Amity 5 CataclysmChapter 27 Prophecy
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The rest of that week was busy.
I collected a heap of new crystals and Wally, Walter, and I went around the house embedding them in the walls. We then went room to room, and we decided on a colour scheme for each.
Once we were all happy, we liked it, I transported the furniture I’d picked for the room, and we arranged it accordingly. Pammy suggested we move some to different rooms, so they didn’t look cluttered, so the boys moved it.
I then inspected the alteration and approved the moves or not. Pammy had a good eye for colour and style, and she did a top-notch job. We pretty much had the downstairs looking good. Pammy said it was missing a few things, so I touched her and blinked her to the cavern. I think she had put her eyes back in.
She wandered around the room and suggested some changes now she knew what she had to play with. We found a heap of different rugs. We spread them out, and she soon decided on homes for many of them. So I blinked the rugs back into the foyer, and she told the boys where to put them.
We then went back and collected the art objects she had picked, and I sent them back to the foyer. I got my grandfather clock and put in the foyer as well. It intrigued everyone when I wound it up, and it started to tick.
Pammy picked the perfect spot for it, and we all agreed it deserved pride of place, as it was a beautiful piece. Linette got the time off the sundial, and we set it to the right time. I said I’d probably have to make minor adjustments until it lined up better but I agreed it was close enough to start with.
The boys needed new beds, and so did the guest rooms. They didn’t have a ‘Beds-For-Us’ store, so they went off to collect some timber. There was a lovely big workroom under one of the wings, and I told the boys to make it theirs. I gave the minimum dimensions I wanted for the beds and left them to it.
I told Walter that since Wally was a druid he should probably let him read the book I’d given him as well. They both grinned at me and said they had already decided to that. I pointed out a couple of good spells I thought might be useful for making the beds.
I also mentioned some cupboards and a dresser wouldn’t hurt either. I showed the boys one set I had that I liked and said something similar might not hurt for the staff’s rooms.
The boys looked the cupboards over carefully and agreed they wouldn’t be hard to knock them up. So while they were busy, the girls and I went to their rooms. I shook my head when I saw them. Their rooms were on the back of the second and top floors, the nursery and kid’s room on the top right side.
The principle guest rooms and mine were on the front of the house on the top and second floors. I had eight rooms on each floor and two beds to each for the staff. They were split in the middle by a tiny bathing room. They were poky, damp and badly lit.
I shifted the walls to make six slightly bigger rooms and made room for a double bathing room the middle. I asked Tom and Ian to find me a waggon load of copper and one of iron, I handed Tom a purse of coins and told them to spend it.
While I was waiting for them to come back, I went out the back of the top floor balcony that ran around the house and surveyed the back yard. The lowest two floors were built into the hill.
The hill then sloped back into a small valley where the runoff was directed away from the house. I knew how far the caverns were below me and had plenty of room to play. I’d located the secret entrance in the cellars.
So I did some landscaping. I lifted the current plants. I flatted out the area that covered about an acre wide and two long, and I dropped the height so I could put some long narrow windows on the servant’s rooms.
I built two sets of wide stairs running down onto the new back yard with the extra dirt and rocks. I then deepened and dammed the back of the valley. It had a stream running down it where the hills drained. Now I had a lovely big lake and an even better water source for the house. It was filling as I dug.
Down either side of the back yard where it sloped up into the hill and water seeped down, I cut several deep, wide channels. I used different levels damming each one and layered the rocks into several grades, so the uppermost layers were sand.
I collected up the water weeds and thrushes and planted them in my new sewerage system for the top two floors. The water draining out of the mountain from the recent rain started filling my ponds.
By the time the wastewater got to my dam, it would be clean. I replanted the back yard making several nicely tree-shaded areas. I added the leftover trees along my drains to help with the sewage.
I then redirected the sewerage from the top two floors to the back of the house and the collection ponds. I’d left more than enough room in the new paddock, for kids to play ball in the middle. I had room for two large vegetable gardens either side of this area.
I headed out the front. Most of the plumbing ran down a culvert in front of the right wing and then connected to another channel that picked up the run off from Mathew’s place.
I worked out where the sewage pipes joined in and redirected them to a new area where I dug a large deep hole for my septic tank. I popped over to Mathew’s and created a new pipe about a metre down out of the rocks, so his waste also ran it to my large septic tank.
I let his storm water and mine run to the channel. I did the same from Jim’s house. I shifted the dirt and rocks I had removed and reformed them into gravel for my paving for my road.
I had enough left over to pave the rotunda and down the three streets about half a klick. When I looked back up to my house, I was pleased with the effects of a nicely paved and guttered road.
However, the state of the grounds needed some serious attention. They obviously got enough rainfall here that garden maintenance was a must. I put a spell on the grass, so it mowed itself once a week.
I headed back to the kitchen and found a big pot of stew on the stove and six loaves of fresh bread on the table under a cloth. A bowl and spoon waited for me in my spot on the table.
Apparently, I was allowed to have lunch in here if we were all working. I yelled out, “Thanks, Pammy.”
Linette came in and said, “I hope it’s okay. Mum told me to put a heap of root type vegetables in, some of those beans you like and lots of beef, I added some herbs too.”
I quickly swallowed the mouthful I had just spooned in. “Oh yeah, it’s great, I couldn’t have done better myself,” I told her and happily spooned the next mouthful in. I ripped off a chunk of her bread, smelt it and then shoved it in my mouth, making Linette giggle.
Once I swallowed, I said, “You can make that bread for me anytime. I love a healthy grain bread.”
Pleased, Linette bustled around getting things ready for dinner. I watched her and knew why Grayson hadn’t left her alone. She was stunning and had a nice figure. Lovely big tits that the new blouse and underwear made look even better.
I felt Junior stir and told him to behave. Linette was definitely out of bounds. Plus she wasn’t any taller than the seamstress was; they were both lucky if they hit the 1.5m mark. I’d decided short women were out. The taller, the better as they may be able to accommodate Junior’s longer length.
Lindell’s figure came to mind. She had definitely been taller than the average. I’d liked her tits and long gold and silver hair. She’d had a cute nose and big blue eyes. Junior stirred again at the memory.
I was distracted from my lust filled thoughts by Linette suddenly bending over and groaning. I called out to Mathew in my mind and was surprised when he answered back.
‘Is someone calling me?’
‘Yes, it’s Storm, I think Linette is in labour.’
‘On the way, ‘ he sent back.
“I think we had better find you somewhere comfortable Linette,” I told the girl.
I put my arm around her and escorted her to the downstairs bedroom that we had left as it was. Linette laughed as I directed her to the bed, “Well the baby was conceived in this bed, it seems only fitting it be born in it.”
I looked at her distraught, “Shit, Linette, I didn’t think of that. Do you want me to carry you upstairs?”
She shook her head, “No, here is fine, like I said. It’s a comfortable bed and seems fitting.”
I helped her remove her shoes and stripped the bed. We put on a thick blanket and covered it with two old sheets. She went and got a nightie out of the cupboard. I didn’t even realise she had clothes in this room.
I helped her remove her clothes and got her into the nightie. Bloody Junior was making himself known, and I apologised.
She giggled and said, “I think Ben found me even sexier once I started quickening. He said it had something to do with a guy getting off that his seed had taken.”
I nodded and willed Junior down. Now wasn’t appropriate and it wasn’t my kid I told him. I’m sure he was sulking since he went down so fast. I got Linette comfortable, and then I heard Mathew call out from the foyer, so I happily went and got him.
He said he could take it from here, and I was evicted from the room. Shrugging, I went back to my stew. Pammy came in loaded to the hit with groceries with Tom and Ian in tow. She had gone with the boys to do some shopping, while they were hunted me down some iron and copper.
I grinned at her and told her about Linette. She quickly bustled off. The boys helped themselves to the forever pot of stew and sat down with me, and we did what men do in this sort of situation, we ate and chatted about kids.
Tom looked at me, “Boss, do you have any objections to me being with Pammy?”
“Do you make each other happy?” I asked. Now Tom was cleaned up and dressed a lot nicer and better fed, I realised he wasn’t that old, probably about the same as Walter.
Tom grinned in answer, so I asked which room they wanted. Tom raised his eyebrows, so I took the boys upstairs to show them the new rooms. The boys looked in all of them, and Tom said he thought Pammy might prefer the one in the corner with the new big windows.
So we shifted cupboards and left room for the new bed. Ian took the room beside theirs and was happy with the two single beds being left in it for now. We decided we’d put Linette in the other bigger room and I collected a cradle I’d found and set it up for her.
Wally came up and said they had four of the big beds finished, so I blinked us down to look at the beds. “Damn guys, they are fantastic,” I told them. “Whose bed is whose?” I asked.
The boys let Tom pick first. We all agreed that we thought Pammy would like it and I blinked it upstairs. I then put the one we picked for Linette in her room, and the boys took the other two rooms, so we put their beds in the appropriate rooms. We left the sixth room with the two singles like in Ian’s room.
“With Linette out of action, I really need to get Pammy some more help,” I said.
Wally looked at me sheepishly and asked if his intended Suella could move in. She was a good cook and excellent seamstress he added.
“Good, then go get her. I’d like a gardener or two. Hey! Do you guys know a young couple named Hara and Tyus?” I asked.
Walter and Wally both said that knew the couple, they were good people. They were working on his dad’s farm, and there was a heap of other kids too. He reckoned they’d love to move. Walter said he’d take the other single room until he got his bed made.
The boys happily went and got my new staff.
Linette didn’t muck about having her daughter.
Not long after the new staff moved in, we were celebrating her child in the kitchen. I’d found the extensive wine cellar in my caverns and had shifted some of it to my new one in the house. Grayson had emptied it.
We happily toasted Linette’s daughter whom we were informed was to be called Grace. Mathew had no qualms joining us in the kitchen and happily hoed into Linette’s stew with the rest of us. Pammy had topped it up.
We hadn’t bothered making a different dinner, but Suella had whipped up a very nice fruit medley with custard and whipped cream.
Suella and Pammy made up Linette’s room, found the necessary baby items and soon had her new room ready, and Linette and Grace were shifted into it.
Hara and Tyus were more than happy with their new accommodations, and we talked about the gardens, and I mentioned the space I’d set aside for the veggie garden. I took them all out to see what I had done. I also told Mathew of the changes I’d made to his drains.
“Bloody hell boss, that’s amazing,” Tom said. I grinned. I was happy with my efforts, too.
“I’m going to extend this deck and put in a barbeque area for entertaining,” I informed them. “It shouldn’t block off too much of the light into the rooms underneath.”
They nodded, as it was my place after all. I pointed to my gardeners where I’d left space for the veggie gardens and explained what the two sets of marshy ponds were for.
I suggested that they plant fruit trees along the drains as well to take up the nutrients, as I’d not really had enough other trees I wanted to put along there yet. I also walked them down the broad set of steps I had added that took us down to the workshop under the left wing.
I’d cut a larger area out of the hill behind the workshop and include a long sloping roof that disappeared into the hill. I added a small retaining wall on the hill to direct water away. They now had a large, high covered, but open to the side’s area, for them to use.
I showed the couple the area I had cut out of the back wall for them to store their tools and told them they could set up some propagation benches under the new covered area. They could now access both yards quickly. I guessed by the happy faces all round, my staff were satisfied with these changes.
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The magicians spent a week trying to sort out the Palatines at Spur. As Markus had predicted, it was a mess. Some wanted to stay, some want to go. This included both slaves and invaders. Some of the women wanted to keep their man others emphatically didn’t. Then there were the kids. The magicians had arrived en masse and Storm had them do a blanket spell to remove the bad spells that were on the people in the valley. They had agreed to put a temporary spell on them so that they couldn’t...
They decided it was time to get some rooms sorted out. The ladies took them upstairs to show them the rooms that they had picked out. They, in turn, selected rooms nearby, so they stayed together. Everyone agreed to meet up for lunch in an hour or so, once they were settled in. David and his girls collected their basics from the ship and made themselves at home. David and Kelli both had to laugh at the starry-eyed look on Sarah’s face. She didn’t seem the least perturbed that Storm already...
For Raina, it had been a bitter-sweet eighteen months. She loved being at college, and she learned a lot more about how her crafts were made and programmed. She had found her input from what she had flown was making its way to the designers. She loved her daughter whom she had called Dana and suffered through the death of her mother who had a run-in with a kangaroo one night coming back down the range from the Atherton Tablelands to Cairns in her old van. She had only been fifty, and it...
Ben and the boys were picking their rooms. They had discovered upon the first inspection that Zarka was very well equipped for a crew of eight. She had four large bedrooms with huge beds in them, and each had an ensuite. One was either side of the lift exit and the other two towards the back of the ship separated by their ensuites. DT and KJ decided on the two by the lifts. They dropped their packs on the beds and checked out the amenities. The showers looked strange, but they decided...
They finally joined the other three in the kitchen. DT had been cooking and teaching Zarka, with a very attentive KJ helping. Raina wondered which boy was going to get lucky because she had a feeling one of, if not both were also going. She had been as surprised as Ben when Zarka made herself known to them. She had also realised Zarka didn’t really need her to fly the ship. She was obviously capable of doing it herself, since she was apparently, also the ship. That was an explanation,...
Raina found Zarka and DT in the dining area an hour or so later. “Where is KJ?” she asked as she helped herself to coffee. The other two grinned at her like Cheshire cats. “What did you do to him?” she asked. Zarka said while shaking her head slowly, “DT was very naughty.” DT blushed at Raina’s enquiring look. “Oh?” she said. Zarka nodded, “Yes, very, very naughty. I thought them Russians could be naughty, but DT is a bad boy. Poor KJ couldn’t decide if he was coming or going.” DT...
They were preparing to leave when a young man appeared with a backpack. “Hi Daniel, I didn’t know that you were coming to visit,” Trixy said. “Not quite Trixy. I’m going with them,” he announced. Raina frowned at him and walked up to him. She gently touched his cheek and looked into his eyes. He gave her a cheeky grin and wiggled his eyebrows at her, and she had to smile back. Ben felt a prickle of unease at their interaction. He was a nice looking young man about 178cm tall, with his...
His Eminence, Prime Bishop Richard the First, sat on his throne and strummed his first two fingers of his left hand. His birth name was Dick Baker, but there were few people alive, who knew this. Only a select few called him Richard. Most people called him Your Eminence or Prime Bishop. He was a short, rotund man with thinning grey hair and a bald patch on the back of his head. His complexion was mottled, and his skin looked patchy with small areas of scabby rashes all over his body. His...
Penny, Alexus, Kale and Selwyn blinked to Tinble City. They were sad to find that the shield had failed. The devastation suggested that it had failed many years before. When they entered the Citadel, they found it dark and quiet. They activated their wands, so they provided light and using the stairs they headed to the room that the SAI should be located in. They found that she had died. The dried out mess in the tank suggested that she had been dead for a year or possibly two. Kale...
Princess Olivia stood at 158cm tall in her soft diamond studded slippers. Her short mop of tight white, curls surrounded her face like a fluffy cloud. Her large light purple eyes could pin you against the wall when you upset her. Her skin had a light, peachy hue, and her mother said she blushed prettily. She had also somehow ended up with pointy tips on her ears. Her nose was a little unfortunate. Olivia had busted it when she was six, and it now tipped down at the end. It flattened out her...
Olivia jumped down off the waggon and pulled off her hat, to wipe her brow. She dusted it off against the thin linen of her wide flowing pants and looked around. If you looked at where she stood from the air, the mountain range formed a large ‘Y’. It was called the Yani Mountain Range. In the fork of the ‘Y’ was an area that was known as the Forbidden Valley. It was believed that all who approached the valley were turned away. Silver Kingdom sat on the south side of the longest leg of the...
Olivia and Markus both woke refreshed. They headed down to the café and ordered breakfast. Patina happily reported, “Lord Paul and his people had a dreadful night. Six of his men had deserted in the night, and he only has sixteen now. Lord Paul had a particularly bad night. He is a grumpy boy this morning.” Olivia and Markus had to snigger at his misfortune. “Your people are also fine,” Patina told them. Olivia asked, “So how do we convince the rest of the intruders to bugger off?” “Well,...
Storm and Sarah had been on their way to Silver City when Alexus had called them. They then stayed with them for a few days to them to help out, before heading to Silver City. Now that Alexus’s had his apprentice’s box working, he and Penny believed they could get things, up and running during the winter season ahead. Kale and Selwyn planned to help the couple for a few more days before joining David and Kelli in what was to be their new home in Nickle City. Kale and Selwyn were having a...
To say the wizards stole the show would be putting it politely. While they had arrived in the more acceptable manner by coming to the front door and waiting to be announced, that was about all they did that was mundane. Olivia, Warren and Lillian were amused as they watched them enter the ballroom. To start with, they were the tallest people there. Sarah, Zarka and Payton were breathtaking. There was more than one man in the room who wanted to bury his head in their tits. The fact that that...
The sextet was complete. David had become the unofficial leader of the sextet even though they were theoretically equal. He brought his fellow team members up to speed with what Master Bart had told him regarding the political situation in Federation. Keven recommended that they go to see her grandmother, Domo Leslie and that they should get her side of the story. Keven’s sisters, Levi and Selwyn, also agreed this was a good place to start. The rest agreed, and they all blinked to the...
The sextet had a busy time ahead. They spent most of the first week just sorting out who was to do what to get the girls set up. Aaden was a huge help as he outlined what was required and how Lord Storm ran his presses and printing shops. One of the first things they decided to do was fix the road between the two cities, as it needed some serious work. Keven’s City, Rockville, was also on the coastline. The road from Greco her city was severely rutted and had to cross several low-lying...
David and Kelli went to check out the mines and logging operations with Levi and Chris. Chris was delighted to show them around. He hoped Levi found that he had looked after her Duchy as if it was his own. He hadn’t done a lot with the mansion other than to keep it maintained. He told Levi that now that it was her home she could do what she liked with the place. She might have to watch their spending for a while if they were going to need the money for expansion. He had the staff assemble...
Keven wasn’t impressed. When Leslie had said that her Duchy hadn’t been doing well of late, she was wrong; it was a disaster. Keven, Aaden, Kale and Selwyn spent some time, just jumping around and looking at the state of her province and the businesses in and around her town. They found three deserted villages along the coast, one on the east side and two on the west. They found one farmer who had stayed on his land near the furthermost village. “Hi,” Keven said as they approached him, “can...
Daniel grinned and savoured the bar he had. He found his thoughts drifting to wonder if Pip was as feisty in bed. He was surprised to find he was getting a massive hard-on thinking about her. He had to take a few deep breaths to try to control his reaction. He glanced at Pip and caught her looking away. He was darn sure that he knew where her eyes had been. To his consternation that only made him harder. She was having a decidedly unusual effect on him. He normally had pretty good control...
She followed him outside, still thinking. She had always felt that she wasn’t like ordinary people. That something in her made her different to them. She wondered if that was why her people had rejected her and sent her to the Mothers Cave. She looked at Daniel in surprise. She told him, “That’s what it was about the cave and the idols. When they wished to send someone back to the Mother Goddess, they would put an idol in the cave to collect their soul and then push them down that...