42 A picnic in the woods? (2/2)

”Here that stuff is really good, you have to try it.” He holds a piece of meat into my face and I open my mouth, so he can feed it to me.

”It's good did Rose make that?” I ask. ”I think so, she is really talented with cold food.” He smiles at me.

What's up with this pink atmosphere? Is the hermit sick? Or could he really be trying on his own? Oh my, didn't I want this all the time? Why can't I just believe him? Um, I will just believe in his good intentions! Yes. That's the right choice!

We sit down together to eat the wonderful food.

”I chose this place because we will have a nice sunset soon.” He continues to explain.

”W... wait, does that mean you just teleported us to another time zone? How far can you teleport with two people? It's incredible hard to teleport short distances alone and you just took me with you like nothing!” I am shocked.

”Huh? It's not that hard, really. Other magicians just teach that teleportation is an incredible complex and dangerous field. But it's not that hard to master if you have reincarnation. I trained long range teleportation before I became a god. It's a handy skill because many worlds don't have a good transportation system. I killed myself a few times in the process, but who cares if you just come back to life anyway. That was when I had a deep depression and concentrated just on honing my skills.” -Angrod

Ugh. So he killed himself while training teleportation alone. How did you learn to take someone with you? Did you just grab some innocent person from the street and started teleporting around the world? I don't want to think about it.

It's okay! He may have some really dangerous impulses, but even he wouldn't just start to experiment on random people. Probably he took some guy, who really pissed him off. Yeah that's it.

”Here, I have another present for you.” He grabs a small box and gives it to me. I open it and there are two nice silver earrings inside. Their style matches my ring, which assists me in casting spells.

”They are a set with your ring. The ring could only save up a few selected spells on his own. Those earrings supply additional memory, so you can save three times as many spells now. If you don't copy any overly complicated spells, it should be enough for thirty smaller spells. And you can activate the spells by a thought now. It will take some time to learn how to handle it, but it should be much more convenient to use the ring now.” He explains to me in a happy and anticipating voice.

I blush. Somehow my face feels hot. He really is thinking about me! He wouldn't develop something like that otherwise. He has no use for it. I smile and hug him. ”That's such a nice present.”

He goes stiff when I hug him. Oh, he is still such an innocent boy! Maybe I should? Using the moment I give him a long kiss. He falls backwards and I sit on top of him.

Then I smile at him. ”Ohohoh, it's unfortunate. But we will have to wait with the aftermath until we are married.” I inform him with a smug grin.

Suddenly his face twists into a devilish grin. ”Now I remember! Weren't you actually quite ticklish?” He grabs my belly and..

”HahaahAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHANOOOHAHAHSTOPPPHAHAHAHAHA”

*WHACK!*

Uugh. Stupid hermit! Why do you have to destroy the mood! I just struck him unconscious. Serves you right! If I wouldn't be somewhere in the woods because of you, I would just leave you here and walk home by myself!

But that reminds me of another item on my list. I pull him upright and lean him against one of the stones. Then I sit on his lap and lean against him.

Aaaah. That's a nice comfortable position. Much better than the stupid hard earth! I watch the sunset and eat the food until he wakes up.

”You shouldn't have hit that hard!” He complains.

”Serves you right! But I forgave you because the sunset is really beautiful.” I answer.

”I can't feel my feet....” -Angrod

”Deal with it!” Men don't need feet. They should be happy to be a body pillow!

”Hrm. If my queen is happy. And I remembered that you are quite ticklish, I guess today wasn't that bad.” He hugs me from behind.

”Fufufufu. It's true. Today is a really good day. A nice present and I found out that you can teleport me anywhere I want to go. That increases the amount of possible dating places by leaps and bounds!”

”...”