<strong>Time:</strong>Some short days after Temple-Go-Boom<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Demon City,<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Chorgath<br/><br/><em>They're rather charming together, aren't they?</em><br/><br/>The voice Chorgath hears is that of his coadjutor Shizara, sotto voce as to not disturb him from his post-coital reverie, and the topic of her observation is Ruby (snuggled against him, half-dozing after the latest round of sexual activity) and Cerulean (clinging both to him and to her cousin, in the half-wired state he's come to anticipate from the girl).  Over the past few days, Chorgath's heightened need for carnal communion has taught him much about the habits of both girls: Ruby is eager, willing to please, and gains her own measure of delight in knowing she's feeding the needs of others, where Cerulean is calmer, takes much, much longer to wind up, but is almost insatiable when she does finally give in.  Cerulean has been reticent but obedient, doing as he asks with only a moment's analytical attention; Ruby has almost been overly solicitous, helping him keep house and run over the other varazslany that came with them through the Demon City.<br/><br/>It has not been a good week for those young folk.<br/><br/>He's learned in the past few days that from all of Anjushri's attendants who escaped with them, only Ruby and Cerulean knew what they really were.  Only a handful of Azurine's operatives knew the truth about the true price of their wishes.  Ruby and Cerulean, as the most senior of the young ones present, have known for some time, and they obeyed their lady's request to keep the secret.  As the story she told them went, being forthright with her servants compromised their effectiveness; a little bit of a lie was better than the truth, if the truth diminished their spirit.<br/><br/>Shizara has only really been willing to speak with him the past few days.  There is... something, in his mind, that wasn't there before he came to the temple, something she is still afraid of even as she enjoys what it drives him to do.  There's been more sex in the past few days than in the past several months; she enjoys it, she always has, and she definitely enjoys his 'integrated ecstasy aide' from this side of a body, but she's confessed the crack in his heart is something that concerns her for his well-being.<br/><br/>Confessions are long past.  Shizara is enjoying the afterglow herself; there's a particular lilt in her mental voice as she goes on:<em>You've taken a shine to these two, haven't you?  Is this a token of your affection for their mistress, or is there something else going on?</em>