### Sex God Saga 12
### Party Hard, Fuck Harder
Still SUNDAY:
Theo would have accepted being under 'house arrest' or getting stored in the Mage Tower and chatting with whoever was playing music for Ascelin today or maybe meeting some random muses.
But the Onxy Skies invited him over, so Keith dropped him off at the darkest among the towers piercing the skyline of Harpersfield.
It was his first time entering through the lobby by himself. Leylani fetched him. She was dressed more for a party than business, light silver bands woven into her cornrows, a formfitting dress under a dark, flowy gown.
They ascended to the 25th floor, where the Stygians tended to hold council, and Theo was led into a small lounge overlooking the square.
"So Theo," Leylani started. "I can call you Theo, right?" She appeared to summon a notebook from thin air and leaved through it. "This is Calendar, my familiar. Or the familiar of whoever is steward. It keeps information from prying eyes. Damien mentioned we found your birth parents?"
"Yes, ma'am. They're apparently... unremarkable Europeans."
"Baseliners, pretty sure. So we're not going to push too much. But I found *something* pertaining to the Mysterium." Her polite, minimal smile grew into a softer expression. "Would you rather know more about them or not?"
"Not really? Not right now at least."
She took it in stride. "In that case... A few years before your birth, your bio-father was good friends with a known, white Stygian. Felix Nilsson from Copenhagen. And I mean really good friends. Bank records show he lent your bio-father serious sums a few times, likely for rent and heating bills. And he seems to have traveled to your bio-parents location several times. We don't know how they met initially but... I'm not sure how to say this."
Theo stayed quiet but gave an encouraging nod.
"Your bio-father is blond but... so was Felix. His financial aid intensified after you were born. And he's dead now. Maybe he just moved to a different host and went off the record but there's a grave and... I'm not sure how much you know about Stygians creating descendants but it's a tricky process that can cost more than one of us can give."
"You think he... I'm a Stygian?"
"It's a stretch, I admit, but if he felt guilty for using your bio-parents like this, probably tricking your official bio-father." She wiggled her hand. "You might be a... botched transfer."
She let him stew for a moment before continuing. "Would you like to try unlocking your abilities, *if* they exist?"
"Sure. Can't hurt. Or, wait, *does* it hurt?"
Leylani laughed for the first time. "Depends."
"On?"
"If you can make your teacher go gentle on you."
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Floor 21. Theo was just out the elevator and Paris opened his apartment door, wearing slacks and a fully open shirt with gold buttons. His hair was tied up by a gold-thread scrunchy.
"Hey cutie," the prince said, leaning on his own door. "I heard you had a tough day so far. Tell me how to make it better."
Theo slipped his hands under the shirt, around Paris' waist. "I can tell what *you're* in the mood for."
He pushed the prince into the apartment while kissing passionately.
Paris pushed him off with a chuckle. "Damn, that worked a little too well on you, huh?"
"Not to make this weird but getting demon raped riles me up and I haven't found the time to jerk o- Hi Damien!"
Paris laughed and led Theo by the small of his back into the living room.
Damien sat on the sofa with legs far apart. The slightly taller, broader built Stygian wore a leopard pattern silk shirt and artfully torn jeans.
"So I heard you might be one of us," Damien said. "If a little wonky."
Theo shrugged. "Your steward seems to think so."
The crown prince patted the spot next to him. "Shouldn't be so hard to teach you a thing or two."
Theo sat down, Paris dropped next to him, his arm around the backrest and gently brushing Theo's neck.
"Mesmerizing," Damien started, "And noosphere sight are inherent powers so they should be no more difficult to access than your so called 'pulse'."
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Any attempt to mesmerize was a failure. Theo couldn't command Paris to so much as close his eyes. The prince kept revenge-mesmerizing the shaman, though. Theo had involuntarily taken off his shirt enough times that Damien eventually told his brother off.
By contrast, Theo saw into the noosphere within a minute.
The room seemed tinged in gray, with only the Stygians emanating impressions, like colors. Not colors Theo could have put a name to -- it was just his closest metaphor.
"Great," Damien said. "You can now perceive emotions, motives and drives. The more people there are, having the same feelings or motivations, the more obvious it's going to be and the more anyone who feels differently will stick out."
Paris put his hand on Theo's thigh. "It takes practice to know what you're seeing exactly. Can you guess what drives me right now?"
"Guessing you're horny."
"Bingo."
Theo looked over at Damien. "You're, uh, am I overlooking something or..."
"Nope," Damien said with a chuckle. "I'm horny, too. Paris had sung your praises enough I'm at least curious. I'd rather you weren't a guy, but apparently you convinced Tank to jump teams."
"I... That's a compliment or..."
Paris' hand moved up to Theo's crotch. "An invitation, dummy. Do you want to? No obligations but we can both tell it excites you."
"Hey, no f-fair," Theo said. "Don't noosphere-scan me like that. A-are you two okay with that?"
Damien gave a shrug and grunt. "We've not shared someone before but we've been... in the same room. Fucking different people."
"Um, o...kay?"
The crown prince picked up his scarf of faded green linen and balled it up in his hand where it turned into a brown mouse. "Alice, honey, you keep an eye out."
"Will do," the mouse said with the voice of a girl and hopped off the hand to race onto a bookshelf across the room.
Theo was already getting stripped by Paris and returned the favor. Quickly, the blond shaman sat naked between the Bellerose heirs who were down to their underwear. All three erections were hard or getting there.
Damien traced Theo's collarbones. "I can't do this with any chicks cause I can't ask Baseliners for magic consent. Can I mesmerize you?"
"Sure," Theo said. "Didn't make it less fun last time."
Damien paused. "Paris dazzled you before? Okay then." He leaned in, pulling his Calvin Klein boxers down. "Suck me."