World of Alvarra: Rise of the Vampire Lord

Chapter 126 new Bonds

Almost three weeks later, Luna and Agnès were spending time together as usual while Luna's arm healed. The two going over tips and tricks on how to embroider and add cute and cool designs to their clothing. Over the course of a couple of weeks, Agnès would try to teach Luna about embroidering runic symbols to add enchantments to the clothing, something that flew a bit over Luna's head but tried to keep up with the best she could.

The two have been bonding over their shared passion for tailoring and herbs, though Agnès for healing and medicine and Luna for adding taste to food with benefits to temporary adding extra stamina recovery and other things. The both sharing fun experiences about the things they learned and discussed what could be used for what as they shared their knowledge with each other.

As the two talked, they would sew cute little clothes for the goblins, gushing when they had the cute little things wear them. Luna's arm had healed enough to be mostly useful, a combination of having a proper doctor around and her own healing factor, mixed with her training to increase that healing factor even higher. So while a bit slower than Agnès, she still was able to deftly move her fingers in and out of the cloth, slowly adding another frill or cute design to the simple dress in her hands.

But as all girls were want to do, after a while, they would discuss gossip and other things out of boredom and curiosity. Luna asking a somewhat personal question of Agnès.

"Soo... " Luna began, wondering how she was going to ask this. She knew that Agnès had a different view of things, but she didn't fully understand it, so she had to ask for the sake of her own curiosity and to better understand her new friend. Who she genuinely enjoyed getting along with.

"I heard you don't want to have sex with Van... But... no offense... but you... your body that is... well... you say you don't want it, but it's kinda clear to everybody that your body says something different... you almost look like you're on withdrawal. I'm mean... I know we probably don't give you enough privacy for you to take care of it yourself, and Van and the girls and myself constantly doing it probably makes it worse... but... why not just join us? Honestly speaking, unless you have someone else in your heart, it should be fine. And I honestly wouldn't mind you having sex with Van if that's what your worried about. So maybe... you know... you should do it for your own health? I mean... Why are you so against having sex in the first place?" Luna asked in a meandering way, her voice clearly worried about Agnès's well-being, as she saw her friend's body look more haggard by the day.

Agnès at first looked confused, then blushed a deep red, then redder as Luna continued. She did her best to reign her expression in as Luna spoke, and at the end, realized that Luna was actually really worried about her, which embarrassed her further, while at the same time being touched by her friend's concern. She also wanted to laugh a bit near the end but thought that would be rude, in the end though, it was that last sentence that made her pause. As Luna clearly looked like she couldn't understand why any woman wouldn't be interested in sex.

It was things like this that made Agnès feel alienated. At first, she just thought it was just her mother that was the weird one. After all, she was very young when they first left the forest and the coven to explore the world, looking for a cure to her problems after that... incident...

They even went and found people who could help them, though the price wasn't something they could easily afford, and not many would want to help a witch and her daughter... so all that moving around, didn't really give her the time to pick up on the social cues of society. Then spending the other half of her life stuck in this forest with no one else but her mother and the fairies for company. She had some hints of it before with the fairies, but always chalked it up to their being mischievous little things... But it was times like these that made it clear... that perhaps it really was her that might be the strange one in this world...