Resh POV
*You've only just discovered Nordic mead? Honestly, Resh, I'm ashamed of you. You've been missing out for years because you refuse to try new things. I can't even remember how many times I've tried to get you drink the stuff.*
Resh rolled his eyes, *I had good reason. When have Nords ever been good at anything?*
*Well…* Kayci started, mirth spreading across her features.
*Don't answer that,* Resh cut in quickly, stopping her from her inevitably crude response.
*So anyway, where are your new friends? Do they know you're Tsaesci?* she asked, hoping yes. It would be so annoying if she had to stay in this human form all the time. It felt weird not having a tail.
*No, they don't. So it would be best if you weren't to go around eating anyone.* He could see her formulating some kind of lewd joke, but stopped her before she did with a sharp glare. *We also might want to start talking in Human so they understand us.*
*Fine, I'm s-* Kayci corrected herself, "Fine, I'm still going to talk to you in Tsaesci, though. You know I never learnt this tongue very well."
He laughed, "You never were very good at learning things. Did you ever finish learning to read?"
"In my defence, the words just look like loads of squiggles. And I did learn them… eventually…" she argued.
"Remind me again the reason you learned to read," Resh asked. Kayci mumbled a bit under her breath in reply. "What was that?"
"To read 'The Lusty Argonian Maid'," she admitted. She saw the amused look on Resh's face, "What? I heard it was a good book."
Resh sighed in exasperation, "How you ever got to be promoted ahead of me I will never know."
"I believe it involves knowing how to fight well…" That was the last she said before she was hoisted into the air and carried on her friend's shoulder.
"But I'm so much stronger than you…" Resh smirked. He knew Kayce was a better fighter than him, but he could take solace in the fact that he could overpower her and hold her still with strength alone.
"True, but you know I could easily get down from here. You can just keep on carrying me the rest of the way. It makes me feel like royalty."
"We're here anyway, but who am I to disobey the woman who can take an Orc chieftain and his two bodyguards at the same time? I guess as you were with a chieftain it makes you kind of royalty," Resh laughed as he was answered with several playful strikes to his back.
Lydia POV
Lydia was sick of this. Having to wait around in some tavern, with no money to buy mead, for Resh to get back when all she could hear were the sounds of Brelyna and the barmaid having the time of their life. It just made her realise how lonely she was and how long it had been since she had been with someone.
There was little time to dwell on the thought before the tavern doors were kicked open by none other than her Thane. She would have been happy about it, were it not for the attractive woman draped over his shoulders.
Lydia was infuriated. She had practically been throwing herself at him the entire time they'd spent together and he hasn't noticed. Yet now here he was: picking up women he probably didn't know after only having left her side for a few hours.
Her anger only changed into sadness when she saw the look of complete unadulterated joy on his face. She had never seen him so happy, and it wasn't even because of her. What had she done wrong? Lydia had tried her absolute best to make him enjoy her company but it clearly wasn't enough.
Resh quickly noticed her, and then put the woman back on the floor and pointed her in Lydia's direction. The two began to speak quietly to each other out of her earshot. Lydia wondered what they could possibly be talking about.
Resh POV
"Wow, you've obviously picked your friends well, Resh. Are you finally coming around to humans?" Kayci whispered teasingly, noticing how the Resh's friend was particularly well endowed and attractive. Very attractive.
He groaned. Sometimes Kayci could just be too suggestive. "Pull your mind out of the gutter. She's my friend, and she's of a different race."
"Well then, I guess you wouldn't mind if I were to go after her?" she suggested.
"No!" Resh blurted, surprising himself at his reaction.
Kayci on the other hand did not seem so surprised and merely muttered, "That's what I thought," to herself with a grin.
Resh was about to tell her to shut up but Lydia had walked over by then and he didn't want to make things unnecessarily awkward.
"Who's this?" Lydia asked, nodding to the new woman who seemed to constantly be fighting back smiles.
Lydia almost staggered away from Resh's smile. From what she had seen from him she didn't think him to even be able to show that much happiness. "It's Kayce! She's still alive! How great is that?!"
She felt like her whole world had just been destroyed. Resh's old lover was back and there was nothing she could do about it. She had no chance of being with him now. She opted to say nothing, lest her jealousy cloud her judgement and make her say something stupid when she should be happy Resh was so pleased his friend was back.
Luckily before Resh had a chance to urge her to speak again, Brelyna had just left her room, drawing the attention of all three of them due to the fact that her room was where all the noise had come from and her clothing was now dishevelled.
Brelyna could practically feel the tension in the room, pretty much all of it coming from Lydia. "Hey guys, what did I miss?"
Kayci's mouth hung open as she looked at Resh again in a 'partially mock' dumbfounded expression. *Two attractive women? You've got to be doing at least one of them.* Resh's reply was a shake of the head and to roll his eyes. However he was glad she was being discreet and wasn't talking in the other two's language. *Wow. Just, wow. I'm disappointed in you Resh, I expected more.*
The two other girls looked confused at what Kayci said, but thought it best not to mention it.
"You missed the return of my long lost friend, Kayce," Resh replied, gesturing to the woman Lydia was trying not to glare at.
The aforementioned woman scowled at him, "It's Kayci, and you know it."
Resh merely laughed instead of answering, glad he could still press her buttons. "Yeah, of course. Anyway, Brelyna, have you finished saying your goodbyes to your new friend? If you want I can try and come here more often so you can see her more."
"Thanks, but no thanks. That was more of a 'two night' thing than anything else," she explained. If she was going to be constantly moving and adventuring, she couldn't be tied down by a single woman who wouldn't be able to go anywhere with her.
After about ten minutes the four of them had finished packing everything and started to leave. Brelyna did say one last goodbye to Saadia, but it was nothing more than a goodbye kiss to say things were over. Luckily, neither of them seemed annoyed by the result.
'This was one of the first times I have travelled anywhere and Lydia hasn't started trying to talk to me immediately,' Resh mused. Strangely he was missing her incessant questions and talkative personality.
*So Resh…,* Kayci asked, *What have you been doing this whole time we've been apart. I would hate for you to be having so much fun without me.*
*I managed to get some title in one of these Nordic cities, hence Lydia being my servant… despite me carrying everything. And I also travelled to the College in Winterhold where I got this enchanted ring to withstand the cold,* Resh explained, lifting his hand to Kayci to show it to her. She in turn lifted her own hand which had a similar band around it.
The two looked at each other for a few seconds before laughing simultaneously at the fact that they were so close to each other without realising it.
When the laughter died down Resh continued, *And as you know I killed a dragon, so that's quite important.* Resh grinned at her after noticing the look of envy on her face, *So Kayce… what's it like not being as good a hunter as me? To know that I've had bigger, more important prey fall to me?*
Before she had a chance to cut in with some smart-assed and most likely crude reply at his boasting Lydia who was trailing behind the two of them, spoke up, "What language is that?"
"It's Tsaes-." Kayci's reply was interrupted by Resh's hand quickly snapping around her mouth preventing her from finishing it.
Instead, Resh finished it, "A language you don't know." When he released Kayci she nodded towards Lydia and winked mouthing the words, 'Good idea. Women like mystery. I'm sure Lyds here is no different,' in jest, earning a glare from the man who didn't like what she was hinting at.
He was only hiding himself because of the backlash he would most likely receive for being so different. Lydia would probably end up fearing and hating him due to Nordic racism. No other reasons.
"How many languages can you speak?" Lydia asked, knowing only one herself and not knowing there were any more than the common one she spoke.
"Unlike some less educated," Resh replied, smirking towards a now slightly annoyed Kayci, "I know several languages: Jel, the Argonian's language; the Khajiit's Ta'agra; Yokudan, the Redguard's tongue; the common tongue we're speaking now; several different Elven languages, and finally three other more exotic tongues you won't know, including what I was speaking to Kayce in." Resh puffed in pride as he saw Lydia stare incredulously at his skills. The Elf also seemed dumbstruck.
"So Resh, only three 'exotic languages'? I would have thought someone like yourself who is, as you frequently put it in your own words, 'infinitely more educated and intelligent than Kayci,' would know all four exotic languages," Kayci smirked upon seeing the irritation grow on his face.
*No one can speak Kamal,* Resh snapped, *The language is incomprehensible and just sounds like cracking ice. I, along with every other person that exists and isn't made of ice, can't understand it.*
Lydia watched in some sick form of happiness as their argument descended into yelling at each other in the weird hissing and growling language she couldn't understand. She knew it was horrible to think, but she wanted them to argue so there would be less chance of the two getting together. Little did she know that they argued all the time, even when they were in a relationship.
She jumped when, out of the blue Resh was thrown onto the ground by the woman he practically dwarfed with his size, despite being tall. Lydia was unsure if she should try to stop it because, on the one hand, he was her Thane after all and she was required to protect him. But, on the other they were friends and he had previously mentioned Kayci doing this sort of this in the past.
There wasn't any time to do anything before the fight was resolved anyway. In the space of about ten seconds Resh had been given a bloody nose and was now being helped up by the woman who did it. Resh didn't seem to care about his injury as the two were now in good spirits and talking again. Lydia thought it seemed like a strange way to argue. But she guessed that as the two had known each other for divines knew how long, it was just how they did things.
Regardless, she felt the need to ask about it. "What was that about?"
Kayci answered that one with her usual upbeat tone, "I felt the need to put Resh back in his place. We're friends first, but I'm also his military superior so I need to show my control sometimes."
Brelyna who had been silent for a while spoke up, "So you're in charge of Resh? Can you just order him to do things and he will?"
"Yep. Technically I can order him to do anything, but that would be very unethical and humiliating for him." The man in question seemed pleased at what she had said and nodded his thanks at her for the consideration. A sly smile cracked over Kayci's face, "Even so, I were to tell him to… 'Carry me the rest of the walk,' he would have to."
All three women turned their gazes towards him, mirth evident in their features. "Luckily, Kayce isn't that type of person, and would never abuse her power like that," Resh said, trying to stress that Kayci wasn't like that so she would be forced not to do so in jest.
"You know Resh, I'm not sure now. I would have left it hang there as a joke and nothing more. But your insistence of calling me 'Kayce' has changed my mind. I think maybe I might abuse my power," Kayci told him, smirking cruelly all the way.
Resh glared in indignation, "You're joking right? You're not actually going to ma-"
"Speed up, Resh. I do believe I gave you an order." Resh grumbled as he begrudgingly picked up the now giggling woman and carried her along, subjected to the laughter of the other two girls as he did so.
He was going to get revenge for this embarrassment. He had gone from being admired by Lydia and the other companion, to practically the laughing stock of the group. He couldn't think of anything for now, so just settled for making this the most uncomfortable journey for Kayci that he could think of. Unfortunately, jolting her up and down every few steps wouldn't be enough. Worse still was that she would probably enjoy it.
"You know what? This isn't fair." Resh sighed in relief, so glad that Kayci was a kind and reasonable friend. "Carry Brelyna and Lyds as well." Resh's relief was dashed immediately as the other two women jumped onto his back.
'I hate you, Kayce…'
Brelyna POV
"Where are we going?" Brelyna asked, not having yet been told anything about their supposed adventure. It had better be somewhere good if it dragged her away from her latest, albeit brief, lover.
Resh's reply was a bunch angry muttering from below them. He was clearly pissed off by the current situation, carrying around the three women for hours on end was not the preferable journey for the man.
Kayci, who was being held in his hands, erupted into laughter at his idea of an answer. She barely managed a second before Resh got tired and dropped her onto the dirt. It was amusing to watch the woman let out a cutesy squeak as she bounced off of the ground and Brelyna thought the noise was adorably sexy, especially coming from someone so 'tough' as she managed to give Resh a hiding.
At this Lydia started to chuckle, but this was no surprise. The Housecarl had an unnecessary hatred for the woman the moment they met, despite the fact that it seemed obvious that Resh and Kayci were no longer together.
"Fuck you," Kayci muttered, rubbing her ass to relieve the pain and trying to shy away from the embarrassment of falling on it. Brelyna watched the action intently as Kayci's rubbing caused it to jiggle. The Elf quickly shook her head to rid herself of such thoughts.
"But dearest Kayce, I thought that we were no longer doing that," Resh teased, also smirking at her embarrassment of falling. Brelyna noted that Lydia couldn't have looked happier than she did now unless he had just started fucking her there and then.
"You two aren't together?" Lydia asked, trying, but failing miserably to sound nonchalant.
Resh looked at her with a confused expression at the way she asked, but carried on anyway, "No, we've decided to stay friends."
Trying as hard as she could not to break out in a massive smile, Lydia had to look away so he couldn't see her face. Not that he would have been able to angle his head that way anyway. Lydia along with herself were still latched on the hulking man's back.
It was surprising Resh could carry them both, plus Kayci as well, despite her having dropped off, while all wearing armour for these hours of walking. It was a massively impressive feat of strength. Taking pity on him, Brelyna jumped off, followed begrudgingly by Lydia who was enjoying having her legs straddle his back.
"Yeah, I decided to cut him loose when his raging libido almost got us both killed," Kayci explained, the shocked looks on the other women's faces urged her to continue. "Let's just say crossing the border undetected and celebrating about it should be done on separate occasions."
Resh seemed incredulous at her response. "You're insulting my libido. I've walked in on you doing things that would make Sanguine blush!" he yelled in disbelief at her blaming his sexual energy.
"I doubt he would blush. If my revelry is truly something to be in awe of then the dirty little pervert has probably watched everything I've done," Kayci laughed lewdly, enjoying the mild cringes the rest of them made.
Brelyna cut in here, "For a Daedra to actively watch you, you would probably have to be in the realms of Oblivion." Conjuration wasn't her strong point, but she knew some stuff. She was sure that if the Daedra could spy on any mortal they wanted they would probably use their powers more productively than being supernatural peeping-toms, and would have probably found an easy way to topple Nirn.
"Well, I've spent more than enough time in the Daedric realms, so they've probably spied on me a bit." She noted the puzzled looks on the other's faces about why she would have gone into other realms and decided to elaborate, "What? Dremora are hot. Fair enough, you usually have to beat them into submission a few times before they start respecting you. But after they do, it's definitely worth it. Demons that have lived for an eternity definitely know a few things."
"You should have been there when she learnt how to summon Dremora Lords and Flame Atronach's. Besides not getting any sleep myself because of all the noise, the three of them managed to burn down or tear apart five different tents. Including my own somehow!" Resh shuddered at the memory. He had only been trying to get a nice relaxing rest but his friend entwined with a half-naked demon and a woman made of fire kept him up.
Brelyna didn't really know what to think of that as she just stared awestruck at the woman who had described being with the same types of creature that had almost invaded Tamriel and killed everyone. It was probably illegal as well. If Daedra worship was banned she couldn't only imagine what kind of charges shagging them would get.
On the plus side, despite the woman's many, many, many perversions and sexual exploits, she seemed to also be attracted to women and not just men, seeing as flame Atronach's looked more like women than anything else.
Brelyna wouldn't say she was head over heels for the woman like Lydia was for Resh. But she definitely saw it as a possibility, considering she might get lonely and she no longer had Saadia with her. And if they were going to be travelling in a four and Lydia was infatuated with Resh and Resh and Kayci were no longer together, Brelyna decided that she had a very high chance of having something happen if she tried.
Brelyna smirked as crude images ran through her mind. The best part was that, considering Kayci's supposed exploits, she would probably be a great lay as well.