He pulled the cork out of the vial and brought it underneath his nose to take a generous whiff.
“You’re trying it right now?” asked Lee.
“No time like the present,” said Toma. “I also saw a group of the popular female adepts heading toward the steam baths after classes. If I could catch them naked… Oh, Lee, this is too good!”
He let out a series of dirty, gleeful cackles before composing himself and steeling his expression. Taking the vial between thumb and forefinger, Toma brought it to his lips and took a sip, downing three-quarters of the liquid.
“There,” he said. “I wonder how fast it takes effect?”
“You should also be mindful of how long it lasts for if you don’t want to…” Lee trailed off, noticing Toma’s face becoming visibly redder. “Uh… Toma?”
“What?”
Tess starting giggling uncontrollably, falling backward on the bed. Lee tried to keep his own amusement in check as dozens of purple pockmarks began forming across Toma’s face.
“What are you laughing about?” snapped Toma. “Did it work?”
“Where did you say you found that potion?” asked Lee.
“It was on Escher’s desk,” said Toma. “The label clearly says ‘invisibility potion’ so…”
“She’s a crafty one,” said Lee. “She must have known where the minds of certain ambitious, unscrupulous male students would jump to upon seeing something like that.”
“Ohhh…” groaned Toma. “No, come on! This is cracked!”
Tess was still laughing, and her grin seemed a little too pleased for Lee’s liking. He raised an eyebrow at her while Toma was still distracted.
“Now you have to go see the nurse, if only to bring Toma,” said Tess. “Unless, of course, you’re alright with your friend looking like he has a case of the magical measles.”
Lee scowled and gave a small shake of his head. “You are such a brat.”
“What’s that, Lee?” asked Toma.
“I said you should wear a hat,” said Lee. “For now. While we’re walking across campus.”
CHAPTER 5
Toma ended up donning a hooded sweatshirt, which did an even better job of cloaking the symptoms of his mischief. Their destination was in the Seruna Center, which meant walking across nearly half of Primhaven’s campus, a walk made longer by the fact that they opted to take the long way around.
They made it without drawing attention, however, and stepped through the doorway into a quiet, mostly unoccupied infirmary. Nurse Susie was in the process of tucking the sheets into place on one of the sterile, hospital-style beds, softly humming a song as she worked.
Seeing her made the hairs on the back of Lee’s neck stand up, if solely for the fact that he was one of the few people on campus who could truly see her. At a glance, Susie was an attractive, curvaceous woman with pink hair dressed in a robe styled after a white doctor’s coat. Eye catching, for sure, but not abnormal.
It was Lee’s passive ability as a mystic to see through innate supernatural illusions that let him observe her second face. Nurse Susie was a succubus, with red skin, glowing yellow eyes, a set of small, vestigial black wings, and that same captivating, busty figure. If anything, she looked more attractive underneath her veil, though Lee wondered if that was because of his familiarity with the ease in which she could enflame pure, uncontrollable lust.
“Oh,” said Susie upon seeing them. “Well. What have we here?”
She pulled away from the bed, shifting and jutting her extremely grope-able breasts forward with an arching back stretch as she smiled at the two of them. Lee could feel the underlying current of Susie’s succubus aura. She was churning it through the room, already using it in an attempt to undermine his willpower.
“My friend, Toma, had a small alchemy accident,” said Lee.
Toma nodded dumbly, his eyes practically glued to Susie’s carefully displayed cleavage.
“Oh, you poor dear,” said Susie. “Here, lie down on this bed and I’ll have a look at you. Lee, judging from that bruise on your face, you should stick around, too.”
Lee rolled his eyes and half-considered just turning and leaving. He still had Tess in his mystic stream, and he felt her hand on his shoulder, softly squeezing.
“You couldn’t ask for a better opportunity than this to farm essence,” she whispered. “She’s like a ripe peach, just waiting to be picked.”
“A poisoned peach, maybe,” he whispered.
He took a seat on one of the other beds while Nurse Susie ran Toma through a couple of tests and gave him a few pills to take. Lee was still feeling undecided when she finally made her way over to him after drawing the privacy curtain closed around Toma’s bed.
“I gave him a fast-acting sedative,” said Nurse Susie. “He’ll be out for a couple of hours.”
“Is that really necessary?” asked Lee.
“He was panicked,” said Susie. “Instructor Escher plays tricks like this every year. I’ve no doubt that the marks will fade on their own by tomorrow morning. That bruise on your face, on the other hand. My gosh, it looks so painful!”
She moved to stand close in front of him and reached her hand out. Lee could feel her aura encompassing him completely as it did. It hummed and throbbed, caressing through his body, into his very being. It took a force of will to keep from rolling back on the bed and writhing across the sheets, losing himself to the whims of his supernaturally instigated arousal.
Susie touched the bruise on his face and let out a small moan that straddled the line between sympathetic and sexual. She ran her index finger across Lee’s lips, her face taking on a flushed, needy countenance in expectation of what she wanted.
“Bruises are soooo hard for me to treat,” she whispered. “Is there anything in particular that you feel you need, Mr. Amaranth? Anything at all that would make it easier to forget about the pain?”
Tess was standing just behind Susie, and she nodded vigorously while gesturing for Lee to grab Susie by the shoulders, or perhaps the breasts. Lee grabbed her by the wrist instead, narrowing his eyes in suspicion.
“You’re a succubus,” he said. “You could make me so horny that I’d fall to my knees and beg for it. Why even bother asking?”
It was the first time that he’d been so direct about Susie’s true nature, but it didn’t seem to catch her off guard. She stepped in closer, leaning forward and letting her large breasts hang at eye level.
“Maybe I enjoy the hunt,” whispered Susie. “Maybe it’s because you’re so young and spirited. Or maybe it’s because you’re the only man I’ve been with in over a year, and I’m letting my feelings cloud my judgment.”
She slid lower, dropping to her knees in front of where Lee was sitting on the bed.
“Then maybe you should be the one begging,” said Lee. “I think that’s only…”
He trailed off in mid-sentence as Nurse Susie leaned her face forward and pressed her lips against the thin, insubstantial fabric of his sweatpants. It was more than just a preview of what her mouth would feel like against his cock. It was a teaser trailer, complete with booming theater speakers and a promise of a climactic crescendo.
“Were you saying something, Mr. Amaranth?” whispered Susie.
She kissed his cock through his sweatpants and nuzzled her cheek and face against it. It hardened for her, rising like a cobra dancing for the flute of a snake charmer.
“You can enjoy this, Lee,” said Tess. “Go ahead! I’m already absorbing the lust essence from her, so there’s no danger.”
Enjoy wasn’t the right word, he decided. He enjoyed video games. He enjoyed the beach during the summer. Comparing those to the sensation of what Nurse Susie was doing to him was like placing a child’s pillow fort on the level of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“I feel something down here,” cooed Susie. “Don’t you think I should be a good nurse and take a closer look at it?”
Was he nodding? He was definitely nodding.
N
urse Susie slid a finger into the waistband of his sweatpants and slowly pulled them down. Lee’s cock came free of the elastic with an earnest snap, the tip pointed straight toward Susie’s flushed face. Her expression was as lewd and eager as any that Lee had ever seen before, and she licked her lips and let out a shuddering sigh.
She began nuzzling against it again, this time letting her hot, wet lips make true contact with the sensitive skin of his shaft. It was a glorious sensation, compelling enough to make Lee’s mind go completely blank. Susie opened her mouth on one nuzzling pass, almost seeming to take the tip of his cock inside by accident. She let out a soft moan and bobbed her head back and forth experimentally.
It took the complete force of Lee’s will to keep from shouting in ecstasy. He ran a hand through Nurse Susie’s hair and urged her to take him deeper. She resisted, and went as far as to pull her lips completely back, flashing a teasing smile.
“Mr. Amaranth, control yourself,” she said. “I am the nurse, and this is my office. We do things my way here.”
She brought her lips an inch or so from the tip of Lee’s throbbing tool, her smile growing wider as she saw the need in his expression.
“I think you should apologize,” whispered Nurse Susie. “You have so little respect for authority. You need to learn your place, Mr. Amaranth. Isn’t that right?”
An uneasy feeling twisted through Lee’s stomach. Fooling around with a succubus—even with Tess coopting Susie’s absorption—was still dangerous. She could use the promise of pleasure and the threat of its absence to coerce him, perhaps even train him, to do her bidding. It wasn’t that Lee was weak-willed. He was just a man, and Susie’s succubus seduction was beyond him, truly supernatural in its intensity.
“Promise me that you’ll follow the nurse’s instructions, and I’ll let you come in my mouth,” whispered Nurse Susie. She gave the tip of his cock a long, swirling lick.
Lee jerked, testing his control over his body, and then took action. He grabbed Nurse Susie by the shoulders and stood upright, pulling her to standing along with him. He cupped her face in one hand and put his other around her waist, holding her at kissing distance for long enough to spike her anticipation.
Then, just as quickly, he spun her around and pushed her upper body down against the bed, caressing her soft buttocks with his hand. Nurse Susie let out a low, desperate moan and wiggled her hips for him.
“This… is exactly what I mean,” said Susie. “You need to respect my position.”
Lee slid the bottom edge of her robe up, took hold of her panties, and pulled them down hard enough to tear the fabric.
“You can’t play a card that you’ve already shown me, Nurse Susie,” he said. “It’s your turn, now. Go ahead.”
He pressed forward slightly, bringing his cock into place between her thighs. He let it tickle the folds of her entrance, but stopped there, knowing how frustrating the sensation would be for her.
“I…” Nurse Susie’s breathing was heavy and labored. “You… are just a student.”
“A student who knows what you are,” said Lee. “Now, go on.”
“I… won’t.”
Lee pushed forward an inch or so and then pulled back. Nurse Susie gasped.
“Please,” she whispered.
“Please what?”
“Please… put it in,” she said. “Oh god, please!”
Lee was glad that she’d given in, because he doubted he would have been able to hold out for another five seconds. He pushed the full length of his cock into Susie, finding her hot and tight and ready for him. It was a smooth thrust, and he wasn’t sure if he was imagining the way Susie’s lane seemed to actively suck his shaft in, her folds closing to form a soft seal around the base.
He pressed her down on the bed and gave it to her in earnest, pumping his cock into her with hard movements. There was an aspect of punishment in what he was doing. Nurse Susie was Primhaven’s dirty little secret, and once he’d found out the truth about her, she’d been almost gleeful in how she’d given in to her old ways.
If she wanted to be a succubus, he would treat her like a succubus. He slammed into her, the bed creaking underneath them as his body slapped an accelerating rhythm against hers. Susie resorted to burying her face in a pillow to muffle her moans. Lee slid a hand up her body and roughly cupped one of her breasts.
The work Susie had put in earlier with her lips and mouth had brought him nearly to the brink. He forced himself to vary his pace, teasing her with each of his movements until her moans took on a higher pitch. Nurse Susie’s hips jerked against him as she came. Lee kept thrusting, using her for his full pleasure.
“I know what you are,” he said, in a low voice. “I know what you need.”
“Ohhh…” moaned Susie.
He took her by the waist and let his final thrust go as deep as he could manage. He didn’t bother pulling out, and Nurse Susie seemed to twitch in time with each blast he sent deep into her. Her hair and outfit were both a mess, and as Lee caught his breath and pulled back, she merely collapsed forward on the bed.
“Uh, Nurse Susie?” said Lee.
“I think she’s asleep,” said Tess. “Good work, Lee!”
CHAPTER 6
“I probably shouldn’t just leave her like this,” said Lee. “Are you sure she’s okay?”
Nurse Susie was still on one of the infirmary beds, deep enough asleep that Lee couldn’t wake her. He gently lifted her up, shifting her under the sheets and tucking her in.
“I… may have taken a bit more essence than I intended,” said Tess. “Sorry! Part of it has to do with how heated your encounter was. By the way, she isn’t the only one who enjoys the occasional bit of dirty talk, you know.”
“Duly noted,” said Lee. “This won’t hurt her, though, will it?”
“More likely it will just confuse her. Also, the fact that I siphoned nearly all the lust essence she’d intended for herself means that next time she’ll probably be even more eager.”
“Right, next time...” Lee sighed dramatically. “I feel so used.”
“You can’t be serious.”
“Of course not, that was pretty awesome,” he said with a smile. “But this situation is a little dangerous. I’m going to have to figure out what to do about Susie eventually. I can’t just keep punting the ball down the court.”
“Punting it into her court, more like,” said Tess. “Over and over again. Oh, Mr. Amaranth!”
“You said you were alright with it.”
“I am,” said Tess. “But that doesn’t mean she’s off limits for me to tease you about.”
After checking to make sure Toma was still asleep, Lee headed back to his dorm to take a nap of his own. Tess stayed within his mystic stream, curled up against him until he drifted off. She wasn’t there when he woke up, and someone was knocking at his door.
Lee yawned as he opened it, expecting Toma and finding none other than Harper Black, his master mage, on the other side.
Harper was one of those unfairly lucky women, gorgeous to the point where even just looking at her clothed felt borderline lewd, with the intelligence and talents to match. She was an instructor at Primhaven, the youngest that Lee knew of, being only in her mid-twenties.
Her straight blonde hair was carefully woven into an intricate braid which hung across one of her shoulders. Her body was what Lee imagined a professional pole vaulter turned bikini model might look like, in terms of the ratio of her ample endowments to lean muscle.
She wore casual clothing in place of her usual instructor’s robe, jeans and a loose purple sweater thin enough to show the contours of her full breasts underneath. Her face was elegant and sharp, with an intriguing scar running along her chin that served as a metaphor for her personality. Her expression was serious, and before saying anything to Lee, she leaned forward to glance around his dorm and ensure that it was empty.
“Get dressed,” she said. “We have some field work to take care of.”
Technically, Harper had taken him as her apprentice, which meant that she had full authority to command him as she pleased. It was an arrangement that Lee found inconvenient more often than not, given his ever-present concerns about being outed as a mystic in mage’s clothing.
It was also an arrangement that Harper had insisted on. She’d been a friend, a lover even, to his sister. That one fact, along with the need to discover the truth behind Zoe’s disappearance, had bound them together as kindred spirits, despite obvious personality differences.
“Lead Instructor Mattis told me that she wants me to give my instructors 24 hours’ notice before leaving the campus,” said Lee.
“You have my elemental magic class tomorrow morning,” said Harper. “Consider the requirement temporarily waived.”
Lee sighed and headed for his closet, knowing better than to instigate an argument. He was curious about what sort of incident had caught Harper’s attention.
She saved him the trouble of asking.
“It’s about Zoe,” she said. “Someone I know claims to have seen her.”
Lee froze and felt his heart miss its next beat. His search for Zoe had found nothing but dead ends, even after sneaking into Primhaven.
He slowly turned around and crossed his arms, trying to subdue his excitement and keep his expectations measured.
“Who saw her?” he asked. “And where?”
“Get dressed,” said Harper. “I’ll explain on the way. We’ll be gone overnight.”
Lee shot a scowl at her back as she exited his dorm, but knew that it would be a waste of time to try to get her to tell him more than she wanted to. He found jeans and a long-sleeve shirt, and took his time as he pulled them on, waiting for Tess to phase back into the room.
“Hey,” he said when she arrived. “Harper is taking me on an excursion somewhere. Is our pact strong enough for you to come along yet?”
The question was about more than just how much Lee valued her company. Without Tess, he’d be incapable of casting any spells, which would leave him vulnerable to supernatural threats and Harper’s scrutiny.
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