Ero Skill Tree

Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Stop on the Road

I decided to lay back on the bed for a moment before I headed back downstairs. Just as I was about to get up to move once again, a voice spoke from next to me.

"Master."

I nearly jumped out of my skin I was so surprised, but I managed to keep myself from shouting out from the fright.

"Celine!"

"Yes master?"

"What are you doing? You made me jump."

"Sorry... I was waiting for you to call for me, but you didn't..."

"Please give me some kind of warning before you do that in future."

"Yes master."

"Anyway, what did you want?"

"Well... I need to feed." She said looking at me alluringly.

"You're going to have to wait and besides, I haven't decided what I'm going to do with you yet."

"You said wait earlier, but I'm starving. I don't know how much longer I will last."

"I'm sorry. I have to go downstairs for dinner. If I don't the others will come looking for me. Can you hold out that long?"

"I suppose..."

"Good. When I come back, we'll discuss where we go from there."

"Then I'll wait."

"Thanks."

"The others do you mean with those women that you came here with?"

"Yes."

"What do they want with you?"

"Want with me? They are my party members."

"I don't like it."

"I suppose that's understandable given the situation."

"Two of them are from the families that betrayed the lord."

"I know, your pervious master said as much."

"And they seem too close to you!"

"You are going to have to put up with them."

"Fine if you say so."

"I do."

"Now stay here and stay out of sight until I come for you. Understand?"

"Yes."

Celine disappeared just as I asked. At least she still seemed to under the effects of the skill. After our talk it was defiantly time for me to head back downstairs, the others were probably already there and waiting for me by now. I left the room, locked it behind me and headed downstairs.

Just like I had expected, the others were already in the inn's bar when I got downstairs. They were all sat around a table drinking away while waiting on the food.

"Theo, what took you so long?" Altria asked as I joined the group.

"Nothing, I just decided to lay on the bed for a bit."

"Resting already when you overslept this morning?"

"Yeah..."

"Well, it's fine for him to rest. Just so long as he isn't oversleeping when we're supposed to be going somewhere." Lillia said before taking a sip of her beer.

"Thanks... I just felt like lying about for a bit of after being sat in the carriage for most of the day."

Not long after I had sat down, the innkeeper started bringing our food to the table. There wasn't a menu, it seemed that the choice of foods here was whatever meal she had decided to cook that evening. Tonight, we were having roast beef and vegetables. It didn't look like much, but it turned out to be pretty good.