Deep into the forest, there was a lone cave, too shallow to lead anywhere and too dark for anyone to have lived there. Leading everyone in, Laura kept walking until they reached the very shallow ends of the cave. Obstructing their path was a rock and mud wall with roots from the trees overhead, sticking out from all gaps.
"Where now?" Asked Margarette.
With no path forward, she wondered if Laura had given up on taking them to her village and wanted them to spend the night in the cave instead.
"Watch," moving closer to the wall, Laura tried to put her palm against it, but it passed right through.
Amused by the sight Margarette as well as Moriyana followed the elves as they went through the rock and mud wall. On the other end, a wall of light consumed them for a moment before slowly dispersing and giving them all a clear view of the village to admire.
Filled with clusters of tall trees with thick trunks and lust leaves, the colony of elves had countless tree houses resting high above the ground. Decorated with vines and flowers, their walls appeared just as vivid as the greenery around the meadows the trees were surrounded with.
"Well, this is an elf settlement alright…" The place being just as she'd expected, Moriyana relaxed her shoulder now that they were finally here.
"Try not to make any noise and way up anyone, not everyone is as accepting of humans here," looking right at Margarete and Moriyana, Laura beckoned them to follow behind her. "I'll take you guys to my house. We can rest there for now."
"I can't wait to get out of these…things," looking down at herself Athena, still in the slave attire, just wanted to get this whole thing over with so she could dress modestly again.
"Me too…" Alice Added, still feeling a bit timid because of the state that she was in.
Given everyone's desperation for rest, Laura took them under one of the trees and started climbing up with the ladder nailed into the stump of it. While following her, Moriyana once again couldn't hold off from teasing, and so placing her hand around Damien, she had him wait until Athena was heading up so he'd have a fine view up if he decided to take a look.
Obviously, however, Damien feeling his heart pumping like pistons didn't dare look up at Athena's ass of which he'd been given an in-depth description.
Once they were all up and standing on perhaps one of the thickest branches most of them had ever seen, Laura made her way further down the branch towards a dusty-looking cabin that vaguely resembled a mushroom.
"Come in, but again, stay quiet," opening the door, she invited everyone inside.
And although from the outside the place seemed dainty, inside, it was spacious enough to house them all easily. Seeing the curtains on the windows, Athena pulled them off and quickly wrapped them around her body, Alice wasn't far behind in covering up with a blanket laying around on the lone sofa.
"Sorry, I don't have clothes in your sizes so please make do with them for now," instead of getting mad at them, Laura was a lot more accepting of their actions.
"Do you have a sewing set? My blouse is barely held together with this hair clip," pointing to the clip holding her blouse, Moriyana wore an awkward smile at Laura.
"Sure," huffing a tired sigh, Laura took a quick glance at everyone. "Just make yourself comfortable now okay? We'll talk to the elders in the morning so that nobody freaks out that you guys are here."
As the night grew deeper and everyone started settling in, it didn't take long before the few rooms in Laura's home were packed full of snores. However, while most of them required sleep, Moriyana and Margarette being demons were feeling quite restless. Slipping out from under the blanket she was sharing with Margarette, Moriyana decided to take a look at the sleeping elves or even turn them into her servants.
After all, they'd a great deal of their army in the war with Almuld, and the ones left behind were now scattered around the empire. So, trying to strengthen her master's might, she wanted to take hold of the elven village and make them her puppets.
"Moriyana, what are you doing?" Margarette called, watching Moriyana standing above the elven twins. "Get away from them."
"You know we need more power," her eyes still fixed on the elves, Moriyana let out a trail of her mana to travel toward the twin's heads. "The emperor is looking for us now, and after we barely escaped his goon, I doubt we should be worried about others."
"Stop," conjuring a singular holy chain, Margarette pulled Moriyana's hand away from the elves. "We're demons, not monsters. Master won't approve of this, especially not twins or triplets."
Having seen Haruki's memories about the duo from the triplets he had to offer to the reaper, Margarette knew that this wouldn't sit right with their master.
"Nevermind, these guys are weak anyways," Moriyana whimpered and jerked her hand off of the holy chain.
"How can you say that when they've been so helpful?" Margarette asked, scowling at her remark.
Moving closer to Margarette, Moriyana gave her a reply before passing right by.
"Because unlike you, and even mother for that matter, I've always been a demon and nothing else before that," with that said, she got back into the makeshift bed of futon and surrendered herself to sleep.
While Margarette still felt a bit bothered by her action, she pushed it off her mind and simply went to bed as well. Upon waking up the next morning they were greeted with violent knocks on the door. At first, they thought it was an enemy, but when Laura opened the door from the other side with a horde of elves behind her, things became a lot more clear.
"The elders weren't that excited, but the youth wanted to meet you," looking right at Moriyana and her group, she gave off a nervous smile.
'So many cute faces…' Instead of worry or any doubts, Moriyana felt excited to find new victims for her torture.
'We need to contact Master and get out of here quickly.' Margarette on the other hand, had entirely different plans.
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