Futanari System

Stepping Away

Things were now moving along with the Illusion wizard tower. The negotiations would take a couple of weeks before signing, and Queen Mira was now the one becoming frustrated. Each meeting, she would bring up my kids and what I wanted to do at least once.

Every time, I ended the conversation with the same statement. 'I have told you the only deal I am willing to make. If you want to take the deal, we can move forward with it and begin to hatch out its exact wording. If not, then there is nothing I can do about it. I will not allow it to affect our other dealings.'

The reason for her frustration I started to find, though, was the fact that her eyes were watching Doorknocker being pleased by Se Mon, Julia, and sometimes Tammy. The ladies were showing up to play with Doorknocker while I talked to Queen Mira. I didn't even think they were teasing her on purpose.

Still, I was moving the negotiations forward, and I heard no complaints so far about Anthoney. In fact, Queen Mira even thanked me for dealing with him so that the women working with him felt more comfortable. With that being moved along, I moved to the next meeting with the Medusa Representative of their government.

The Snakes in her hair were loose and were a charming color of blue in many different shades of it. Her smile was just as charming, and I smiled back. "Representative Gloria, it is a pleasure to see you again," I told a lie through my teeth.

"Ambassador Chelsea," She replied with matching enthusiasm and less politeness. "You have done very little since you have gotten here, just like your previous Ambassador," Gloria said with a grin that spoke more than I wished.

That being said, we both knew that was a lie. Ralph was a failure all around, and I already got them to dispatch ships to deal with the growing pirate threat to help both our economies. Still, the Medusa representative was one of the largest advocates for something that pissed me off to no end. Gloria was fighting for something to be put in the Free Trade agreement that earned the support of several other groups near our border.

"So, Have you changed your mind on the Fishing rights?" Gloria asked with a sharp grin.

"No, I will not and cannot give the rights to free fishing in our coasts to the Demon lands. That is Unless you add that the Beast-kin nation will have the same unfettered freedom in the Demon lands waters." I replied tartly.

"We are defending your waters. Why shouldn't we be allowed to fish in the waters that we defend?" Gloria replied with a smile.

"You are not defending our waters. You are hunting on them for Pirates that have run from your waters into ours since you were not protection merchants as much as you needed to. But," I smirked as I tried to turn things with a wicked thought I suddenly had, "I decided I might be able to sell it to my nation is if whoever defends those waters regardless of which nation is near them can fish in them if that nation is the one to protect those waters." I told her with a grin that I purposefully put malice in.

Gloria thought about the exact wording I used and grimaced. I could see the wheels in her mind on what I had in mind. In the short term, my nation would lose out on a large coastal fishing area. In the long term, though, it would fuel a ship-building program that might start a Naval cold war with the Demon lands afterward. It wasn't the best thing, but I looked much more into the future than she might have thought.

"No, We will go off based on what is happening now," Gloria said, and I stood up.

"I will no longer negotiate with you then," I said, surprising her. "Your position will destroy any form of free trade, and I have given alternatives. I will not be able to sell this to my nation; therefore, this is a waste of my time to be discussing this. I will add one more thing, Representative Gloria. I will no longer negotiate with the Medusa people on this until you change your stance on Fishing rights. I will look to find a deal with the other races or end negotiations in total if the Demon nation insists on this addition. You may take that to the House of Representatives." I said sternly.