Chapter fourteen C.

“Of course, whenever we are in private or just with the household you may always speak freely, and there will be no recourse for what you say either. “

“That was very different for me master. I have not had sex much, my previous owner did not like beading the animals, as he put it. Do you know why it was different?” Milly asked.

“Well, I imagen that not commanding you to do it had something to do with it.”

Milly’s eyes went wide as if she had just realized I had not commanded them. I had told them to join me, but everything else was only a suggestion. Holly had finished cleaning me and sat with her arms crossed on the bed, head resting on them.

“I… did not realize… I don’t understand master… whaaa….” Milly tried to say, but the effort of trying to form the right question was beyond her.

“Don’t worry too much Milly, Zora and Holly. Things will make more since in a few days when I have the chance to explain a few things.”

“Yes Master.” They all said softly.

I stayed that way, entwined with Milly, for a few more minutes. When I felt my body fully relax from the healing magic and new energy that filled me, I got up.

“All right, I guess it’s time I get this ship moving.” I said as I put my clothes back on.

Holly and Zora found Timothy presumably to ask for instructions. Milly asked, “can I come up top with you?” she was clearly very nervous about asking.

“Definitely, might be a bit cold though. You might have to stay close to keep warm.” I said with a playful smile at her.

She blushed as if she could not have imagined her master saying something so nice and playful that. “That’s not the warmest thing to do that I can think of.” Milly said, letting more of her playful girlishness back into her voice.

It took thirty minutes to navigate my ship out of the marina. By the time I had the ship powering through the waves of the large freshwater Sea, the last vestiges of sunlight were disappearing. It was, in fact, colder on the open on the deck, and I had pulled a cloak out for Milly to wear. She stood behind the Captain’s chair and watched with fascination as I guided the ship out into open water.

I had needed to make a few adjustments to the navigation enchantments. I set them to keep us a mile off the shoreline of the Sea of stars, heading to the west.

It was well into the night when I was comfortable enough to go below deck again. Milly had sat in my lap and had the cloak draped around us. Her soft body warmed me. As my left hand held her firmly to me, my right hand lazily rubbed up and down her side. The whole interaction was far more possessive than I was truly comfortable with, but after my experience with Sasha, I decided to try and ease everyone into my service. They all expected a certain series of behaviors and thought I was being far nicer; if I deviated too far from what they expected from a nice slave master, they would panic. Not knowing from their frame of mind what to expect next.

So, I decided to play along, being nice and not outright hurting them. But also taking liberties with them and treating them more like people with who I had a long-established master and slave relationship. I knew over the next few weeks that would change or solidify into something they wanted.

The only thing I could think of was how amazing all of this was. Here I was sailing a ship I had made and grown with magic, a beautiful girl in my lap and breasts in hand. Milly’s face was tucked into my neck, and she would occasionally lightly kiss me.

I checked over the enchantments one last time. Navigation check, propulsion check, rigging, and sails check. The whole ship was running like a well-oiled machine, or more like, a slick mana infuse wonder. The mana crystals were barely drawing any mana, and I had built redundancy into the enchantments like an overachieving engineer.

Milly and me got up from our cozy perch and made our way back down into the ship. The atmosphere had changed, and the warm smells of delicious food wafted into my nose. The sound of soft chatting was coming from the table where Sasha was busily stitching away at something. The rhythmic sound of chopping came from the gally and the soft boil of a pot.

“There you are Milly, silly girl. Come help me in the kitchen; I’m surer the master has more important things to do than placate a cute dairy maid like you.” Mays’s voice rang from the gally. Her voice had the firm quality that all chefs in their domain do, but under the no non-sense tone was an edge of playful joy; I would not have expected to hear from the women just a few hours ago.

“Coming May.” Milly said sweetly as she kissed my cheek and dashed off to the kitchen.

I heard a mumbled giggle from May, “I bet you did.” As I sat at the table with Timothy and Sasha.

“My Lord.” Timothy said.

“Master Grayson.” Sasha said with a smirk.

“OK, OK. Now that that’s out of the way, we are on the move. How is everyone?” I asked, looking at Timothy. The cabin still had the sleeping bodies of the fairy’s scattered about along with a few dryads.

“All is well my lord. As you might suspect we are a little tight on room, but we can manage I think.” Timothy said.

The front of the ship had been designed for servants. A long hallway stretched to the bow of the ship. On either side, I had made two rooms with four bunk beds in each, allowing eight to sleep. The bow room had an additional four bunk beds bringing the total beds in the front half of the ship to twenty-four. This left eighteen without beds though fourteen of them were small fairies.

“Holly, Zora, Milly and Sasha will sleep in the captain quarters with me.” I said.

“Very well my lord. Then I will sleep out here if it is permissible with the other fairies.”

“Perfectly fine by me. So has May gone over are food with you?”

“Yes, she has informed me that you can eat well for at least six months. Though she is worried there is not enough slop to feed your slaves well.”

“May. While you cook for me and my household; you will feed my servants anything you would feed me. I expect good and well feed servants.” I said loudly so she could hear me in the gally.

“Yes, my lord.” Came back over the sounds of cooking.

“That is most kind master. It is very unusual as well.” Timothy said.

“I guess it’s about time I explained to you a bit about myself. That might help to put somethings in perspective.” I said as I looked at Sasha, and she gave a slight nod of her head.

I told Timothy about myself and coming to Fortuna. My time spent in Laga’vast and the mission the Goddess Amara had given me. He listened quietly, and as the story filled in missing parts of information, understanding would brighten his face.

“That is truly amazing my lord and explains your demeanor quite well. I can also see how many of the customs within the Empire would give you pause. I will however to the best of my ability answer any of your questions and help you present a façade that will be acceptable to the others of the Empire.” Timothy said.

“Thank you, Timothy. Now you said the young master who sold you was accepted into the mage Academy. What do you know about it? I would like to have a better understanding of what I’m stepping into in eight days by my estimate when we arrive.”

“I only know the general information provided to the nobility that I was preview to; as the head steward. Today is Mundus and by your estimate we will arrive next week on Tamuss or Miduss. The mage college only admits new students on Lastnuss, the day before the rest days of Laznuss and Dawning. That will give us time to situate our self in the area.” Timothy said as Mary came in from the kitchen, carrying a tray with food.