Re: Sophia Elpis (Ranger)
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I hope it does, for these caverns and the other villages hold no prospects for my future or that of my children, so I'm at a dead end," Adriana said as they entered the village.
Agnes led them to the larger stone building, where there were 4 guards outside, all 4 of these slime girls wearing bronze scale armor and wielding bronze spears and shields, with bronze swords on their belts. It seemed that these 4 were elite guards or something and they looked very well trained despite their malleable forms. They waved Agnes and the other two on through though asked them to leave their weapons just at the door inside, where another 2 guards stood and took them from the girls and stood them all up against the wall there at the door.
Going down a 20 foot long hallway, they came to another set of double doors similar to the front doors in fact. These doors opened up into a large round chamber with a large comfy looking throne like seat there, upon which sat a tall and obviously
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, with an obviously powerful staff in one hand, as Sophia could feel the magical energy radiating from the impressive thing. She stood up and bowed slightly in greeting to Sophia. "
Ah the other angel, please be welcome in this sanctuary of life I have created, to house those that the regular mortals above would have seen exterminated, simply for living the way they were created to. I am Viridiana, one of the high sidhe of the summer court. Though not the queen of course. You could call me a... cousin of her's I suppose," the fey lady said as she stepped down from the dais that the throne like seat was on, introducing herself and explaining who she was in a more simple way than she'd apparently been about to.
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Your friend here Agnes has told me much already about why you've come down here. Had I known that the cavern's entrance was in jeopardy of being discovered I would have resealed it. But... perhaps the fact that two angels have come down here is an omen... one that tells us it is time for these people to resurface and be a part of the world as a whole again, and no longer hide in fear of being hunted to extinction," Viridiana said after retaking her seat and gesturing the pair of angels forward as a couple of slime girls brought out a couple of more seats for them to sit in. To Viridiana's left sat a matronly looking slime girl who's form while slimy looking was in fact not sticky or slimy, and she wore some fine looking silks that had no stains of her slime on them at all. Agnes leaned over and whispered to Sophia that she was the slime's matriarch and leader as they took their seats.
Adriana came forward too, but stayed off the dais as the others all sat down, obviously feeling like she didn't belong from the look on her face and all Sophia would see. When they were seated, Sophia had the chance to tell the tale about Adriana, who blushed a bit and looked away in shame from Viridiana as Sophia spoke. "
I see... so she accosted you on your way here then. Well I guess being impaled upon your glaive was punishment enough all things considered, since you managed to defeat her in battle and all," Viridiana said as she gave a sidelong glance at Adriana and smirked a bit. "
She's likely not deceiving you though on what her punishment was, the driders can be quite... cruel sometimes when it comes to that sort of thing. Especially when it comes to their breeders, most of whom are willing... though not all are of course," she added, shaking her head slightly and sighing.
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If you think that you can help her though, then that is her business and yours, not mine. But please do not lead her to her death is all I ask," Viridiana told Sophia after a few moments before she looked over at Adriana and gestured her forward. "
Adriana dear, I am sorry for what your matriarch did to you, but you know that I allow the matriarchs to settle the affairs of their own villages as they see fit. Now do you regret trying to rape these two lovely angels?" she added to the drider, who blushed a bit and looked down at Viridiana's feet.
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Kind of yes, but I'm not sorry for trying to put my eggs in their bellies. They're two of the most beautiful beings I've ever seen, you can't fault me for wanting to surely," Adriana said in response.
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Aye they are beautiful, and I can't fault you for wanting to lay your eggs in their beautiful bodies, but you are only making that brand on your body truthful by doing as such against their will. So do not betray Sophia's and Agnes' trust and I'll make sure that your matriarch apologizes for something that was mostly beyond your control, and that she overreacted about," Viridiana replied to Adriana with a smile. Then she glanced over at the slime matriarch and nodded at her, where the matriarch nodded back with a pleasant smile where Viridiana leaned forward a bit again and looked over at Sophia and Agnes. "
Please, be welcome here in this village for the time being. I'm sure you'll need to rest a bit after your run in with Adriana earlier and the fight with her. So take some rest here, the matriarch will get you set up in the guest house just outside of here for a while until you're ready to leave. And when I'm done with my affairs here, I shall escort you back to the surface. But before you go I shall visit you, as I'd like to speak more about that and what you can tell the humans about this place... for there could be some good ways for them to get used to these people down here without wanting to kill them, and hopefully with a little time they can return to the surface without persecution from the humans and other mortals," Viridiana said to the angels, gesturing for the slime matriarch to handle that while she herself went off to do whatever she'd been there to do to begin with.
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Ah ladies, a couple of my guards outside shall escort you over to the guest house, please make yourselves at home, and a couple of handmaids shall be by shortly to see to your every need whilst you stay here," the slime matriarch told them, gesturing to another slime girl in silken robes that weren't quite as fine as the matriarch's own, who escorted them back to the main doors, giving Sophia a chance to talk to Agnes and Adriana a bit if she wanted to as they walked on out.