"Yhness, we o get you two ready for the feast," a maid calls out, waking me and my harpy lover.

  "Starting this early?" I ask, still ed up in her wings.

  "Not really, it's nht now. Seems the travel and fights have worn you down. Or you still aren't used to the bed duties," my maid says, pulling the curtains to let the sun light up the room.

  "Yes, she did spend a lot of energy st night getting in nid deep," Syro chimes in, finishing her senteh a soft kiss on my cheek.

  "I just gave what you begged for, Harpy. Keep teasing me, and I may throw you into Alzi's bed for a week and see how well you walk after that," I threaten.

  "That sounds like a good time Princess. The bigger problem won't be walking the week but in nine months. I don't think the Duchess kept her secret for half as long as she thought she would," Syro taunts as she steps in front of a mirror, lettiake in her naked backside. Toned dark skin with her feathery arms and legs.

  The maids pull out a seirror for me to use. Then es the standard red dress. I'll be speaking to the people before the feast, I o look the part of royalty for them. My wives will get red jewelry to show their standing.

  The Baroness didn't have time to prepare a full feast for the city, so they'll only get the speech before we e back to eat. Over the few days, the food will be handed out to the needy. It would be o wait a few days and have a real city-wide feast, but the number of issues among my party is growing, and I would like to get back to Isda. I hate leaving her behind so soon after marrying her.

  I did get to write a respoo her letter yesterday. She'll at least know I got her letter and didn't fet about her.

  The maids work quickly to put on the dress and makeup. I am careful not to overdo the accessories. I o be fshy but go too far past their expectation, or they won't ect with me as I want. It's all about meeting people's expectations for what a royal who cares about their problems will look like. Break that expectation, and I'll be some fshy, stuck-up prick.

  My wives have it easier, they aren't scrutinized quite as much as me. As long as I have more jewelry thahehing is good. That is uhey decide to garner more attention to themselves. But I would hope they'd at least warn me befoing off and takier stage from me.

  Though something tells me Alzi will have trouble with that one. Her colorful hair and light show will draw eyes without even trying. Add on, she'll struggle with the etiquette, and I'll have a real headache at these events.

  Teag Alzi all the etiquette will be a pain for Aurora. Letters, spelling, mana, magic, etiquette for parties as both a man and woman, dihe bedroom, traveling, kids. The list of nobles is too long. Well, the oners do have their own version that she'll know from her vilge, but they're always more rexed about it.

  She'll almost be a dao take out of the house.

  But that is a problem to worry about when I have her. Today, I have to worry about a speech. I was suspeg we would have some sort of celebration so I was able to work on it on the way out here instead of all st night.

  "Princess, what size heel would you like?" A maid asks as another puts on the final silver bracelet.

  I take a good look at the dress and jewelry before I decide. The red dress is simple, with just some rubies to sparkle around my breasts. I wear small silver bracelets, a gold neckce with a locket hanging down, and small golden earrings. My hair is up in a ponytail.

  "Four inches should be good," I say, happy with the rest of the apparel.

  "Inanos has already put on four and a half."

  "Then five, I guess." Is that girl trying to make me show off? But she must be feelier to go that big on the heels or she just really doesn't want to be the shortest girl since Isda isn't around.

  "Yes, yhness," she says, pulling out some simple bck heels for me. "Are these good?"

  "Yes," I say, slipping into the heels. I give myself one mood look in the mirror before I turn to the Harpy in the er.

  A simple bck dress to cover her dark-toned body. Her dress covers just her skin, leaving her feathery wings ao show. I see the back of the red neckd red hooped earrings through her short brown hair.

  "Three inches? How is this fair?" I yell out to my beautiful Harpy.

  "I'm not as petitive as you are, dear. The most the people will see of me are my beautiful feathers and neckce. Maybe a few staring at my tits. They'll be looking at you. So, I get a bit of fort today. Bme Inanos for making you go to five if you aren't willing to take all the bme," she says, slipping into the little things and turning around. "Besides, I look wonderful in three, and you're sexy in five. It'll be a fight who gets you after the feast. Now e, dear, the people await your speech."

  Without even waiting for my reply, she walks out of the room, swaying her hips with each step.

  "Someone wants me to fuck her again tonight," I mutter, following her out of the bedroom. A few maids stay to up the room, and the rest follow us out, one rag to the front to lead us through the building. The stupid Harpy teasihe whole way.

  "Ah, good, the Princess is here. Most of the city is here. A few have to tend to the fields and some left yesterday to try and salvage the fields the griffins were guarding. But it should be a good crowd. Are you ready?" Baroness says. She is in four-inch heels, so even without Inanos, it was best to go with five.

  Whoever picked fug heels to be the stupid measuring test better be walking on stilts ierlife.

  The more important parts of her apparel are a pin e dress with silver jewelry, her three wives in simir dresses, and her husband iandard pants and shirt while surrounded by the wives.

  "Yes, I'm ready. Just show me where you gathered the people, and we give the speech," I say.

  "Right this way yhness," she says with a small bow.

  She takes us up and into the inner castle's walls so we reach the top of the gate. The crowd's mumbling barely reaches us at the top of the gate, and the furry ears give the crowd a colorful look.

  "My people. You all know that I had requested some help from a Princess. Princess Elora. She answered my request for help. Princess Elreed to help us farm our fields and feed our people. She and her neives came all the way from the capital to give us all support. I want to thank her for making the trip personally and taking care of riffen problem. The fields are damaged. Much of the crop was ruined, but not all. There is more food there that we harvest, but work o be done. But that isn't all she has given us. I'll let the Princess share what else she has graciously given our humble city!" She says to the rge crowd. A small roar es from them as she finishes as me take their attention.

  "I thank you all for the work you do every year. The food you export for the cities that struggle to make their own food is a life savior for them. It was an easy decision to e down here and help you all. You've been helping a number of cities survive for years. Sacrifig food that you could use to help towns and cities nearby that don't have a good harvest. It doesn't go unnoticed by us. You represent what the Queendom wishes to be. A group w together to survive and thrive. You deserved to be able to farm the nd you've worked so hard over the years to keep and manage!" I shout out, pausing a bit to catch my breath ahem sit with the words. "The beast is gone. Killed and their meat in good dition to help relieve some of the pain they've created for you all. I've given the meat over to some of the butchers in this city so they distribute it out to the hungry and needy. It'll have the filling blessing on it so the food fill as many stomachs as possible. I thank you all for your patience. I'm w with the adventure guild to increase the number of cities in the kill rotation so the city never has to go so long without help. While I'm happy to e here and help personally, it takes too long for me to e down here. This won't happen again. The Queendom will protect its own people. It will give you all the ce to thrive!"

  I stand with the cheers for a moment before bag off. I'm sure many of the shops will have some specials to give out to the rge crowd to let them have some sort of party while the nobles enjoy a bit of fun.

  "Ready to eat?" Liuva asks once we're out of the castle's walls.

  "Yes, though I do wonder where the rest of my wives are. Only Syro is here."

  "We don't have much spa the walls, so I let them stay inside. You have many wives, and this humble city isn't used to women being that powerful and captivating," she teases me as we head back to the castle.

  "You really let them bully you into not making them e up? We had more than enough room for even Elyo e up."

  "They be quite ving, yhness. It probably is best not to overwhelm my people with so many once. Most nobles would call this a farming vilge."

  "I'll look to ge that. The farming vilges are what let so many pursue other professions. You deserve some attention and care."

  "It is good to hear you say that yhness. I was already preparing to ask the guild for help. I really didn't think you would send help and surely not e in the flesh. I tested your words, and you held to them. Thank you for that. My mother had a simir promise from a princess. They never showed up. Not onot even sending some moo help pay the guild. This won't be fotten."

  "I'm here to help all ers of the nd grow. If I o go somewhere personally to achieve that goal, then I'll be there."

  "Well, thank you. Now, let's eat, shall we," Liuva says as two maids through open the doors to the small ballroom the castle has. Small pared to the capital. More than enough to hold my wives, the guards that helped us, and her wives. Plenty of room to spare around the long table stacked with the meat from a griffin.