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Finally, the time for rest and relaxation was upon hir. Ser Rein Bourne had long since earned hir place atop the spice and herbs trade in the southern realm, and it was time for a vacation. Hir job took hir far and wide, collecting spices from all over the globe, shipping and exporting and importing and breeding new types to share with hir many customers around the world. Normally, such a job would be one for a pirate or buccaneer, but Rein was an avian with powerful wings and a light frame, so shi was able to carry them through the skies with ease. Sacks over hir haunches, or dangling from hir talons, all filled with various exotic spices.

Business was booming, and shi'd come to hire a network of other gryphons and dragons to keep up the trade routes in the air, so shi could take some time to hirself. This was that time.

"Alright, world! Soon you will be mine, the chirpalicious property of I, Rein!" Shi was standing proud on the highest plateau of the tallest mountain in the crescent shaped range that wrapped around the Valley of Gryphons, where shi lived. Hir livelihood was there, but so were many of hir friends and business partners, even if Rein often travelled around the world hirself, shi still had a home base of operations, and a perfect place to ground hir business. With that said, hir declaration to the world, shi spreadhir wings wide and leapt off the launch pad to catch an updraft that shot hir high into the air, where shi was able to glide out effortlessly over the slope of the mountainside.

Before hir lay the vast expanse of the ocean, where literally the whole world was open to the herm lupo-gryphon. However, despite the vast lands of Dalon bared open to hir like a juicy mussel in an open shell, shi knew precisely where shi wanted to go. hir island - the massive interconnected gryphon community of the Ijimu archipelago - was only a few hops and jumps away from the Saurian Scar.

Residing in the Saurian Scar was Red, a partially feathered raptor who cared for the prehistoric denizens of the region. By some miracle, time seemed to have passed the Saurian Scar over, resulting in a land full of primitive saurossins known as dinosaurs; a pleasant side effect of this lapse of history was that the Saurian Scar was filled with hundreds - maybe even thousands - of floral and fauna varieties not seen anywhere else. This included some very, very specific and expensive spices.

Red, the keeper of the Saurian Scar, had long since negotiated with the neighbouring islands in the archipelago to ensure that travelers didn't accidentally come across the land he protected. He wanted to keep the land pristine and pure, so he had a long standing agreement with the peoples of the world around him that they wouldn't come to his land, and he wouldn't summon the wrath of the Gods themselves against them.

Though Rein was never able to get a full story about that bit of history, he knew that Red somehow commanded the power of the Gods in himself. Once, many years prior, a merchant ship had landed ashore in the northern region of the Saurian Scar, and Red himself had managed to command the skies in such a way the ship was destroyed, and the dozen merchants had all been forced to move inland, eventually falling prey to the local predators. Only one was permitted to live, and was transported to the gryphon valley, where he told the tales of the god-raptor of the Scar. Now, people were too afraid to go there for fear of having the wrath of the heavens struck down upon them.

Red, of course, denied all claims that he was able to command the skies and focus the power of gods, yet Rein had seen him do it, but only when the presence of another ally of Rein's was present, another gryphon known as Ceylon. An interesting situation, but knowing that Red could strike hir down if he wanted made Rein a naturally cautious bird. In spite of that potential aggression, the two became friends and Rein was permitted to harvest some of the spices for his trade empire under the condition that shi not disclose where the spices came from, and that shi be the only one to do the plucking from the ground.

The spice in question was known as Ikkar Ammel, a potent combination of dried leaves and seeds from the Ikkar plant. It was best served whole, with one stem of it encompassing anywhere from five to eleven seeds and a single, nettle-like leaf covering it. If ingested raw, it would aggressively irritate the maw, gullet, gizzard, belly, and the rest of the digestive tract of the one that ate it. However, if it was properly dried, it had a distinct and powerful flavor that was spicy like a hot pepper, but with a hint of bitterness and a sweet aftertaste that could linger for hours.

This was the kind of spice that would go on an appetizer, and guide the flavor of the rest of the meal until dessert. It also cost one silver piece per stem. For comparison's sake, an entire four courses at a mid-high establishment might cost three silver, on the higher end. This spice was incredibly rare but sought after unlike any others, and Rein was privy to the only known fields of it in Dalon. Luckily for hir, once dried the spice was quite hardy and could be harvested easily. In fact, hir monopolization of this one spice was what skyrocketed hir into the highest tier of international spice merchants, and helped hir to grab that stranglehold on the market.

Enough profit from that one spice funded the rest of hir enterprise, and shi was going there to meet up with an old friend, thinking about their past together and the many good times.

Of course, there was a wisp of hesitation in hir mind as shi continued to glide effortlessly over the ocean, remnant of the mountains poking over the horizon behind hir. It had been a very, very long time since shi'd last gone to visit Red due to hir duties as the spice master in and around Koluma. As such, shi didn't want to just plophir rump down in the middle of Red's land to say hi without giving him proper notification of hir arrival. Shi couldn't send messenger birds or mail, since no outsiders were allowed other than Rein and a few select others. Furthermore, shi couldn't miss an opportunity to harvest the Ikkar Ammel spice, even if hir primary cause for visiting was to see Red. Business or not, a wasted opportunity was still a wasted opportunity.

Hir mind fluttered with a dozen thoughts of what shi could say to Red to introduce hirself again. Would shi jump on him, cuddle and love him, and just take the spices on hir way out? Would shi just not say anything? The island was big, and who was to say Red wouldn't be in the north when his den was in the southern mountain range? Too many questions, not enough answers. Instead, Rein just shook hir head and kept hir four legs pulled in tight to the chest, ensuring the best and most streamlined flight.

Many hours passed as Rein kept eastbound over the seas. The sun was high and the waves were crashing far below hir, and when shi looked shi was shocked to see that there were a few scattered islets poking up from the surface. The island couldn't have been far, even if hir eyes didn't see the protrusions of mountains or the billowing volcano over the horizon.

Another hour passed before shi saw what shi was looking for: the dark line of land tracing the horizon, a simple peak stabbing at the sky to the north, thick black cloud of smoke dissipating into the sky. Wonderful, hir trip was coming to a close. Though shi was an accomplished and fit gryphon, shi still found the long flights over the seas to be quite taxing on hir form, and anything more than extended gliding would have had hir crash into the ocean, shi and hir spices never to be seen again.

Though the fish would have a well seasoned meal.

Slowly, the beach crept itself closer to hir as shi put more wind under hir wings, pumping them hard before diving down and angling hirself to catch the best gusts and crashing down to the ground. Hir wings splayed out wide, allowing hir to flip up and around before landing daintily in the sand, claws digging in.

"There we go!" Shi said to hirself as hir wings shook off and folded up, hir head held high towards the treeline that traced the beaches. Shi wasn't planning on staying here for long, since it would be quite hard to find Red on the island - which was the size of a small nation - but shi needed some time to rest hir wings. "I just need to get myself something to eat and maybe a drink. Definitely a drink, yeah." Shi muttered to herself before diving headfirst between two nearby tree trunks.

Before long, Rein had found some small mammals rummaging through the underbrush, which shi happily chased. Sadly, it was not to be, as they quickly disappeared into a den with the rest of their family; that didn't stop Rein, though! Shi dove beak first into the den with rump in the air, nearly getting hir head stuck before clawing at the dirt and popping out with dirt everywhere. shi postured a bit to fake like shi didn't just rummage hir beak in the ground, then shook the dry dirt off and pranced away as if nothing happened.

Soon thereafter, shi had made it to the other side of the thin band of forest that lined the beaches to emerge at the base of the mountain range. To the south and east was the Saurian Scar's famous mountain range - the same place Red was likely to be seen - where to the north and east was the great prehistoric plains that were dotted by thousands of dinos, bubbling tar pits, small smattering of trees and bushland, as well as the occasional watering hole.

It was a vast sight laid out before hir, and shi couldn't help but stare with beak gaped open at the landscape that sprawled to the north, cradled by the mountain range to the east and the towering volcanic island to the northwest. "Well, I'm here." He said to hirself, smiling as shi pranced along the soft dirt and sand of the plains.

Hir goal and destination was a small watering hole where a dozen or so full grown long-necks were drinking. Sauropods, was their official style title, but Rein didn't care. To him, they were long-necks! Forget the rules of taxonomy. Long Necks, Raptors, shellbacks, etc. That's what shi called them, and there was no way shi would let anyone else dictate it to the contrary to hir!

As shi got close to the pod of long-necks, one of them pulled up from the water to glance over at hir, honking gently before returning to the pool. Rein didn't even come up to their knees when standing tall, so shi wasn't a threat to them, especially not when shi was on hir own and there were no other raptors waiting nearby for an ambush. Still, that didn't mean they were accommodating for the gryphon; instead they all remained shoulder to shoulder with their namesake long necks pointed down to the shore of the watering hole.

Rein had to crouch down and weave between the thick forest of leathery legs, careful to not be crushed when one moved their step. "Whoop! Careful bird!" Shi said to herself before finally dodging out between the front legs of the row of sauropods, plunging hir head down into the water. Shi glanced over to one of the long-necks that glanced back, only to keep drinking. The watering hole was pretty large but also pretty clear, so Rein was certain - thanks to hir keen eyes - that there were no prehistoric crocs or water snakes waiting to ambush hir.

Though the idea of having a snake catch hir mid drink was mildly appealing.

Still, Rein couldn't stick around there forever. Shi swallowed down hir fill and bowed to the long-necks that still ignored hir before kicking off the banks of the watering hole with wings spread again, flapping them hard and quick to gain altitude. Hir path took hir directly over the edges of another small forest, and at the very last moment shi saw a flash of pink flesh and glistening teeth darting out at hir from the overhanging canopy! shi banked and flipped in midair, altering momentum with enough force to put a painful strain on hir wings before dipping and flapping up high away from the trees.

When shi regained hir balance in the air, shi looked back to see a massive creamy brown snake pulling itself back into the trees, tongue flicking as its scales shifted color and pattern to match the branches and leaves of the jungle that it was in. Clever girl. Very clever girl. Rein knew better than to get too close to the trees again, and would certainly be keeping a keener eye on the vegetation and leaf cover.

"Welp, that's enough of that!" Shi laughed to herself as hir heart pounded hard in hir chest, a cool flow of adrenaline coursing through hir veins. "I've got a raptor to find."

Upon that thought entering hir mind, Rein angled hir wings and turned through the air to point the beak southbound, right toward Red's den. The avian kept to the skies for a long time, belly full of water and still well fed enough to last a long while in the air of the need would arise. Shi flew to the foothills of the mountain, then over the southern rockwood, then back to he foothils, and over the barren, desolate prehistoric plains where shi started watching the various herds of dinos out below hir.

While flapping high above the patchy, somewhat barren looking prehistoric landscape, shi saw something shi wasn't quite expecting. Upon closer inspection, shi noticed it was one large pink and peach raptor with a dozen others all around them. Hir powerful eyes gave hir every detail of this large raptor and shi quickly came to the conclusion that, in hir haste, shi had almost flown over Red!

Before properly thinking it through, Rein let out a long, wailing, piercing squawk through the skies to get Red's attention. It worked, but the other raptors also looked up to see Rein, the ashen black feathers glistening with shine and reflecting the sun's light down at them. Hir blue and violet colors were also quite vibrant, but somewhat dulled against the sky's color at this time of day. Shi flew another few circles around the pack before diving down and catching onto a thick branch high in a nearby, lone tree. Shi wasn't keen on being raptor food, but also needed to talk to Red.

Rather than scatter or form any sort of attack pattern, the half dozen smaller raptors all dove towards Rein's tree, surrounding it on all sides while chirping at hir and hopping up to snap jaws at hir feet. Luckily, the gryphon was clearly a few steps higher up in the tree than they could jump. If they decided to dig their claws in and climb, she'd be fucked.

"Red! How's the best Honorary Burd?" Rein called, beak agape and wings spread in a ready position; the gryph was ready to jump from hir branch and make a quick exit if need be. "Can you get your little buddies to back off a bit?"

Red the Raptor lumbered over with slow, deliberate steps. He was twice as tall as any of the other raptors - maybe more - and had a head the size of one of their bodies. He smiled a bit and nervously toyed with his own front claws. "I really don't think I can, I'm sorry to say! Once they've got a meal in their sights, that's all that matters." Though Red's words were of caution, his expression made it clear he was quite excited to see the gryphon.

Rein glanced around and down to either of the sides of hir tree, gently swishing hir tail back and forth to tease at the pouncing raptors. "Are ya sure? Because they'll get tired before they catch me, what with the wings and all." Shi spread both of them out wide, showing a size that made hir look almost as big as Red. That was supposed to scare the hungry raptors off, but they were pack hunters known for taking down large prey all at once, so that just made hir look even more appealing to them. "Can you at least, like, show them towards a tastier long-neck to wrap their teeth around?"

The feathered ridges that ran down Red's spine stood on end as a smile slowly crept across the large raptor's face. "Sorry Rein, they don't listen to me like that; they don't think like you or I. You're just gonna have to wait until they get tired and move along or forget about you."

"And how long might that big, ya big scaly brat?" Rein asked, casually glancing down at the aggressive raptors that were staring up at hir, jumping up and trying to nip at the gryphon's hind paws and dangling tail.

Red slumped down on his hind end, tail out far behind him as he began to slowly preen his own neck feathers with his front talon, raking teeth through the forearm feathers while he was at it. "I don't really know. I've seen them chase something for a few hours before, and I've seen them stake a siege against a goat on the outcropping of a steep precipice overnight. So, yeah, might be best to fly away and come back." He couldn't help but giggle a bit, tongue hanging out. Of course, he didn't want to look weak in front of his familial pack, but he also knew that they wouldn't care if he did. He was their guardian, but also a friend. In fact, had he been close enough to the tree, one of the raptors would have walked up his spine, tail first, to leap off his head to get at Rein.

On the flip side, Red's complete disinterest in harming Rein normally would have incited the pack to treat Rein as a friend. Could have gone either way, and Red didn't want to risk it; if they were in a playful mood, then it was fine. If they were hungry, it'd be bloody. He could have just asked, but it was more fun to watch Rein fret.

"Oh fuck off, really?" Rein squawked, feathers standing on end in a barely contained act of frustration. "You have to be kidding me. Am I stuck in this tree until-"

"You're not stuck, hun. You have wings! Spread them and flyyyyy!" Red widened his arms, as if he was a bird. "Fly away and then come back when you've led them on a chase against some other prey! I'll be here, at this tree, when you lose them. Mmkay?" He winked and got back to his feet, daintily hopping over before leaning all his weight onto the curved, thick trunk of the tree that Rein was in. The dino glanced up and smiled, tongue out between his teeth. "See ya soon!"

Rein narrowed hir eyes and growled a bit. "I hate you so much right now." Shi declared before standing straight on the branch with wings spread wide. Shi leapt off as far and as high as shi could go, flapping hard to gain altitude while also soaring far away from the tree with the half dozen raptors following hir. Shi kept flying hard and low enough to give them just enough reason to think they could catch hir, occasionally banking and swooping down to tease them before flapping back up and away. Slowly, over the course of about fifteen or twenty minutes, shi passed the herd of sauropods - which the raptors gave a wide berth - and returned to the patch of forest lining the plains where the massive snake had struck at hir. This time, it didn't reveal itself, but Rein could still see it coiled up in the branches.

"Have a go at that, punks." Shi muttered to herself before angling wings up to do a backflip and barrel roll, quickly returning to a course that would bring hir back to Red. Within seconds, the raptors had gotten a smell of the massive snake, and were quick to start harassing it, hopping up and snapping at its low-hanging coils. Rein didn't stick around to watch, instead opting to pick up the pace and return to Red at the tree.

Within minutes, shi saw hir friend curled up around the trunk, so shi slowed herself down and fluttered to the ground next to him. "Well, that was a fun little encounter. Think they'll be back?" Rein asked, gently preening hir own wing feathers.

Red slowly got to his hind feet and rubbed his chin. "Depends on if they got preoccupied by another creature or not. Either way, they're more likely to return to their den than to come back to me. Raptors aren't as smart as you or I - great hunters, but they don't have the same thought processes as us - and I doubt they'll care enough to return to my location. Anyway, long time no see!" He leaned down and wrapped his front legs around Rein's shoulders in a hug, his massive head resting on the bird's back between the pillowy wings.

Rein floofed out and chirped, smiling broadly. "I'm glad to see you again! I'm just on a bit of a vacation and thought I'd come to see you! No business, just here for a bit of a visit before heading farther east over the mountains!" Shi leaned into him, excitedly tickling at the raptor's neck scales with the end of hir beak.

"Well I'm glad to hear it." Red said as he pulled back, standing tall over the noticeably smaller gryphon. "You're a bit more plump than usual! Have you been gorging yourself on the delightful meals that your spices enhance?" He winked and stuck his tongue out a bit, slowly turning to guide the both of them towards the south. There, he could guide Rein to his home den after passing through a thick band of dense forest at the foothills of the mountain range he called his home. When he turned, he poked at Rein with the tip of his tail as a joke.

The gryphon squawked and hopped to the side, hissing at Red for a moment before smiling and chirping in a jovial manner. "Yeah, you could say that. You could also say it's heat season and my body is preparing for hatchlings." Shi poked at the light mounds along hir belly, each of them accented by a sensitive nipple. "I'm not pregnant, but I think my body thinks I am. Might be ready to lay an egg." After explaining, Rein hopped to catch up to red, and the two kept pace with each other while walking.

"I thought it might be something like that." Red acknowledged as he sniffed the air. "There's a certain sweetness wafting up around you."

The compliment made Rein's feathers and fur stand on end, the majestic colors of violet and blue glowing in the midday sun. "Aww, thanks! You're pretty hot, too!" Shi leaned into hir friend and nuzzled his haunches a bit, since that was as high as hir head could go compared to the larger raptor. "You're smelling wonderfully...neutral, as always!"

Red grinned and swept a claw back over the crest of his skull, raking through the feathers and ridges lining his spine in an exaggerated, fake bashfulness. "Well shucks, you don't have to be so kind!"

"Of course I do!" Rein chirped back, hopping in front of Red, walking backwards so the two would keep facing each other. "What friend would I be if not a chirpalicious burd?" As soon as shi finished hir sentence, shi hopped up to fake-tackle Red's neck, digging claws into his thick scales and flipping hirself up so that shi was riding on his back. He was well protected against such clawing attacks, so he wasn't upset at hir for it.

Instead, he reared up and roared loudly, smiling all the while. "Tally ho, Ser Rein!" It was a little out of character, so as soon as he was done roaring, he calmed down and lowered his head to just a couple meters off the ground, his back and tail parallel to it so he could run faster with Rein riding him. "Onward to my home!"

Rein spread hir wings and sat on hir hind haunches, pumping talons to the sky. "Ride like the wind, Red!" Hir beak was open and shi was having quite a fun time, until shi saw the treeline coming towards them. "Just make sure there are no scary hungry snakes in the trees. Not ready to be snek food yet!" Shi paused a moment, before accenting hir words. "Yet." A devious grin spread across hir beak as shi tapped it with hir talon.

"Pervy burd. I love it!" Red called out as he crashed in between two trees, the treeline enveloping them both with ease. The thick vegetation smothered them from all sides and the thick canopy nearly blotted out the sun; luckily both were well equipped with eyes that could see properly in the dark. Neither were granted the night vision of an owl, but both were adequate and neither were blind in the dark. He kept on stomping forward, his powerful claws digging into the ground with every step while the two of them crashed through the underbrush.

Both raptor and gryph were unable to talk to one another due to the crashing leaves and slapping sticks that kept pounding them in the face, so they both remained low and tight as they bounded between the trees. Rein was clutching Red's back tight, hir wings folded down over the raptor's sides to ensure the feathers didn't get caught or torn out by any branches. Of course, some were lost regardless, but that was basically inevitable. Shi wished shi could have flown to Red's den, but wanted to spend as much time with Red as shi could, so this was the better option.

After a few minutes of hurried rushing, Red found a bit of a clearing with soft grass and no thick ferns smothering them. There were bushes and vegetation surrounding the clearing with the trees bending overhead to ensure that the canopy remained mostly solid aside from a few tiny strands of light that stabbed between the leaves.

"What's up?" Rein asked, cautiously lifting hir head up to absorb the surroundings.

Red crouched down so that his belly was on the ground, urging Rein to hop off. "Nothing, just taking a bit of a break! It's quite tiring to run through the forest that fast, especially with a gravid bird on my back." He winked, slyly teasing his friend.

Rein's expression went from a gaping smile to a tight, narrowed glare followed by a hiss. "I am not fat! I'm a bird!" Shi spread hir wings and held hir beak high. "And gryphons are not heavy!"

"If you say so!" Red teased, tail curling around to poke Rein in the belly. "You look quite plump to me."

The gryphon flushed and sunk hir chin into hir chest fluff. "Come on Red, this isn't like you."

"I know, I know." Red apologized as he got to his feet, turning around and giving Rein a gentle hug. "I don't get to see you often enough, is all! I miss out on all these opportunities to gently tease ya. Raptors and saurians of all types don't exactly take well to some ribbing. Mostly they just hiss and bite."

At the mention of that, Rein hissed and bit down on Red's neck, playfully chomping down without digging the hook of hir beak into his rough hide. Instantly, the two parted and stared each other down, smiles on their faces. It was on, time for a bit of a wrestle!

Instantly, Red lunged forward with maw open wide, what little light stabbed through the trees glistening off his teeth and tongue as he dove towards Rein. His jaws clamped down where the bird was, raking through feathers but not catching any flesh! Rein had flipped and dodged to the side, digging hir hind paws into the ground to tackle red by the side, all four legs grabbing that the raptor's hide. The strength and weight of Rein's tackle made Red fall onto his flank, slowly rolling over onto his back in an effort to pull Rein down with him and roll on top of hir! Rein could sense this, so shi immediately let go and hopped to the side, where Red nearly caught hir by snapping jaws forward once again, this time only catching a few strands of the fur that adorned the avian's fluffy canine tail.

"Hah! Big slow dino got's nothing on the nimble gryphon! Accept your weakness as I-" Rein was stopped mid gloat as Red flopped forward onto hir, almost all the weight of his chest pressed down onto hir, talons on the ground to ensure that he didn't weigh too heavily on hir.

"What was that?" Red asked, his chin on the ground opposite Rein while his belly and chest kept the gryphon pinned. "The great and mighty what?" Though his weight was considerable and pressed down on Rein's upper body, he was particularly careful to not crush the avian's belly, for fear of doing damage to the egg within.

Rein struggled and kicked and tried to writhe out from under hir friend's weight, but found hirself unable to move. Red had won this round. "Fine, fine, you win. Mighty red the conqueror of burds." Shi begrudgingly admitted. "Now can you get off me?"

"Get you off? Sure, why not?" Red joked as he pushed off the ground on either side of Rein's body, the two locking eyes for a moment as the raptor smiled down at his avian friend. His golden eyes stared into hir steely grays, and a smile spread across his wide maw. Rein had an opportunity to kick hir way out from under Red, but instead remained in place, transfixed by the dino's sensual gaze.

Shi smiled back with hir beak agape, chest heaving with every breath as shi grew excited. "Oh? That's not what I said, Red, but I won't stop you." Shi trilled and puffed out hir plumage, idly pawing at Red's chest. If shi had feathers that could turn colors, they would have been a blushy pink. Shi kept hir talon pressed to the soft yet strong scales of Red's belly, gently tapping at his skin with hir claw tips.

A powerful shudder rippled through Red's body as he took in a deep breath, relishing the sensation of the gryphon's sensual claws tickling him. He never once let his eyes come off Rein's, even as his tail started to gently sway out behind him. His lips were still curled in the gentlest of smiles as he sniffed the air, catching a tiny whiff of something sweet and earthy. "Is that you?" He asked as a rumbling growl of happiness reverberated through his chest. "Smells like gryphon in heat!"

Rein simply stared back, licking hir beak while pushing off with paws and talons. Shi scooted out from under Red and rolled to all fours, shaking the dirt and twigs off while inconspicuously lifting hir tail just enough to let Red see the glistening blue flesh of hir canine vulva. Though the gryphon's motions were clear and deliberate, shi still glanced back over hir shoulder with a look of shock, as though shi'd been caught exposed. "Oh noes! The big scary raptor has seen me in my weakest, neediest form!" Hir ears relaxed to flop down on hir skull as hir nares flared up pink.

Red, on the other claw, wasn't as eager to jump in. Though he was quite pleased with what he saw, he was a bit more shy around such acts. Still, he leaned forward and rested his from talon on Rein's haunches, tickling hir rump near the base of the tail and raking through hir fur. "Little gryphon is trapped now. Nowhere to go!" He responded, voice just a little shaky.

It was clear that Red was still a little bashful about the whole endeavor, so Rein lowered hir front half and spread hir wings a bit, tail curling up over hir back to make it even more clear what hir intentions were. "Whatever shall he do?" Shi wagged hir rump end from side to side, the motions mixed with the wagging of hir tail dispersing hir clear scent throughout the clearing with the intent to intoxicate Red.

"What, indeed?" Red mumbled to himself as he lowered his haunches to the ground, leaving his talon resting on Rein's rump. His long, powerful fingers got a proper grip on the gryph's cheek as he sniffed at the air again, another cloud of thick scent blasting him in the face thanks to Rein's wagging tail. Since he knew fully well that there was no saying no to Rein, he slid his hand over to grab at hir tail, gripping it tight as he slid his snout between hir cheeks, tongue eagerly pressed out to get a taste.

"That's exactly what I wanted." Rein gasped, whole body rippling in delight as hir feathers stood on end and a trill escaped hir gullet. Shi closed hir eyes and leaned back, grinding hir hips against Red's snout to press hir lips to his, a familiar swelling sensation bubbling up in hir nethers. In addition to hir female parts getting excited, hir cock was stirring from its sheath, the blue-fleshed tip poking out the end.

Red, still with his snout buried between Rein's rump cheeks, got a firmer grip on the gryphon's tail with one talon, his other coming up between hir legs to gently caress and tug on hir balls. Every gentle touch and yank excited hir even more to the point where shi was arching hir back to grind down harder, tail up high and wings spread. To Red's delight, the gryphon's depths were loose, moist, and quite tangy, so he kept at hir, rumbling in a pleasured growl while prodding his tongue even deeper into the gryphon's pussy.

Shi smiled and gape-grinned while looking back over hir shoulder, ears fluttering and feathers on end. "That's very, very nice..." shi started, only to trail off as shi felt Red's thick tongue prodding even deeper into her, spreading the tight ring of flesh within hir vulva that would grip onto a knot while mating. A shudder ran up hir spine as hir whole body tensed up and pushed back down, claws digging into the grass and dirt. "...Yessssss, very....nevermind, just fuck me!" Shi squawked, pulling away a bit away from Red, ensuring the dragon's tongue was pulled from hir depths in one satisfying squelch.

"Hm? Are you sure about that?" Red asked, slowly getting up to stand up straight over Rein's smaller form. The difference in size was quite drastic, but that didn't seem to discourage Rein.

"I am! Come on, don't be so shy! Just go for it! This is about as clear an invitation as you'll ever get; that is, unless you want me to go present myself to one of your raptor buddies." Shi kept hir rump high in the air and tail curled up over hir back, pussy dripping a bluish fluid down over hir ball sack and into the grass.

Red pondered that for a moment, fantasizing about the whole pack of raptors taking turn at Rein's supple lady parts, but then remembered that they'd be just as likely to eat hir as mate with hir. Rather than take that risk, He leapt forward and balanced on one of his hind talons and his tail, leaning to the side with one of his massive feet resting on Rein's haunches. "If you insist, burd." He hissed, a smile showing his positivity. While digging those talons into hir lower back, Red bucked his hips into his gryphon friend, the mauve tip of his cock slipping out from his genital slit to prod at hir depths.

Rein trilled and fluttered hir wings a bit for stability, bracing hirself against the drake's relatively hefty form while also reaching up under hir belly to gently tickle at hir own emerging cock. Shi wanted to feel Red's in hir while also pleasuring hirself. However, to hir surprise, shi felt Red's massive talon reach down and squeeze hir sheath, peeling it back to expose every inch of it! "O-okay then!" Shi chirped, glancing back to see Red in a somewhat awkward position leaning to the side with his hips pressed to hirs, hand wrapped around hir belly to please hir cock.

Though it was cute and sexy to see hir raptor companion doing all he could to please hir, Rein felt it would be more polite to help out, so shi rolled over onto hir back with legs spread and cock resting heavy on hir gravid, lower belly.

"Th-thanks!" Red lightly growled at her, still smiling as his cock slowly emerged, exposing its very unique anatomy. It was mostly long and tapered, yet noticeably thick. It had ridges down its underside and pleasure-stimulating bumps near the tapered tip. It looked almost like a dolphin's, but with a lot more texture and girth. Oh, and an uninflated, ridged knot near the base.

A long, drawn out chirping trill escaped Rein's beak as shi threw hir head back and started to laugh under hir breath. Shi was amazed at how much bigger Red was than shi remembered, and how much more pleasant this looked to hir. Of course, it had been a long time so shi wasn't sure if Red knew that hir pussy was quite stretchy and able to accommodate some impressively sized members.

Luckily, hir fears were quickly assuaged, as Red stepped into hir and grabbed his own cock, aiming the tip downward to press against hir plump vulva. Shi could feel its tapered tip prodding and snaking around between hir thighs before finally plunging in, curling the tip in such a way that it seemed to pull itself into hir. The sudden and intense girth mixed with the swiftness of the penetration made hir dip hir spine and grind back into him, all four legs tensing up and contorting in all directions while hir lower beak quivered, eyes rolling back in hir skull. "Hmmmngph!" shi let out a long, constrained grunt as hir depths quivered and clenched, cock throbbing and spewing a thin strand of gooey pre-seed all over hir belly.

Red growled back as hi smiled, leaning into Rein's form and tensing his cock to have its prehensile length rotate and barrel-roll within hir, the ridged length of it caressing and massaging the gryph's canine depths. He didn't need to buck his hips, as the tentacle-like nature of his shaft did most of the work by caressing in waves and throbbing thicker in the process, but he still wanted to feel that knot pop into her. With one rough and aggressive motion, he stepped into hir and leaned his head back, the feathers and ridges on his spine standing on end as he let out a roar that rocked the trees around them, stirring birds from their perches and silencing the bugs.

The gryphon spread hir wings wide for extra stability, legs parted wide and hind paws clawing at the grass to stay in place. Shi wanted all of Red's dexterous cock inside hir, and shi was more than willing to put in the work to ensure that happ-

Suddenly, all at once in the middle of hir thoughts of desire, Red's hips pushed into hers one last time with a powerful pop; his knot squished and slid into hir depths, the ridges throbbing and massaging hir flesh as the lobes grew inside. Hir entire body went weak for a moment before shi curled up against him, hind legs folded up on either side of hir belly while hir tail wagged back and forth underneath them. Shi could feel the pulsing of Red's heart beating within hir as the many lobes and ridges and bumps expanded and pulsated against hir flesh, caressing hir in time with the writhing and snakelike motions of the raptor's tentacle-like cock's length.

Shi pushed up hard against his belly with the entirety of hir lower legs pressing against his soft scales, pushing hir form away, but his knot was already tired up within hir depths. The knots had expanded just beyond hir vulva to form the slightest of belly bulges, locking them together. The tugging sensation of his knot inside hir coupled with the undulations and prehensile internal massages of his cock made Rein's form writhe in unison with him, tongue lolled out and beak agape. "Aaaaah! Oh, oh, oooooh...yeah! Hmmm! Hngph!" Shi was chirping and tweeting and grunting and groaning at him, sure to let him know he was hitting all the right spots.

Red smiled and pressed himself even tighter against hir, lips curling up to show his teeth as he smiled. "Are you okay with that, Rein?" He asked, not waiting for an answer before bucking into hir again. This time, he tensed his pelvic muscles to coil the tip of his cock within hir, the very pointed end of it finding the tight opening of hir womb. With a few key adjustments and gentle shifts, he was able to slip his cock though hir cervix, only to prod heavily against the rounded edge of the egg encased within. His eyes went wide as he realized that Rein wasn't kidding about being gravid, and he immediately felt a surging sense of cognitive dissonance overtaking him.

On one hand he really, really didn't want to hurt the egg. On the other claw, the fantasy of mating with a gravid gryphon was one he'd been having for a very, very long time. The thought - nay, feel - of his member sliding and caressing the textured shell of an egg within the warm depths of Rein's pussy and womb was a certain type of heaven for him and it took all his will power to not let out another powerful roar of pleasure. Instead, he smiled and stared back down at hir, trying his best to lock eyes with the gryphon despite hir squinting and writing in pleasure beneath him.

"R-red, that's so fucking good!" Shi squawked up at the raptor, idly clawing at the air and kicking at his belly. Shi felt hir hips bucking and writhing against his, tugging and gyrating in alternating motions while his bulging knot tugged at hir vulva. Shi looked down over hir plump belly between the rows of tender breasts to see the distended, stretched lips of hir pussy pulled out and draped over the wide berth of his knot lobes, struggling to hold on every time he pulled away. Shi couldn't help but flutter hir wings and rub hir beak to the grass, biting at the dirt and flopping around like a cat after being bred.

He growled a bit and leaned down, pressing his chest to hirs with his talon stomping down just beside hir wing with the toe claws curled up over the meaty muscles of it to hold hir down. "I'm glad you are enjoying this, Rein." Red rumbled hir way, still smiling and trying his best to lock eyes, which was much easier now that he was so low and close. His hot breath tickled hir neck plumage as his claws tickled hir chest, slowly walking backwards to eventually grab a hold of hir cock to stroke it gently.

Shi tried to resist, eager to prove hir passion and reserve, but the pleasure was overloading hir. Red's cock was knotted and tied in hir depths, tugging her pussy lips outward while the tip writhed about just inside hir womb next to the egg, all while his claw was gently stroking hir cock and his breath was tickling hir feathers. All at once, shi arched her back as her pelvic region exploded in pleasure, cunny constricting his cock while hir own member spewed a thick gooey seed all over hir belly and chest, soaking breasts and gumming up fur and feathers alike.

Red pulled away a bit and smiled while growling a bit, eagerly licking up the mess off his front talon while his spine feathers and ridges slowly returned to their normal resting state. While he was still locked into hir, he huffed a bit and chirped before lifting one leg up over hir, turning rump to rump and standing straight up, the power of the tie yanking Rein's hind end up off the ground so that shi was dangling behind him under his upturned tail, cock aimed down to leak even more of hir cum all over hir belly.

"H-hey! Stop it Red! I'm still tied to you!" Shi protested, laughing and smiling in spite of herself. Shi spread her legs wide and tried hir best to relax, hoping that the knot would slide or pop out of hir, but it wasn't coming. Shi clawed and grasped at the ground, trying hir best to get some sort of traction as Red turned back to look at hir, maw open and saliva dripping everywhere.

"What's the matter, burd? Can't handle a raptor?" He smirked, trying his best to be cheeky even though he was actually glancing around the clearing to ensure no curious or hungry predators decided to leap in. Though the fellow saurians weren't likely to attack Red, that didn't fully protect Rein from their hunger. He grinned and looked back at the gryphon, his pelvic region twitching and convulsing every few seconds as he felt spurt after spurt of precum erupting into hir. He hadn't climaxed - he would much rather do that in his den than out in the open, but it was becoming increasingly hard to hold back.

Like Rein, Red's pleasure was hitting on all cylinders. The tightness of hir lips sucking his knot coupled with hir twitching, quivering walls capped off by the firmness of the egg inside hir that his cock tip was caressing and prodding at like a curious tendril or tentacle. Before he could finish his curious look around the clearing to see if predators were descending upon them, he squatted down as a familiar warmth filled his loins.

A sudden and intense burst of raptor seed exploded into Rein's womb, buoying the egg within and inflating hir belly even farther than it already was! His eyes rolled back in his head as he tugged and pulled at Rein's pussy, hips grinding and gyrating to yank his knot from hir depths to no avail, cock coiling up inside hir while pulling the prehensile tip from hir womb, knot still too wide to burst free.

All the while, Rein kept writhing and chirping against the pleasure of pressure within hir depths, happy and eager to feel the bloat within hir. It quickly became too much, however, and shi let out a wailing squawk as hir walls clamped down, the combined force of her muscular contractions and the added seed that filled hir birth canal forcing Red's knot out with an audible pop followed by the squelch of gallons of raptor seed erupting from her spade-shaped vulva.

Shi rolled over onto all fours instantly, her entire body shuddering in delight as another audible squelch came from under hir tail, forcing more of the combined fluids out, followed by a thinner liquid that came directly from the depths of hir womb.

"Are you alright?" Red asked as he turned to look at her, cautiously burying his muzzle under hir tail again, licking up the mess he'd created only to be shocked by the change in flavor of the juices that were erupting from within the gryphon's depths. It wasn't the earthy tang of her arousal, nor was it the musky bittersweetness of his seed, but something else completely. It wasn't bad, just indescribable. Almost flavorless yet slick and gooey. Still, as a gentleman drake of a raptor, he still cleaned it up with his tongue every step of the way. "Rein, dear?" He asked again, in between caring licks.

The gryphon grunted and squatted down, tail up and back arched with wings spread a bit. Hir beak was open and her eyes had gone from the playful happiness of a horny burd to the more distressed look of a mother in labor.

That's when Red figured out that shi'd done just that. Red's vigorous mating had loosened up the gryphon's womb, birth canal, and cervix enough to let loose the egg that had been resting within hir. It was a perfect way to cap off a passionate lovemaking session, so he stepped forward to lay next to hir with his head nuzzled up under beak, tail wrapped around behind the both of them to form something of a makeshift nest around hir. "You can do this..." He whispered to Rein, knowing shi wouldn't respond.

Rein huffed and puffed, taking in brisk yet deep breaths as though shi were trying not to vomit. Hir body was contracting super tight around the oblong sphere within hir, forcing it to press tight against her cervix while also distending and distorting hir birth canal. Hir cock, still hard but with deflated knots, managed to slide back into hir sheath while also letting hir focus on the laying of the egg. Shi was hyperventilating as hir body locked itself into clockwork contractions, squeezing for ten seconds, then relaxing for ten.

All the while, Red remained at hir side, nuzzling up under hir beak and licking hir neck, casually preening and prodding while shi strained against the pressure of the egg within hir. He got a devious thought, and slipped the end of his tail up into hir pussy, gently prodding at hir depths with it in the vain hope that it'd further loosen hir birth canal just enough to help it come out.

Shi glanced over with beak agape and eyes full of an odd combination of sorrow, lust, and hope as if to thank him for his enthusiasm. As Rein leaned in to say something, another powerful contraction rocked hir body, cervix stretching and distending just enough to let the girth of the orb pass through it. The rest of the passing was a breeze, because the second the egg's thickest part slipped through the tight opening to hir womb, it came to rest within her birth canal, the thin end of it pressing out just within hir vulva, forming an almost perfectly round distention to accomodate it.

"I'll help with that a bit." Red offered as his tail was pushed from her depths. He got back to his feet and walked around hir, once again nuzzling his snout under hir tail to nuzzle at hir distended lips. As he got a good look, he could see that a small portion of the egg was actually outside of hir and was beginning to dry as the air touched it. He lapped at the stretched taut lips, cleaning them of the birthing fluid that managed to seep out between the bulbous girth of the egg and hir blue flesh.

While he was still up under hir tail, nuzzling at the egg, another contraption came that clenched all hir muscles tight around the blunt end of it, forcing it out with one audible pop and squelch. The egg landed softly in the grass and rolled away, leaving Rein's pussy to slowly close itself up, azure walls collapsing in on themselves while hir vulva slowly returned to their triangular state. The lips were still puffy and sore but elastic and malleable enough to retain their shape post lay, and Rein seemed visibly exhausted by the ordeal.

"Th-that...that wasn't supposed to come out of me for another week or so. Not until my vacation was over." Shi huffed, feathers ruffled and messy amidst the taxing labor that had been forced upon hir. Shi slowly crawled backwards to lay hir belly down on top of the egg, wrapping legs, tail, and wings around it as though shi were nursing.

However, Red seemed a bit more worried about this sudden change in scenario. He didn't think that his actions would make her go into a premature lay! "Is it going to be alright? Is it safe for you gryphons to lay early? I know with us raptors it can be alright, but usually not." Though the warmth of climax was still coursing through his loins, he wanted to focus on his friend in this moment of need.

Rein casually brushed him away, smiling and trilling as shi started to focus on preening hir feathers. "It's alright, dear. That egg wasn't fertilized. It was produced while I was off on a business trip, so I didn't have time to worry about it. It's just for....uh, eating I guess?" Shi smiled and waggled hir rump end a bit, glanding back over hir shoulder at him. "So what's next with you?" Hir tone had completely changed now that the egg was out of hir.

Red, completely baffled at this sudden change of mentality and attitude, just slumped down next to hir, tail wrapped around the gryphon to hold hir close. "Just you. That's what's next with me for the next day or so. Hope that's okay with you."

Shi nodded with a smile, leaning into Red while gently prodding at his neck with hir beak. "Anything's better with you, Red."

The two of them cuddled there in the clearing for the better part of an hour, chatting about Rein's work and Red's position as keeper of the Saurian Lands. Rein wanted to bring up the Ikkar Ammel to Red in passing, but was surprised when he actually made mention of it, insisting that shi take some before she leave in the morning!

This trip couldn't have gone any better for Rein.