It didn't take long at all for Ikanbi to find the right grapes. Truly, she had set out with little intention of getting up to much that week other than her studies, yet a life-long childhood friend was having a bit of a get together and who better to answer the call? Ikanbi put in the order weeks ago and her family took care of the rest, wine would be aplenty far and wide for the festivities. It was a blazing sort of day, but not the worst, and the crowds in the streets as Ikanbi waltzed around towards the pool were oblivious to the glares of the sun above.

Her dark skin was exposed today, she wasn't in her hunter attire. Instead, something more lavish, exquisite, and lewd. Gold chains draped her neck and her waist, the only show of anything against her midriff beneath her black top. Too a black sarong donned her waist and billowed behind her a bit as she walked. Ikanbi found the pool after a while and silently removed the black mask that covered the lower half of her face and let down her bright hair as gold chains fell into place. She kept her black top and gold chains on for now, though in a fluid motion she loosened the fabric of her sarong, allowing it to fall to the ground by what she knew to be Khalfani's things. Her face had, at first, been quite emotionless, something Khalfani would recognize immediately from Ikanbi to be intense focus. It never changed from the moment she arrived. There were a lot of people here, and Ikanbi was a hunter, a supposed protector of the Princex, though this occupation didn't particularly have much need anymore in Desierto. She relaxed, finally, and sat by the edge of the pool, cross-legged, with her left leg over the other and her feet in the water. She listened to the music and the laughter and looked at Khalfani in the water with the others. "Oh, I'll get in in a moment." She said eventually with a light chuckle.

She reached down and picked up a bunch of green grapes that she new to be quite sweet and fed one of them slowly to a girl in the pool as she made eye contact with Khalfani across the water. Her eyes smiled but her lips didn't move. She was still a bit on edge, there were a lot of people here. She fed the girl another grape, and then her shorter friend as well before gesturing towards the Princex with a grape in her hand, beckoning him to wade closer to her through the water as she gazed down upon them from her seated position. The water splashed against her legs and she loosened the knot of her top with her other hand, allowing the only thing adorning her body to be gold jewelry in chains.

What passed for a smile for Ikanbi crossed her face, a sheepish-looking, almost embarrassed but not quite display upon her face. Somewhere between being modest and secretly enjoying the fun, Ikanbi gently placed a single grape on the tip of the the young Princex' tongue, followed by her pointing finger touching his flesh as it pushed the grape barely half an inch.  Her finger trailed down his lips and then to his chest and he would find that her the skin of her palms was incredibly smooth for someone that worked themselves the way she was known to. Her eyes relaxed, and the rest of her face finally followed, and with a lighthearted giggle she ate another grape before she replied, pulling her hand away from his chest after teasing him.

In what would be considered by most to be too formal for speaking to the Prince, Ikanbi spoke to him in quite flirty Desiertian, "Well it's not been...great, lately, hence my return home my boy. Things are bad out in East Fiore, the night creatures run wild and terrorize the streets. It's been a very uphill battle and I'm exhausted." She said to him quite plainly, her face shifting to a more grim expression. Realizing that perhaps the ladies around the prince didn't care for such stories at the moment, she shifted the conversation. "Ah it's not all bad though dear, I think you will like the wine from Dahlia, it's quite...wicked," She added in Desiertian. She stopped a passing servant and whispered with him for a moment and she scurried off to chat with a different servant, a shorter girl that worked for Ikanbi. The servant delivered the message for her and Ikanbi's worker scurried off with an excited look on their face. "You'll have to try some in a moment. I brought some back from Astera with me." The last part was spoken in Fioran, and Ikanbi aimed a grape as though to toss it towards Khalfani's mouth before she did so.

After that, Ikanbi entered the water, slowly slipping in and not creating much of a splash to speak of but immediately pushing off the wall to get a little momentum and float past Khalfani. "What about you? Where are you planning to travel to next?" She said in desiertian.

A grin crossed Ikanbi's face as she slithered through the water. She did so enjoy the water, and was delighted to see her associate quickly return, carrying a handful of grapes and dressed rather lewdly one would say. With nothing but gold chains against her dark bare flesh, Kirari waded towards them with a bundle of grapes and gingerly places one of them into Ikanbi's mouth, then eyed Khalfani and nodded her head politely and lowered her gaze to their chest, then down further to their core, then below.

Ikanbi and Kirari both took a glance downwards of the Princex and Kirari nudged Ikanbi in the ribs lightly. Ikanbi circled off, wading around towards Khalfani's backside and drawing the others back in from before. "Sorry, I have a tendency to be all business I am afraid, my apologies." Said Ikanbi in Desiertian to the lot of them with a giggle. She shrugged and then finally relaxed. Relaxing wasn't something Ikanbi was known for, unfortunately. "I'm not much for partying you know, Khalfani...you're going to have to show me the way." She whispered into his ear quietly so that only he could hear, her right arm and hand sliding up his back and right shoulder as she spoke the soft words into his left ear.

Her left hand offered him another grape as she hung from his body.

Kirari watched with obvious amusement as Ikanbi flirted with the princex openly. To her, it was brazen, bold, and brave. For Ikanbi however, it was only natural. For two kindred souls such as Khalfani and Ikanbi, the situation, usually, was quite clear. It was in their eyes. Kirari could see it. A fire, an animal. A lion. Something primal that stoked flames of passion when they moved. They didn't walk, they strutted. They didn't get wet, they glistened. Being graced with dark beauty was a gift, after all. Ikanbi's hips swayed in the water and slowly her hand emptied of grapes and instead found its way into the water.

Quietly, Ikanbi floated around towards Khalfani's front again and her hand graced their face with her presence, first touching their ear and dangling their earring before turning to their face. Ikanbi's hand grasped the princex' chin lightly, her right thumb on their left cheek and her other fingers on their right. "I do hear Black Lions are quite lovely... but I do so prefer a nice bed." Her other hand did however find its way under the water as she let go of Khalfani's face, and for just a passing second, she lightly squeezed the family jewels before she gently pushed off the ground with her foot and floated about a foot away, letting go.

Admittedly, Kirari was too stunned to speak, though she wasn't sure anyone else had even caught the interaction.

When Ikanbi woke up the next day, she was truly tired. Sired, by Khalfani of the desert. She had been embraced, graced, laced, and laid with haste. Trampled and drenched, their bodies had clenched and synched in the night. The night? No, the days. The long hours between them were countless and furious. Curious? They were brazen. Khalfani and Ikanbi did things for days.

Days. Ikanbi was tired, truly. Duly, Khalfani had put in some work. She'd twerked in the water, ate grapes, then had luck. Not one fuck, but several, the bed was most marvelous. The sheets meant nothing, they were animals and they mated. Two lions, they didn't care if there was a sheet or not. There, in public, they embraced like animals. It had never even been a question.

Still, Ikanbi woke a few days later and rolled over quietly. "Well that was fun. What do I do next? I need some...direction."

Ikanbi giggled as soon as the words left Khafani's mouth. South her eyes went then and trailed their body once again, taking in their dark appearance. She eyed the markings she had made on their body. They were certainly not subtle, she could still see the outline of the first series of hickeys she had left from days before. A grin continued across her face. "That's not quite what I meant, my princex" She said in Desiertian slyly. Ikanbi didn't particularly give a damn what Khalfani's family had to say on the matter. Khalfani surely knew that, given their history. Still, this was a first for the two of them together, crossing lines they hadn't known they had needed to cross.

"Mmm. You should know better by now than to think I give a damn what your grandfather thinks of me." She said to them as her hand grabbed his jaw. With her right thumb on Khalfani's left cheek and her fingers on his right, she continued, "So, I don't particularly care whether or not there is a litter here, but something tells me you do." Her gaze became intense though she loosened her hold on his face. "As far what we've done here in your room...It's quite frankly none of his business. You know how I operate..."

"If it happens it happens." Her tone let up after that, and she continued, gingerly stroking Khalfani's face and then their hair. "In any case...that is not what I meant..." She said in desiertian. "I don't know where I go from here." Ikanbi rolled back over, turning her back to Khalfani and eyeing the side table. She reached across and grabbed a bundle of grapes, then rolled back over, quietly placing one in Khalfani's mouth before eating one herself. "I need something to do, not someone." She said in Desiertian.