The events that Empyrean Divine were throwing were spectacular. This time was another chance to relax. It was a large difference from the hustle and bustle of before. This time Amir was intent on letting his hair down. No longer dealing with socializing for benefits, throwing his family off his trail, or dealing with a lot of other hard stuff. Amir only wanted to get his hair done, his nails did, and eat some good food.

Amir was wearing a pair of silken black pajamas with white trimmings. He was wearing fuzzy pink bunny slippers and had an eye mask in case of facials. He was nervous about attending his first slumber party. The closest he had was sleeping in chains with the other slaves in a single tent. This was a different affair altogether because he did not have to wake early in the morning to get to work. Nor would he receive a beating for talking with the other slaves.

“Hello party people. The fun has arrived.” The scholar walked in with a big smile announcing his presence. To his surprise the first thing he felt in the room was disappointment. The room was mostly a total sausage party. Amir enjoyed the breakfast meats but he wanted to talk to girls. The chances of other guys being willing to have a girl talk to him was slim to none. How could Amir find someone to paint nails, do hair, and chat with. The only thing Amir could be alright with was the fact that playing spin the bottle would become more interesting.

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Vex walks into the room her hair vines tied back she is in a blue and purple two piece pj set, blue owl slippers and she sticks to the side of the room with the divider where she will be sleeping behind cause she got talked into staying the night in a hotel room rather just heading home right after the festival ended. She looks at Amir and she wonders what his plan for tonight is cause she knows he isn’t like the pig headed other guys.

She places her stuff down then she walks toward him and she smiles at him. "You still mad at me? " She sorta hoped he had forgiven her for her being a bit sassy to them at the festival but she hopes the candies may loosen him up but she for sure feels like she will be safer with him around for her.

She looked around at the others and she hopes that she will be okay here cause she gets strong danger sense that there might be at least one of them is going to make a move on her, sober or drunken she was not looking forward to be hit on by someone and them not taking no and just leaving her alone so she can enjoy her night and keeps bugging her thinking they can wear her down for her to give into who ever it was that did that.

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Brone Heavyaxe found himself once again attending an event he knew little to nothing about. He managed to find red pajama bottoms and a plain white shirt for the 'slumber party' he was informed of. When he had stated that he slept in the nude, he was then informed he needed to wear something to go to bed with, otherwise he wouldn't be let in.

"Always up to something" He muttered as he made his way to the rented room. Though he was annoyed by the constant events, he understood that this was part of the guild, to be social and attend events that will promote Blue Pegasus, image was very important to the guild.

He walked into the room and noticed how large it was, so many things had silk. Then he noticed Amir, "Good to see ye, lad" Brone greeted as he made his way to the middle of the rugged floor. He dropped bedroll and began to unroll it, "Alright so are there any activities or games scheduled" he asked as he dropped onto his sleeping bag and began to wonder who else that he know of was attending this event along with them.

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It was another night where he was going to do something because of the event that a specific guild had thrown in Joya. He had gone through it all with a few new friends and one of his old friends. Still, he was surprised about what was happening next. He was invited to go to a slumber party. One, Yuurei had never been to one of these things before. He was an outcast where he lived, so this was different. He didn’t know what to do here, but apparently, the attire was sleep clothing.

He would wear some pajamas that had stars all around them. He wore some regular slippers with some cherry blossom socks. The Nephilim had his mask for sleeping on his head, so he could cover his face at night. He didn’t bring anything because he didn’t know what to bring. He felt it would be awkward if he brought the wrong thing. Renji was with him as well as he wore Santa pajamas to the party.

Yuurei would get to the location, and he would open the door to see that he was the final person to arrive. He would see that Brone, Vex, and Amir had gotten to the location before him, and he would just find himself waving at everyone. His smile authentic he would enter with Renji waving at every one since he was by Yuurei’s side this time.

He would close the door behind him, and he would stay standing as he would look around.

“How’s everyone doing tonight? Does anybody have any plans on how we’re spending tonight?” He asked curious to see if anybody else had been to a slumber party here.

Renji would do something else. Instead, of standing there he would walk over to Vex and looked at her and wondered if she was alright. He remembered how she acted with others, and it seemed like she tried her best to make sure that she kept her distance.

“I’m surprised you’re here tonight Vex. Did you decide to see if you befriend everyone here?” He asked wondering what she would say.

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Debating about getting a snack, getting a pedicure, or a manicure. Those were the three options going on in his hand. He did not come to a choice when he was approached by a familiar lady. It was the dark one called Vex that Amir was not happy with before. Taking a step back at the hotel he tested and tried the wine. The lack of poison almost made him feel bad for being so untrusting. He would have shared the wine and bento if he had known what to expect. There was no pill for regret so he would just suck it up. The best Amir could do was work on his relationship with Vex.

“Nope. I do not have a reason to be. I may have been upset before but I think that was more me than you. I was drinking and I may have overreacted.” It was all Amir could say. If Vex believed he would actually say something like sorry then she would have to be disappointed. Apologies were never given in Fiore. The two options were deflection and denial. Amir would find it hard to apologize unless his life was directly in danger. Trying to force it would seem too disingenuous.

Amir did not even get the chance to enjoy a full on conversation with the two of them, when another person joined in. It was the elf Yuurei. At this point the suspicion that Yuurei was going to hit on her kept growing.

The funny part was Amir did not even get a chance to participate in that particular conversation. His old dwarven pal had showed up. Amir was amused by the fact that the man brought a sleeping bag to the middle of the floor. He could have checked it but he admired the stay ready attitude. It was a merit to the sturdiness of his people.

He turned to his compatriot. “Good to see you too, Brone. I hope all is well with you. They have a wide variety of things going on. Personally, I am leaning more towards a pedicure at the moment. They are pretty fun and relaxing. The best part is the fact that it is free for now.” Amir was mainly interested because it was free. His budget was tight and he did not have the needed funds to get it done by himself. The service could be one of the few things he missed from his aristocratic lifestyle in Minstrel. Even if he lost one of his cousins to a bad pedicurist. Amir doubted anyone working here would be an assassin. He doubted but he made sure to keep his guard up.


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Vex figured the man was seeking forgiveness without asking it cause his actions spoke more toward it then what he seemed to let on, she wasn’t really going to hold him on that, cause she knows the man must have his own problems that he needs to work through. " I am still sorry as well for how I had acted I was being a real…" She figured in front of these men she could probably get away with just swearing but her training kicked in And she didn’t want to seem improper so she keeps her head about her.

She looks at amir and she wonders if what he is saying is right and they could get those for free right now and if they would allow her to join him in going for that thing. "Is that true Amir ?" She is a little excited she must admit about doing that though her face doesn’t show it. She looks to Exceed as yuurei and him walk into the room, she when realized there was already a dwarf in the room as well, he looked like he would clearly know how to throw his hammer around probably.


Vex looks down on the small creature and pats his head she wonders what they want From her then he hits her with that. And she looks down and away sadly. "Maybe but I guess…but you asking that question seems hallow and like a slap in the face. " She was now disheartened cause this exceed just cut her pretty deeply with his words. She is unsure why she is even still here and she walk back to her sleeping area and just flops down on her bed feeling fully defeated by the exceed that just brazenly called her out like that.

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As far as the dwarf could see, the group consisted of three people... Brone hesitated, he forgot to count himself, 'Four then'. A small grouping compared to similar gatherings his clan would have back in the mountains, but doable. From what he could tell, a slumber party seems to be just a group of people just sleeping in the same room with one another. It seemed boring initially to him. When Yuurei had arrived, the dwarf jumped to his feet, excited that he would at least pal around with his friend; seeing that the half-elf didn't directly acknowledge him, he grunted irritably before grabbing a nearby pillow that was conveniently placed on a sofa and threw it at Yuurei, "Oy! Ye could have at least give me a damn fist-bump, partial-elf!"

He shooed at Yuurei, dropping the greeting and turned to Amir, the only other person he knew... well knew well enough. "Sounds interesting, I'll try it with ye" Brone agreed to the 'pedicure', though he didn't know what it was, but Amir had mentioned it was fun and free, two keywords that usually catches the dwarf's ears, "And I'm doing just fine, nothing new as of right now".

The room was large enough to be a small parlor room, big enough for the four of them. A good size, though what threw off the dwarf was how... soft everything seemed to be. The couches were very buoyant and soft, the chairs had very soft cushions, the floor had a rug stretching to each of the four corners, the windows had silk or polyester curtains and even the table seem to be padded. When the dwarf looked up, he even noticed there was a large stuffed plushie hanging from the ceiling by a string, probably just to add to the theme. It all seemed way too soft for him, a texture he had little experience with, given that he was raised within the rocky tunnels of the Stella mountains.

The dwarf was about to plop back down onto his sleeping bag when he looked at Vex for moment. He realized he didn't introduced himself to her, actually he nearly forgotten she was there, so he rubbed the back of his head slightly embarrassed, "Sorry, lass, didn't see ye there" he chuckled as he walked up to her. He offered a handshake, "My name's Brone Heavyaxe, of the Heavyaxe clan in the mountain tops of Stella, and ye be?"

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Renji would hear her words and he would shrug because he was only telling her the truth. He didn’t mean any offense, but if she took it like that, then there was nothing he could do about it.

“Well, I’m sorry that I made you feel that way. I was just saying the truth. It would be nice if you could try and become friends with those around you, but my apologies for intruding it’s not my business.” He said as he would make his towards Yuurei.

Yuurei had asked a general question, which nobody had answered. Instead, he would have a pillow thrown straight at him. He would stumble forward a bit as he looked over to the dwarf. He heard what he had said, and he would chuckle as he grabbed the pillow that was on the floor.

“I did say how’s everyone doing, but I guess nobody heard me ask this.” He said this as he would look at everybody around him.

When he was ready, he would see Brone get on his sleeping bag, which meant he was in a vulnerable state. That was good because he would toss the pillow straight at his friend as it would cover his face.

“Take that now will you.” He said with a smile on his face.

When he had done that he would feel Renji climb on his shoulder where he would be his eyes. Yuurei had gotten hit because Renji didn’t tell him the pillow was coming their way. Still, it would be nice for them to get this free pedicure. He would walk over to a beanie bag, and he would throw himself on it. He would look over to Vex and he would wave at her.

“How’s your time spent in Joya Vex? I’m hoping you’re having a wonderful time?” He asked her as he would look over to Amir as he wanted to ask him a question.

“How do we get these pedicures you brought up?” He asked him as he was wondering what it was in the first place.

Yuurei had never gotten anything of the sort before, so this would be a new experience. Renji wasn’t sure what it was either and he didn’t think he would want to experience it without watching them go through it first.

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“Yes. It is true enough.” It was all Amir would add before the conversation started to flow between everyone. So this is what it feels like having a full group of friends. Amir was having a fun time feeling the group dynamic of the five people. A cat, a dwarf, a wood elf, half elf, and a human. It was a motley crew of people. Out of all of the people present Amir believed he would be considered the most noble one. The torture of growing up in Minstrel really had some benefits.

“It is no problem. I just wanted to know if everyone wanted one. I can have the people come up now.”

Amir walked to a small wide wall that had a board, it looked like a chalkboard at certain schools. Using the mana in his finger he wrote on the device to have the people come up to the slumber party. Amir made sure to send in special requests for two of the people present. Amir ordered a smaller water tub for Renji to soak his feet in, which came with specialty products for his fur. Amir also ordered the super delux dwarven scrubber. The standard scrubbers were small dainty things that would not have any effect on the dwarf. The ones used for them were operated with a small electrical magic circle. It even came with a specialty mask for the worker, it prevented sparks from flying into the workers eyes. One had to understand the standard of toughness the dwarven feet had created in the world of pedicures.

“Okay. They should be here in a moment. We can sit in the couches and chat. It would not be long before they get here. We can at least start taking off of shoes.”

The scholar had taken the lead in directing the people. It would make the transition easier if someone did. Uncultured people popping their cultural cherries would always be fun. Amir had taken off his sandals and sat down on one of the couches. The plushy beast almost devoured his body, as he sank into the softness that enveloped him. It was funny that no sooner that he did than a knock was heard. The workers had made it up with their gear and were ready to get to work. Amir had to admit he was impressed with the standards of the hotel.

“See, we can sit down, relax, and let them get to work.” Amir said happily as a worker placed his feet in the warm tub of soapy water.



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she ignored the tiny orange puff ball, she figures women most be repulsed by him and his strange attitude toward woman she wonders if he gets that attitude and disregard for women and their feelings from his owner, and she wonders if the exceed that she knows that the masked Fairy Tail member is the same kind of creepy and rude that she is experiencing from this one.

She stands and welcomes the dwarf. "I am Vex and I am from Minstrel I am sorry if I have shown an unflattering side of myself to you." She bows her head and smiles as the Dwarf seems to be the only one with some class and tact, which you wouldn't think would be the cause here, cause one is a human which killed and harmed her people badly and she needed to figure out what their end game is here.

she needs to figure out what this half elf's issue is if he is trying something or if it is just a weird thing they are trying to pull and she is not. "It has been an okay time and I guess that is okay for now." She didn't make eye contact with him at all and if she gets the exceed alone she is probably gonna kick him down some stairs without a second thought about if the nasty little creature will survive it or not. She keeps a dead pan face so not to give away that she may be scheming something that could turn this whole sleep over on to its head and she will not regret upsetting anyone at this point besides the dwarf cause he was an actual decent male that has been on this whole adventure.

She decides she is just gonna walk out alone cause it feels like these males are just going to screw around and not find a good point at which the screwing around ends and the doing of things changes for the moment they are screwing around to them moving to get this thing done even if it comes at a cost of some sort these guys still barring the dwarf are just working on her last nerve and she is about to draw a circle and send one of the three, the human the half elf or the exceed to Tutrix as an offering of grace, for her damn tainted piece of mind.

She walked out of the room to see if they can get those free things moving and not being stuck in the quagmire that was going on in the room up until this moment when she walked out.

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Instead of shaking the dwarf's hand, the red haired elf smiled and gave a sincere bow. Brone hesitated, slightly embarrassed, such a greeting was very formal and offered to people of high regards and he never expected to be treated in a such a way, "Don't ye worry about that, lass, yer fine" awkwardly, he gave a quick bow in return before Vex turned to reply to Yuurei, however in a different, colder tone all the while not even making eye contact. Brone felt as if a cold wind blew in through the room. He stood there for a moment before he realized he was awkwardly standing there, so he just laid on the bedroll, facing the wall. He wasn't use to dealing with odd social situations; for him if he could punch a person to solve a problem, then it was a simple fix, but when it comes to the world of socialization, he had no clue how to go about such things, so he would pretend to have his attention grabbed by something else.

A pillow hit the dwarf's face. He quickly pulled the pillow off and registered the attacker was Yuurei. The moment Vex had left the room, Brone got up, shaking off his embarrassment. His ideals of being genteel in the presence of a lady came from his time in Blue Pegasus, but now that said lady had exited, he could act accordingly. He took a single step forward, his back straight, he gripped the pillow in his hand in a way that his arm bent just enough to flex his bicep. He eyed Yuurei as if he had finally come across an old rival he had sought for many moons, "Oy, Yuurei..." his voice was deep enough to cause his beard to rumble, "Ye dropped something" he said as he slammed his foot into the soft rug, his arm swung, just about to throw the pillow with all his might-

But was halted by the entry of the staff. The pillow went flying to the ceiling as the dwarf jerked himself to stop the momentum which ended up causing him to turn incorrectly and tumbled to Amir's feet, "I don't know what a pedicure is, but if it involves my feet, I should warn you... my feet are not pretty" he spoke to Amir as if he wasn't laying on his back, looking up at the man in an awkward way. He lifted his feet to show that he was barefooted the entire time. His feet weren't smooth or perfect, they seem rather rough, though not ugly either.

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Yuurei would hear Amir as he was preparing them for what was to come. He would see what he was doing with the board, and it seemed like it was a way to send the people who were coming up with a message. He continued where he was and it wouldn’t take long, but the people that were going to tend to them would make their way to the room. He would smile as they would be in total silence as they were moving things in and preparing for what came next. When Vex spoke to him he would look at her awkwardly because her tone and how she didn’t look at him made him feel like he shouldn’t have asked her.

The light mage would watch as they had gotten to Amir first, and he would take off his shoes and socks as they would get to him. While he was doing all of this, he would notice that Vex would make her way out of the room, which brought him to scratch the side of his head. He wondered what happen and he turned to look over to Renji because he had spoken to her last.

“What did you say to her?” He asked Renji wondering what he would say to him.

“I just told her the truth. I was surprised to see her here and wondered if she was going to try to make friends with you guys tonight. She took it the wrong way, so I just told her I was telling her the truth. Still, I guess I should have kept my mouth shut.” He said to Yuurei as he would look over to the small water tub for his feet.

“Yeah you shouldn’t have said anything Renji. We don’t know her like that, and she probably needed time to get used to us.” He said to Renji.

Renji would hope off his shoulder and he would take a seat on the small chair. He would put his feet in there as it felt nice, and he wondered what they were going to do for him. While this was happening, Yuurei looked over to Brone as it seemed like the dwarf was getting ready to toss the pillow at him, but when he noticed the new people enter he would come to a stop. He would chuckle a bit because he was saved by the staff. Still, the pillow would hit the ceiling before dropping down to the floor.

What Brone said next made him laugh and he figured he would say something like that, but figured they were going to do their best to make his feet as good as they could be and look.

“You’ll be alright, they are going to make you feel like someone gives you new feet.” Yuurei chuckled as they were prepping everything.

They knew that there was a girl that was here, and they prepped a spot for her to just in case she came back. Still, for now, they would get to work with everybody that was currently present. Yuurei would twitch a bit when his feet were grabbed as he had to make sure that he wasn’t laughing and kicking all over the place. He would make his hands into a fist as he was trying to make sure and relax while they would get to work.

“So do you think she’s coming back? I hope she comes back, she seems like she would have been a fun time.” He said to the group as he hoped Renji didn’t make her run off to never come back again.

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Amir could only helplessly watch as Vex left out. He was already sitting down and did not want to get dirt on his feet. He was kind enough to the workers to make the job as easy as possible for them, at least when it came to his own feet. Besides, Amir did not feel close enough to her to start chasing her. The scholar was friendly but not a saint. The only way he would chase someone was if he actually considered them a close friend. Amir considered Vex to be an acquaintance if anything.

Amir was further distracted talking to Brone. The dwarf told Amir his concerns, forcing him to look down at the body parts in question. Seeing Dwarf feet for the first time was more shocking than seeing lightning strike a nun. How could Amir possibly predict that he was not wearing shoes. It meant that the dwarf was tracking dirt with his own feet. It was a gnarly sight to look at. It was impressive that Amir was able to freeze his facial muscles in time. He managed to keep the look of abject terror out of it. If the dwarf bothered to look deep into his eyes, they would see the unhidden fear that dances about.

“No, it is all good. Truthfully, I have heard rumors about how people that work hard reflect it on their bodies. I asked the staff to come up with special gear. This would be a type of job that they were used to.” Amir was really glad he was not paying for all this. It was too much fun to have money that they could spend. Amir was almost ready to pray to Empyrean Divine.

“I am unsure. She is more than welcome to join us back. I do not think we kicked her out. This point I am guessing it is more of a mental block from her end. Than anything to do with us.” Amir did not mention that he did not care. Vex looked strong enough to be able to take care of herself. Amir found it pointless to try and coddle her.

“Can I get a specialist for my nails as well. I also think that the people here would enjoy one of the deep tissues as well. I know the Dwarf Brone at least would.” Amir was whispering to the worker closest to him. Amir did not mind getting extra benefits, more so if they were free.

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She decides it is time to ruin other peoples relaxation times. So was he walks she casts water magic and causes splashing and chaos for other people for the time being she was having fun with it. She makes it back and she takes her spot to get taken care of as she was fully ready for it now by she does give brone a little wave as she passes and she leans back as the people outside are panicking and looking around for who caused it but she didn’t let anyone see her doing any of it and she just relaxing, and taking in all the chaos that is happening outside of their room and she just keeps his smile hidden as this is the most relaxed she has been this whole time. She sips on a drink and she closes her eyes her heart feeling very light and afluttering.


She wonders if she was walking on too thin of a line but she just relaxes and she giggles as they are pulling out the heavy equipment to deal with brone’s feet, she hopes the poor workers are going to need therapy after this day of tending to them in this room but I am gonna bet they will never give out free things again for as long as they remember brone the mighty dwarf and his monster feet of destruction that took everything from them even their wills to live or ever do someone’s feet again. She looks at the orange cat and she gets a sickening smirk on her face as she may be plotting something in her mind.

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Brone wiggled his toes as he inspected them. What Amir said did make sense; working in mines when he was younger and constantly being on his feet during travel and adventures should definitely play a major factor in the hardening of his body, especially his feet. Though true, he wasn't sure to take that statement as a compliment or an insult.

The staff had quickly set up their equipment and the guests got themselves ready, including Brone who plopped onto a comfy chair. All of the staff, both male and female hesitated when looking upon the dwarf's feet, so the other guests were quickly claimed, even Vex, who had just returned was claimed. Brone returned the wave to the red hair young lady, though he sighed, now slightly embarrassed that no one wanted to tend to his rough-looking feet, even though he understood and didn't judge the staff.

Suddenly with a start, the door slammed open and a tall woman stepped in, her wide shoulders and muscles rivaled that of even of the dwarf. Brone locked eyes with her and with a confident smile, she walked over to him and sat her equipment down. He was going to warn her about how rough his feet were and suggest strong equipment as a joke, but before he could even speak, the woman grabbed his feet with great strength and positioned it so she can begin the process. Brone was thrown aback by how this woman was so different than the others, "Aren't ye suppose to let my feet soak first?" he asked as he pointed to the other guests who had their feet soaking for a bit before their respective staff began the work.

"We are behind, we need to make up for lost time" the woman seemed like she was trying to be kind in her words, but how she spoke was akin to Brone's own dwarven clan, which he didn't mind at all, he was just surprised this trait was found in a human, "So we will make it quicker" her accent hinted common was her second language. She brought out a soaking bucket like the others, but the amount of steam that came out of the water hinted that she might have boiled the water. Before the dwarf could question the water, the woman forced his feet into the bucket. Yes indeed the water was incredibly hot that the dwarf nearly yelped, but he managed to hold it in.

Diana, the Strong, specially requested staff member:

After a moment, the bulky woman pulled out Brone's feet and revealed a large stone in her hand; the stone had many serrated edges, it looked like a weapon. He wanted to ask what that was for, but she hushed him by already working on his heel by roughly and quickly using the stone to scrape it. The dwarf's hands gripped the armrests of the chair tightly, the feeling was ticklish and slightly painful at the same time; dead skin and flakes of calluses were flying from the dwarf's feet as he tried his best to keep his composure. Subconsciously he would try to pull his feet away, but the woman strong-armed them back into position.

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Yuurei would watch as the staff would play with his feet. Okay they weren’t playing with his feet, but he could feel everything, and it was too much. His teeth clenched as he tried his best to hold everything in. His eyes would close every so often as he would tear a bit because he didn’t know how this was a thing. Were people not ticklish on their feet? He didn’t have time to ask these questions, but he just struggled with himself to make sure her didn’t pull his legs away from the worker.

While this was happening Amir would speak to him, and he would nod as he was pretty positive that nobody had told her to leave, so he relaxed about Vex for a few. Renji was kicked back, and the staff was tending to his feet and pampering him. The Exceed never had this before, so it was nice and different. He was enjoying it as he could feel them clipping his nails and making sure they were nice. It felt nice to get things done for him even though he was on guard every time they touched his feet again.

While this pedicure was happening to them, Yuurei would look over to see Vex was walking back into the room. It seemed like she blew off steam because she looked calmer than before. That was a good thing, and he was glad that she didn’t fully leave them. It seemed like even she enjoyed the finer things in life as well as she was getting her feet taken care of.

His eyes shifted to the next person that came into the room. His eyes widen when he saw how big and strong this person was. He looked around and wondered who she was going to be taking care of. When he saw, she had gone to Brone, he sighed with relief because he didn’t know what would happen to his feet if she was the one taking care of them. Still, not that everyone was being attended to, he figured that they could continue talking about anything.

“So how often are you supposed to get your feet tended to? I’ve never done this before and I didn’t even know such a treatment existed.” He paused for a second.

“I’ve lived in a forest my whole life, and even the two years that I’ve been in Fiore I never heard that this was something that people did. It’s interesting, it feels good, but to hell, it tickles.” He said this as he was tightening his hands every so often.

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Amir closed his eyes to savor the sensations of being pampered. It was nice to be able to let his hair down and get taken care of with no worries. He would be unaware of Vex causing mischief and chaos. He would not even see that Brone pretty much had a giant to come in and take care of him. Amir was just missing out on a lot. This point he figured no one was trying to kill him. He would have already detected poison if the footbath was infected. A trick like that would only get you once anyway.

The calming warm waters were already starting to work wonders on his feet. The scholar has been traveling a lot for work. His feet were developing blisters and not looking as pretty. If it was not for the spa treatment at the party, who knew when Amir would be able to get his toes sucked again.

“The time varies from person to person. People that walk on their feet and do not receive treatments, normally have to soak for a lot longer. If proper foot maintenance is maintained then it will only take a couple of minutes. I am in bad shape at the moment. Even then my feet should only take ten minutes at the most.”

Amir was responding to Yuurei. This field of relaxation was not something that Amir had to study. In Minstrel treatments like this are a common thing. Here in Fiore it would be counted as a high class service. The broke peasants would never receive such luxury, under normal circumstances here, neither would Amir. It was sad that it could also become mildly addicting.

“That is because it is uncommon here in Fiore. Common from the forest is similar, the main difference being that wood elves, and half elves with more wood elf blood, do not need to do it.”

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Vex just stayed laying back and relaxing she knows her body is in perfect shape and perfectly taken care of but noting beats just relaxing and not worrying about the others. She sees at least one of them was enjoying their being tended to. Looking to the woman taking care of the dwarf she is not surprised that they would need someone of that size but god that poor dwarf looked like he was being tortured and that woman is not giving him an inch to the poor dwarf who looks like he is seeing his god is high definition in front of his eyes and he is not ready to go so he is fighting for his soul so the heralds don’t reap his soul if he was to fall asleep here she would fear he has dead.

She noted that the half elf seems to be super ticklish as he tries to fight it he seemed to be losing that battle with being ticklish but he seems to be keeping his cool. She looks to the other male and she seems right at home with what is going on and she is also just enjoying the being tended compared to what ever is going on. She sees people starting to look into the room sh unsure if they are check her out or if they are watching the brutishly strong woman tangling with the dwarf.

The man tending to her starts hitting on her a little and she wonders if this man thinks it is smart for him to be risking his job for this or if he was trying to get a decent tip for his hard work she is not gonna turn him in he is just trying to get him self either laid or a decent tip she has no need to worry about it just let him be for awhile or until she gets bored of it and ends up telling him off or dealing with him accordingly when the time was needed to do it.

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He held onto the armrests and tried his best to remain still so that the wide-shoulder woman could do her work properly without a chance of error. Eventually, the scraping of the feet had stopped and he was allowed to dip his feet back into the hot water. At first the heat stung, but he managed to find his calm and he sank into the chair as if a great weight lifted from his shoulders. He was taken back to the underground hot springs back at home. When his clan found a magma chamber beneath the mountain, they created tunnels in order to redirect a stream of water so that they could create their own hot springs.

Everything seem to slip away and Brone was finding himself caring about nothing else in life except for this exact moment. Then his feet were roughly grabbed again, bringing him back to reality. "W-what?" he looked at the strong woman who had his feet in hand and what looked like a dagger in her other hand, "What ye doing with that!?" he began to feel panic rise within him.

"We have to cut the cuticles" Is all she said as she swiped the dagger-like instrument against a whetstone that was on the nearby table. Each swipe, the sound of metal rang into the air, reminding the dwarf that the thing was an actual weapon.

"They don't have that!" Brone pointed to the other staff who were tending to the other guests. They held small devices which looked more designed to be precise.

"Those are not strong enough, or fast enough" The woman didn't even look up at him, she just began to work on the toes. The blade was dug into the back of the nail of each toe, cutting and pushing the cuticle. Brone had never felt such a pain, he felt as if this woman found the chink of his armor and was repeatedly stabbing a dagger in it, not wanting to deal with the layer of armor that was use to defending the dwarf against attacks. He no longer was removing his feet instinctively, he was actively trying to keep his feet away, but the strong woman wouldn't have it; she got up and positioned herself by sitting on the stomach of the dwarf, keeping him pinned while tightly gripping the ankle of his foot while she continued to destroy his cuticles...on...each...toe.

"Release me!" Brone cried out as he tried to push the woman off of him, but to his surprise, she didn't budge at all. After finishing with all ten toes, Brone was finally allowed to return to his regular sitting position while the his staff member, Diana, simply trimmed and filed the edge of his nails. His spend the rest of his time quiet, embarrassed by his sad defeat.

After this ordeal, Brone would feel odd. His feet felt rejuvenated, though it would be a long time before he would admit that the experience had provided to him a healthy and greater feeling to his feet. He would feel his running speed has increased and his persistence to stand has gotten better as well. Maybe he will try this again in the future.

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Yuurei would hear Amir’s explanation on the matter. He was glad to learn more about the outside world of Fiore. It was the next thing he planned on doing, and it was good to know a few people that were not originally from Fiore. He was relaxed as his feet were getting worked on. He was holding back from laughing though, which was something he did very well. He looked over to Brone to see how he was doing, and his eyes widen when he saw that he was out here getting wrestled by the huge woman. It seemed like he was making quite the fuss on her actually working on his feet.

It made Yuurei laugh a bit, and the combination of what he felt on his feet made it worst. He couldn’t help it and he tried his best to calm down.

Renji was also enjoying himself as he felt that his feet were taken care of, they would move onto his hands, which he did walk on every now and then. They would repeat the same process that they had done on his feet. Still, it was much quicker because they weren’t bad like his feet. Still, he would relax as well as he watched Brone get handled by that worker.

Yuurei was enjoying his time with everyone here. He didn’t think it would be nice and relaxing. It was a good bonding experience with everyone in the room and he hoped that there would be more in the future.

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The services rendered were at the peak of perfection, they were making his feet look exquisite. Amir was sitting down with a blissful look on his face. His current feelings were pure enjoyment. Amir was even feeling better getting this done than his last couple of times he was dipping his wick.

Amir could not hide his excitement when they came up with his nail polish. They even painted his fingernails a slightly darker shade of black. “OMG guys! Look at my nails.” Amir stated in an excited voice. Showing off how gritty they look. “I am having a great time. Vex the two of us should do this more often. Just total girl bonding time.”

Amir started melting. He was so relaxed he was becoming a puddle in his seat. His mind started drifting off as sleep and exhaustion overcame him. The young scholar was lucky that no one was out to reap his life.

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She wondered if this group will really be sticking together or if they are just gonna be falling apart after this little trip is over when their little honey moon ends, will the bitterness set in and they will begin to bicker and fight that someone wasn't pulling their weight or were being too slow would they just be knife and dagger at each others throats, firing misguided hatred that was growing inside of themselves at each other cause they all couldn't see eye to eye. She feels back for the place all this misguided hatreds were gonna end up landing as they were all gonna just self destruct and take everyone around them out with them when it all comes to a head and explodes.

She guesses she will just bask in the light of the blow up that fight end up happening one day she just hopes azure doesn't get caught up in their in fighting and stupid antics, that ends up with azure picking up the heat for something that he hadn't had any hand in that gets them busted taking him down with them. She feels she might actually trying to break him out and spitting on the others.

She was planning on taking on the time to maybe go visit around or look for the masked mage and she keeps her hopes up that she can meet them again but she knows she is probably never gonna see most of them. She enjoys most of what is going on but she kind of grew out of wanting to bother getting to know any of them besides Brone cause the dude seemed to have a heart of gold and he was not going to try and destroy her faith in the other non-elf races.

She is finished up then she gets up and she walks away from where she was sitting and she heads to her bed and she plops down on the bed and she looks at the ceiling and she wonder where she even was going to go with this day, she was lost in thought as she wondered if she was not gonna do much coming forward and she wondered where she gonna go to, and she wondered where her people are gonna go if she were to disappear or just not would they carry on or would they just die out and disappear to the shadows.

(404 Shit its found and done) (2004) (Exit)