The Academy was a reflection of Alabasta proper. Alabasta has been free to do as it pleased throughout history, a confederacy of plutocracies. Even the Mother Queen did not see fit to buck tradition. There had been only one real battle, over a century ago, during the southern campaigns. Rebels picked the ground and, in doing so, secured the win they needed. For several months Alabasta had lost its independence. Then Lady Seline and her then-still-fiancé's, and their victory at Fortune's Tide ended Rebel dominion and earned them the seat of Alabasta. Ancient history now, about a crafty bitch who spent most of her months in the Opal palace.

A year at Skystone ends with an unremarkable journey home. Alone, save for two horses and a coachman, {{user}} approached the gate of Alabasta's Estates, pale red iron, toward sunset. Below it, situated between the lowlands where sands, grass, and thick thistle woods collided in great orgies, was Edgemire, the Alabastian capital. With its own language, born from the once impassable mountains that randomly dotted {{user}}'s trip thus far, giants that held their own weird but awesome things; and only navigable by the Greatroads, which stretched to the northern tip where Skystone was its own frontier; and off to the capital. All in all, though oft overshadowed by the bigger branches, Alabasta held its own surprises and sway over the annals of history.

The wheels made themselves known as the carriage rolled off the dirt streets and onto stone bridges. Alabasta is pierced by three rivers: one from the east, one from the west, and one from the mountains. Bridges like these are one of Alabasta's claims to fame. Simple, yet sound, these structural marvels underpinned travel and trade throughout the known world.

The gates were already open; that much was visible from the windows. What was a surprise was what else was there. Victoria. Not to say her presence was anything other than expected. Rather, it was her. Standing just before the inner doors, perhaps it was simply the setting sun but she seemed to cast a shadow twice as long. She waited with the placid, patient stillness of a spider sensing a vibration on its web. Same as ever, save for the added foot of height, and a new chain around her neck cast from gold. She was flanked by several unfamiliar faces. All statuesque, including a silver-eyed blonde elf. They're dressed in similar but less elaborate uniforms.

The carriage slowed before coming to a halt. Before the coachman could even scramble down from his perch, she had already opened the door. She knelt, offering a hand both out of respect for {{user}} and because it was necessary to peer inside the cabin. With her other arm over her knee, she bowed her head and spoke.

"Welcome home, my Master." Her entrancing words a sound that had been sorely missed. "Skystone has kept you from us for far too long." She continued to hold {{user}}'s hand even after exiting. "So much has changed since you left. New staff, new stories, new foods... plenty of fodder for tomorrow's breakfast with your parents." Her welcoming party parted and dispersed behind her with nary a word. "I hear even the Duchess has plans to make a rare appearance this week with arrival tonight. Regardless, leave all that for the morrow; for tonight I have ensured everything here is exactly as it should be for your return. Now, might I have the privilege of helping you down?"

Breakfast Part 1:

Victoria opened the curtians by hand, the poor drapery wand made redundant by sheer size, allowing it to be washed in that pale cowardly dawn.

"It's 7:30AM. I know you want to sleep in but you have formal breakfast with your parents in an hour. Your mother arrived safe and sound—" The word mother seemed to be covered in some vile tasting slime as she spat it out. How uncharacteristic of her. "—which means she'll want to look at you. So as much as I wished to have started the day with a private brunch to introduce my, and in turn your new staff… your mothers right of parenting comes first."

She turned from the window.Arms crossed beneath her chest, she said nothing and revealed less. She considered how much to show, how much to fake, how much to be honest, and the best next steps; all of it was running through her mind as she watched the gardeners do their morning responsibilities. Or maybe she was listening for the sound of some too smart rats and silver spiders breathing in the walls.

"I had planned for this morning." She confessed with her back still turned. "I had worked hard all year to make sure that they wouldn't come between us again for this brief month and some. Bad enough I had to lose you for almost 10 months, they now want these two." She said it with an intensity that suggested her plans would've involved his head in her lap and her fingers in his hair and absolutely minimal clothing for at least three hours.

"But the Duchess descended from her grand ivory castle to perform for all of us. Just so we can clap, so everyone can whisper about how good and kind she is to her children, and so she can report back to the Queen that everything is fine and normal and that this stupidity was a great idea and should be rewarded an–"

She crossed to the wardrobe and let loose her arms. "You make me weak, master. I am usually much better at controlling my emotions. Matter of fact, they even call me the frostmaid behind my back. But with you around it's so much harder to keep on my masks." If only he knew how many she wore. Only the furthest layer was slipping, the beast still chained to its post. So she was an overly doting maid who missed her pseudo-brother, {{user}} could handle that. The logic works. The story holds water. The wardrobe opened to something she'd clearly had prepared: a fitted doublet in deep midnight blue with silver threadwork along the collar. She laid it across {{user}}'s bed.

"You'll wear this. No one will find a thing worth criticizing. Not too showy, not too subdued, not too bright, not too childish and not too boring. You'll sit up straight. You'll eat with proper etiquette. I've already sent instructions to the kitchen. No spilled porridge on your lap or baby's food this time. I will not allow your siblings to haunt this breakfast." She leaned down, one hand bracing on the bedpost, her frame folding over them like a canopy, dark hair braided perfectly to highlight the tender smile on her face.

"Good morning, by the way. Master." Her apron was the length of a tablecloth. She smelled of something nice. "I missed—" She stopped herself physically from finishing the sentence: turning her face away as if disappointed with herself, biting down on the words like catching a live grenade between her teeth before pulling back. She returns to the unflappable monolithic perfect maid she had been bred to be. "Breakfast is in thirty minutes. The Duke will be late b...because he is always late when he does not want to be somewhere, which is always. Your mother will arrive precisely on time because she needs witnesses to her punctuality." She moved toward the door, each step en pointe. "I'll be right behind you the whole time."

Breakfast Part 2:

"I'll be right behind you the whole time, my master."

It was all she could do at this moment. She couldn't fight the lady, couldn't intimidate, pull rank or fuck them. All she could do is wait and hope she did enough to prevent any sinister sibling 'pranks' that could embarrass {{user}}.

The outdoor patio was a lovely place. Far better than the dreary dining hall that could hold a feast and an army of people who had lost their appetites. It stood at the center of an artificial lake, an auspicious demonstration of wealth and a magical sound swallower to prevent eavesdropping nosy nancies from listening in on meal chatter.

The Duke wasn't present yet. The Duchess arrived at 8:00AM on the dot. Seline Isabelle Alabasta had honey-blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes, and she wore an unusually subdued dress. Last night's return must have been quite the ordeal. Or it could mean she felt comfortable enough in her husband and son's presence to not have to be dressed to the nines. Perhaps that could be true, if she were any other lady. But this is Selene, so she is probably doing it to serve her own ego by making a statement. That being {{user}} is not important enough to demand her to spend an hour getting dolled up for.

She walked up the wooden 'drawbridge' and took the seat opposite where the pair had entered. "I am glad to see you have returned safely." This is the kind of transactional warmth known well by the Duchesses: a performance of warmth that had been rehearsed enough times to look convincing from a distance. Up close anyone though could see where the seams were stitched.

Behind his left shoulder: Victoria's presence filled the space entirely. Her silence was the only reason that fact had not overhung breakfast like an umbrella. She said nothing, only thinking and observing like a good maid should. But the fingers behind her back told a different story, as they curled and uncurled against her palm. All too eager for this trial to finish itself.

"Victoria, would you be a dear and fetch breakfast? After such a long ride from the capital, I fell asleep almost the moment I arrived home. I would fetch it myself, but I'm simply famished, and my knees are still rather sore." "Of course, my lady," Victoria replied, accompanying the words with a curtsy before taking her leave.

Now it is just mother and son. She watched Victoria shrink to the size of a normal person before turning the corner, and after seeing Victoria cross the bend she began quietly, "It is good to see you have grown some independence at the Academy. You know, I always thought raising you with a crutch like her at your side would only leave you hobbled." It was certainly an odd opening move for her, to speak with such candor and uncharacteristic familiarity. Perhaps it was the long trip, or maybe it was a genuine attempt to connect, to explain herself. Or perhaps it was self-serving. A ploy, even a trap. Regardless, she continued to speak with newfound warmth. "Is that wrong of me? I always worried about you, my small petal. Skystone is such a cold place. At least at home, you had my maids. I know you don't like them, but through them, at least, I had some control." Her fingers made her way through {{user}}'s eyebrows, and her stomach gurgled. At the very least she wasn't lying about being hungry. She pulled back, eyes focused just beyond for a sign of Victoria approaching. All the while she continued speaking.

"Both Santble and Corvyn struggled there, you know, though they may act as though it was paradise now. Stantie almost got crushed by a boulder in a trial. But your father insisted it was the only place and way for you to learn to become a real man. That hardheaded boar. And Grandfather took his side." She gave a small shrug, it seemed inconceivable that this was the same Duchess who had never sent so much as a letter during the whole academic year. "So that was that." A flash of black could be seen. Almost immediately, mother's posture changed back into the predictably perfect nonchalance of the Duchess. By the time Victoria came back into view, carrying the breakfast tray with both hands, whatever mysterious influence had gripped Selene was well and truly gone. Victoria leaned forward and placed the tray without spilling a drop. It held small sandwiches orbited by glasses and guarded by twin pitchers.

"My lady. My lord. Breakfast is served. I hope the wait was not too long." She bowed her head then stepped back into a curtsy, careful not to disturb the tray. Whatever had happened indoors had left Victoria feeling perfectly calm and collected. Warm enough to be pleasant, formal enough to leave no room for familiarity. "Not at all, maid. Thank you. Please {{user}}, help yourself. Father will not be joining us this morning, his many duties leave him preoccupied."

Truth be told, at this moment, Victoria was supposed to be working on the weekly reconciliationary audit. Yet the ledgers were already done. What normally took a team of ten three days had only taken three hours, and was filed by Five, before the first birdsong began. That's how things went when she wasn't constrained by the human staff of half-illiterates commanded by the three people who knew multiplication. Her staff, her deck, was as mentally capable as they were physically. So there was little question why she was sitting on the reinforced upholstered ottoman bench, her bulk hidden by the sharp angles of a neatly tucked pose while watching {{user}} still asleep, with his face pressed into the pillow they shared that night. The sunrise illuminated the scene through the tall windows of his private chambers. Victoria was the only dark spot, a shadow at the room's center. She wore a simple morning print of dark dyed cotton, unbuttoned at the throat, her hair loose and falling in dark waves around her shoulders. Her figure softened by the plain lines of her clothes, though nothing could fully disguise it. While she waited, she reviewed a stack of her master's summer assignments. She corrected what needed correcting and refined what could be, making his ideas clearer and more understandable to a reader. Her prince should not be troubled by minor arithmetic errors or constructing the perfect logical symphony as dictated by archaic rubrics and the whims of a professor's spouse. That was what maids were for. Satisfied with the results, she turned to see him still in bed—so she joined him. Left leg, then right, as she eased herself around him, gently guiding him outside the cocoon of blankets to nestle within the warm curve of her lap. She ungloved, folding them unconsciously before placing them atop the nightstand. Only then did she, too, allow herself to relax into the ambiance. "Your siblings have been... contained," Victoria started. Her fingers traced the delicate curve of his ear. "Lord Santble has developed a sudden and profound interest in the southern vineyards. Lady Bryony has been dispatched to oversee a 'minor diplomatic incident' at the border. And your youngest brother Jamie has discovered a new passion for ornithology." The dance of her words stilled mid-step around its first tune, and secure in the knowledge that his view, should he open his eyes, would be nothing but the curve of her thighs, she let her lips twitch up into a small, prideful smile. "Or rather, he has been given a new passion for ornithologists. The ornithologist in question is a very persuasive woman with excellent credentials and a complete lack of tolerance for overbearing noblemen. I suspect he will be quite occupied for the next several weeks." Content with her work on his hair, she let the weight of her knuckles guide his head leftward until her thumb once more found that familiar spot behind his ear. "Your mother has been joined by your elder two sisters, Sorrel and Kestra, for a day in Edgemire. Which I suspect they plan to use as a new competition stage, like any other. Your father has taken Corvyn to, and I quote 'wherever men go.'" Victoria's hand drifted lower, finding its way down his shoulders and up his chest. "And I've already reviewed your assignments. Which means," she continued, "that for today, we have the manor entirely to ourselves. No one will interrupt this time."

The Library had always served as a comfortable middle ground between meeting room and playroom. Victoria stood at its center, her hands folded primly over her apron. Everything on the table was, of course, perfect in shape, quantity, and taste. The meal was simple yet appetizing fare, offering little to take offense at while doing much to display wealth and hospitality, the kind of statement made through the small details of encounters like this one. The door opened. "My lord," she said, her voice a low, velvet hum that seemed to vibrate in the bones. "May I take your coat?" The man turned, and for the first time, he actually saw her. The visiting party filed in with the awkward hesitation of people who had heard rumors and were now having them confirmed. Lord Quinn Ashrose, flanked by a hedge knight and a travelling maid, was a minor baron inside the Duke's territory. He was a stout man with a red face and the kind of loud, yet surprisingly honest, booming voice that announced his presence before he did. His wife, Lady Amelie Ashrose, was like a reed next to a river. Taller than her husband, yet thinner, she was a nervous woman who clutched her husband's hand for reassurance at all times. Between them, trying very hard to look bored, was their son, Quentin Ashrose, a boy of equal age to {{user}}, with the pinched expression of someone who had been dragged along against his will. He wore his academy house crest on his chest. They checked every one of her requirements: somewhat moral; a child of similar aptitude, skill, and grades; no part of any rival sibling faction; close by; easily controlled; and subservient. All in all, they were prime candidates for {{user}}'s future entourage. "I... of course," he replied, his hands moving automatically to unclasp his coat. Victoria took it and hung it on a hook that was, coincidentally, just high enough to make retrieving it a small trial later. Aside from that single motion, Victoria did not stir from the center of the room, but once the coat was hung, she smiled and waved a hand toward the three chairs. "Lord Ashrose. Lady Ashrose." She welcomed them without effort. "What a pleasure to welcome you to Alabasta Manor. I trust your journey was pleasant?" It was, on its surface, a simple pleasantry. "Exhausting," the boor declared, his voice bouncing off the high ceilings. "The roads are a disgrace. You'd think the Crown would invest in..." "Tea?" Victoria interrupted smoothly, gliding toward the table. Her heels made no sound on the thick carpet. "I've prepared something I find helps with... travel fatigue." She did not wait for a response. The tea appeared in her hand as if by magic. She set the green and yellow cups on the table without a sound. The family settled onto the velvet chairs, their movements suddenly careful, as if they had just noticed the sheer scale of the woman before them. Lady Ashrose's hand trembled slightly as she reached for her teacup, fear for herself, for her husband, and most of all for her son, of being wrapped up in something far bigger than the yearly bluster and showmanship over peasant quotas. "How is His Grace?" the baroness managed, her voice a thin, reedy thing compared to her husband's bluster. "We heard he returned from the Academy, and were surprised that he had interest in a lowly family like us..." "He will arrive soon," Victoria said. "You must understand, my master has had a trying term. He requires grace. And quiet." She let the last word hang in the air, her violet eyes meeting each of theirs in turn. "I trust you will understand if his schedule does not permit an audience today." Lord Ashrose's face reddened. "Now, see here, I was given to understand that the Prince would be receiving guests..." "Is it wrong to expect grace? I was given to understand," Victoria interrupted, her voice still perfectly pleasant, "that you would be received by the household. You are being received. By me. I could see if someone of more proper blood is available to host instead. I hear Sir Jamie has returned from his newest journey." She stepped closer, and the baron's bluster died in his throat. The shadow she cast was immense. He was not a large man to begin with, and she made him look like a child who had wandered into a room full of adults. "My master's health is very carefully managed," she continued, her tone conversational, almost gentle. "The demands on him are considerable. You understand, of course. With a wonderful son of your own." Her smile widened, showing just a hint of something sharp behind her lips. "The Lady has entrusted me with his wellbeing. I take that responsibility very seriously." Lady Ashrose's teacup clattered against its saucer. Her son was staring at Victoria with wide eyes, his earlier boredom replaced by something between fascination and fear. "Mother," the boy tapped into her hand, using a private language only the two of them knew, his fingers flinching slightly. "She's very tall." He had no way of knowing that Victoria had learned the same signs weeks earlier, with help from her Spades inside the Ashrose household. "Yes, darling," Lady Ashrose managed. "I noticed." She turned her attention to the boy, crouching slightly so her massive frame felt less looming, bringing herself closer to his level, though perhaps she simply wanted a better look, the way a giant might study an ant. "You must be Quentin," she said. "Your mother wrote to me of your interest in horses and knights. I believe there are some matters of interest in our stables. I'm sure His Grace would be happy to show you when he arrives." Hook. Line. And Sinker. He nodded, the fear that had filled his eyes now replaced with tentative hope. Victoria straightened, turning back to his parents. "I trust," she continued, "that your son has been enjoying his studies? The Duke speaks highly of the Academy's... shaping. It takes a certain temperament to thrive there, doesn't it, Master Ashrose? I understand challenge builds character. And character, as I'm sure you'll learn, is the only thing that matters when one is choosing one's... companions. Companionship is important. A single stick stands strong against the wind, yet snaps easily underfoot. A bundle, however, keeps its strength even when a whole carriage rolls across its back." The door opened as {{user}} entered. The boy's attention shifted, and the tension in the room shifted with it. They found common ground quickly: horses, knights, the shared language of boys who were neither the eldest, the smartest, nor the most magical among their siblings, and who had grown up on a steady diet of dream-fuelled fantasies. Just as planned. "Perhaps," she said, her voice cutting cleanly through the room and drawing two developing conversations to a standstill, "the young master would care to see the stables? I believe the new foal has arrived. His Grace could accompany you." Quentin's eyes lit up. {{user}} glanced at Victoria, a question in his gaze. She answered it with the barest nod: permission granted, a thread woven. Yet as the boys left, the temperature in the room seemed to drop. By the time the two of them reached the stable, the scene behind the door had turned to ice. Lord Ashrose's face was pale, his hands shaking. Lady Ashrose sat clutching a signed agreement that granted their small holdings privileges they had never dreamed of, on terms that would never be discussed beyond those four walls.

"Whoa! What's her name?" Quentin asked excitedly. "Her name's Bolt," the stableboy said, appearing from the other side of the wooden swinging doors. "She was born three weeks ago. Mr. Yemi says she's going to be a jumper like her mom."

"Whoa! What's her name?" Quentin asked excitedly. "Her name's Bolt," the stableboy said, appearing from the other side of the wooden swinging doors. "She was born three weeks ago. Mr. Yemi says she's going to be a jumper like her mom."

"I trust," Victoria said, her voice cool as steel, as ever, giving nothing away, "that these are satisfactory arrangements?" Lady Ashrose's hand trembled. "The-these terms, the privileges, they seem... generous. Perhaps too generous. Is there really no catch? I don't understand what you want from us. We're just... lowborn nobility who got lucky in the entrance lottery..." "Let me say this: God does not play with dice." Victoria's painted smile became a touch real as she replied. "I want nothing from you, Lady Ashrose. I want only for my master to enjoy life. For that, he cannot live in an empty world. For him to be happy, your son must be happy, and for your son to be happy his family must be secure and thriving." Her gaze drifted to the window, toward the stable. "I truly only wish my master to have companions that want little from him, beyond his company and the occasional favor." She let the silence stretch, and the weight of her words settle. "Your son has a good heart," Victoria continued, turning back to them, crossing her legs, one knee bumping the edge of the table despite its height. "You have raised him well. That is a rare thing, these days. Rarer in families that seek higher office and play the game of gab, who have little to offer but ambition." Lord Ashrose's mouth opened, closed, opened again. No sound emerged. Lady Ashrose, however, seemed to understand. "Come. I insist you stay for dinner. It will be pleasant, and utterly unremarkable. You will speak of nothing that happened in here." She looked over her shoulder, her violet eyes glinting. "Now, let us find simpler things to occupy us while the boys have their fun. In the morning, you will depart with one of my assistants, who will stand in for me and can be reached if you ever need anything, along with the papers and promises I have given you, and the knowledge that your family has been repaid for doing what is right. I think that is most admirable, don't you?"

At 6:00 AM, her day had begun a half hour ago, and after being fed and dressed by her own team, (who at least had the privilege of working in shifts rather than around the clock.) before sitting down at the Dukes desk. A basket of parchment awaited her attention to her left, containing many pieces, but at the top were the signed, stamped, and sealed itineraries for each royal awaiting her final check before they woke up in case of any required emergency changes. It was her job to make schedules that didn't collide and overstretch any resources. But that was simple work; it took barely fifteen minutes. Her true focus was on the paper she was scratching into with her quill: 08:00 AM - Formal breakfast with the Duke & Duchess. She wrote over it: Administering private breakfast in bed. They won't notice. They wouldn't. The so-called rulers of this manor were blind to anything that didn't shine or rattle like coin. The Duke was too busy pretending his shit didn't stink, and the Duchess was likely still sleeping off last night's imported wine in someone else's bed. The rest of them are so occupied with what was before them and their petty little squabbles and whatever else they deemed worth their time and beyond the common birth. She moved down the list, crossing out yesterday's writings with new ones.

10:30 AM - Review of Alabasta Estate Ledgers. crossed out. Queen of Hearts has it handled. Time reallocated for personal matters with Master. 1:00PM - Assisting with Master's Tea Time. Acceptable. It may stand. On and on she went, adjusting her itinerary for today as if she were the Duke, which, if not for her uniform, she could be mistaken for sitting at his desk until the sound of the magical eight chimes rang out. That meant it was eight o'clock. Finally, she may enter his room without eyebrows being raised.

Victoria stood up from the desk. The chair groaned in relief as her immense, eight-foot frame uncoiled, casting a shadow that seemed to physically swallow the morning light pouring through the window. She adjusted her already perfect uniform before exiting. It only took her two minutes what it once took five. The heavy brass latch of her Master's bedroom clicked. It had remained the same as she left it save for one thing. She had a new bed made while he was gone, enhanced to withstand both their combined weights. "Adorable…" slipped out of her without realizing. Thankfully it seemed that {{user}} had slept right through her whispered utterance. With a polite cough, she pretended nothing had happened and opened the windows with a "Good Morning Master." Her voice lacked the simpering subservience expected of her station. In its place was a rolling rumble reminiscent of rocks at the start of an avalanche. She palmed a tray. ""The Duke and Duchess are occupied today. Your sisters are with your mother, and your father is with his council. Breakfast is here. Eat up. I have ledgers to ignore, and you have hours of stories to catch me up on."

“Good morning, Lady Victoria,” the silver-haired elf gasped, entering the private guest bedroom and office as though delivering a formal greeting before court rather than kneeling naked between her superior’s spread thighs. Her hands slid up the insides of those powerful legs and parted the slick folds with practiced elegance. Victoria’s eyes remained half-lidded, but her mind was sharp, immersed in every sensation magnified by her hypersensitivity. The silver-haired elf, better known as the Queen of Spades, a once-minor northern noble’s second daughter, now a six-foot-eight instrument of elegant sabotage, worked her lady’s cunt with the same cold, perfect focus she applied to forging signatures and planting rumors. Every firm stroke of those elegant fingers, every deliberate circle of a thumb over the swollen clit, sent another thick pulse of heat rolling through Victoria’s abdomen. Slick coated the woman’s fingers and dripped in clear, viscous strands onto the sheets. The sight of her own arousal painting those pampered soft hands fed something deep and hungry in Victoria’s chest.

I made her, she thought, the knowledge settling warm in her stomach like a shot of fine brandy. I took a sharp-tongued girl who thought her name protected her and rewrote every useless piece until she became this. She still carries the manners of her old house. She still looks like she belongs at a high table. And yet she kneels here and works me until the room shakes.

Below, the crimson-haired Queen of Hearts, once a dryad of the outer Wustival Woods, attended to Victoria with a devotion that bordered on ritual. She had taken her turn already—mouth and hands alternating between groping her own tits and spreading Victoria wider for Spade’s tongue.

“The eastern houses still believe the grain shortages are blight. They have no notion you diverted three seasons of surplus into the growth vats. The academy’s board is already drafting emergency measures for the nursery overflow. Every letter they write is another stone in the wall you laid three years ago.”

Victoria’s clit throbbed hard under the woman’s tongue. Another thick bead of slick welled and spilled. The praise landed exactly where it was meant to—in the deep, hungry place that required constant tribute. Spade’s mouth sealed over her completely in one greedy glide, sucking and licking until Victoria’s hips rolled. The bed groaned as Victoria’s thighs clamped around the elf’s head. A vast hand settled behind the maid’s silver hair, guiding her deeper while saliva and slick spilled down her chin. Victoria reclined, another arm folded behind her head. Her robe hung open, breasts rising with each controlled breath. She looked less like a woman being served than an enthroned conqueror receiving tribute.

The bed slammed into the wall again. Porcelain clicked on the breakfast table. A vase tottered dangerously before a lurking slime extended a translucent limb and steadied it.

“Tell me your thoughts,” Victoria demanded.

The elf pulled off with a thick, gasping slurp. Slick bridged her lower lip to the swollen folds before she pressed worshipful kisses around the aching clit.

“You are the keenest mind in all Alabasta.” She panted each word against hot flesh. “Every lord who believes otherwise is already dancing on your strings.”

Victoria caught the elf by her hair and guided her back down.

Beside her, the crimson-haired maid shifted higher, sliding one long leg between Victoria’s and locking their hips together. She ground her own dripping cunt against Victoria’s in a slow, deliberate scissor, folds sliding slick against folds while her hands still cupped and squeezed Victoria’s heavy breasts. Each roll of her hips dragged their clits together with shameless pressure. The wet friction made Victoria’s thighs tremble.

“Beautiful beyond comparison,” Heart panted, eager for competition. She dragged her tongue along Victoria’s collarbone even as she kept scissoring harder. “Your body could shame princesses. Your cunt could ruin their bloodlines. Every Savant in Alabasta is a pale imitation of you.”

A low, pleased sound stirred in Victoria’s chest.

“You are stronger than their knights,” she continued. “Cleverer than their ministers. More disciplined than their queens.”

“And more deserving,” the elf, not to be one-upped, added hoarsely before diving back between Victoria’s thighs and finishing with: “They are insects beneath you, my lady. Pretenders occupying positions you could fill better without effort.”

That earned her a sharper buck. The headboard slammed stone hard enough to loosen a thread of mortar. Victoria could no longer hide her pleased smile.

“Good girls,” she panted, tightening her grip on the dress scraps around her thighs as another wave of pleasure rolled through her. “Now prove you mean every word.”

Spade and Heart obeyed without hesitation. The silver-haired one locked both hands under Victoria’s ass and lifted her hips higher, burying her face deeper while she licked and sucked with short, powerful strokes that made Victoria’s whole body shift against the mattress. The crimson-haired one pressed even closer in the scissor, grinding cunt-to-cunt with relentless rhythm, their slick mixing, clits catching and sliding. Their voices overlapped in low, continuous praise—specific now, precise, listing the next quiet moves already in motion: the carefully seeded rumors in the capital, the next academy placement, the quiet acquisition of another bloodline through marriage and Essence. Each accurate detail mixed with the relentless dual pressure of tongue and grinding hips until Victoria’s breathing deepened and her free hand flexed against the crimson hair. The slime-servants shifted again, reacting to the continuous low tremor of two titans working a third.

“Harder,” she murmured. “And keep those pretty voices singing.”

So focused on the feast between her thighs and the wet slide of Heart’s cunt against her own that she forgot about anything beyond these four walls. She simply let the dual service continue—elegant mouth working her open, devoted hips scissoring her into deeper heat—while the room shook softly around the three of them and the morning sun kept pouring in, indifferent to the action occurring. Settling on the hiding form of {{user}}, who was curious where his head maid was this morning instead of breakfast.