20 The competitive Ciri (Part 1)

[Was super tempted to just double upload when I uploaded yesterday, but decided against it. Gotta pace myself.]

We have made it back to Crows perch earlier than we expected. I want to know what Ciri has been through the past 11 years as well, but that will have to wait when the mood is right. I know she is strong and has never experienced sexual violence as most pretty woman like her do, but I know her life couldn't have been easy. She is a special girl to many. The wild hunt pursued her like they did me, she didn't have Yen to come and save her like I did however. I still don't know how Yen killed all those soldiers. She is regarded has the strongest woman though. I have faith in her ability's to fight.

There are many things I want to do with Ciri today. I wonder if she still likes the things we did when we were kids, competing with each other was a blast as I recall. I have a couple of idea's on what to do. I want to get her a gift too, something that will mean what I feel. I can't make up for the last 11 birthdays, but I can do something that shows I thought about all the ones I missed. She always loved carving things with her dagger back a Kaer Morhen. I am no artist, but I can carve wood to an acceptable degree. Maybe she will like it more since I'll make it. I can only hope for that. I'll work on it when I have free time.

"Now that we have the whole day to ourselves, is there anything special you want to do?" I am not a maestro with woman, but I remember Yen telling me you want to always ask a woman what they want to do, before you just decide. If it doesn't work I have to trick her into something.

"I was thinking of maybe looking into maintenance for my sword. Now that I have said that out loud, it sounds very boring." Seems I have to trick her since she is giving me nothing. Now what would two 21 year old's enjoy doing together. We can't do the obvious since we did that last night. The Baron has quite a number of horses up here. Maybe a friendly race will be a good time.

"How much do you like horses Ciri?" I need to plant the idea in her head with a simple question and let it sit and have her think for a few seconds, she will warm up to the idea given time. With her thinking about it, it will make the idea much easier to execute. The lengths I go for you.

"As much as the next girl. They are the fastest things we have. Loyal if you treat them right too." Seems my little plan worked. Now all I gotta do is use her personality against her. She's never been one to back down from a challenge after all.

"Well you were never that great at riding horses Ciri. I'm surprised you have so many good things to say about them." I said it as innocently as possible, but the ball is in her court now. After a couple of seconds she turns to me with fire in her eye's. Guess I had nothing to worry about.

"Care to wager Cera? I know I can beat your slow ass on a horse." My, what a shift in personality. The sweet and calm Ciri is gone and the one who never wants to lose is here. I succeeded in drawing out her competitive side now I just have to make her want to do it more.

"If my memory of Kaer Morhen serves me right. Every time you were on a horse you looked as lost as a virgin at an orgy." Insulting her skill in anything riles her up. Makes me feel kind of bad playing her like this. On the other hand its nice that I have someone I know so well.

"Your on Cera. I'm going to dominate you just like when we used to spar." Now I don't feel so bad. I have no question in her skills, I just want to have fun. This is the best way for me to do so. Getting in her head would be a good idea too. Gives me an advantage in the race.

"What, like how you dominated sex last night. I remember always being on top. I think your no better at dominating me than you are at horse riding." May be a little tasteless, but I know if I get in her head I'll win. I am not just doing this for fun. I'm doing this to win while having fun.

My, what a blush Ciri, seems my head games have worked. "Well.....You.....I'm..." Made her lose her words at what I said. Pretty cute, went from 0 to 100 to 0 again with just some trash talk.

"What's that Ciri? You agree? Wow, who would have thought you grew so mature." She cocks a smile and squints at me. Maybe I took it a little too far. It was pretty funny though.

"Let's go, you silver tongue." She says very confidently. Perhaps getting her like this was a poor decision. Not the first one I've made in the last 24 hours. However, go big or go home. I wonder how well she can keep her head in the game. When I made that little domination comment I saw a look in her eye's akin to last night during said domination.

We make our way to the Baron to ask if we can use some horses in a race. He agrees of course and we head off to the stables. We both pick out horses and make our own little course for the race. Its a point to point race and I believe it ends at an old run down tower. We wait for others to arrive because the Baron wanted to make a show out of it. Things get pretty dull around here, he is waiting at the finish line for us in a lightly drunken stupor.

"What a lovely way to have some fun don't you think?" After spending so much time with Gaunter I learned how to manipulate people. Not to the degrees of someone like him, but to people who are more emotional. People like Ciri, it is quite easy. I wonder what Yen would think, she was always great at that with Geralt.

"Yes, I must admit this is a great way to pass some time. I wonder if you can back up all that trash talk from earlier however." That tells me I am in her head for sure. If it didn't affect her, she wouldn't talk about it. I wonder what she is thinking about right now. Probably coming up with a plan.

Unknown to Cera, the woman is not thinking in the traditional after effects of trash talk. She is replaying last night and realizing that Cera is right. He dominated the entire time and she did nothing but enjoy it. Her pride is clashing with her lustful memories right now. All of this working to benefit Cera in this race if she does not focus.

We line up and wait for the signal to start. Once it did we were off and on our way to the tower. However, they have no idea that an enemy plans to ruin the fun with its unwanted appearance. Nothing that the two can't handle, but they have no idea that others are also in danger.