"I'm guessing Aurora hasn't had the time to expin all the rooms," the Princess says. "Withdrawing rooms are what you are thinking of. Their name has been shortened, as it sounds weird to call them withdrawing rooms. But they are for eaining guests. It used to be where you would go after a meal. You would all withdraw to that room for the rest of the afternoht."

  "Oh," I mumble. Could the Princess at least eat some food so I could finish the meal and run?

  "We have a lot of them, so all of us and your eventual es host people over," the Princess tinues. "All have different views and chairs, so you shape the experience of the night a bit just by choosing the room."

  "Elora dear, I think Alzi wants to eat," Inanos says. "And so do I, to be fair."

  Good to know we do that.

  "Hmm, oh yes, sorry," the Princess says. At least she takes a bite of the sad, and the meal start. "Please ask any more questions you have, Alzi."

  "When do I have to get some random regnant?"

  "You don't have to get a regnant," the Princess says. "You don't o use your mana to make her pregnant. All that is required for the parties are for you to finish inside her vagina to give her a ce to get pregnant. Then you get to pick the woman out of the bunch that es, and it is tomorrow."

  "Will you be mad at me if I don't get her pregnant?"

  "No. I would appreciate it if you did get her pregnant, but it would be wrong of me to be mad you didn't get her pregnant," the Princess lies. "It is on the rare side for these parties to work. It normally takes a woman being picked five times before she will get pregnant. That could take years to happen. No, the only thing you 't do is to make it so she 't get pregnant. You make it so she gets pregnant, or you ot mess with her ces. N the odds."

  I feel the and wash over me. It's not that I was going to stop her from getting pregnant, and the and isn't maki her pregnant, which is nice. Why am I saying it is nice she isn't andihat much? I know part of her pn is to show how fertile I am. The Princess will definitely have some words for me if the woma walk aregnant.

  "Alzi, you really don't have to use your mana tomorrow if you don't want to," Isda says.

  "I'm a sve," I say. "I o make my owner happy."

  "Would you like us to and you not to use your mana at the party tomorrow?" Isda asks me.

  "Do it. Prove you don't care," I taunt.

  "Alzi..."

  "Wait," the petty Princess says. "Alzi, we are married, and this party retes to the family's goal of reag the throne. If I say you have o use your mana to get an oute, then you do not o use mana to get an oute. Everyone has been askio and you less. I just gave you a and, but it wouldn't do anything. The Goddess would ensure you didn't interfere with the process anyway. Tomorrow, you will get to pick a girl and take her to your room, or we have another room prepared for it. She'll beg and beg and beg for a kid. You have o force it to happen. It will be your choice if you use mana to help it along or not. We will not decide it, my Love."

  "If I pick the wrong woman?" I ask

  "You 't pick the wrong woman," the Princess says.

  " I pick two?"

  "Do you want to?"

  "Maybe."

  "I would like you to make that decisiht now. But there are no rules about how many you pick," the Princess says. "You may let the woman's maid joio bed and have two women that way as well."

  "Depends on if the women are nice," I say.

  "They aren't all nice, but they will all be omorrow," Isda says. "If you pick two women, I almost guarahey will always be o you."

  "Do I have to fuck the two women separately?"

  "Yes," Vanya chimes in with a chuckle. "They won't be wishing to share a bed in su important moment."

  "Then just one," I say. Kids must not be that important to them if they are going to be picky about who else is there.

  "Alzi," Inanos starts. "When you get us pregnant, would you like it to be two at a time?"

  "I have no wish to get any of ynant," I say.

  "Do you prefer getting women pregnant in pairs?" Inanos asks instead.

  "No, I was just trying to have some fun while I'm whored out by my owner," I say.

  "I see," the gloomy woman says. "This event is a required type of event for men, but I see what you mean."

  "I've gotten more than my share of noble women pregnant this year," I say. "Which is why I said you wao get yet another bitoble pregnant and prove you have some extra fertile man. You'll even make me wear a suit and bind my tits aren't you."

  "You have gotten more than enough women pregnant this year," Isda says. "But our friends have been asking about this before they even knew you were going to be our man. I scheduled this to make them happy. You will be part of the pnning going forward. Just know they will happen. All men have to gh this, and you will be subject to plenty while the limits oing women in our house pregnant are in pce."

  "You all really bought a prostitute for your friends. How nice," I mock.

  "This would be happening even if you were in your home vilge, Alzi," the Princess says. "You would've had a check a few years ago and would be told to start getting more women pregnant. You are to for the nation to let yenes die out. This isn't an us thing or brothel thing. It is the w. This first one you be mad about I guess, but the rest are the w. Even if we let you run around a everyone in this house pregnant, you would have to do them. Any house you are a part of will have you fug other women. That is what having a w dick means in all Queendoms and realms."

  "I don't want to!" I scream out. "I'm tired of fug strangers."

  "Even my father has to do it," the Princess starts.

  I feel my stupid eyes watering. Damn this all. Why 't I just be aloh my loves? My focus moves to the foolish soup. They all talk amongst themselves.

  "Elora, not now," Isda chides.

  I hear a chair scoot out, likely Aurora looking to yell at me f at the stupid table. I'm sure that is one of their ridiculous rules.

  Instead, the gloomy girl plops into my p. Her head fit right between my breasts.

  " you check my arm Alzi?" Inanos asks. "I had a curse put into it a bit ago, and I don't think it is gone pletely. My mana is a bit slow."

  "Fine," I say. "Which arm?"

  "Left arm," Inanos says. "You're soft and warm, by the way."

  "I know," I mutter, I move my mana around and down towards her arm. The woman rexes into me as I start searg for something in her arm. I'm not sure what a curse feels like, but whatever. At least she isn't asking for a kid.

  As my mana moves around I feel some of it just disappear. I move around and find a small hole that just sucks up any mana that touches it.

  Should I keep feeding it and see what happens? Would that make it stronger?

  "Um, there is a hole that is sug up my mana," I say. Not willing to fuck this up. I need a healing css.

  "I thought it was still there," Inanos says. " you build up a lot of mana and rush it all over the hole? That is how the first healer got the size down. Guess she didn't have the mana to double-check her work."

  "I guess," I tell her. I gather up a small ball of mana and send it forward. It pushes into the hole. Only a small amount makes it past the spot in her arm. I try another pass, but my mana doesn't go anywhere. I try again and find the hole missing. "Was that all she did? I 't seem to find it anymore."

  "No, she had something to remove the curse. That was just a remnant that o be healed," Inanos says. I feel a rush of her mana swipes past my own. The first time, I really felt someone else's mana. It easily corrodes the small ball I had. "Sorry, without a spell or skill, mana outside the body is easy to remove, especially inside another's body. Didn't mean to scare you."

  "That is fine. But is it really that easy to get rid of a curse?" I ask. Her mana sends a bit of a shiver down my spine.

  "For life ah mana, yes. Well, death mana doesn't get rid of curses," Inanos says. "Our mana naturally heals or kills. Others have to put a bit of work into their mana to do anything. People also ter my mana normally with skills, so I have to work past that, but everyone is willing to let you heal them. Even the monsters. you feel my mana moving around? I'm guessing it feels strange being close to death."

  "Yes," I mumble.

  "I won't hurt you; I just o test if my mana was w correctly, and it is," Inanos says, her body turning in my p. " I kiss you?"

  "Sure."

  I was expeg a kiss on the cheek, but I am married to the woman. Her lips take mine once she has permission. Her lips are a bit cold. Would an ice elemental be freezing? an id fire elemental have a kid together? I have a kid with Inanos? Would she kill any child inside her?

  "Thanks, honey," Inanos says when she frees my lips. "I have a kid with you, by the way. My mana wouldn't dare hurt a child in my womb. Especially one as special as yours would be."

  "I wasn't..." I start to say, but a finger goes ay lips.

  "Most men ask it so I was answering it. People are always w about elementals and I would be happy to talk about them with you sometime. Tomorrow, I leave with the rest of the wives, minus Elora and Isda. But when I get back, we find some time to talk about it if you like," Inanos says. "We could go and visit Fluvis and your children too. Have her perspective on things. You likely have a lot of elemental children with her."

  "I guess that would be nice," I say.

  "Good, I'll get off your p a you finish your lunch. Thank you for joining us and healing my arm," Inanos says, giving me a pe the cheek this time before returning to her seat.

  The rest have turhe versation towards the mission they are starting tomorrow—something about a bird's in a forest. I just let them talk and focus on the sandwich.