Decadence Chapter Three: Mail Order and Taking Stock
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Decadence, Chapter Three: Mail Order and Taking Stock
Koruak froze as somebody said in a deep, strange voice; "Mail order from K and I."
And then there was a loud thunk sound of several boxes being dropped outside the door. then there was a sound of footsteps running away and it was silent.
Tarith got curious however and opened the door. She saw several boxes but nobody in sight.
"Bro, come look at this."
She carefully walked out to the boxes and looked them over, making sure it wasn't a trap or trick.
Koruak looked at the boxes and note and said; "Oh. They're called K and I. KI brothers. They're not real brothers. But word on the street is that they're some sort of black market that relieves the stress put on us by the government. Anyway; I got a couple packages from way back when. And It lasted me a year. This might last us a pretty few. And it costs a damn pretty penny. These boxes are superlightweight, but have a shitload of stuff packed into it. They shrink the stuff down into a mystical box that holds things. It's like turning real stuff into digital data. I actually came across one of the 'brothers'. But I only saw him for an instant. One of them is anthro, I think the other one could possibly be feral. Anyway; wanna help get the supplies in?"
Tarith looked at the boxes in amazement, "Wow! I've never seen anything like them before. So what do we do with them Bro?"
She had never gotten these before, so she wondered what to do with them.
Koruak looked at his sister and said; "We divide them amongst us, and figure out what we need. Each box has its own, what's called a manifest, inside of it. It tells you what's in it, and how much of each is in it. They can't supply us with lifetime stuff, that would put them out of business, but there is enough here for a couple years between us if we're smart about saving it. Some stuff we can sell, others we can barter, others we can keep. I have learned a few things on streets, and hope you have too."
He picked up five boxes, since they were only a couple pounds each, but had hundreds of things in them.
"Can you get the last two?"
Tarith nodded and got the last two, bringing them inside.
"Koruak, I really haven't learned that much. I scavenged what I could, then have been trying to avoid being raped. But maybe you could teach me. I am always eager to learn new things."
She examined each box and tried to find a way to open them. They seemed like they had no easy way of opening them. But her vision wasn't the best either.
Koruak smiled and said; "I also learned a few street fighting moves that can help. Some good person taught me a few, and I learned the rest through pain, trial, and error."
He shrugged and used his claw to rip open the box.
"That's because there is no way to do it aside just opening it with your claws. Took me a while to figure it out. And the password is 'open says-me.' Instead of open sesame."
He chuckled slightly.
Tarith chuckled and tore open a box, finding something and picking it up. She tried to read the words on it but she couldn't.
"Koruak, what is this? And what does it say?" she asked, holding it up to Koruak.
Koruak looked at it and said; "It's what's called a manifest. It's a written documentation of what's inside. A couple nice people told me some fancy language and how to speak properly. It's helped a lot here. And I know how to read relatively well. I could teach you, if you want. Unless you already know how to read."
Tarith said, "I know how to read Koruak. It's just that... I can't. It's my eyes. I can't see good. Anything small I can't see. It's blurry."
She didn't want to admit she had eye problems, but her brother deserved to know. She was incapable of reading.
Koruak looked at the manifest and then said; "No way. Hold on a minute Tarith."
And he searched through the box and it's strange digital world and pulled out a pair of glasses that had a tag on it that said; "For Tarith."
Koruak was surprised to find them like that, and he said; "Tarith; try these on."
And he slid the glasses onto Tarith's face at her eyes;
"Can you see better now sis?"
Tarith saw the world snap into focus and she gasped, "Oh wow! I've never seen like this before! This is amazing!"
she looked at her hand, now able to see every scale instead of a blur, and she could see the words clearly on the manuscript. And the glasses were super comfortable on her.
Koruak chuckled and said; "Well; I guess that's good. There are packages here with fruits, veg, meat, milk, and..... sex supplies? What the fuck?"
Koruak said, confused.
"Okay.... I think K and I went a bit too far on that one."
Tarith giggled, "Those could be sold. We don't need sex supplies. Food products like vegetables, fruit, and meat I can make last longer by foraging for that stuff. Milk is rare, so we better keep that in storage and preserve it. I made a basement that is like a meat locker. It preserves food good."
Koruak blushed and said; "Uh, y-yeah. True. Can we get off the subject of 'sex' and 'meat' please? Sort of making me roused. And no offense sis; but me laying with you doesn't seem right. And by that I mean on a moral level."
He shuddered as what he realized he had said was really false. He actually thought the idea of incest was really hot; and it showed in his flushed face, eyes, and groin.
He looked at another package and said; "This one has some good building supplies and an inflatable air mattress."
Tarith blushed too and walked with him, loving the glasses she had on. It was probably the best gift she ever got.
"I say we use some of the building materials to keep this place standing, but reserve the air mattress. The food products can go into the meat locker, which can only be opened with my powers. We'll need a secure place to store the air mattress though."
Though she wasn't good at knowing the real value of things, she did know about how to keep stuff safe.
Koruak agreed with her and started moving the supplies with Tarith's direction.
"So; uh; you're magic or something? Coz you said 'only be opened with my powers'. Does that mean that you have magic or something? And secondly; does that mean that I have magic?"
he was pretty curious now. But his mind was starting to fog as his cock started being filled with blood and he noticed Tarith's swagger as she walked; he was trying not to be a perv and grab her ass; but it was hard.
He thanked God that he had several boxes of stuff in his arms, otherwise he would have.
Tarith replied, "I have some magic. I... never learned how to use it properly. You might too."
She walked to the meat locker and placed her hand on the ground. Her hand glowed a dark green and two doors made out of solid granite opened up to a basement below as a draft of cold air swept up. Tarith was glad she was wearing pants as she proceeded down the steps.
Unfortunately, Koruak wasn't wearing anything aside a shirt and some torn to hell underpants.
So, naturally, he gasped and leapt backwards when the freezing draft hit his groin. He yelped out loud as he hit the floor on his back.
"Ouch."
He said after about a second.
Then he raised his arm and said; "I'm ok!"
He looked up to see a giggling Tarith.
Tarith giggled at his antics and said, "Come on goofball. You can't be that affected by cold."
She hadn't noticed his hard cock, one of the boxes blocking her vision. But still, she had blushed once she saw he had on only underpants and a shirt and averted her gaze, embarrassed to see such a thing.
Koruak groaned and then got back on his feet, picking up the boxes.
"Damn; thank God that these are not easily broken. But my ass, err, sorry, bootie might be. Sorry; been on street by myself for a while; language doesn't exactly matter when you're all alone. And it tends to become a nasty habit. Sorry, sis."
Tarith shook her head, "I have heard them a lot bro. Don't think anything of it."
She walked down the stairs and waited for him to come down the steps with the boxes.
Koruak blushed and kept on going with the boxes.
"I think we should keep them in the boxes and call them out as needed. It says that the boxes will keep the supplies safe and fresh for at least a half year. At most; well, it doesn't really say. But anyway; afterwards we can organize them by 'essentials keep', 'non-essential possible barter', and 'sell'. Waddyou think, Tarith?"
His cock throbbed painfully within his pants when Tarith leaned down to put the boxes down and started opening a couple of them; making a slight show of it.
Koruak blushed a very deep red at this point.
Tarith opened the box with the building materials and looked at the manuscript.
"Um, Koruak? I don't know what we can get rid of in this box. Can you help me please?"
She didn't know about building materials and she was hopelessly lost on what to get rid of.
Koruak was snapped out of his stupor and hurried over to Tarith; looking over the supplies in the manifest.
"Hmm.... Well; I, for one think that the tear proof cloth will come in handy for a blanket for somebody. So we can barter for something with that or sell it. It's pretty hard to come by something like that. And personally, Tarith; I think we can get rid of most, if not all, of the sexual stuff. Well; maybe a dirty magazine we'll keep for something, but the rest; I think we can get rid of. The fruits; I would have to say the apricots could be sold, the vegetables; avocadoes can seriously go away; I hate those dang things. What about any of the meats? Want to get rid of any of those?
As for some building material; I think that the instant cement can really be sold; we don't need it unless we're gonna fill in the cracks. Which; we should do soon and then sell the canisters with most of the material inside. We'll keep four in reserve, and sell the other eight."
Tarith nodded and moved the appropriate stuff to the appropriate places. She pulled out a small box of dirty magazines and decided to keep the whole box, since it took up little space. She didn't realize that Koruak watched her shift the boxes around, eyes darting all over her body.
Koruak, while Tarith was moving around the basement, was looking over Tarith's amazing body. She looked like she was hard, lean, and not one to mess with in particular. But to Koruak, she looked like one of the sexiest dragons in the world.
"Tarith; I-if I don't get w-warm s-s-s-soon, th-then imma f-f-freeze h-here. C-c-an we please g-g-go upstairs?"
he was freezing, horny, and had a cockring on him that refused to let him cum. He needed release, warmth, food, and sleep in that order.
Tarith finished up and nodded, "Okay. Once we get up there, I'm going to go foraging. The food we have down here should be our reserves. Lets not eat them if we don't have to."
She walked back upstairs and waited for Koruak to come up before closing down the meat locker.
Koruak followed Tarith upstairs and was feeling slightly warmer than he was while down in that meat locker.
"God; that was freezing down there."
Then he started trying to warm himself up by rubbing himself; but it just wouldn't do.
"Ugh; Tarith; would you be willing to warm me up a bit please?"
he asked; feeling absolutely frozen from even just a couple minutes down there with her.
He was trying to keep himself from claiming and screwing Tarith right then and there.
And the fact that Tarith was basically swaggering for him did not help one single bit.
Tarith asked, "Can you let me forage first bro? It's almost dark outside and I want to forage. I'm going to need a few hours."
It normally took her only an hour and a half, but she always doubled that time to account for rape. It didn't happen all of the time, but she was always cautious.
Koruak sighed and nodded; sitting down at Tarith's bed and saying; "Fine. I-I can d-d-do that."
And he wrapped himself up in one of the many blankets, that really needed to be cleaned, and huddled up in there; hoping that in the next four hours his erection would go down and his body temp would rise.
And as luck would have it; neither was the case.