Thirteen

"Heish!" Even in the palace I'm not awakened like this. I screamed and threw the pillow at her. She threw it back at me and pulled the sheets off me.

"It's still early!" I growled as i pulled the sheets back. I just caught the sleep by its tail and now she was making it slip away.

"Oh, that was almost cute, WAKE UP!" She yanked the sheets but I overpowered her and pulled her straight into my chest.

She hit my chest with her head and it almost hurt but i hugged her. Shoot! I forgot, I sleep half naked.

She looked up at me with wide eyes and slowly got up. Her face a brighter shade of pink.

"Don't worry you can stay there as long as you want." I smiled at her and she shot up to her feet.

"What are you doing?!" She asked as she turned around. "Ew! Put something on."

"Why? Making you hot?"

"No. You defiled my eyes." She said covering her eyes. For a moment, Ninlil crossed my mind and I erased her off. "Put something on!"

Can't believe this was the only highlight. I mean, the rest of the day was nothing but hell. Ok, she may have had the balls to touch my chest when I invited her to, but that was it, no hot hot moment. No kiss or anything.

But her mornings were hard. Like my morning wood was. First thing we did was exercise with the elderly. Give it up to me to escape palace life to run to a retirement home the size of a city.

After that a warm bath in the spring and then cooking enough to feed four giants. Or fill tartrus all for the sake of the community. Guess this is all my fault. I should have checked where i was staying for the night to make sure it wasn't a retirement home and it was.

By the time the sun showed it's nose above the eastern horizon, I was hanging my tongue out like a tired dog. But she, she was as lively as lively could get. Running around collecting plates from hundreds of people she just fed with a smile and still managed to smile and make a joke with some of the kids. Even tended to their emotional needs.

Was that girl running on red bull? No, its probably eveready. Not that this is a pop up add but those battery do... hold on a sec, those are trash compared to this guy, the one they call the Oxford Electric Bell, Clarendon Dry Pile. That guy puts all batteries to shame. Like a pile driver, that guy is heavy duty and has been going on for centuries. And she looked a lot like it. She could keep on going for a few more centuries.

I sat down and one of the elder ladies who were helping put a plate in front of me. "Don't think you can keep up with the Queen, no one can." She said witha smile.

"That is certain." I yawned and looked at her as she carried a stack of plates to the kitchen. "Doesn't she ever grow tired?"

"I've seen a lot, from gods cowering in fear, to them doing the deed, I've yet to see her tired." She smiled once more and left. That has got to be some of the most hard things to see. Gods in fear and them making children? That has got to be... wait, she from Tiens? I wondered as I looked up at her.

She patted a bald head right where the moon was being reflected and I'm pretty sure if I wasn't lost in thought, i would have made a ridiculous joke about it.

But I couldn't.

I looked at Abi again and she was happily helping people out and... did she eat?

I didn't see her eat or sit down since three am. I ate meal fast and helped her clear the tables. But, I wasn't the only one. Now I saw why there were multiple sinks around and evenly spaced.

Every sink had five people in it. Each person, either washing, or rinsing, wiping or moving the plates inside the town hall. While others brought thwm in.

They took my plate and when i turned back, the tables were being cleaned. The hall being swept and i clearely was the only one who didn't have a thing to do.

"Beautiful isn't it?" She asked me as she locked arms with me. "Everyone coming together for a meal and there being no fight, no difference in rank just, people enjoying a meal together."

"It is. Did you eat?" I asked and she smiled at me.

"No, not yet."

"Why? Did the food run out?"

"No." She shook her head. "I just don't have an appetite."

"Okay." I turned and she pulled my arm.

"Okay?"

"What?"

"That's all you can say?"

"What? Am i supposed to say something different?"

"Yes, something along the lines of what would you like to eat? Or how do you work out an appetite?"

"Okay." I thought of it. "What would you like to eat?"

"You." My heart skipped a beat as she said so with a straight stern face.

"Me?" Was she... she looked fully human and felt human. Why would she... me? I looked at me then up at her as what she meant dawned on me.

She nodded as her face lit bright pink. Proof she was fully human. "I wanna eat you."

This can't be... Is she serious? Wait, what do i do when things have progressed this far?

Blinked a couple of times trying to recall what dad said i should do. But i couldn't.

She batted her eyelids a few times and smiled at me shyly as she fidled around with her legs and fingers. "You know I am a woman and being around a healthy..." she said in a sexy mellowy voice and slowly came closer and closer to me. "... handsome and sexy man I do feel and need a little... of what i saw earlier."

She fiddled with her fingers on my chest and tickled me and i took a step back. Somehow years of being aroused around Ishita didn't surmount to this. Even the fuzzy feelings i felt touching her didn't compare to this.

I wanted. I felt like doing something to her. Something i was definitely going to like.

"Just a tip of..." she grew even closer covering for my step. I held my breath as I embraced myself for a kiss or something. Something...

She burst out laughing a high pitched beautiful laughter i couldn't get enough of. The wrinkles around her eyes looked as beautiful as can be but so was her smile. She brushed back her black silky hair and for a moment, i felt like landing a kiss on her sublime neck.

"I can't believe you almost fell for it!" She laughed. "Gosh! You're so... cute!"

Huh?

She stopped laughing and looked at me. Almost... who am i acting like a bitch? Am not a girl. I shouldn't be standing like this as she hit on me. I should be doing something in return.

But what? We are in public.

"You know, if i was..." she held me and everything around vanished. "If i was..."

I pressed her into me so she'll feel what she woke up. she froze as i growled into her ear.

"Don't wake something you can't handle."

She quickly stepped away from me and turned away.