Ch 2.5:  Interview


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina was struck still, as much so as id she’d locked herself with [Personal Restraint], frozen only by the sight of the girl climbing out of the pond. Flora, the same girl who’dforted her at theke after fencing ss, the girl who’d saved her life at the beginning of the attack the other night, was right in front of her, stark naked, and she didn’t even seem to care.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The light breaking through the clearing struck the woman’s skin, shining off the droplets of water dripping down off of her. Her body was entrancing, long legs and slightly thick thigs leading up to a slim stomach, crotchpletely bare. Her breasts were smaller than average, but still so lovely, two perfectly molded mounds of flesh that seemed unaffected by gravity, adorned with small, adorable pink nipples. ina had barely seen them through Flora’s wet shirt the first time they’d made, but in the flesh they were maybe the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I did tell you we’d meet again, you know,” Flora said, wringing out her long hair.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Nope.” ina turned to see Tira shaking her head. “Nope nope nope. Not her.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wait, you know each other?” Carline asked.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah,” Tira replied, looking away while blushing. “That’s why she told you not to tell us her name; she knew I’d veto.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Nuh-uh!” Flora threw her hands down, causing her chest to shake up and down, ina’s eyes bobbing up and down in tandem. “I just wanted to surprise ina!” <i><span style="font-weight:400">It worked.</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Hold on,” ina said, shaking her head to try to clear her mind, “how do you two know each other? Why can’t she join up?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“We know each other cause we’re in the same year!” Flora replied.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“No, we know each other because this woman is constantly breaking the rules. She sneaks out after curfew every other week. And can’t you put some clothes on?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“No, I’m still drying. And you <i><span style="font-weight:400">catch</i><span style="font-weight:400"> me sneaking out after curfew every other week. I actually do it much more often!”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“That’s not something to be proud of, and that’s why she can’t join us. She has no regard for thew.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I mean…” ina started. She didn’t want to finish the thought with Flora’s status as a potential party member still up in the air. <i><span style="font-weight:400">Tira was the one who said we’remitting treason though, after all.</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Listen,” Carline said, eyes glued to the naked woman in front of her, “Tira, she’s not like, uhm, bad or anything. Just a little… rebellious.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, rebellious! That’s what I tell her every time she catches me.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well she gets on my nerves besides,” Tira said, turning her gaze, looking over Flora’s head and towards Carline. “I know you know her, but… Gods, she’s just so <i><span style="font-weight:400">irritating.” </i><span style="font-weight:400">Irritating wasn’t the word ina would use. entric? Sure. Distracting? Very.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Tira, why don’t we just, you know, hear her out?” ina asked. “I mean, from the looks of things—” She nced back over to Flora, looking up her body once more, catching a deceptively innocent looking smile on the woman. “She looks like she’ll fit in, is what I mean.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tira looked over as well, blushing again before turning away. “I mean… You’re probably right. Gods, is this what you’re always sneaking out to do?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yup! But normally I do it in theke,te nights or rainy days so I can be sure I’m not seen—by too many people, at least.” Flora looked directly at ina while speaking thatst bit, winking.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You know there are showers to bathe in, right?” Tira asked.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, but it’s not the same as being outside.” She stepped forward into the flowers, looking up into the sky and spinning around, long wet hair whipping around her. “I wish I’d known about this grove before. It’s so nice to be naked under the sun again. You three have a wonderful spot.” Every step of hers was like she was performing a dance, the wide smile on her face almost drawing ina’s attention away from the slight curves of her body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tira groaned. “Carline, she really is going to fit right in, isn’t she?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Carline nodded, wide eyes never leaving Flora. “She is. Trust me.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, right,” ina said, momentarily breaking her staring at Flora and turning to Carline. “How do you two know each other.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Carly and I grew up together! Our family manors are right next to each other.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina raised an eyebrow. “Carly?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, Carly! It’s what her closest friends call her.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“It’s what <i><span style="font-weight:400">you </i><span style="font-weight:400">call me,” Carline muttered, looking down slightly and blushing, the first time time ina had seen her eyes peel away from Flora’s body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Exactly! And I am your closest friend, right?” The woman bounded over to Carline, wrapping her arms around the poor girl and squeezing tight.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Flora! You’re still wet!” Carline was trying to push away, half-heartedly it seemed, causing her face to rub all over Flora’s chest, a deep feeling of jealousy running through ina. Carline’s words were protest, but her face was blushing and smiling.


    <span style="font-weight:400">A sigh came from behind, ina turning to see Tira shaking her head. “I guess we’ll give her a shot…”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina nodded. “Once she’s in though, there’s not really any going back.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“In what?” Flora said, releasing Carline. “Is it for your practicum group? I already have one, but I guess I wouldn’t mind switching to be around Carly and Laina.” <i><span style="font-weight:400">Laina?</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Uh, yeah, practicum group,” Tira said.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What’s a practicum?” ina asked. Tira closed her eyes, wincing. The woman’s arms were crossed, but the wince was so pronounced ina’s imagination could practically see her cing her palm to her face anyway.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Uhm, if she doesn’t know what a practicum is, why am I actually here?” Flora asked. ina winced too, realizing her mental fumble.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“She’s knew, doesn’t know all the terminology,” Tira said. “We are looking for a group member though.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Okay, but why me?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Carline rmended you. And against my better judgment, I’m going to trust her on this.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“So I’m in?” Flora asked, leaning forward and beaming at ina.


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina swallowed, still taken aback by the woman’s nudity. “Well, I mean, if you’re the right fit. What’s your aspect?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“It’s—” Carline started.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“A surprise!” Flora said, cutting off Carline and smiling.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Come to think of it, I don’t even know her aspect,” Tira said, mumbling to herself. “It’s an internal one, right?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yup!”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“And pray tell, miss troublemaker, how are we supposed to guess it?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">The girl’s smile twisted, an impish grin forming in it’s ce as she walked up to ina. “By touching me, of course!”