought of it like that. That must be horrible for her."

  "Well it's just based on a story from my childhood so I could be wrong, and even if I wasn't you did give me the coin to free her. I wouldn't have been able to without you." I tried to consol her.

  "Still though if you're correct my love why wouldn't we all know about it?"

  "Simple. Why free her when you can force her to give you everything you desire. Those men behind her probably didn't know how to word a wish to stop her twisting it but thought they could make some money forcing her to grant other people wishes. The greed of others is universally the same unfortunately." I could feel the bitterness in my voice. Too many times this had resulted in something I had to deal with in the world I was summoned too.

  "But enough about that, I want to see you weave again. It was beautiful to watch st time." My attempt to change the subject was definitely received well as Araths smile returned.

  There were some things in all worlds that were the same and protecting the smile of the ones you love was definitely one of them.

  We stepped through the door into our house to find Willow bowing, her equine half kneeling with her belly on the floor and her forehead resting on her hands as they y before us.

  "Good evening my husband Lazarus and head mare Arath. I have prepared lunch as requested." The brown centaur greeted us not rising at all.

  I gave Arath a look trying to find out if this was some centaur culture thing but she had an equally confused expression. I took that to mean this wasn't normal and something her st husband had forced her to do.

  "Hey Willow you don't need to do that with me." I said kneeling down in front of her.

  She lifted her human half off the floor and I realised she wasn't wearing anything at all. Arath was quick to close the door behind us in case of any passers by. "I don't?" She asked and it took a lot of my own will power to look her in the eyes not her chest. Admittedly she was smaller than Arath but no less tempting.

  "No you don't. Unless you want to but I'm not going to force you to do this every time we come home."

  "Then I don't need to turn around and mate with you right now?" Willow asked.

  "Umm not unless you want to." I replied momentarily taken aback.

  "Oh good. I mean not that I don't want to it's just well. With Arath being your head mare I just thought that without her permission and I'm very fertile this week so having a child before my head mare would bring me shame and I don't want to be kicked out of the herd. That's not to say I won't if you want to my husband I just want to do what's right and not do anything wrong because doing wrong is bad and bad means I don't have my own herd then I'm all alone because no one will want me, so I'm very thankful you took me in and I will do anything you want and."

  Arath stopped Willows rambling with a hand on her shoulder as she joined us on the floor.

  "I think we need to have a long chat without our husband present to iron out some details." My head mare said a kind but equally commanding tone in her voice.

  "Yes head mare." Willow meekly replied.

  "My love would you kindly go to the kitchen and start on lunch. I will be there momentarily."

  "Do you want me to..." I started to ask but was interrupted.

  "No this is one of my jobs. You remember our little talk about running the harem?"

  I did and it was surprisingly simple. Arath was more in control of everything that happened within and got a say on who joined.

  "Just call me if you need." I said walking towards the kitchen. They started whispering to each other but I chose not to listen in.

  In the kitchen I blinked to the ptes hoping it would level again but I didn't seem to be that lucky. When it had increased to level two it's cooldown had halved making it only thirty minutes instead of sixty. Still only let me teleport half a metre though. Better than nothing I suppose.

  Willow had made what I presumed was chicken sandwiches for lunch and while Arath had said I should start I did want to wait for them.

  I busied myself setting the table with some ptes I'd found in a cabinet then pced three sandwiches on each pte. By the time I'd pulled a few of the pillows that were the centaur equivalent of chairs out and pced them in the respective pces the girls had finally with their talk and came in.

  "Everything all good?" I asked.

  "Yes." Arath replied taking her seat and moving it till it was touching mine.

  Willow stayed where she was, not to far away but not as close as Arath. She had a smile on her face that I took to be a good thing.

  We had lunch in silence mainly because I didn't know what to say yet both the girls seemed happy in that silence. We worked together to clean up then moved to Araths weaving room. The controlled chaos of this room still took me by surprise and it reminded me of pying the floor is rva when I was a kid.

  When my wife grabbed what what she wanted and began to weave I decided to y down on her back. It was more comfortable than expected with my head resting against her human spine.

  Willow joined us in the room and would pick up an item every now and then to give to Arath. I decided to bring up a topic with her I'd discussed with Arath briefly.

  "Hey Willow. Is there a forge in this town you can do an apprenticeship at?"

  "Appreciate?" She asked in response.

  "Like someone to teach you but also pay you to help them out." I said moving slightly so I could look at her.

  "My father runs a forge, I'm sure he would pay me to help him." The brown mare replied.

  Arath stopped weaving for a second before continuing. Yeah I noticed it too.

  "Why don't you work with him now though?" I asked but I already knew the answer.

  "Sabet forbade me from seeing my family. He said they were a bad influence and I was better off learning everything from him."

  Yip expected that. God this girl had been cut off from everything by her ex. I briefly thought about asking her what she first saw in him but decided against it. Better to leave things in the past.

  "Well I'm not going to stop you seeing your family and I actually would like to meet them. Do you think we could go see them today?" I gave a motion of getting up with my hands and Willow all but jumped to her feet.

  "Really? That would be great, I think they will be free now but I don't know for sure as I haven't seen them in a while, but I am their daughter so they shouldn't be to unhappy if I just arrive unannounced. Or they could get really mad and punish me although I am in your herd so they're not allowed to touch me without your permission. Still they might...."

  I stopped the rambling centaur by grabbing her hand and pulling her into a hug. It was kind of cute when she started going off on her little thought sprees but this wasn't a good one. "It's okay Willow. We can go see them now and if it's a bad time we'll just pn another. You don't need to worry."

  Willow buzzed in my embrace. "I would love nothing more than to introduce you my husband. It has been too long since I saw them."

  "Well we shouldn't keep them waiting then." I said her excitement was infectious.

  Willow looked at Arath but my red head just shook her head. "It will be better if just you two go. They might think we're trying to put you down by some type of dominance py if we both go."

  "Why?" I asked.

  Surprisingly it was Willow that responded. "Head mares need to make sure other mares in the family don't try to take their position. There are a lot of ways they can do this but an effective one is to mount them in front of her parents."

  "Like mount as in sex?"

  "No my love. More like I would just jump on her back for her parents to see. It would force her to submit in a public pce and almost guarantee she would be submissive in the future." Arath responded.

  "But if she tried that I would step in. You're my head mare no one else will take your spot." I almost yelled.

  Willow shook her head. "You are correct in that it shouldn't happen but some males don't care how their mares act to each other, so long as they lift their tails for him. If Sabet had have gotten another mare we would have fought for the position of head mare and he wouldn't have cared."

  "I'm not going to have that problem am I?" I said with a slight threatening tone.

  "Not at all my husband. I will gdly submit to Araths position. She has proven to be a great head mare and you are a much better mate."

  That was good. I'm not dence enough to think everyone will just get along just because their in my harem. I'll have to make sure it doesn't get out of hand but I trust Arath.

  "You guys should get going. I can finish this before sunset. Just make sure you're home in time to cook dinner Willow." Arath said pointing us towards the door.

  Willow didn't need to be told twice and almost bolted out of the room. I was a bit more reserved and gave my head mare a kiss.

  "I do want to cook for you guys some time." I whispered in her ear.

  "That's not..."

  "Not part of your culture I know, but you need to learn a bit of my culture as well." I interrupted her.

  She gave me a strained smile. "That's fair my love but please be patient with me."

  I gave her another kiss. "Of course."

  Willow came back into the room with clear impatience but remained quiet. I gave Arath one st hug with a slight squeeze of her chest as I pulled away before joining the brown centaur.

  Time to see one of my wife's parents.