A Long Time from Home Ch. 12

"Well, according to Mage Pico here, your work hasn't met our standards." He glanced at Diana, who sweetly smiled back at him, before he returned his gaze to me. "Shall I assume, you don't agree in her assessment?"

"No need for assuming, Sir. One moment." I walked over to another forge and reached into the locker, where I had placed a bag with all my discarded pieces and walked back to the Dominus. "You can see for yourself, Sir."

Diana sent me a murderous glare. I knew she thought that the discarded pieces had been smelted down, since that was usually the way things were done, but I had kept a few of those Diana had discarded, despite other smiths had told met their standard, hiding them in another locker.

The Dominus carefully examined the pieces one by one, comparing them from time to time with his notes, before looking at me. "And you're sure these are yours?"

I reached into the bag and handed him a stack of papers. Each of them a note from one of the smiths who had examined a piece of work, stating me as the craftsman. "Here you go, Sir. Written statements from the smiths of the hall on each piece."

He flipped through them and sighed. "It seems like there have been some problems here." Diana Pico paled a little. The Dominus ignored it as he continued. "May I ask why you haven't made an official complaint?"

"First of all, because Mage Pico knows the rules and while she succeeded in bending them, she didn't break them. Thus, she hasn't done anything illegal." I sent her a cold smile. "Second, because such a complaint would have caused an official investigation, revealing the real reason for Mage Pico's dislike of me and neither your Hall nor anybody else would benefit from that."

Diana snorted. "Yeah, right. You just wanted to protect that half-blood BITCH!" The last two words were almost a hiss and so filled with resentment and anger that both Dominus Raco and I looked at her in surprise. Her eyes widened when she realized what she had said and that she had let her emotions gotten the better of her again.

"Control yourself, Mage Pico." Snapped the Dominus and added a few magical words. Diana stiffened, and I guessed he had commanded her in some way, though I didn't know the exact spell.

The Dominus returned his attention to me. "I would like to hear your side of the story, Emilian."

With a nod I told him about the last conversation, I had with Diana Pico, making sure the details were as precise as possible, as I was reasonable sure, that he had used a spell that allowed him to detect any lies.

When I was done, he thought about it for a moment and sighed. "This is unfortunate. As far as I can see Mage Pico has held you to the standard of the crafters of Hall and while that is not illegal, it's also not the purpose of your course." He eyed Diana Pico again and from the look of distaste on his face, I guessed she had some unpleasant jobs ahead of her. "Anyway, you have completed this part of the course and can now go on to steel. I will send a message to Dominus Kaeso Maximus, explaining that there have been a misunderstanding and the delay is entirely our fault."

Bowing slightly, I thanked him and then watched as he took Diana by the arm and led her out.

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A few days later I began working with steel and while the material didn't lend itself to ornamental pieces as easy as bronze, it was still interesting to work with.

Even more interesting was that instead of Diana Pico, I got Tia Magnus as 'my' mage and with that, everything was back to normal. I forged weapon and armor, Tia Magnus examined it, asked me to redo it if there was something wrong or gave me the next assignment if it was good.

Satisfied that the world once again functioned as it should, I started working on a new piece in my spare time, once I got the hang of working with steel. This time it was a steel version of a Baylon sword, meant as a decorative piece for Verina, and I was working on the tang, when a movement out of the corner of my eye caught my attention and caused me to look up.

Tia Magnus was standing six or seven paces away, watching me work, while looking absolutely fantastic. Her red hair fell about her shoulders and down her back playfully, one curl after another, framing a pretty face with sparkling green eyes and a cute little nose.

She was wearing a dark red top that looked like a shirt with the lowest part cut away. It had two buttons struggling to keep her full breasts in place and I guessed that the only reason the buttons hadn't given up, was that the shirt was tied in a knot under the breasts. Not only did that help the buttons, but it also showed off a narrow waist that curved into wide hips and long shapely legs.

Seeing that I had discovered her, she smiled. "Good evening, Ivah. I hope I'm not interrupting."

"When dressing like that, you can interrupt me anytime, Mam." I said before I could stop myself.

To my relief, she took it as the compliment it was and bowed slightly. "Thank you. I was at a party, but to be honest it was rather boring, so I decided to leave early." She tilted her head as she looked at the sword. "That's not your assignment."

"No, I like to make gifts for friends and family in my spare time." I explained as I placed the hammer on the anvil next to the cooling blade. "It's good practice and having made them myself, they mean more than something bought at the marked."

"That is true." She paused for a moment. "I thought the reason Dianna Piso and you stopped working together was due to a lover's quarrel, but at the party, I heard that you had a falling out with her over me. It that true?"

"Both yes and no. Mage Piso couldn't accept that according to the law, anyone with a Centrum Potentia and Baylon Blood is a Baylon." I shrugged. "She also has a ridiculous dislike for anything not entirely Baylon and became irrational when I pointed that out for her."

Tia Magnus laughed softly, and I noticed it caused her tits to jingle pleasantly. Getting myself together, I continued. "Long story short, she became angry, we stopped being lovers and she tried to take revenge on me. It worked for a while, until the Dominus Grande came to check up on it and I could prove her wrong again. Then she freaked out once more, but the Dominus stopped it and sent her away."

Tia looked thoughtful. "Makes more sense than the current story."

"Which is?"

"You don't know?" She asked and continued as I shook my head. "The story goes that she freaked out because you said that I was... eh... exotic and sexy."

"I did say that." I admitted. "But it wasn't what she freaked out about."

She didn't say anything to that. Instead, she walked over to me and while I was still wondering what was going on, she placed a hand on each side of my head and gave me a soft, seductive kiss.

She tasted like apples and alcohol, and I guess she had been drinking cider, but if that was what it took to make her kiss me, I could live with it.

The scene also oddly similar to the last time I had shared pleasure with Dianna Piso, but I hoped that the outcome would be better this time.

"That was for standing up to Mage Piso for me." Tia whispered with a little smile, before she kissed me again. This time more passionate and lustful. Her hands started to wander over my arms and shoulders, tugging at the leather apron I wore to protect me from sparks.

The sparks Tia Magnus ignited in me was of a completely other kind and I just had the presence of mind to use an Ars Mentalis trick to clean myself, before I put my hands on the bare skin of her slim waist and pulled her closer.

Her hands returned to my head, holding it with her hands while her tongue danced with mine. Lost in the feeling of her succulent lips and wet tongue, I ran my hands down her back, caressing her curvy butt.

She moaned and moved her hips against my body, and I didn't doubt she could feel my now hard cock through the leather apron.

Tia Magnus broke the kiss with a little laugh, still moving her hips against me.

"I want you so bad." She said, her green eyes sparkling with desire. "Most people here find my looks strange, but then you come along and think I'm sexy... and have the hard-on to prove it."

While she talked, I waited for the 'but' that would mean that we couldn't have sex anyway and I was slightly surprised when she instead asked. "Are you done here? Can we leave?"

"Give me a moment to close down and we can."

She nodded and released me.

I closed the forge and packed up in record time and as soon as I was done, she cast a spell, transporting us to her room.

"Sorry for being impatient." She said, "But I haven't shared pleasure with anyone in more than a year and I'm sooooo ready!"

"No complaints." I answered with a smile and then blinked as she used another spell to undress completely in a heartbeat. She really was impatient!

Not only did she look good, but her body was also just a fabulous as I had imagined, starting with the heavy fullness of her tits. They were amazing. Big, round and jutting proudly out, capped with puffy light-brown areolas and thick upturned nipples.

My eyes left her breasts and travelled down to a narrow waist that curved into wide hips and long shapely legs. Like all Kumetians, she had no body hair, but judging from the smoothness of her skin I guessed she had used a spell to permanently remove them, because the skin was smooth as silk, without even a hint of stubble anywhere.

"By the Goddesses..." I mumbled as I took in the sight of her, momentarily frozen.

Seeing my delight, she turned around slowly, making a complete circle, while shimmering and wriggling her bubble-butt.

Shaking my head in wonder, I loosened the strap that head the apron in place, making it fall to the floor, followed a moment later by the rest of my clothes.

When the circle was complete, Tia's green eyes glided over my body, stopping at the sight of my stiff dick, smiling slightly as she said, "Nice to see it wasn't all words and no action."

"Talking about action..." I said and walked over to her to give those inviting looking lips a kiss.

Her skin was warm and silky to the touch, as my hands glided down her back.

At the same time, she was hugging me, pressing her breasts against my chest and gently rubbing her pelvis against my throbbing cock.

My hands reached her bubble-butt and started massaging the soft flesh.

In response, she twisted her body just enough to free my cock and a moment later a soft hand closed around it, hungrily testing its hardness. The twisting of her body made one of her breasts leave my chest, so one of my hands left her butt and cupped the tempting breast, teasing the nipple gently.

Tia broke the kiss, moaning, "Sweet Isis! That is so good."

"Yes." I mumbled and kissed the sensitive skin on her neck, running the tip of the tongue down her long, elegant neck. Instead of stopping at the collarbone, I bend down and continued down over the swell of her breast until I reached the hard nipple caught between my fingers.

Still fondling the breast, I flicked my tongue over the nipple, playing with it. My fingers were now in the way, so I slid them down her stomach and over the smooth skin of the bare mound.

With a groan, she spread her legs so I could run my fingers over her hair-less pussy, teasing her lips.

She was already wet, and I stroked her gently with a single finger, running it the length of her opening, feeling the lips spreading under my touch and enabling me to slide a finger between them and tease the opening.

"No more foreplay." She said with a gasp. "I'm too excited for this."

Since I had barely started, I just snorted and went down on a knee, bringing my face to the same level as her pussy. Still holding on to her bubble-butt with one hand, I leaned forward and ran my tongue over the hair-less mound. This close, I could smell her arousal and it was like smelling a sweet drug.

Going a bit lower, I pressed my face against her soft skin and darted out my tongue, just a little graze of her love-pearl, and her whole body shuddered, bringing her out of balance.

Pushing her gently, I made her take a few steps backwards until she fell on the soft mattress with a giggle. Following her, I kneeled between her legs and buried my face in her sweet pussy.

Tia tried to pull me up by my shoulders but while she was undoubtedly a good mage, she wasn't any match for me in physical strength. I took her hands firmly in mine and pushed them down onto the bed.

I held her like that as I continued to tease her pussy with my tongue. Up and down the dripping wet slit, all around the top of her inner thighs, avoiding the love-pearl for now.

Instead, I sucked her moist lips into my mouth one by one, running my tongue over them as I teased them with my lips, while she moaned and trashed on the bed.

Letting go of one of her hands, I licked my way up to the love-pearl and then inserted a finger into her pussy, gently probing, while my tongue continued its work on the love-pearl.

"You're driving me insane!" She groaned, rocking her hips. "Just fuck me!"

Answering was impossible, since I had her love-pearl in my mouth, so instead I inserted another finger in her snug pussy and used the fingertips to rub her pleasure zone.

At the same time my tongue flicked over her love-pearl in a steady rhythm, alternately stroking it in long slow circles and then flicking it rapidly as my fingers steadily glided in and out of her tunnel.

"Oh FUCK!" she cried and came in a great crashing wave. Her long shapely legs tightened around my head as she lifted her entire lower body off the bed.

Her big breasts shook and waved as pleasure racked her body. Her pussy spasmed around my fingers as she bucked and swayed, while I watched and luxuriated in the ecstasy of this beautiful, sexy woman.

As her orgasm faded, I gently removed my fingers from her and spread the juices from my hand over my hard cock. Then I spread her legs to untangle my head, stood up and before she knew what was happening, the head of my cock was positioned between the moist lips of her pussy.

Leaning forward, I pushed slowly into her, enjoying the feeling as my dick stretched her pussy lips around the head, followed by the sliding feel as my lubricated cock with all the way to the bottom of her hot wet pussy in one smooth motion.

I love doing that to a woman, while she was just leaving the grip of orgasm. There's something about the way her face transforms from one of sheer joy, to surprise and then back to joy again, that really turns me on.

Tia was no exception, as she gasped and then sighed happily, as I slid into her still spasming pussy.

A sigh that turned into a squeal a heartbeat later, when I started to pound her, using long hard strokes. Her pussy felt just as wonderful and tight around my cock as it had felt around my fingers and her powerful orgasm had made her even wetter than before.

Lowering my head, I found her breasts with my mouth again and started to kiss them, while sliding on and out of her, enjoying the feel of her pussy spasming around me and her stiff nipple between my lips.

Tia started to move, eagerly meeting my strokes with her own hips. Her moves becoming more and more desperate as she climbed towards another climax.

It didn't take long, before she began to tremble again, and her moans intensified.

"Sweet Ra!" She panted loudly a moment later and then screamed as she came once more, pushing her head back into the soft cushion on the bed. Her pussy constricted around my dick, adding to the incredible feeling of being inside her. Her long legs flailed up to my hips and wrapped around my butt pulling me hard into her pelvis.

That made it impossible to move, so instead I let myself fall over to the left side of her, so her leg was under my waist and my dick still inside her. It a comfortable position to be in and it freed my right hand to caress her body, while her screams turned into gasps for air and finally into just heavy breathing.

She looked incredible sexy as she lay there and almost my itself, my free hand found her breast and teased the nipple, causing her to moan.

The muscles in her pussy spasmed a few times in response, making me shiver.

Tia smiled, moved closer and kissed me with fervor, opening her lips and licking my lips with her tongue. My lips parted, and we tongue dueled as she slowly moved her hips, making my dick slide in and out of her as we kissed.

This time there was no hurry, no hectic hunt for an orgasm. Only the feeling of soft skin, kisses, a fabulous body pressed against me and the feeling of her warm wet pussy sliding back and forth on my dick.

Despite the leisure pace, Tia's moans increased steadily, and I could feel the tremble starting in her body as the orgasm built. I snaked my free arm under her leg, lifting it up slightly as I took hold of her butt. Having both the leverage and control of her hips, I pulled her lower body towards me, interrupting her rhythm as I started my own.

I began slow with shallow thrusts, letting the head of my cock massage her opening for a while, before I increased the depth of my strokes, going deeper and deeper each time, bringing groans from her throat.

When my pubic bone banged against her love-pearl, Tia began to shiver, giving of little screams each time we connected. Wanting to see her come, I picked up the pace, pounding her fast and hard.

Her small screams became a howl as she came again and her head was tossing back and forth, sending the red hair flowing in waves.

I moved my hand from her buttocks, hooking her leg over my arm as I reached up and took hold of her shoulder. With the other leg being under me, Tia was now totally at my mercy, and I took advantage of it by going even faster, driving my cock into her again and again, each time hitting the pleasure zone firmly.

Her green eyes snapped open, and she looked at me almost in shock for a heartbeat. Then she gave another scream, her inner muscles milking my cock with her pussy as she came once more.

Feeling my own climax approaching, I kept pounding her, lost in the feeling of her hot wet pussy and the sight of her coming.

"I... can't... take... much...more!" Tia panted between orgasms and screamed again. "Come!"

"Close!" I grunted, shivering as I bottomed out in her.

"OHH!" Tia yelled as she came a final time.

The rhythmic clenching and unclenching around my dick sent me over the top and my body jerked violently as I came in her. The orgasm was surprisingly powerful, and I closed my eyes tightly, seeing stars as I emptied myself into her.

We both collapsed as I released her leg and for a while, we just lay there, breathing heavily, as small tremors ran through her body and my ears rang.

Tia gave me a small push, making me roll over on my back, so she could get her leg out from under me and then curled up next to me with an arm and a leg draped over my body, her head on my shoulder and her breasts pressed against my side. I caressed her back slowly, enjoying her feel of her soft skin under my fingertips.

"Umm... nice!" Tia mumbled. "If you keep doing that, I'm going to fall asleep."

"Sleep then." I said with a chuckle and smiled to myself as her breathing slowed and a little while later, she was sound asleep.

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It was relaxing, but as always, I had absorbed the Vis she had emitted and felt energized, so instead of falling asleep, I looked around in the room, admiring its rich but tasteful decoration. The style was Kumetian, which wasn't a surprise, but the amount of expensive art was. Tia's father was obviously a high-ranking member of the Kumetian nobility.

A small inscription on a statue of the Goddess Bastet drew my eyes and after using telekinesis to bring it to my hand, I read it. "To my beloved daughter, Tia. May Bastet watch over you in the foreign lands. Usermaatre Setepenre."