Return to the Beginning
#73 of Patreon Reward Vignettes
Seventh vignette for EonaRider and direct follow-up to Show Me the World.
Cosmo has returned to Eon's forest. He offers Eon a choice... if he can bear to leave right then, he can be free.... otherwise...
Contains: Playful Dominance, Living Tattoos, Flustered Prey, Soul Binding, Mawshot, Object Vore and Hesitation.
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Along the path a white-furred otter once again strode. The albino carried himself as he had a year prior, confident and assured. Today, however, he was humming lightly, looking about at the woods that he had visited so long before.
Cosmo stroked over the side of his throat, just above the shirt collar with the back of his knuckle. "It's been quite a year, hasn't it?"
A light flush of pink appeared in the fur there. Blending almost perfectly into the white strands was a faint silvery shape of a dragon's head. The rose color had appeared upon the marking's cheek.
"Oh, there's the recognition." The otter crooned playfully. "Has a year with me already made you forget your home so easily, Eon? This is where we first met..."
'N-no...' The voice of the dragon rang in his host's mind as the pattern sank out of sight behind the shirt collar. 'It's just unfamiliar from the throat of an otter...'
Cosmo stretched out as he felt the presence sliding along his pelt amongst all his other fur tattoos. "Or maybe it's that my body has become more home than these woods ever were~" He teased the dragon further.
Flustered, Eon refused to respond to that particular line of thought. The two-dimensional dragon had once been the guardian of these woods... had it really only been a year since he was bonded to this otter's strange power? His shape beneath the fabric gained a brighter blush as he thought about it.
The albino mustelid casually began to unbutton his shirt, webbed digits popping one button through an eye at a time, which just sent light flooding into the former guardian's hiding place. Once his shirt was fully undone, he did the same with his trousers, stepping out of them to reveal more ice-white fur and colorful patterns.
As the light flooded in, the dragon slid again along the otter's body, settling into the small of his back with a bashful whine.
Cosmo perked. "Now don't be like that, I want to talk to you..." He shook his arms and sent the dress shirt falling to the forest path behind him, now only wearing a simple wrap to preserve his decency.
Slowly, Eon glided up to the right shoulder blade, weaving his way up over the deltoid and onto the arm. Without in the shirt in the way, his blue markings and tail made it easier to track his movements through his flat world clung against the otter.
Holding up his arm in front of his face, the tattooed lutra looked Eon straight-on. With a flourish of his webbed fingers on his free hand, he revealed an egg shaped sapphire. This was no regular polished aluminum oxide, however. This was the dragon's heartstone. "This is your reward for being my companion all this time. You can be free from my body without worrying about my pelt drawing you back..."
The dragon's seemingly painted eyes widened as they tracked the motion of the blue crystal. When Cosmo stopped talking, he perked and turned his gaze up to the otter's face. 'Just like that?'
Smirking, Cosmo continued. "Or alternatively.... I could consume this and you would be bound to me forever." The white lutra gave the blue crystal a slow, teasing lick.
The intended result occurred immediately. Eon's whole face glowed pink as his form writhed around on the otter's arm, accidentally making a whole trip around as his long body undulated in two dimensions.
"All you have to do is jump to your heartstone before it is consumed and you'll be free." The otter explained, slowly raising the glimmering gem above his head. He turned his attention to the stone and licked his lips. His jaws parted beneath the egg-shaped artifact, the pale inner flesh of his mouth glistening with his saliva. He shifted his grip on the smooth surface of the crystal, looking almost to be about to drop it, but holding on for another moment.
The next adjustment would not be able to hold on, that was certain.
Eon took in this tableau from his place on Cosmo's arm. He could feel his connection to his heartstone, even in his altered state. He could easily just vanish from the pelt prison to appear within the sapphire.
Eon hesitated.