31. Wine will do

Dev could not control his emotions as the words made his heart drench with lust and embraced her tightly to press his body hard on hers and pushed her against the nearby wall and kissed hardly and claimed her, “YOU ARE MINE… YOU ARE MINE.”
Dev unconsciously left out some words from his dreams, “You Are Mine…You Are Mine… Mine…”
Ivan replied with exasperation in his tone, “You still awake!!??…” (Continued with a pause) ”… Dev, I am always you’re…Your friend… Be happy and proud about my sacrifices to your sleep and get back to sleep, my dear frustrating friend.”
Dev could hear the voice of Ivan in the middle of his intimacy with the dream girl and suddenly opened his eyes and found himself was covered in his sweating. Soon the image of the girl in his dreams evaporated as Ivan emerged to his mind and woke up suddenly from his dream and jumped from his bed with a shock and shiver, “Ivan…I cannot sleep…Help me…”
Ivan shouted in anger, “Dev! Listen to me.”
Dev nodded and looked at his friend and Ivan continued, “…The very first thing for you to do in the dawn…”
Dev listened in extreme sweating and confusion, “…You must break up your friendship with me and declare me as your enemy in Las Oajar. Will you?”
Dev responded after coming to reality by wiping his sweat, “Why would I do that?”
Ivan told him, “Dev, I did not even make any of my scales move to disturb your sleep and my wings are busy blocking the moonbeams… I have sacrificed my sleep for your sleep. So, it is you woke up in the middle of the night and shouted at me as MINE…”
Dev dismayed a little about his dream and felt embarrassed that he talked out the words from his dreams and prepared his mind to pretend from Ivan, “I know Ivan. It is me who wakes you up from sleep… But, I dreamt of the most horrible thing and I don’t want that dream to happen in future and I don’t want to happen that in real life and I don’t want the repetition in my dreams too… Help me.”
Ivan found the root of Dev’s sleeplessness, “So, it’s no moon’s fault…it is yours…Tell me about your horrible dreams.”
Dev was trying to explain his dream hastily, “That is…Oh…eyes…made me…something here (touched his heart)…I did…Ivan, help me…”
Ivan changed his dragon form to his mortal form to sit beside him in his bed and opened his mouth, “Dev… just relax… Openly to say, I don’t understand anything from your hints… Tell me… What eyes? What did you do? How can I help you?”
Dev thought to himself,
“Should I tell him about my dream…what Ivan will think of me…How I will say that I lost my virginity in my dream…? This null-head surely will mock me. I am known to be immaculate in my kingdom, what if anyone knows that my mind is corrupted.
No…I won’t tell him. I won’t let anyone know about my dream today. But how did I have those dreams? I never had any kind of these dreams for many decades… But I don't know what happened to me. I always had dreamed of battle with a sword in my hand but today… instead of a sword, I had a girl in my hands.
My battles in the dreams helped me with some tactics to use in a real-time battle. But this? This... Is it something different...? Oh... No... I need to forget that dream… I need to forget that horrible dream. I need, I need, Wine!!!”
Dev was interrupted by Ivan, but Dev ignored his talk and replied, “No Ivan, I want to forget that horrible dream…so I don’t want to recall it…you come with me.”
Ivan was shocked like his eyes would pop out from his socket, “Where…!!!???”
Dev replied with a smile, “To where! Frozen - Crescent…Where else?”
Dev dragged his friend Ivan by the collar of his shirt to Frozen-Crescent where he could enjoy and forgot the dream with the glass full of wine.

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In the Frozen Crescent,

Akshara was mesmerized to see the beauty of her work area in such a way that she could never use her imagination to resemble it. She followed her roommates by lowering her head and had a view of the cave in the corner of her eyes, some men were drinking wine in the corners and the nasty behaviour of barmaids were sickening.
The hands of Akshara were cold, not because of the temperature inside the cave but of the weather inside her mind which thrilled her. Ember was behind Akshara and Chaos was holding the hands of Akshara.
Nail in her brown outfit went in the direction of a man and sat beside him closely to fill his empty glass with wine. The man in turn laid his one hand around her waist and the other hand busy with the wine glass.
Akshara asked about the behaviour of Nail with that man to Chaos was adjusting her black outfit to reveal more of her body and turned her head to listen to the words of Akshara, “Why Nail is behaving like that... wait, what are you doing?”
Chaos replied in a casual tone, “It’s our nature of the job. To satisfy our wine-drinkers is our motive. Be easy on yourself…Don’t perform any theatrics. Got me”
Akshara replied with furrowed brows, “Got you Chaos… I will behave myself. But I can’t serve them by sitting on their laps!”
The lady-in-charge showed their position in the bar and Akshara got placed far from her roommates. After the humble request, “I am a newcomer, let me learn with my roommates to enhance my training,” she was allowed to be positioned near Ember.
Akshara opened her mouth to make a note, “Timber, please help me with this…I don’t know how to fill this glass with wine…”
Ember replied, “I am Ember not Timber. Well, Axe. Listen to me…We are called Wine Lady. No one calls us by our names. We have to fill the empty glass like this…”