"Well... yeah..," Mara allowed, and murmured a bit as she called up the power to scan the contents of the bottle. "Mostly seems honest enough."
"I know. I can tell that it's mostly made up of things from Urd's room."
"Yes, but I don't think that she meant to make it this strong. After all, Keiichi must have been really pumped up to knock boots with all of us."
The goddess blushed heavily at the comment but kept her attention on the potion. "He's a special young man, and is capable of a lot. I... this is odd."
"What is it?"
"I'm not sure, but I think my sister wouldn't use this without a reason."
Mara raised a brow. "Should we ask our resident clueless herbalist about whatever it is that she put in?"
"Perhaps we should..," Belldandy agreed and led the demoness out to look where her elder sister was sweating it out under the intense gazes of several women. "Sister? Did you mean to make the potion like this?"
"Like what? It was just supposed to get the two of you to loosen up?" Urd asked with a shrug.
"Then it seems that there is something not quite right about this..."
"Why would there be? I made absolutely sure to take care to make it perfectly."
"Then perhaps you should check it yourself."
The elder goddess sighed and lazily began to check the contents before her expression turned into a frown. "That's not right."
"It's what's there."
"Give me a moment..."
"I think that she's trying to get out of this," Skuld muttered as she watched her eldest sister run off to her room.
"Let's give her the benefit of the doubt," Belldandy murmured.
Peorth shrugged. "Hey, we're going to have to deal with it either..."
"WHO'S BEEN TOUCHING MY POTION INGREDIANTS?!" came Urd's bellow from down the hall, making everyone blink in surprise. The goddess herself came storming back with a jar in her hand and thunderous expression on her face. "I want to know who touched this container, and I want to know it now!"
"What's so important about it?"
"This is a jar of what should be a free will enforcer. Instead, I've found that other than some in the bottom and some on a shelf, this is an inhibitor!"
"And the difference is..?"
Urd sighed heavily. "With the enforcer, only those who wanted to bed each other. With this in it, we were more than likely to not want anything else."
"So you're telling us that it made us bed Keiichi?" her youngest sister asked.
"I would say that... More than likely, we would still have done it, some sooner than others. But there was a chance that we could have at least held out a little longer. We could have possibly stayed in the same situation, but it would have possibly taken hours between girls, rather than in total."
"Does... Does that mean that it'll be any less real?" Mara asked, the toughness in her voice shadowing the worry in her eyes.
"Not really. We truly felt what we did when we... did it, and whatever we're feeling now, is a true and honest thing. That was something that I didn't want to play with."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that I wanted Keiichi and Belldandy simply to enjoy themselves and their feelings for each other," the tanned goddess commented, "All the potion was meant to do, and basically did, was to hype up our libidoes, focus on the guy we wanted, and enjoy ourselves. The bond was just a... side-effect, though one I'd like to say I'm rather proud of."
A group of sighs came back at her, and eyes rolled while:
(Posted Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:51)
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