Shadow Slave- Back in time.

Ch. 30

Nephis moved her hand to his hair, the other behind his neck, bringing him closer. She then kissed the border of his lips and the line of his jaw. She was about to continue their kissing session when she noticed that he wasn't answering in kind. She looked up to him again.

"Do you need a little bit of help? You are a little ten-"

The words died in her throat at the panicked look of his eyes, staring horrified at something behind her.

Nephis, now tense too, slowly turned towards the source of horror.

Illuminated by the morning light, an olive-skinned woman was standing in the entrance. She was luckily covered, albeit by only a light tunic. Her body was as frozen in time: jaw on the floor, eyer wider than Godgrave's skull's, fixated on them.

Her eyes began to slowly narrow, as if she had been encased in ice that was now slowly melting. Then it was the mouth which curled up into a devilish smile. Her arm rose slowly, as if pressing against the force of an overwhelming gravity, and pointed at them.

"Ah!"

The victorious exclamation ricocheted off the walls of the room, echoing into nothingness. Nobody moved for a second. And then...

"Princess! You kissed Doofus! I knew it!"

Nephis looked at her lover, whose expression was now normal, for a moment.

Give her a hard time, Neph.

I will be the mouth with which you can lie, Sunny.

The exchange happened in less than a second.

The beauty slowly raise form the bed.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Effie disbelieving face made Sunny want to snicker.

"What!? You kissed him! I saw it!"

Nephis walked up to Effie, analysing her face.

"Effie, are you sure you are feeling well? I told you to stay away from those strange mushrooms."

The huntress stuttered.

"I didn't eat anything strange! I saw that you kissed him! You were also sleeping together!"

Calm, usual expressionless face.

"Did not."

Effie was nearing her limit.

"Yes, you did! You- you even asked him if he needed a hand in that strange tone!"

Nephis was an impenetrable fortress.

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You did!"

"Did not."

"You didn't!"

Nephis nodded.

"Exactly. I didn't."

Effie let out something akin to both a crazy laugh and a wet cry. She held her head in her hands, no longer sane.