84 The Newcomer - Part 2
With Ameril having finished telling her story and all that she had been up to, living in the prison that was her own home, she eagerly awaited Lyrika and Philly to talk about themselves. While she did want to know who these two very attractive girls were that were travelling with Olivia, for non-selfish reasons, of course, she just wanted to get to know them. Having been stuck in her home and unable to do much, including making friends, a part of her hoped that she could actually achieve such friendship with these two girls that were close to her age.
As she waited, Philly decided to speak up first. She told Ameril her full name, where she originally was from, and how she was a researcher. It did get a little awkward when it came to what her research project was now.
"Your researching...Olivia?" This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com
"Of course. In all my time at the Institute, Olivia is the first subject I have found that is truly worth researching. I will still continue my research into beast-kin culture, as that is what I said my trip would be to learn about and will need to provide a paper on when I return. But Olivia is just an oddity in this world. A half-Orc half-Goblin is strange on its own, but then with her being nothing like Orcs and Goblins at all, even going out of her way to help people. She is truly unique and who she is and what she does needs to be documented. I also hope that in our travels even more shocking revelations about her will come to light."
It was quite a strange thing to hear someone right next to you talk about how odd and unique you were. A part of Olivia felt insulted at being called an 'oddity', but at the same time, being seen as a unique wonder, she added the wonder herself, felt nice.
"I see where you are coming from. But I can't imagine Olivia is fine with-"
"I've gotten used to it."
And she had. Philly had been with them a short while, and by now, she had written all about her exploits. The impressive thing was that Olivia had managed to deal with the fact that she had also documented her exploits of a more...sexual nature as well. With her managing to get past and no longer be phased by that, she didn't think there was anything else she could write about that would actually affect her.
So, putting up with it was hardly a chore now.
"What about you, Lyrika?"
At Lyrika's turn, she spoke about how they met. It had shocked Ameril a little at first when she spoke of their fight under the dead of night, but as she talked more about what had happened to her, and how she ended up in that situation, Ameril quickly understood and felt sympathy for her.
Lyrika then went on to talk about all they had done since the meeting, with them hunting for food, or more like trapping, travelling to the beast-kin villages, the bandit trouble, the Zentora ambush and finishing off with the lovely fiasco at Teagan's village.
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She then told her about her goal of going after the chief and what he had been doing.
"That is awful." she then turned to Olivia, "And so you've helping to try and stop him as well I take it."
It was possible that their travelling together was only a temporary thing, and that whatever had kept them together would end at some point before Lyrika had managed to complete her task. This is why Ameril thought to confirm the situation.
"You have a harem?" Ameril asked at the same time cutting her off.
Silence captured the group as no one knew what to say, and they all realised they should think before they spoke about something like this. Well, almost all of them realised this.
"Orcs and Goblins have harems. So does Olivia." Philly responded.
"I don't have a harem."
"Okay. If you want to be technical. You are in the process of forming a harem. Happy?"
"What no, I- this- *sigh*" At that, Olivia gave up and threw her hands into the air.
"..."
"..."
"To be forming a 'harem', that must mean at least some people are already part of it. Right?" Ameril cautiously said, looking a little worried as she did.
The question instantly caught Olivia's attention and she knew she had to respond and shut this all down. Anything further would end up giving Ameril a bad impression of her.
"Like I said there is no ha-"
"I'm with her..."
Olivia and Ameril both turned towards the voice that had cropped up, obviously finding it to be Lyrika who stood there with her head held high.
"I'm with Olivia. But... as she said...it's not a harem."
Olivia could only stare at Lyrika with a quizzical look on her face. Sure, it's not like they were going to hide what they had been doing, but they hadn't had a serious talk about what they actually 'were' to each other. So, she couldn't help but wonder why she had said that, and almost with a proud look on her face.
What Olivia didn't see, was who that look was directed at. If she had broken out of her thoughts, she would have seen how Lyrika had been looking right at Ameril as she said that.
A look that was returned by an annoyed frown and narrowed eyes.