You went into the communal area and saw good ole Kalzbin and Ristan were sitting and watching Bloody Ball on the scrying ball. Kalzbin being a Minotaur roughly 3 feet bigger than you. Big harry, with a figure that resembled more of a downward triangle making you wonder if the Minotaurs legs had extremely dense muscles to support all the other muscles... although that wasn't fair as Kalzbin was a weightlifter and you had seen fat male Minotaurs before, the female ones were... more feminine lets say. Ristan on the other hand was a model for a specialist magazine known as "sin". You might think that most incubus were model worthy for women, but their luck with women had more to do with a certain hypnotic charm than actually being physically attractive.
As you walked by Kalzbin said "Aw, it's gotten fuzzy again!"
Ristan groaned and said "I guess I'll have to try" as he got up to try to fill the scrying orb with more magic. He groaned a bit as his species had some natural magic, although it was specialized and hard to use for generic purposes. Minotaurs didn't really have magic, some theorized all their magic went to boosting their muscle mass for the males but... Ristan saw you and said "Ah! Good mage, would you help with the scrying orb? Feel free to join us, we got a bunch of phoenix wings!" You sighed as they were trying to use you as a battery again... Was half why they had you there in general, but it didn't make you feel good about it. Then again you were know effectively an Archmage in terms of power and phoenix wings were pretty tasty... although later as you thought more about it the way they got them was kinda unethical. It took more concentration than you thought... pretending to need the time to charge the orb instead of just shoving too much magic into it in an instant. However you got the thing charged and looking crystal clear.
Ristan patted you on the back and said "Good job! Looking better than ever. Now come and take a load off." he helped you to one of the sofa cushions and you both plopped down. They may have been slightly racist towards humans, but they were nice guys in general when you got down to it. You brought out the chronivac orb out and the two didn't bat an eye at the thing. It was just some crystal orb the mage had after all. It would be easy to just test it on them with an unaware feature... or maybe you'd tell them about it and see if they wanted to try anything.