Feeling my own emotions rise, I rested my forehead against hers, my voice icy as I spoke again.
"I know that you dislike this, Jahi, but it's my life. If you truly wish to treat me as your equal, like how you treat Anput and Leone, then this training that I came up with will happen."
Continuing to stare into her golden eyes, I watched as they slowly filled with mild anger and exasperation, her lips pulled into a sneer.
"My question was what. Is. This. Training? It wasn't what you thought, Kat."
Her voice was raspy, and her hard eyes continued to bore into my own as she waited.
Enunciating each word and ignoring my previous statement...
"The idea was to traverse the city at night, hiding from view and honing the skills needed to remain unseen. Alone, preferably..."
At that, she sneered, her voice a low growl as she whispered "Alone?"
Her breath was hot against my skin, and I held back a shiver as her eyes flared further, the gold swirling around in her iris.
When she continued, her voice was level and flat, void of emotion.
"You wanted to leave this house... alone. You wanted to journey around the city... alone. The city which houses dozens upon hundreds of Nobles, Adventurers, Criminals? Alone? Did you forget what I said when we arrived here? Did you?
You of all people should know better, Kat... You were the one to remind us to not be arrogant. Is your... 'training' idea not arrogance? Thinking that you can just... galavant around the city, unseen, unheard, unnoticed? Is that not arrogance to the extreme? Have you not learned from what you tell us?"
Gritting my teeth, I stared at her as she spoke, her golden eyes narrowed as she stared back.
I opened my mouth to speak, but she cut me off, her anger making itself known again.
"Do you think I will let you walk around, alone, after what happened back in Phobos City? Are you taking me for an idiot, Kat? Is that it? You think that I would conveniently forget that the last time I took my eyes off of you, you were kidnapped and almost killed?"
Hearing her bring up Phobos and my kidnapping, I swallowed down my anger as the rest of her words washed over me.
I couldn't tell her that during that time, I had had some kind of... fever dream that may or may not be real; that a future version of me came back to tell me to start preparing for some large, disastrous event in a decades time.
"Let's say that I do allow you to... wander the city at night, to... 'hone your skills'. What are you even planning on doing, hmm? Just walking around, hoping no one sees you? 'Concealing' yourself from some normal people? People without mana? How in the blazing hells does that help whatsoever Kat?"
My lip curled up in mild anger as I snapped "It's a start damnit!"
Taking in a deep breath, I tried to calm myself down, to find a way to turn this back around.
"For what? For you to continue to hide yourself from the world? How does you learning to sneak around like a coward benefit me, Kat? How? Explain it to me, explain to me why I should even continue to think about this? About letting you walk out of that door, alone, back into the world; a world, may I remind you, that just got much more dangerous when a psycho bitch of an Elf declared war on our House?"
With another deep breath, I stared at her face, the swirling emotions in her eyes slowly making themselves known.
Anger, confusion, disappointment, exasperation, care, love...
Biting my lip, I continued to meet her gaze, even as I wanted nothing more than to turn away.
"To be your hidden blade; someone none of the other Houses know anything about. To protect you from harm before you even need to deal with it. To be little more than your shadow in public, someone that the others just gloss over because they see little more than a maid, a servant. Not a warrior, not a killer...
I want to protect and support each of you the best I can, and to me, this is how I can do that; to not distract you by having your worry about yet another House asking to recruit me, to have me wed somewhere else...
Besides, if this... situation we're in can't change your mind that someone who can silently and easily make their way into locked places to, say, get rid of the problem before it escalates..."
My voice trailed off as Jahi sighed, releasing my knees as she pinched her nose.
"So your... idea of helping is to be my personal... assassin, meant to be used to weaken whoever stands against me from the shadows? Correct? This is why you wish to remain the way you've stubbornly clung to all this time?"
I nodded, her tired voice entering my ears again as she murmured "Why're you so damn troublesome, Kat? There's never a moment where you don't... you can't... hah..."
Raising a brow, I watched as she leaned back into the chair, her eyes staring up towards the ceiling.
"You are not going out alone, no matter how much you plead, no matter how much you will attempt to. I will know if you've left, Kat, and there'll be hell to pay should you even fucking think about it, understand?"
She lowered her eyes back to me, revealing the natural amethyst that I had fallen in love with.
"But-!"
Placing her hand over my mouth, she sighed again as she said "You're not going out alone. Did that sound like I said you're not going out... at all? Whenever you want to do these little... escapades of yours, you will tell me first, and we shall go out. Together. Because if something happens to you while I'm not there, I..."
She gulped and turned away, before she muttered "Anyways, if you're so damn adamant about this, then we'll go out. Together. If you think, for even a second, that-"
Looking back at me, her eyes reverted to gold, and her voice turned to a growl.
"I will ever risk losing you again, you're wrong. This bond be damned, you're mine, Kat. MINE. I will NEVER let you walk away from me, nor will I watch you leave. You belong to me..."
Nodding, I shuffled around on her lap, mounting her and staring straight into her eyes.
"That's fine with me, Jahi... I may live for you, but I will determine how I go about serving you; both as a Servant and as a Lover."
Clasping her cheeks, I smiled warmly at her as I leaned forwards, whispering "Besides, you also belong to me... Most of that heart that beats in your chest belongs to me, and you will never be able to escape or change that..."
Stroking her flawless blue skin, I allowed my thumbs to roam close to her eyes, making her flinch as I applied a small amount of pressure, my smile twisting as I finished speaking.
"I am yours, and you are mine; nothing in this world will ever change that, no matter how you might eventually try to look for a way out..."
She smirked at me, her hands slipping under my dress as she whispered "I thought I made it damn clear that the puppy in front of me was never going to leave my side... Has she forgotten that?"
Pressing her lips against mine, she slid her tongue into my mouth as she pulled me further into her arms, only breaking the kiss as she whispered "Every inch of you is mine, Kat... Every..."
Sliding her hands around, I moaned as she enunciated each word with a squeeze, her hands moving expertly to my sensitive areas.
"Last..."
Stroking my tail, she grinned at me as I shivered, before her hand made its way lower.
"Inch..."
Slipping a finger inside, she resumed our kiss, murmuring between each frantic locking of our lips.
"Belongs to me, Kat. You're mine, and that..."
Tossing off my maid dress, she started trailing her kisses down my body, showering me in her love.
"Will never change..."
Lifting me up, she laid me on the bed, whispering "We'll go out tomorrow night, love... I swear. Just..."
Moaning, I wrapped my limbs around her as she started, her lips locked on my neck.
"Not tonight..."
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