Back in his room, Wolfe could finally meditate, or at least try to. The events of the day and the two Witches he was bonded to kept circling in his mind, breaking his concentration so badly that he was struggling to maintain the even pressure that was needed to cause a change in his mana pouch.

He would get to see them again in the morning and spend the day at the pool getting to know everyone, so there was no reason for him to be so nervous and distracted.

Still, Wolfe couldn’t shake the feeling that something was going to happen tomorrow. He would have his mana supply empty, and he had already proven that the skill to hide his existing talent was working. Nobody seemed to have noticed it during the tests or during class today.

So what could this feeling be? Or was it a result of the Familiar bond? The Headmistress didn’t mention anything about separation anxiety that Wolfe could recall.

Wolfe had finished his meditation for the evening and was just getting settled into bed when there was a knock at his door.

He cracked it open to see who was visiting him so late at night, and a pyjama-clad Ella snuck past him and closed the door behind her.

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“She was very close to forming her aura, I guess. Cassie is a very talented Witch.” Wolfe dismissed her concerns.

“She also told me just how good it felt when you held her while she worked on spell circles,” Ella smirked.

Wolfe only smiled for a second, then opened his arms. “I can hold you and make you feel good as well. In fact, with our bond as a magic user and Familiar, you could say that is my duty.”

“We will get to that. But what I wanted to say was neither of those things is a normal event, and calmly reassuring the nubile young Witch in his lap so she could focus on her work isn’t what a man with no knowledge of mana would do in that situation.

He would freak out or maybe get turned on, but he would definitely be startled.

From what she told me, you weren’t at all surprised. You could already sense mana, couldn’t you? That’s why you wear gloves with your uniform, so nobody can physically touch you.”

With that, she grabbed Wolfe’s bare hand in both of hers. As he had just finished filling his mana pouch, he couldn’t pass the imbalance off as anything else, so he did the only thing he could think of and froze.

Ella began drawing mana from him and integrating it into her aura the way Cassie did in the vehicle on the way to school, only Ella was going faster and couldn’t, or wasn’t trying to, hide the effect.

The more she drew from his storage into her aura, the more pronounced the effect got until she began not so discretely rubbing against him, trying to relieve the tingling feeling in her body as she integrated the mana that Wolfe had stored.

Wolfe couldn’t take the panting and moaning anymore, so he picked her up, with one hand under each firm bottom cheek and lay her on the bed.

“Did she tell you that the feeling was more manageable with more skin contact? That’s what she told me.” Wolfe whispered, then wrapped her up in his arms and began to feed her mana with their bodies pressed together.

“Wolfe, you have to warn a girl before you do that. I almost passed out.” Ella whispered.

“You’re not finished, are you? I’m just getting started with you.” Wolfe replied, gently stroking her back.

“What? I don’t think I can take much more. I should go back before Cassie wakes up alone.” Ella stammered, with a deep blush lighting up her face as she realized the conversation had taken a much different turn than she had imagined on her way here.

Wolfe slowly began to pull mana back from her aura into his storage, leaving him with more than he began the process with, then pushed it all back to Ella, enhancing her aura once again. The sensation was exquisite, and her kisses began to roam his body while Wolfe circulated the mana between them.

Her soft mouth was the end of him, and Wolfe barely held out longer than Ella had the first time he fed her mana before she was wiping the remains of his pleasure from her lips.

“Oh Goddess, swallowing that was a mistake, but in a good way. I can feel the mana inside me. My whole body is hot. Is that what you feel like all the time?” She whispered.

“I don’t think so. Mana doesn’t make me feel warm, but I hope you will make sure that this particular secret technique doesn’t make it past you and Cassie. You know how most of the other students feel about any chance to get ahold of even a bit more power, and they will surely be suspicious of your progress, even if we can blame some of it on me being a Familiar now.”

Wolfe still had well over ninety percent of his storage capacity remaining, but what he had transferred was enough to turn Ella into a quivering mess. If others found that part out before connecting all the dots, being killed as a Magi might be the least of his concerns.

“I already cautioned her to keep everything that she told me strictly secret, but I think the teachers that were with you might know, and the Headmistress will have figured it out by now. I really have to go, though. Cassie made me promise not to get a head start. See you tomorrow at the pool.” Ella replied, straightening her clothes and sneaking back out the door after making sure the hallway was clear.

The pool. Wolfe wasn’t sure how he was going to look at Ella the same way after seeing her like that. All he could think of was bringing her back to finish what they had started.

Sleep wasn’t going to happen, so Wolfe tried to meditate again. As he gathered mana and focused on his body, he noticed there had been some major changes.

His muscles absorbed mana more easily than they had yesterday, and his bones were beginning to gain a light coating of mana. Was this the so-called Familiar bond, the changes that enhanced Familiars after prolonged or intense exposure to a Witch’s aura?

It was multiplying the effects of his own meditation for the first hour after Ella left, then it faded back to the nearly imperceptible gains he was accustomed to.

“Oh, Ella, you magnificent little Witch, you have no idea of the gift you have given me tonight,” Wolfe told the empty room as he calculated the gains that he could make while spending every night with the Witches.