Commission:Quest of the Heart Part 1

Story by dracologist on SoFurry

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#18 of Written Commissions

Taking place after the Dream Makers Inc., the lioness named Enani starts her venture out into the world to try and find the Vixen that had captured her heart. Along the way she finds her first clue at the bottom of a jar, but to get the jar she must first prove her sexual endurance against the counter clerk, a herm bunny. Can Enani prove she can outlast a rabbit in bed? Let's find out.

Enani belongs to Lioracouse


"I'm sorry ma'am, but the vixen that serviced you last time is no longer with the company. We're not permitted to disclose personal information so I'm afraid I won't be allowed to tell you where she went." The receptionist said to her over the phone.

Her hand shook while her grip on the phone loosened. With a jerk she kept herself from dropping it but could feel her heart sink in her chest from the idea of not being able to see that fox again. She hadn't even gotten her name, her body was already passing out by the time she finally said it and the team she was with never mentioned it. With her ears folded back so kept that phone to the side of her face and bit her lips, her mind racing back to the time she hired them to barge into her apartment. The time was great, exactly what she was expecting except for the very end where the vixen didn't simply dominate her body, but her heart. Without even having to say anything the lioness knew that she belonged to that fox, and that was something she wanted to follow up on, wanted to experience again... wanted to have by her side.

"Ms. Enani? Are you there? If you like we can send that team out to you again. Daliah is now running it. Would that be good for you?" the question came over the phone snapping her attention back to reality and this call, but the feline shook her head quickly.

"No... no. No thank you. Thanks for your time." With this she hit the button on her phone to turn it off, but that was a week ago.

The feline fingers wrapped around the steering wheel of her car, the roof lowered to the back and the scarf over her neck waving behind her in it's soft blues and greens while she felt the heavy machine carry her at highway speeds down the long and dusted road. She hadn't gotten much information so far, but in the time it took her to hang up the phone and be driving with the back down she had spoken with a few of the others that day. Daliah and Melara had been the only ones that really noticed how she had started acting a bit more closed off after that session with the lioness. That their friend, and co-worker, had decided to be away, to on an extended vacation, but both doubted that she would be back. The mouse and dog had even offered to tell Enani the vixen's name, but she didn't want to hear it from them, she wanted the first time she ever heard that name to be from the lips of that fox between kisses.

Even now thinking about it she could feel her pussy start to dampen against her silk underwear in her pants. Her teeth biting that bottom lip and on this long straight road with no other vehicle approaching or passing she had time to think about such things, to imagine the memory of those heavy vulpine breasts press down on her massive chest, the feeling of that human shaped fox cock spreading her lips once again. It took the lioness every bit of control she had to keep her hands on the wheel right now and not unfasten to jean shorts or send a hand venturing under her white tank top. The word "BRICK" printed across the chest in sharp comic explosion-isk style. The dark tented sunglasses that she wore did well to hide her half narrowed eyes, her tongue moving over her lips catching a bit of the breeze as it hit their wet surface to almost immediately dry them again. Head fur rushing in the passing wind caused by the speed of the vehicle.

The lioness felt the softness of her seat behind her, the heated leather cooled by the rushing wind that flowed through her fur while her hands remained locked around the wheel to keep it going straight. Her foot pressed down as it maintained a statued, unmoving, hold on the pedal that fought back with all it's might to weakly try and push back against her to no avail. Her hands remained away from the radio, letting it continue in silence with it's off position so not to ruin the focus of her thoughts. Her mind exactly where her heart was and the vision of the vixen had become almost an obsession for her where she seeked the connection she shared with her once more. The thoughts clouded her almost making her miss the green rectangular sign that clearly showed the white image of a gas pump. Those feline eyes turned down to her gages only to find that her vehicle was going to need to be refueled soon. The red needing showing itself proudly against the black background and white lines to demonstrate with no miscommunication that it was inching towards those red lines little by little. The station would do her well enough and even give her some time to stretch her legs after this long drive so far.

A turn of her hands took her car off of the road, leading it into a turnoff that would feed into another long road, but at the corner she was eyes the gas station that stood first before a line of housing and other establishments. Her vehicle moving to pull up to a stop near a pump before her hand on the keys would turn the engine off, letting it cool for the first time in hours since they started this quest. The opening of a hatch, the twist of a valve and she'd open the dark hole that lead down into the tank. With the lift of the nozzle from the pump she watched as the very tip of the nozzle itself tapped against the awaiting and open hold. A tilt of the device put it right where the vehicle needed it to be and the sound of metal rubbing metal on it's way down gave off a light pitch almost as if the car was softly crying out at the feeling of being penetrated for the first time this week. The fume shield sinking the full length of the spicket until it connected with a soft "wump" to show that they were fully locked together just before a pull of the handle squeezed the nozzle at it's base and that clean fluid began to pour through, filling the expecting tank with more and more of its fuel. More and more simply gushed from the nozzle, only the sound of the pouring allowing the lioness to even tell that it was still functioning until with an abrupt thud the pump stopped entirely.

The sudden catch, the immediately halt bringing her senses back into existence, feeling herself panting at the experience and the memories, her own imagination having caught her in this public place. The flavor of her bottom lip showing that she had been biting it, while her deep moan had filled her small space. Those lioness eyes turning quickly to see if anyone had noticed, but not a single person was looking back her way. They either hadn't noticed her or were purposefully not noticing. Either way she giggled at herself, realizing her own addiction to this and knowing that she would need to end this quest soon, or she may be lost to these experiences and memories all on her own. The easiest path was to simply give up, find someone else, but she knew that such a solution would only be temporary for her. The best option was to locate the fox, her fox, and find a way to make a relationship out of what her heart already screamed was there. Her feelings for this vixen beating at her chest, the ideas of looking back into the fox's eyes while taking her one again, this time not being the prey, but the predator where she yearned to demonstrate those feelings the same exact way she had received them.

The slow slide of the nozzle would pull the valve from the tank, a few drips touching down on the entrance to mark it's performance and give the tank a last taste to remember it by. With a hand up of the pump and a twist of the seal back onto the tank she closed the hatch and moved to open her car too, a pull of her purse from under the seat would allow her to open the slit, displaying the deep sack inside leaving her hand to dive straight down into the newly opened and waiting gap. Her hand gripped around her wallet, pulling it from the purse to place it back under the seat again and closing the car door this feline pocketed her keys make her way inside. She had her cards, but for this trip she wanted to pay her gas in cash for the most part. The price on the pump display a very steady forty-two dollars followed immediately by eighty-one after the printed on period existing on the pump itself. Even if the others at their own pumps had failed to notice her before, all eyes were on the busty lioness as she walked with her shorts and t-shirt while she moved to pass her way into the building connected to the overhang of the pumps. The soft whispers and mentions of her failed to reach her ears, but she with her eyes locked on the doors and her hand reaching out to open it, those words would never be known to her.

The soft ching of an electronic ball sounded when she opened the door, countering her as a customer for it's corporate quota, but even as her eyes turned up to the white box with a smaller white square inside of it the feline turned to continue her way into the small store. Shelves of items, foods, and other things that people purchase as often, or seldom, as they sell displayed easily, but she was here for none of it. Her body taking her in the direction of the counter towards the back of the building, seeing a clerk standing there. At first the heavy chested lioness saw her as a female, the display of the breasts under that polo shirt easily offered eyes a good look of the large chest that the clerk kept to herself. This rabbit perked her ears quickly at the sight of the lioness, but smiled brightly at her and welcomed her to the store while Enani realized that she hadn't looked at what pump number she was parked at. A look back over the shoulder didn't help at all.

"Um... That one.. over..." She tried to make up for it, by directing the eyes, but was interrupted quickly enough.

"I got it, I saw you out there earlier. You're at pump two, Enani." The bunny explained to the lioness with a smile on her lips.

The smile instantly vanished from the feline face and was replaced with the look of confusion. The eyes narrowing under those sunglasses even as a hand moved to lift them up. She didn't know this rabbit, she had never even been this far out from the city before, but here this lupine knew her by name. The image of the chuckling bunny showed easily as if she was able to read the lioness's thoughts just by looking over her face. Obviously this rabbit knew that Enani didn't know her, obviously she had said the name on purpose in order to not only identify her, but to express that she knew the name that was given. Lips opened easily to ask, but a fast shake of her head would stop the words already forming on the lips of the lioness's face. Her hand reached over easily towards a jar that had been sitting to the side, just something that people find on most counters, a large mason jar with a folded piece of paper reading the word "Tips" written on it. This jar was full though, the dollars inside easily displaying themselves as twenties, but it was hard to believe that all of them were this large amount. With the jar being tilted back she displayed something else trapped inside. A note displayed at the very bottom where someone had taken the time to place it there. The note itself inside of an envelope, but the envelope clearly had the name "Enani" written across it in a very familiar hand writing. From her pocket she pulled the thank you card from the Dream Makers that she had gotten when she first met the vixen. The handwriting was the same and this would be the first clue of her journey.

She pointed at the bottom of the jar that was being displayed to her, her eyes moving to the name badge of the rabbit for the first time only to realize that she wasn't wearing one. it drew the question if this bunny was actually an employee here or if this was something far more elaborate. "Can I have my note, please?" The feline asked softly to her in a kind voice.

The smirk on the lips of the rabbit changed after this, turning from something clever to something far more sinister. Enani had seen this look before, not on the normal people she spent her everyday life with, but it was similar to the dark smile that was given to her by Melara back when she was having her breasts forced in that impressive sexual submission hold the same day she met the rest of the Dream Makers employees. It became obvious then and there that the girl here was no normal clerk, but an employee hired by someone to help confront the lioness. Even as she moved the jar once more back to it's proper position and with the same hand moved to lift the taped on paper and displaying the words hidden by the folding of the page. The lioness started noticing everything about her, the delicate movement of her fingers, the easy contained gestures of her shifting bust that seemed to be in full control regardless of movement. Even finally taking notice of another thing she should have seen from the start. This female rabbit had an already swelling sheath under her black pants. Any number of reasons could exist here for why she hadn't noticed this sooner, but the fact that she noticed it now was what really mattered. The feline eyes turning towards the words written very clearly on the inside of this folded page. Instructions, a challenge in itself to be taken up by anyone looking to take a claim anything existing inside of the jar. Something set up perhaps for the lioness herself, or maybe just anyone that was able to come by and accomplish the goal listed.

"Sexual Challenge:

First to pass out loses.

Winner keeps the jar."

Those eyes blinked at the note, the idea of someone making such a challenge drew a thick layer of nervousness from her curved form. The lioness didn't know what to make of such a challenge at first, but the rules for it were as clear as day, the lude look on the face of the rabbit showed her that she was quite serious about it as well. One one hand she didn't know this bunny, and didn't know if she even could take her down with such a competition, but on the other hand she needed that note with the feline's name on it if she is ever going to continue her journey to locate the vixen. This letter had been left for her, had been placed at the bottom of this jar. Clearly this was a test, a trial to prove herself, to prove her worth in being with the vixen that she seeked. If taking on the lovely bunny was what she needed to do then that's what she would. Those eyes growing to a far more determined state, showing her passion for this and what she was willing to do in order to prove herself. And with a nod a button on the bottom of the counter was clearly pushed and the front doors were instantly locked so that these two wouldn't be disturbed.

"Good. I was worried you'd get scared and run away. It's good to see someone still willing to fight for what they want." The rabbit said to her easily with a chuckle. Her body moving from around the desk in order to make her way towards the back door. The ears hanging down along her neck turned her eyes back towards the feline once again with a soft smile on her lips. "Come on, I've got a bed set up in the back just for you."

As the feline followed the rabbit through the door she could see the light in the back being turned on and it looked like one would expect the back of a store to look, no real walls, shelves of product and cleaning chemicals that were all set to the side and sealed very clearly, even a wash sink for cleaning things. It was the rear walk-in freezer that she was being lead to, deactivated and used specifically for storage, but more importantly it permitted a private place with a thick door that could allow the two to remain completely unheard during their little bout. Enani saw the very lush bed, clean and completely undamaged as if it had been set there specifically for her this day. With the rabbit closing the door behind them the door would latch shut, having a quick release in the form of a large red knob on the inside of the door, so by no means trapping the two of them here, but the air was being fed in by a vent at the top of the fridge keeping them breathing throughout their fight for the jar.

Enani was the first to move to the bed, crawling up into it and smiling at the softness that it held. Her hands sinking into the cushioned mattress and making sure that no matter how this match turned out neither of them would get hurt at all. After all, what would be the fun in that? This wasn't a fight, or a match, this was a duel of two people pitting their sexes against one another in order to determine which between them was the better lover, the superior pleasure-er. While she turned herself on the bedding the lioness looked back at the rabbit that was already coming towards her with quick steps. Enani dropping down with her side hitting on the bed and waited for the rabbit to catch up to her. Those large hips, those massive breasts, those waiting eyes looking at the herm bunny slowly moving to undress herself. A lift of the rabbit's shirt would free those heavy lupine breasts in an instant, letting them bounce down with gravity effecting them easily. The hands then moved to the rim of those pants and pulled them down, unfastening the front to give herself enough room to feel those long black slacks dropped down onto the freezer floor and expose those nicely large balls and the long human shaped member that was already half hard just looking at the situation. This package set clearly on the nicely rounded feminine hips of the herm and here where her hands gripped the surface of the clean bed she moved to crawl up along it, her hand moving to the other side of the feline in order to lord over her, taking the dominant position right from the very start of this. Already one hand moving to grip those big feline breasts through her shirt, testing them and feeling their softness when her hand easily sunk into the beautiful mounds of flesh.

The thoughts in her head were quite clear. Do not moan to her, do not bring her down to kiss her, do no get wet and need her. A tongue passing over those feline lips would drive a soft cry of pleasure out when she felt those fingers sink down, the boob flesh folding around the rabbit's hand and with a lift of her hips she felt herself gasping, her eyes half closing her teeth coming down on her lip to try and pin her mouth shut while she felt her breaths come out and pull moans with her. Her entire body failing her while that hand rotated, feeling the nipple of her hot breast perk through the shirt against that hand and finally with a grip the shirt was pulled up and over Enani's head and just thrown to the foot of the bed with the top half of the lioness fully exposed to the continued efforts of the bunny that already had this feline shivering with need and desire.

She could only watch the dominant rabbit over her, lording over the feline who moaned and waited for everything to continue. With lowering of her own torso down to the delicously pouty lips of the lioness and with a grip of those large front teeth she'd hold the bottom lip on her mouth and suck on it hungrily. The feeling of those big and perfect breasts, like squeezing clouds as she felt that fur on the palm of her hand, making her only want this more. With an easy motion the feline would feel that hand finally release her large breast, the rabbits body trapping her right arm under that weight, but the left hand was free. A quick movement would take the hand to the bunny's wrist trying to stop her, but found it a useless attempt when she felt that wrist move straight under her pants and grip those two fingers around her cunny lips. Movements of the fingers would spread them, mash them together, grind them against one another, and above all else rub them easily. The lioness felt her hips instantly lift at the feeling of the skilled competitor and already she could feel herself starting to build.

"No.. no way.. We just started." She said softly to herself under her breath moaning loudly at the feeling and moving to press her lips further against the bunny to prevent saying more. It was too late, though, the rabbit had heard the words.

"Oh? Close already? I guess you didn't want that note too badly after all. Don't worry, I'll use it to track down your little vixen, then I'll bend her over and make her scream for me." her lips came down close against the lioness's ears to speak directly to her. "I'm going to break her hot pussy so bad that my name will be the only one on her lips. She'll forget all.... about.... you..."

Enani shook her head quickly to this, refusing to believe it, but could she really take that chance. Her hips lifting against the continued efforts of the fingers, but soon pulled the hand free from her pants and moved to try and push against the rabbit, wanting to roll her a bit and get her other hand free. This lupine was strong, but no where near as strong as the lioness and slowly the two started to roll on the bed leaning the rabbit on her back with those massive feline tits pressed against bunny breasts.

"That's never going to happen. I'm going to beat you." she said back to her easily, more out of determination than domination. It all brought her back to a very important question, "What's your name?"

"Wanting to know what name to scream out when I have you panting again?" This rabbit taunted easily seeing the snarled lips of the feline she spoke up softly and even leaned forward so that when she spoke each reach of her lips would be a kiss. "It's Lura."

The lioness already had her hand at those rubbing fingers, wanting to pull it away, her mind screaming at her to fight back while her body loved how it was being used and brought so close already. Those thighs coming together, aiming to crush the hand that had it's grip on her, but that didn't stop the fingers at all, those agile fingers working against her and even while she rested back and kept calling out with her eyes closed tight Enani could feel that dominant and victorious gaze locked on her. The movement to grind the cunny against itself drawing a thick line to connect one lip to another. The fluids already trying to push it's way through her and soon this feline was leaning her hips up, bucking her worked slit directly into the hand of the lupine that pressed another deep and tight kiss to help silence the lioness so that she could focus completely on the shaking body under her and that sudden gush of wetness that covered her palm coupled with a very muffled cry that allowed the feline to taste in full the length of the rabbit tongue that was forced into her mouth.

Panting, waiting, Enani's eyes opened up to the view of the smiling bunny looking down at her. Her breath gone where the fingers alone drew her climax in only a couple minutes after they started. The lioness had no idea how long she could go from one climax to the next, but she didn't want to lose. She had given up everything to find that vixen and she wasn't going to let this sexy bunny come between them. Wait, where was the bunny? Her eyes turned around the bed, finding that Lura was no longer there with her, instead she was at the foot of the bed and moving her hand across her lap easily. In the time that Enani had recovered enough to continue their little game the rabbit had fully undressed and with a loud few chirps she would watch Lura's head lean back and a good call to the roof would show her climax. This alone confused the lioness where she moved to roll herself to her knees and slowly crawl her way to find out what was going on.

The sudden movement at followed lifted the lioness from her crawl and rolled her onto her back again. Landing in a huff Enani could feel the weight of the light bunny on her stomach, sitting over her and watching her with that milky fluid in a glass. Those eyes widened quickly for a second and her feline hands moved to push against the body of the rabbit, but there was no moving her once she leaned forward and that glass was forced to the lion's lips. Her face clinching, working to try and prevent even a drop from coming through, but as she felt that warm liquid move over her cheek she couldn't stop her own moan from flowing out, parting her lips just enough for the for the rim of the glass to fill her quickly swelling cheeks with the flavor of hot bunny seed that was used to fill it. Eyes close slowly at the taste, the delicious flavor, her body shaking easily from feeling of it running down the back of her throat before her reflexes kicked in and she'd swallow in a loud gulp, panting up at the bunny over her and smirk to her softly. Cheeks burned bright red at what had just done, her eyes forced to look away, but the only thing she could see was that hard human shaped rabbit cock set directly in her vision where it was propped on her large feline tits.

The feline's eyes quickly widened then. She was taking on a rabbit, yeah they were fast, but only when they were in charge. The head of the lioness immediately turned, her mouth opening and with a moan that was instantly silenced she tasted the head of Lura's thickness. Her arms reaching up quickly to wrap around the bunny's hips and keep her in place while the predator worked to trap down the rabbit. With the hips locked in place and the long member trapped between those massive mounds of soft fat she would slowly force the bunny further into her mouth to suck and moan around the thickness. Lura leaning her head back and moaning loudly at the feel of the feline finally starting to take a more dominant stance in this fight. That didn't mean she wanted to lose though. Her arms reaching behind her, her back turning and working to lean away only to find herself truly trapped here by the lioness with nothing she could do to counter. Even where she had just came only a few minutes ago she was already feeling her member throbbing between those massive tits, working to draw loud moans from her lupine body.

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The rabbit reached her hands down quickly, as the idea to continue pleasuring the feline finally sunk into her mind. Those fingers sinking into the large mounds of fat that trapped her large cock. The tip still being sucked in a loud and sloppy slurp where Enani's drool pooled at the corners of her mouth and started to slide down the length of her cheeks. She'd pull at the bunny's body, forcing her to thrust forward directly into her mouth and filling that tongue with the taste of rabbit cock. Her head leaning forward for every thrust made and buried her mouth between the massive breasts she used to keep that dick trapped there. She could hear Lura's moans, her cries, her defenseless movements as the lioness forced her prey to fuck her mouth. Even the feeling of those hands gripping and rubbing her large breasts forced a light moan from the feline, but she wasn't going to cum to it.

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In only minutes of this Lura finally gave in, her hips thrusting all their own and her head calling her cries up to the low roof where she finally felt her own balls clinch hard against the base of those round tits in order to feel those thick waves of cum rush through her body. Hard jerks of her body signified the massive bursts that came through leaving Enani struggling to keep up while her cheeks puffed out wide allowing her to quickly swallow only to be forced to puff out again. That mouth lifting front the tip of that rabbit cock and the feeling of this girl finishing up by spraying over her face only made the lioness moan and roar softly at the feel of the hot liquid rush over her face and neck. The hot seed sliding down and helping to coat her hair. Lura panted hard on while she leaned forward, hands on the bed, but the feline wasn't done with her yet. This was going to go until one of them passes out and Enani finally had the bunny on the ropes.

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A fast movement from the lioness would push hard against Lura's body. Where Enani was taller she could move the rabbit in this way and her hard push would move to send the lupine down onto her back on the bed. Weakly this rabbit fought to push back, but where one had just climaxed it was no doubt which between them would come out of this victoriously. The soft bed hitting her in the back and the feeling of the feline quickly climbing over her became a staple of their current lengths towards winning this. That still throbbing and leaking member finding an entirely new home as Enani sat back onto her, feeling it slide directly into her heated and awaiting slit. Both of them moaned out loudly from the sudden penetration. Those wide his lifting and dropping again and again to take in the full length of that human shaped cock right from the very start. Enani feeling her walls gripping at it hungrily even as the bunny started to instinctively thrust up into her. The lioness even leaned down against the rabbit's body, crushing those bunny breasts against the melons that were provided by the feline's dominating body.

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Those eyes locked together, Enani forcing Lura to look at her, to watch her while she used and dominated that smaller body. This feline shifting herself easily, rubbing the nipples against nipples, the breasts against breasts, that cunny slit against the full length of that rabbit dick and taking it fully to the base where her lips would kiss against the waiting hips with a trail of it's own wetness left there only to drop back down and add more of that lubricant to it. Even if that body wasn't enough to keep her pinned Enani would move her hands to Lura's shoulders, keeping the rabbit pinned down to the bed and work her out. Every movement she made the bunny could see in the eyes, every lift, every drop, every shift from one side or the other. It almost made her forget about the domination, made her want to give her exactly what she wanted. Ignoring her own panting breath, her own need to release so soon after last time. Those eyes locked and she knew completely right here in this bed that she was being fully dominated.

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That lock was released when the bunny's body forced them shut, the build up that had been there hitting her like a hammer and forcing the rabbit to scream out loudly from the sudden tortured feeling where her head leaned back against the bedding and just as her thickness gave a final throb her voice cut out entirely, eyes widened there, but the mouth remained open. She screamed again, but only into silence as her thick cum burst from the had of her dick like a torrent being released after a season of build up. Her unheard cry filling her lungs as they crushed down while her quiet air passed through her soundlessly, only the expression of her face and the hard pulsation of her thick member gushing it's essence into the feline would provide any evidence at all that she was climaxing.

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The panting breath of the bunny finally leaving her with dazed eyes as she rested against the mattress. Her body motionless except for the subtle lift and fall of her breasts to show that she was still at least breathing. Worn down, taken out, her eyes drifting into a closed position, and with Lura finally passing out under the force of the lioness Enani was left panting as well, the feeling of the thick cum sloshing around inside of her even while she lifted off of her prey to let it drain out. The trail of cum she left behind created a line up the length of the rabbit's body, touching on her defenseless belly, chest, face, and ears while the lioness crawled her way out of the bed to stand up and gather her clothes once again.

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She didn't even bother to put them back on, turning to look at the rabbit with a smile and making her way back out front again. People had gathered at the glass, eager to see who would emerge from the back and as the display of the lioness stepping out of the shadows, the swinging door behind her and the jar being gripped in her hand the loud cheers lifted from the would be spectators drawing a bright smile to the lips of the lioness even as she lifted the jar triumphantly into the air and couldn't hold back a happy chuckle from her lips. She could get dressed anytime, but for now she was enjoying letting her body drain, and the cool air of the store running through her fur. Those people outside finally departing to head in their own way and leaving Enani to recover on her own.

Her hand reached into the bottom of the jar, taking that note and opening it. The light smile coming to her lips at the word of it. The first clue, a pretty interesting chase, but she was starting to enjoy this game of theirs. She knew the route, the method, how this was going to be played and as long as she was able to keep up this fun bit of entertainment she would. This challenge was only the first, though; she would find much harder things, more endurent people that she would have to take on. Actions she would have to take, people that would put her to the test and prepare her to be the perfect lover to the vixen that she sought to take as her own. The only thing was, she had to learn to be a little more dominant first, but that's what the challenges were for.