Forest Keep 12
#14 of Forest Keep
(edited 12/10/08 for font correction and version update)
ack at the Keep, Joe was getting concerned, it was all very well to sleep all day and miss lunch but he wondered if James was going to miss his dinner as well, tapping lightly on the door there was still no answer, He leant and placed his ear against it but couldn't hear anything on the other side. Hesitating to break into an obviously locked room, he went downstairs slowly shaking his head. If he was not out for dinner, perhaps firmer measures should be taken.
James and Cill spent the day talking and experimenting. He told her about life in the city of London and the fine houses there. How they went to the entertaining shows in the theatres and streets while she talked about the finer points of dragon society and the fairs and hierarchies.
Occasionally the conversation was interrupted by Cill's urgent desires, her heat still pushing her to mate and James was only too happy to oblige her until he suddenly realized the sun was going down and sighed regretfully.
"Cill, love", he murmured, stroking her breasts as they lay together, "I should be getting back to the keep. I need to work out how we are going to be together without alerting the others to us", he looked up at her, "This isn't going to be easy for a while... But I promise you I'll think of some way round it"
Cill nodded and licked him affectionately, "Good, I'm not going to let you get too far away now" she purred, their mental link hid no emotions from each other now, she could read his confusion and concern for her safety and for that of his kind as well.
"I know... what are you going to tell your parents?"
Cill snickered, "They probably know already...We were shouting pretty loudly"
Flushing rosily James belatedly remembered being told that though dragons could not actually read minds unless up close, they could at least sense strong emotions.
"Oh boy", he murmured.
Cill chuckled and slowly stood up, stretching herself out in pleasure, feeling her body almost aching with satisfaction and the warm afterglow of sex.
"Let's get you back to your room," she said picking him up carefully with a smile.
"And some new breeches", he reminded her, stroking her neck. Nodding she walked back to the lair and the portal runes outside it.
"Hold on", he said, "duck your head...we don't want it banging on the ceiling again", she giggled and curled herself around him before triggering the spell. They arrived back in his room and she took a closer look, a little more clear-eyed than the previous time she had been there.
"Ooh...what are those soft things on the bed?" Picking up a pillow, she fluffed it between her paws slowly while looking at him.
"Those are pillows, we put our heads on them so we can sleep well", grinned James, "You can have one if you like" reaching up to give her a kiss he almost jumped out of his skin when there was a thunderous knocking at the door. Cill gave a hiss and turned swiftly to look at it, her talons out and ready for defense
"Hey lad! You're missing supper! Come on down or we'll give yours to the hounds!" he heard Joe call from outside the heavy door.
Cill blinked at James, a puzzled look on her snout. Trying not to laugh James coughed and replied, "Do that and I'll eat yours instead Joe" He went over to the chest and pulled out a clean pair of breeches, tugging them on quickly before walking up to the door again.
"Open the door lad; you've been sleeping there all day"
Grinning wickedly James unlocked the door and opened it a crack, "Well I need my beauty sleep Joe, or I'll end up as ugly as you". He could feel Cill's breath hot on his neck as she stayed out of sight.
"Next you'll be saying I've been sneaking women up to my room"
Joe laughed, "I think we'd all have heard that", he turned and went back down the stairs chuckling. James closed the door and snickered as he hugged Cill.
"Oh I'd have loved to have seen his face if he'd come in" humphing a little Cill hugged him back, sensing the mischievous thoughts in her mates head and sharing the image he conjured up.
"He'd run downstairs and babble about there being a dragon in my room and then you could slip back to your lair and when he came back ..."
He snorted and kissed her, "Oh it would be a fine thing to see the look on his face", he gave her a last hug, "Best go home lover, before I decide it's worth the risk and make passionate love to you right here on my bed"
Cill growled softly at the thought, murmuring, "Mmmm- Let's do that next time", purring she clutched his pillow in a paw and whispered the travel spell, disappearing in a swirl of dust. James pulled on his jerkin and smiling broadly, stepped out and down to the mess hall.
Cill reappeared outside her lair and went inside, giggling at the mess they had made of the bed, pushing it back into a semblance of order and putting the pillow on it as a finishing touch before curling up on it, she felt a contented tiredness and decided to have a rest, but first...
"Mama?" she sent, she could feel her mothers roiling anger and sighed to herself. She was not going to let it spoil her day.
"How are you dear?" her mother asked, not really wanting to know the answer.
"Ohhhh Mama, It was wonderrrful", she murred, "He was gentle and patient and we did it so many times".
Carlina could feel the satisfaction in her daughters mind and was stunned, could a puny human really have made her feel that way? It was almost impossible to fake such emotions over a mind link and she could not help her curiosity.
"W-what did he do?" she asked as she lay in her own room, still angry but feeling it tempered with curiosity.
"Mmmm...He rubbed me down with oil and kissed me...down there and licked me until I couldn't take anymore and then he mounted me and you said it would all be over really fast...but he just kept going until we passed out and then we did it several more times today, in the water, on the grass..."
Cill babbled away, not seeing her mother's expression at the other end. Carlina's eyes grew wider and wider as the descriptions grew more vivid and detailed. She felt a sudden throbbing in her own vent as it went on.
"He...licked your vent?" she asked, breaking into the rambling... obviously these humans were sex maniacs of the worst order, no wonder there were so many of them around.
"Oh yes...and he laughed when I told him that you said male dragons don't last long and fall asleep"
Carlina flushed, her experiences had shown that to be true in the past as male dragons worked more on instinct than intelligence at mating time... and did not often give much thought to the female's side of the matter.
She resolved to talk to Nokala about the situation, she couldn't deny the sensations of her daughters happiness and obviously the human couldn't get her pregnant so why not let her enjoy it? She rubbed her thighs together and growled at the thought of Nokala licking her sex, why hadn't they thought of that before?
Cill had felt her mothers anger dissolve slowly and smiled to herself, wishing her farewell she curled up, rested her head on the pillow that smelt so nicely of her mate and drifted off to sleep.
James finished off one plate of his dinner and went back for seconds, piling it high he went back to the table and the laughing novices around it, grinning at them with amused secret delight.
"Ya hungry there Lad?", said Joe, placing a tankard next to him, "Drink up, good to see sleepin' all day hasn't dampened ya appetite"
James nodded and picked up the drink, washing down the roast beef, "aye, all that sleeping makes you hungry", he chuckled, "So what do we have tomorrow?"
Joe nodded "A patrol, I know ya pups get tired of being cooped up here so I'm goin' to take ya out to have a look-see aroun' the western district, we'll travel in pairs... and ya will be ridin' with me"
James nodded, feeling Joe was not saying everything, "Good, I need the experience", he replied.
"Taking Joe to see yer doxy then?" Jack sneered from the end of the table. James felt a surge of anger and gripped the tankard in his hand tightly.
"I'd stop that rumor now if I were you, Jack," he said quietly as the table hushed. Jack looked down at his plate and mumbled crudely. Joe was trying not to stare at James, or rather at his hand.
"I'm going out for a walk," James mumbled, putting the tankard back on the table before walking out into the bailey leaving the other novices murmuring amongst themselves.
Sweating gently, Joe picked up the tankard, hoping the others hadn't noticed and walked quietly after James, his fingers rubbing the indentations that the boy's fingers had left in the metal where he had gripped it, and where he - try as he might, couldn't make a single impression in the metal.
Nokala appeared on the travel portal in his lair, shaking himself and trying to relax. He wanted to fly down to the keep and have a deeply meaningful talk with James, or at least yell at him a lot.
He still was not comfortable with the idea of his daughter and a human together but he had agreed to let things take their own course and now he had to face the consequences, sighing he walked down the smooth pathway to the main lair.
Something was not quite right, he could not put his talon on it but he was not picking up the angry thoughts of his mate anymore, he worried a little about that, he loved his feisty Carlina and hoped he would be able to spend many more years with her.
Turning the corner into the main room, he stopped and blinked at the sight awaiting him. In the dim lights of the fire globes, he could make out Carlina lying outstretched on her back in their bed, her tail waving seductively as she brazenly displayed for him.
He rumbled deep in his chest and made his way over to her. Carlina flushed and leaned her head forward to nuzzle him, licking along his neck slowly, purring as she did so.
"Rrrrr...",he murred to her, his sheath swelling rapidly as she nipped at his neck, "What brought this on?', Carlina flushed and took his paw, placing it on her slippery sex and rubbing it up and down slowly.
"I spoke to Cill and she told me all the things she and her human have been doing...and I want to try them too...," she whispered, looking somewhat abashed. "He - he licked her vent and she licked him...and then she was on top...and....", her voice trailed off as Nokala leant down, his long tongue brushing over the slippery lips of her sex.
She groaned throatily and curled her tail around, rubbing the tip softly along his shaft as he stroked her belly, thrilling at the feeling.
"And you thought we couldn't learn anything from them", he chuckled to her, loving the groans she made as he slipped his agile tongue within, lapping at her walls as they twitched. She writhed and panted as he found her clit and begged him to keep going...Nokala grinned to himself; perhaps this was not going to be too hard after all ...
Joe caught up with James as he sat on the battlements, staring out into the night, his gaze miles off in the distance.
"Mind tellin' me how ya did that?" He asked, tossing the tankard to James who reflexively caught and looked at it guiltily.
"Guess I don't know my own strength", he muttered, putting it on the stone beside him. "Ya're a strange lad", said Joe, sitting next to him and pulling out a long pipe.
"Never met anyone who can do that to metal after sleepin' all day and talking weird stuff", lighting the pipe from his tinderbox he puffed slowly.
"I can see ya want to talk about it lad, Why not me?" Joe asked, looking at him calmly.
"Because I don't know If I trust you that much Joe", James replied quietly, "if I tell you it all, It could mean the death of ...many - depending on how you reacted to it"
Joe leaned forward and put his hand on James's shoulder "Ya've been here a coupl'a week's lad, and ya show promise that's true, but now yer scarin' me, what have ya gotten ya'self mixed up in?"
James laughed quietly "That's just it Joe, you wouldn't believe me if I told you, you'd have me locked up for insanity", clapping the older man on the shoulder he tossed the tankard off the battlements
"I'm going to get some sleep... I'll think about it and well...we will be riding patrol tomorrow, perhaps I'll talk about it then"
Joe nodded "I've have thought ya'd have had enough sleep for one day, but alright, neither Martin nor I would lock ya up lad, if you be tellin' the truth and lettin' us help"
James sighed and walked down the stairs towards the barracks, "You might not say that if you knew enough", he said in parting.
Joe sat on the stone, his backside getting colder...trying to fit the clues together, there were still plenty of holes and he could only imagine it was some sort of criminal problem he was involved in that had followed him here.
He puffed on the noisome pipe until it went out and after knocking out the dottle on the stone wall went back to the mess to finish off his ale.
Marre lay on his lounger and slowly read a scroll. He had calculated the best he could but there were still too many variables in the equation. The old dragon tapped his talons as he thought - something he had missed, a trifling miscalculation was bothering him.
Sipping his tea, he worked his way down the scroll until an entry caught his eye, suddenly shaking in disbelief he read it again... "During a virgin hen's initial mating, transfer of Mana may occur, resulting in redistribution of power between those involved"
He put his snout in his paws and groaned, all he needed now was for her to get pregnant and then the midden would really hit the windmill.