>>5331349The day has been a taxing one, however. This last exertion utilized the very last of your energy. Torpor calls to you, and you follow its missive. While the Novice attends to healing the Junior Novice’s wounds and re-chaining him (on general principal, you suppose), Glowie guide you through the Drow encampment and too an adjacent cavern where you have never been.
You gestures to herself, and explains: “Staying here. This is my place, for while you are away.”
It’s rather bare in and of itself, but most caverns are. She has ‘decorated’ it with a sort of hammock of spun silk, slightly sticky to the touch and faintly luminescent in the gloom, strung between two pillars. It is this to which she guides you and, overexerted and feeling an instinctive pull towards the finer things in that particular moment, you accept.
Then, to your surprise, she joins you. She shucks aside her cltohign and clambers atop you.
“Glowie,” you say firmly, “I said thatw e wouldn’t—”
She shakes her head frantically, and says: “Don’t want to mate. Just… Be with you. Hold you. SLEEP with you.”
The augmented Fearsome Presence must have had quiet an effect! Or… Was it your time spent with Jazkarmel and the Novice, and apart from Glowie, coupled with your imminent departure? The worm princess HAS been acting rather odd.
She curls her tail around you before you can respond, pressed her body to you, even wraps her thick thighs around one of your legs as she buries herself into your chest. The hammock sways back and forth, only settling when she is done. You shift and extract yourself, but she just clinsg tighter, and the hammock’s mvoements disorient you.
You begin to admonish her: “Glowie—”
“I love you,” she says quietly.
You stop short of what you intended to say, not sure you heard her right.
How do you respond?
>As a right-minded Reptilian, you do not feel this weak and irrational emotion called ‘love’ [route-locks Glowie romance options]>You value Glowie as a FRIEND, but you think you LOVE the Novice Fleshweaver [route-locks Glowie romance options]>Gods damn it… You love her, too [soft route-locks Glowie rejection and betrayal options]>Spill spaghetti and get the fuck out of here, you were NOT prepared for this>Write-in 