[Flashback] The Power of Movement (Self-Mod Basic Seduction)

Aurelius Lucretia · October 26, 2009, 07:55 AM

Aurelius sat in his little howl in Imperia, looking out over the noon sun. He sipped at some tea that he had just finished mixing. His green eyes looked at the light and life that was bustling in the streets below. His long fingers wrapped themselves around the cup and pulled it up to sip again.

The previous darkening had been fairly quiet as he had had a first timer purchase his services. The young man had been easily satisfied, but he was rich, and not bad looking. The first part made Madam happy and the second part made his job a bit easier. Aurelius was grateful when the young man had fallen asleep exhausted from the events of the night. Aurelius had quietly laid next to the quietly young man enjoying the night.

As he watched he thoughts drift back to the first brightening he had come to the House of Affection.

He had arrived at the House of Affection shortly before the mid candlemark of the brightening. The House was one of the few structures left standing after the red storm. It had been whispered about that it had been protected by Haya herself as it was a center of her worship, but it was still standing and that's all that mattered to the young man.

Aurelius had been kicked out of the remains of the only home and life he had ever known. He had expected to leave one brightening, but not like this. He was angry with his brother and even his parents despite being dead. It was they who had made it clear to his brother that Aurelius when he was old enough should be kicked out to fend for himself.

He walked up to the door by the stables around the side of the building. He knocked and waited for a moment before an older man answered the door. He looked Aurelius up and down and then spoke. “You must be our newbie.” He grunted and motioned for Aurelius to follow him inside. Aurelius blinked and walked out of the light and into the darker hallway beyond.

His eyes were blind for a moment as he walked down the hall, and entered the Escort service purchase room. He was taken out to the main floor were the room had become alive with activity. No customers filled the room, mostly it was the dancers practicing their little shows while the last of the cleaning from the night before was being finished.

Aurelius could see the Madam standing in the middle of the room looking at one particular woman’s dance show, with another man and woman. Aurelius looked at the woman for a moment as she moved around the table with slow and deliberate moves. Aurelius was lead to this small crowd by his guide, and remained quiet as the group finished watching.

The Madam turned and looked at him and smiled. She motioned for the woman next to her and then turned her attention back to the dancing woman as the middle age man next to her whispered in her ear. The woman, he would guess to be around thirty ordination. She smiled and motioned for Aurelius to follow her. After a moment as they came to walk next to each other she spoke to him. “Serale Aurelius.” She was a pretty woman, and moved with confidence and grace. Above all she moved with a sexuality that Aurelius had only seen in the Madam. “It is good to see you here, unfortunately we lost a few of our escorts in the recent tragedy.” Aurelius had noticed that few people really wanted to talk about what had happened. He didn’t want to either so that fit him fine. “You are handsome, which should work out well.” She said by way of continuing. “I can tell thought that you don’t have a lot of experience with woman, or men.” She said with a sidelong glance to see how he would respond to that. He had already been warned so he didn’t look surprised at her words.

She was quiet as they walked up the stairs to Mistress Mariel’s rooms on one of the upper floors. It was the rooms of a senior escort. The first room being greeting room for customers, and the second room being the bedroom. Hidden off the bed chamber was the private apartments of the Senior escort. She sat down and motioned for him to stand in the middle of the room.

The tall, well built young man moved to the center of the room and looked at Mistress Mariel. She once against looked him up and down and then tilted her head as she studied his blank face. Then she spoke still studing him.

“Take off your cloths.”

Aurelius Lucretia · November 2, 2009, 09:31 AM

Aurelius set his empty tea cup and walked over to the fire place were a large pot of water had been filled so that Aurelius could take a bath. He could always just take one at the well plumbed House of Affection but he preferred to take his bath in the quiet of his own home. It was just one of those oddities that just was the way Aurelius was.

He nodded seeing that the water was ready, and grabbing a cloth took the pot off the water and quickly poured it into the large tub that stood in the corner of the room. He was able to fill it quickly before the water had cooled. His perfect lips twisted into a smile as he stood for a long moment and then slipped the white shirt off from over his head and then slipped off his undershorts. He placed the two articles of clothing on the bed and stretched his naked body for a moment to get the cramps and creeks out of his joints.

He placed his hands on edge of the tub and then lifted his right leg and put into the water. His skin initially reacted with sharp surprise with a tingle as the heat registered with his skin. He then finished slipping his foot into the water. He then lifted the other leg and slipped that into the water as well. Enjoying the tingling sensation on his skin. He slipped his body into the water enjoying the heat.

He slipped his body back against the tub and leaned his head back against the rim of the boat closing his eyes letting him drift back to the brightening.

"Take off your cloths."

Aurelius blinked in surprise this time, his green eyes, looking into the sexy woman's brown eyes. She seemed amused and raised and eyebrow at his look. He nodded his head after confirming her words with his eyes. He slipped off the jacket from one arm and then the other. He reached down and pulled his shirt out of his pants and lifted it over his head and dropped it on the ground next to his jacket. He then undid the flap of his pants, and dropped them to the floor. Followed shortly by his underpants.

He stood there naked. His beautiful body hunched in embarrassment. His shoulders slumped forward in an attempt to hid his nudity. His hand slipped over his genitals as the embarrassment.

Mariel stood up and walked around him. At first it was at a distances but she came closer and Aurelius body began to curl in on itself more. She didn't seem to be surprised but still shook her head.

"The reason the first thing we do is have you get naked is because that is the core of tempting new customers. Your body, and how you hold it. Now I am not saying that you should gain the Madam of my confidence over night, but you need to have pride in you body otherwise your nothing more then a whore. An Escort has grace and style. They do provided sex and fulfill lustful needs, but its more then that.

She walked up to his face. She pushed his shoulders back, each with one of her hands. "I will forgive it for this brightening, but if I ever see you slump forward like that again I will make you do dishes for the night." Her voice was sharp. Aurelius stood up straight bringing his shoulders in line. He had been raised to walk with his shoulders back and in line. It always makes the clothing fit better on a body. It brings it across the front of the body instead of across the back.

She stepped back and looked again over his body. His shoulders being moved forced his hands away from his crotch. His face was red and blushing. She looked over him and smiled. "The body is the center of our trade. You are smart to keep your most important parts hidden as it were. You need to have confident in your body weather clothed or naked."

Aurelius tilted his head and raised and eyebrow, but just listened. "The Escorts clothing can be just as tempting as can be the naked body and smooth skin of an Escort. The clothing hints at whats beneath it and can cause the customer to drool in anticipation of whats beneath it."

"Put your clothing back on, and try and make me interested in what is beneath the clothing."

Aurelius Lucretia · November 8, 2009, 08:42 AM

Aurelius relaxed back into the tub and leaned his head back as he thought to past eras. Those first lessons had proven to be so true. His eyes remained closed as the waters heat began to wane just a bit. He reached out and began to scrub his relaxed body.

It was true what she had said. Their body was the center of their trade. They were more then just bodies to be used. The Escorts of the House of Affection were not just whores, they were agents of the beautiful side of Haya. They brought about lust and pleasure. Clothing could create desire more then a well shaped body. Movement and hinting at what lay beneath.

His memory returned to the previous eras and that first training session.

He looked down at his clothing and shrugged. He wasn’t exactly sure what she was getting at. Working in a clothing store he understood some of the basics of clothing appeal. He picked up the clothing and slipped back into his clothing.

Mariel motioned for him to take a seat next to her. “The art of the escort is seduction, and is more then just laying on a bed and allowing others to use your body.” She smirked. “That is the job of the prostitutes. Seduction is what is used to get a man or woman to do what you want them to do. It can be used to bring someone into you bed, but it can also be used to get others to purchase something you want to sell, or gathering information.

She stood and walked to the corner of the room. “Seduction is rarely done with clothing off it. If your going for sex you seduce them into bed, not once in bed. You use other skills once in bed.”

She then walked across the room. Her walk was slow and suggestive. It also had a grace to it that seemed to demand the attention. Aurelius watched with interest. His eyes were having issues not focusing on her walk. She then stopped walking and stood next to a chair and looked over at him. There wasn’t anything obvious about her position and what seemed to draw his eyes but he began to understand what she was saying. This created an interest.

“The basics of seduction is how you hold and move your body. You need confidences in your movement. You posture must be perfect, as well as your walk. That clearly is were we need to start.”

Aurelius stood and with his long legs moved to center of the room. His teacher returned to her seat and raised a perfect eyebrow. “Please stand confidently.” Aurelius stood up straight with his shoulder back and his chin held high. “Confidence in yourself is critical.” Aurelius stood for a long moment, once upon a time confidence was something he had plenty of but since the recent events he had lost much of that confidences. He remembered that time, and pulled upon the confidence he did have and stood straight again. This time instead of just standing straight with correct posture he held himself with confidence instead of like a bad school boy yelled at by his teacher. Mariel clapped and stood up “Better now walk.”

Aurelius thought back to how he would walk and strode across the room. He held his posture and his head high, but there was a firmness in his step, not the smooth and graceful steps of the Escort, he wasn’t being trained for that yet.

He paused and turned and looked at his teacher and walked again feeling some of his old confidence returning so it became a little more natural. He had always known that he was a handsome young man. Far handsomer then his brother. With his shapely body that knew little to no fat, he was well muscled and clothing always fit well on his broad shoulder and hung down his frame. He looked at his teacher again.

“Strip with confidence this time.”

Aurelius Lucretia · November 10, 2009, 06:32 AM

The water was now cooling quickly, and was covered in that layer of bubbled that always follows a good cleaning. The lean young man climbed out of the water raised his body up first and then lifting one leg and then the other over the side. He stepped onto a rug that was their to gather the water that dripped off his body. He grabbed a towel that was sitting on next to the fire. He enjoyed leaving his towels there so that they would be slightly warm when he finished his bath.

He quickly dried off the excess water and then stood in front of the fire allowing the heat to finish drying his naked body as he placed the towel aside. He pulled a mirror off the mantle piece and looked at his face it its slightly fuzzy surface. There were better mirrors in the House of Affection, but he liked to use his house for all of his personal activities. He pulled out a bowl of water and pulled his razor and shaving cream from off the mantle as well. He didn’t use his mantle as a decoration post like others instead he used it as a shelf for his toiletries.

He lathered the cream across his face and using the mirror he picked up the razor and began to clean the morning stubble off his face. He did much like shaving but it was important to his job. A fine stubble at the end of the brightening was bad as it spoke that you were a real man and could grow hair, but you had to shave each brightening, because otherwise it didn’t speak well of your attitude towards your appearance.

Aurelius was confident in himself. That really was a core basics. Confident people were more interesting, and people want to believe them. It was important not to be cocky though as people didn’t want to be looked down upon.

As he shaved the memories of that brightening returned to him and he continued to remember his first lessons in the art of seduction.

Aurelius wasn’t surprised this time at the request. He was beginning to get the impression that his clothing would be coming on and off a lot over the next few brightenings, and that he would be asked to do a number of odd things. He though wanted this new job as there was little enough money to be had, and more importantly he didn’t want to be one of the whores in their little room. If one was going to work for the House of Affection one needed to do it as an escort, being able to mingle with the elite and the best of Imperia.

So Aurelius once again began to take off his clothing. This time he smiled at his teacher, and looked her in the eyes. He first slipped off his coat, keeping his shoulders back and his spine straight. He he looked at the coat and the tossed on to the couch next to Mariel. He was remembering a time when one of his customers had come in. It had been one of the male escorts who frequented the store. Aurelius had watched as he had ordered a coat to be repaired and a new one made. Now he followed those subtle moves the man had made.

He turned his gaze back to the woman sitting on the couch and thought he should say something but he wasn’t THAT confident and comfortable yet. He did look her in the eye and then glance down as he pulled out his shirt from his pants. His teacher raised her eyebrow but her eyes were pleased. He grabbed one side of his shirt and slowly lifted it up and still standing straight stretched his body to his full length as he lifted on arm up and pulled the shirt off that arm and then slide it down the off the other one. He smiled at her as he tossed the shirt on his shoulder and then unfastened his pants and slipped out of them.

He still blushed as he finished slipping out of his underpants, but he held himself straight and looked into his instructors eyes as he now held his clothing over his left arm and walked forward and gentle tossed them onto the couch.

Mariel sat watching his with that approving look in her eyes and the raised eyebrow. She eventually nodded her head. “Good. Please take a seat.” Aurelius glanced towards his cloths next to her but she shook her head understanding his silent question and motioned for him to take the chair opposite of her. “Blushing can be good, but you need to learn when to uses it and ever time your naked is the wrong time. So we going to let you practice by remaining naked for a while.”

She stood up and walked out of the room and returned a moment later with a pot of tea, and two cups. She poured the tea, while Aurelius watched her. She kept looking at him. They weren’t stairs or even long looks. The were subtle looks. Under her lashes and she set the tray with the tea down. As she turned to the side for a moment. Then she would quickly glance away. He wondering if she was hitting on him, but was sure.

She poured the tea and handed him a cup. Their hands briefly touched and then she took her own tea and seemed to blush as she turned away and then sat down. After her last comment he was sure that blush wasn’t real. Especially considered all through the tea pouring she had seemed interested in him and vulnerable. Really vulnerable.
When she returned to her seat with her tea though her look was frank and strong. He sipped at his tea and then watch as she did. “In most causes if you are trying to seduce someone you are going to meet in situations like this. Tea, public events, and they most likely won’t go into the event knowing that they are about to have someone try and get something out of them.”

“Know tell me what I did when I served the tea. Not just my physical actions but also my moods.” Then she waited for her student to speak.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 12, 2009, 06:54 AM

Aurelius set the razor down and lift the towel up to finish whipping his face clean of the soap. He set the towel down and then ran his hand over his face, first down his right check and then his left. Following it up with the under side of his chin. He smiled and cleaned off his razor before folding it up and placing it back on it the shelf.

His green eyes looked at his face in the mirror before he walked over to the chest were he kept his clothing. He carefully pulled out some clean underpants and slipped them on. He stood for a moment and then walked over and began to rinse his mouth out to get ride of some of the morning breath. He cleaned off his teeth and slipped a mind into his mouth as he turned his attention back to his memories.

He sipped at his tea as he sat naked and though back to what he had watched. “You were communicating to me through your body language. You gave me the hints that you were interested in me. You used simple things such as looks, and body position.”

She nodded and waited for him to continue. “By using simple gestures and looks you can make some one interested in you. Not necessarily willing to give you what your going for but it seems to be a start.”

“Good your beginning to understand. The first step is feeling comfortable with your body, the next part is to be able to communicate through your face.” She smiled. “Seduction is acting and lying all tied up together.”

She pointed to various places on her face starting first with her eyes. “The eyes are one of the best tools. Making them wide, or small by using your eye lids. You as a man have less options, but you do also have the strong look.” She moved her hands down to her mouth. “Another key instrument. A half smile, or a grin. These little changes and speak volumes.”

“Also touch can really help. With men and women a touch on the elbow can communicate an interest. A caresses or a gentle touch. These are simple tools and are the building block of our trade.” She sipped at the tea. “Why would it be important in our line of work to us these tools?”

Aurelius blinked at the question as they spoke. His green eyes frowned as his eyebrows lowered in thought. Then he raised an eyebrow. “We as escorts are more then just as we have said before an easy bed. Actually we are more then that. We are here to make others feel good about themselves. That they are desirable and wanted by someone sexy or interesting. They walk away feeling better about themselves as it were. This is part of why we some times only attend parties or events with them.”

He stopped and looked at his teacher. “Good very good.” She stood and set her tea in the cup. She went and grabbed a small table mirror and set it on the table next to Aurelius. She continued. “That is exactly the point we are trying to make them feel better about themselves, and in our particular line of work we don’t want them to feel good we want them to need to come back to us to make them feel good about themselves.”

She returned to her seat. “I am now going to give you some face to make and I want you to practice them in the mirror.”

Aurelius Lucretia · November 12, 2009, 06:29 PM

He dried his face with a paper towel and then walked over to the bed were his cloths for the brightening had been laid out to keep them wrinkle free. He first picked up his shirt and slipped it on enjoying the feeling of nice cotton against his skin. It was a soft pleasant feeling much better then scratchy wool. He then grabbed his wool pants and slipped them on first over the left foot and then over then his right foot.

He tucked his shirt into his pants and then buttoned them. He reached over and grabbed a vest that he fitted over his shirt. He walked over to the cracked mirror and checked his face and clothing. Smiling in approval. He looked around the room, and moved to clean up from his breakfast before departing the house for the brightening.

Aurelius blinked in surprise as he looked at the table top mirror. It was a nice mirror, actually made of fine glass, it was set in a silver frame with little red rubies set around the edge. Aurelius remembered nice mirrors like this in his parents old shop and one on his mothers dressing table. He made a mental note that one brightening he would have enough money that he could afford nice items like this.

He looked over at his teacher and smiled. “I will.”

“Give me a charming face.” She said keeping it simple, it also what a test to see how much control he currently had over his face. Aurelius blinked in thought and then looked at his teacher not the mirror since forcing the look will be hard enough as it is. He tilted his head and allowed his well shaped list to spread it a smiled that showed just a bit of his white teeth. The smiled created a smile lines around his lips, and pushed his checks up just a bit causing his eyes to crinkle and softened his look.

Mariel almost gave a sight of relief. She had been afraid that the hard eyed man before her was going to have to have his face cracked with a chisel to actually get some expression on it. She smiled though and pointed towards the mirror. Aurelius turned and looked at the mirror and saw the glass reflect a friendly and charming face.

“Good, now give me a mischievous face.” She said with her own mischievous face. She always enjoyed watching people TRY to make that face. It was a harder face to make then charming. Usually she got a good laugh.

Aurelius raised and eyebrow and looked at his teacher with surprise. Then he put his hands on his chin and thought for a minute. He cleared his face of emotion and started trying to make a mischievous face. He slowly raised his lips into a smile, again just showing a bit of white teeth. His eye lids lowered a little and he looked at Mariel as if he had a funny secret. He put a smug kind of feeling into the expression and then looked at the mirror. It looked fairly smug.

Mariel chuckled, put just nodded. “Could use some work but you have the idea. Now lets practice make eyes contact through side ways glances and such.” Aurelius looked at the mirror. He looked side ways keeping his face calm to catch Mariels glances. Basically he was practicing giving flirtatious looks realized and just thought to the times he had flirted with young ladies. He had been at parties were he had played the sideways glancing game with ladies. As he looked sideways and caught her eyes he winked, and then turned to look back at the mirror.

He followed that up with by standing up and pouring some tea for both of them. As he did so he glanced up through his lashes and when he caught her eye again he smiled briefly and then turned back to the tea.

“You are getting the idea. Know why do you think we are working on facial expression.” She asked sipping at her new cup of tea.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 13, 2009, 05:57 PM

He walked out of the house, and paused to look around the streets. He moved with the same confidence and grace he had been taught that first brightening. His tall well muscled body walked down the streets his boots tramping the cobbles. His steps were firm as he continued to walk off of tramps street and on to some of the main roads of Imperia.

His well muscled arms swung back and forth as he walked. His hands were closed into a lose fist. Shoulders were held up right and his back was straight. His handsome face turning to look left and right at the shops that he passed. His sharp angler features drawing the attention of many a young woman as he passed.

He looked at the people around him. He had seen many of them before as they all lived in this area. He had also seen a few of the young men at the house, and a couple of the older ones there as well. They never purchased his services, most just used the prostitutes or the floor shows. Cheaper.

Despite it though Aurelius had discovered that even these people weren’t immune to the skills of seduction. He had ever used it to get any of them into his bed, but instead had used it to make friends with local merchants and other people whose good graces made life just a bit more easy.

”That simple. While our words may say one thing most people look to the face to understand what is really being said. People trust the face more then words.” He remembered when he had been working not so long ago in his parents store helping people to select their clothing. He had mastered the it looks good on you face. Even when it didn’t. No saying he always used that face just with certain clients in certain situations.

“We want people to become interested in us and one of the best ways is to let them think we are interested in them in a way that’s more then just dealing with their pocket book.” He finished.

Mariel nodded her head. “Excellent.” She stood up, and with that graceful walk moved to stand over in the middle of a clear space in the room. “Now lets talk about touching and closeness.” She motioned for his to stand in front of her about two feet away. Aurelius stood up and blushing a little as he was still naked walked to stand were she had pointed.

As he moved across the floor he kept what she had said about holding ones body in mind. He walked purposefully and with confidences, back straight and shoulder in that perfect line that thrust out the chest and created an air of confidence and sexuality. He stood were she had pointed and stood at attention with his arms folded across his chest.

She nodded. “Keep practicing that movement. One brightening it will be as natural to you as breathing. We want to make all of this second nature.” Then she looked at him. “Everyone has a comfort zone. Multiple levels were depending on how they trust you they will let you pass them.” She began to walk close Aurelius was fine up until she got about half a foot away. Mariel paused and looked at him. “You have a smaller circle then others but you need to remove that so strangers can come this close, and so you can come this close to others.” She stepped to standing almost skin to skin.

She then stepped back, and walked around him. “You won’t be able to start in someone close friends and family comfort zone, but with the right expressions, confidence, and touch you can eventually make you way into that zone.”

She stood next to him and lightly grabbed his elbow. “Simple touches can say a lot when done in the right way. There is a reason men escort women in by linking elbows. It’s a touch that tells someone your interested.”

She let go of his elbow and then brushed his arm as she walked around to the other side. “Simple brushes of the fingers against the arms and the hands is excellent way of brining interest. The looks help at interesting the mind, and these touch and they way you hold the body also help interest the body. You need both.”

She held out her hand as if they were being introduced for the first time. “Your turn to practice.”

Aurelius Lucretia · November 16, 2009, 02:01 PM

He quickly turned off of the poorer streets around his own small house and joined the main throng of the streets that traversed the city. His boots clack against the stone of the road lost in all the sounds around him. He still moved with confidence and smooth motions despite the crowded streets.

He paused at one of the intersection and stood to the side. He was meeting a couple of his fellow escorts for lunch. It was a small an elite group that he was apart of. Nothing noble or honorable like the Knight of the Rose, but they provided pleasure and boosted others moral, in a unique way that did tended to leave their customers with a smile. At least as long as their family didn’t find out.

He smiled when he saw his friends arrive. It was a friendly smile, but Aurelius eyes were still the cold and calculating look they always had in them. His white teeth did flash in the sun light and he walked forward through the crowd to meet his friends. His memory slipped back again to that first brightening when he had meet one of them.

Aurelius stood naked in the center of the room practicing the basics of seduction. There had been a lot he had learned that brightening. Posture, confidence, facial expression, and body language.

He had practiced body language with his teacher. Taking her hand and bowing over it and kissing her hand letting his lips lingerer for just a moment longer then proper, and looking up at her through his lashes with a half smile.

He had then escorted her from one point in the room to the other, taking her elbow one time and standing tall and quiet just behind her as he led her across the room and back. He also walked past her winking as he allowed his arm to brush hers.

“Excellent practice Aurelius.” Mariel said as she motioned of Aurelius to take a seat. He nodded his angular face and settled down into the chair, his body aching a little around the shoulders. He wasn’t used to walking with his shoulders so straight and back held upright. Not slumping was going to be harder then he had thought. His body wanted to naturally just slide back into slump and allow himself to hunch over.

“You can put your clothing back on.” Mariel said. The look she gave Aurelius said that this to was also a type of test. Aurelius stood back up and walked over and pick up first his underpants. He looked up at her and asked his first question. “I know that you have said that seduction is more then just sex, and its about getting others to do what you want. In this line of work though isn’t sex part of it?”

He grabbed his pants and kept his eyes focused on his teacher his eyes curious and looking at her with interest. Aurelius was practicing being charming as he was dressing, and trying to avoid blushing while she watched his dress.

“As an escort there is a high chance that you will have sex involved when they purchase your services. We do have some advise for sex. Each customer will want different experiences so you need to communicate with your guest and see what they needed.” Aurelius finished dressing listening as more detailed advise was forth coming about sex.

She stood up as Aurelius finished getting dressed. “Now I am going to take you to a tailors were we will get you some descent clothing.” She said with a raised eyebrow looking at his clothing that spoke volumes. “Later this brightening your and an older escort will be attending a party were we expect you to seduce someone there.”

She gave his a mischievous smile.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 18, 2009, 08:42 AM

Octavia was another escort from the house of Affection. The first he had meet outside of Mariel and the Madam. She was younger then him by two eras. She had been an orphan taken in by the House and raised to become a escort later in life. She was waiting with the member of the little group. Her brother Octavian, who due to a childhood illness had a slight limb, and so hadn’t been groomed to be one of the escorts, but instead had been trained in the kitchens and was now one of the best cooks in the House of Affection.

The siblings were both shorter, most believe they could be twins, but in reality Octavian was two eras older then his sister. They both had curly brown hair framed their faces. His angular, and hers beautiful.

Aurelius opened his arms and hugged each in turn and then stepped back and smiled at them again. His normally cold green eyes warming up just a bit as he looked over these two. They had been with him from the beginning through thick and thine.

The tailors was luckly not his brothers, while they still used his brothers services they didn’t put Aurelius through having to face his brother. So it was that instead he meet with some other tailor and measured up and a suit was ordered.

Currently he was in a borrowed suit from one of the other male escorts who was about his size. He stood in the mirror looking himself up and down. The suit was just a bit on the large size, as the escort believed in the larger the muscles the better. It was nice though and Aurelius enjoyed the feel of the wool, and the fine linen against his skin. Ever since that darkening good clothing had been hard to come by, and it had been a long while since he had enjoyed the feel of excellent cloth.

He was still looking over his clothing in the mirror when a young woman in a simple wool gown walked up behind him. Aurelius was barely a man, and they woman was younger then him. She was clearly a woman though as seen by the shapely curves that the dress did little to hide.

Her brown hair was in curls and two perfect curls framed either side of her face. Her brown eyes were soft, like a doe’s eyes. Her lips were full and well shaped and there was a curious expression on her face. She looked up at Aurelius and smiled. “So you’re my charge for the darkening?” She said with a friendly smile.

Aurelius turned around and looked at her. “I was told I would have an older Escort.”

“I am older at being an escort then you.” She said and walked away. Aurelius watched that while she walked differently she still followed the same rules he had been taught. Confidence, correct posture. These really did help accent her already nice body. It was hard but Aurelius was still practicing always catching himself for Mariel did.

He turned to look at her and tilted his head and gave her a charming smile. “Well I am glade to see that I have such a charming lady with me this evening.”

She laughed and said. “Flautery will get you far in this business.” She stood looking at him. “Alright, your job is to seduce someone at the party tonight. My recommendation would be to go for a young woman. Not one of the long time attendees, but neither one of the new arrivals.” Aurelius wondered if he would be expected to learn to speak in that tone as well.

“One of the keys to a good seduction is knowing how to seduce.” She said with a smile. “If your going for sex, don’t go for someone heavily watched, or how has a spouce who happens to be in the room, unless you plan on making it a long term project over many brightenings.”

Aurelius nodded and when she didn’t speak for a moment he spoke up. “So what you are telling me is that know who I am going after and have a plan?”

“Yes. Seduction isn’t love making. There is none of that happy and sappy emotions attatched. It can be fairly cold. Remember that and you will go far in this business.”

She walked over to were a dress had been hanging in a corner and began to change. Not caring if Aurelius watched.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 19, 2009, 08:29 AM

They all sat down at the restaurant. The two Escorts moved through the building gracefully, Octavia gliding across the floor making no noise as she walked. Aurelius walk was more masculine as his boots made clear and precise movements. Octavian just walked across the floor, which caused a few raised eyebrows as they watched the odd group.

The three people settled down into their seats and placed there orders with the waitress. Aurelius looked over at Octavia, and smiled. “Do you remember when we first meet?” He asked his soothing masculine voice. His green eyes filled with merriment.

She looked up her eyes wide as she was surprised by the question. “Yes I do remember.” She said blinking and then continued. “I never thought of you as a nostalgic man.” She laughed. The conversation was ended as they placed their order for the evening meal.

The two stepped out of the coach and looked at the building. It was some type of fundraiser for feeding the poor. Aurelius knew that a few of these were around to help with the destruction of Imperia but he hadn’t ever seen any of the money go to the poor. Either way he was attending this party to prove that he could be a real escort. Octavia was already here having been picked up by her guest for the evening.

In one of the richer mansions that had been restored thanks to the massive wealth of the family that lived there. He was quickly shown into the house and soon had entered one of the rooms that was being used to host the party. Aurelius kept his face clear of the amazement at this place. His green eyes were friendly and excited as he walked around the room. The last thing he wanted to do was to look like some country bumbkin wandering around.

He was smartly dressed in the black wool coat and trousers. His nice linen shirt was, in his view, hampered by the crovat he was forced to wear. He held himself with confidence after all he had been chosen to be an escort that meant he had the looks but still had to prove he could do the job. He remembered all that he had been taught this afternoon. So not only did he stand and hold himself with confidence, he moved with it as well. His feet moved him firmly around the floor, giving off the impression of confidences.

He smiled and chatted with people. He was introduced to many people, and he praticed some of the skills he had been taught, mostly resurveying it for the women whose men were less attentive.

He kept an eye around the room looking for who he should seduce as they had instructed him. He remembered what Octavia had said. Someone few people would be paying attention to.

It was while he was making his way around one room apparently designed for resting from all the tedious standing that Octavia slipped up next to him and whispered.

“Any luck?”

“I think I might have spotted a candidate.” He whispered back. He raised his chin towards a lonely looking young woman. He had meet her at the beginning of the party. She was the daughter of the parties host and hostess, and at first he had assumed she would be heavily watched. As he had watched her he could see that few people talked to her and her parents all but ignored her.

Octavia looked at her and raised and eyebrow. “She plan on being a priestess of Diana one brightening, you might want to go for someone a little easier.” She said, “but good eye for noticing the lack of attention by others.”

Aurelius grinned when Octavia mentioned the girls goal in life, but Octavia didn’t notice it until it was slipping off his face as he moved across the floor.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 19, 2009, 05:34 PM

She turned back to him. “I remember it well. None of us would have thought to have approached her. Her piety was and still is well known through out all of Imperia.” She said with wave and a laugh. Octavian raised and eyebrow and looked between the two of them.

“I never have actually heard this whole story. All I know was that when you arrived at the House of Affection latter that darkening my sister was speechless with surprise and the Madam was grinning ear to ear.”

The two escorts both laughed. Octavia in a loud laugh that lite up her face, and Aurelius through a small deep chuckle. Octavia looked at Aurelius to see if she could tell the story, and after a nod from the young man she turned to her brother and continued with her version of the story.

Aurelius approached the girl slowly from across the room, his face was no longer grinning but had a soft smile, with his lips turned up at the sides just a little, it was more of an embarrassed type of smile. He walked with his back straight and his shoulders back, but he head was down just a bit, again giving the impression of that embarrassed look.

He gave an inner smile when she noticed him coming across the room. He briefly caught her eye before lowering his own. He could feel her gaze on him as he moved around a crowd. She quickly looked away as he came close. Aurelius had chosen his direction on purpose. He would be coming from behind her chair which would allow for her to senses him and he size and hopefully his masculinity. That was why it had been critical that she notice he was coming.

He paused for a moment just a beaths wideth away from the chair and stood there for a moment. He stood at his full height to give the best impression but he stood for only a moment before walking forward. His finger tips brushed her arm as he walked by, but quickly he moved to stand in front of her, and bowed again. He held himself strong and firm, but he looked at her from under his lashes as he bowed. Her eyes were wide with interest and surprise.

“We briefly meet when I arrived.” He said gentle picking up her hand and giving it a greeting kiss again. His lips lightly brushing her hands and lingering a moment longer then normal. “I felt that I should introduced my self again. I am Aurelius.”

The young woman was pretty, but not beautiful. She was the type of woman who would normally be married off to improve the families station, bear her husband the needed heir and possible the spare, and then be ignored for more interesting and pretty woman. Her brown hair was nice and clearly the pride of this woman, since her eyes weren’t anything of not, a dull brown, and her skin wasn’t the smooth fair skin so popular.

She wouldn’t be used to having a man like Aurelius pay attention to her. Already she had a surprised look, and a flattered one. She smiled as he kissed her palm and greeted her. “Madeline.” She said in a surprising sweet voice. She gave him that shy smile that he had been giving her.

“Do you mind.” He said pointing to the chair that sat by hers. It was placed next to hers but at an angle so that the two could talk with out having to turn their heads much. She smiled and motioned for him to take a seat. Aurelius took the seat and sat at the front edge and leaned on the arm rest closest to Madeline so that he could look into her face. He looked at her full on, with a small half smile, and wide eyes that looked at every aspect of her face. Her face would be key. Woman like here wanted you to look into there eyes and now south of the face. Well not yet, he needed to prove himself interested in her mind and not what was under her clothing.

She would be a challenge to be sure, but at least she didn’t have a worried father who knew his daughter to well to leave her alone with the handsome stranger. They soon began to talk while Aurlius looked adoringly at the woman before him. He really had to control himself though. She was a good conversationalist, but by the GODS was she sheltered.

Aurelius listened for a while before offering some of his own views. He tried to make them insightfull and in agreement with what she said, and viewed. He had learned in his fathers store that people liked people who saw the world in the same way they did.

A candlemark later they had discussed all of the social problems to be found in Imperia, and had moved on to talking about the gods. Aurelius by this point had brushed her hand or arm a few times, and she had begun to lean closer to him. Their hands were now resting next to each others touching.

Aurelius smiled at her shyly, as he had been for a while, and then raised his other hand to his collar and said “Its hot in here, I would like to continue our conversation by walking through the gardens, or maybe some less crowded place.” He could see that she to was also suffering from the heat.

“Let me show you the library.”

Aurelius Lucretia · November 19, 2009, 11:48 PM

Aurelius was shacking his head, but his perfect lips were spread in a large grin as he set down his ale and chuckled. Octavia was on the other side of the table giving a comical and slightly inaccurate version of the events of that night. Her brother was laughing as she was giving an account from her perspective.

“I am of course stuck watching in torture as he spends an candlemark just listening to her. I am used to them picking like an easy girl who may or may not have already been experienced. No Aurelius goes for the innocent little wanabe priestess.” She said shaking her head.

Aurelius spoke up coming to his defense. “I had been told to go after the woman how wasn’t being paid attention to. Not only as she being ignored but she didn’t even have a fake date for the darkening.”

“Yes but I told you she would be to hard and you still went after her.” She said laughing and shaking her head.

“True, and I always liked a challenge.” Aurelius said with a broad grin showing off his white teeth. He leaned back in a chair and ran his hand through his hair. “I can’t help it.”

This had turned into a harder challenge then Aurelius had expected it to be. They had booth stood and Aurelius had taken her by the arm to walk with her. First he had grabbed her elbow briefly before offering his arm for her.

He had stood tall and confident next to her, and he could feel her gaze constantly flickering back and forth towards him. He was sure that she was physically interested. The way she touched him said that much to him as well.

They had come to the library and she taken him straight to her copy of the Holy Triance. He personally hated that book but had stood next to her for a little while listening, but he suddenly noticed that she seemed to be opening up to her. He slipped his arm around her waist, and looked over the pages with her as she spoke about the gods. He realized this was a type of test.

Aurelius wasn’t happy as the brief mortality in this issue raised its head. He didn’t making a woman out of her, as her personally thought the strict morals was silly, but he had issues with making her believe he believed the crap spoken by the Aetherian gods, and the Church of Faith.

He though wanted that job and realized this was why this test was given. If he was to be a Escort of the House of Affection, he would need to learn how to put aside his morals. He would have to learn that he would need to play many parts and lying was now part of his life. They wanted to bring pleasure to people, but that was only possible by helping them live their fantasies.

So burring down his inner feelings he listened as she spoke smiling at her and keeping close physical contact. Madeline was clearly confussed, and unsure. She wasn’t used to men paying attention and listening to her. That was one of the important aspects need about seducing her. She was an intelligent woman and would have been suspicious of some sexy man just trying to impress her with his physic. An intelligent man though who was good looking was able to appeal to what she wanted and needed.

She wanted company, and was just as interested in sexy man as the next. He had provided her with company, and he genuinely seemed interested in her. She was at that age were her hormones were something she still had to fight with, especially since she hadn’t ever experiences them in such force before. Always before she had been able to draw interested men. It was part of the reasons she had taken to learning about Diana and the church.

His arms around her waist sent tingles up her spin and through her limbs. Her mind began to swim with the hormones that were being released. His arms were strong and his other hand then brushed some of her hair away that seemed to be blocking his view. The touch also caused a tingle. Then he spoke up in response to a comment she had made, his deep soothing voice in her ear and his breath brushing against her hair and ear.

Aurelius could tell the woman was not longer focusing on the book or conversation but the feel of his presences. She was no longer leaning against his arm, but had shifted and was leaning against his chest. Aurelius continued to speak in her ear, and talked about how he couldn’t keep his eyes off of her when he hat first entered.

Then he made his move and began to nibble at her ear, and ran his hands along her sides. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back as he began to run his hands along her neck.

Aurelius slowly spun her around and reached out and looked into her face. Her eyes opened full of passion. “Are you sure?” He asked in a quiet voice. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back.

Aurelius Lucretia · November 20, 2009, 12:25 AM

Aurelius sat at home later that brightening. He would have to be leaving for work soon. He had successful seduced Madeline. He still remembered the looks she had given him, and the kisses she had given him as he had slipped his clothing over this body. It was as the party was winding down and they both thought it best that he sneak out the window.

So he had and soon had made his way back to the House of Affection were he meet up with a worried Octavia and and pleased Madam. He had told them of the evening, and both had applauded. The Madam giving the youth a look that said she understood what he had learned.

He had gone to his room a full escort to being work the next cycle. Aurelius thought that was the end of it. It was only a few months later when Aurelius had been called into the room to meet with her. She informed him that Madeline was expecting, and would give birth in the next month.

Over the eras Aurelius never meet up with Madeline or Aurelius, as his son was named, but he had kept an eye out. He didn't love Madeline, never had, but she still had given him a son. He had learned another lesson. Being an Escort was a tough job. He didn't regret his life or his choices though.

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