After kissing for quite some time longer me and Sam are spooning on the sofa, quietly listening to the song our party mentioned back in Haurchefaud.
“Hey, it’s actually quite good.”
“Mhmm. It is.” I put my head on her shoulder while she pulls me closer to her.
“Love you my little Ami.”
“Love you too.” I kiss her on her cheek, making Sam giggle a little. “What’s so funny?”
“Nothing, I’m just so happy with you around me, you know? It’s just my internal happiness escaping.”
“Oooh.”
“It’s a bit like purring I guess. But less obvious.”
“Oh yeah.”
Sam smiles and moves her hand behind my ear, starting to softly play with it.
My body immediately starts reacting, making my soft purring grow louder.
“Such a cutie.” With her other hand she starts scritching me below my chin.
“Mmmm. Saaammm…” I purr.
“Want me to stop?”
“No…” I start rubbing my face against her shoulder.
“Alright then. You’re such a good girl.” She softly speaks into my ears, making shivers go down my spine, all the way up my tail.
“So unfair…”
“I know.” She smirks and hugs me close.
Close enough for me to be able to start rubbing my face against hers.
“Are you marking me with your scent, Ami?”
“Mhmm. Marking what is mine…”
“Such a good kitty.” She pats me on my head.
I nod while I continue purring. “Mhmm.”
We stay on the sofa for at least twenty more minutes with me softly purring before Sam pokes me in my side.
“I think we should slowly get to washing ourselves and going to bed so we don’t make our friends wait.” She kisses my neck. “As much as I would like staying with you like this.”
“Mhmm… you’re probably right…” I roll off the sofa and together with my girlfriend we head towards the bathroom to wash ourselves before bed.
It’s definitely nice to take a shower after having been sick in bed almost the entire day so it came to no surprise that I was purring quite happily when we came back into my room all clean and washed up. My sister had even changed the bed sheets so everything was smelling of floral fabric softener.
“Do you mind if I send Carol a message before we go to bed?” I ask Sam while I help her with her leg.
“Of course not.” She smiles. “You can do whatever you want sweetie.”
“Hehe. Does that include tickling Sam?”
“Maybe, if you ask nicely.” She winks.
I put Sam’s leg in it’s usual spot and sit right next to her on the bed with my phone’s messaging app open and send a private message to Carol.
Ami: Hey Carol, I asked Veanya about the cat girl thing.
Carol: Oh? O.O What did she say?
Ami: It is definitely something she’ll look into, we would do it differently than how it worked for me so there’s quite a lot of preparation needed.
Carol: Is it risky?
Ami: Not particularly, we just need a heads up from you if you want to make it happen.
Carol: Oh! Thanks! I’m going to try it out this weekend together with Max.
Ami: OwO
Carol: Haha, OwO indeed.
Ami: Anyway, me and Sam are going to hop into Turn of Destiny now. Goodnight!
Carol: Have fun! And good night of course! :p
Ami: We will <3
“Looks like she’s going to test out being a catgirl together with Max this weekend.” I close my phone and put it on my bedside table.
“Ah, so that’s what Max was talking about earlier today. I see now.” Sam starts laughing. “Yeah, I’m pretty sure we’re going to have two catgirls after the weekend.”
“I think so too.” I giggle.
“So, ready to jump into the game?”
“Mhmm.” I nod and get underneath the blankets, getting immediately cuddled by Sam. Apparently Mochi and Pocky had been waiting for that to happen as they quickly jumped on top of my bed too once we were settled.
“Good night Pocky and Mochi.” Sam smiles at them before putting on the headset.
“Good night kitties.” I do the same.
They both meow good night back to us.
That being the last thing we hear before we wake up to the chirping of the birds in our tent in Haurchefaud.
“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to going to sleep and immediately waking up again.” Sam sits upright in our communal bedroll.
“Mhmm. Luckily we get sleep too while we are here.”
“Yeah, otherwise I think I’d go a bit crazy.”
“But Sam is already crazy.”
“Cheeky... but I can’t argue with that.” Her ears twitch and her tail starts fwishing from one side to the other when she looks at me before she pounces me and starts tickling.
After a while we finally manage to get dressed and leave our tent.
Hilda is already there waiting for us with a big grin on her face.
“Ah, the love birds are finally up.”
“Shush…” Sam blushes and sits down next to her.
“Feeling better Ami?” Hilda turns her attention to me. “I heard from Nikki you got the cat flu or something like that.”
“Ah yeah, it was pretty much over by the evening.”
“Damn, I wish my sickness would be over that fast.”
“Mhmm. The goddesses said it was because of my magic that I healed so fast.”
“Well, I’m happy to hear that.” She looks behind her and starts grabbing something. “Would you two be interested in some egg sandwiches I made?”
“Oh! Definitely. Did the villagers give us some eggs too?” Sam gladly accepts one of the sandwiches, giving the other one to me.”
“Yeah, better to eat them now than let them go bad. They don’t keep as well as the dried meat.”
“Mhmm. Anyway, they taste delicious!” Sam takes another big bite from her sandwich.
“By the way, Ami, where’s your sister?”
“They went to bed before us. Said they were going to read before logging in.”
“Ah, so that’s what happened. Probably lost track of time because they were reading something gay again.”
“Do they do that a lot?”
“Before you joined our group? Quite regularly actually.” Hilda laughs. “Having you and your girlfriend join our group definitely was a nice change of pace.”
“And who’s the biggest perpetrator? Élise or Nikki.” Sam asks while she finishes the last bite of her sandwich.
“Definitely Nikki.”
“Oh, that’s unexpected.”
“I know, right?” Hilda giggles.
“We are up! Don’t worry!” My sister’s voice rings out from their tent.
“Ah, finally. We already thought you weren’t coming today.”
“Yeah, sorry, we were having the ‘just another page’ syndrome.”
“Well at least you are here now.”
My sister stumbles out of the tent, her plate armour in hand. "Can someone help me with my armour while Nikki is getting dressed?”
Hilda looks over to me and then nods. “Want to learn how to do it Ami? Sam?”
“Sure!” I jump of from my seat, sandwich still in hand
“Sounds good to me.” Sam follows Hilda as well.
Ten minutes later we’re done donning my sister in her armour.
“Doesn’t it take way longer in real life?”
“A good squire could do it in like twenty minutes, but that’s for a full suit of armour which I don’t have yet.” My sister gives me a head pat.
“My gear is actually still quite basic. But then again, with the superhuman abilities we have it shouldn’t take that much longer, especially for Nikki and Hilda who are like super dextrous.”
“I’m not that dextrous, I’m still a mage after all.” Nikki finally leaves her tent too. “Sorry for the wait.”
“You’re still a vampire though, babe.”
“I guess that’s true.” Nikki smiles. “We are indeed a dextrous race.”
“As long as she isn’t hungry.” My sister winks.
“Well, I got my blood bag right here, so that shouldn’t be much of an issue.” Nikki kisses my sister.
“Bestest blood bag on in Haurchefaud I might hope?”
“Definitely.” Nikki smiles and gives her another kiss.
“Yay!”
“Anyway, you flirts, here’s some breakfast.” Hilda gives Élise an egg sandwich.
“Thank you very much.”
Having finished breakfast, Élise and Nikki start clearing up their tent. With Sam, me and Hilda deciding to do the same so we can continue our way to the port city of Skaok.
“I'm gonna miss this place.” My sister says while getting on her horse.
“Me too.” I say while Sam lifts me on top of ours.
“We are going to a new continent, who knows what we will find there.” Hilda is already on top of hers too.
“Oh, maybe we’ll find a cliff overlooking a forest or a jungle or something like that!” Sam hops on behind me and hugs me.
“Eeeeh? A cliff? I don’t know if I’m up for that.”
“Ami scared of heights?”
“Maybe a little... the thought of camping near a cliff sounds dangerous…”
“As long as you don’t need to pee in the middle of the night.”
“Élise, you are the only one in this party who has issues with that.” Hilda laughs.
My sister looks around at the group. “Ah, damn the goddess, y’all have darkvision.”
“Wait… isn’t Hilda human too?” My girlfriend looks a bit confused.
“No sweetie.” She brushes her hair away from her ears, revealing that they are slightly pointy. “Half-Langor you see, practically your typical half-elf.”
It came as a surprise to me as well since I never really paid attention to her ears. It's definitely cool to know!
“Oooh. The more you know. Poor Élise.” Sam fakes a sad face and stares at my sister.
“Hey! We humans are cool too!” My sister pouts.
“Yeah, they definitely taste the best.” Nikki giggles, making my sister pout even more.
In between the laughing Hilda calls out to the group. “Everyone ready to leave?”
“Yes! Let’s go!” The party replies all together, except for pouty Lise. She just grumbles a faint yes.
To Skaok!
“Yeah, sorry, we were having the ‘just another page’ syndrome.”
Me, while reading this novel:
just another chapter
Hehe, I'm glad you are enjoying it :)
I can definitely see where you come from, if I wouldn't set up an alarm, I would be late to work everyday...
I feel bad for hilda while they just flirt all the time
Hilda doesnt really mind :p she likes seeing her friends be comfy and gay
@FieryKathy give her a kitsune <3
I hardly get sick, but when I do it hits hard. One time I had a cold for two weeks and I spent most of that time curled up in a ball sleeping on a foot stool. Another time I had double pink eye for a whole month. The entire time every single tiny bit of light and noise gave me a migraine that felt like a train had hit me. Safe to say that I spent that whole month mostly in my room curled up in a ball underneath my blankets trying to stay away from the light.
Awh. I hope you wont get sick again!
@FieryKathy too late on that. For the past week I have been hit with a viral cold. Last week I mostly had a headache and lost my voice. This week I had a coughing fit almost not stop.
@SilverZeta oof :<
now it dawns on me if they know this game is the real world and people are not npc. And the thugs who killed were real people. It was nice to write their slight breakdown etc that they really killed someone
<3
Cute chapter!
Yay for new keyboard
:D :D
Thanks for the chapter
Np
I just love the chemistry of the group :3
:D thanks, I always try to make it as comfy as possible.
Found a typo:
"As much as I would like staying like you with this.”
This should probably be changed to "As much as I would like staying with you like this."
ah yes, thanks!
There's also a "Hilfa" in there somewhere, iirc
@Marmot thanks!!
Hmm. I've been idly wondering about Sam's catgirl.
See, if I were building a catgirl ranger, and I had the option, for the Cat part I'd choose something more wild than a regular housecat. Something like, say, a cougar (aka mountain lion aka Florida panther aka puma concolor if you're getting technical). I'd expect her to turn out long, lean, tan, and muscular (sounds like Sam), have slightly rounded ears (nobody mentioned those though) and a few skills related to being a ranger, like a sense of the forest, tracking or stalking skills, jumping and/or tree climbing, and maybe a bonus for setting a successful ambush. Oh, and a fondness for Venison, I would guess. And because cougars are the largest of the "small" cats, yes, she would purr.
So I was wondering if Sam was similarly inspired.
she's definitely a more 'wild' catgirl than Ami. How Final Fantasy does it, (what I based my MMO on) is with several clans within the bigger 'miqote' race. Who have different physical features and stuff like that.
So I based it a bit of that, if that answers your question :p
@FieryKathy pretty much. I got pretty detailed inside my head there, but the "wild" part is what's important. So Sam's an outdoorsy catgirl.
@Marmot Yes, while Ami is a couch potato cat
@FieryKathy So she is part Lalafell?
@LordMarshal shes a couch potato cat, not a potato xd