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The Lion King - The Pleasures Of Ruling A Kingdom

Sisters in Arms

by Mirri and Radix

The young Mufasa made his way along the river shore, following a certain scent. Or rather, a pair of them. He rounded the bend and could not help but grin at the sight. There they were.. the two most magnificent lionesses of his pride just lounging and sprawling out on their backs, hindlegs spread, undersides bared, pussies glistening with droplets from the quick bath they had no doubt taken in the river a while ago. He could just imagine them frolicking and bouncing in the water, tails and paws sending droplets flying everywhere. The sun caressed their bodies as they lay there dozing, so lewdly on display. Did they not know that a horny lion could walk in on them at any time and-- ahhh. They were probably counting on just that, and it would be such a shame not to fulfil their wishes.

Sarafina *yawn-mrowled* and rolled over on her side, putting her muzzle on Sarabi's chest and putting a foreleg down over her to hug her closer. He did love it when the two of them snuggled up and showed off some of that sisterly love. And he knew just how to bring it out in them too. The male shook his red mane to try and make it fluff out bigger.

"Well hello there girls," the young King grinned, walking onto the scene. His eyes drank in the beauty of the two female cozied up against each other. Whatever they were doing might be entirely innocent, but he chose not to take it that way. He walked right up and put his paws on their bellies at the same time, grinning down at them and flexing a little, tossing his mane. "It's your lucky day, I think." He brushed his paws up and down, before pushing the two lionesses together a little bit and giving Sarabi's wet rump a playful smack. The lionesses grunted sleepily at him.

"Geez, I hope I'm not interrupting anything TOO interesting." He winked, a big smirk on his muzzle as he said whatever he wanted, clearly enjoying making the lionesses a little uncomfortable. "Looks like my two favorite pussies are already wet."

Sarabi went *meep* at the rumpsmack and wiggled her tail a bit. Sarafina just lifted her head up and furrowed her brow at him. The two girls were clearly drowsy and not in the mood for playful things, but that was definitely not how the boy saw them. In his own mind he walked in just a few minutes too late to miss all the hot lioness on lioness action they had going. Curse his big, noisy paws.

Sarafina rolled her eyes at him and give a flick of her tail. "Oh hi, Muffy. Out having fun playing a King again, huh?" She winked at her sister who giggled and pulled her hindlegs up a bit closer to her belly. The young Prince was so full of himself these days. The same way his pawtoes were full of warm bellyfur that tickled between them and he could feel the girls' moist warmth against his pawpads. *purrr*

"I always have fun being King, you should know that," Mufasa winked in a manner that explained exactly what he meant. He groped their chests with his paws a bit more for emphasis, feeling the wet river water still trapped in their pelts.

"You better watch out, I might get jealous. I knew I could make you two cubs wet apart, but I didn't think you'd manage without me too." His casual announcement that he had been doing both of the lionesses was swept aside as he lifted Sarabi up in his paws and deposited her upper half on top of her sister's chest. Sarabi was rolled over without much resistance since she was caught off guard, and both the lionesses went *OOF* when they landed belly to belly and face to face. Sarabi blinked down at her sister and started squirming a bit when the young male stepped up behind to straddle her.

He grinned broadly. In this position he was behind and on top of Sarabi's body, but Sarafina's view of anything below her sister's chest was blocked. Taking full advantage, the big male put a paw squarely on Sarabi's pussy like he owned it and began rubbing hard, though not so hard that what he was doing was obvious to Sarafina. She tried to see what was going on, but all she could see was Sarabi's head and felt how she wriggled around, although for some strange reason without seemingly trying to get up.

"I know certain lionesses who like it when they do things right under other lionesses' noses." He pressed down hard and felt Sarabi's chest heave, grinning at them both. "Some cats will do aaaannything to be with a King."

The lioness on the bottom flicked an ear and looked up, "Like doing what? What's he doing?"

Sarabi bit her lip and tried to keep her breathing under control, "N-Nothing." She lied, her tail arching up when he groped her wet pussy and poked a pawtoe inside to feel her clench up. Oh yeah, she wanted liondick so badly. Yet, that red little pucker above was equally bared.. and so were the rest of them in this position. Decisions, decisions.

Sarabi's paws were all spread out and she couldn't really pull them together to stand up or anything. She was just helplessly flomped on top of her sister while Mufasa played with them.

"Nothing that you wouldn't love, anyway," Mufasa jeered, sliding another pawtoe into Sarabi. He reached forward with his free paw and tried to force Sarabi's muzzle to her sister's.

"Why don't you give your sister a kiss, Sarabi. I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time today, and I know you want to. Kiss her back, Sarafina. Your King wants to see what you girls get up to when he's not around." As he held Sarabi's head forward he began to thrust his pawtoes in rougher, jamming them in and out of her mercilessly for his own pleasure to watch her reaction. Sarabi was pushed forward and pressed her muzzle against her sister's. Sarafina struggled a bit at first, but that tongue sliding into her maw quickly made her forget that the Prince was even there, and he could soon hear her cubbish whimpers while she wrapped a foreleg around Sarabi's neck, pulling her close and slurpily making out with her. Sarabi started rubbing herself back and forth on top of the other lioness, trying to thrust like a male, but she couldn't push her hindquarters down far enough because his pawtoes were slipping in and out of her all the time.

"I wonder what you two talk about when you're getting all cozy like this, hmm. Could it have anything to do with a big golden lion and telling your sister the things you WISH you could do with him, mm?" The golden lion was clearly in his own world of arrogant lust, but he was the Prideland's Prince, and he smiled down at his subjects - only a few seasons younger than him - with a look that clearly stated he wanted the girls to submit to him in every way. They might as well start learning it properly while they were all young.

The kiss broke and Sarabi was already moaning and rocking back and forth while he pawfucked her. "Oooh.. mmmm, yeah. We talk all about.. ooh, how we wanna stick our heads in that big lionboy's groin and lick him till he cums. Mmm."

Sarafina blinked and stared soundlessly up at Sarabi, shocked that she would give away their intimate conversations just like that. Mufasa just grinned in triumph and stepped back, pulling his wet paw roughly from Sarabi's sex. He took a few steps and began strutting for the females, still laying on top of each other. He held his tail out stiff, showing off all his glory. His big leg muscles twitched and bunched as he grinned and spun, showing off his strong haunches.

"Is that what you talk about? Can't say I blame you...," he winked. "I bet you talk about it like you haven't seen it before. Both of you. Naughty cubs, I bet you didn't want your sister to know that you've managed to sneak away for fun with the Prince. Too late!"

Sarabi gasped when he pulled back, her tail twitching and her body shivering. They both turned their heads and watched, jaws gaping when he talked so dirty about them and showed off like that. They both blushed bright red from their eartips to their cheeks at how he just reveal everything in front of them. Literally.

He crouched, muscles twitching as he showed off his thick, male sheath stretched with his pink shaft. He pulled his abdominal muscles and saw both girls watch in awe as that thick pink lioncock slid out of its fuzzy home and right out into the open.

"Is this what you girls talk about? Do you get off in each other's fur thinking about me sliding this under your tails. Mmm, I bet you do." He reached down and began thrusting into his paw, his erection jutting out in front of him.

"Yeeeah.. it's nice and hard too. Do you scream into your sister's fur like you do into my mane, Sarafina? How about you, Sarabi... do you cum over and over like you do for me, begging for more of my cum inside you?" He turned abruptly, showing off his dangling balls as he looked over his shoulder, reveling in revealing the girls' secrets.

Sarabi began drooling when he thrust into his own paw, he knew exactly how much she adored watching him play with himself like that, she had admitted that plenty of times during their heated little sessions, and now he had gotten her to the point where she could not keep still anymore. Both of them blinked when he asked them if they would cum over and over, moaning the other's name into their furs, and both of them mouthed "Yes" at the same time, staring unblinking up at the charmingly arrogant lionboy.

"You little pridesluts. I bet you'd fuck your own sister right in front of me to get to this." He turned and ran a paw down his strong stomach back to his cock.

"I think the only question is ... which of you sluts is the naughtiest bitch?"

Sarafina growled suddenly and pushed her sister to the side, rolling her down on her back and getting on top with a fierce, huntress-like motion. She snapped her teeth and pressed her muzzle down on her sister's, roughly tongue-slobbering her and then pulling away.

"S-Saffy?" Sarabi gasped and stared wide-eyed up at her, watching her sister start to grind her pussy against her sibling's, groaning and purring with delight.

"MMmm, I win.. don't I, Muffy?" She winked over at him, opening her muzzle and licking sloooooowly across her front teeth with just the tip of her tongue in a most sensual expression that sent a shiver down the male's spine.

The Prince did his best to keep his composure at this point and he casually strutted over, towering over both girls imposingly, a sneer on his muzzle. "You think you could win just with that?" Mufasa snatched his cock away as Sarafina tried to grab at it and moved behind her with surprising swiftness. Not letting his own urges cloud his mind just yet, merely provoking that reaction in the two girls made it seem like he was moving at twice the speed that they did. He was still fast and deliberate about every step, every motion, all the better to make the two females lose control and forget they were supposed to be proper little girls, and not give in to a horny male just like that.

Before either lioness could react the big male was straddling Sarafina's back, pressing her down hard against her sister. She put up some resistance at first, but lost it all in a big *purr* when she felt his big shaft rubbing against her back. It did not last long though before Mufasa reached forward and yanked her forelegs out from under her, forcing her to fall forward on top of Sarabi. The king held her there, pressing her hindquarters more firmly against her writhing sister's.

"You call that fucking? How many times have I shown you what a real fuck is, Saffy? Fuck your sisters cunt if you want my dick so bad!" he slapped her rump hard, forcing her down hard and grinding her back and forth. Sarafina was pushed down on top of her sister and she gripped her tightly, groaning as she was held down and then humping the other female harder. Sarabi *ooofed* and tried to hug back while she went all feverish with lust.

"You should be trying to force your clit up her cunny and show your sister she's all yours because you're the naughty bitch your King wants to fuck. Is that what you think you are? Show me you believe it!" Mufasa *mrrred* and stroked his cock unabashedly against the young female's fur, using his weight to hold her down tight, and smiling down at Sarabi. From Sarabi's viewpoint, it looked like he was mating her, grinning and thrusting and holding her head down. He did not mind. Let her be jealous and see how desperate she would get as he urged her little sister on to treat her like just another little fucktoy.

"Beg for it, pussy. Beg like you beg for Muffydick." Sarafina growled down and bit into her sister's throatfur, making her whine at the rough mating she got. He could see the two wet lionesstwats grinding and slurping against each other, both girls so excited by this point.

"Oooh, oh yes.. fuck me, sis... MMMMmm, hump me like a male." Sarabi murred, letting her sister play the boy this time - not an unusual thing for the two of them- her hindlegs spread and accepting of the thrusts the other lioness made against her. She teased back, scritching claws down Sarafina's sides until they got to her rump and she obviously tried to grope the male, but found nothing there since he had not connected with the liongirl on top yet. He was just mounting them both and forced them to grind together.

Sarafina was in her own pleasured world, rubbing sexes with her sibling and both of them groaning at the wet, tickling sensation. She felt the additional wet sensation of lion precum drooling down her rumpfur by now, the male hardly hiding his arousal at the show he was getting.

Sarabi reached down, grabbing her tail when she realized that he was not humping her sister on top after all, and she lifted up Sarafina's tail high, kinking it at the base and showing off that little pink nub just below it. The naughty lioness winked up at him over her moaning sister's shoulder and licked her muzzle lecherously while so obviously offering that tight tailhole to him.

Made him seriously wonder which one of them was truly the naughtiest one.

Mufasa barely hesitated, he put both paws on Sarafina's trembling shoulders and held her in place as he slid his dick under her tail. Grabbing her nape and pulling her head back, he whispered in her ear, "You think you're naughty, little slut? Let's see how confident you are with my big liondick up your asshole, you fuckslut."

With that, Mufasa began shoving and grinding roughly, letting Sarabi watch every motion as he accepted her offering. He did not take it easy on her, just held Sarafina down and let Sarabi watch him work her into submission with jerking, savage thrusts that would fill any watching lioness with sympathy.

Sarafina *SQUEALED* out when he jabbed his huge liondick up her rump, sliding that barbed fuckpole back and forth in her tight little tailbud. Her clenching motions were erratic and revealed her shock at the sudden, powerful intrusion in her sacred little butt.

" M-Muffy! That's.. not..! That's the wrong hole!" She gasped out between his rough, deep thrusts, but Sarabi just giggled up at the two of them. He had done this with her before, but it was definitely Sarafina's first time by the looks of it.

"Ohhhh... oh, your sister's got such a tight little tailstar," Mufasa moaned. He pushed Sarafina a bit to the side, letting Sarabi watch as he flexed his muscles while holding her down. The lioness could see the big strong male's tummy muscles clench and unclench with each thrust, his strong legs working as he pistoned into her little sister.

"Oh yeah? Lemme see."

With a snarl the lionboy reached forward and wrapped his paws under Sarafina's forelegs, lifting her body into the air until she was sliding down his front onto his dick. Sarabi saw her little sister's glistening pussy and watched the way Mufasa's in comparison elephantine dick was stretching her little pucker. He was certainly his father's son judging by the size of that massive erection threatening to split the liongirl in two. Mufasa somehow lifted her even higher, watching her rear paws scramble for earth as panic began to fill the pain-and-pleasure struck lioness.

"Mmmm, not having that much fun getting your lil' ass-cherry popped by Muffy, huh?" She teased her little sister, poking at her chest when he pulled her back up and asshumped her lustily, that massive girth of a lionhood pounding her under the tail and stretching her out obscenely wide.

"Do her harder, Muffy. Make her squeal like you made me yell out the first time you 'missed'." Sarabi grinned right into the shocked face of her sibling who was scrambling and flailing her paws while she tried to get away from the overwhelming sensation of that big intruder in her butt.

The male let her hindpaws find the ground again so she could support herself in this squatting position and then just kept pulling back until his barbed cock popped out of her ass, slapping back up against her pussy roughly when another surge of pleasure made him stiffen up. He held her tight, muscles bulging as he grinned down at Sarabi and felt he had to give her another chance at taking first place in their little contest.

"Come suck my dick, Pussy. Tell your sister how much you love the taste of her ass on my cock. Show her who's the dirtiest lioness in the pride."

Sarabi licked her lips at his command and she rolled onto her belly, getting to her paws and moving over to stand in next to the two, rubbing her cheek against her sister's rump when she dipped her head in. The first lick up the underside of his shaft set his loins on fire. The rush of regal power and sensual pleasure made his brain fry.

"Mmmm.. sorry, sis. I'm still the dirtiest lioness here." She murred and slipped his whole cock into her muzzle, suckling and bobbing her head, making sure that Sarafina both heard the slurpy noises coming from beneath her hindlegs and felt that fuzzy head moving back and forth since her neck and shoulders were pushed against her rump back there. Even if she could not see it, she could certainly imagine what was going on.

"Oohh, that's so yummy.. stick it back in, Muffy. Get it dirty again so I can taste my sister." She mrowled after she had cleaned him up and stood there, tail swishing excitedly as if she was begging for sweet honey, or those candy berries that all cubs indulge themselves with. She knew perfectly well how obsessively clean everyone in the pride kept themselves and each other, but making it sound like she was doing something dirty was making Mufasa short of breath and get that glazed expression in his eyes, so she was milking it for all it was worth.

Mufasa growled breathlessly and did as Sarabi asked, slipping his cock back into the mewling Sarafina and beginning to thrust hard once again. He bowed Sarafina's head down so she could watch her sister eagerly waiting between her stretched hindlegs, begging to suck the Prince's cock after he had fucked her ass again. Perhaps she was not as dirty-minded as she had thought she was, Sarabi had certainly been up to some things she had not let on about even to her sister, but it was too late to go back on it now.

Mufasa displayed all his adolescent power and eagerness, lifting Sarafina up into the air and dropping her back down on his cock, growling each time she shrieked as his cock stretched her out, bouncing her in his lap to let her own weight do half the work. He was showing off for Sarabi just what he could do, thrusting madly into her little sis, ignoring how his barbs raked and tore on each thrust. There was nothing Sarafina could do but squeal and claw hopelessly for the ground as Mufasa held her in the air, not letting her get a good grip on the grass so she could slow him down.

Her tail was numb by the time Mufasa slowed down and then pulled out again so he could offer his shiny cock to Sarabi. "Ooh... lick it good Sarabi. Show your sister you want to watch her fucked up her ass every day just so you can taste my dick afterwards."

Sarabi grinned sheepishly, blushing at his words when she took the fat liondick in her muzzle again, suckling with plenty of drool and precum from his oozing tip now. There was no question he was close to release. Mmmm, she bobbed her head over him, swirling her tongue around to clean and taste behind his barbs, making Sarafina blush and shiver with mixed envy and lust while she was watching what went on just beneath her abused rump. Truly her big sister had surpassed her in terms of naughtiness, but she was starting to feel like it was something she could catch up on too.

Sarabi pulled away, nuzzling and purring as he laid his cock over her face and dribbled precum into her fur there. "That's sooo good, Muffy. It always tastes better when it's all over your big cock." Her tongue kissed his drooling cocktip. "Mmm, can I get it in my ass afterwards? I promise to be a good lil' cub for you and squeal like you want me to."

She winked up at the panting male and pranced up the side of the two of them, rubbing against Mufasa's flank and Sarafina's rump when she stepped out in front and looked over her shoulder at her shocked sister, licking her lips. She raised up her tail and bent over right in front of the other female, baring her treasures and showing off that wet cunt dripping down her thighs by now. That whole show had so obviously gotten her aroused and ready. She bent over till her chest touched the grass and she kept her rump up high in the air, standing on her tippypaws, hindlegs spreading out in a wiiide stance.

"It looks like my sis wants to be a dirty lioness too. You'll have to show her how it's done..." Sarabi invited the young lionboy with a shake of her rump.

Mufasa moaned, so blindingly turned on by the way the lioness begged and teased him that he nearly dropped the liongirl he was holding up and supporting.

"Grrrr, yes Sarabi. I'll fuck you in the tail when I'm done and make your sister eat it all out." Mufasa finally let Sarafina's hindpaws reach the ground, and she gasped at the jolting sensation that snapped up her rump when she had to support herself again and that stiff lioncock went straight back up under her tail. She was trying to scramble away but he would not let her. Instead he pressed her head down to look between her sister's spread hindlegs, still thrusting roughly and enjoying every extra inch of fat liondick he managed to force up her tight tailhole.

"Does it make you horny staring at your sister's pussy while I fuck you, slut?"

"Ugh.. uh! Yeah.. yeah... I've always liked my sister's pussy. I've been eating her out since we were cubs. I love it... loveitloveitloveitlovitFUCK..!"

Mufasa did just that, slamming in and out of Sarafina so hard she nearly bit her tongue. "Is that so... well I'm gonna fill your sister up after this and you're gonna eat it all out. Look how she's spread her legs out for you, little slut. I think you need some practice, what do you think, Sarabi?"

Sarabi looked back over her shoulder and growlpurred, one forepaw sliding up underneath her to reach between her legs to her pussy. Her chest against the ground was keeping her balanced and she was about to make a snappy reply, but it was all drowned in a moan.

At that moment Mufasa shoved Sarafina down, grabbing her nape roughly and shoving her muzzle under her sister's tail. "Eat her ass, Sarafina... clean it you little slut. Just like you'll be cleaning my cum from there in a little bit... *GRRrrrr*... But no one's going to clean you. You're going to walk around all day with my load dripping out of your slutty little asscunt."

Sarafina could hardly refuse. Mufasa was thrusting into her so hard she was gasping for breath every time, and he was holding her nose right to her sister's tailhole. The smell of hot lioness filled her nostrils, warm and familiar and instictively she knew her sister was close to cumming. She knew that scent pretty well by now.

"Oh gods, Mufasa... oh you treat me so dirty.. oh cum in my ass..." Her chin rubbed against Sarabi's pussylips as she opened her mouth and began rimming her sister, panting into her rump. The eager, uncontrolled thrusts made her bump her nose against her sister's tailbase and her chin against that sloppy wet sex of hers.

"You want to be filled up by your King while you fuck your sister's tailhole with your tongue?"

"Oh yes...," she began grinding back against him, eagerly trying to fit more cock up her own tail. At this point those barbs had scraped her so numb in her backside that she could move around a bit more without feeling a searing pain flash through her. She grasped Sarabi's hips firmly and slid her long tongue into her sister, something that she had never done before in all these years. The taste washed over her along with the scent of her sister's reaction, and she almost came just from that.

"Oh gods, she's so turned on, Muffy.... she's gonna cum from me tonguing her ass," Sarafina announced it like a good little girl before diving back in, licking and kissing Sarabi.

"Make her cum for you, Saffy. She's your cumtoy now - make her spray all over your chin and I'll give you an assload of my cubs in return."

That was all Sarafina needed to hear, feverish with lust she pulled her sister back to her muzzle with enough force to slide her claws through the dirt. Sarabi was gasping and moaning random nothings out loud, from roars to whimpers while her pawtoes moved in hard little circles against the grass, bumping Sarafina's chin as she felt that long, slippery lioness tongue slide farther and farther into her tailhole. It was on her before she knew it.

Her orgasm exploded and she screamed like a wounded gazelle, held up only by Sarafina's strong huntress' forelegs and the tongue deep in her butt as she creamed all over her sister's face.

"Oh fuck... do you like the taste of your sister's ass?"

" Yes!"

"Do you want to cum tasting it?"

"Yes yes yes yes yes yes oh... fuck... I'm so close...!"

Mufasa roared in futility against the flood of wild primal urges invading his mind and body, "Who's a tail-licking bitch?!"

"I AM! I AM... oh I love my sister's cunt... I love her ass, I love your big cock in my.. my *GrrrrRRRROWL!!!!!*" Sarafina's loins burst in pure white flame at the same moment a roar from above filled her ears.

Mufasa slammed his gigantic dick deep enough for Sarafina to feel his balls slap her cumming pussy. Sarafina buried her head between her sister's hindlegs as she came hard, feeling Mufasa's ample juices flowing out of her too-tight tailhole and all over his balls and her cunt, dripping down her thighs. She did not even care now, she just wanted the scent of her sister's wet sex all over her. Wanted to bathe in it. Live in it.

By the time she was conscious again, she realized her tongue was inside her sister's pussy and Sarabi was growling for her not to stop. The gushing lioness juices she was used to lapping up were drooling from her face and her flexible tongue funnelled it all into her maw.

The next thing she felt was the sharp sting of Mufasa yanking his spined member out of her. She snarled but did not stop. She had only a hazy view of her suitor stepping around her on unsteady legs and grabbing Sarabi's head.

She heard him say something, but could not make out anything but the word 'bitch.' She felt Sarabi nod. As she licked furiously and felt her sister clawing towards yet another orgasm she watched Mufasa lie down in front of them. Unable to stand the excitement she pulled out her tongue, stuffing her pawtoes in its place and ignored her sister's startled *growlgasp* as all three dissappeared into her stretched cunt.

"Saffy..!"

"Be quiet. It's your turn," Sarafina growled in demand without even realizing it. "Now kiss his ass, tailbitch."

With her other forepaw reaching up to Sarabi's neck she stood down on her, forcing her head right down between Mufasa's spread hindlegs, grinding her nose down the back of his balls till she was staring right at his tail.

Mufasa's surprised expression made her smirk impishly when they were both treated to the sight of the eager Sarabi kissing furiously under the lionboy's tail. With all the pent-up lust the last lioness of the bunch still had, it only took a few moments longer for her to cream all over her sister's paw, gasping and snarling and attempting to pull her tongue out of her Prince's tailhole, but Sarafina's paw still stood on her neck.

As she was cumming, Sarafina removed her soaked paw and let Mufasa watch her bring it around and force it into her sister's mouth. Mufasa just groaned, getting hard again at the sight of Sarafina feeding her sister her own cum. Sarabi licked it up, still cumming and dripping down her hindlegs.

It took what felt like hours for the trio to calm down, and when they finally did pass out from exhaustion it was with the three lions laying on top of each other, and a big golden lion letting one of the lionesses use his balls as a pillow.

It was a good thing all the adults were out on the big hunt of the month and were far too busy planning and debating and relaxing to pay much attention to the adolescents.

A change in the weather and a cool breeze managed to awake all three of them some hours later, tails flicking when they all stirred.

"So...," Sarabi began.

"Who's the naughtiest then?" Sarafina finished.

Both looked up at the lionboy who looked utterly content, their green and blue eyes sparkling eagerly for his satisfaction.

Mufasa purr-chuckled.

"I have to say it's a tie." He reached down and began to rub his sheath again Sarabi's face, and she murred with a little whimper. Sarafina just watched with a purr. The soreness was starting to come back to all of them.

"Of course.. this means we'll have to get a nice big load up Sarabi's ass and see if she can top you sucking it out like a grooming cub." He winked at the two of them. "I'm nothing if not thorough. A winner must be found."