Commander's Rounds Volume 1

Entry 13: Lonely Phoenix

Taihou closed her eyes as the commander helped her out. "Ahh... My commander... my commander is helping make me pretty for him~" Her breaths became slightly heavy as he worked on brushing her astonishingly long hair. Aside from that little outburst, things went quietly. He wasn't about to try to arrange her hair, though, as that was well beyond his training as a naval officer, and he couldn't pick up every skill outside of his main set.

It took some time, but he did as good of a job as he knew how. "All right, that should do it-" and he was interrupted when she suddenly turned around, and put her hands on his knees, and looked right into his eyes not a few inches from his face. She just looked at him, unblinking for a good while, before sitting back. "Ah... My Commander can't get home? Does that mean he'll be staying here with me for a while?"

The commander gave her a nod. "I don't see why I wouldn't," he said, knowing very well there were reasons not to. "I do think about you too, after all." He wouldn't say in what context, of course.

Taihou giggled and lay down on the commander's lap. "Ah... When my commander thinks about me, he knows that there's just no other girl that can compare, so he comes straight to me when he's in trouble. If you want to be in my room, I won't stop you from staying- I might not like it if you leave, though~" She looked up at the commander. "My commander. My home, my hands, my body, they're all yours."

He began to stroke the top of Taihou's head, and she leaned into his hand, making some ominously pleasant noises. He looked to the door to make sure she hadn't locked him inside with her, and was relieved to see that she hadn't done any locks he couldn't undo in a hurry. Her breaths were sharp and quick, her huge breasts heaving against her clothes. "...So, you hate weather like this?"

"Mnnnhhh... who wouldn't? It keeps me indoors, and makes it impossible for me to leave and look for my commander- and that blonde girl doesn't mind rain at all, so she pesters me." She looked to him. "But today, my commander came to me, so it's not so bad~"

He continued to stroke her. "So, are you comfortable there?" He moved to stroking over her back at this point, and she even arched her back under this attention. She just leaned against him, basking in the close presence of her commander for a good while, and he could feel the ferocious pounding of her heart.

"Mmmm~ How could I not be, when it's commander. If I ever lost my commander, I wouldn't know what I'd do... My commander is my everything who came to me when I had nothing." She giggled. "Now, commander, what are you afraid of?"

He had a response that was more ready than he would've thought. "Well, I would've thought you had found out everything about me by now."

She nuzzled into his lap. "I want to know so I can look after commander and squash anything he fears. Does commander fear death, or something?"

He considered. There was a time where the answer to that would have been yes, but now... Especially with what Yuubari was working on... "Death is a big fear of mine, like it is for most people, but it's not the greatest fear."

Taihou leaned up and nuzzled into his neck, pressing herself against him. "So, what terrifies commander the most?"

He shook his head. "Nothing that you can squash, I'm afraid."

"Mhmmm... Well, you can tease all you like, commander, but you know I'll find out." She giggled. "I can't be perfect for commander if I don't learn everything about him, can I?"

While he wasn't yet ready to tell Taihou his greatest fear, the fact of the matter is that she was, in her own way, oddly trustworthy- she would do absolutely anything he asked to a sometimes disturbing degree, so maybe he could trust her with other things. "How about this- I'll tell you something else about me- something not many people know."