Chapter 19 : Early Afternoon

“Hm, hm, hm...” hummed Anton as he tapped at the surface of the bathwater and magically warmed it up to the point that thin lines of steam began to rise from it “ ... Perfect!”

Stepping over the sidewall, he slowly eased in one foot and then the other.

“Oooo, oh, oh yeah, just right...” he mumbled to himself as he lowered himself into the steaming water and laid back against the sidewall “ ... Oh yeah, I needed this!”

Anton had filled the tub up high enough that when he entered it and sat down, the water would rise up to just below his neckline. With his back leaning against the side, he was able to lay his head down on the edge of the tub and sink down a little further into the water as he relaxed and stretched out his limbs and body.

“Been pretty busy these last few days...” he mumbled as he shut his eyes and took in a deep breath of the warm, steam filled air “And this is just what the doctor ordered...”

Cracking open a single eye, Anton peeked over at Kianna and couldn’t help but to grin at the sight of her.

The dark elf had a completely blank look on her face as she stood still and unmoving next to the counter-top. Her ears had pointed themselves straight upwards, which had given her a very surprised look, and she had unconsciously covered herself by wrapping one arm over her breasts and dropping the other down to hide her slit with her hand.

“Feel free to jump in whenever you want!” chuckled Anton as he closed his eye and went back to his dozing “The water is just perfect...”

Kianna never actually said a word or even made a single sound herself, but after several minutes of waiting, Anton heard the water being lightly disturbed on the opposite side of the tub from where he sat and he grinned as he felt the water level rise up to his neck.

Deciding to play it dumb, he forced the grin from his face and let himself go slack as he focused on enjoying his own relaxation. After another few minutes of soaking he had nearly fallen asleep when he began to feel faint ripples in the water roll in against him. Cracking both of his eyes this time, he glanced over to his right and found that the dark elf had moved in close to his side.

Kianna’s ears were still pointed straight upwards, and her large eyes were open to their fullest as they slowly roved over and did the best they could to examine Anton’s body while it was being obscured by the steaming bathwater. She was currently on her hands and knees and had an air of caution about her that Anton couldn’t help but to find adorable. The water level in the tub was high enough that her shoulders were almost fully submerged and as Anton’s eyes moved further down her length he couldn’t help but to be delighted with the view of her very round little bubble butt.

Kianna’s heart-shaped bottom was being held at just the right height and angle so as to be only partially submerged in the water, and each of the rounded globes that were her butt cheeks, crested the surface in such a way that they appeared as two smooth, glistening little islands that seemed to be floating along behind her. Preoccupied as she was, she clearly didn’t realize that she was lightly bobbing her bottom up and down in what appeared to Anton as an almost mischievous manner.

As Anton shifted his gaze back and forth between Kianna’s face and bottom, the dark elf continued her slow and methodical exploration of his body. Though she couldn’t see him quite as clearly as she would have liked, she was still determined not to waste the chance to sneak in and view him while he wasn’t looking. Her eyes crept along at an even pace as she let them travel down his torso and stop at his groin. There she lingered for several moments as she struggled to discern as much detail as she could through the thin layer of steam that billowed along the surface of the water. Frustrated that she just couldn’t see him as clearly as she wanted too, she moved on to his legs before reversing the trip and making her way back upwards.

Anton kept his eyes on Kianna’s as he noticed that her gaze was slowly moving back towards him and it would only be a moment before she was fully facing him. He let a thin smile form on his face as her eyes suddenly darted to his.

Kianna completely froze as she realized that she had been caught in her peeking. Smiling sheepishly, she hunched down and laid her ears back submissively before jumping in surprise as the tips of her ears dipped into the warm water.

Anton couldn’t help but to chuckle uncontrollably as the startled dark elf’s ears began to throw tiny droplets of water into the air as they twitched wildly up and down.

“Did you just scare yourself!?” he teased as he smiled at the now flustered dark elf “Aw! You poor little thing!”

“Shut up!” whined Kianna as a warm blush spread across her cheeks “It’s not funny!”

The blushing dark elf flattened her ears again and sat back on her folded legs as she covered her face with her hands in an effort to hide from her shame.

“Oh! Are you embarrassed now!?” continued Anton as he reached out and lightly poked the side of her head “Don’t try to hide!”

“Quit it!” whined Kianna as she cringed away from his touch “You’re being mean again!”

Anton chuckled again as he settled back against the sidewall and watched the squirming dark elf.

“Well that’s what you get for trying to be sneaky!” he teased as she again hunched in on herself “My curious little dark elf!”

After a few moments Kianna turned away from him and dropped her arms down into the water before folding them around her torso.

“I’m sorry I was sneaking!” she mumbled as her ears tightened themselves together behind her head “ ... I just wanted to look at you for a second!”

“Hm, well I don’t mind if you want to look at me. You don’t have to try to be sneaky for that.” said Anton as he let his head tilt to the side “Have you, ever been with a human before? And by that I mean, intimately?”

“Wha? No!” chirped Kianna as her eyes immediately darted back to his groin “ ... Not, with a human, no.”

“Hm, have you ever even seen one before?” asked Anton as his grin widened a bit “As in, all of one?”

Kianna was quiet for a moment as she bit her lower lip and squinted her eyes as she continued to stare at his crotch.

“ ... Yeah. Well, just online.” she mumbled “Not in real life...”

“Hm, I see.” nodded Anton “So none of the guys that followed you around in college were humans then?”

“No.” said Kianna as she shook her head “One was an incubus and the other was a kaftar. Well, there were 2 kaftars, I guess, but I never actually did anything with Samar, only Josh.”

“ ... Remind me again what a kaftar is?” mumbled Anton as he creased his brow and looked up at the ceiling “Because I want to say they’re the one’s that are like hyenas, right?”

“Yeah, that’s them. They look like hyena people.” nodded Kianna “They were kinda scary looking at first, well their teeth were! But they were both actually really friendly...”

“Did you like them?” asked Anton.

“They were nice, and I thought their fur was pretty. It was like a silvery, orange and black mix ... And their ears were cute...” reminisced Kianna as her tone became quiet and far off “I liked Collin better though...”

“ ... Collin was the incubus?” asked Anton after a moment of silence.

“Yeah.” nodded Kianna “He was nice too ... They all were ... But they were just, well, everything was just weird...”

“ ... Weird?” prompted Anton.

Kianna shifted her gaze to him and smiled sheepishly before looking back downwards.

“ ... They were scared of me ... They tried to hide it. But I could tell.” mumbled the dark elf as her face took on a troubled look “It didn’t matter how nice I was ... It was always, it was just never comfortable! It was like they were always nervous, or, waiting for something to happen? Like they were always ready to jump as soon as I said anything. I don’t know, it was just ... It was weird...”

Anton nodded slowly and looked back up at the ceiling as he mulled over what she had told him.

“ ... It, actually makes a little sense.” he mumbled as he let his head roll to the side so he was facing her again “Both of those species are traditionally attracted to stronger woman. So they were probably all expecting you take charge. And were constantly on pins and needles while they waited for that to happen.”

“Take charge?” questioned Kianna as she looked over at him “What do you mean?”

“I mean just that.” said Anton as a thin grin spread across his face “They all probably thought that you were going to dominate them, and eventually take control of them.”

“ ... What!?” questioned Kianna as her ears pointed themselves straight upwards “Why would they think that!? I never said I was gonna do that!?”

Anton couldn’t help but to chuckle at the confused look on her face.

“Well, they probably thought that!” he said as he gave her a broad smile “Because that’s what a dark elf would normally do, Kianna! And if it had been any other dark elf, besides you or your sister. That’s exactly what they would have done.”

Kianna was completely still for a moment before her eyes lit up in realization.

“Oh!” she exclaimed as she looked back down at the water “Oh, that! That makes so much sense!”

Anton began to laugh loudly as he shook his head back and forth.

“Oh, those poor saps!” he exclaimed between bouts of laughter “They probably thought they hit the jackpot! ... And instead they found the world’s most defective dark elf!”

“Shut up!” cried Kianna “I’m not defective!”

“Oh! My poor little defective dark elf!” teased Anton as he sat up and pulled her into a one-armed hug “She had no idea what was even happening! She just wanted to be friends with everybody!”

Kianna was pouting angrily as she let herself be pulled in for the hug.

“I did!” she whined as she pointed her ears straight back “I didn’t know, that! That they wanted that! Any of that!”

“I know you didn’t, Kianna.” reassured Anton as he tightened his arm around her shoulders “And that’s okay. It’s not your fault that they didn’t make themselves clear. And besides! Dominating them wasn’t what you wanted to do. Was it?”

“No!” said Kianna as she shook her head “I never even thought about doing that!”

“Well there ya go then!” said Anton as he grinned at her “They can just go find themselves a Mistress somewhere else then. My defective little dark elf just isn’t like that!”

Kianna went quiet for a moment as her face became marred with thought.

“ ... But maybe I should have been?” she mumbled as she tilted her head and met his eyes “Do you really think that I’m defective!?”

“Hmm ... Well, I don’t know for sure.” said Anton as he pulled her in closer “But yeah, I’m starting to think that you probably are...”

“Wha!? Really!?” cried Kianna as she flattened her ears back submissively “Are you serious!?”

“Yeah. But it’s alright!” declared Anton as he held her to himself and laid his cheek against the top of her head “Even if you are broken. I couldn’t care less! You’re still be my little dark elf regardless! And I think you’re amazing, just the way you are!”

“ ... You’re so mean to me!” grumbled Kianna as she laid her head against his chest and closed her eyes “My Master is such a cruel, evil man!”

“I know ... And I am sorry...” mumbled Anton as he tightened his hold on her and let his eyes drift close “But being mean, and teasing you, really is just so much fun for me!”

Kianna sighed through her nose in frustration as Anton chuckled softly.

Going quiet save for their breathing, the two of them sat together this way in silence as they enjoyed the warmth of both the water around them as well as each others bodies. After some time, Kianna sighed again.

“This is so weird...” she mumbled as she lightly nuzzled her cheek against Anton’s chest “It was never like this before...”

“Hm?” rumbled Anton as he took a breath in through his nose “What wasn’t like this?”

“Being with them...” mumbled Kianna as she cracked her eyes and stared at nothing “It was just never like this...”

“ ... What do you mean?” asked Anton “How was it different?”

Kianna was silent for a moment as she put her thoughts together.

“ ... It was never this easy. Like, this is so easy! We’re just here, right now. Together! ... And it never felt like this...” explained the dark elf “I don’t know ... This is just different ... You’re different! I guess?”

“ ... How am I different?” asked Anton.

“You’re totally different! Like, in all the ways!” exclaimed Kianna “You’re not scared! You’re ... honest? I don’t know how to say it ... You’re just ... You’re, you’re not scared! And you don’t know how important that is!”

The dark elf’s voice began to crack a bit as she pressed herself into his chest.

“You touch me! You hold me! And you’re not scared of me! You were never scared of me!” she exclaimed as Anton let his aura seep into the area around them “Like this! Right now! I’m touching you, and it’s okay! You’re okay! And this is so awesome! I never got to do this before!”

“Wait? You never touched them?” asked Anton “I thought you had sex with them? How did that work if you never even touched them?”

“It didn’t! ... At least not really!” exclaimed Kianna as she pointed her ears straight back “Like I said it wasn’t easy like this is. They were scared! They barely let me touch them at all! Like, everything was just slow. And it never felt ... easy ... You’ve already let me touch you way more than any of them ever did! And we haven’t even done anything yet!”

“Really? That’s ... just crazy!” said Anton “I’m really sorry about that Kianna. That had to be difficult, and, well, frustrating!”

“Oh yeah it was!” exclaimed Kianna “And those were the ones that were nice to me! Nobody else would even come near me! ... At least I got to touch them a little bit, so I guess that’s something...”

“ ... Hm, well, things will definitely be different for you now.” said Anton as he lifted his arm off of her shoulders and moved it up and over her head before letting it come to rest in front of her “In fact, here! Go ahead!”

Kianna blinked in confusion as she looked from his offered arm to his face and back.

“Wha, what are you doing?” she asked as her voice became laced with uncertainty.

“Well, I’m letting you touch me!” chuckled Anton “Obviously!”

“ ... Really!?” questioned Kianna as she stared at the arm hanging in front of her “Just, however I want to!?”

“Mm hm, go ahead!” grinned Anton as he wiggled his fingers “Knock yourself out!”

Kianna hesitated for only a brief moment before a broad grin spread across her face. Moving slowly she reached out and tentatively took hold of Anton’s offered arm.

Kianna was completely enthralled by the chance she had been given to examine her Master’s arm and she wasn’t about to let this opportunity go by without taking in every tiny detail that she could.

She started with the forearm itself and noticed immediately that unlike with the incubus, and unbeknownst to her, her own kind, human men actually had short hair on their arms.

The hair on Anton’s arm didn’t actually cover the entire limb, and only existed on the top and sides of his forearm and as a thin line that ran along the outer edge of the top of his wrist. Unlike the kaftar whose fur was dense but soft to the touch, Anton’s hair was sparse and thinly spread across his arm, and although it wasn’t quite bristly to the touch, it wasn’t necessarily soft either. It was sort of coarse but with just enough give to it that it moved easily whenever touched, and actually had a rather pleasant feeling to it whenever she ran her hand across it.

Anton’s skin, wherever he had no hair, was very different from her own. Where her skin felt soft and smooth to the touch, his was rough, unyielding, and although still pliable, there was a toughness to it that she just didn’t have. She wasn’t sure if his skin was actually thicker than her own but it certainly felt like it was. And she was quite sure that it would probably take a lot more to hurt him than it would herself.