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Third Person POV
Toussaint.
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The knight looked at the two for a moment before widening his eyes, quite surprised upon hearing the names the boy spoke.
How could they not have heard messages coming from the northern war? The knights of Toussaint always had to stay vigilant about the news, for they represented Toussaint.
It was a natural ability to recognize visitors who arrived at the duchy, especially the unexpected ones, since it was easier to deal with scheduled visits, but they always had to stay informed about everything else.
The moment he heard the two names, he immediately gulped, while his companion also shuddered as he approached. The rest of the people inside the tavern murmured, wondering who they were, unable to identify the meaning of those names, unlike the knights.
Seeing the state of Ser Milton de Peyrac-Peyran and Ser Palmerin de Launfal, who stared at him as if seeing a ghost, Madara continued: "We are not here to cause trouble, if that is what you fear. We are just on a stroll, so I hope that won't be a problem, right, ser?"
He said this in a calm and even amused tone at the situation. The soldier simply nodded. He could identify a charlatan, and he knew that no one had ever attempted to impersonate the monster of war; combined with the confident and carefree posture of the husband and wife there, there was no doubt these two were who they claimed to be.
"Of course, my good noble… I imagine you want to spend some time with your…" He murmured, even though he knew who she was, he did not stop murmuring.
"Wife," Ciri helped him with a mischievous smile.
"Yes, of course, your wife. I will now take my leave and prepare our horses!", said Ser Milton de Peyrac-Peyran at the end, while Madara nodded, giving permission for him to go.
"Have a good day. And you, Arillu, take care." The man said his farewell and even spoke to the tavern keeper, who stared at him with wide eyes upon seeing the obvious paleness in his face. His companion struggled to move, but soon followed outside. Both did not fail to cast one last glance at Madara.
"Madara, don't you think you overdid it?" Ciri murmured, while Madara shrugged.
"I only said our names. There is no reason for such alarm," Madara said.
"That man looked like he was about to have a heart attack! Madara, I don't want people to get sick just because we say our names," Ciri complained.
"Actually, that is caused by my name. He will clearly run to the castle to speak with the duchess, thinking the duchy is in danger, demanding that someone send a message directly to your father in Nilfgaard," Madara suggested, while Ciri laughed despite the displeasure at hearing about her father.
"I imagine that's exactly it," she said, as they continued eating in silence.
No one else bothered them, but the stares still lingered on them. In the end, they finished, paid, and began to leave under the tavern keeper's still suspicious gaze.
Upon stepping outside, they found Ser Milton de Peyrac-Peyran, as he walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, which was surprising, considering he was a bit chubby and even wearing armor, he still managed to maintain that pose.
Ciri could already see from afar a carriage advancing along the main road directly toward the city. Clearly Anna Henrietta would be informed about the presence of the two, but that didn't matter.
"Ah, you are here, well…" The man saw them and finally approached, still with some caution, for example, letting his nervousness show. He was about to say something else, but stopped, anxious.
"We are here, obviously. Why are you so nervous? I already said, we are only here for a stroll. We do not want to cause trouble," Madara replied calmly, while the man forced a smile.
"Of course… certainly. I'm sure you wouldn't mind…" He stood there in front of them.
Ciri looked at Madara, silently asking with her eyes what they should do. The man didn't even seem aware of his own actions at that moment.
"Come on, Ciri," Madara said casually, not wanting to listen to whatever he had to say, while Ciri followed her husband past the man, and even the colt let out a neigh directly at the knight standing there.
They untied their steeds and began mounting them. The man just watched as they started to leave. Madara and Ciri left that small village under the stares of some of the residents, mainly due to the behavior of the knight Ser Milton de Peyrac-Peyran, who was quite well-known and popular in the duchy, and who still remained frozen in place.
"Well… and now?" Ciri asked excitedly as they returned to the road.
"There are vineyards, a lake, and also the old School of the Viper… We have the whole day to explore," Madara replied.
"A witcher school? Like Kaer Morhen? I'd love to see it!" Ciri brightened.
"But wait… are there other witcher schools still functioning?!" She remembered Vesemir's lessons telling her that all had been wiped out except for Kaer Morhen itself.
"Well, we'll only be visiting ruins. It no longer operates, but I want to try to find something there that might not have been looted after all this time," Madara said with clear intent, and Ciri nodded.
Madara couldn't help but think that he himself had destroyed the School of the Cat a few years ago, when it was the largest until the war. They continued along the path, passing the vineyards and continuing through the landscape of the duchy.
Toussaint seemed like a cheerful place, but also quite hectic and terrifying at times, despite being known as a place to relax.
Madara and Ciri found two more knights fighting against a cyclops that didn't even have time to react when their fight to try to stop the beast crossed their path. With a calm movement, Madara drew a kunai and threw it with such force that it buried itself in the monster's eye. It didn't even have time to scream in pain before it exploded due to the explosive tag attached to it.
The explosion caused horrible discomfort in the knights' ears and in the people around the fight, but it also left them stunned, unable to understand where the attack had come from or how that monster had been destroyed so quickly.
They saw the couple approaching calmly along that same road and said nothing out of sheer surprise. They only watched as Madara and Ciri passed beside the dead body without caring, moving on and leaving many people confused.
Later, they encountered a Giant Centipede — a type of huge worm that hides underground, a monster exclusive to Toussaint — which emerged attempting to attack Ciri after she had stepped into a piece of land upon seeing a tree with apples.
Ciri reacted with lightning-fast speed, cutting the creature into two parts without any notable resistance, while the monster writhed for a few seconds before dying.
"Wow… this place is full of monsters," Ciri complained for the first time, biting an apple as she handed it back to the colt, who certainly loved it.
"Nothing we can't handle," Madara replied.
"I'm starting to rethink whether this place is as peaceful as you described in your advertisement," Ciri teased with a joke.
"I never said there wouldn't be monsters. I said I wanted to buy a vineyard to relax… not go around stealing pieces of land from others," Madara teased her with the apples.
"There was no fence, so the land doesn't belong to anyone," Ciri mocked, continuing to laugh as she returned to her horse. They had clearly trespassed on someone's property, but Toussaint wasn't known for being an extremely dangerous place. There were bandits, of course, but most farms didn't even use fences, so entering the land was easy.
"Besides, we did the owner of this territory a favor. We took down a monster," Ciri said with a bit of pride. "The least he could do as payment is let us take these apples!" She convinced herself she was doing the right thing, and Madara shrugged.
They continued wandering through the area and even visited some vineyards. Upon leaving them, Ciri looked at the enormous lake, not understanding why Madara had brought them there.
"Are we going to bathe?" she asked, and his answer surprised her.
"Why not? The lake looks perfect for that. And there's no one watching, or anyone around." There really was no one in that part, which seemed full of ruins. On the other side, it was possible to see some children playing, but nothing that would bother them. Ciri opened a smile.
"Talking like that, it sounds like you just want to have sex," she said, but with a certain intention as she bit her lip at her husband.
"Would that be bad?" he challenged.
"It would be wonderful," she replied, still with desire on her lips. They hadn't had sex last night due to her sadness over Cintra, and they had only slept, so why wait until night? And it's not every day they had a huge lake all to themselves, far from curious eyes.
The colt neighed in protest, complaining about something regarding mating. Madara smiled and Ciri burst into laughter.
"Anyway, let's leave him here with a few clones and the horses. I want to explore something down there," Madara said in a serious tone.
Ciri was a bit curious but nodded. They left the steeds along with the colt farther back, with a few clones to protect them, while they dove into the water.
Ciri came right after and found Madara exploring several submerged ruins.
He moved forward, blowing some air using a wind jutsu, and when Ciri approached, he pulled her by the waist and kissed her before creating an air bubble around her head as well.
"This is pleasant," she confessed, surprised to notice she could speak with Madara in front of her. When the bubbles connected, they lost any barrier, allowing them to talk freely without discomfort while being so close to each other.
"Yes. Let's enter that ruin," Madara said, looking to the side.
Ciri followed him, separating their heads, and the bubbles once again created a barrier to breathe, isolated from the water.
"This place is huge," Ciri exclaimed, even though Madara couldn't hear, able to see even better with the bubble around her head. It was as if she were using excellent diving goggles.
Ciri saw that Madara hadn't heard her, since their bubbles were separated. She moved closer to his face again. "This place is huge… What's in here?" she asked.
"I heard about the research of an old witcher who wanted to undo the genetic mutation his son underwent upon becoming a witcher. He ended up inventing something else — something that made witchers stronger. I came to get it and give it to Vesemir and the others," Madara said, while Ciri understood perfectly and smiled.
"That's amazing, Madara," she said, happy that her husband had such information and that it could help the witchers who were their friends.
Ciri was about to move further, but Madara still kept his hands firmly on her waist, making her lift a questioning gaze.
"Before we go… why don't we finish what we suggested right down here?" Madara said, as his hands slid from her waist directly to her butt.
Ciri widened her smile as she watched him simply lift a finger and begin tearing her riding outfit with chakra running through his fingertip, cutting through it along with her bra, leaving her breasts exposed to him.
"You're going to have to give me new clothes!" she said, laughing, while wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning closer with a mischievous smile, feeling her butt being squeezed by Madara's hands.
"With great pleasure," he replied, before receiving a passionate kiss from Ciri.
Madara didn't need much to remove his kimono, while Ciri quickly removed her own pants. Madara slid down Ciri's panties and began stimulating her with a finger inside her pussy, releasing a small, pleasurable level of electricity, while she screamed inside the bubble because of the sensation.
She loved it and was quite addicted to what they had, when no one else in the world could give Ciri the pleasure Madara could, with Ciri never having mentioned it to anyone — after all, she would never share her husband and feared that other women, even close ones, might discover his gift.
After that, the two intertwined in various positions, enjoying the fact that they were underwater, able to move in multiple ways. They ended up having sex in the middle of the lake for an hour, without anyone seeing, even sparing Eira from witnessing human mating.
"You know… Yennefer tried to teach me a few things about sex before we got married, but I don't think she imagined we'd be doing it floating inside a lake, in every possible way, even with you fucking me upside down…," Ciri said, amused and tired, while the bubbles were still connected, her naked body clinging to Madara's, also naked, after they had spent an hour having sex in the depths of the lake and were now kissing — only the oxygen from the bubbles created by Madara's jutsu keeping them alive.
"I like trying new places," Madara replied with an even more amused tone. Ciri didn't disagree at all.
"And where will be the next place? In the sky?" she challenged.
"If that grumpy dragon doesn't mind, why not on top of a dragon?" Madara retorted, and Ciri burst into laughter down in the lake.
"I don't think Ignavros would like that one bit."
"He would hate it," Madara replied. "He'd try to kill us."
"He would immediately turn on us. We are not having sex on top of a dragon!" Ciri answered, still laughing.
"Either way, let's go. We'll put on some clothes when we reach the laboratory," Madara said, and Ciri nodded as they headed together toward the entrance of the sanctuary.
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