<~> Chapter 67As I was looking intan's beautiful red eyes a loud growl came from the other side of the room. It was so loud all of us stopped in our tracks and looked over in fusion. Torien stood there, likely more embarrassed than I had ever seen her before.

  She gingerly looked away. "Sorry, I think I'm hungry..."

  Man burst out ughing and the atmosphere was totally gone in an instant. Part of me was a little bit sad to see it go but truthfully, it might have been rather awkward to tinue making out in front of Torien like this. There was also the sexual aspect of our retionship and I doubt Man wants Torien to just be hanging out while that was happening. I didn't really know what to do about that yet. I probably couldn't put it off forever though. It already felt like too long sihe st time I've 'fed' so to speak. Maybe things would iron out more ohe twins had their proper 'servants' gear and the twins could have a bit more autonomy.

  I quickly pushed those thoughts away and ughed in respoo Torien's ent. "Yeah, it's getting to be about that time." Despite the quick ge of atmosphere everyone seemed quite jovial. There had been an underlying tension buildiween me and the twins that was only apparent now that it was gone.

  "So," I tinued. "What does everyone want to do about dinner? Should we go get some food downstairs o somewhere else to eat?" I asked.

  "You mean like a food stand or something?" Man asked.

  That was odd, I haven't seen any food stalls around. "Do they have something like that around here? I haven't seen any."

  Toriehe towel she had been drying her hair with aside. "There's an open air market oher side of town. I don't think we've had any reason to go down that way together yet."

  Bel leaned forward enthusiastically. "Oooh! That sounds ! we check it out? I haven't been to a market since I was a kid."

  Her smile was iious. "That sounds good to me, does that sound good to you two? I don't think I've been to something like that before."

  "Sounds good to me! The food stalls are usually pretty good for the price. Torien and I would sometimes buy something small to share when we had a bit of spare money over our quota." Man already seemed to be lig her lips.

  "Is that okay with you Mimi? It doesn't seem fair to make you stay quiet all the time."

  She smiled. "I don't mind! I like to watch all of the people we go by."

  "Alright, it's settled then."

  The five of us headed out from our ihan five mier. Bel and I had vinced Man to walk betweewo of us holding hands, much to her own embarrassment. I was a little worried that Torien would get defensive or weird but she seemed to enjoy watg her sister squirm betweewo of us. Like that we made our way across town in good spirits. In an odd way Torien looked rather rexed.

  I smelled the market long before we reached it. There was a rge road though the ter of town made for carriages but now that the sun was down people walked and mingled ireet. There was two rows of food stalls oher side of the road and behind them were people selling all kinds of different wares. There were textiles, vegetables and fruits, pins, brooches, and even ons on the many different stands. Everything was lit up in the warm e glow of the hanging nterns spread all over the market. Despite the time of night, the entire area was well lit and eagle-eyed guards patrolled the area giving it the air of safety.

  I looked at Man. "So, is there anything in particur you reend?"

  Her face lit up and she let go of my hand to point at a stall about halfway along the row of stands. "That stand is the one we always went to! Lets start there."

  I nodded a her lead the way. Behind the food stand was a rge middle-aged man. He looked muscur but not in a bodybuilder kind of way, he looked more like a stru worker or something. Despite his look, he skillfully turned and flipped the kabobs on the rge grill in front of him. He looked a bit sweaty over the hot grill but it didn't look like it bothered him.

  When his eyes looked over at Man and Torien, he smiled a big smile that touched his eyes. "Ey! Torien! I've never seen you out at this time of night! Are you about to leave on a job? You don't look dressed for it," he said with a ugh.

  "Don't be silly old man, do I look like I'm in any state to wander around in the dark?" she replied with humor.

  "Mr. Domm! This is Lilith, our new mistress! We partied up st week and after our st mission she was able to buy us!"

  I could clearly see Man's words make his smile falter. His friendly smile turned into a business one as his eyes met mihis true young dy? I hope you treat them well, they're good little girls."

  To my surprise Torien put her hand on my shoulder and spoke up before I could say anything. "Lilith is a good person, she never oreated us as mere sves and even issioned servant's clothes for us immediately following the purchase, just so she could treat us closer to equals in public. I'd trust her with my life."

  I was seriously caught off guard at Torien's decration and Mr. Domm was too. His warm smile returned and I think his eyes even looked a bit watery for a moment before he turned away and back to his grill.

  He pulled four kabobs from the grill ahem out to us. "Here then, have these on the house. To celebrate a art. I wish the four of you luck."

  I took the kabobs and smiled back at him. "Thanks Mr. Domm. You seem like a good person too."

  A few other ers came up and he diverted his attention away from us so we decided to back off and stay out of his way. There were a few tables scattered around the stalls, simir in stru to the wooden piic tables I was familiar with from my own world. The kabob was really good, two of them were grilled meat with some kind of pepper I didn't reize and the other two were a mixture of differeables. I realized after the fact that he probably iionally gave us the mixture siwo of us looked like herbivore beastkin.

  I hahe two with meat to the twins and the other to Bel before digging in. It was really tasty, they were seasoned with a mixture of salt and something else that gave it a savory-spicy taste. I snuck a pieder the table to give to Mimi who took it without hesitation. I smiled, happy to include her despite the situation. It didn't take long to finish our kabobs but I didn't think it hadn't been enough for the everyone.

  "Hey, are you two still hungry? A kabob by itself probably isn't too filling, do you want something else to go with it?"

  The two of them looked sheepish but nodded in reply.

  I smiled. "You two don't o worry too much about it, you two o eat your fill. We're going to be running around taking os, you 't do that on ay stomach. What do you wa?"

  Inspiration struck Torien and she sat up in realization. "Lilith! I know what I want to use that favor on!"

  "Favor?" Man asked in fusion.

  "There's this stall I've always wao try but it's a little expensive... Would that be okay to use the favor on?" Torien asked.

  I ughed. "Sure, sounds good to me."

  Torien led us to a small stall off in the er, away from the hrills of the other food stalls and clear of any other ers. A rge cow beastfolk woman with huge breasts stood behind a table with fe wooden boxes behihe sign said ice cream. I thought it was a little funny that a cow woman would be selling a dairy product but it robably rude to think that way.

  "You sure this is okay?" Torien asked o time.

  "No problem." I said with a smile.

  She smiled bad the four of us walked up to the cow beastfolk's table.

  " we have four ice creams please?"

  The woman smiled gently, "Sure, that'll be 20 silver."

  Torien visibly flinched but I just smiled and pulled out my pouch before ting 20 silver to hand her.

  The woman quickly reted the silver I id in front of her before turning away and opening one of the boxes. My eyes rose when I realized the boxes behind her were basically standing freezers, ist came out of the box as she pulled out four wooden bowls, slightly smaller than a pint each from the box.

  She set them down in front of us and I peeked down at the ice cream. It looked slightly tinted blue and looked a bit ruhan I was normally used to but I licked my lips in respoo a far away memory.

  "I was worried that the price would scare you off after seeing her flinch like that," she said to me.

  I ughed. "Well, it's not cheap and I don't think these two are used to asking for things yet so it's uandable. But Torien here ear fair and square." I put my hand on Torien's shoulder and she smiled.

  "I'll give you a silver back if you return the bowls when you're done."

  "We'll be sure t them back!" Man quickly interjected.

  The four of us sat down at aable and tried the ice cream. The cream was really thibsp;despite how runny it looked from the outside. It was fvored with some kind of subtle berry fvor that paired well with the creamy dairy fvor. It was overall mubsp;less sweet than ice cream I was used to though. Not surprising really.

  I looked up at the three girls and eae of them looked like they were in heaven. They were slowly eating, sav each bite. I smiled, realizing that this was likely the first time any of them had ever eaten ice cream before. I decided to slow down and really savor the fvors as well. The table was pletely silent until all four of us fihe three girls even made a point to drink everything that had melted into their bowls. It was easily worth the price to see how pleased each of them looked.

  Torie her bowl down and sighed. "That was sooooo good. I don't think I've ever had anything that tasted that good before." Man nodded her head in agreement.

  Bel nodded. "It was really good." I could tell Bel e but didn't seem nearly as enthusiastic as the two cats. I k was rude to pare them to animals all the time but it was hard not to when they did things like this.

  Man started colleg the bowls from everyone. "I'm surprised you just rolled with it though. A lot of people are turned off by things made with cowkimilk."

  My jaw dropped. Breastmilk? It was almost more shog how casually she said it.

  Man finally met my gaze and then froze in realization. "Wait... you didn't know?" she asked.

  All three of them looked at me in shobsp;Clearly I was the only one who hadn't known. And then all three of them realized why at the same time.

  I cleared my throat. Maybe it wasn't that weird. "While it would have been o know that beforehand, it still tasted good."

  Both Torien and Man sighed in relief. Torien scratched her ear and looked embarrassed. "Sorry, the faight not have known... slipped my mind. I probably should have said something."

  I licked my lips and shrugged. "Eh, it's fi just wasn't something I expected I guess... It did taste good, so it robably better that I didn't know till after."

  I followed Man back to the woman when she went to return the bowls. She smiled at Man when she came up. "How did you like the ice cream dear?"

  Man smiled wide. "It was soooo good. Probably the best thing I've ever eaten."

  "Oh that's great to hear! I always love when cat beastfolk try my ice cream, the batch I gave you came from my own milk!"

  I sputtered and gnced down at her rge breasts. It was ohing to know, and ao know.

  Man smiled in amusement. "Lilith here didn't know where the cream came from until after she ate it."

  The cow woman looked shocked. "Oh dear, really? I hope the realization didn't bother you."

  I schooled my expression. "No no, it's fine. I was a little shocked but it did taste good so...."

  "Well that's good to hear. I'm gd you young ones are a bit more open mihan some others in these parts."

  She handed Man the four silver who promptly hahe silver bae. I pocketed it and quickly walked back to the rest of roup. I hadn't thought about it before but I really hoped my ears didn't get as red as Bel's normally did.

  Saine

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