The Prince's Mate

Lifa

“Er... Then, what should I call you, milady?” Lifa asked and then grabbed her mouth when she realised she had said it again. “ A thousand apologies!” She spoke through her fingers.

“Are you a real elf?” Cecelia asked taking a step closer to her and staring at her ears without noticing how she gasped at the invasion of her personal space. “Like, for real?” Cecelia asked.

“Pardon me but I was not aware that fake elves existed, I am real; an elf in Morhaven is quite common, could it be possible that milady has never seen my kind up close?” Lifa asked shakily as she tried balancing when Cecelia leaned even closer toward her.

“That’s right,” Cecelia said almost in a daze as she stepped back before her attention snapped once more into focus. “My name is Cecelia stop addressing me that way.”

“Lady Cecelia-“

“Just Cecelia.” She corrected the elf again.

“Cecelia...” Lifa repeated slowly. “Are you sure I have permission to call you by only your maiden name?”

“Anyways...” She turned away from the apparently shy and blushing Lifa, ignoring her question as she gazed at the well-decorated room again. “This place is so huge, are they really letting me stay somewhere like this?” Cecelia asked; in her own mind this was far more than she’d be able to manage, just the thought of cleaning it alone made her cringe, and it seemed like there were actually more rooms attached to it. “How many more rooms are attached here?” She looked at Lifa who was still flustered who she caught staring at her hair.

“Um, five more, this is the first of six rooms that make up your current residence,” Lifa replied and Cecelia almost lost her jaw to the floor as she thought about it. “There is another room where I reside, complete with all my belongings and its own attachments, you have your closet, washroom, bedroom and ladies' room separate from my own, please, we should head to the washroom first so I can apply healing medicine to your wounds,” She added the last bit as she began walking with her hand stretched out toward the first of four large doors.

Cecelia was hesitant at first but found that her curiosity outweighed her caution as she slowly began walking behind Lifa.

“What is the name of this healing medicine?” Cecelia asked the elf before her while she stared at her ears, but Lifa looked back with a small smile as she reached the door and tilted her head to the side innocently.

“I haven’t the foggiest what it is actually called or what it is made up of as I am no healing mage nor am I a doctor, I only know that it heals wounds and is imbued with magical properties to speed up the resulting healing process, it does sting a little bit however, so prepare yourself,” Lifa responded as she pushed the door open revealing a large room just as big as the first with a massive pool in the middle filled to the sides with steaming water and a collection of bottles and what appeared to be soaps at one end where a small seat in the shape of an ass was placed.

One entire side of the room was a large window that let in the light cast by the massive planet-sized moons outside, which served once again just like Lifa as a reminder that she was no longer on earth.

“This way,” Lifa turned to her and took hold of her blouse, pulling it from inside of her skirt and holding on to the first two buttons.

“What are you doing?” Cecelia asked with a shocked gasp, slapping the elf’s arms away from her body. “I-I’m flattered that you would even think of me like that, but I’m only into guys-“ She stuttered and held on to her blouse, but Lifa gave her a chuckle and reached for her again causing her to back away. “Don’t mess with me.” Cecelia held out her fist at Lifa, hugging her body with the other hand.

“I meant nothing by it Lady Cecelia, I am simply undressing you to prepare you for the bath.” She explained, causing Cecelia’s eyes to narrow as she realised something.

“When did you prepare this, didn’t you say you were going to prepare it?” She asked and Lifa smiled calmly at her and nodded. “So how, when did you get the time to do this if you have been at my side the entire time?” She asked, and Lifa smiled again and held forward her hand.

At first, nothing seemed to happen, but Cecelia gasped aloud and held her mouth as she witnessed another Lifa appear right before her eyes, though this new Lifa was pale and her body was almost transparent to the point where she could see the lights from behind through her.

“It is the primary magic that I and all other elves possess” Lifa explained proudly. “I can make several doppelgangers of myself, all of which can interact with everything around us for a short while before the magic runs dry and they disappear, I had several of them prepare the bath while we were being introduced.” She smiled as Cecelia seemed more shocked than anyone she had ever seen.

“Holy s**t, that’s useful, beyond useful, if I could do that before... wow,” Cecelia responded as she reached out to the second Lifa but then retracted her hand as the doppelganger went out in a poof of smoke at her touch. “Wow,” She whispered again as she witnessed for the first time in her life actual magic.

“Pardon me.” Lifa created another doppelganger and turned, allowing it to undo the laces that held her garments together, Cecelia was so shocked that she took a moment to realise that Lifa was nude before her, and she gasped and slapped her hand over her eyes when she did, but a second later she grabbed her breasts and turned her back with a brightening blush when she realised again that Lifa had used that instant to completely remove all her clothes, it happened in an instant too fast for her to even react beyond a gasp.

“This way please,” Lifa gestured to the pool as she handed the dirty and murky clothes over to her doppelganger.

“What the actual f**k is your problem?” Cecelia snapped as she tried to hide herself, but Lifa only stood there bare and gave her a confused glance.

“Lady Cecelia, you are strange, you refuse to look at me, and you are hiding yourself, are we not both women?” She asked and then gasped. “Could you possibly have some kind of strange growth or a second organ on your body?” She asked but Cecelia remained silent as she tried to hide herself, giving her the opportunity to compose herself again.

“Never mind that now, we have to clean you and get your wounds checked and healed, evidently you have quite a few cuts and bruises, I do not know what you have gone through to receive such treatment as a lady who is to be sworn to the Prince but it is most troublesome, please hurry along,” She reached for Cecelia and took her by her hand guiding her to the edge of the pool and the stepping down into it, with every inch of water that graced her body she found herself unwinding more and more as the warmth crept into her sore muscles and brought relief she hadn’t even known she needed, the water was a lie itself because it didn’t even pass Cecelia’s upper thighs when she reached what seemed like the deepest part, and as she stood there embarrassed, Lifa’s doppelganger approached with several of the items from the side and stood there holding them, even the doppelganger was naked.

“How can you be so... Okay with being naked in front of another person?” Cecelia asked Lifa, and the elf looked up at her as the doppelganger placed the small chair from the side in the water.

“As I said before Lady Cecelia, we are both women, what you have on your body I too have, there is nothing I have not seen, there is no need to be embarrassed or flustered by me looking at you, we will be spending almost every moment from today onwards at each other's side.” She replied as she cupped and shook her breasts and then looked down at her crotch. “There is nothing to be ashamed of... You must get used to this quickly too because sooner or later there will be a joint bath with all the women from this side of the castle, one which even the queen partakes in, it would be shameful and a great insult to hide your naked self from the queen who bears herself naked as well.”

“Oh... Right...” Cecelia took that warning as a life threat as she slowly sat according to Lifa’s gestures, and sighed as the elf poured something into her hair and began massaging her scalp.

Almost immediately Cecelia felt like was going to pass out from the comfort, but Lifa was there to use her own self as a pillar and hold her up.

“You are very tense, I presume you should be exhausted as well, please bare with me for a little longer as I clean you.” She spoke softly as two more doppelgangers appeared and they all began washing her to speed up the process, Cecelia was so out of it that she even allowed the elf to wash between her legs, and because of her apparent exhaustion she even found herself moaning in pleasure when Lifa stroked her nether lips with her tongue, she knew that this was not a part of bathing, but at the same time she had gone years without a single man or woman touching her, she blacked in and out of consciousness as not just Lifa, but the doppelgangers as well stimulated her in ways she couldn’t have imagined on her own, and with the warm water melting her muscles she loosened and lost her sense of self as well as her consciousness to a world of dreams, the next time she would wake it was to the sound of Lifa calling her and birds chirping as she was encased in the comfort of a large and fluffy bed.

“Lady Cecelia,” the elf called, slightly nudging her shoulder to shake her awake. “Lady Cecelia, it is dawn, please rise,”