Hannah stared at Cassandra like a frightened deer and then gave me a long, complicated look before grabbing a bowl of food. And it would be disrespectful to our cleric to say that she ran away from me. But she sure picked a direction that I wasn't in and moved with utmost haste. That was so weird.
"What's up with Hannah?" I tilted my chin in the direction of her retreating silhouette.
"You tell me?" Cassandra grabbed a bowl of food and sat on a stack of boxes. "I walked up and the two of you were thick as thieves and giggling like children."
I shrugged and felt my cheeks heating up. Gosh, I really needed to get better at not constantly blushing. "I thought we were having a m-moment, but then she just freaked out."
"Oh sweetie," Cassandra's tone of voice and the look of pity she gave me made my stomach drop out and my heart clench, "Hannah is straight."
"Pfffffff," I slowly deflated and brushed aside her comment with a flippant wave of my hand. "You thought- like me and her- ha!" I gave a very fake laugh and forced an even faker smile onto my face. "N-no, nothing like that! How silly. No no no no no. I meant like... spiritually, because we're both servants of the gods Above."
The story of my fucking life, I swear. Even in another world, I can't stop from falling for a straight girl.
"Alright then." Cassandra smiled awkwardly. And then she took a bite of the meal I had prepared. "Holy shit! You made this?"
"Yeah! Hannah helped me find a few things for it." I started gushing about my technique and the difficulties of preparing it with limited supplies.
Cassandra nodded along, smiling at my enthusiasm, and then touched her ear with two fingers. "Babe! You have to come try this food Alexis made."
I gasped and bit my lip as I felt a tingling pulse start in my tail and move up through my body. Holy shit! Did I just feel magic being woven when she sent that Message? Dear gods Above and Below, if it felt like that from just a cantrip, I shuddered to think how a real spell would affect me. I just managed to avoid screaming surprised obscenities when Gabriella was suddenly standing beside us; just. And no, she didn't need magic. She's just that quiet and that fucking good.
"Is this one giving you trouble?" She twirled a dagger in her palm meaningfully while eye-fucking me. And not in a fun way; a very, very scary way.
"Babe! Don't be stupid." Cassandra slapped her wife's shoulder with the back of her hand. "You have to try this!" She grabbed a piece of my meat and held it out. Gabriella made a big show out of sucking Cassandra's fingers into her mouth and licking them clean as she took the bite.
And with that, magic tails and all other thoughts left my head. I squirmed, squeezing my thighs together, and realized that I was so very gay and so very lonely. Gods Below, I've been single for too many years! I dragged myself up onto shaky legs and wobbled away as the two women sat in each other's lap and started making out in earnest.
This was a very different feeling than I was used to. The warmth and tingles were all spread out instead of being concentrated in the dangly thing. I might be biased, but it seemed like a vast improvement as far as I could tell. Hmm.. I looked around. Maybe I could sneak away to our tent for a little exploration.
I opened the tent flap and ducked inside. Even in the dim light from just two candles, my devil eyes had no problem noticing Hannah kneeling at her altar. Well, seeing her didn't exactly help my situation, but then I saw she was concentrating on something important and my brain graciously let me think again.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I can go and give you some space." I turned to leave, but Hannah called me back.
"Alexis, it's good to see you! The meal you cooked was amazing. I was praying to Iridatha. Would you like to join me? I'm sure she'd love to hear from someone so important that the gods Above whisper to you. She may even be one of the ones who do so, for all we know." She patted the cushion beside her invitingly.
Hmm.. I hadn't thought about this before. The gods Above and Below were real in this world. So did I create them, or did they create this world and tell me about it? That's a serious head-fuck. I guess it didn't hurt to pray to them, especially if I was going to go around telling people they were whispering to me.
I walked deeper into the tent and knelt down next to the radiantly hot blonde. Who was straight, I pointedly reminded myself. "Oh yes, that would be nice. Thanks." She handed me a holy symbol and I gasped as a pulse ran up through my body.
She smiled over at me. "Did you feel something?"
I nodded vigorously. "Yes. Um.. that's twice now that I've felt a tingling, pulsing sensation run through my body." Not counting the time Hannah grabbed my tail or the time she nibbled on my fingers.. "The first time was when Cassandra sent a Message. Do you think I can sense magic being woven somehow?"
"Oh wow, that is an intriguing idea." She considered it for a few moments. "Well, there is one way to test it." She grabbed her own holy symbol in her hand and held it up. Her other hand moved over and rested on my thigh. Much higher on my thigh than I would have preferred just now, and I could feel my cheeks burning. "Okay then, I'm gonna try casting Heal on you. Are you ready?" I nodded and the hand on my thigh flared with light and heat.
"OH FFFFFUUUCCCKKKKKK!!!" My thighs clenched together, my entire body spasmed, and I collapsed against Hannah. And then I was falling through darkness.