Nabiki had been a little surprised when suddenly Ranma was tugging on a silver chain connected to a slender silver collar around her neck. Still she wasn’t too surprised to find Ranma leading her towards the portal to the next area. “Really Saotome, on a leash? I didn’t know you had it in you.”
Visibly annoyed with the situation and Nabiki, Ranma at least had confirmation that Nabiki needed training. “I don’t want you wandering off and getting into trouble.” Pausing Ranma levelled a more serious stare at Nabiki. “And that’s Lady Saotome to you.”
Nabiki caught herself beginning to laugh and protest about Ranma being serious when she realized exactly that. “You’re being serious?”
Ranma looked distinctly unpleased by the matter, a look that phased Nabiki coming from a woman that was almost intimidatingly sexy. “Yes, I have to be a respectable lady, or I could lose my status. I lose my status and I can’t train slave-girls. I get the distinct impression that would be very bad for you. Not to mention I’m here to rescue you to begin with. If you don’t want me training you to be my eager sex-slave so I can train you for something useful, then I may as well cut out the middle part, take you to the slave market, and trade you in for a girl that will actually help me in my quest to save this world and everyone in it.”
Taking a step back, Nabiki had enough sense to know when to back off and stop pushing an issue. It was what let her mess with people yet avoid any unpleasant situations by neatly side-stepping them. The look on Ranma’s face told her that she was seriously considering trading in her snarky elf slave now that she’d thought of it. Wanting to mollify Ranma without giving up too much ground, Nabiki settled for a comprimise. “Yes Lady Saotome.”
Hearing Nabiki quietly play along did a lot to ease Ranma’s stress levels back down to something she could manage. “Do you want me to keep you and train you?”
The elf sighed as she realized she’d already pushed a bit too far. “You’d really trade me in?”
Ranma sighed and stretched her joints a bit to ease out her physical tension. After calming down a bit more and still considering it, she seemed satisfied with her decision. “Yeah. I have more to do than play with you, so if you wanna be difficult, then it’d be for the best. Once I’m done with the saving the world stuff I could track you down easily enough.”
Nabiki could understand and respect that decision despite not liking it one bit. Ranma was going to defeat the final boss and open the exit, or something like that, and if she was dead weight she’d be left behind. As much as she’d hate to admit it, the idea of someone other than Ranma owning her gave her the serious creeps. “Fine, I’m yours.”
Ranma seemed to consider her for a moment. “Still too much attitude. Guess you’ll need a little training before we even get to town.”
With that Ranma waved away Nabiki’s dress, surprising the elf girl just a bit that her only piece of clothing would vanish so easily. Then Ranma strutted back to the pillows and reclined on them once again so she could read some more.
Having little choice but to follow her mistress since she was on a literal short leash, Nabiki knelt on a pillow beside the red-head with only a mildly troubled look betraying her. Trying to peek at what Ranma was reading did her little good as she failed to recognize the characters to make a guess at the language Ranma was reading.
After a bit of reading, Ranma paused to consider Nabiki again. “Sit up properly.”
That made Nabiki a bit confused as she still was trying to figure out how to sit in a comfortable manner. That was partially due to the effects of character translation. While her speech had yet to be seriously altered, her movements had since each race had different movement sets in a game. For this particular game all females wearing high heels used the Seductress movement skill set, which among other things determined speed and agility while wearing high heels.
Further, Nabiki had the Elf sex-slave movement set, which set her natural posture and gait, including her walking motion, idle movements, dance style and even how she sat or laid down to rest. For her that meant her natural comfortable sitting position was kneeling on a pillow. That might cause her an amusing bout of confusion once she finally encountered a chair.
Her current confusion was because she was trying to sit how she normally sat, actively resisting her bodies now natural movements. Since her normal posture wasn’t too different, she could sit like she normally did but found it too uncomfortable to stay that way.
Ranma however pulled out her fan to use as a stick to nudge Nabiki into correct posture. Kneeling on the pillow, knees parted about shoulder width, her hands resting just above her knees with her back straight and upright. It wasn’t a vulgar display, but Nabiki found herself feeling uncomfortably on display.
As Ranma went back to her reading, Nabiki got to admire her own mistress’s posture with a growing curiosity. Like Nabiki she wore high heels, although Ranma actually had skill in the movement set, meaning she could move well in her normally restrictive foot wear. The way she walked and moved however was not the least bit masculine except for the confidence and power she exuded.
The difference between them besides Ranma’s grace in movement was simply that Ranma, being a noble moved like a proper lady, albeit a very sexy lady. Unlike Nabiki, Ranma didn’t have any similar postures to resist her now natural movements since his normal posture wasn’t in the allowed range of her current body. Nabiki’s normal movement was close enough she’d been confused, but Ranma didn’t know how to walk in heels other than her current sexy strut.
That left Nabiki realizing part of Ranma’s stress as the sexy woman was reclining delicately on the pillows with her stocking clad legs tantalizingly rubbing each other as she idly crossed them. At first she’d thought it funny, just another part of Saotome being stuck a sexy woman. Now it was beginning to worry her.
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(Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:29)
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