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THE UNINTENDED CURSE

Ch. 16

I don't know who was more surprised, the younger sister or the elder one. Though the sisters may have been confused by what was going on, I was relieved. "It took you long enough," I said to which made the sisters do a few double takes between me and other person, but finally settled on staring at the other person/lord.

"Ya...well, it wasn't like it was an easy thing to gain control of his body." The voice said to which he followed with pulling out a small box from within his breast pocket, to which he opened, revealing its contents to contain what could only be seen as some kind of white powder. "It was a chore in a half for me to work my way through all of the dust he must have been snorting to take control of him."

"Um...what is going on?" Asked the elder sister to which I laughed slightly and then winced as pain laced up from the stab wound in my host's body.

"Do you recall, that I spat in the lords face?" To which the elder sister nodded. "Well, that wasn't just spittle that I spat in his face."

"It was a piece of him." Finished the lord to which the sisters did another set of double takes between us, but eventually the elder sister nodded and smiled. "Depending on the amount of us we use to take control over a new host, it will take that much time before they are under our control." With that the lord nodded to a bench nearby and the three of them helped me on over to it. "Though that really isn't the thing we should be worrying about right now," to which the sisters gave the lord a confused look, but stopped when he gestured towards the open/sword wound that'd pieced the main host's body. "We've to take care of his wound." This got the sisters to nod to that and quickly begin the lengthy process of sealing up the wound from the sword piercing my main host's body.

Normally the simple task of closing the wound would have only taken a few moments, but due to everything that'd happened before this had taken its toll on the sisters and to that, that much longer to finish the task of closing the wound. "That is the best we can do for now," to which I looked up at the elder sister in confusion until she gestured to the small stand where we'd been selling our wares earlier. "It will probably be a while before we've recovered enough to do a more thorough healing." In short, the wound was healed enough that my host wasn't in mortal peril, but that didn't mean I should push my luck any further than needed/necessary.

I nodded to that and could only sigh in relief as I no longer had to worry 'too much' about the welfare of my host. I mean, I could hold the wound closed for quite a while but that was simply that of a double edged sword, as I was a blob monster and a blob monster will do what a blob monster would do; eat. "Thanks for that," I said simply to which the elder sister smiled and nodded.

With that the elder sister turned and looked towards the lord and new host to a blob monster. "Then I take it that you are in control of him?" To which she looked over her shoulder at me and I shrugged slightly.

"In a way...yes; though probably not fully what you're implying." I made a rolling notion with my hand at the lord to which he nodded. "Though it may be true that we were once one, now we are two," this got the sister to look over at me then settle on the lord once more. "It's a little hard to explain, but the simple explanation is that I'll act the same way as I would in that body," to which the lord nodded towards me, "but all the experiences won't be shared with the main blob until we re-join."

"Would someone, 'please' speak sense here?!" Demanded the younger sister with a bit of a pouty face to which she shared with my host and the lord; to which I couldn't help but laugh at her confusion.

"The really simple version or easy way to explain it is that we are twins." This got the younger sister to frown slightly at me and then turn and look up at the lord. "He'll act just as I would act if I were in that body, but I don't control that body, the blob part that I spat into the lords face controls it." To this the lord nodded and began to fuss over the cloths draping over the lords large...frame. "I know that there is a lot to take in with this, but simply put it down to that we now have a resource we can now take advantage over.

"What is that supposed to mean?" The little sister asked with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"It means," said the lord as he knelt down in front of the younger elf and placed a hand on her shoulder. "That whatever belonged to this lord now belongs to us." This only got the younger to furrow her brow. "I now control his body and to that...anyone who jumps at this lords will, will do what we want them to do now." It took a minute or two for the implications of this to sink into the younger elf's mind but finally her eyes a-lite with understanding and maybe a little mischief.

"Now why didn't you say that in the first place?" She said to which both the lord and myself couldn't help but laugh at her new enthusiasm.

It was a while later that the lord began to recite all the things that the lord ruled over and to that now was available to us. To say the least, I was quite surprised and couldn't wait until we'd be able to take advantage of those resources. "I think the best thing for us to do right now would be to hold up at the lord's place for a while. We've been on the road for a while now and I'm sure the two of you would really appreciate a good bath." To which the sisters beamed at the thought of finally getting the dirt/dust of the road washed off.

(Time Break/Later that Night)

At the lord's estate, I leaned back in the warm watered tub of the bath house and sighed in relief as the warm water eased a little more tension out of my host's body. It'd been so long since I'd taken a warm bath that I was almost lazed into unconsciousness on the spot. The only thing that kept me 'from' dozing off was the sense that something or someone was coming. "You can come in," I said to what would appear to be no-one but upon the wooden doors sliding open stepped in that of the elder sister elf.

"How did you know it was me?" She asked as she tried to cover her bare/naked front with that of a towel and not doing a very good job of it due to the towels small size.

I simply smirked as I leaned my head back to rest on the end of the tub and placed a smaller towel over my host's eyes so that he too wouldn't be getting an eye full of naked elf. 'I know he wants to look but he's not getting that privilege,' "You have to remember that you still carry a piece of me with you." I heard her slowly kneel down next to my tub and gently wave her hand gently across the top of the water.

"Does that mean you can tell where each person you have a piece in is?" To which I simply laughed slightly at and shook my host's head.

"It's more along the lines of knowing when someone enters a room without actually seeing them come in," my host said then removed the towel from over his eyes, only to quickly replace once more when he noticed that she no longer held up the towel to cover herself. "Someone watching you from the shadows, the slight change in the room when someone opens the room, it's kind of like that sort of a feeling." The sister nodded as she slowly/gently ran her fingers over the slight pink scar that'd recently been where a sword had pierced my host's body.

In the back of my host's mind I could tell that he was excited about all of the signals he was getting from her, but I reached out through him and took up her hand. Through just the simple touch of her hand in my host's I could feel that both were excited and both wanted to see where this would go; but I wasn't willing for it to go further than this. "Don't...," was all I simply said to which got the sister to slightly balk. "This man has done terrible things in the past and I don't think you want anything to do with him." Ever so slowly I peeked out from the corner of my host's eye and under from the towel to see a bit of a shocked/hurt look on the sister's face.

Ever so slowly she sat back on her heals and bowed her head slightly. "I'm...sorry." She said and as I turned to look at her I could see she was shaking slightly. "I know that I should have a better hold of my emotions," she trailed off, leaving much of her sentence lost to mumbles that only she could hear, "It's just that...," she looked up to meet my eyes and I could see that her gaze had become watery. "You've done so much for the two of us and it feels like we really haven't done anything for you."

Just by the tears in her eyes I could tell that she was fairly close to breaking down, so I reached on over to gently cup her shoulder, give it a gentle caress with my thumb, and smiled at her. "You silly elf; the two of you have done so much for me that it is me who should be thanking you." This got her to look up at me in confusion and for me to give her a gracious smile. "If it weren't for the two of you, I'd still be stuck back at that dumpy little public house, and still trying to figure out how to get this guy back to your homeland." She reached on over to take my hand from her shoulder and then transfer it to her cheek.

"I wish I could have known you before all of this." She said simply before she leaned over to gently kiss my host's cheek. "Maybe when this is all over, we can talk about some things," and with that she gained her feet with fluid like grace and gently accentuated the sway of her hips as she left. To say the least I was quite surprised and too that so was my host, which ended up having the two of us staring at the door to the bath house for quite a while, while holding a hand against the cheek that she'd kissed.