My Band of Idiots

Paws at the Pink Palace

The next day was a lazy day for us but Bel and I went along to help Juliana at her office again. I don't know how much help I was making paper kites and origami. But I had fun and entertained myself. Folding the paper up as Bel finished his the paperwork.
There were flowers and frogs and turtles and ducks and swan and a dragon, and all kinds of stars scattered about the room. Juliana looked at them and smiled at me.
"This seams like a better use of them then just sitting in our files" she laughed.
"Drinks?" Bel asked
"I unfortunately have other work to do, I will be setting up some of the suggestions you had the previous day, it is time we what is the word industrialized? Yes perhaps that is it"
"Well good luck with that, Bel I have to stop by work, you coming or what?"
"I have no quillums"
Juliana opened her mouth then shook her head and called out the door as we left "Oswald?"
Oswald the gnome came running at once he stoped us in the door and said "thank you for whatever it is you have done to improve her mood, she is so much happier these days."
"That is what a good shake up can do" said Bel
I looked at him oddly.
"A shake up, she needed things changed, you know when things become to routine you have to do something different because your just looking at the same old things everyday."
"Right" I said as we traveled down the road, I pointed him towards where we needed to get to until we reached the destination we were going.
The palace a two story pink building with a walkway on the second floor and three woman Lily, Jasmine and Jana stood out front. Lily was a blond teifling with ruby skin and horns that she had shaved down to little numbs. Jasmine, was a purple teifling with dark black hair that fell down past her waist and she kept rings and bobbles in it that she had received from various patrons. Jana was tall and slim, a teifling of dark black skin with ruby eyes and hair, she always wore scarlet red lipstick and red dresses to match the fiery astestic.
"Stay here" I told Bel as I left him outside walking towards the large ornate golden doors and the three woman treated me.
"Hello lady's" I said
"Were very board today paws" Lily giggled
"Who is your friend" asked Jasmine
"Leave him be" I said walking into the doors and of corse I couldn't trust them not to bother him.
Inside was the delicately lewd scene it always was. People prot against couches and crushes kissing and touching in intimate ways, others having conversations over drinks and leading one another upstairs. Nothing to intimate that was better left to the bedrooms. There were a few couples in corners who might be partaking in more extremities activity's enjoying the ecstasy of public indecency. But for the most part that was left to more out of the way spaces. We didn't want to scare off more meek individuals.
Bel outside might find this first room quite fine after all, but go deeper into the place, and he might find chambers with quite unusual devices for satisfying pain and in turn pleasure for what is one without the other.
I was sure the girls I had left him with were having fun interrogating him and he was more then likely halfway up the street if Jana had her way with him. But if they had let him be he might still be there when I get back. It wasn't my business what he was into. He seamed delicate but Nobles always seamed stuffy until you looked a little closer.
I found the lady, the mistress of the house she had a thin chiffon dress on and was smoking a long thin cigarette her pointed chin and dark eyes watching the room, she wanted to watch the more delicate members and make sure our girls didn't get miss treated. Always on alert.
The Lady, I did not know and did not care to know her real name, was youngish and beautiful and had a short brown bob that cut around her ears sharply. Defining her already sharp features even more. Her body was slim and yet she had a muscle to her that was very easily a dancers body. We all danced sometimes, for performance and private show, for our lords and lady's and all patrons for one another to practice to stay fit, to stay attuned to our body's should we need to fight. We sometimes had to fight the men and woman who came to partake in our special services either for a sort of pleasure they took in it or because they would not pay us or tried to hurt us.
This was how I became one of the brothel workers, the lady picked me up in the street. I was working there on my own, pimping myself out as it were. She asked me what would happen if she didn't want to pay me. I didn't know, I didn't fully understand the language yet. I knew a guard and she laughed. She said what if she tried to hurt me. I pulled out a dagger. We fought afterwords she told me she would hire me at the palace that it was a brothel and that she could train me how to use a dagger properly and steal gold from people who tried to harm me. I respected her for that.
When I find the lady I lean against the stairs and fall into an easy stance.
"So I had a bit of a problem with a client the other day" I say
Her eyes shift over to me and her mothering voice pitches to me "are you alright, do you need anything?"
"No, no I took care of it"
"What happen?" She asks, that little tic in her voice catching in the same way my mothers does in low sivonan, demurring and low class.
"Nothin, he just didn't want to pay, so I stoll it from him."
"Your okay thou, he didn't get agressive? Your not hurt are you?"
"No, no, nothing I'm not use to"
She looks at me with that piercing gaze that same look my mother gives me.
"I'm fine" I tell her, its true, I'm fine, I am always fine, I don't need her or anyone, I am the one who protects people, protect her, my mother, protects bel, protects the group. I can do that at least.
She nods as if she's read my mind and I go to step away, she raises a hand to stop me and I look up at her again.
"There is a young man here, who is eager to meet you, a lord Leon Lenore, he wishes some company, will you accompany him to the party tonight?"
"Of corse."
"Excellent. I will let him know." She raises her eyes to someone and I look over, I see him, he's sitting at a table having a drink of wine, he's alone, tall with drank brown hair that is slightly curled and quaft and his eyes are blue. He is mage I think, and at that my stomach tightens in a iron grip, my body runs cold all at once, I am smooth and silky and I don't know what makes me do it but I walk over to him. I slid onto his lap easily and look up at him. He looks down at me a bit surprised and then he smiles easily.
"Hello"
"Hello handsome, I am told were to be companions tonight"
"So we are. You are quite beautiful, I saw you yesterday when I got in."
"Oh?" I say still looking up into his face. I want to remember this face.