"Earned it yet. But pretty much. And... you're dangerous, but fairly fragile."

"True. I've been thinking I should pick up another elementalism anyway. The pearl gives the flexibility... Your plan? So, master psionics, or a new one... Wind?"

"With your chair... Wind seems good. Or Fire, if you'd rather have preemptive offense."

"I'd rather windkeeping than firecalling. Strong winds to blow away attackers seems more reliable than trying to burn them."

"Whatever you think is best, beautiful. I kept the pearl around for this kind of thing. To keep your flexibility, or someone else who needed it."

"...You don't have to practice treating me as your lover in private."

"Basia, sweetie, if I didn't want you in my bed regularly I would have found a different excuse. Unless you don't want to be my lover?"

Basia looks at the beautiful daeva whose bed she's lying in. Smells the reminders of what they were up to minutes ago. Remembers the clever fingers, and tongue.

"I'd be delighted to be back in your bed regularly, gorgeous."

"Oh good."

Tesera kisses her again.

"What should I expect our relationship to look like, boss? I doubt you're looking to be exclusive even outside of coven rituals."

"Mmmh, no, I have several cute lovers I'm not going to give up. ...Including Marco. I'm not sure I can keep control of him if I'm not fucking him frequently, it's way easier to get him to do what I want when he thinks of me as his hot lover who is technically his boss, rather than as the coven mother and awakener who found him in the first place for a reason."

"Even though he's got all those girls hanging on his every word and sucking his dick in the corner when she thinks no one's looking?"

"Oh, absolutely, he thinks of them as practically property. Oh, don't fuck him. Technically it's safe if you don't let him have a bite, but it's not worth the risk without a good reason."

"What's the threat?"

"He can drain you, obviously, but also he can ride on your senses and maybe mess with your head if he's had a bite but left you alive. It wears off eventually and I've got enough psionics that I'm probably immune, but I still make him work hard if he wants to give me any more, in case it stacks up to a threat past my shields."

"Should I worry about any of his turned women?"

"Them I expect to respect it if you tell them no biting. And I've told them no poaching on anyone in the coven without your permission. Him, he's not so polite, and he's got the pheromones that make everyone find him hot. Seriously, he's got like four powers to make him hot."

"Vain much?"

"I have never met anyone as vain as Marco Cavalcante. Seriously, I guided him through the vampire turning like the awakening, and on top of perfecting the little imperfections while becoming a witch, and bothering to spend power on keeping his dick, he spent vampiric power on... directly getting pretty and making all his line be pretty, separately making him and them preposterously fat-less, like-"

She cheerfully gropes Basia as she gripes, "-these lovely little titties you have, have more fat than he has in his whole body, and then on top of that he blows enough power to be practically invincible at night on making everyone who can smell him want his cock."

"Does that work on straight men and lesbians?"

"Almost as well as on straight women. He agitates at me any time I 'let slip' there's a boy I might awaken into the coven who'll stay male, he wasn't expecting it and thinks it's gross."

"God. Insecure vain straight boys, may whatever powers be save us."

"Not the lesbians, of course. He gets off on being their first experience with dick and still getting them to come back to him instead of a girlfriend. ...I'll give him this, though, it's pretty excellent dick. He did, actually, make the effort to improve with experience."

"Oh, you just had to tell me that after saying I shouldn't touch it."