I stay there softly petting my girlfriend until I finally feel so movent coming back into her. “Hmmm… Ami…?” She starts to roll over so she can look at . “How long have you been petting .”
“Just for a little bit.” I smile. “But I don’t have a watch so I can’t really say for how long.”
Sam just smiles at and leans in for a kiss. I gladly accept.
“Have you slept well?”
“Like a dream.” She replies and then stretches. “What about you?”
“I did as well. This hut is really cozy.”
“Mhmm, it is.” Sam nods. “One day I also want to take you to a cabin in the far north, so we can cozily huggle together while it’s snowing outside.”
“But what if we get snowed in?”
“We just have to take plenty of food. And that way no one can disturb us.”
“Hehe.”
Sam pulls close and hugs tightly before she loosens her grasp again. “I want to stretch my legs. Are you coming too or are you going to stay in bed for a bit longer?”
“Nah, I’ll co too.”
We both roll out of the bedroll and put our clothes on.
“I am pretty happy it’s not raining today.” Sam looks out of the hut. The sun is actually shining quite brightly, when we look up we can see a couple of beautiful white clouds drift in the sky.
“It looks like it’ll be a nice day.”
“Mhmm.” Sam nods as she leaves the hut. I follow along and together we head over to the campfire. There’s still a couple of embers from last night that look pretty hot. But apart from that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of activity around.
“The others must be using their ti to sleep in.” Sam takes log from storage and gently places it on the embers. “Do you want to do anything in the anti? Or do you just want to wait.”
“Maybe we can try to prepare so food for them? If we can catch a fish we can make so sushi.”
“It’s a bit of a sha to not use the fish we Hilda caught yesterday though.”
“Hmm… but I want so fresh cold sushi…”
“Alright, how about we do both. While I catch so fish, you prepare so of the fish from yesterday. That way we are both happy.”
“Yay!” I jump up enthusiastically. “But that reminds , we definitely need another companion.”
“Why do you say that all of the sudden? Isn’t the five of us enough?”
“We need soone with ice magic, Sam, that way we can refrigerate our food.”
It look like Sam wants to say sothing but that she suddenly doesn’t know what to say. That lasts a couple of seconds before she scratches her chin. “Wouldn’t Nikki be able to learn that? Or does she solely know how to cast fire?”
“I don’t know… I don’t really know how her class works….”
“Well, we can ask later. For now, let’s get to work.”
“Oki.” I give her a smile and Sam starts heading off to catch so fish.
I have to wait a bit for the fire to get going again before I can start cooking, but once it’s nice and hot enough, it doesn’t take long for the food to be on the plate and sizzling away.
In the anti Sam also arrives back, with a couple of fish speared onto one of her arrows.
“They are still not awake yet?”
“No activity.” I shake my head. The fish in my little skillet is already starting to sll very very good.
“Hmm.” Sam takes out her knife and gets ready to start working on her fish. “Could you go and check on them? I’ll take care of the skillet.”
“Yeah, I’ll go take a look.” I nod and get up. If they want to sleep on a bit longer that’s all fine, but it’s probably not bad to at least go and ntion we are busy making so food.
I walk over to the hut that’s closest to the fire, that being the hut of Hilda and knock on the wood before peaking inside.
Inside I see Hilda peaking over her bedroll at , it looks like my knock woke her up. “Amicia… Is sothing wrong?” She tries to sit up a little more.
“No, Sam and I are just making so breakfast. But it’s fine if you want to sleep in longer.”
“Is it that late already?” She asks.
“Well, the sun is already pretty high in the sky.” I point up.
“Oh…” She rubs the proverbial sand out of her eyes. “I’ll be up in a minute. I’ve slept long enough already.”
“Okay, but you don’t have to hurry, we are still preparing.”
Hilda smiles after which I move on to the little hut my sister and Nikki. But before I knock on the wooden wall, I can already hear so silent talking.
“Are you two awake?” I softly ask.
“Amicia?” My sister replies. “Yeah, we are. We are reading a book.”
“More specifically, I am reading a book while your sister is cuddling up to .” Nikki corrects her.
“Potato, potato.”
“Ah, okay.”
“Did you need us for sothing?”
“Not really, Sam and I are making breakfast. I’m just spreading the word around.”
“Oh, breakfast…” My sister comnts. “I think I could use so breakfast.”
“That’s not a bad idea.” Nikki ads.
“Alright, then I’ll go back to the campfire and help Sam a bit more.”
“‘Kay, we will be right there with you.”
And with that, the breakfast bell had been rung.
After I arrive back at the campfire it takes only a couple of minutes before the first couple of bedheads appear, it’s my sister and Nikki.
A couple of minutes after them, the last person of our party arrives as well.
“It doesn’t happen often that you are the last one to get out of bed, Hilda.” My sister grins.
“Why don’t you try to get poisoned next ti to see how exhausting that is.” Hilda snaps back but with a smile on her face.
“Or you could take a couple of points in Paladin.”
“Is that possible?” Sam asks. “To multiclass in this ga like in Catacombs and Chiras?” At the sa ti Sam starts offering so food to all of us.
“In a way, but it works a bit differently." Hilda replies. "It would be easier for a knight to ‘multiclass’ into Paladin than it would be for . For it would only add a couple of minor bonuses and stat increases and maybe that disease resistance your sister has. But for a knight they would be able to synergize a lot better, receiving more prominent divine skills. Their stat increases would also be more efficient.”
“It mainly depends on class adjacency.” Nikki explains further. “Like for you, as a ranger, it would be easier to spec into a rogue like Hilda, than it would be to spec into a mage or a tanky class. You won’t be wasting a lot of experience like that. That said it’s still not true multiclassing as you will always stay a ranger.”
“So, basically it’s just taking elents of another class?”
“Yes, pretty much.” Hilda nods. “Apart from Ami who can be both a healer and a tank, a true multiclass like that doesn’t exist.”
“At least as far as we know.” Lise ads.
“Fair enough. You have to realize that most of our knowledge is from the ti when we thought this was just a ga. Now that we know it’s more like an alternate reality, there’s no one who can tell for sure.”
“That makes sense.” Sam nods. “But that actually brings to sothing Ami and I were wondering about a bit earlier.” Sam first looks at and then at Nikki.
Nikki bounces back a little, probably feeling a bit targeted. “Uh, has it sothing to do with ?”
“Yeah.” I nod. “Sam and I were just wondering if you could learn ice magic…”
“Ah.” Nikki looks relieved that the question wasn’t very difficult. “I definitely could. While ice magic is the polar opposite of my preferred magic, it’s still magic. But, it would could a lot of points still to get any good spells for it, and…”
“And?” Sam tilts her head.
“It’s not fire magic.” My sister laughs.
“Yeah.” Nikki chuckles. “Fire magic is my thing. I want to be the strongest fire mage in this world and ice just doesn’t cut it for .”
“Big explosions go boom?” Sam says.
“Exactly.” Nikki gives her a thumbs up. “And I don’t really want to compromise on that.”
“That’s valid!” I reply. “We were just wondering if you could.”
“That’s okay.” Nikki smiles. “But why were you wondering to begin with?”
“Well…” I scratch the back of my neck. “We were looking for soone to refrigerate sushi….”
The group stays silent for a couple of seconds before my sister snorts very very loudly. “Of course it would be you who would think about that.”
“B-but Sam was in on it too!”
Sam laughs. “Technically I just proposed that Nikki might be able to do learn it. The food refrigeration part was all you though.”
Now the rest of the group starts laughing too.
-Noooo! My foodie brain has betrayed ee!!!!-
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