“Sophie, may I introduce you to the rest of the group,” Mr Brookman said. “This is Jürgen, Brian, Sarah and Neil, and their genies, Marcio, Lexia, Iago and Ophelia. Everyone, this is Sophie Swift, and her genie, Alexis.”
“Oh God…” Alexis groaned.
“What?” Sophie asked her. She quickly got her answer.
“Alexis, as beautiful as ever I see,” said Marcio, Jürgen’s genie.
“Hello Marcio…” Alexis said, obviously annoyed to see him.
“Why the last time I gazed upon your beauty, you were with that painter in Florence,” Marcio said, before squeezing Alexis’s ass. “Maybe if our Masters dismiss us, we can go for a quick “catch up” session. Or a long one.”
“As much as I would LOVE that,” Alexis said sarcastically. “My Mistress has forbidden me from having sex with anyone but her.” Alexis was lying, but Sophie could see why, so she didn’t say anything. Marcio looked at Sophie, and grinned.
“A shame, but your Mistress is quite the beauty herself,” he said.
“Marcio, setz dich!” Jürgen shouted at him. Marcio looked annoyed.
“Ihr Wunsch ist mir Befehl, Meister,” he said, before returning to his Master’s side.
“I apologise for my genie’s behaviour girls,” Jürgen said in a heavy German accent. “He has always been a raunchy one. Please, sit.”
Alexis and Sophie went over to an empty sofa, and sat down.
“It is a great pleasure to meet you,” said Sarah. “It is especially good to meet another female Master. Our last female member died 4 decades ago.”
“And one so young, too,” said Neil. “It gives me hope that our organisation will outlive the 5 of us.”
“You see Sophie,” Brian explained. “I hope you’ll let me call you that, by the way. The 5 of us here are all on first name terms. You see Sophie, all of us here are in our 60s or 70s. We’ve all not got many years left. It’s why we were all so excited when we discovered you. A girl with a genie who’s actually as old as she looks.”
“Would you like a drink, Sophie?” Mr Brookman, or rather, Alex, asked her. He then looked over at Miss Showers, who snapped her fingers. The doors opened, and in walked two nude, and VERY attractive girls, who were carrying several bottles of wine, and a glass for Sophie.
“What about Alexis?” Sophie asked.
“As you wish,” Alex said. Miss Showers snapped her fingers again, and another nude girl ran in carrying another wine glass. The girls then poured wine into the glasses for Sophie and Alexis, bowed, and left.
“I assume they’re not here of their own free will?” Sophie asked him.
“Not completely,” Alex replied, sitting down on an armchair. Miss Showers moved over to give him a shoulder massage. “But don’t worry, no-one misses them. They’ve been passed down through my family like Miss Showers here. The girl who brought Alexis’ glass, for example, was enslaved by my grandfather in 1830.”
“1830!?” Sophie exclaimed, trying not to spit her wine out. “How is that possible!?”
“Basic maths,” Alex replied. “My grandfather was born in 1811, and discovered Apriya’s lamp in 1827. He died in 1899, passing all his possessions onto his then 38-year-old son, who passed everything on to me when he died in 1955.”
“I guess that works, but how are those girls still alive?” Sophie asked. “I thought people still had to die at their time?”
“We do, but regular humans can be kept alive as long as we desire,” Brian explained.
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Meanwhile, Matt was walking through the house, looking around for where the lamps might be. Along the way, he passed many nude girls, who he assumed were servants. Or slaves.
“Lumiosa,” Matt thought to his genie. “Are all these girls brainwashed into being here?”
“I cannot know for certain, Master,” Lumiosa replied. “But I can tell you that there is a magical barrier on all of the girls, presumably put there by Apriya, which prevents other genies from interfering with them.”
“Looks like Mr Brookman probably enslaved them then,” Matt thought.
Matt wandered around, passing through doors like a ghost, happy that none of these servant girls seemed to realise he was there.
“Master, might I suggest checking the basement?” Lumiosa thought to him. “It seems like that would be a sensible place.”
“Good idea Lumiosa, thanks,” Matt thought. He eventually managed to find his way to the stairs to the basement, and he walked down. In there was a lot of wine, as well as many boxes. But what drew Matt and Lumiosa’s attention the most was the large safe at the back.
“Master, that safe has magical protection on it,” Lumiosa said. “It is likely where the lamps are being held, but I regret that this magical protection will prevent me from opening it for you, or teleporting it away. I’m so sorry Master.”
“Well, what about if you make me super strong and I carry it out?” Matt suggested.
“That would be possible, except that the safe would not be invisible, meaning that you would easily be caught. I’m afraid I do not see any way for you to liberate the lamps.”
“Right…” Matt thought, disappointed. “Well in that case, let’s see what Sophie’s up to.”
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“So Sophie, why don’t you tell us how you came to possess Alexis?” Sarah said.
“I tried that, she won’t tell,” Alex told them. “I don’t think she trusts us.”
“There is really no need to be afraid,” Brian said. “We’re not out to harm you.”
“Sophie, I think we should tell them,” Alexis said to her Mistress. “I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it.”
“My goodness, a genie who’s on first name terms with her Master,” Neil said. “You wouldn’t dream of that, would you, Ophelia?”
“No Master, that would be most disrespectful of me,” Ophelia replied, bowing her head.
“Alexis is my best friend,” Sophie said. “I treat her as an equal.”
“What a strange girl you are,” Sarah smiled. “I myself enjoy having Iago eat me out while he tells me how great I am. Aren’t I great, Iago?”
“Every second in your presence is an incredible honour, Mistress,” Iago replied. “Every day I thank the powers that be for being allowed to serve you.”
“Good boy, Iago,” Sarah smiled.
At this point, Sophie and Alexis both saw Matt phase through the living room door, and smile at them, before sitting down on an empty arm chair. Sophie resisted the urge to give him a look of “what the hell”, since she didn’t want anyone to realise he was there.
“I guess I may as well tell you all then,” Sophie relented. “3 years ago, I was walking home, when I felt a compulsion to walk into a house. There was a dying old man in there, who bequeathed Alexis to me.”
“Fascinating,” Alex said. “I’m impressed that you were able to operate in this town for 3 years without me noticing you.”
“I tried not to draw attention to myself,” Sophie replied.
“What impresses me more,” Brian said. “Is that Alexis’ previous Master was able to avoid our detection too. Who was he, girl? How long did he own you for?”
“First of all, I have a name, which I’d appreciate you using,” Alexis scoffed. “Secondly, his name was Eric Anderson. He was a soldier who found me in Berlin in 1945. He was a very kind Master, much like Sophie.”
“Well, at least Alexis is in our group’s possession now,” Neil said. “At least, if you’d consider joining us, Sophie.”
At this point, Miss Showers leaned down and whispered something in Alex’s ear.
“Interesting, thank you, Miss Showers,” he said, kissing her. “Everyone, it seems we have a spy in our midst.” Matt’s eyes widened at this, while Sophie and Alexis tried to look appropriately shocked for the group.
“Impossible, we would know!” Jürgen shouted.
“Then kindly look over to that chair,” Alex said, pointing to where Matt was sat. “There appears to be a human-shaped print in it, which keeps wriggling.” Everyone looked over.
“My word!” Sarah gasped.
“Master, this person appears to be immune to my magic,” Miss Showers told him. “Likely they also possess a genie.”
“Well in that case, reveal yourself, whoever you are,” Alex ordered Matt. “If you also have a genie, then you have nothing to fear from us.”
“Master, do you wish me to teleport you out of there?” Lumiosa asked Matt. Sophie waiting in nervous anticipation of what he’d do.
“I wish to be visible again,” Matt spoke, and in an instant, he was. “Hello everyone.”
“You’re lucky you’ve got a genie boy, or we’d probably have to wipe your memory, or worse,” Sarah said somewhat sinisterly. “Where are they, anyway?”
“Lumiosa, I wish for you to teleport here with your lamp,” Matt commanded. Lumiosa then immediately appeared, kneeled next to him, with her lamp in Matt’s lamp. Alex saw the lamp, and his eyes widened as he recognised it as the one that had been stolen from him, but he stayed quiet about it.
“So who are you?” Neil asked him.
“Matt Evans,” Matt replied. “I thought I’d pay you all a visit.”
“I’m Brian, and this is Sarah, Alex, Neil, Brian, and our newest member, Sophie,” Brian said.
“Oh I’m well aware of who Alex and Sophie are,” Matt told them. “They had a meeting the other day in his office.”
“How did you know that!?” Alex asked angrily.
“I was watching you, invisible,” Matt lied. “I overheard something very interesting while I was there. Apparently Alex here has 3 lamps that he’s hiding from you all.”
“That’s not true!” Alex protested.
“There’s a magical safe in the basement which I can’t get in,” Matt told them all. “I’m assuming that’s where they are.”
“Well perhaps we should take a look at this safe,” Jürgen said. “And put Apriya back in her lamp. We don’t want her interfering.”
“Very well,” Alex said, standing up. “Miss Showers, back in your lamp.”
“Yes Master,” she obliged, fading into a cloud of grey smoke, which shot upstairs to where her lamp presumably was.
“Off we go then,” Alex frowned.
The group then walked downstairs to the basement, where the safe was.
“Open it up, Alex,” Neil ordered him. Alex merely sighed, and opened it. There, sitting there on a cushion, were 3 magical lamps.
“Oh Alex, I’m disappointed with you,” Sarah said.
“Well I think that this ends our meeting for tonight,” Brian said. “I’ll take these lamps and add them to the others. The rest of us will convene to decide what to do about Alex.”
Everyone went back upstairs to get ready to go home.
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