章 16: 13. Dance your Way through

The Tanzstein's Great Dance was about to begin in the evening. It was a tradition to dance avoiding molten lava simultaneously on the ashen slopes of Feuer Tanzer, which ever flowing inferno gave the downer city hydrothermal deposit as well as infinite earth mana. The fact was allowing for soaring buildings, even floating above, maintained in place by the manaflow of the volcano.

As Queen and Vile were taking a hot bath, King was chatting with Sil.

"You should see my wife now, also – don't you want to see Vile in her birthsuit?" The lewd monarch tempted.

"What if they see us… We'd be purged into oblivion, at least me, Vile's got fiery temper!" Sil argued.

"Right, you stay here, and I'm going to have some great view adult only!" He said as peeking through a knothole. But the adorable image lasted about, let;'s say split moment as the wall got smashed in outburst of furious mana, air overflowing with blood lust. Vile stood in bound clothing, given one to the queen as well, and was walking toward most scared king in history of great battles.

"Vile stop! I'll settle this." She said walking towards her fiance firmly, then whispered: 'Remember the last time my dear?' And licking her lips, as the king paled almost fainting. Then a powerful slap imbued with pain mana was delivered. As most of monarchs, queens element was physical and mental feelings, which allowed for effective torture, and delightful thingies as well.

While the king was whimpering lying in the hot water, Vile turned to Sil.

"You showed some resistance to this lewd man's pitiful delusions, which I appreciate." She told grateful.

"We may go for a dinner afterwards to some moody restaurant."

"Good idea, we'll go with you, after my stupid husband recovers from his misery." Queen agreed.

After their pitiful monarch stood up panting, they headed to the outskirts while being incognito, to have some normal fun. They decided to enter a nice looking beertrink bar, as the inside was well smoked by the fire's pinewood, the smell was delightful – mixed forest's bouquets, with malty and smoked meat addition. They all sat beside a modest table, then ordered beer and some meat fritters. As the food and drink arrived, they spoke of trivial things like eg. stories they heard somewhere else, and sang some nice melodies:

As the world begun in fiend's fall down,

all the living took liking to hated dawn,

no daemons haunt, corrupt and also yawn,

got welcomed onto all children's maws.

As all the living got a liking to each other,

The fallen overlord was now not to bother.

These were few strophes they sang cheerfully, while becoming drunken more and more by each moment. Few mugs later Vile murmured to Sil's ear:

"I really like that image you showww…" Then fell asleep on his chest. He got a strong head, so wasn't much drunken by now, but the sudden closure of his companion left him confused. The royal couple was enjoying the sight, smirking of their bodyguard's situation.

The next day Vile woke up with terrible hangover, looked around finding Sil beside her. 'No, no, no, why am I sleeping right next to him!?!' She thought in despair. 'Don't tell me we… Dammit! I'll beat the sh** outa him when he wakes, and make him confess all his sins.'

And that was the end of their first day in Tanzstein, as well as their first date, which ended with a huge beating and Sil sobbing on the floor right after his wakeup.