<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Sure," the alchemist replied with a gulp.  There was no way that he could resist her charms.  "Okay, give me two days to make a new batch.  But there is one more thing..."<br/><br/>He closed the door and took out an extract from the cabinet.  Menya recognized it as a potion of nondetection.<br/><br/>"Arensha, you might not say it out loud, but I realize that you have feelings for me.  I know it is wrong, but I have the same in kind.  What I am about to ask will be a betrayal, but I have never been more sure of myself and my choice."<br/><br/>He holds her head close to him.  "I love you, I want you.  It is too risky to do it fully, but I want to show you how much I care..."<br/><br/>A wandering hand slides over her left breast, gently squeezing it as he moved it in circles.  "Does this feel nice?" he asked.  "Perhaps you can return the favor..."<br/><br/>He uses his other hand to guide the one which touched him down to his lap, where Menya could feel his erect member through his pants.<br/><br/>"I will give you your memories back, and some new ones as well," he said as he kissed her.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"We shouldn't do this..." Menya murmured as Bakr reached for her breast, but she didn't do anything to stop his hand. She bit her lower lip as though holding back a moan. "Mn, it feels good," she nodded. She could feel his erection through his pants, practically begging to be released. It was obvious what he wanted...<br/><br/>Though, she did play coy a few seconds into the kiss, shirking away from him but not too quickly, and turning her head away with an affection of shame on her face. "I shouldn't... we've already gone too far... what if someone finds out?" She let him utter meaningful reassurances, let him think that he was convincing her, and let matters proceed naturally until she found herself kneeling between his legs, tugging his pants down with trembling fingers.<br/><br/>With her gaze locked on his, she lapped long and luxuriously at his cock, getting it glistening wet before wrapping her lips around the shaft. In one single slow smooth motion she lowered her head on it inch by inch, until the entire length disappeared into her mouth, the end of the member nestled snugly in her velvety throat. She held the position for a few seconds before pulling away, sputtering a little as she gasped for a breath of much-needed fresh air.<br/><br/>"Do you like it?" she asked, with just a hint of pride in her smile at managing to deep-throat him, as she she caught her breath in preparation for repeating her performance once more. On his cock she bobbed, a little faster and more forceful each time, until he could hold it in no longer. Every drop he spurted in her mouth she swallowing down, licking the last specks of white seed off her lips when she was done.<br/><br/>"We can't see each other too lonya or too often, or people will talk," she said, affecting a hint of sadness in her voice. "But I'll be back in two days' time, that should be safe enough..." she graced him with a tender smile just before she left.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Breaking Out of the Gilded Cage!</span></div><br/>"Oh, by Desna's hairy cunt, you've got to be kiddinya me!" The activated vault alarm was dire enough to make Menya utter minor blasphemy. If the goddess of freedom and luck favoured their escape attempt, she was certainly going about a difficult-to-understand way of showing it. "And everythinya was goinya so smoothly too!" She grunted assent to Hanifa's command to get Alfreldi and Zelda, and took to the stairs three at a time, staying right on the Garundi's heels.<br/><br/>"Aaaaaah!!!"<br/><br/>"Judi!" Menya recognized the screaming voice. The sight of the assassins chasing the marid made the catgirl stop in her tracks. Of all the times for the assassins to strike again, it had to be now! She felt torn, knowing on the one hand that the chaos caused by the assassination attempt was the perfect cover to make up for the botched premature execution of their escape plans, but part of her heart yearned to make sure that al-Samara was safe.<br/><br/>Then Alfreldi and Zelda showed up, with Roshul in hot pursuit, no less. If this was a comedy the timing could not be more perfect. Even though this was real life and not a theatre's stage, with real consequences, Menya couldn't help but appreciate the ironic humour of the situation, and couldn't stop the corner of her mouth from twitching upwards either.<br/><br/>"Down!" Menya pulled Judi low as Roshul's fireball streaked past overhead, much too close for comfort. "Just stay low, and we'll take care of things here." She gaze the marid a comforting squeeze on the arm, and straightened herself. "Go," she hissed to Alfreldi and Zelda, and turned her attention to the foes at hand.<br/><br/>Roshul couldn't be up to any good if she was chasing after Menya's co-conspirators, so Menya needed to turn her attention to focus solely on pressing matters like protecting her sultan and ignoring the trivial sideshows like escaping catgirls and human and mermaid. "Roshul, the assassins are back for al-Samara! Savinya him's our top priority right now, those girls can wait for another day!" As she spoke, she tried to weave a subtle enchantment over the naga's mind, to get her to interpret her words in the most favourable fashion possible.<br/><br/><em>Charm Monster (DC 17)</em><br/><br/>Then Menya turned her attention to the assassins bearing down on them. She leapt straight up, claws raking into the wall as she sought purchase, and climbed high over everyone else's heads. She remembered pulling off a similar trick against a being of pure elemental water back in Osiron, and now she was about to do this for the sake of a water elemental - "The bolt of Nethys falls from above!" was the warcry that escaped her lips as she elbow-dropped upon the eunuch below her, knocking him down flat onto the floor.<br/><br/><em>(Air attack, automatic success with Archaeologist’s Luck for +17 to Climb)</em>