Ch 3.1: ? Honor
<span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t believe I’m actually doing this…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You <i><span style="font-weight:400">promised!”</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">“You know I was joking, right? I wasn’t serious!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Listening to Tira and Flora argue over it wasn’t doing anything to calm ina’s nerves. The raging storm wasn’t exactly helping either, thunder roaring overhead, rain crashing onto the roof of the outdoor workshop’s wooden roof while her two upperssman had a near shouting match, each trying to make their voice heard over the rumbling in the sky. <i><span style="font-weight:400">What exactly did </i><span style="font-weight:400">I<i><span style="font-weight:400"> do to get wrapped up in this again?</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know you <i><span style="font-weight:400">were</i><span style="font-weight:400"> joking,” Flora said, “but then you said you’d do it for real! Before <i><span style="font-weight:400">and </i><span style="font-weight:400">after we saw the giant typi!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“There’s no way ‘typi’ is the the plural! I’ve epted everything else, but you’re making that up!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think I read it in a book?” Flora said with a shrug, her hand sliding up to her jacket buttons, tugging at herpel. “So, are we going to do this?”
<span style="font-weight:400">It was the moment of truth. For all her yful protestations, ina could tell it was a genuine question this time, that if Tira said no Flora would drop the subject. Up until now Tira herself hadined, groaned, griped, but she’d never said she wouldn’t do it, and this was herst chance.
<span style="font-weight:400">She sighed, shaking her head and starting to unbutton her uniform. “If I don’t honor my promises, then I don’t have any honor at all.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yay!” Flora said said, jumping into the air and pping. ina thought she saw both a hint of both a smile and blush growing on Tira’s face. “Gods, it’s so fun, you’re both gonna love it!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Even taking a pause to celebrate, once Flora started undressing she was soon far ahead of Tira, having her entire jacket off before thetter even had the buttons on herspletely undone.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why are you so fast at this?” ina said, starting do undo her own uniform.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lots of practice!” Flora already had her shoes off, skirt undone and set on the workbench next to her jacket. “You learn to be quick when you’re doing stuff like this!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Couldn’t you just, you know, sing your song and twirl your clothes away?” Tira asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Of course not! That’s for stripping, not streaking. Speed is the name of the game here!” Just a quick pull on her tie and a lift of her shirt and Flora was done,pletely bare while her twopatriots just had their jackets off. No bra, no underwear to speak of at all, just her, running in ce as both ina and Tira stared. “Come on, hop to it! You can stare all you wantter.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I am <i><span style="font-weight:400">not </i><span style="font-weight:400">staring,” Tira said, turning around and slipping her boot off. ina could see it though, both the embarrassment and the lust in the woman’s eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">ina also did finally remember how she got roped into this. After all, was she really going to sit it out while two of her best friends ran across the castle grounds naked? Of course not, and that’s why she was now standing in the middle of the workshop in the middle of a thunderstorm in just her underwear.
<span style="font-weight:400">And of course Flora was staring at <i><span style="font-weight:400">her </i><span style="font-weight:400">now. Tira was moving slower, had her back turned besides, so that obviously left ina as the object of attention. Somehow it never got any easier, having eyes on her as she got dressed, certainly not eyes as hungry as Flora’s were right now. She did wish there were hungrier eyes there, Carly’s eyes, but that wasn’t meant to be. Tira had made it very clear that anyoneing along had to participate, not just watch, which was both fair and something Carly wasn’t willing to agree too. <i><span style="font-weight:400">Maybe next time.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you excited?” Flora asked, leaning towards ina as she unclipped her bra. “Have you ever done it before?”
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Excited? </i><span style="font-weight:400">ina wasn’t quite sure which version Flora meant, but she certainly felt one form of the feeling. “N— no. Not exactly…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? And what does <i><span style="font-weight:400">that </i><span style="font-weight:400">mean,” Flora said, stepping closer, eyes tracing over ina’s chest as she shrugged her bra off, covering her chest with her arms.
<span style="font-weight:400">“In— in my underwear, not naked.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’re gonna love it then! Gods, running naked is the best feeling. And rain both makes for good cover and feels great as well!”
<span style="font-weight:400">ina bit her lip, nodding. She knew she was going to like it, was <i><span style="font-weight:400">already</i><span style="font-weight:400"> liking just standing out there in only her panties, pulling them down as she crossed her legs to hide herself while Flora watched, feeling the slipperiness of her thighs rubbing against each other as she tried to hide her wetness.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Speak for yourself,” Tira said, sliding her shirt off, revealing remarkably toned back muscles that ina honestly didn’t get to appreciate enough. “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever done…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’ll love it too, promise!” Then a grin grew across Flora’s face, one that would’ve actually fit better on Tira. “And if you don’t, I’ll be your toy for a whole week.”
<span style="font-weight:400">If it weren’t for the downpour, ina would’ve thought time had stopped. She sure stopped moving, Flora stopped moving, and Tira Strask was as still as a statue.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’re on.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tira started making up for lost time it seemed, throwing her skirt to the side, pulling off her bra, leaning over and presenting her ass to her friends as she ripped off her underwear.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright,” she said, turning around and covering herself with her hands, only the smallest hint of her thin strip of pubic hair peeking out. The girl was still blushing, clearly, but there was a look of determination on her face as well. “Lead the way, Flower Girl.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright, but try to keep up!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Flora was off, and she was fast. ina and Tira both stood there for a moment before running after her, plunging themselves into the torrent of water and letting out small shrieks, instantly soaked as they chased after the sound of Flora’sughter.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fuck that’s cold!” Tira said. She was faster, but that wasn’t a bad thing entirely, ina soon realized. Tira looked downright <i><span style="font-weight:400">silly </i><span style="font-weight:400">running through the field, more waddling than running honestly, hands wrapped over her body. ina knew she looked the same, but at least no one could see her, right? There were the mindless armor suits walking around, but ina knew from experience and Flora both that they didn’t care about Endrin students walking around the grounds, clothed or not.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">What if the suits weren’t empty though? </i><span style="font-weight:400">ina couldn’t help but thinks back to that humiliating evening only a few nights prior, standing on stage just as naked as she was now, a hundred pairs of eyes on her for nearly two hours straight. That was certainly more embarrassing, but there was a different thrill to this, the trill of running, the fear of getting <i><span style="font-weight:400">caught</i><span style="font-weight:400">. Gods, she was going to need to relieve the pressure mounting in between her legs sooner rather thanter.
<span style="font-weight:400">Flora turned around, starting to run backwards just as a sh of lightning illuminated everything in sight, causing both ina and Tira to yelp as Flora got to take in the view of them running in their shame.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Faster! Don’t cover yourselves, just be free!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Not while you’re looking!” Tira shouted over the storm.
<span style="font-weight:400">“If you beat me to theke, I’ll give you another week of my being your toy!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fuck!” Tira sounded exasperated as she cursed but then she started tough. “Damn you, Florence Stouth!” she said as she dropped her arms, sprinting to try and catch up.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was never going to happen though. Once Tira started trying even a little bit Flora shouted, “Yippee!” and turned around again, darting through the rain at speeds ina never could have believed a human could run, aspected or not. Level 3 in addition to [Nature] was serving her physical abilities well, it seemed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Still, Tira wasn’t giving up, and ina had to drop her own arms to keep pace. It was a short run from that point, maybe thirty seconds of full sprinting at their top speeds before theke came into view, Flora leading the pack and diving in off a rock, Tira and inaing up and jumping in just a few seconds behind her. ina let out a gasp as she came up, unwittingly having winded herself when she collided with the water. <i><span style="font-weight:400">Gotta watch out for my own speed.</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey,” Tira said, treading water with her feet and folding her arms over her chest, once more reserved. “I said I’d streak here, not go swimming!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But what’s the point in that!” Flora said, backstroking across the water as sheughed, raindrops pitter pattering on both her body and theke surface. “And I never said you had to either, you jumped in on your own.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Tira sighed, shaking her head and smiling again. “Whatever. I guess you did beat me here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“And <span style="font-weight:400">you had fun!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I did <i><span style="font-weight:400">not </i><span style="font-weight:400">say that!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Not saying you didn’t either though, are you?” Flora said as she let her body fall back into the water, giving a wink.
<span style="font-weight:400">For a moment, ina felt a tiny twinge of regret. She’d had fun on the run, was still… <i><span style="font-weight:400">excited</i><span style="font-weight:400"> wading in the water, but she couldn’t help but feel like she was a third wheel. No matter how much was being left unsaid between her two friends, there was obviously something there, something ina wasn’t quite sure she fit into. Then Flora turned towards her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“ina, I’m horny. Do you wanna have sex?”