Werehfire, if you told me ‘cheerful orc cook woman’ I would imagine her almost exactly and I mean that in the ossible. She was on the shorter end of average, with ample curves and a pleasant plumpo her body that wasn’t even close to what I would call fat. Just well cushioned. I couldn’t see any muscle on her but the way she hefted the stew pot told me she had plenty, and she didn’t get winded like someone who was actually out of shape would from all her running around and hauling things and being the biggest bundle of energy in the vardo by far.

  Her skin was a more vibrant green thahers, her eyes pale brown, her hair barely an inessy bck strands that she seemed to do absolutely nothing with, which fit her manid excitable nature just fine. Her curves also did wonderful things for my eyes. Her ass was a big bouncy peach of a thing that I felt more than one urge to sink my teeth into when I saw her walking by, and her breasts were just a bit bigger than Henna’s. avel that didn’t seem like much but I could still likely fit my head entirely between them and their very pale green peaks that seemed permaly stiff.

  Much like Dekarru, she eeasing me when I was helping her. I would be sitting at the preparation ter, grinding fresh picked spices or kneading dough and she would reach for something in the et above me and ‘actally’ give me a face full of green tits. Unfortunately for her attempts to win the girls’ arousal petitions, I found it more endearing and cute than the raw erotic attempts of some of the others and was able to mostly trol my junk when she did it.

  I did learn more with her though, both personal and professional.

  I could just make out Carmil out front ughing at something Briggavel said, the two were bonding quickly and I was happy that she had the ake friends while I helped the group’s chef. “So, Willow Creek is a nation made of a bunaller nations w together?” I asked with a smile as we sat i and waited for stew to cook.

  “Legally yeah. There are eleven regions of our nation, including the actual Willow Creek region further north. Which we’re currently headed to actually, it has the legal capital and so we’ll o go there for anything involving iions with other nations. It’s a big hassle, but Dekarru already radioed ahead to the elders that something so we should have everyohere within a couple of weeks at the very test. Maybe the elders will all beat us there though, some have much faster transport than this lovely old gal.” She smiled and patted the floor of the vardo lovingly.

  “Okay, so there are eleven different… what, cultures?”

  “Oh, way more than eleven, the various groups just agreed on dividing things into the eleven regions with an elder to represent and vote for each region to make things easier for us all. The regional elders are a bit like governors who work with smaller vilge or nomad leaders to figure out what’s best for the most people in their region. It’s holy a big mess whenever something requires a full vote from all of Willow Creek. We’re a nation on paper, but in practice we’re thousands of smaller groups that just mostly get along and will only put aside issues to work together if something tries to push us. Kinda like my family. Like, I will torment and insult and smack my sisters around plenty but if someone else tries we are all one against the outside threat.”

  “Sounds plex.” I grunted and crossed my arms thinking about how much of a mess something like a sus would be and iionally avoiding thinking about family. That seemed to always make me squirm inside. Orphan issues I guess.

  “Oh it is, but we rarely o do anything like that. Or that used to be true anyway, we have a couple cities now and refugees are stantly ing for help so things are more of a mess than usual. But hey, Uvtrayl showed us how to make radios a decade back so at least unication has gotten easier. Damned useful stuff that aricraft, gd we have Brigga with us to keep it running.” she smiled and turned, ying doutting her head in my p. “Mmm, much better.”

  I smirked and just slid my hand down to py with her hair absently “Brigga works with aricraft?”

  “Oh yeah, she’s got Status stuff for it, Css and Skills ya know? That’s not a secret by the way, I do know how to keep those when I o. But retty open here.” She giggled and waggled her eyebrows and I poked her cheek.

  “Dork.” I shook my head with a chuckle “So you’re a cook? You seem to like it a lot.” I wao know more about her than Briggavel at that moment so I drew the subject ba that dire.

  “Oh I love it! It’s seriously my life.” she beamed talking about the subject.

  “So why…” I motioo the vardo around us.

  “I like to travel almost as much as I like to cook. Green Mother’s Path folk don’t travel much because going to new pces usually means clothes and manners and social expectation crap that drives us all crazy. We just want to be us, but most pces want us to be some watered down and b version of ourselves.” She let out an overly dramatic sigh “I just wanna see new pces, meet new people, experieneects of life, and I wanna do it with my tits out damn it!”

  I gri her and nodded in agreement “Yeah, I’m starting to feel that too holy. Even if you girls are making it awkward for me on purpose.” I gave her a fake gre with a slight curl of my lip.

  “Whaaaaat, you’re new and you keep having the most iiions! Jaina adapted in like an hour, she’s the best. You are still fun to mess with so we’ll keep doing it.” She tilted her head “Like, at least unless you actually want us to stop. If it’s really b you we -”

  I shook my head “No, no. I’m enjoying feeling like I’m part of the group and not just someone visiting. Even if I am exactly that.” I sighed.

  She bit her lip in thought before sitting up and putting her hand on my cheek. “So, I mean, you don’t have to be? Not saying you’d be perfect with roup, we’re still getting to know each other after all, but you seem pretty good with the Path stuff so far?” She phrased it all as questions, I figured she was trying to not make me feel pressured. Like a ‘just think about it and e to your own decision’ feeling. She was houghtful.

  “I…” I sat bad grunted quietly as I thought “I really like it in the vardo with you all so far, it’s super fortable and you’ve bee. But I have so much shit piling up ohat even if I ighe fact that it would draw a bunch of it to you all, I still have to figure out more before I make any big life choices like that, or something?” I let out a breath of annoya having to think about the big things again instead of the busty orc’s cooking and naked joy.

  She pulled me against her, my face damned near disappeariween her green hills as she pet the bay head softly. “It’s okay Esme, we’ll be here to help you figure it all out if we . And hey, we like to travel so maybe when yallivanting around the world doing Saint things, we could be your mobile support staff!” Then with a wicked giggle “Then you could support us with your ‘staff’ iurn, cutie.” Yep, there it is, she got a rea from my body with that. “Yes! I am the sexiest!” She jumped up and cheered upon notig the effect. “Now e on and gimme a hand oh flustered o’s time to put in the soft veggies.”

  I huffed and gave her a half false gre and she just giggled and headed towards the stove. But I was fast enough to give her ample ass a sharp smad make her squeak befetting up to go help the absolute brat.