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SOUTH WALL - EARLY MORNING
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Narrator: A tall snow leopard yawns, stretching tired muscles. Annika had made an offer to give Victoria a day off from work, and to save her some effort, also offered to take her place, reasoning it would be an excellent gift... and besides, Annika was trying to practice her shapeshifting, and this would be a good chance for that! The initial attempt had been very flattering, but perhaps not accurate, giving an overly idealized version of Annika's girlfriend, but after a bit of trying, she finally got something that was believable, abet still perhaps a little bit softer around the edges. She was sitting out on the edges of the wall, looking out as any good guard would.
Nesseth arrives at his post on the wall after a few minutes to relieve Victoria, having gotten a morning patrol for the day. He waves a bit upon seeing the snow leopard standing guard. "Morning, Victoria. I'm here to relieve you, so you're cleared to head back to the barracks and call it a day."
Annika was startled a moment, before remembering that she 'was' Victoria. She almost smiles, but stops herself. Instead she turns around, and nods "Yes Sir. I'll go that way now" She hops up to her feet, and nods her head, before heading out in that direction. At least she knows where the barracks is!
Nesseth blinks at the response with zero snark. "...Huh, I guess you had a really nice morning today? Well, I hope the rest of your day is just as good!" He smiles and steps aside to let Victoria head on her way. "Good work on your duties today, and thanks for holding down the fort."
Annika: "It was quiet, yeah. Maybe something more interesting will happen when I get back!" She nods again, and heads off towards the barracks, not really wanting to linger too long! "Try not to fall off, okay?" That counts as snark, right?
Nesseth laughs a bit and nods. "Don't worry. I won't fall off unless Louma decides to sneak up behind me or something, and I only just saw her at the barracks." He pauses, then gives Victoria a curious look, "You sure you're okay? You're in a seriously good mood."]
Annika takes a moment to recall what Victoria's like when she's in a bad mood, before giving a scowl "Well, I -was- in a good mood, I didn't know me being happy was a problem!"
Nesseth shrugs, seeming more or less mollified by the familiar scowl. "No, of course not. I was just curious, because I almost never see you chipper at the tail end of a wall duty shift except for getting to go home."]
Annika: "Well, of course. I want to get home" Victoria is reserved, so no talking about homelife, Annika has hard enough time getting Victoria to open up, and she literally sleeps with her. "It's a job. Nobody wants to stay at the job longer than they have to"
Nesseth chuckles. "Fair enough. Well, have a good day, Victoria. Got the whole day ahead of you nice and free from work."
Annika: "Of course!" She exits quickly, before she says anything more incriminating.
Nesseth watches Victoria walk off down the wall for a moment, then shrugs as he takes his post. Though, in his mind, he files away a memo to chat with Victoria some time outside of work to see if something happened to boost her mood so high.
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ANNIKA AND VICTORIA'S HOME - LATE EVENING
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Annika returns home, the current Snow Leopard slipping into the second story build, and yawning, stretching out much firmer muscles than she's used to "I'm home~" She grins "I mean..uh..I'm back! What's it to you?" In a bit of a caricature.
Victoria grins from her totally-not-catnapping as she stretches on the bed: "I wonder what it could be for me, indeed. Hey there."
Annika: "I was prepared to talk about how hard the job was, but I got some morning wall duty, and the rest of the day was just paperwork, so..not really thaaat bad" She wiggles eyebrows "Not as bad as running around the city all day"
Victoria sticks her tongue out: "Not as bad? I suppose nothing really happened, then. That's like, most of the guard job. Avoiding boredom and yet hoping it continues, kinda."
Annika goes over and gives that tongue a kiss "Nah, Nesseth relieved me, and complained I wasn't grumpy enough" She settles in next to Vic "So~ Finally starting to see how pretty you are?"
Victoria raises an eyebrow as she crosses her arms, leaning on her chest: "Yes, even if it's also creeping me out seeing YOU being ME. The things one gets used to, I suppose."
Nesseth makes his way to the second floor of Victoria and Annika's place, his curiosity proving a bit too much to ignore after hearing how... strangely cheery Victoria was, even during the stretch of time she'd spent doing paperwork. He figures nothing is actually wrong, but he still doesn't quite believe Victoria would be that cheery out of nowhere.
Annika: "Well, I can stop it, I suppose" She settles back a little "I just ..y'know, I think I got a bit carried away with the whole 'partners are all one unit' thing and.." Her ears perked "Nesseth is coming..and there's two of us..and..damn...he was already suspicious..ah.." Her two tails glow with magic "Gotta fix this!" There's a flash of fluffy light and...there's a fox, and a leopard again!
Annika: "So..." The leopard pauses thoughtfully
Victoria blinks several times as she sits up on the bed, admiring her new self. "What uh..."
Annika: "Ah..damn...I panicked!..uh...just..act like me, no time to fix it, okay?" She flails a bit "Damnit..uh...." She attempts to practice the scowl that Victoria uses at work
Victoria blinks again for good measure, before straightening up and trying to figure out that polite smile her girlfriend is almost famous for.
Annika helps out, by giving her a kiss on the back of the neck, before pushing her out towards the front door.
Victoria lets out a low 'eep' but finds herself at the door. Naked. And a fox. She turns to mouth back to Annika 'are you sure this is a good idea?'
Annika mouths back "I don't have any better ones!"
Nesseth shifts a little, then gives another couple of soft knocks, nothing urgent. He does, however, start to remember the strange attitudes that Melia and the fire elemental were displaying when they were assuming the forms of Erika and Cavro. At that, he hums a little, frowning to himself as he considers the chances of Victoria being in a similar situation. "...Nah, can't be..."
Victoria has hastily found a shirt on her, before opening the door with a cheery smile: "Nesseth! Hi uh, fancy seeing you. What's up?"
Nesseth blinks in surprise as the door opens, revealing Annika in perhaps less-than-expected clothing. He clears his throat. "Ah, hi there, Annika. Sorry to bother you if you were in the middle of something, but I just wanted to check in on Victoria for a moment, see how she's doing."
Annika was a little further back, slowly getting out of 'work clothes'. Victoria and clothes aren't really a mix, so Nesseth might get suspicious if she's found in uniform!
Victoria starts talking: "Yeah, what do you need from me?" ...before her brain reconnects: "I mean, her. Not me. Obviously not me." She turns to look at the leopard that's totally her: "I... she's right there."
Nesseth tilts his head. "You? Oh, uh... nothing in particular? Though, I guess..." He lowers his voice a little after giving a nod to 'Victoria', "After the stuff with the elementals and whatnot... have you noticed anything odd about Victoria's attitude lately?"
Annika makes a little hand wiggle to Nesseth, now down to the bare minimum clothing..which she appreciates since Snow Leopard fur is actually super warm!
Victoria blinks and pauses, considering her words at least for a second: "I er... n-nooot really? She's fine, we're fine? We're probably fine."
Annika: "Annika is very 'fine'" The leopard in the back adds. She can't help herself.
Nesseth tilts his head curiously, then nods. "Well, I'll trust you on that one, then. I was just curious, though... Victoria seemed a lot more cheerful than usual despite getting stuck with early morning wall duty and paperwork." He shrugs, "But if something nice happened... well, glad to know it was enough to cheer her up so much."
Victoria steals a glance at the leopard, before shrugging: "Well, you know... good times cheers one up and all that? I can't be grumpy all the time." She blinks and rather regrets her choice of words, but gives a foxy grin.
Annika comes up behind Victoria and nods "Yes, Something nice has happened! Right Annika?" She's grasping at straws, and all her brain is focused on looking like she's not grasping at straws! "That..nice thing!"
Nesseth lifts a hand and confusedly scratches at his frills. "Uh... alright, well... I just... wanted to check in, I guess. Good to hear things are going nicely for you two."
Victoria continues her grin: "Yup! Good to check on things. And stuff. Take, uh... care?"
Annika: "See you!" She nods too.
Nesseth finishes scratching his frills, then waves a little awkwardly. "Uh... right, well, have a good night, you two. Sorry again about bothering."
Victoria lets out a rather nervous giggle: "No worries! Take care and stuff. I said that already. Bye!"
Annika reaches over 'Annika' and closes the door, before letting out a quiet sigh of relief.
Victoria spins around to face 'herself': "What... w-what was that?"
Annika: "Well, I was smiling! And that made Nesseth suspicious!" She pauses "Which..uh..um...ah..." She knows that sounds really bad "But..maybe it was something else?"
Nesseth blinks as the door shuts in his face, then shrugs and turns to leave. "That was... weird..." He starts to make his way down the stairs back to the street, "...I might need to tell Louma to keep an eye on Victoria a bit if that keeps up..."
Victoria frowns: "Really? That was what..." She pauses, then sighs, shifting her weight with the extra tails: "...okay, might have been that too."
Annika: "It's fine" She gives Victoria a kiss on the top of the nose "We've been working through it" She stops, and lets out a giggle "It's really weird kissing myself"
Victoria giggles, relaxing finally: "Well, that's what I've been telling you."
Annika: "Well, I know..but.." She sits down, guiding Victoria back with her "Well, it's..Is it weird to say that I find your expressions really cute, even on my face?"
Victoria sits down, looking down herself, then back to Annika: "Well... kinda is, but I don't mind? You're cute regardless."
Annika: "I've always loved you, even when you're on four legs, or two, so..this isn't anything really different for me, besides, it was..sort of fun, to see how your days are"
Victoria leans on Annika: "So does that mean I should give your day a try, sometime?"
Annika: "I think you could find it a lot of fun" She leans back, and gives her another kiss "Though, there's one part of our days we can try out right now, if you want..."
Victoria leans into the kiss: "Mmm I wonder what that could be...?"
Annika removes Victoria's shirt, and runs her hands over her foxy chest "See who really is~ more sensitive"
Victoria grins as her hands also start to wander: "I like the way you... or I, think."
Annika: "Well, now we get to demonstrate the stuff that feels the best" She returns to kissing Victoria, slowly moving down her neck, before reaching her chest, focusing on where she -knows-, she's sensitive.
Victoria shivers as Annika demonstrates weak spots quite expertly on a body that's not really hers. "Mm! No w-whonder you go all liquid when I do that!"
Annika wiggles her tails behind her happily as she continues slowly, kissing, before working up to just the most gentle of nibbles. Annika is being careful, since she doesn't quite know her own body's strength yet either!
Victoria holds her hands upon Annika's hips and can't quite stop grinning. She lets out a shudder of pleasure as Annika nibbles at her.
Annika: There was something strangely alluring to watching her own body shiver and shudder in pleasure in front of her. Annika knows very well how good Victoria must be feeling, and so wants to continue, she moves to Victoria's other breast, and repeats what she's doing, her own hands moving behind Victoria, stroking all three of those fluffy tails as she does so.
Victoria is feeling like she kinda of should be weirded out by this, but that part of her thoughts is shoved into the back of her mind and gagged for now. She looks at Annika work with a warm smile: "Y-you're good." Her mind starts racing about weak spots though, and her hand wanders onto the left inner thigh of Annika's, knowing just perfectly well how weak a spot that one is...
Annika lets out a cute little mewl of pleasure as she discovers exactly how weak that spot is, pausing in her own ministrations briefly "I...I see" She says quietly, before giving Victoria a lick, her hands moving down, perhaps a bit more shakily now to the base of Victoria's tails, giving that a gentle squeeze.
Victoria smirks, but the smirk is interrupted by another shiver of feelgoods as Annika touches the base of her tails... Something that's apparently a weak spot for both of them... Whatever that means right now.
Annika: Whatever that means indeed! They're a couple and that's what's important, right? She gives that base another squeeze, before her hands move unto Victoria's butt, giving it a gentle squeeze too "Is it egotistical to say you've got a great ass right now?"
Victoria grins toothily, which is slightly less toothily than usual, but works: "I dunno, is it bad to say you've got great tits right now?" As though to prove her point, her hands wander over to said round objects and starts lightly massaging them.
Annika: "Ah...I..think it's good to love yourself~" She gives her own, much toothier grin in return "Speaking of~ Who wants a first taste of the other?"
Victoria smirks, her tails swishing slightly: "Well, I'm not sure which one of us needs it more?" She scoots closer to the leopard, grinning: "Though if you're volunteering..."
Annika leans in "I think I am~" She gets down to some solid experimenting as the camera pans away to keep things at an R rating