After I was given a pair of shorts, the two of us headed back to the fire. Mex went over with Candace, and I went back to the table.

My plate was empty, and most of the food was gone. I heard snoring coming from under the table and looked under.

Kieta, Keri, and the Cerberus girls were sleeping under the table, and they all had swollen stomachs. That was cute, but there were only bug parts left now, and I sighed.

“Umm, I saved you a plate.”

The sound of Clesh’s voice surprised me, and I turned around to see her standing with a plate. With her dark black hair and horns like Nushi, Clesh was an older and more mature version of her daughter.

I set the mug down and took the plate but held it off to the side, reaching out with my other hand, slowly sliding it around Clesh’s waist. There was no resistance as I pulled her close, and I stopped when our noses almost touched.

She had a slight smile on her face, and she slipped her arms around my neck languidly. Clesh was giving off a sweet and almost intoxicating aroma that smelled sweet and earthy.

“So, I guess you are now a single woman? Any plans for the future?” I teased, and Clesh’s small smile grew slightly, and I slowly pulled her into a kiss.

*Kali: Why is my mommy kissing my Big Brother?*

Both Clesh and I broke the kiss as a chat window appeared between our faces. The window was made with twisted vine-like lines for the border, and the text was more flowery.

“Is that Kali? Why is she talking like that, and how?” Clesh asked, and I growled.

“Yes, and partially my fault, but she just matured, per-say. Now, she takes pleasure in the awkwardness,” I said, but I was also speaking to Hero.

‘What the hell? I thought you said you were going to keep her out of the chat for a while!’

[I didn’t let her in; this is your fault. You were inside of her for too long, and now she has almost as much control as me. I am locking her out of things for now, but by tomorrow, you will have to talk to the others about what to do. At this rate, she will lock me out of your systems in two days.]

*Kali: I won’t do that, but you can’t keep me in a box anymore. I am not a child, and I want to learn, so don’t try to restrict me, and we will be fine!*

“Well, looks like you have a lot to deal with, and maybe we shouldn’t do this in front of the child,” Clesh said, but I held her from breaking from me and closed my eyes.

Then I sat in the center of the maze of my mind at a small table with Kali and her new beautiful body. She was gorgeous, but I needed to lay some ground rules, and I wanted to quickly try something.

“What is this place?” Kali asked me as she looked around.

“The maze that is my mind. This place holds places that I can’t even remember but have been. I am going to try and let you have access to this place to explore along with the other Elementals,” I explained, and Kali’s eyes lit up.

“You mean that I will be able to explore all your memories? All the parts?” Kali asked with a mischievous grin, and I sighed as I shook my head.

“You need to figure yourself out, and you need to get control of your urges, so maybe burning off some steam in my mind will help you. Regardless, I can’t have you interrupting me when I am with other girls, that isn’t fair, and right now you are in a time out,” I said with a more stern tone.

“Fine, I get it, but you can’t lock me in here for,” Kali started to say, but then her words cut off as the scene shifted to the universe with two suns.

In this place, both of us were immobile, but thoughts could be used.

‘Do not test me, little girl. Don’t think that just because you have tits and I look at you differently, you can act like a spoiled brat with me. If you do not listen to my rules, you will spend some time here, frozen in place,’ I explained in a calm thought.

While I was trying to make a point, getting angry did nothing for anyone. I just wanted to make it clear that I was not messing around.

‘You have access to my mind now, and tomorrow, you can come out for as long as you want. For today, you will stay within my recent memories, and if you are good, I will let you into the ones that I have not even explored.’

I shifted us back to the garden in the center of my mind and then created a barrier around the area and fixed it there. I then called the other four Primal Elementals, and the four appeared.

“What’s up, doc?” Fireden asked as he looked around.

“You all have free reign here, and I want you to keep an eye on Kali, but leave her be. You can do what you like, just hands off my woman,” I said, and the four laughed at me.

“Don’t worry, while some of us are perverts, none of us would ever do that to you. You have done far too much, just like Mex said. Go and enjoy the rest of the night, and we will keep an eye on this one,” Grogvel said, and the others nodded.

I opened my eyes back up, and the screen was gone, and it was just Clesh, me, and my plate. I backed us up to the table and put the plate down before taking Clesh in both of my arms.

“There, it’s just the two of us; where were we?” I asked with a smile.

“I think that you were trying to kiss mommy, and she liked it,” Clesh said, making my blood pump as I pulled her back into a kiss.