Lukas wiped his brow when he finished. Sea mice were plenty, there was no doubt about that, but they were also fast little creatures. And lugging the cage the seven he caught was no small feat either. He sighed when he made his call. “Madame,” he said, “could you send Sly over to help? The sea mouse cage is pretty awkward.”
“Sure thing, Lukas, my lovely,” replied Calliope. “You just sit tight.”
“Thank you,” he said. The call ended. A blue portal appeared and Sly swam out of it.
“Needed some help, pretty boy?” he asked.
“Y-Yes, please,” replied Lukas.
“All right. Let me just grab this end.” Sly picked up the end and quickly counted. “That’s all seven! You REALLY want to a femboy something fierce.”
“It…It feels…right,” replied Lukas shyly.
“You know that’s what makes Faye happy, yeah?”
“Y-You mean, he chose to be a maid for Calliope?”
“Yep. He had to prove himself, of course, but as you can see, he did.”
“…Is…is that what the labors are for?”
“I can’t say, I never got a straight answer for that.” By now, Sly and Lukas had a grip on the cage. “Right, let’s go.” Sly went backwards into the portal with Lukas following him. The pair arrived by the cauldron and Calliope swam up to greet them.
“Ah! Perfect!” she said.
“And there’s seven in there, Boss,” said Sly.
“Excellent! That’s seven labors done, Lukas!”
“Th-Thank you, Mistress,” replied Lukas.
“Now, tell me, how averse would you be to makeup?”
“A-As long as it matched my outfit, I’d proudly wear it.”
“Excellent. I think that’s all the hypotheticals I needed answered. You go ahead and get ready for the remaining five.”
“Y-Yes, Mistress,” said Lukas. He swam off to his room. Sly lingered.
“…All right, Boss, spill,” he said.
“Hm? Spill what?” asked Calliope innocently.
“You’re asking him ‘hypotheticals’, you cuddle with him a lot, you have him performing rather tame labors, why don’t you just say that you’re making him into the servile femboy he wants to be because you want to date the-!”
“ZIP IT!” hissed Calliope as she wrapped a tentacle around Sly’s mouth. “Sly, you absolutely can NOT tell him! He needs to find out when he’s finished!” Sly arched an eyebrow in surprise, glancing down at the tentacle around his mouth. Calliope was never this direct before. He then mumbled something. Calliope sighed. “Yes, I DO love him, but I want to be a partner to the REAL him! …Now, the rest have already figured it out, but they were sworn to secrecy until Lukas finishes his last labor. You will also swear secrecy until then, do you understand?” Sly nodded in understanding, the tentacle on his mouth not doing anything. “Good boy,” said Calliope as she released him.