Mmmmh..
Riveria had a huge problem...an enormous problem...but no it wasn´t that thing in Bell´s pants that she had seen. In the past she had sometimes scolded Ais, Tiona and Lefiya when they got too lovey dovey with Bell in public. Or Raul and Anakity...or Tione.
But now she experienced for the first time herself how it was to have feelings of romantic love inside her heart. After the morning in the Wishe forest when she had discovered her feelings, Riveria got restless.
She didn´t told Bell about it...of course she didn´t...she had to think about what she should do now. They had searched every possible corner of the Wishe forest, always accompanied by the four small spirits that kept their distance and watched them.
They felt that Riveria´s affection for Bell had skyrocketed, whenever Bell smiled at her now...Riveria´s ears got hot. He noticed that her behaviour was a bit strange, they didn´t found the flower in the Wishe forest and continued their way to the north, the Ashenia forest wasn´t that far away and their next goal.
But Riveria didn´t got frustrated like she did before, she just told him they would continue and seemed to try her best to not look into Bell´s face.
Bell thought at first it was because of the accident when he had seen her naked...a sight he just couldn´t forget. But Riveria told him during the evening at their camp that it wasn´t like that and something else was in her mind. Fortunately for her, Bell was polite enough not to dig deeper, he was just like that ... if she wanted to talk about it she would.
She couldn´t put her finger on it, but Bell´s whole appearance seemed to have changed...in the evenings when the light slowly went out, it looked like the light was almost embracing him, let him look very heroic, sometimes his cape slowly waved behind him even when there was not much wind. And his smell...Riveria thought she would go crazy...her heart jumped around like a happy baby goat.
What is with me...
The four small spirits did her best to make up for their prank...by having more fun with those two. The wind spirit took care of the body odor waving towards the other...and it was by no means unpleasant for them. The light spirit changed the light a bit to let them look even better when the other looked at them.
Everything in Riveria´s head circled around the times she had spend with Bell. Analyzing how her thoughts and feelings for him had changed over time. At first it was only professional...but slowly over time...she had opened more to him. Her problem wasn´t only that her feelings had changed...but would she be okay with someone like Bell as her partner?
Of course there was the problem with her feelings...elves only fell in love with one person in their whole life...with minor exceptions like Lefiya, who was in a relationship with Bell and Filvis...but Riveria also thought about Bell being in a relationship with more than one woman. It wasn´t a harem...and she would never dare to speak this word close to Bell...he hated this word.
But it was also true that Bell had more than one partner. Riveria was fascinated how they managed to make this work...that no one got jealous over the other. The truth was, it was their life that made this possible and a pretty simple solution. Bell was together with the two of his Familia...the prum and the Renard...nearly all the time in the dungeon.
Then there were the two from the pub...Ryu and Syr...Riveria didn´t knew about Ahnya...then there were Lefiya, Ais and Tiona. His relationship with Hestia was similar yet different, since she was a goddess. No one except Bell knew about Artemis, who lived inside of Vesta...how Bell had named the Hestia Knife. And...there was another person that no one knew about...at least that Bell and this person loved each other very deeply...
and that this person...wasn´t a mortal person or a god...but a monster. It wasn´t the little Wiene...she was still a child...it wasn´t the mermaid...no...it was a certain harpy...that had lived with the Loki Familia for a while, when they gave her shelter.
That means...hah...if I...would...be okay..with it...there would be...nine...to ten...partner...
Riveria gulped for some unknown reason...in the past Bell had asked her for advice and she did as good as she was possible...that he probably wouldn´t make anyone happy if he tried to make everyone happy. But...somehow he managed to do that. As far as she had seen, Bell treated everyone of his partners like the greatest love of his life...they were all equal to him.
All of them were his queens...Riveria actually had seen him kneel before a few of them while he praised their beauty and swore his eternal love...more than one of them got really flustered when he did that and squeaked in joy.
And actually...this was fine with Riveria. She had feelings for Bell...she was in love with him...but Riveria was still the same person as before and she loved her life. So changing her life completely to be together with a partner was out of question for her. Spending time with Bell like this felt wonderful...that she had him alone for herself...but when this journey would end, they would return to their normal life.
Maybe from time to time having him for herself...but that was enough. Riveria had much work to do in her Familia and she loved that..so..
WHY AM I THINKING ABOUT THESE THINGS ALREADY! AAARGH!
It was the first time Riveria ever shouted loudely...even if it was only in her mind.
Pull yourself together, me! You are an adult elf so behave like i-
"Riveria? Is everything okay?"
Bell looked worried at her.
D-D-Did he notice?!
"Everything okay, thank you Bell."
He smiled. "Okay then."
Kuh...
Again Riveria heard the voice of Aina in her head.
L-O-V-E...L-O-V-E...it´s happening...little sister...
Don´t tease me...
Aina had teased her sometimes in the past about that topic. Since she already had a husband and a child, Aina was way more experienced with that matter than Riveria was. Aina had tried to let Riveria discover her feelings this way...she had guessed for a long time now that Riveria saw Bell in a different way than she thought she did.
As the big sister, it was Aina´s job to help her little sister.
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What Riveria couldn´t know, back in Orario, Aina thought a lot about her little sister when she felt a bit better. It gave her strength to have these positive thoughts and she often smiled slightly when she thought about Riveria being on a journey with the guy she started to have feelings for.
"Do your best...little sister...I want...to see...some nieces...or nephews...too..."
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Riveria got more and more sensitive about Bell during their journey. When they prepared the meals in the evening and their hands touched slightly, she acted normal but squealed in her mind.
Thankfully the incident didn´t happened again...Riveria thought they would be safe from the spirits when they left the Wishe forest, not knowing that they followed them. But sometimes when she sat in the water of a small lake or river to bath...the morning returned to her mind.
How she had looked at Bell...at his lips...sometimes when her thoughts drifted around, Riveria caught herself when she got aware of her surroundings again, that she touched her lips with one of her fingers.
Kuh...lewd...
She already imagined how it might feel to kiss Bell!
Have some shame, me! I-I-I don´t even kn-know if he feels like that too..
But what she refused to remember was what she saw in the next moment afterwards...her proud elven nature forbid her to remember something like that... Riveria still thought if it was actually a problem for Bell...that he didn´t touched the body of a woman for nearly a month now.
If Riveria only knew...it was actually more a problem for Bell´s partners...some more than others.
But wait...could it be...was he..."like that"...because he is away from his partners so long?
Her ears felt like they burned.
W-W-Was he like that because he saw me naked?!
Riveria´s head shot around to Bell, flustered.
D-Don´t tell me...he has...l-lewd thoughts about me already?!
After a few moments she calmed herself down.
Calm down...calm down...Bell isn´t like this. I´m sure...he doesn´t think about m-making love...
She stopped for a second in her thoughts.
Making...love...that means...children...
Suddenly her heart felt really warm.
Children...Bell...and...me? I...a...mother?...A real mother?
Her maternal instincts were very strong to begin with...Riveria...couldn´t help but imagine it. About her sitting in a bed...a small half elven baby in her arms...Bell sitting at her side, smiling.
She imagined herself smiling lovingly to Bell...both leaned closer...Riveria closed her eyes...
Hauuu...I am so lewd...
Riveria sighed again with red ears...she felt like a young girl that fell in love for the first time...
Wait...I am still young! And this is my first love!
She gulped.
My...first...love...kuh...Bell...what have you done to me...
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So the journey of these two went on, to the north. Both remained close to the sea while threy traveled, Ashenia Forest wasn´t that far away from Wishe, in the far distance they could see it, so maybe a few days. The whole area north of the Wishe Forest was actually a gigantic peninsula.
Since the sea was on the west, nord and east side, together with a big river that went from the east nearly all the way to the west. The weather here was a bit different from the main land, it rained more often.
But both were prepared for such a weather, so they pulled up the hoods of their travel coats and simply kept walking, after wrapping their backpacks in special blankets against rain.
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While Riveria couldn´t resist but enjoy the feelings that rose inside her heart...not everything went well on the journey. They reached the Ashenia forest...the visit wasn´t much different from the Wishe Forest...they moved on...stopped for an evening in the city of Altenia before moving further to the north to Ryumilua.
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Drip...Drip...Drip...
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Riveria could just stand there and look...she said nothing.
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Drip...Drip...Drip...
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It still rained heavily. North from the village of Ryumilua they had searched for old elven ruins...but...even here...nothing.
Four Forests...they had searched in four Forests for the Flower...nothing.
Aina...
Riveria´s lower lip trembled. She started to lose hope. Two months ago they had left Orario...and now they were here in the northern part of Ryumilua...and nothing.
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To enter this Forest was hard enough already, the elves of Ryumilua were openly hostile against every non elf and defended their territory fiercly.
When they tried to enter the forest, Bell remained behind Riveria and she showed herself openly. While they respected her status, they wouldn´t trust a human and thought that he might have kidnapped Riveria or had something that he could use against her.
So before Riveria could stop them, two guards had used their swords to attack Bell.
"Stop it!...Bell!"
One elf came from each side and slashed at Bell´s face. He didn´t moved at all and just waited. The elves didn´t stopped their swords and they hit his cheeks fromt he sides, intending to chop off his head or slice it to pieces.
But...
Bell was an upper level six adventurer...he simply took the attacks without even flinching. The eyes of the elves widened in horror, the cutting edges of their swords were in contact with Bell´s skin...but nothing happened. His defense was too strong, even if all elves in this forest would attack him, their attacks wouldn´t pierce his skin...such was the blessing of the gods, known as Falna.
"Could you...please stop this?"
The two guards flinched back, not sure what to do now. Riveria talked again to the elves of Ryumilua, Bell tried not to stare too much...but one of the male elves caught his eyes. Blond hair...blue eyes...these facial features.. He knew enough about elves to see who this man was...Ryu´s father. And he understood enough elvish now to follow the conversation.
It was the first time he saw Riveria really getting agitated, but the elves argued back they wouldn´t let a human into their forest. What shocked Bell the most was a reply of Ryu´s father. He argued that humans tainted everything they touched, that they were low life creatures and not worthy to be trusted, he even went so far to say something had to be wrong with Riveria to trust him.
Riveria argued back that this wasn´t true, that even his own daughter...
"I have no daughter anymore!"
Riveria tried to explain to him about Ryu, but for him...for her mother...for the elves of Ryumilua...Ryu wasn´t one of them anymore...for her parents...Ryu was dead...after betraying them with her leave. Bell had gritted his teeth and made a fist, trembling he fought against the urge to yell at them. But he couldn´t tell them that Ryu was alive and well...even expecting a child now...
He couldn´t believe someone would talk about their own child like this...but he had promised to Ryu to not talk to her parents directly...if she would ever go back to the forest to talk to them...maybe show them their grandchild...she would do it together with Bell.
In the end, the elves had to agree to let Bell into the forest...he could just force his way into it anyway if he wished so.
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Both had searched up and down the forest, the elves refused to tell them if there was such a flower here...and they found nothing. Four out of the five forests they could visit had nothing...no flower.
Riveria stood there and could just watch the old elven ruins, it was an abandoned village, with a few small tree houses here and there...it was the last possible spot they could search for...and even here was nothing.
"Riveria?"
Bell looked worried at her...she stood there for the quarter of an hour now, not responding to his questions. He saw that she was shaking...Bell could only imagine how she had to feel.
"Bell...could you leave me alone for a while...please?..."
Riveria didn´t looked at him...just kept staring into the distance without seeing something.
"Okay..."
He took his backpack and walked towards one of the tree houses that was still intact, but unused by animals or smaller monsters. Bell didn´t really felt well to let Riveria in the rain...but she needed this moment alone.
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Aina...
Without knowing when or why, Riveria started to walk along the village. Never before had she felt like this...so hopeless...so sad...so desperate. All of the journey was for nothing...they had searched through four forests and found nothing...how big was the chance to find it in the last forest then?
Her boots made smacking noises as she walked through the rain, drops ran down her face...at one point her hood was pulled back...she didn't care. Nothing mattered to her anymore...Aina would die...
We haven´t found the Flower...there is nothing that could save Aina now...she will...die...
*Hic*...*Hic*..."
Her eyes wandered around...the abandoned village in the rain showed her mood perfectly...
Eventually her footsteps led her deeper into the village...it was something like a small square, with a shallow well in the middle. She let her backpack dropp onto the ground...rain drops and tears ran over her face.
Aina...
Her lower lip trembled again...no one had ever seen Riveria like this. She noticed only barely that her robe was getting wet from the rain and her hair was drenched...it didn´t mattered. Her cloak was open so nothing stopped the rain from making her clothes wet...her backpack got soaked on the ground too...it didn´t mattered.
What have I done...
Riveria sat down on the edge of the well and just looked into the water. She saw her reflection barely, the sky above her rumbled a bit.
It was all for nothing...all so pointless..
She put her face into her hands and started to sob...
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Riveria...where are you...
Bell got soaked in the rain too, at least his backpack was in the dry house. He had waited for the quarter of an hour...but then he got too worried about Riveria. He walked fast through the village to search for her...he felt that he should have never let her alone. He could only imagine how she had to feel right now...he only knew she had to be hurt deep inside.
"Riveria!"
He didn´t wanted to disturb the village´s rest, but Bell had to find her. The rain in the sky slowly turned into a thunderstorm, right now it only rumbled...but it was getting closer.
"Riveria! Where are you!"
Rainwater splashed around as Bell ran through the village, looking left and right, not caring about the rain in his face or hair. He had pulled back the cloak so that it wouldn´t block his vision. The rain was quite cold...it was late autumn after all. His face turned left and right, looking for the tiniest hint of Riveria.
More water splashed around, Bell was getting drenched down to his bones. A small ringing sound caught Bell´s attention, he saw a small green orb drifting close to him.
"You!"
The small spirit drifted hastily up and down, making the ringing sound again, drifting into a certain direction.
"Will you show me the way?"
The spirit moved heavily up and down, Bell followed it.
"Rive-..."
His fast steps slowed down...he saw her.
There was a small well in the middle of a place, Riveria´s backpack was in a puddle next to the well, completely wet. And Riveria...it broke Bell´s heart to see her like this. She was lying on the edge of the small pool, wet hair hung in her face, a few strands lay on the stone and fell down into the water. Her robe was completely soaked, as was her cloak and her entire body. Her cheek rested on her upper right arm while her hand and half sleeve hung in the water, left arm bent in front of her body, hand resting on right arm. Her legs were slightly drawn up, one knee almost touching the water. But what really hurt Bell...were her eyes...they looked completely lifeless, joyless...hopeless. He had never seen Riveria like this before...she seemed oblivious to the cold rain on her body.
The other three small spirits drifted over Riveria, the Volcani tried to give her a bith warmth...she didn´t seemed to notice them.
"Riveria..."
Bell moved closer to her, she didn´t raised her eyes...just stared into the well. He could see that she was shaking...and not only from the cold. Carefully he knelt down next to her head, not caring about the mud. In the past he wouldn´t have dared it, but Bell gently placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Riveria?"
No answer.
"Riveria...what is wrong?"
No answer.
Bell shook her gently and tried to call out to her again.
"Leave me..."
"Riveria?!"
He heard a faint mumble.
"Just...leave me be...Bell..."
Her fingers in the water moved only slightly, the rain still poured down on them.
"Riveria...please talk to me...what is with you?"
"Pointless...so pointless...everything..."
"I..."
She didn´t moved, but her legs twitched slightly. Bell could feel that she trembled...it wasn´t only rain that flew over her face.
"We can´t find it...Aina...she..."
"Riveria...we will find it...I´m sure of it."
"And where...four forests Bell...we searched...in four forests...already."
"There is still the Royal Forest left, you said it is the biggest one!"
Bell was really worried about Riveria, not only because of her despair, but the rain and the cold could be dangerous for her too, high leveled adventurer or not. As gentle as possible, Bell put his hand between Riveria´s cheek and her shoulder, using the other on her other shoulder and tried to lift her up into a sitting position.
She didn´t fought back nor did she scold him, when he managed to sat her up, he carefully turned her away from the well, so that her feet could touch the ground. Bell knelt again in front of her and looked at her face...he wanted to cry too. Tears flew endlessly over Riveria´s cheeks, her lower lip trembled and he heard her sob.
"Riveria...we will find it...I´m sure of it."
"How..."
"Hm?"
"How can...you be *Hic*...so sure?"
He closed his hands around hers...they were as cold as ice...as was her whole body.
"Because I believe...somewhere...we will find the Infinity Flower."
Out of their field of vision, the spirits jerked one time up and down when he mentioned the Flower.
Various emotions washed over Riveria´s face...too many feelings were in her heart...she had to let them out.
"How?! How can you still believe!"
"Because we haven´t searched in the last corner possible, there is still a chance!"
Her facial expression spoke of anger, but her eyes looked all too sad and hopeless.
"Do you know how little the chance is, Bell?! How far we have to travel?! How long it will take?! Aina has only four months left to live! And I...I...I should have been at her side! This journey will bring nothing! When we return I have wasted half of the remaining time of my sister!"
More tears streamed down her face...Bell wanted to pull her into a hug, pat her back and tell her all would be good. Riveria looked nothing like the usual wise, reasonable, calm, adult elf right now...she was like a young woman that was afraid to lose the person she loved the most.
"Don´t say that. We will find the Flower, we will return to Orario and save your sister."
"How can you be so sure?! And why do you care so much about someone you don´t even know?!"
"Becaus she needs help...and I want to help you."
No clear thoughts were in her head.
"Why...Why...WHY?! Why do you care so much about me?!"
In her state, Riveria yelled out things she didn´t actually meant.
Bell knew this kind of behaviour, Riveria was desperate and in a state of panic..he still yelled it out.
"Because I love you, Riveria!"
She became silent again, not knowing how to respond to him.
"Bell...I..."
"I´ts okay, Riveria...now excuse me."
"Hm?"
He didn´t asked for permission, nor would he wait for it. Bell put her drenched backpack on his back, put his left arm in the hollow of her knees, the other under her arms and lifted her up. He got used to carry women like a princess...and he became really good at it.
Riveria didn´t said anything, but she burried her face at his chest and started to cry loudely, while clenching her cold hands into his cloak. It wasn´t the first time that a girl cried at Bell´s chest like this...but he never thought Riveria would do that one day.
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Bell carried Riveria to the emtpy tree house, the spirits slowly followed them. He was glad when they finally got out of the rain...Bell already lost most of his sense of touch due to the cold...and Riveria felt like ice.
"Riveria, I will put you down now...okay?"
"Mh..."
It may had been his strength, but Bell was surprised how light Riveria´s body felt...and how slender she was. Eventually her boots touched the ground and he let go of her, Riveria turned immediately away from Bell, embarrassed about what she had done right now.
"Riveria, there is no need to be ashamed."
"But Bell...I..."
He gently placed his hands on her shoulders from behind. "Shh now...everything is okay."
She was still trembling, but mostly from cold now.
"We need to change clothes, I will turn around, but we need to hurry or we will freeze."
Bell placed the heating rings on the ground and turned around like he said. Most of his backpack was drenched, the only dry things were his blanket...and one undershorts...
Great...
Riveria undid the clasp of her cape and let it fall to the ground...she felt really cold.
I can´t believe I behaved like this...
Ignoring the sound of the undressing Bell behind her, Riveria took off her own clothes, shivering from the cold. Now was not the time to think about shame, Riveria opened her backpack...everything was wet...every single piece of cloth.
"Oh no..."
"Riveria?"
"My clothes...everything...is wet..."
I have nothing to we-..
Riveria stopped when she found one specific piece of cloth...one that shouldn´t be in her backpack...one that was in there thanks to Loki. One that she swore to never wear again...a piece of cloth that was meant to get wet and would dry very soon.
"Bell...promise me...not too look...okay?"
"I promise."
Her heart drummed like crazy when Riveria took off her drenched underwear, now she was fully naked and shivering from cold, with the equal naked Bell behind her. The piece of cloth she held in her hands...was a swimsuit...a in her opinion very lewd swimsuit. It was a "gift" from Loki when the women of the Familia went to Melen. Riveria had fainted when she saw it for the first time and she only tried it one time at one, rejecting the thought of wearing it...it showed too much skin.
But she couldn´t sit naked next to Bell! So Riveria had no other choice than to put it on. It was something like a mixture of a bikini and a normal swim suit. Basically it were two wide parts on her front, closed only with a small strap between her breasts, they went together in front of her crotch and around the back of her neck. On her backside it went down to her butt, the cloth didn´t even covered her buttcheeks fully. Riveria was beyond embarrassed to wear something like this...but it was better than being naked.
"Bell! You definetely can´t turn around now!"
Never before had Riveria Ljos Alfr thought she would one day do something this shameful.
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Both, Bell and Riveria were silent. They sat next to each other, the blanket of Bell as good as possible around them...both nearly naked. Bell only had his underwear, Riveria her swimsuit. Her ears burned in shame, where it was possible, they had hung up their wet clothes, Bell was gentleman enough to not look into the direction of Riveria´s underwear.
They had no other choice, their soaked clothes had robbed them of body heat...which was dangerous even for them. Adventurers were tought and learned survival measures...there was no place for shame when it came to living. But just like for him back then...understanding the logic of that was one thing...their emotions another. Riveria was close to a panic...Bell only a little bit calmer than her...she didn´t knew what to do in this situation.
Her ears twitched and this time she blushed all over her face...cursing her pounding heart. Riveria wasn´t so much of a "clean freak" like Ryu was...well no one was this much...but the moment still felt immoral. She as an adult elf, sitting nearly naked to the equally nearly naked man that she had feelings for...and that before she even told him how she felt!
But most of all, they felt cold...very cold. Their bodies didn´t touched, their shoulders were a handwide apart.
What is wrong with my heart...why is it pounding like this! Is it because we are like this? Or because it is Bell?
Thoughts without end whirled through her mind...she didn´t knew what to do.
"Riveria..."
Bell only whispered.
"Y-Yes?!"
"I-I think...we should...get a little closer."
"Huh?!"
There was a little pause...he gave Riveria time to understood what he might mean. This scene felt all too familiar, so Bell repeated the words he had heard back then.
"Wh-What we´re doing right now...it´s inefficient. This is...a survival..situation. We can´t risk getting sick...we have to continue our journey to save Ms. Aina."
Wh-Wh-What is he saying?! After telling me something like this?!
At first she thought it was just her imagination what she had heard at the well...
"B-But..Bell...I..."
He kept pushing. "Now is not the time to be shy or ashamed...here, take my hand and feel it for yourself."
Riveria´s eyes widened when Bell took her hand...her own hand was nearly as white as snow and her lips were slightly pale...her hand was very cold...and Bell´s was like ice. Natural things like that didn´t cared about the toughness of an upper-tier-adventurer.
Bell was embarrassed too, but he had made his point clear...Riveria understood that he was concerned about her health.
"But Bell...we...you...I..."
"Don´t worry about that now, it is an emergency situation and survival comes first."
This is my fault...I brought this over us...Bell is...getting sick...because of me...
"B-But, Bell...please...don´t look...promise me? D-D-Don´t get any lewd ideas now..."
"I would never."
"I trust you...Bell..."
Riveria still couldn´t look at his eyes...but Bell noticed that her left ear was red.
"Close your eyes, please."
Bell did as she asked him, he felt her standing up. Riveria´s heart drummed like never before...hugging was out of question...so there was only one other option left. Bell sat leaned against the wall, with a part of his blanket beteen his back and the stone. Riveria blushed even more when she noticed his opened legs and his underwear.
She hid her face behind her hands when she turned around...and sat down between his legs.
Hauuu...
Bell noticed the touch of her body when Riveria leaned gently back against him...by instinct his arms slowly wrapped around her body, while Riveria pulled the blanket in front of them. She could feel his hard chest very well against her back...trying not to think about the scenery they gave right now.
The tiniest squeak escaped her lips when she felt Bell´s left hand around her stomach, the right a bit over his hand, around her rips, right under her breasts...and since skin contact was needed...his left and right hand carefully shoved inside the parts of her swimsuit.
She placed her arms on top of his...the warming process started immediately.
If Bell Cranel would get a Vals coin for every time a green haired, half naked elven maiden had to sit between his legs while he was also nearly naked, to warm each other up...he would have two Vals coins now...which wasn´t much...but it was strange that it had happened twice.
"Bell..."
"Riveria?..."
She could feel the vibration of his voice in her back...and he couldn´t help but feel how soft her body was.
"You are...really warm..."
"And so are you..."
"Mmmh..."
"Hmmm..."
Not much words fell between them...truth was, it was a long day and Riveria was more than exhausted...together with the cold of the rain...it was too much.
I feel...so warm...so...protected...
Riveria wouldn´t lie...she liked the feeling of Bell´s body against her own...this sacred warmth...of the man she loved.
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They didn´t talked...there were no words now. Both kept sitting there and slightly hugged each other...the sound of the rain lulled them gently into falling asleep. For the first time in her life, Riveria fell asleep in the arms of a man.
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Unnoticed by them, four small spirits drifted into the cave and "looked" at the sleeping mortals. They all moved closer and circled for a moment around their heads. Spirits were capable of doing many things that mortals couldn´t understand or explain, they just did things they wished to do.
To make up for their prank...the spirits connected the minds of these two...allowing them to share a dream together. It was actually more of a dreamworld...but both would be fully aware in there.
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After being done with that, the spirits left the tree house and started to drift back to the Wishe Forest.
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What happened in that dream, was up to Bell and Riveria...
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Authors Note: So the next chapter will be a dream sequence of Bell and Riveria. Sometimes I see artworks in the net and just have to use the idea in a story. Like the moment with Riveria´s swimsuit and her lying at the well in the rain...a very beautiful artwork in my opinion.
To answer a few comments.
BellCarnal: Don´t worry this is still the Harem story, it just started with Riveria´s ark, but it won´t be as long as a usual story of mine. When her ark is done, there will be a few single chapters with various girls, then Haruhime´s ark, which won´t be as long as Riveria´s.
I am always happy about all the Review, special thanks this time to Melral CT-3718.
Also since it was asked and requested by more than one person, one of the girls in this story will be Ray the Xenos Harpy, it is canon that she had fallen for Bell. She will get about 3-4 chapters maybe. But before someone asks, no other Xenos.
Also there will be only very little Ryu and nearly no Ais, they have their own story.
And for the end of this chapter...a short riddle about the start of my third story, when Ais´ is done. If you don´t want to be spoiled, don´t read the last lines.
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SPOILER!
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Some things happen...good things...cruel things... What was cruel for one, would be good for someone else due to the outcome. But some things could change with a single question...or when a question was asked in a different way.
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"Say A****, are you sure about that? Don´t you want to go and see the boy, he is your family after all?"
"I can´t, I have no right to do so. Also we all agreed to do this, E*****."
"Yeah we will do our job...but don´t you think that boy would like to have you at his side?"
Another voice entered the conversation.
"Are you sure you don´t have to go to see him? E***** has a point, he is your sisters child, I thought you loved her very much?"
The woman shook her white haired head with closed eyes.
"I had nothing to say when she died, I didn´t challenged that perverted god to take him in. I chose to delay the clock of apocalypse over my sister´s child. I do not deserve to take care of him...and I won´t be there anyway when we are done."
The man that had spoken first smiled wryly and spoke the words that would change fate.
"And what would you do if you survive what follows?"
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So a small hint how the "What If" Story will start. All I say, it will start to an earlier point than usual for me, before the normal start of Danmachi...a few years earlier.
