Fia looked at the pair of them converse back and forth about the working life until Mugi was sent off and suddenly the phoenix found herself being addressed again. Livia said she'd explain some rules, and then exclaimed they couldn't be ordered to pamper her all day and all week. For a couple seconds the familiar seemed a little confused - isn't that what servants were for? The headmistress would find her crimson haired girl looking at her with a titled head and curious eyes, as if vocalizing her thoughts.
"Then ... what for?" Fia spoke softly in one of her famous short questions.
As Chione prepared herself to be measured, the door would find itself opening once again to the homes other mortal resident - a nineteen year old cat girl, who closed the door behind herself and stumbled as she did so, eventually placing a stabilizing hand against a wall as she held a pipe-like object in her hand, taking another sniff of it and letting out a long giggle as she found something simply
hilarious as her eyes found one of the many dolls in the puppeteer's employ.
"... dolls ...!" Meowka let out a burst of laughter as rolled against the wall for a moment and pushed herself off of it. She looked around the room for a couple of seconds afterwards and finally seemed to realize her mistress was there. For a couple of seconds she blinked and approached, then stared over her as if trying to get a better view.
Damn, she's fine.The cat grabbed the front of Katherine's robes like she owned them, pulled the woman's upper body closer, looked into her eyes for a moment before putting her lips up against those of the teacher.
Damn, tasty! After a couple of seconds she released the other woman, and finally seemed to notice someone else was in the room.
"Oh, hi there!" Meowka looked back and forth between the two of them.
"Oh, you are making loooovvvveeeee tonight, Mistress Katherine?!?" The cat giggled, before slapping the blue haired woman's ass with an encouraging spank and grinning, seeming satisfied with the resounding
smack sound the impact made.
"Have fun! I'll just watch." Meowka leapt to get on top of the cabinets in a valiant attempt, but ended up slamming into the side of it instead and falling to the ground in a pile. She didn't seem to upset though, because she simply started laughing again despite the pain and moved into a kneeling position, looking at the pair of them with an idiotic grin as she took another smoke of her pipe.
Lady Solana's pleas were heard, but ignored as the food was already on the stove and Maoin found herself attending her mistress, gradually working on the long process that was waking her owner up pleasantly.
"Mistress, please?" It seemed Lady Sorcha finally responded though, stretching only a moment before looking at her and giving her a weird request. Get dressed for the evening?
"... What? Where? How fancy?" Fortunately Maoin had just finished buying a new dress just for this purpose, but the dragon wasn't prepared for such a thing right now by any means.
"Mistress, not until you've taken a bath. You look like you've been travelling for a week and sleeping on a dirty bedroll the entire time. You wouldn't want to go out without being at your full beautiful radiance, would you? Why don't you slip in, I'll be in there in just a moment." An accurate statement, though Maoin delivered it with a smile as she continued to rub Lady Sorcha's shoulders for a couple more seconds before standing up. She hoped the dragoness wouldn't be too upset with her being a little honest as she headed towards the bathroom, turning the water on, and then heading out once more.
"... and besides, I'm making food for Miss Solana right now because she's hungry, and I wouldn't want it to burn. Also, Lady Lightsword is on the way home and someone else is at the door. Let me get that -"Maoin opened the door, waved towards the right at the approaching Lady Lightsword who was still some distance away, and addressed the pair in front of her. They exchanged a brief few words, and after a couple of moments of conversation Maoin returned inside and respectfully curtsied in an apologetic manner towards her mistress with the pair of them in tow.
"Change of plans, Lady Sorcha. The student Otille requests your services on behalf of the headmistress. Could you speak with her before you bathe?" She was just a peasant anyways - it wasn't as if she could look down on Lady Sorcha for being a little dirtied up at the moment.
Maoin seemed like she had something to add, but as she sniffed the air she hurried over to the stove with quick moving feet, hurrying over to save the meal as it reached the optimum amount of being cooked. The stove was soon turned off, a meal placed in front of Lady Solana.
"Please enjoy." A slight curtsy.
She should probably put the ham away. Maoin hurried outside around when Lady Luna would be near the door, passing by whatever conversation Lady Sorcha was having with the guests and greeting her mistress' mistress with a quick curtsy.
"Welcome home Lady Luna. Ham? Here." The kitten grabbed the ham from Avaline without really asking - she'd probably be taking care of it anyways.
"I'll put it away. Is there a way you'd like it prepared?"That's what she was for? The peasant smiled at the cow's enthusiasm, but instead of responding to that she found herself stunned at Cocoa's next line of thought. For a moment Otille simply stared at the cow before giving her an uncertain look. Well, she could respond to part of that question honestly at least.
"I'm not really sure - steak is a high quality cut of meat, and my family couldn't really afford it ..." If they had a high enough quality of a cut of meat to make steak from, they'd sell it to their local lord and take chickens in their stead - her dad had always said it didn't matter how food tasted if it only left you with an empty stomach.
Cannibalism concerns aside though, Otille looked seriously at Cocoa.
"I'm not sure you'd like meat anyways ... I'll let you try, but it might not be good for you. Just a bit of what I have tonight to test, ok?" Of course, it wouldn't be steak. Before Cocoa could afford to look sad though, Otille grabbed onto her familiar's hand, holding it as they continued to walk.
"It's your job to carry me, right? Could you hold my hand for me then, like with that couple over there?" Hopefully this would distract Cocoa enough to get them to their destination before they returned to the topic of steak again, instead pointing to another couple of dog-girl and mistress as they walked by.
Soon enough, they arrived at their destination, where Otille nervously raised her arm to knock on the door. Before she could even rattle the wooden frame once though, she'd find herself face-to-face with a catgirl in a blue dress with a collar around her neck. For a moment she was ignored as the catgirl waved towards someone approaching from down the street, and Otille continued to stare at the girl's ears long after the pet's gaze returned.
"... Can I help you?" The cat seemed to be looking at her with a combination of annoyance and impatience, though she wasn't expressly rude.
"Oh! I'm Otille, and this is Cocoa! I'm just here to um ..." The peasant thought for a couple of seconds before continuing.
"The headmistress sent me here to have some treasure appraised-""You want Lady Sorcha. follow me." The cat headed inside, walking up to a tall but pretty horned creature with wings, seeming to address her before scurrying off again.
"H-Hi! I'm Otille, Lady Sorcha!" The peasant addressed Lady Sorcha giving a small curtsy, though less formal than the cat's by a good measure.
"The headmistress said you were good with treasure! Could you appraise it for us? My village recently stumbled across quite a fortune, but none of us are able to tell how much it's worth ..." Otille looked towards the familiar.
"Here, Cocoa, hand her one of the bags?"After Cocoa handed one of the bags over, she'd feel a familiar hand rubbing her ear.
