I was curious about Luvetra from the moment I first saw her. Holy I fouo be the most beautiful of the group but I got the impression that she would never believe that. She was extremely self scious and stuck to ers and shadows. It made it strahat she was with a Green Mother’s Path group, but maybe it was the fact that they had all vinced her she was wele. Maybe she just ime to get used to the three guests.

  She was tall, at least eight feet, probably several inches into it but at that height I was less fident in my ability to judge. She was slim but not without curves, they just seemed lesser because of how much more of her torso there was lengthwise. She had blueish green skin with splotches of brownish green that were more numerous on her shoulders and hips, thinning to practically nothing on her chest and ihighs where the tone of her skin paled noticeably. Her eyes were a dull gold with wide and ft goat pupils, I found them cute. Her hair was bouncy curls a lot like mine in a deep earthy shade of green. Her ass was bigger than her frame would suggest. A wide, heart shaped tush that I wao squeeze if I’m being ho. Her chest seemed modest at first, but the scale meant her breasts were actually rger than my own. More iingly, her nipples were thid long and a bright vender in color. The same vehat peeked through her green pubic hair whenever I got a gnce. Yes I looked, I’m not perfed she’s geous and naked all the time.

  Her features were like the irls but pulled a bit lousks, ears, nose, all stretched out more thahers. I thought it made her look sharp and elegant, the same sort of lines as Carmil’s face, just less human. If that makes sense? But there was also a certain animalistic aspect to them, and I found that appealing as well.

  We talked a bit at meals, I found myself sitting with Carmil on one side and Luvetra oher quite often. She didn’t say much, mostly asked me about what I’d seen in other nations. Which was a limited subject. She seemed particurly sad that I had so little to tell her about the city I’d been to. Seeing as I had spent almost that eime in a hospital, all I saw was some surrounding buildings and the road to the train station. But she seemed to appreciate that I wao sit with her at least.

  Nearly a week passed and we came to a stop for a day to let the biso. We’d e out of the Ash Lands and into Willow Creek proper and I saw why they picked the name almost immediately. There were a lot of creeks, small bridges along the path almost every quarter mile, sometimes more, and willow trees seemed on along the edges of the water where ponds had formed.

  Once we made it to a good sized clearing a up camp as it were, Luvetra started to head out to look for more ingredients for Dekarru’s brews and salves. But the shaman stopped her. “Luv, take Stareyes with you. She’s recovered enough for the work and could use the walk. She carry a sack at the least.”

  Luvetra blushed and nodded “O-okay.” She said quietly and grabbed ara rge vas sack to hand to me.

  Carmil smiled and stepped over “I carry ooo.”

  But Dekarru shook her head “No, you’re staying with me. I have some ideas about how your medical abilities work and I want to see if you use some sort of healing magic.”

  My elemental love perked up but then narrowed her eyes “That is a wonderful idea you should have thought of st night when we were free. You are just trying to keep me and Esme apart.”

  “Or course I am. N your red ass over so we get to it. The two of them will be fine.” I holy didn’t expect her to admit that was the pn, even though I’d figured it out the third time the shaman had an excuse to get me aloh one of the girls without Carmil.

  “Love, I’ll be fine. Go learn to keep my stupid self breathing the ime I get hurt.” I said and kissed her lips tenderly. “She’s n to do anything wrong.” I whispered in her ear.

  She sighed and nodded and made her way to the old orc. “This had better be worth it.” She grumbled as I went to follow Luvetra into the sparse woods. “Wait!” She said before running ihe vardo and quickly returning with my belt. “Just in case, love.”

  I smiled and kissed her again and strapped it on before heading off to follow the still blushing Luvetra.

  Several mier I was gd for Carmil’s fht. The uneven ground was not easy with my prosthetic when most of my practice was ft surfaces. Pulling the metal ring from its holster I activated it and smiled as it twisted into my e. “Okay, there, better.”

  “That-, that’s really nice.” Luvetra said quietly, giving a small nervous smile.

  “Gift from Henna. I really hope she’s okay, I want to thank her for this properly.” I gave the tall woman a wink and watched her skin turn violet. She was cute while shy, but I wanted her to be a bit more fident with me. “So, this is sittiween us and I really don’t want it to be. If we don’t talk about it the awkwardness of the unspoken is going to ruin our friendship before it really grow.”

  She bit her lip aated before she nodded. “Y-yeah, it’s just something I’m really s-sensitive about.” she pulled an arm around her chest, as if to hide her body from me.

  “I don’t know what blood you carry in your veins, but I do know that you’re beautiful ale and have been nothing but kind to me.” I reached out slowly to give her a ce to stop me, but her own hand slowly reached over and took mine instead.

  “My mother… she, she was attacked in Father’s Fingers. That’s um, that’s the wetnds region. A uh… a troll forced itself on her.” she whispered the words just barely loud enough for me to hear. I squeezed her hand tighter. Trolls, I actually had that info in my head for orolls were vicious, cruel, and blurred the liween monsters and sapient creatures. Literally in some cases as Skills and Spells with targetiris based on the sapience of the target would flip-flop over w on trolls or not. Some seemed to possess a simple intellect that they used to torment their victims and some were mindlessly violent. But they always, always brought suffering ah where they went.

  “I am so sorry. But you’re not one of those things.”

  She shrugged. “Feel like I am sometimes. Feel urges sometimes, want to hurt someone. Don’t care who.”

  “Do you a them?” I rubbed my thumb against her knuckles softly to fort her.

  She shook her head “Not since I was little. Was-, was worse before.”

  “Before?”

  She looked at me and blushed, I refused to show her anything but affe and I don’t think she was used to it from a the girls. “I-, my mom tried to raise me at first but she had nightmares and would be scared of me for days after. I left when I was about ten. Tried to make it in a different town but they were-, they didn’t like me. I got more violent there. Hurt people. They tried to kill me but trolls… they regee. I survive a lot.” She shrugged.

  “Luvetra. You shouldn’t have had to gh that. You’re not a monster just because other people see you as one.”

  She gave a small bitter ugh. “I be angry like o least.”

  I felt a memory stir, the words of a poem or story of some kind. I let them flow from my lips for the beautiful tall woman “I have love ihe likes of which you scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I ot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

  She paused and looked at me. “That… that’s what it feels like. Yeah.” she sniffled and rubbed her face.

  “I don’t remember what that’s from, but it sounded like it fit.” I pulled on her arm softly and after a moment she k down in front of me. I ed my arms around her ned held her close. “Hey. I get angry sometimes too, in fact I think I used to be a lot angrier before I ged. From what I remember, my life was not kind and I think I became bitter and cruel i year or two before, well, the new me.”

  I felt her arms slide around me and she trembled softly. “S-sorry, new people are hard. I spent a few decades in the wild living like… like one of those things. But Dekarru found me and b-brought me to a Path encve and they t-took care of me. I got better and I w-wao help. The girls in the v-vardo, I be m-me with them mostly. But n-new is…” she sniffled and I felt tears dripping onto my shoulder.

  “I uand, it probably felt really shitty when I was staring at you that first m too.” I said as I stroked her back gently.

  “N-not your fault, I know I be s-scary.”

  I pulled baough to look into her eyes “Luvetra. You didn’t scare me.”

  She flushed and looked a bit upset “N-no it’s fine, you don’t have to lie to make me-”

  I pressed my lips against her own and kissed her, hard. She squeaked and struggled for a brief moment before she caught up with what was happening aantly kissed back. I ran my tongue along her lips until they parted, pushing it into her mouth aing it stroke along her own. She moaned into the kiss and I felt her shudder. Only a moment passed before she pressed harder against my lips and I could feel the need in her deepeongue dove into my mouth and I sucked on it while my fingers ran down her spine, making her groan and practically fall on top of me.

  I kept it up for a few minutes, making out with her and stroking her skin teasingly before I eventually pulled bad gri her. “I wasn’t scared Luv, I wao kiss you. Well, maybe more than kiss.” I blushed “You are fug sexy.”

  She turned purple damned near everywhere and couldn’t stop a smile from spreading on her face. “R-really?”

  “Luv.” I stroked her cheek befently tilting her head dowween us to see my throbbiion “I might be able to lie with my words, but I ’t lie with that, I?”

  She gulped and shook her head, looking back up and staring into my eyes. “U-uhm… w-we have to get some h-herbs picked, and some m-more kindling for the s-stove.” She stood up tall, sounding a bit disappointed but still quite upbeat. “So w-we gotta um, get to w-work.”

  I rue.” I agreed, reag out to squeeze her hand again. When she looked down at me I smirked “We do still have ter tonight to make Brigga right about her ‘by the end of the week’ predi though.” and that time she did turn purple everywhere.