The Shadows Book One: The War for EarthEnd.

Epilogue.

Liki Wolfspirit.

Tetrin listened to the last parts of the story with his feet dipped in the pond water.

"As you know," Trip was telling him, "EarthEnd is actually a much more grand city than it had been before the war now. The Anubians use it as their primary port now, and trade there is very good. It's economy is now second only to Camelots own."

"Yeah yeah, but what about Liki and Kaz and Blackpaw? What happened with them? And Skip?"

Trip chuckled, "What don't want repeats of your history lessons?"

"Nope." Tetrin grinned, "I did find it interesting though that one of the Anubain leaders have a very close name to my own."

"The Anubians actually never made another Inner Mind. They stuck with Soul and Heart, afriad that making another Mind leader would cause them to go to war again. I'd say they very much enjoy peace and being prosperous."

"Hmm..." Tetrin mumbled. The story had gone from interesting to the reciting of facts he already knew.

"I can tell you're not interesting in the aftermath." Trip commented, "You already know that, you want to know the how and the details behind it."

"Yeah!"

Trip looked up into the sky, light was beginning to poke through the tree tops, "Yes well, dawn is approaching. You're lucky it's a weekend and you can sleep in."

"Oh..."

Trip patted the otter boy's head, "Don't worry, I won't leave you hanging, I'll see you back here tonight again. You should head back before your Master notices you're not there."

Tetrin shuddered, the thought made his eyes go wide and he jumped up to his feet. "You're right! I should go!"

He was about to sprint away when Trip added, "By the way, whoever he is, go get him."

The Aquari stopped short and looked back, "What...what do you mean?"

Trip chuckled, rising and walking away, "I saw your reactions to the sex things...just don't ignore them."

Tetrin watched his strange new friend vanish into the violage of the basin. He knew what Trip was talking about, but did he have the courage to try?

He decided to think about that later, and dashed off into the forest back to his school and bed.

As Tetrin snuck around the cabins in camp, he saw his Master patrolling the buildings, walking back and forth. He played a 'hide-n-seek' game for thrity minutes before finally being able to get into this cabin that he shared with three others.

Closing the door behind him, he turned around and sighed heavily. Exhaustion hit him quickly afterward and his eyes felt sleepy. He dragged himself over to his bed - thank Gaia he was the bottom bunk - and flopped onto it tiredly.

"Tetrin?" The boy across the room from him, Kel, whispered curiously.

"Yeah Kel?" Tetrin groaned annoyed.

"You up?"

Tetrin sighed, "No Kel, go back to sleep..."

Kel stayed silent until he whispered again, "Okay...sorry...I'm just worried..."

"Oh Gaia!" Tetrin turned over in his bed to look at Kel across from him, "About what?" He snarled.

"I...had a dream..."

"About what?" The other otter continued carelessly.

Kel was silent again, it seemed Tetrin's disinterest in what was worrying him truely hurt his feelings, "It was...nothing...sorry to bother you..."

Tetrin instantly felt horrible, "I'm sorry Kel...I'm just really tired...stayed out all night this time..."

"Why do you do that anyway?"

"I like to be in the jungle...it's nice and calming and...a place to think about things..."

"Oh...do you think I could go with you sometime?"

"I don't know...maybe...now, what about this dream?"

Kel stared at Tetrin directly, and smiled, "It was...about you..."

The Aquari blinked a moment before he pointed at himself, "About me?"

"Yeah..."

"Why...why dream about me?" He gulbed.

Kel shrugged, "I don't know...it was good dream though...I liked it..."

"What, um...what kind of dream was it?"

Kel only smiled more, "Just...a really good one..." Kel turned away and wrapped his blankets over his body.

Tetrin spent some time staring at Kel's brown furred head, his heart thumbing and his cock hard. He turned in his bed as well, concealing his hand in his blanket as he played with himself to ease the tension and trying to fall asleep, but his head kept returning to Liki's exploits, except it replaced Liki with himself and replaced Kaz with Kel. He was too tired to manage a climax though, and he fell asleep eventually and dreamed about Kel.

It was...a really good one.