Chapter 7: Leaving the Nest

We sat in mostly companionable silence whilst I slowly refilled my mana stores. I kept catching Kana staring at me with a semi-conflicted gaze now and then. To be fair, I was also inspecting her and trying to figure out exactly what race she was. I was leaning towards a demon of some kind, but I really couldn’t guess more than that. Eventually, I just bit the bullet and asked her about it. "Hey Kana, sorry if this is a rude question, but could you tell me what race you are? I’m having a hard time placing it?" I held my breath after the fact, hoping that I didn’t cross some line. I knew that it wasn’t exactly taboo to ask these questions, thanks to the info package I naught, but it also wasn’t exactly the most common question to ask. I watched as she shrank in on herself somewhat at my question before sighing and answering. "I’m a half-demon half-human," she eventually said in a semi-defeated tone, as if expecting reproach for the answer. "Oh, that’s cool!" I cherped without delay, putting a gentle smile on my lips, Any specific type of demon you got in ya?" I add with a wink I watch as her face goes through a multitude of emotions from apprehension, to surprise, to happiness, back to surprise, and lands on embarrassment towards the end, with yet another flush colouring her cheeks. "Umm, I-I’m half succubus," she finally stammers out, turning her head away in apparent shame, but I do notice her peaking my way out of the corner of her eyes. "Well, that explains why you're so damn cute then!" I announce. And chuckle to myself as her eyes widen at my statement. "Y-you t-think that I’m c-cute?" She stammers out a mix of incredulity and a sparkle of hope mixed in. Nodding, I make my way over to her side before commenting, the constant blushing does wonders for it. Upon saying so, I get greeted by another beautiful blush. "I’m also about half back on my, so I’m going to give healing. Are you ready?" I ask once I’m right in front of her. I look into her eyes and hear her gulp audibly before nodding so frantically I’m worried she might give herself a concussion. With her confirmation, I reach out my hand, and without giving it too much tho, place it on her chest and let my mana flow through my body and into hers as I actiNature'sTouch Touch. I gasp slightly as soon as my mana touches her skin due to a sudden influx of information that I receive regarding the state of her body, and I’m amazed at how she’s holding on so well. Seems like she has a couple of fractured ribs and bruising all along them, several smaller cuts and abrasions, and spread through her body with some significant bruising along her tail., "Oh, you poor thing," I mutter once iv processed the information, unconsciously raising my other hand to gently pat the top of her head. I watch in fascination as Lilly slowly places her hand on my chest, silently cursing that she couldn’t place her hand a little to either side. However, before I can go down that line of tho, a pulse of heat spreads out from her hand and sinks into my. Body, I unconsciously tense and stifle a squeak as the heat spreads throughout my body before settling onto the areas that are the worst off. As the heat settles into place, it stops feeling as jarring and settles into a comfortable warmth that saps away the. First, my ribs loosen, and I take a deep breath without feeling any. Then he n my sides and arms go through the same treatment, my legs are, next relaxing under Lilly’s gentle care. Lastly, I feel the heat spread to my tail, upon which I do let out a slight gasp. "Oh you poor thing" I hear comming from the woman in front of me only to be surprised as I feel her gently pat my head, at first I’m not quite sure what to do with that but when I feel another gentle pulse of her magic enter into my head I subconsciously lean into the feeling letting out a quiet "ohh that feels nice" I smile as Kana leans into the head pats, and I watch as her entire body seems to slump in appreciation of the healing I provided. However, all too soon, I have to cut the magic off, as I can feel my reserves starting to dry out once again. I'mim not too keen on that, coming back! I do keep my hand on her he, and not mixing in some soft scratches which she leans into even more. This does cause me to let out a soft, a ugh, which sadly seems to break her out of that,t mod,e and she jerks back, looking down at me with wide eyes. This only causes me to laugh all the harder as I manage to get,, oOhOh,, "oh you are just adorable!" And go in for a hug, pulling the larger woman into my arms. At first, she stiffens, but soon enough melts into my arms once again. After a moment, she speaks up once again. "Thank you," she states in a low tone. I also notice that her tail has unwound from her own leg and has started to gently wrap itself around my waist to join in on the hug. "You are more than welcome," I say with a smile as I slowly try to extract myself from the hug, eventually having to tap her tail for her to release me. "We should probably get out of here, though, don’t want to have to worry about any spare goblins coming back and catching us unawa. re" This seems to snap her back to reality as she once more realises where we are. She nods and before I can say anything else, else makes her way over to one of the corners where I watch her rifle through a pile of stuff before exclaiming with obvious happiness. "Yes, my bag is still here!" Whilst holding a small pouch attached to a belt, at first, I’m surprised, wondering why she is so excited about such a small pouch. But then she reaches into the bag, and her arm just keeps going until it nearly reaches her shoulder. My mouth drops open in shock as she roots around for a while before pulling her arm back out of the very small pouch holding what looks like a fresh set of clothing. She turns around and smiles when she sees my look of obvious surprise. "Have you never seen a bag of holding before?" She asks. I shake my head and, no, iv heard of them, but this is my first time seeing one in action. They look very handy!" I honestly answer, may as well go with the truth where possible. She hums in happiness at that comment before gaining a bashful look and asking, g Could you turn around for a second so that I can get changed?" I bought into my hand and noOhOh, "oh, right yes oh, course, I’ll head out and look around the rest of the village, see if I can find anything useful in the meantime" putting action t,o words, I turn on my heel and head out into the now partially destroyed village. Looking around, I can’t help but grimace at the sight that meets my eyes, 9 dead goblins lay sprawled out around the encampment, thankfully, only a couple of them have bloody wounds, it most likely only having their necks at odd angles. Not that it’s much better, but the sight of all the blood does make my stomach do a little flop in protest. Calming my nerves, I set out to explore this cave, finding nothing of particular note past some tattered hides and a partially rotten, meat-which-avoided-void on principle. As I’m poking around the last of the shabby huts I head Kana make her way over to me, turning around I am greeted by a delightful pair of boobs that stand proud on her chest, which is now adorned with a simple but form fitting tunic of a deep green that reaches down to mid thigh, she has also replaces her tattered leggings with a fresh pair. I then look up to meet her eyes, which are looking down at me with the hint of a smile quirking the corner of her mouth upwards. "We, ll that’s just not fa,,ir" I harumph. She looks down at me in obvious confusion and asks in a slightly worried tone. "What’s not fair?" In answer, I gesture at the mountains that are at eye level with me. "Those aren’t fair, how do they even get that big!" I playfully stomp my foot, coupled with a cheeky,y grin to show I am joking to her. At that, I get to watch another delightful blush spread across her cheeks. Only for her grin to widen as she gets a glint in her eyes, my smile freezes momentarily, then I let out a squeak of surprise as she reaches out and pulls me into a hug,mooshing my face between said mountains. I freeze for a moment at this before giving in and enjoying the moment, squeezing her back and swatting away her tail that tried to wrap around my leg. ",,y you stop your squishes, I can't breathe down here!" I mumble out whilst fully engulfed, as she lets me go, oh, I can't help but have a laugh at how happy she looked with herself over that move. "Sorry, sorry," she laughs, "you just looked so adorable when you stomped your foot that I couldn’t resist!" She states with a wide smile. "Umm, h, mm, whatever you say," I reply with an eye roll. "But we should probably head out now. I didn’t find anything useful here. How about you see anything in the main hut?" I inquire. She hums before giving a slight nod, and proceeds to take out a quite elegant bow, "managed to find this hidden beneath all the random junk the goblins had collected. WI was worried as I lost my bow when I was escaping from the moss bear." Her face drops slightly when she mentions this. "Moss bear?" I ask, How is it that you ended up getting caught in the first place? Don’t think I asked you till now?" She grimaces slightly at that, and as I’m about to say she doesn’t have to explain, she speaks up for herself. "I was exploring the Forest with some people. I just joined their team as a scout, but we got ambushed by a moss bear." She takes a shuddering breath at that before continuing. "It attached from behind whilst I was shouting ahead, I just heard the screams and ran back just in time to see the last of them getting crushed." She takes another long pause after that, collecting her thoughts before continuing once more. "Aftethata, the bear turned to me and ran towards, and I ran, a d, and kept on running. Eventually, I must have fallen downhill or something because I awoke in that hut just in time to head you barrel through that nest." She finished with a laugh. After taking a moment to process her wor, I stepped up to her and pulled her down into one more hug, not minding how I got smushed between her breasts this time or how tightly her tail coiled around my waist. After another minute, I separate us and give her a warm smile before grabbing her hand and leading her out of the goblin nest and towards the warm sun of the early evening.