Life Giver

On the streets of Ellaris the daylight is starting to fade, clearly announcing that the day is nearing its end and yet many people still walk through the lamp lit streets.

The Evening and night markets are prosperous in this city, the main reason for this is because many Elementals are nocturnal by nature. Different types of Elementals such as Dark and Ice prefer the darker, cooler times of day, not to mention the numerous races that are nocturnal in nature who have migrated to the city.

On one of the main streets near the market district, Casmir is walking alone wearing a loose white shirt and light green trousers, his clothes are clearly expensive earning the occasional glance from passers by.

The streets in the city centre are quite wide, made of paved slabs of stone, three or four story terrace buildings extend in vast rows along the street, there is no sidewalk along the main streets however there is the occasional parked vehicle having clearly arrived much earlier.

During the morning and early night times, vehicles are not permitted to move down the main roads because of the large amounts of people attending the morning and night markets.

In this world vehicles come in two forms, the standard steam or oil powered cheaper kind or the Qi powered kind. Most trains, planes and automobiles are of the standard variety because they are used in transporting goods and people, even in the high class city of Ellaris there are few people who use Qi powered cars for every day transportation.

Qi powered cars rely on the drivers Qi energy or expensive natural sources of Qi energy such as rare minerals and plants, this means that either the driver of the vehicle must be a powerful Qi practitioner or the owner must be very wealthy. Even standard vehicles are rare, most people cant afford them and outside of cities few places have the infrastructure, such as roads and fuel stores, to support civilian vehicular activities.

Casmir walks among the various vehicles and people around him naturally, some of the people around him have animalistic traits, others more human traits but the vast majority of them have a slight glow around their bodies, as if their surroundings are tinted by certain colours. This glow is commonly called an Aura and it is unique to the Elemental race and their sub-race's.

Although the majority of the people along the street have an aura, nearly a third of them don't, these people belong to various other races.

The Angel race, Dark Elven race, Human race, Floral race and even a rare Earthen Golem can all be found along the street.

Casmir finds the Earthen Golem quite interesting, as they are one of the Rarer species.

Walking on all fours with their heads held high they look like small gorillas covered in sheets of identical pebbles, this particular golem has red/brown coloured stones covering him with a black cloak covering his lower body.

Although one might think of the Earthen Golem's appearance as incredible, Casmir only found his appearance worthy of a long glance, there are many unique race's in such a prosperous city.

Casmir soon turns down a side alley moving away from the markets and large shops, towards the smaller private businesses.

After walking a little further down this alley he stops in front of a large pair of open doors with a curtain of beads blocking ones sight into the building.

It is a standard three story high terrace building, clearly too small to house a high end brothel but Casmir knows that in reality the half a dozen terrace buildings nearby have had there walls knocked through to connect each other together, this is a common practise used to create larger properties cheaply and has the hidden benefit of being relatively secretive.

To the left of the doorway a small sign hangs by the beads reading 'Golden Flower House'.

Standing in front of the door Casmir became a little nervous, even though he knows what to do.

Walk in, ask the receptionist for Clara and talk to her about an appropriate 'appointment', yet taking that final step isn't as easy as he thought it would be.

Suddenly a pair of well built, tough men turn round an ally corner nearby, clearly drunk and disorderly, laughing and shouting.

"HAHA! Come on, it's my treat! I know you've taken a fancy to that little blonde girl..." One of the men nearly shouts at the other.

This loud voice seemed to break Casmir's thoughts as he finally entered the Golden Flower House before the pair of tough men took notice of him, sparing him embarrassment.

As Casmir makes his way through the doorway he takes in the large reception area, he notices three small desk's with an attendant at each one.

Casmir makes he way over to the closest desk but before he can say a word, the voluptuous blonde lady behind the desk asks him a question in a seductive voice.

"Good evening young master, can I do anything to serve you..?"

Casmir's mouth nearly stops working as he takes in the lady's generous 'assets' that are barely being held into her black dress.

"Mhm... I-I would like to see Clara to make an... appointment if you know what I mean..." Casmir says strangely as he tries to look politely at her face.

The other two receptionist let out a low giggle as they watch the clearly inexperienced young man.

"Oh you would like to talk to Miss Clara? Certainly I can arrange that... would you like to follow me up to her office?" the lady replies as she moves from behind her desk indicating with her hands for Casmir to follow her.

" L-Lead the way young lady..." Casmir says while smiling, even attempting to flatter the woman.

The lady, who is clearly m.a.t.u.r.e and experienced, smiles at this young man while thinking 'Ah, such a sweet young man... I hope he comes back a few times in the future..'.

After a short walk down a corridor and up a flight of stairs, the m.a.t.u.r.e lady, who has revealed her name to be Florence, knocks on a door while calling out.

"Excuse me, Miss Clara we have an educated guest here looking for an appointment."

Soon afterwards a voice calls out.

"You can let the guest in and I will take it from here." The voice says in an uninterested tone.

Florence opens the door and gestures for Casmir to enter before gently shutting the door behind him.

As Casmir enters the room he notices that it appears to be an office room, a few bookcases and desks are scattered about the room as half a dozen lamps illuminate it. In a corner of the room with an unlit fireplace are a pair of fine sofa's, a young lady is laying down on one of them.

The lady, Clara, is very beautiful with a slim figure, clear pale white skin and beautiful dark red hair. Clara sit's up on her sofa with a book in one hand and a pen in the other, clearly she was just writing something.

"Come sit down young master... what name may I call you by..?" Clara says with a slightly cold face yet still smiling, she is obviously uninterested in conversing with the unknown Casmir.

Casmir walks over to the sofa and sits down, he is oblivious to her cold demeanour as he takes glances at her beautiful appearance.

She has a pleasant face and small b.r.e.a.s.t's but anyone that described her would call her seductive, her a.s.s is plump and perfectly shaped and her eyes are shining as if trying to entice you.

" Ahem... my name is Casmir, Casmir Sing... my mother, Gloria Sing, recommended me..." Casmir says realising that she is probing his background.

Clara's face seems to ease as she hears his background, her smile seems to become more natural.

"Ahhh Miss Gloria's family, I'm familiar with your mother, she taught me for a short while when I was younger." Clara says with a reminiscent smile on her face.

"How is.. I mean... How can I help you today?" Clara holds back her reminiscing, realising that it would be inappropriate.

Casmir starts to sweat lightly as he recalls what his mother told him to do when he meets with Clara.

"..I was hoping to book an appointment for a first time... education from a Lady in your house..." he says.

Clara smiles, clearly expecting this.

Young men from higher class families are often sent here for 'education' on certain matters. The Golden Flower house, as a high end brothel, offers many specialist services and an 'education' is one of the most common special services they provide and not just to young men. S.e.x.u.a.l experience and knowledge is not commonplace, especially in a city with such a diverse population as many interracial partnersh.i.p.s are strange or require specialised knowledge.

Clara get's up from her sofa and walks over to her desk.

"You're quite lucky, Miss Rose is available tonight, she is one of our most favoured teachers... of course I assume you are happy with a Human teacher..?" she says suggestively.

Casmir was quite shocked as he realised what she was suggesting, it hadn't even crossed his mind about having a non-human partner. While he was aware that there were many other species that human's could mate with he had just assumed that this brothel, which was tailored for humans, only had human women.

Noticing Casmir's strange and shocked expression she teased him "Oooh the young master has certain idea's about women... we have a lovely half-angel available... or perhaps an Elemental...?"

Casmir's face flushed red before he quickly corrected Clara.

"Ahem... Ahem.. No, no thank you, Miss Rose will be f-fine thank you..." Casmir's says awkwardly

Clara walks back with a pen and a piece of paper placing it in front of Casmir on the table.

"This is a small doc.u.ment with pricing and other options on it, I will quickly go let Rose know that she has a student today. Please look over the doc.u.ment in case there are any specialities you require.... Oh and our standard appointment time is 2 hour's, of course you are welcome to stay the night if you like..." She says teasingly as she leaves the room.

Casmir let's out a sigh of relief while adjusting his clothing.

'She is such a tease.. no wonder she's here to tend to guest's... There's no way anyone could leave without some form of relief after talking to her...' he thought.

After a moment, Casmir brought his attention to the doc.u.ment in front of him, he assumed it was more of a short contract to protect the brothel but as he read a few lines he starting blushing as his mouth widened until it could fit a whole apple inside of it.

The doc.u.ment did contain a contract but it also contained a large variety of optional choices for the educational experience....

Truthfully, the reason Casmir came here was not simply for p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e, the Golden Flower House offers a comprehensive tutoring session that includes tutoring about s.e.x.u.a.l health, male/female anatomy, inter-racial relationsh.i.p.s, the s.e.x.u.a.l experience and what Casmir was most interested in, a guide to relationsh.i.p.s and courting, in other words, seduction.

Parents will often tutor their children about these things themselves or let them naturally learn about them but others send their children to such places, sometimes because of embarrassment, laziness or even a lack of experience on their part.

Casmir's mother, Gloria, has taught her son about the more technical biological information and given him a broader description of the s.e.x.u.a.l experience but she herself would die of embarrassment if she had to teach him the specifics, which is one reason why she recommended this place to Casmir on his 16th birthday.

People were much more open about s.e.x in the Republic especially because of the current climate.

As Casmir read the doc.u.ment, he picked up a pen to answer a few questions on the doc.u.ment and sign at the bottom, yet his eyes remained glued to the selection of specialities written on the doc.u.ment.

Masochism, Interracial i.n.t.e.r.c.o.u.r.s.e, Homos.e.x.u.a.lity, Roleplay, s.e.x.u.a.l health, herbal stimulants....

An assortment of kinks and related subjects that one can be taught are listed, Casmir is aware of many of the subjects, some would make him blush, others would cause him to be confused but most would arose him to different degrees.

Of course for the moment the only extra subject that he was debating about was female psychology, he naively believed this could help him understand Elena's opinion of him and advance his pursuit of her.

After debating it for a minute or two Casmir selected the female psychology subject as an extra and placed the pen back down on the table.

Now with nothing to do, Casmir's thoughts started to wander, thinking about the lady he would likely spend the night with or the seductive figure of Clara with her dark red hair....