Chapter 42: Succubus Tales
Stella kept laughing at Kir all throughout his orientation to the Fire Tower. And the Earth Tower. She even showed up in the bathroom when, at the beginning of the Water Tower tour, he went to try to clear his head, flying in as soon as someone left and landing on the door to his stall.
Kir was sitting on the lid of the toilet. He didn't actually need to go, he just needed someplace quiet. He lost that when Stella arrived.
"Oh gods! I can't believe it... you had the hots for a couple and you didn't know!" she bawled, pointing at him with her little bat claw before beating a tiny set of taps into the top of the door as she continued to cackle.
"Get down here!" Kir ordered, and suddenly Stella was standing up before flying down to him. He caught her midair and held her in one hand. She squeaked as she was grasped, but then burst out laughing again. "Did you know about this? Stop laughing!"
Stella immediately went to something between a chortle and a chuckle. "Yes! I figured it out before your big duel." She said between the chuckles. "I also got some useful intel on those boys that challenged you."
"How did you find out?" Kir asked. "What do you know?"
"Much as I enjoyed getting squeezed by you, it would be much easier for me to talk if you let go." Stella replied.
As soon as Kir let go, she turned into her succubus form, looking exactly the same as earlier that morning.
"Okay," she began her tale, "So there I was, flying out after you told me to 'get lost,' and I think to myself, 'Stella! Where's a good place to feed on some errant lust without causing trouble like the boss said?' And then I remembered the secret library that the second-year girls were all talking about while you were busy blowing up the harbor." She gesticulated as she talked. "So I follow this purple-haired girl, because I kinda got this thing about secondary colors being good luck for me, like, especially orange but I really like purple and-"
"Stella, stay focused please," Kir interrupted.
"Right! So anyway, I land on the bookshelf, and the girl walks up to that foxy totsy you were crushing on, and she's all 'Hey, Kordia, I just got my book back from the first year circle, is it alright if you read it and tell me how realistic Rain is?'