"We did," Natalie firmed. "I didn't think you three would, though. And why aren't you hen?"

  "Why would we be?" Jordan asked. "That's your css."

  Ana tilted her head. It was a fair point. The three seemed to have been caught up in the same trap, seeing how they had sed bodies, but sihey weren't with Natalie, the dungeon had given them a less sex-oriented debacle.

  "But what's the point, then?" Natalie asked, fused. "What's even the challenge?"

  "What's the challenge?" Jordan asked, eyebrows going up. "Our csses and bodies are sed. What do you mean, what's the challenge?"

  Ah. Ana and Natalie had gotten to keep their csses, but that was because they had lewder activities to undergo—the bat eripheral. Not so for the rest of the party, who had been split off into a simir, but different, adventure.

  Ana had only just gotteo seeing Natalie talk in a different body. The rest of her team also having been scrambled was difficult to adjust to. She o stantly remind herself who eaking. Not Sofia, but Jordan wearing Sofia's body.

  "You didn't keep your csses?"

  "You did?"

  "Yeah."

  Jordan's brow sched down. "Well, then, what's the point for you? What's the trap?" She paused, and her lips curled up mischievously. "Actually, another dumb questio me guess. You two are handling some other difficulties from sing bodies." Her eyes flicked to Ana—wearing Natalie's body—who was c herself with both hands.

  Natalie was more embarrassed by the implication than Ana, like usual. Her face went red, and she shifted side to side as she struggled to e up with a defle. Ana sympathized with her plight, even if she wasn't as embarrassed.

  "No, there's beey of fighting, too," Natalie said. "I'm not sure what you're implying."

  Jordan's smirk deepened, and she opened her mouth, ready to press Natalie's obvious lie. Ana interjected before she could. Half for Natalie's sake, and half because there were more important things to be talking about. Jordan could tease Natalie on her own time.

  "You three followed in after us?" Ana asked. "Or did the dungeon force you to?"

  Jordan paused, then turo her, her teasing remark drying up. She gave Ana an odd look. "Of course we followed. It's not like we'd sit around and wait." She frow Natalie. "Though, just rushing in like you did was nothing short of idiotiat."

  "That's putting it politely," Liz muttered—and Ana had to remind herself it was Sofia in her body. The btant insult had taken Ana aback, ing from the persistently friendly girl.

  "Yeah, yeah," Natalie said, brushing it off. "I just kinda acted. I know I shouldn't have. But how are you three holding up?" Her brow furrowed. "And what's up with this mirror? Why is the dungeoing us talk to each other?"

  "Good question," Jordan said. "I've got no idea. And we're doing fine. Sort of. We're surviving. Sing csses is kind h. Liz isn't the greatest with bded ons, and Sofia is …" Jordaated, searg for a way to put it politely.

  "Not a mage," Sofia grumbled, wearing a dark expression that was odd to see on Liz's face. "It's given me a newfound respect for your situation. Having a casting css just dumped onto my p and being forced to cope."

  "It was a struggle," Natalie agreed. "So, you three are having to learn each other's skills?"

  That was an iing cept, but also vioting. Being forced to share the details of their csses with each other just so that they could survive. Holy, Ana would have been more upset by that situation than the one she and Natalie had ended up in. Sharing the details of one's css was highly intimate, much more so than being naked, in Ana's frank opinion. Her css was written into her soul, but being stuaked, or even enced into intimacy—well, it was just smashials together. Ana didn't get what the big deal was.

  The other three didn't seem too upset by the s, though. Then again, they'd already had time to adjust to their situation, and even more to the point, Ana was hardly the best at reading people. Maybe they were unfortable with it, and she just couldn't tell.

  "But yeah, we're doing fine. Jordan's carrying us," Liz piped ione sounding too cheerful for using Sofia's voice. "She barely had to adjust, since Sofia's css is nearly rogue-like as it stands."

  "And lucky for her," Sofia said sourly. It was rather clear the petitive girl didn't like being the deadweight of the team, having tle with spell-casting for the first time.

  "The dungeon adjusted its difficulty with the s in mind," Jordan said. "It's not throwing anything impossible at us. It's seriously weird, though. And definitely not easy. What about you two? It's not looking bad?"

  "We're pushing through."

  "Having a good bonding experience?" Jordan asked slyly. "You still didn't tell me what you've been up to."

  Again, Natalie's face redde the obvious implication. And at how easily Natalie was reag, Jordan's delight grew.

  Before she could get something out, though, Ana again came to Natalie's rescue. Natalie wasn't typically a girl who o be rescued, but it was clear she was embarrassed by the situation—and especially by the details. She probably didn't want the details of their misadventures getting out. How she'd so eagerly sucked Ana's—or her own—cock.

  "How are the rewards for you three?" Ana cut in.

  Jordan paused, her teasing cut off for a sed time, then narrowed her eyes at Ana. Ana khe irl was socially insightful—certainly ten times more so than Ana—and Ana wasn't particurly subtle even when she was trying her hardest. Seeing how Ana had do twiow, Jordan had probably picked up how Ana was intervening for Natalie's sake. Added with how quickly Natalie was blushing, Jordan could tell something .

  "Good, but nothing special," Jordan said after a brief pause. She studied Ana, then her—though Ana hadn't a clue what the gesture implied. "Let me guess. You two have beeing crazy loot."

  "Some of the most ii, even ating for Elizabeth's wand."

  Liz's eyes wide that, food reason. Her wand had already been one of the stra—and stro—items Ana had heard of, sidering its low level.

  "Oh, wow," Liz said. "I don't know if I even wanna guess."

  "It's best we save expnations for our reunion," Ana said. "It'll take time to gh it all." There was the stat-boosting potions, and Ana's neon as well. Probably more to e.

  "'t wait to see the haul," Jordan said, her lips curling up—and with a sparkle in her eye that said she meant the words. She khat loot ing from a challehat was f her and Natalie into nakedness would involve something lewd, and she was excited to see what. Amusingly, Jordan seemed to be the most at ease with Natalie's css than anyone besides possibly Ana herself.

  Sofia, unsurprisingly, just shook her head in disapproval, incredulity, or something simir.

  "But really," Jordan said. "Stop defleg. What challenges are you two getting, if you weren't forced to s csses? Have you—"

  A sudden crashing made all five of them jump. Jordan's head so the side, looking at something Ana and Natalie couldn't see. Her eyes widened, hand shooting to her belt and drawing Sofia's rapier in an instant. Then, just as suddenly as the interruption had e, the mirror shattered, spraying Ana and Natalie with a shower of gss shards.

  Which was, Ana would admit, a ve way to cut Jordan's interrogation off.

  After spinning side to side, sing to clear the room and look for any threats on their end, Natalie turo Ana.

  "Shit. What was that?"

  Ana shrugged. "They'll be fine." She didn't have a clue, but she also had faith ieammates. Danger was a given in the dungeon, and she wasn't going to panic every time something ued happened. Jordan, Sofia, and Liz knew how to hahemselves. Even Natalie, the more emotional—aainly more attached—wasn't too bothered, though she did send several ed looks at the broken mirror, chewing her lip as if trying to puzzle out a way to help them.

  "I wao ask if they had optional ways out, like we do," Natalie said, gesturing at the dder. "And what's up with the dungeoing the five of us talk in the first pce? What's the point? Was there something we should have told them?"

  "Maybe," Ana said. It hadn't crossed her mind that there was anything urgent they o vey. "Maybe the dungeon just wao let us know they were fine. Unharmed."

  Natalie gave her a doubtful look.

  "More likely, though, it just wao embarrass us further," Ana said. "By showing off our circumstances."

  "Why would it want to do that?"

  "Why would it wao shove my cock down your throat?" Ana tered. Clearly, the theme of the challenge was to mortify Natalie—to push her boundaries. So her expnation for the mirror made some sense, in that text.

  And, apparently, Ana had just helped the dungeon with that goal. Because the question was too direatalie flushed and turned away.

  She hadn't been trying to tease Natalie. That art of the reason why she was oftentimes absurdly direct, to the point of obviously messing with people. To mask when she was doing so actally. Ana was entirely aware she could be clueless. Thus, the practical solution was to mask that weakness behind a cool fad dry humor—it made it less obvious when she was floundering uionally.

  "Questioning the dungeon is pointless," Ana said, brushing past Natalie's rea. "It does what it does. In the best of cases, ay like it will behave enigmatically. So, we worry about ourselves, not its indecipherable motives. As for the mirror—what happened, happened. No point iing. They'll be fine."

  "Right."

  Natalie g the door, the entrao the challenge room. If following the same pattern, it would be bat, not a lewd enter. They still had a brief reprieve before their event, whatever it would turn out to be.

  Aated. They 'o worry about themselves', as she'd just said, but maybe not just in the sense of danger. By Natalie's tinued blushing, Ana was holy worried whether Natalie was okay with all of this. Perhaps the excellent rewards were c her into things she didn't want.

  Then again, Ana doubted that was the case. Natalie had been too enthusiastic to get her mouth around Ana's cock. At the same time, this series of enters wasn't the most anic of situations. In Ana's opinion, that was even what made it so exg—or at least so titilting. Certainly, they weren't being forced into anything, but they were being enced into plenty.

  Regardless, Natalie's stant blushing ahan-typion-fidence made it clear she had been put on the back foot. Unfortable, in a way, despite her enthusiasm wheicky situation had started. Ae Natalie's insistent that they shouldn't talk about it, Ana thought they should.

  Just, how to go about it? Ana wasly a social savant. She didn't know how to navigate a versation that obviously required tact.

  But better to talk than to not, Ana decided. It was time to put her foot down.

  For both of their sakes, she needed Natalie to admit that she wanted more of her cock.