Luitolf Family/Edelyn/Two Ladies and a Brothel
Two Ladies and a Brothel
Edelyn and her escort stared around the giant tower, a building higher than any she had seen before. That was the only impressive feat. The massive spire seemed completely devoid of life as if the Archon herself had cleared it out for their arrival. A more likely explanation was that the building was no longer used as it was meticulously clean save for the massive amounts of dust covering the desks on the inside. Edelyn's hand started to grasp harder on Svari's arm as her face contorted in annoyance.
"That's it," She huffed, the Lurian accent she had practiced away slightly returning in frustration, "I am done with waiting on these people. I can do this through letters and when they are ready to sign, I can meet them. You can come with me if you wish then, but I will not force you."
The ambassador promptly turned around, marched away, Svari not hesitating to follow along with her. In her mind, she did wonder if Svari minded the more forceful attitude she had displayed since their arrival. It was not a part of her she showed the woman that often, if ever, but it is what happened when she was fed up with things. A habit she was still struggling to break when dealing with the Autarch. Before long, the same brothel that had been seen before was in view, the same women and men winking at them from the window. Same people beckoning them to enter.
"There, Valkyrie of my heart, that is the brothel. Now, let me see your namesake. Let us enter and let me see how you choose the slain." Edelyn spoke while looking into Svari's eyes, and a sly smile spread across her face. If Svari played her cards right, the forcefulness might not be the only new part of Edelyn she saw today.
Svari can be awkward but she is not stupid, the boldness of her lady mixed with the increasingly suggestive offers from Edelyn gets her smiling stupidly as she followed the smaller girl inside the establishment. Upon entering there is an immediate shift in atmosphere from the busy streets filled with people ending their workday to a dim candlelit room filled with smiling escorts stretched out in sheer garment making lewd conversation and their dazed-looking patrons seemingly trying to choose which they wanted to take somewhere more secluded.
The glasses are crystal, and the wall hanging is silk, even the furniture seems expensive and it becomes very apparent that this place is meant for nobles only as a snoopy employee hovers near Svari trying to identify the heraldry on her gear before leaving just as quickly. Ignoring this, she simply orders the girl to get her “Wine” in a way most unmistakably noble.
With a gentle hand on the small of the other girl's back, she guides Edelyn past the long pillow-stacked couches filled with patrons to one they could sit at alone for now. Before drinks can even be delivered, they have caught the attention of a few of the girls in the room thanks to Svari, but Edelyn got only grins from the men waiting for an opportunity to serve her.
Svari notices this at once, but invites none of the over right away, preferring to sink back in the cushy seat with an arm around Edelyn’s shoulder while they take the place in, and to make it very clear that they were together in the meantime. It is only when the drinks arrive Svari finally asks “Do you want a man or a woman…? They’re mostly there to get us drunk but you never know if one will take your fancy” she speaks as if it is a daily occurrence for her, old habits die hard.
Grabbing the purple shawl, Edelyn removes it from her shoulders revealing more of the semi-form-fitting dress she wore beneath. Rapidly, she lifted the silky fabric and placed it around Svari's neck and smiled; there was only one woman she wanted here, but it was the one she thought she could never have. With all haste, Edelyn whipped her head around and started to gauge the room. People of both genders were going about the room, serving, feeling, speaking, leaving into back rooms there were a few that caught her eye.
"I believe you promised me an experience, so should you not choose?" She asks Svari jovially, a hint of playfulness in her voice.
Gazing about once more, there was one man off in the distance that seemed interested. He was slightly taller than her companion, and his skin was tan, rugged, and marred. His hair fell about him in brown curls while his eyes shimmered like the ocean waves themselves. Suddenly, Edelyn was interrupted by the serving woman as she brought the ladies their wine. She was beautiful herself, with red hair that reached down to the small of her back, and hazel eyes that reflected the sight of the forests nearby.
Edelyn grabbed the woman's hand as she started to leave, "Wait, a moment and speak with me." Edelyn pointed over to the man in the distance before she continued, "What does a lady need to do to get you and him together?"
She looked over to Svari and smiled once more, "How about a show? Should, they agree of course."
All she gets from Svari is a cheeky grin, while Edelyn wonders if they would agree the rugged man had already crashed into the redhead and the two were kissing shamelessly heartily nearby them. Svari still has a grip on Edelyn’s shoulder, and a drink in her other hand while she watches not the lewd display unfolding before them but the face of the girl beside her.
This had lost a bit of novelty to Svari, she could watch the goings-on in this place with the casualness of a boardwalk puppet show- but knew it was not like this for everyone. While she hoped she would find glee or shy interest painted on Edelyn’s face, she knew it was just as likely to find shock-horror.
She remembers the time she took a blonde girl to her first brothel, one far more unsavory than this one, and looks away from her companion, at last, to drink deeply from her cup. “Do they look how you imagined?” She asks quietly, finally glancing back to the performers latched onto each other nearby.
Edelyn's eyes glaze over the couple before them, her drink going untouched in her hand as she was drawn into the scene. Never had she experienced a group so comfortable with their own sexuality that they would put themselves on display before everyone in the room. Not since the glorious, and freeing, days of her teenage years at least. For a realm of tyrannical pirates, Tol Goldora seemed to be very suppressed in their personal relationships like most of Dwilight.
"They look enticing and free," Edelyn whispers lightly to Svari, "I wish we could all be like that. Almost makes me wish to join them. To feel the human touch again..." She trails off at the end, remembering the drink in her hand, and takes a decent pool to try and clear her mind a bit.
Edelyn's hand moves to squeeze Svari's leg firmly, but affectionately while her eyes rise to meet the other woman's with a wistful look. "I am tired of being viewed as this untouchable woman because of my dedicated service to my goddess. Here I can be free, here I'm just me." She speaks and another devious smile starts to spread across her face. Taking another pull from the wine glass, Edelyn passes the glass to Svari, pushes from the couch, and joins the couple in their merriment. Sliding herself in between the two during one of their breaks, Edelyn lightly pants a kiss upon both and runs her hands across their bodies while relishing in the fact they were so open with themselves while allowing her to be as well.
Edelyn was right to a degree, Svari did not think of the alluring blonde ever as a thing not to be touched, in fact, that had been all she had wanted to do since meeting that woman; But she did not expect the level of freedom either. A few letters ago Edelyn had never even been inside a brothel and now...Now… Heat is rising within her as she watches Edelyn’s mere caress elicited erotic moans from the two Astrumese pressed close around her.
She had expected to come in for a few drinks, steal some kisses while Edelyn blushed and whispered about the sights around them. Instead, she was left watching slack-jawed and paralyzed by loyalty to Lucius, her mouth growing uncomfortably dryer the longer she watched. A quick gulp of wine quenches her and she sits straight in the seat, enamored and admittedly jealous as she wished she could slide in there with her…
As the woman unties the top of her own thin silky dress and reclines bare for them all to enjoy Svari takes another hurried drink, not willing to interrupt or join in just yet...But she could watch these events unfold all night.
Edelyn was taken aback a bit as the woman undressed in a plain, open view of the entire establishment. If it got back to Tol Goldora that she was even here it might ruin her reputation as a priestess given the preconceptions that some had about how a priest was supposed to act, but to bear it all in front of everyone there might be no coming back. The young blonde woman tried to hide a worrying look as her heartbeat within her chest. Slowly, she leaned down to the woman before them and began to work her way from the neck to her ear with light kisses while softly running her hands down her body.
"We should move this into a private room so that we can be more comfortable," Edelyn whispers into the redhead's ear softly. "Help me move this one to the back." She says to the rugged man beside them.
As the man carries the woman off, Edelyn moves closer to Svari and grabs the shawl she had placed around the taller woman's neck, playfully twisting it between her fingers. Carefully, the lithe priestess places her lips close Svari's ear and whispers, "I told you I was not what you thought."
With that Edelyn lifts herself off Svari and starts to walk away, saying over her shoulder "Come with us and watch, or stay and pine, the choice is yours."
Stay or watch? How could she refuse an invitation to watch something like this, even if she were bound to another surely there was no harm in watching? Edelyn hovers intoxicatingly close, Svari is ensnared by her heat, her scent, shaky hands reach out to grasp at her hips, but then she is gone. As if floating on a cloud she trails after Edelyn with a stupid look on her face before pausing and running back for her wine.
In the private room the lights are dim, what little light is left from the evening outside is filtered through colored silks and the smell of flowery incense fills the room with a pleasant aroma. The man Eledyn had picked was a good one, Svari notes as she lingers not far from the large bed at the center of the room. He had already thrown the redhead down and knelt offering himself to both ladies with a broad smile, happy to do anything asked of him.
Before Edelyn can join them Svari catches her in a less than gentle embrace, and kisses her quite roughly, possessively, letting her know that regardless of what happened in this room- She was here with Svari at the end. As the three came together in front of her, helpless to join in, the fourth member of the party took her seat, drinking quite heavily and sneaking a hand ever closer to her waistband as the evening progressed.
She liked these Astrumese whores, the man took the scratches on his back with more than good cheer, almost pride- and the woman clung onto Edelyn, both skinny arms locked around the priestess as they lay in a heap resting. Neither of them asked about the coin, neither seemed in a rush to move onto the next client...Despite her own release being slightly less impressive compared to the others- Svari was happy with how the night had turned out. Seeing Edelyn enjoy herself, finally shed the last of the illusion of innocence, it was an oddly touching thing to see her relax even if Svari could not have a hand in helping as much as she wanted...At least she got to see it.
Edelyn realized that there was still something missing from the evening, and she knew it the moment her lips touched Svari's in the brothel. The euphoria she felt topped even the extreme night she had with the other two, something she knew even as she lay next to them resting blissfully after their night of passion. The young blonde grasps her Valkyrie's hand in hers, interlacing her fingers, and leaning over as they finally arrive at their assigned quarters.
"My amazon, that was an amazing night." She speaks as they finally arrive, and she peers into the taller woman's eyes wanting to be closer than ever.
Taking a moment to stare into those ravishing green eyes opposite her own, Edelyn knew the truth. She pulled Svari in and gave her one last, loving, and tender kiss. "My love, I don't know if I trust myself if we slept in the same bed tonight and I made a promise to both you and him." She took a moment to pause, eyes starting to glisten, "Thank you for tonight. I just wish he realized that I do not wish to take you from him. By the depths, I would even consider the three of us together. I mean if you love him, there must be something worth getting to know."
She smiles, then laughs a little, "As if that would happen. He would never go for it. If you want to stay with me, you can and no part of me would complain, but if you do, we both need the will here. Lucius is a good man and does not deserve this, even if I do not understand why he would keep us apart. Especially if is okay with you in a brothel with strangers."
“Lucius realizes more than you know, Ede. And if I thought he would be alright with me sliding in there with you tonight I would’ve...” Svari looks guilty as she says this, in truth she is far too drunk to trust herself with this subject; And for good reason as the next words out of her mouth were “I couldn’t keep my hands off you, I know I said I could but…” Svari has an uncharacteristically confident look about her, an almost wolfish smile- her mind is not on feelings or relationships.
Still, she had kept up her self-control after that scene in the brothel she couldn’t suffer through that, then give in now. She remains strong, somehow, and resists moving in for another kiss. Stepping away is almost painful, drunken Svari reluctantly agrees “Alright...I suppose this is Goodnight, Ede.”
