To Love an Ushi-Oni (Camp & Wiki 234)

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Tim stepped away from the town notice board in despair. His diminutive frame shaking with fear as his hands pressed to his face and pushed his curly chocolate brown locks back.
Around him, people flowed like slow water, going about their normal business on the cobblestone streets...unaware that he was a marked man.

He quickly glanced around, but saw no one approaching. Then he reviewed his late father's words to him. 'If you find yourself an assassination target, stick to crowds. They can't touch people who aren't under their contract without getting in trouble.' Quickly, Tim moved into the heaviest group of people he could find, working his way into the standing mass. The dust of the marketplace was beginning to rise, and it obscured anything beyond 50 feet or more. It gave him an excuse to put his kerchief over his face to further hide himself. The voices in the marketplace blended into a flowing chorus. He'd never before truly appreciated the harmony of it all.

As he moved, he reflected over the last two months. Called home from College, because of his parents' deaths. Each having experienced 'regrettable circumstances'. That was just a way of saying successful contracted hits had taken them out. each separated by just over a month...as the Assassin's Guild required. It was the Cameron's who'd posted each time. The same family who had tried to get his family to sell them the rich estate at a beggaring price. But the McClungs had refused to part with the land that was their heritage. Now, he was the last of the McClungs and if he died, his enemies would buy the estate cheap at auction.

At only 5 ft tall and slim, he was easy to miss in the crowd, his freckled skin and blue eyes quite common. So he took time to calm and consider. He hadn't enough money to buy a score of bodyguards, which is what it would take to give him a chance of surviving the three allowed attempts upon his life. The estate was profitable and rich, but the money was predominantly tied up in the land and manor. Face it, he was a walking dead man and needed to be resigned to it.

"Good People of Covington! The next item on our block is this beautiful young lady! Note her strength and that she is sworn to serve as her family had to sell her to care for her siblings. These curves would make an excellent breeder. What am I offered for her and all her gear?"
What? Oh dear, he'd wandered up to the slave block in his funk. Glancing up at the platform above him, he could just see the girl's pretty face and shoulders. A face filled with such despair and worry. Suddenly Tim had a purpose. He might be just 19 and dying soon, but he could do one final noble act.
The bidding had begun, and it was going surprisingly slow. At only 12 gold now. He raised his hand to shout out, "50 gold". It was most of what he had with him.

The crowd grew silent. Such a jump bid meant the bidder was determined. The auctioneer slaver stared and realized he was going to get more than he thought. "Going once...twice...sold! Here is her leash young man, and thank you!"

Tim climbed the platform and was stunned to see that she was a huge powerful spider girl, much taller than he. One of the ferocious Ushi-Oni. Built like a battering ram. "Remove her leash, I'm freeing her before this crowd of witnesses." He was quite pleased with himself. Someone was going to have a much better day anyway. "Good luck to you Miss. I'm targetted, so you are better off far from me. I hope you have a great life, as I expect mine ends today."

The crowd edged back. An unchained, unbound, unsworn Ushi-Oni was a serious threat to be reckoned with. Then there was a shout as three men along the edge of the throng pointed at Tim. The assassins had found him. Resigned, he descended the platform with a nod to the girl, who was being presented her weapons and gear.
Once on the ground he began to walk slowly directly toward the assassins. They were professionals and if treated well, would make his passing pleasant and easy.

As he came close to them, the lead assassin smiled. "There's a wise lad. Why run and get shot or beaten. Come with us and I promise a pretty lady will hold you as you sip sweet liquor until you feel nothing."

 

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The girl had been there already for a few weeks now, the only left of her sanity was her rage and fighting instincts as she was treated much less as a human even more that she was a slave, but they knew this with efficiency and it was already hard for herself to find any means of escape other than hoping for the day she would run as a servant to an even crueler man that wanted her or so she thought at least.

Soon large strongmen had bound her tightly with various chains and things though mostly it was the biggest and strongest chains they could get for her arms. But Mitsu has no strength and possibly even no will as she had thought until now her purpose would be to truly die like the animal she was in a place that was cruel and pure evil as this. Soon they walked her out on the stage in the leash as again she pulled the little resistance she had left, her legs moving synchronized to carry her large body up to the stage and wait her final choice as to who would make her life a deathly hell from her worse than probably the markets had as she would guess.

Looking down the girl ignored everything around her as it seemed she was in an eternal daze with dead looking eyes and her face somewhat covered by her dirty falling hair as the bids rang through her absent minded ears before hearing an even louder shout that it ended so soon. Soon mitsu looked up a bit surprised as she saw him as a faker who didn’t bother to take her with him but just to stun the crowd with the words of freedom. Soon she collapsed on her knees crying a bit now in her more vulnerable state as she looked up at the man before hearing the man in front of him say the words that would honestly make them targets instead of the one who just freed her.

Soon she aggressively started to slam the ground with her powerful fists now making a hole in the platform as she let out an angry yell so suddenly as it was already a very dangerous thing he did to let something loose like this in the market as she bent her legs and jumped into the scattering crowd before turning to see the hit men and already quickly rushing in to attack them seeing as she had the element of endless rage and surprise on her side, smashing the skull one of them and beating another to death before crushing their ribs and spine with a hammer strike as she held her two hands together over her head and swung them down like a hammer to the mans chest with such a fast and heavy impact like that.

looking at what was left of the group now, as she was left to instinct now as what to do for the moment before rushing in to attack again with unmatched aggressive fury even never stopping until they were all dead at worst and far away at best until she immediately collapsed to the ground with all the energy spent now.

 

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Tim was just getting ready to submit to the assassins when a storm of blood and wind seemed to erupt before him.
He shrank back as blood sprayed before him in an arc. He could scarcely believe his eyes as four assassins - masters of their trade - whom stout warriors would do well to fear, fell as though they were no more than stalks of wheat tossed into a thresher.

He gulped as the spider girl paused. She came to a halt just a little before him. Instead of the city guard coming to restore order, the marketplace was quickly clearing.

Quietly, he spoke to her. "You know that now that you have interfered with their contract, you are included on that contract. I didn't expect you to be drawn into this, and if it ends up meaning your death, I am very sorry. Still, I must admit that I'm glad to be living and...watching you tear into those bastards who killed my parents was more satisfying than I'd like to admit to myself."

Risking his safety, as he didn't know how stable this girl might be, he stepped in closer. "I gave you your freedom. That you chose to in turn gift me with some protection was generous. I am going to return now to my manor and estates and try to conduct business as normal. From my perspective, you have fulfilled any debt you may have...but if you don't leave, you are now under the assassins' contract and may as well come with me. The least I can do is offer you a comfortable place to stay, a bath and change of clothes, good food, and a somewhat defensible location. If you happen to desire to continue protecting me, well...I'm not an idiot. I'd gratefully accept. In return, I would like to know if...no, it's silly on my part...but I will ask. Would it be impolite to ask you if I may court you? If I'm going to live for awhile, having my first girlfriend would make the danger just a bit more bearable. Particularly if she's someone as beautiful and exciting as you. But you probably aren't attracted to small geeky males like me."

He turned and pointed out of the town. "I'm going that way. You can leave by another way, stay here, follow me or carry me. Just understand one thing. Despite my bad situation, I am a Laird, and I give the orders on my estate. You are a welcome guest...most welcome."

He sighed and looked down, then began to walk. The assassins were only allowed to try once per day, so he had assurance he'd get home alive...unless she was crazy and killed him too.

 

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Soon and finally she picked herself off the ground, her body swaying from side to side as she still felt dizzy and unable to really hold her balance as she caught herself a few times when she tripped over herself on the ground but at least hearing clearly what he said but being hard to think mostly. " I have nothing in this world now, the world has shined it's hateful and distant gaze on my kind, left for dead to the evil and traitorous dogs running around in this world..." starting as she slowly looked around then back to him seeing as he didn't seem to mind what she could do to him and was even more happy to have him give her almost everything it has it seemed. If course now it would be a much better life than staying here but apparently she had now made herself a target, suddenly giving a wicked grin as she raised her arm and closed her hand with an almost demonic happy smile on her face with the feeling of being able now to end anyone's life including his but seeing him doing no harm and no reason to attack him.

Her face turned into an awkward embarrassed blush on her face as her mind went blank trying to process the odd words from the sentence? Was he saying he would treat her as a wife instead of a slave? Could there be a chance for her to finally grow into a regular life of a happy women with the dream of a loving husband and even kids? Thinking about it she looked down seeming to be frozen a bit as her heart suddenly pounds and her mind keeps refreshing the words " do it take his offer for the future you won't get again..."

Standing straighter she grabbed him by the back of the shirt as she picked him up, " I'll keep you to your promise....but your lies will be your death..." as she makes sure to have the fear of him lying with her being there a warning to him at least as of course she wasn't completely stupid to trust him like that. " go then..." simply saying as mizuki starts to slowly follow behind now.

 

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Tim Let out a sharp "Eep!" as she grabbed him from behind and threatened him, but seemed to accept his offer.
Sadly, he looked up at her. "You and your sisters have been horribly treated by the world. None of you chose to be who you are. Granted, some of you have ignored the laws of communities and have raped or murdered, but I can't judge an individual for a different person's actions." His hand slowly reached to her chiton armored leg and softly patted it.

Then his face grew stern. "Madam. Know that you hold at your mercy Laird Tim McClung. I may be weak, and no warrior of common weapons, but my word is my bond and I'll thank you not to question it again, or any agreement between us will be gone. I have the honor of my family, and even though that honor may have contributed to the death of my parents in our pride, I will hold to it. Now, may I please know your name, as calling you 'that cute dangerous Ushi-Oni' is going to get old quickly."

Pausing, he removed an ornamental bracer from his slim upper arm and slipped it over the tip of her front left claw. "There. Now all will know you are with me. We'd best get walking. I'm sorry that I can't move faster, but my leg hurts from being thrown from a horse in the past."

He turned and began to walk to vendor's stall. Picking up a delicious smelling roast, he dropped some coins for the fled owner and offered the roast to her. "So, I'm an orphan. Do you have any family you wish to return to?"

The townspeople, seeing that she seemed to have calmed and was having a discussion, began to slowly creep out of their hiding places.

 

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“ we do what we want most of the time but other time prefer to even use death and violence to survive..” she simply said crossing her arms as she still had that stern face, still keeping her guard up for anything as she didn’t see it as a time to already relax after being free like this.

“ and I still wonder why it seems your not another human that I’ve haven’t already killed yet...” not afraid though to insult him still as she thought herself better than him that he needed her than the other way around. She could survive without any worry for a while after this though but he was wanted as a dead man whether now or the future. Soon she stopped with a sudden blush as she heard the name he would still have referred to as if she hadn’t introduced her name, looking away but keeping her blush as she didn’t pay attention the bracer or the words with it for the moment as she tried to compose herself. Soon she jumped to catch up a bit before starting to walk again.

Mizuki now had the odd smell moving through her nose as well, becoming more intense as it was even closer to the fact that he was of course holding it near her. “ jeez....” thinking as she slowly took it then and got a big bite. “ probably not anymore, And it’s maybe best like that anyway...fine...since save me my name is mizuki I lived in the northwestern region of this area in my tribe, suddenly attacked and I ended up here so they wouldn't hurt them...” seeing she would probably be more dangerous to others of her kind than to them. Eventually she focused on eating before throwing the wrapped to the side on the ground with a sigh as she felt better then. “ jeez fine...this damn once human, say where I must go then...” getting annoyed already by the slowness as wanted to really get out of here. With that she picked him up and placed her on her large round back as she stretched her legs and started to move, eventually trying for scaling on the walls as well.

 

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Hearing what had happened to those she cared about and that that was why she was a slave, Tim frowned.
"Mizuki, one of the things I've learned today is that being free or a slave makes no difference as to whether one has honor. It is obvious that you are an honorable woman. Again, thank you for saving me today."

Then he let out a 'Yikes!' as she pitched him up onto her back. But he noticed that her powerful claws that could crush stone didn't pinch him or tear his clothes. So he slid forward and put his hands around her waist to try to hold on. He noticed that where she didn't have chitin armor, she was just as soft as he was. Maybe even a little softer in places.
"Just go down this road about two miles out of the town. You'll begin to see grape vines and olive orchards. My house is the big manor up on the right."

As he rode, amazed by her speed, he reflected that he wasn't the only one to have loved ones killed.

When they had left the square, a short rotund man and a tall, tightly muscled woman stepped up to each other. "Well Lani, that was a disaster. We need to contact the Camerons. Now that he has a powerful protector, the price had better go up. We lost a couple of good practitioners today."
The woman nodded at his words and replied in a gravelly voice. "True...but now we can be prepared...on the other hand...so can they."

 

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Soon she started off at a pretty amazing speed, only arriving there in an hour where she could see endless fields of the grape vines and other things as he said. Soon she stopped at the front gate of the mansion turning to pick him up and drop him beside her as she crossed her arms. " well I hope this is worth it...." mostly musing to herself as she really wanted to let her guard down completely if she could and relax with worries for a while. Following him inside the large building she looked around taking the space of the large room around her. " blog well if I'm gonna love here I should put a few webs up in some places if you don't mind and if your talking about food then I'll be eating right now...." wanting him to already start to make her comfortable by cooking something to eat. " do you also have an area outside to train as well?" Asking as she moved about the room, showing her spider nature by climbing up the wall.

 

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Tim called to his remaining servants.
"Get a hog roasting an while it's cooking, some nicely baked fowl for my lady here. Get here anything she wishes and treat her requests as if I'd made them. She is to be fed as much as she likes, whenever she likes."

He turned to her and bowed. "To my savior, all is allowed. There is a practice area with combat posts and such next to the manor house. Are you wanting to sleep here in the guest wing...or...." He paused and flushed. This was hard for him. "Would you rather have my room...and do you want me in it. I...don't know much about females. I've never been with one. So I don't know what you wish. But I want you to understand. You saved me, and though you may have thought it was evening the scales, I consider that I owe you my life. If that means becoming closer to you...then I am willing to do so. Not out of fear and not out of guilt, but because you are beautiful, and I admire your bravery."

He bit his lip and sighed. "Or maybe I'm being silly and you have no interest in me." having placed his ego on the line, and afraid of being shot down, he began to move away slowly.

 

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Soon she turned from her place in the wall towards him, " I'm not here to run and take anything from you, I just want to be free and I have it now. But having a place now...feels nice." At least giving a small smile before looking at him a bit weirdly. " well I do want to learn more about the noble life of a human instead one of an animal so I do at least have some interest even if it's not what your thinking right now. I'll take whatever other room there is like I said before I'm not here to take anything. What's worse would be if I had killed you before..." soon crawling down and standing in front of him. " I'm not a cold hearted monster who attacks just anyone, even I'm not afraid now to have a casual conversation with you here..." with that she headed up the stairs stopping at the top, " hopefully I can find a large enough tub for me right now if you don't mind....and....thanks..." leaving him with that final word as she turned down the hall to start looking around.

 

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Tim was quickly reevaluating his assumptions about her. This was no husband stealing, raping monster, but a woman with very normal needs for security, conversation, and interaction.

He nodded as some food began to arrive.
"Actually, I have a room where you can get a bath and shower. It's in the basement with a natural hot spring and we have cut pools into the rock. There are towels and it's wonderfully quiet and echoing like a cave. I go there to meditate sometimes. After you eat, I'd be glad to show it to you. If it would be alright with you, I'd love it if we could have the next meal together in the dining room."

He left her to eat and went to see how the fortifications were going. He was pretty sure the Camerons wouldn't risk burning down the mansion, and the windows and doors were already heavily fortified against normal intrusions. So that meant the assassins had to get to him by other methods or wait until he went outside. By this time, only the most loyal of servants were remaining, as they knew they were also targets.

He went to his room and washed up, then changed. He paused to look at himself in the mirror. Short, thin...skin that tended to be olive toned. A face he'd been told was handsome. A little too much male endowment. Well, he might not be a prize in his appearance, but he did want a normal life with a wife, kids, and to accomplish something. Maybe this was his chance. Perhaps, in being thrown together, she was his chance.

Finishing dressing in a spider silk shirt and pants, traded from the Orbspider women in the South, he felt better. He went to find Mizuki.

"Would you like me to show you around the mansion and grounds first, or show you where the baths are?"

 

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Of course with something like this she kind of did assume that with it's side came many more rooms than a smaller normal house as she could see some long rows of doors on either side actually seeing as it was her first time here. With that she decided anyway to see inside some of the rooms as the women stepped out into the hall again seeing that he was there with her again. " maybe a tour in a little bit, but now I'll just be wanting to eat then the bath..." telling him the same thing as she walked past him again trying to remember where she came from so that she was at the start again and it would be easy to assume mostly where the dining room was.

Mizuki sighed finally finding it then as she pushed a chair out and to the side, waiting for the food to be brought to her as she waited.

 

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Tim smiled at her preference and made sure she found her way to the dining room. Obviously, what she'd eaten before was nothing more than an appetizer to one of her size.

He'd had the largest cushions in the house stacked on one side of the table to make her more comfortable while dining.

The butler brought out the first course, a fine large roasted salmon with capers and mustard and dill. A diluted fruit juice with just a hint of wine was poured to go with it and Tim gave thanks, then lifted his silverware to eat.

He'd indicated that in addition to regular silverware, serving utensils were to be placed by her large plate so she could more easily grasp them if she chose to do so.

"Mizuki, I'll readily admit that most of what I've heard about your people is rumor. It's nice to see that you eat normal meats. Are there any of your spidergirl cousins who don't? I'm just curious where rumors of spiderwomen who eat only fluids come from. I know there are feral spiders that do so. Is that the source? Also, do you spin different kinds of web? I'm wearing a wonderful spidersilk shirt. Could you help defend the manor by putting webbing outside to catch assassins? Is that something you'd even want to do?"

He paused and took a sip and then a bite and leaned close, very interested in her responses. He also enjoyed looking at her beautiful face and gazing into her eyes.

 

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Though instead of being a normal person when she ate the girl tried a bit awkwardly to pick up pieces of her dish with her claws or holding it in her hand and leaning in to eat the pieces as it didn't seem like to him that naturally living in a tribe outside and in slavery she never really learned about using any of the silverware. Soon she mostly for the hang out eating from the plate with her hands, picking up the glass and drinking from it normally though as she looked up at him.

" well there's the dread spiders that eat humans, the most hostile and dangerous of them all should be common knowledge of our kind....well if your talking about normal fluids then the orbweavers primary food source is the sweet honey and honeydew. I know a few orb weavers who are honey farmers in places that have pretty balanced weather..."

Soon she continued with answers as she wiped her claws off a bit, " no it's mostly all the same, it's all about the style and uses mostly...." simply ignoring his last question as it was should be obvious that she probably would anyway. " I need a shower then..."

 

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He watched her try to figure out the cutlery and began to use his fingers to set her at ease.

Her explanations filled him with wonder, and he began to realize just how sheltered his life had been, even with his university training.

"Mizuki...If you'd like, I can show you how to use human eating implements. I don't ever want you to feel embarrassed. Just because you do something differently doesn't make it any less right."

He rose and motioned for the plates to be taken away, grabbing a wine skin to take with and led her down the corridor and down some stairs to the hot spring. "First we take a bucket of water from this small waterfall and we soap and clean ourselves, then we enter the baths. Do you want to be alone? It's considered an act of close friendship to scrub each other, and I bet there are places you can't reach easily...I have trouble getting my back. Besides, it's been a long day already and I need a hot relaxing bath too. You can see the waterfall over there which is a shower after we get clean. But if you aren't comfortable being in the bath with me, say so now."

 

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" you humans are so weak and small to make something so small like that, trying to pick one up but having it slip because of the curve of her long claws. She really could care what other people thought of her and actually found it funny to think they could insult someone especially like her who was bigger and stronger than her and the fact that in 5th worse case she could take a bullet or a bit of damage to take her down even a little.

" I could very much care less what others think about what I do..." Following with her arms crossed against her chest again. Soon her face was red with the blush of embarrassment, " I just met you, and besides I'm just gonna sit and relax anyway so I dont care if you follow me or not, but if you do t-then wait till I get in first!!" As she quickly got down to using the soap on herself though turning away from him to hide her naked human form as she soon finished and quickly went into the bath to get in herself. "Jeez reminds me of home....had beautiful natural sites..." giving a relaxing sigh.

 

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Tim was a little amused that the big indestructible ravaging warrior was afraid she might get seen nude. But to honor her, he turned his back as she undressed. Only after she was in the pool did he remove his own clothes and spend some real time scrubbing himself.

Refreshed, he slid into the steaming waters, feeling them take away some of the tension that this awful, yet amazing, day had put into him.

He swam over towards her. Much of the pool was over his head. "Feels nice, doesn't it?" He sighed and let himself slide under the pool's surface. One thing he was good at was holding his breath. Relaxing, he did a slow count to 150, then went back to the surface.

 

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Soon she closed her eyes when it was the water as she very much felt a lot better than before. " natural? That sound very weird to me still..." giving a shrug as he looked over to see his form under the water wondering what childish thing he was even doing but not caring at all. " I wish I could stay forever but I'll have to get out much sooner than later....especially for my kind...." staying there for a good fifteen minutes she soon got out quickly covering herself with her arms as she moved to the corner before putting the mostly ruined slave clothing she wore for now as she didn't walk in with any other clothes.

 

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Tim had already spoken with his staff about getting her some clothes. Large shirts were easy, but her lower portion was tougher.
He was beginning to get a little frustrated with her. It seemed like everything she said was a criticism. So when she went to get out he turned his back to give her privacy, but said nothing else.
Then he went out to watch the sunset, wondering if it was his last.

He remained out, watching the sky until late. Then he turned in.

Two hours later he was screaming from a terrible nightmare.

 

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Most of the night she explored the rest of the mansion, a large library with a fireplace as well as the long intersections of the hallways she slowly walked down as the sounds of her skittering legs echoed through the walls. The girl didn't know what to really think about everything still but it was just hard for her still to believe any of this, a new life of freedom but no sense of real purpose at least for now not minding to be a protector. Hell she was a very strong warrior in her tribe and some thought it weird how much of a different person she was to fighting and her secret love of it as well.

With that she relaxed soon falling asleep in the room that had been shown to her as she would officially start her day as the new protector of the house as well as her place of a normal person in a mostly corrupt and broken society.

 

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Tim awoke early and looked around checking on the security of the manor. He knew better than to go outside alone, as they could target him easily. He made sure the shades were drawn on many of the curtains and then went to see about breakfast.

He wondered about his 'guest'. She had not made any definite commitment about continuing to protect him. On the other hand, she was staying, which put her in the line of fire anyway, so she likely was.

He loaded a crossbow and went to the library to read. It had no external windows so was one of the safer rooms.

Once Mizuki was up, he'd make sure she was fed and then ask her. "Are you ready for that tour of the grounds? I know they may be waiting for me, and I'm going to wear two layers of spider silk with some chain mail in between to stop arrows and bolts."

 

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Soon she woke up, putting on a plain white buttoned short she had been offered as she came out of the room and now started to slowly ease into a mostly comfortable life as she went down to eat then explore again as she had nothing to do before of course bumping into the man himself. " sure...and I do want them to come so I can show them the wonderful idea of no mercy...." punching her fists together with a chuckle though before then I will need my metal arm guards...ill meet you outside then..." as she turns and walks off putting on metal gauntlets to protect her arms from the arrows or give them a very miserable back hand. Eventually she came out again to the front of the mansion to meet him.

 

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Her steely confidence reassured him a little and without thinking, he hugged one of her titanic powerful legs. Interesting, there was a soft fuzz over the hardness, a pleasantly textured downiness that was quite pleasing to the touch. Embarrassed at his unthought of move, he stepped quickly away. "Um, sorry. I hope a hug isn't an offense, though I should ask. After all, with what we both have been through, I'd hope we are at least friends."

He paused to look up at her. "Can I please say that...that we are friends? Who but a friend stays loyally when others flee in fear? I just know that surrounded by your legs is the safest place for me right now and that comforts me."

Then he realized how that might sound. "Oh gosh! Not to imply anything improper about your intent and riding your back or to be held protectively by you...although who wouldn't want to be held gentle by you when your feminine...eep!" He realized he was nervously babbling and getting himself in deeper and he blushed a deep shade of crimson.

"Uh...um...the grape arbor... yes, the grape arbors are over this way. It would be a great area to set traps for those trying to sneak through them." He was studiously avoiding looking at her, relieved that she wasn't yelling at him or hitting him for being such a buffoon. Quickly, his strides led them to the grapes and he pulled down a fresh sweet bunch for her to sample.
How could he let her know that fierce and wild as she was, he found her as sweet as wild honey in the comb. And why was he even thinking about such things when he was marked as a dead man? Quickly, he pulled on a helmet that covered him down to his neck, only slits for his eyes and mouth.

 

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Soon they were already outside as she stood with the doorway behind her now, the end of her abdomen a bit pressed up against the wall as she only walked enough to fit through it but not have space for her behind to be free of anything touching it. Crossing her arms she sighed and looked around waiting for him to follow knowing that of course he had to plan it for a moment as it seemed he was too busy before to already start at the moment.

Soon she jumped covering her mouth to stop from making a cute little help as she looked down to see him against her, " j-Jeez, I guess I can say the same about this damn thing then..." looking away from him embarrassed herself as she was mostly forced to stay her as there was anything else as good as this now. " w-well like I said I didn't kill you so that means something...." not wanting to directly say it as she finally followed behind. " well I'll look around after this more then to do something turning to look around and see how she would even do it.

 

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Tim was catching onto her uneasiness and after she joked about not killing him, he walked in front of her. "Yes, Mizu...Please patrol around and make sure they don't get me. Knowing you are looking out for me makes me so comforted and I want to do whatever I can to make you happy."

This time he intentionally stepped in and hugged her from the front. "So...if you aren't going to kill me for this, you might as well admit you like me and hug me back. There's nothing ever wrong with a hug between people who care for each other."

He braced himself with a foot on her hard knee and pushed up to give her a soft kiss on her cheek. "Just know that when you get back from patrol, I'll be waiting for you. Please don't get hurt. Not just because I need your protection, but because I've never met a brave girl like you and...well, let's not go too fast, but I may be feeling something."

He let go to try and drop down so he could step back and let her go.