The next month moved slowly for Thulka and Jalinda as they split their time between trying to figure out how to use the Seed of Galati at night and their day jobs. This meant tending to the Stuffed Pig Tavern and its customers for Jalinda and giving the locals combat as well as being the bouncer for the Stuffed Pig in the evening for Thulka.
They tried everything they could think of to get the Seed working, using it as a sex toy, magic spells, holy chants, and none of it worked. Night after night they meet with failure to bring life into this world, and the stress of it was starting to show. To deal with the constant failure Jalinda had taken to cooking more as well as making it more fattening. This wasn't a problem for Thulka whose physical job, large size, and natural disposition to put on muscle easily just meant she just added a few pounds of muscle as well as an inch or so to her bust and butt. But for Jalinda it was a different story, her job was mostly giving out orders to the staff, checking the paper work, cooking food, and serving drinks from the bar, none of which built up a lot of sweat. So by the end of the month the extra eating was already starting to show.
Jalinda had always been a full figured women but after a month of stressful eating the most fattening food she was borderline fat. Her hips, breasts, and butt had all grown noticeably bigger over the weeks. She didn't mind too much because Thulka seemed to enjoy her larger curves, but the soft cushion that now covered her once solid abs and the second chin that was beginning to form on her face made her nervous. She knew Thulka would love her no matter what, but this, combined with their failure to use the Seed, didn't stop her from worrying about their future together.
It was towards the end of the month when she was thinking about this that Jalinda reached her decision to travel to the city of Ogma to see if her old friend, Grand Master Mage Gringen, could tell them how to use it.
"It would be nice to see that nutty old bastard again," said Thulka after Jalinda told her wife her decision. The two were laying in their bed, taking a break from a session of intercourse, with the two women facing each other. "And I've been wanting to see you back in your old adventuring gear for eternity. However I hope you wanting to come isn't for other reasons."
"I do need to sell some of the loot you collected on your last adventure," responded Jalinda. "But I bet that isn't what you were talking about." She countinued holding on to her small but growing belly.
"Well, you have put on some weight this month, and I just want to reassure you that you don't feel like you have to lose weight for me."
"I know that, sweetie. It's just if we do succeed in having a child and I end up the mother, I want to make sure that my health won't put me or the baby at risk."
"But your boobies will get smaller," teased Thulka.
"Oh cry me a river," Jalinda teased back. "Besides I'm not the only one who's put on weight, or was it my imagination this morning when you struggled to get your pants over your ass."
"But I like your boobies," pouted Thulka, making sure to give the big puppy eyes as she did so.
"Well, just imagine how much better and bigger they will be when they are overflowing with milk to feed our child which will be causing me to grow larger and larger for nine whole months." Jalinda was now whispering in Thulka's ear while one of her hands rubbed the ogress's crotch.
"OOOOHHH!" Moaned Thulka as she felt her lower parts grow moist from the rubbing and Jalinda's sugar covered words. "You are an evil little temptress Jalinda, you know that."
"That's not evil, Thulka," said Jalinda with a the grin of a mad women. "This is evil!" She then tackled her wife off the bed where they would find themselves the next morning, awakening amid a mess of blankets, sheets, and the thick smell of sex.