Tehr showed Emily out and waved as she mounted her hound, "I shall await the carriage tomorrow morning then Emily d'Ravos.  Till then!"<br/><br/>He smiled until she was gone then turned to Christina, "We've about half an hour before Lucas returns for the finalized plans.  Let us go over them one last time in my study."<br/><br/>Then calling for Angelique as Christina went upstairs to the study ahead of him, he found his half elven servant.  "Angelique my dear.  I know you've been slightly put out sharing your quarters, and that will change soon.  While I'm gone on to House Ravos lands, you have my permission to use my bedroom as your own.  Hopefully upon my return we shall be able to move to Hewthorne Hall shortly after and your privacy will again be your own."  He smiled and touched her shoulder in a friendly gesture, "Now, Lucas the builder should be here soon, when he is, show him to my study.  Christina and I will await him there.  After that, send Tera to me, I believe she wanted to speak with me.   While I speak with her, if you could pack clothing for my trip I would appreciate it.  I will be gone for around a week if all goes according to plan and will need at least one formal outfit, but best make it two.  In addition at least two outdoor outfits and then a few casual ones if you please."<br/><br/>Then as an after thought he added quietly, "After last night, this morning, and a long day today, I need some rest before my journey.  I think, if you won't be offended my friend, I'd like to get to sleep early tonight.  Early and alone, so if you could mention to Tera and Heidi that I'd like them to keep downstairs tonight, it would be greatly appreciated."<br/><br/>Tehr smiled and clapped Angelique on the shoulder, giving her a soft squeeze before turning to head upstairs to his study.<br/><br/>As he entered he found Christina bent over his desk, her rump presented towards the door.  She was fully clothed of course, but the pose was not lost on him in the least.  He knew at the best, it had been more than a week since she'd felt the thickness of a man's meat between her thighs, and the events of today had probably only stoked her fires.  He shut the door, but did not lock it.<br/><br/>Moving to the other side of his desk he sat down and unrolled the plans for the changes to Hewthorne hall that he'd planned.  But looking across the desk at christina he sighed.  "We only have a little time to speak sister, but let us speak plainly.  You know the type of magic I practice, and you know that it makes me a slave to my lusts.  I thought I could resist the alure, the call, of your body.  But it seems that much like in our younger years, we are being driven wild with our passions."<br/><br/>Christina did not respond, but the fact that she bit her lip was all the confirmation that Tehr needed.  He continued, "I will endevour to find you a lover, a man to bed you and quell your fires if you so wish it.  But you also know that I'll be gone for a week."<br/><br/>He paused and took a deep breath, "Our actions today have been scandalous, but not ruinous.  Among the followers of the old ways, physical love between siblings was only forbidden if a woman caught with a child."  He repeated things that she likely knew, but said them anyways, wanting to hear them said.  "Among mother's people in Italia, it used to be considered a woman's duty to teach her brothers how to pleasure a woman before their wedding night so that their reputation as a man would be in tact.  Among the greek isles both young men and women would offer their rear ends to their brothers to slake lusts.  And everyone knows that the French consider the art of orally pleasuring another to be almost a high art, to the point that siblings often practice with each other before taking a lover outside of the family."<br/><br/>Christina shifted in her seat, and Tehr wondered if this kind of talk was making her aroused or uncomfortable.  He drew in a deep breath, "But all of that changed with the spread of the church of the one god.  It became so that it was a sin to even think lustful thoughts, let alone act on them with a stranger, and even more so with a sib.  Now with Emily or Angelique, I trust them.  I trust both of them to keep quiet any playing around such as we had today.  But even with those two, I know not if I would trust them with a secret further..."   He leaned forwards and said, "I don't know if I would trust anyone with the secret were I to lay with you again as we did when we were younger."<br/><br/>He closed his eyes and shook his head, "Maybe I am damned by my lusts, by my magic, but So help me little Tina, I want such a thing quite badly.  I think you do as well.  With my magic, we know you will not catch a child.  But after feeling your mouth draining me of my essence earlier, I know that I wish to feel myself inside you, if that is, you desire such a thing as well."<br/><br/>If her response was positive, he would nod and then say, "At midnight then, go to the gallery east of my room.  The moonlight from the last window will be cast upon the wall to my bedroom.  At the very edge of the light on the left side, you will see a stone a darker grey, almost black in the moonlight, than any others around it.  On the left side of this stone, the mortar is gone in a spot that appears to be about the width of two fingers.  If you press your eye to this crack, you can see into my room.  But if you press your fingers into this crack and slide them along the dark rock, you'll feel a catch.  If you lift on this catch it will unlock a secret door that will allow you into my room."<br/><br/>Tehr took a deep breath, "Come mid night I shall be asleep no doubt.  As will the rest of the house.  But if you should find your way into my bed, well...."<br/><br/>Tehr smiled and said, "As I was trained as a mage Tina, I know you were trained in the arts of being a noblewoman.  You know the need for secrecy and misdirection.  If we are to do this... you will need to practice your skills and make sure that our occasional interlude stays as secret and as quiet as possible."<br/><br/>Tehr let out a deep breath eager to see what her response was, and glad that he was sitting behind his desk.  Were he not, his erection would have given away exactly what he thought of bedding his own sister.  They would doubtlessly have some time to go over the plans to Hewthorne Hall, and he would show her the secret doors he was having installed there as well, and the extra he was planning on paying to have the walls a little thicker, to make the rooms more soundproof than normal.  They would have a little time to discuss such things before Lucas were due to arrive after all.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body"> of course Christina could shoot down his idea of bedding him tonight.  If she does I will come back and edit this post.  But assuming she doesn't I'll leave it as it is.</div></div>