A loud creak echoed in one of the courtyards of a manor complex. It had originated from two large stone boulders that were rotating around each other in the air. The devilish sound had come from yet another mistake Councilor Lynara had done during her telekinesis practice.
"Mistress, it would seem it is a good time to take a break," a blue-haired half-elf maid named Mina voiced. Her green eyes were locked on the silver-haired beauty that dominated the yard with her two floating decorative stones.
"Break to do what? Look at more documents? I told you just to approve them with my seal," Lynara shrugged and made the stones spin like she was performing in some party. She wore a fancy purple dress that almost matched her eyes.
"Please stop trying to get me executed," Mina replied with a shift of her ponytail that rested on her left shoulder. She stepped back into the shadow of the side pillars like she gave up on her suggestion.
"Nobody would know, in fact, some might even appreciate that someone read the papers before they were approved," Lynara replied while grinning at her maid that wore a blue and white outfit.
"Please take dealing with the matters of your district a bit more seriously, there are hundreds of thousands of people that rely on you to make the right choices," Mina voiced with a calm tone. Like she was more than used to talking to her mistress like this.
"Well... I have been thinking, since the District Councilors are elected into the office, why can't I just set an election booth to let the people vote if they want to stamp the papers or not," Lynara said and moved the rocks to create a shadow to guard her against the oppressive summer sun.
"Please stop trying to avoid doing your job, people voted for you to do that so they don't have to," Mina said. Her serene voice easily carried the distance it had to.
"But why would they do that? It's not like most of these things affect me in any way," Lynara shrugged and let the stones drop to the two spots on the yard they were lifted from. Then she gave a short stroke to the left side of her freely flowing silky hair.
"Your sister would be so disappointed if she heard you talk nonsense like this even after getting an actual job," Mina retorted while she watched Lynara walk to hide behind a nearby pillar.
"I wish she was here to be so, ever since this dumb war started, I'm barely allowed to leave this damn manor and she barely writes to me," Lynara flared and glanced at the sun that she could have sworn was hotter than before the war. Though she immediately looked away to blink as there was no way she could stare at the object in the sky to change its temperature.
"Please don't call the war to resist the planet turning into a minotaur slave pen dumb," Mina said. There was a small alteration in her tone like her mistress finally said something that made her show slight emotion.
"Fine, I just wish my sister was not the one fighting it," Lynara voiced even as the sturdy pillars now blocked the vision between the two women.
"If she was not, would you have volunteered to fill the House quota to our republic?" Mina asked. She shrugged and began walking towards the voice of her mistress.
"I thought you don't do jokes? What could my role be? Dropped from an airship to annoy the enemy to death?" Lynara grinned. There was odd sadness in her tone while she moved along the pillars to avoid being seen by Mina, like in some game of hide and seek.
"I'm sure the minotaur Horn Lord would appreciate your enthusiasm in his city spawning slave harem," Mina stated while she managed to see a glimpse of her mistress' dress.
"Is that something you think often?" Lynara asked with a head tilt from behind a pillar.
"Excuse me?" Mina uttered and shifted her eyes to the ground.
"That your mistress is enslaved by minotaurs and forced to serve them?" Lynara said with a slight smile. "How my body is used to pleasure their monstrous manhoods?"
"Please don't say something so improper," Mina voiced with a hard swallow and looked up to glare only to see that the silver-haired head had disappeared again.
"Fine, for a moment there I thought you would be more fun than usual," Lynara pouted and relocated behind the pillars at the end of the courtyard.
"Please reconsider what you consider as fun," Mina said while her eyes followed the purple shadow dash with a magical blur between the white marble. At least her playful mistress was using this as an opportunity to further practice her magic.
"So you never think about your naughty mistress being punished?" Lynara asked from behind Mina with enough surprise to make the maid jolt.
"Of course not, please consider taking a rest to clear your mind," Mina said with a lick of her drying lips. "You must have been too long in the sun."
"Fine, I think a nap on the hall couch would be in order," Lynara voiced and headed for a door.
"Please use your bed, did you forget the pain you had last time?" Mina voiced after her mistress. She just waved while walking away.
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By the time Lynara walked to her bedroom, she was no longer feeling tired from the strain of the magic practice. So she ventured to her balcony to look at the walled garden below it. It was a rare sight in the large industrial district that surrounded the official residence of the councilor that had been elected to govern it.
Even if Lynara had resided in the manor for months now, there still were some places she had not explored yet. One of them was the roof and it just happened her head maid was nowhere to be seen and the mist from the factories was forming around the manor to even block the cursed sun. Just the perfect opportunity for the noble lady to use her magic to float up from her balcony and onto the roof. So she did just that.
The mist smelled a bit funny but it was purified with magic seals to the point it did not even kill plants, so Lynara did not mind while she walked along the rooftop. Her first stop was to go overlook the courtyard she had been just practicing on. It had no windows for safety reasons so the noble lady had never seen it from high before.
A weird whistling sound jolted Lynara and her attention was drawn to one of the marble pillars at the edge of the yard. She saw a shadow of a figure move and heard a short murmur followed by an oddly familiar whimper. So the noble lady tilted her head from curiosity and silently floated down while using the pillars as cover.
The moment Lynara saw a maid in blue and white being held by an orc, she froze. The orc wore the green uniform of the orcish guard units, but his pants had been dropped down and the pale thighs of the maid were embracing him. She was being held against the pillar from her ass by big green hands while her torso leaned into the marble.
It took several seconds for Lynara to realize the maid with a gaping grin was Mina. She had never seen the blue-haired half-elf look so wild and uncollected. Just seeing it was enough to make the noble lady flash a devious smile. She was not going to let her personal head maid forget this had happened.
