The Mage looked happily unbalanced.The Mage looked happily unbalanced. "You are he!" "Yes, sir. I created the 'Pleasure' base." I blushed, embarassed. "I realize I have acheived a bit of notoriety from that." "Yes. We'll have to work on that arousal pattern you have, get it down from twelve seconds to one." He grinned. "You'll have to find your arousal in the satisfaction of the act, not the other way around. We'll manage." He looked at my staff curiously. "Is that staff yours?" "Yes, sir. It was given to me by Desa Megassi, Master Mage of Hakkana." "Well then, Mage Darryn, welcome to my home. You are once again Student Darryn as well, you understand." I bowed my head, agreeing to the term. "Excellent. Brand, show Darryn to room three, would you?" She nodded. "Come with me." Lien Pappen, it turned out, was considered the sexual mage on Campus simply because he was the only mage of advanced skill who could do sexual work. Sex was a consuming passion with him and what he preferred, but it was not what he did best. Where his expertise lay magically was in process work. When I described the spell I had cast on myself and my beloved Ryuchia, he postively glowed. "Darryn, I must ask that I see you perform this spell process." "With whom, sir?" "I would ask that you perform it on me. I cannot ask you to perform it on Brand since she is a woman, and therefore not to your liking." "Yes sir." I explained the procedures necessary, and he agreed to them. We arranged a space in his basement in which to build the equipment necessary. I felt releived to be in my own element again; it had been three months since my arrival at the campus and I had begun to feel depressed. I was without lovers here, a state not to my liking and certainly discouraging to a mage of my studies. Unlike dragons, the people in Barraminum regarded my preferences as disagreeable and limited my attentions to the boyhouses by the waterfront. And although my allowances would certainly allow me to wander down there once in a while for releif, I did not relish the idea of purchasing relief. I craved friendship and a friendly bed, not what these places offered. Lien joined me when I announced I was ready. |