Evania stumbled into the room as her mother held her hands over her eyes. She tightly gripped Sylvia's hand as she tripped over the step no one warned them about and nearly faceplanted into the ground had Gwen not been holding her eyes closed.
"Fuck! Are you fucking done yet?" Sylvia snarled. "I almost died and I think you gave me whip lash!"
"Almost!" Octavia's voice answered as Gwen just laughed. "Are you ready?"
"That's a dumb question." Evania retorted.
Octavia and Gwen laughed together before they stepped back, removing their hands from their daughter's faces. Evania's sensitive eyes blinked several times as they adjusted to the light of the interior of the new home she was standing in.
"Surprise!" Octavia smiled, clapping her hands together.
Evania and Sylvia blinked at what they were looking at. It was the entry way of a manor, with a center staircase that broke off into two staircases with a wrap around balcony on the second floor. There were two hallways under where the staircase turned 90 degrees, creating two different archways into those hallways. At the same time, there was a parlor to their right, and a dinning room to their left.
Tapestries of the Pendragon Crest, as well as the banners for Willow Creek University were hung up in this entry way, but Sylvia was staring at the portrait above the center piece of the staircase.
It was a beautiful painting of her father King Arthur. The only difference was his arms were wrapped around the adult versions of Sylvia and Evania, as though this picture had been taken recently.
Evania blinked in shock at the painting before turning around to look at her mother in shock. "Who painted this?"
"Alice did." Octavia explained with a smile.
"I showed her a painting of Arthur a while ago, and she gave this to me the next time I saw her. I thought it would be the perfect fit for your new home."
"Our new home?" Evania questioned.
"Wait... This mansion is ours?" Sylvia asked.
"Technically it's ours." Octavia explained. "But there's room for Gwen, Oscar, Sol and Mani for when they visit."
"You told me this was going to be another campus building." Evania noted.
"I mean, I wrote it off as an administrative building." Octavia shrugged. "I needed a bigger office and was sick of living in what was basically a fancy dorm. I wanted a home to share with my daughter for a while before I retired."
"This is insane. We can't accept this." Sylvia noted.
"I'll just give it to Vanessa then." Octavia shrugged.
"No!" Evania and Sylvia both retorted, getting Gwen and Octavia to laugh.
"Don't think she embezzled funds from her own school. I contributed. " Gwen explained. "If it's basically going to be a get away home here in the human world, it makes sense I should help pay for it."
"Your room is on the opposite side of the mansion right? I don't want to hear you having sex with dad."
"Isirona made the bedrooms pocket dimensions for that very reason." Octavia retorted. "I don't want to hear the two of you."
"Mom!" Evania growled.
"I'm just saying." She shrugged.
"Can we explore?" Sylvia asked.
"Of course. Your bedroom is the first one on the left side." Octavia pointed to the upstairs.
Sylvia smiled down at Evania before the two of them sprinted off into the house to explore as Octavia gently took Gwen's arm with a smile.
"Thank you for this." Octavia told her, watching her daughter and Sylvia sprint back and forth, pointing things out.
"It's my pleasure." Gwen answered. "If ever you need anything, I'm more than happy to help however I can."
"I'm just so happy she'll have people to look after and take care of her when I'm gone. I wanted to spend as much time with her as I could, knowing she'll live forever makes me want to make as many memories with her as I can." Octavia sighed.
"I will cherish and love her as my own daughter. Even if I have to fight Alice Daybreaker for her attention sometimes." Gwen smiled. "Oscar, the twins and myself will make sure she knows love every moment of everyday. Of course, when Sylvia grants us the pleasure of her presence."
"Even still. Thank you. I feel so much better knowing you're all taking care of her."
"She's made a great many friends, but she's done that all on her own. Between her and Sylvia, your school will go on to be the be one of if not the best school in this Realm. It easily already rivals the Wizards Tower, and I'm sure Aileena is contemplating coming here."
"If she left I'm sure the Tower would collapse." Octavia scoffed.
"Honestly, I spoke with her the other day. Aileena and the Headmaster are debating on asking you if they could move the Tower above Willow Creek and combine the two schools."
"What? They would do that?"
"They're thinking about it. It may take a great many years to come to a decision, but it's a thought at the moment."
"I don't know what could possibly come of that."
"I don't think anyone does." Gwen chuckled. "We're in a beautiful time of peace where things only seem to be getting better. I'm sure some kind of chaos is around the corner, but between this school and the Tower, I doubt there will be any threat that cannot be handled. Especially now that Sylvia has embraced herself. She is by far one of the most powerful beings I've ever seen. And that doesn't even include her swords."
"I've been meaning to ask you, did she get Alice's invitation?"
Gwen chuckled. "She did. But I think she still feels as though she has too much attention from beating Kai, and is afraid to beat Alice."
"I would still love to see it." Octavia smiled.
"I think everyone would."
Evania dragged Sylvia towards their room where she threw it opened, finding a beautiful master bedroom with blue sheets that almost appeared to be made with the petals of a thousand blue roses all woven together. There was a golden curtain that hung above it, opening only at the end to reveal the bed, yet seeming to loop over both sides like an archway. The wallpaper of the room was blue with golden crests on the walls that matched the Pendragon crest to a T. There were two desks on either side of the door, and bookshelves lining both of the side walls. They had a private bathroom, on the left side of the room and a walk in closet on the right side of the room. There were no windows or balcony, and the back wall had a large sitting area, and a large TV on the other with a couch facing it. The sitting area consisted of a love seat against the wall, surrounded by a small indent in the ground that was covered in pillows, similar to the room in Sylvia's pocket dimension. In front of the large bed, was a portal frame on a small elevated platform, however the frame was empty.
"Its all gold and blue." Sylvia pouted.
"Those are your favorite colors." Evania questioned, tearing her eyes from the amazing room to look at Sylvia with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course. This room is amazing! But... It looks like its designed for me." Sylvia noted. "There should be purples and reds here."
"Are you kidding me?"
"No! It looks like-"
"Sylvia, this room is perfect just the way it is. Sure, we still have to bring our stuff and decorations over, but this room is amazing! I honestly wouldn't change any of it." Evania noted with a smile as she motioned towards the rest of the room.
"Are you sure?" Sylvia asked.
"I promise." Evania smiled. "I'm going to have to memorize it so we can show our dads."
Sylvia rolled her eyes. "We can show them at any time. We should prioritize us actually moving in and getting settled." Sylvia smiled.
"Of course. I'm just saying, I will be showing them." Evania answered.
"I expect nothing less Treasure." Sylvia chuckled before stepping into the room. The floor was a thick carpet that felt like walking on a soft cloud. The succubus couldn't help but take her shoes off and walk across it as she sat on the bed before smiling. "It's a very nice bed."
"I'm sure."
Sylvia wiggled her eyebrows. "We're going to have to break it in."
"We have so many more places to have sex on now." Evania teased, matching the succubus's playful energy as she rolled her eyes. She walked forward, seating herself on Sylvia's lap as she wrapped her arms around the succubus' neck.
"I do hope your mother brought ear plugs." Sylvia answered, her arms wrapping around Evania.
"Only one way to find out."
Just as they started kissing and Sylvia felt her breath being taken away, Octavia cleared her throat from behind them getting them to flinch and look at her in the doorway.
"Not to interrupt, but we should start moving your stuff over. I figured a permanent portal will make things easier since you can open another doorway in your dorm room and just bring things over. " Octavia explained. "But I figured I'd stop you before you got distracted."
"Good choice." Sylvia chuckled, getting Evania to slap her on the arm. Even if she could act lewd in front of Sylvia and even her friends, saying those things in front of her mother still made her embarrassed.
"Tell me I'm wrong then." Octavia scoffed with a laugh. "Finish moving your stuff over, then enjoy mindless sex on 'all the places your going to have sex on'."
"Mom!"
"Heh, mom is rubbing off on you." Sylvia chuckled, getting Evania's face to turn bright red as she glared back at Sylvia before looking at her mother who smiled.
"Please, with all the teasing you alone do I had to get over it pretty quick." Octavia laughed and closed the door behind her as she left.
"Are you kidding me Sylvia?" Evania growled.
"Of course not Treasure."
Evania flicked Sylvia on the nose before standing up. "Let's just move our stuff over."
"Then we can break in the bed?"
Evania glared over her shoulder before stepping up towards the portal frame and drawing in Sylvia's door. Sure enough, the portal opened, crackling and reshaping to fit the frame before the magic seemed to stabilize perfectly.
"Let's get to work Sprinkles."
"Sprinkles?" Sylvia raised a curious eyebrow as she stood up. "Is that my new pet name?"
"Well, if I'm your greatest Treasure, your my Sprinkle of joy on everything I do." Evania answered.
Sylvia's smile was all the answer Evania needed to know it was perfect.
Book 1
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