Just what I wanted. "I guess you'll do. Are you certain that you want to enter into my service. This is the last chance to back out." I said with a smile. They both nodded their heads furiously. "Then, at the next battle, you will come with me for that battle. In the meantime, I will arrange some women for you. I treat my servants well because it is the right thing to do. In return, I expect the very best from them when I need them. Do you understand!?" I told them. They looked like they were going to cry. Maybe I went a bit far in messing with their emotions. I was going to console them when Zox returned to us. He looked like he was out of breath. That should not be possibly. I asked "What happened to you? You're panting like you're a human. Are you alright?" He grit his teeth. "Those children are devious. Just as I was giving a stern taking to for one of them, another child ran behind us and poked me in the sheathe with his fingers. It was so damn sudden, my blade nearly emerged." he said. "Where was your sheathe? Some spirits have them in different spots. I asked him to clarify.
Keeping the blush off his face seemingly impossible. I had my fears confirmed as he turned, bent over and spread his cheeks apart. Luckily, he was wearing his trousers here. Then again, that did not matter. He was a spirit. A child played a silly prank and his sword nearly came out his asshole. "You must be really sensitive." Tev said. He was shaking his head in disbelief. "What happened next?" I asked. This was a morbid curiosity at this point. They also wanted to know. Righting himself and facing me, he cleared his throat. "Obviously, I kicked him away. I can't have a child claiming me. That was when another child grabbed onto the hilt. No child can match my strength, but it was still a struggle getting them to let go long enough for me to dismiss it. After that, I had to track down the other children climbing on Lord Ace's shrine. After that, I returned." he finished his story. I was glad he was not among them when I was choosing among them. This would have definitely made me abandon the notion of taking another servant entirely. In the end, I had Ras and Uri now in my service.
Leaving them, I decided to make good on my promise. I went to 2 single women. I confirmed that they really were not taken. When I was sure they were free. I asked if they wanted to marry a couple of spirits. They looked at each other. "Do we get to live in those cute houses in the village section?" one asked. I nodded. There were still over a couple dozen that were still unoccupied. They just shrugged and agreed. It turned out that they were a pair of the former prostitutes. No one was going to marry them and they were not rich enough from fucking to have their own homes here. A prostitute as a wife would get any many that approached them laughed out of town. It was just how things went. They had rooms in the brothel. Now that they were married to the spirits, they moved up in their status. They had homes and the spirits they were marrying would not care. It's not like they really grasped the concept of prostitution anyway. I let them pick the ones that spoke to them. They chose to live pretty far from the rest of us. It was not a polar opposite end of the houses, but 13?
