Hybridized affairs (Ch. 14)

Story by Khaesho Scorpent on SoFurry

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#46 of Child of the Sands

Sorry for the abrupt end, there wasn't really a good place to end this chapter, and I wanted to keep in the tradition of separating the smut from the story.


The dream destabilized and faded, as dreams often do, and Shou woke sometime later in the back of the car, still wrapped in Khaesho's scales. It looked impossible for him to be comfortable, contorted through half the vehicle, but he smiled and wiggled, squeezing Shou affectionately in his sleep. He was rather soft... like a blanket, but thicker, warmer.

I'll be honest, as far as dreams go, I've seen stranger, but not by much. Do you remember any of what happened?

Kalokin's sassy tenor lit the morning air as he manifested into a bracelet, an Ouroboros, of course. It was still early, and Shou wasn't quite awake enough for his quirks; blearily she struggled to get her bearings in the mess of her lover's coils. When she noticed that her more physical lover he had yet to wake, she calmed her wriggling as much as she could, eager to not wake him before needed. Cuddling into him, she buried her face against his scales. He was warm, his scales were soft, and he was certainly the best thing to ever come into her life. A quick second to that was Kalokin, who she silently answered a moment later.

More than usual. It was... strange.

That's a light way of putting it. You were dancing with the devil, as they say, to an audience of savage beasts. Then, you became a Feathered Serpent to match, and... something about me as a bracelet... was damned weird, that's for sure. By all rights, it should have been a nightmare... I'm not sure how it wasn't, truth be told... but I think you have Nikolak to thank for that. Dreams are tricky business, but she knows them better than any. Shou nodded, giddy and confused, but mostly giddy.

Fear... she wasn't frightening. It was... I danced! As a serpent! In a way I never had before. I followed her lead, and it was... Dreams are tricky, but I liked that one. It was exciting... exhilarating. Every performer gets a little stage fright, but she helped me face mine.

Interesting... might be the first time she's done that, rather than causing fear. I'm glad I got to see you wearing your phoenix costume though... Realizing he'd said too much, and not wanting to spoil a future surprise, he quickly changed subjects. I wonder what Khaesho is dreaming abo- Oh... Oh my...

Khaesho stirred, murmuring something in his sleep. Shou was curious what Kalokin saw, but when she felt Khaesho's twin spires start to poke at her stomach, she guessed the general details well enough.

I'll give him this, that Snake has a VIVID imagination. I'll spare you the details, but you and he are... -with- his closest friends, as he remembers them.

She blushed prettily from the wet feeling prodding at her stomach, glancing up at his sleeping face and then looking shyly to the side to hide her face against his scales.

You serpents are very free with your affections... I still... worry about that sometimes. If I'll be enough. W-what's he dreaming about..?

I wouldn't say that they're free with their affections, we just view love in a different way. To them, sex is part of lust, carnal desire, a tool for reproduction and a fun way to pass the time. More than that, it's also somewhat of a symbol of status. If a male with an especially attractive female, or vice versa, slither into a new town, he might... show his mate around, as a way to brag. Likewise if a female has a stud she's proud of, the first thing visitors often do is... introduce themselves. Sex isn't even remotely connected to love in our minds. Love is who you want to spend the rest of your life with, not someone you want to bang. The two do coincide sometimes, but they still think of them in separate terms.

I don't think you need to worry though. He's having a wild wet dream, yes, but that's because he's a young, horny snake. He'll settle down a little bit after he ages out of his 20's. Even considering that, he'd never ask you to do anything you weren't comfortable with. Does some part of him want you to try something... outlandish? Of course. It's the same part of him that likes to tie you up, the same part that likes to feel your toes wriggling in his stomach. Public sex is a dirty kink of his; yes he wants it, but it's in even competition with his other kinks, and he can restrain that side of himself, easily. We love you, and that means more to us than petty sex, and he wouldn't even suggest... something like that, it unless you wanted to as well.

Shou listened to him, and she let her eyes closed as she heard him, thinking about what he said. And then she answered with her own views, as they had been taught to her of course.

"The connection of love and sex has been proven, most people can't have sex with others without feeling affection or love for them. It's a betrayal of the heart for us. It's a pain that cuts deeply and leaves us in tatters that we struggle to rise from. I had a boyfriend in highschool... um, a fellow who was courting me in the hopes of being my mate. We hadn't had sex, but there was affection there, the desire for more... And I would have, would have stayed and remained with him... if he hadn't -- I found him under the bleachers with another female. And it's planted a seed of doubt and fear that is the foundation of my worry."

Oh, I have no doubt that sex and love are linked for you silly bipedals. There's a series of chemicals that your brain shoots off that help form an emotional attachment to whoever you bang. That said, Serpents are wired differently. They were designed with a different culture in mind. They've been created, raised, and indoctrinated to view lust as a part of friendship, and they remain stable with that mindset. You can bet your new tail though that when mating season rolls around, every female only has her eyes on one man, and vice versa.

It still didn't settle her. She bit her lip, pouting a little before answering shakily, verbally. "Love and sex are inextricably connected for me, personally. I may... I may try something... someday, for Khaesho, because I love him - but I don't... I am uncertain how it will make me feel. Things like that are... shameful. Disgraceful. I don't know if you could hear what happened in my soul, but I remember... I can still remember all the voices - all the whispers... Things like sharing one's body with others not your mate leaves you no more worth than a two dollar whore... I'm slowly learning to forget that, to push it aside and not let such things affect me. It's thanks to you and Khaesho that I can accept this... this unique relationship. Because I love you both. My heart overflows with it."

The Kalokin bracelet un-bit its tail and lengthened, slithering up to form a necklace. With what you've said, and what little I know about the rest of the world, I'm surprised you let me into your heart in addition to him... and I'm grateful for that. Grateful beyond words. We won't break your heart, I swear it, *Sands consume my bones if I lie.* You know how the fairy tales work, right? I'm not allowed to break a sacred oath, ever. He wasn't joking, either. There were several binding oaths he and his siblings could make in their language, and that was one of the more powerful ones. At the same time though, it remained a nagging doubt in the back of her mind... a sedimentary insecurity that didn't go away... that maybe, never would. She nuzzled into Khaesho, and her breath escaped in a softened sigh.

"I respect your culture enough that I am willing t-to maybe try... t-try... try something asked, if asked. But not... not for a while yet. Maybe, someday, but not yet..."

Her cheeks were crimson at the admission, and she pressed in closer to Khaesho, nestled against him. The warmth of his lengths against her stomach had her sighing softly. She was used to him feeling cool, but after sleeping coiled around her, he was cozier than a thick blanket. "You endeared yourself to me with ease, Kalokin. You gave me privacy when you could have terrified me, you supported me when I needed it. True you inhabit the same body, in a sense, but you are very different people, and I wouldn't... Life with Khaesho means life with you too. And rather than view it as a bad thing, I decided very early that I would accept it for the boon that it is. I have twice the love, I count myself incredibly lucky. I know you won't break my heart, I trust you both... these are just little fears that will fade with time, and with love."

Kalokin abruptly had an idea. It wasn't a particularly good idea, and it would need a lot of refining before he voiced it... and the most careful of planning... and a nice dinner... but he filed it away within his mind, for future use. It would be worth at least one favor to his siblings, if it worked.

There's no rush. Perhaps you'll feel a bit more adventurous ten or twenty years down the line. You will always have our love though, of that there is no doubt.

Maybe someday when fear and worry didn't weigh heavy in her heart. The fear that she would be left behind, not forgotten but unneeded in the face of another Naga's love, or even another of the other "Civilized" like her. It was something that she worried for, because how could she deserve them both? How could she deserve this grand adventure and magic and this overwhelming love..? It was shocking to think it was hers. "Yeah, give you boys a few years to rub off on me and we'll see what happens."

Speaking of rubbing off on her, Khaesho was apparently enjoying not only his dream, but the feeling of soft fur against him. He was starting to wake up, but his mind remained in a cloudy limbo where he couldn't tell dream from reality. He humped against her fur gently, hissing with half-dreamt lust as he did. Shou's attention turned to her mate as she felt him stirring. A moment of hesitation, and she reached out, trailing the tips of her fingers along the twin lengths of him, small grin on her lips. There was a tiny seed of fear in her. Kalokin could feel it well, the worry that, while he dreamed of others, it was because he was unsatisfied. The tiny seed of fear that it would be another name that passed his lips in rapture other than her own. It and others like it were fears that, while she didn't bury them, she tried her best to tell herself they were unfounded. When she did so, her fingers curled around the tip of one of his lengths and teased him.

Kalokin felt her fear, and as was his skill, he was immediately able to tell every single detail about it. He licked at her mind, tasting its bittersweet tinge. It felt... wrong almost, for him to feed from her, but he was hungry and the fear of one of his own was especially sweet. It felt almost like him tugging on her mind, like a spider thin strand of webbing tugged at her conscious. Had she not been linked to his soul, she wouldn't have noticed, but as he fed, her fears lessened somewhat. They were still there, but they no longer seemed to grip at her heart. She hardly minded, and in fact, feeling her fear go to good use... feeling them feed her beloved gave her a small sense of satisfaction.

Khesho, for his part, hissed some amount of syllables that didn't make much sense in any language... except for the last few. "mmmm... I don'... Whashamrphssrhaethissss... don't ssstop... Shou-you-ssssei..."

Shou's ears pricked, and his words brought a surge of warmth to her, a pleasant feeling in her belly and a rush of happiness. Her cheeks were flush as she began to stroke him. Squirming her way down, licking along his chest and downward.

As his imagined pleasure became more real, Khaesho woke fully. He kept his eyes unfocused though, deciding to let Shou do as she wanted. He wondered if he could fake being asleep... right up until he felt her fingers trace over his knots.

"Wait, what?!?"

His eyes snapped to focus and he bent his head to watch just as Shou's mouth reached his proud breeding poles.

"Kalokin... you have exactly ten seconds to explain why I have a huge lump at the base of each of my dicks."

That, Khaesho, is called a knot. Canines have them, once you're finished, they swell inside of a female to prevent seed from leaking out, and to prevent another male from interfering until it is sure that the female is pregnant.

"A good science lesson, but I'm noticeably not a canine. Why do I have them now?"

Because the best chance you two have at kids involves me trying to hybridize both your reproductive systems, a task which is NOT AT ALL EASY. You won't be able to get her pregnant just yet, now would be a bad time for that, but since I had to put you under to mix up your metabolism, I thought it best to go ahead and do the ah... physical work, while you were asleep.

Kalokin finished the thought by muttering where only Shou would hear it.

And exactly half of that was actually true. Are they too big? I was running mostly off of guesswork.

Shou was too busy was marveling at her mate to answer at first. Licking at her lips and grinning at the sight of him, she couldn't stop her cheeks from flushing, nor could she quell the excited wag of her tail. It wasn't something that she could help, the familiar look brought the idea of breeding to mind, and that got her riled up in a hurry. Her ears pricked forward as she stared at him before leaning in to lavish her attention on his hard poles.

Looking down at him, she closed her eyes as she wrapped her mouth around one of his dicks while her hand stroked along the one not in her mouth. She responded to Kalokin in equal privacy, letting her fingers squeeze one of those knots carefully.

A little big, but I shall enjoy the effort of making them fit.

Any further complaint Khaesho had was overruled by the moan of pleasure as she teased his new and untested hot buttons. Her lips sank all the way down to plant a kiss on one swollen knot, and the way that tickled helped convince him that this might not be a bad plan. He bucked slightly, unable to keep still from the warm, wet pleasure assaulting his brain. Her hands kept busy even as she suckled him, stroking and teasing both knots as Shou experimented with her new tongue; Talking wasn't too much of a chore, but her tongue was longer and more flexible now, and she was exploring all the ways she could use that to her advantage.

Shou wasn't the only one looking forwards to something familiar. As his cock stretched her jaw, he felt the singularly unique and oddly arousing feeling of his sensitive flesh rubbing up against the fangs tucked against the roof of her mouth. Her mouth had always provided a blissful kind of warmth, but in all honestly, he'd missed the tactile feeling of a fanged mouth... and now he had both at the same time, from a woman who loved him and was quickly learning all the best ways to push his buttons.

"Oh, gods above and beside me, don't stop!"

Kalokin almost took exception to that, but he let it slide... instead, he gave the snake a rather sneaky idea. Khaesho took the tip of his tail and deftly maneuvered it towards the Wolf's unsuspecting rear. Not knowing her imminent peril, Shou pulled back to give a wicked grin to her mate as she leaned over him, her knees on either side of his body and her tail swaying lazily. She licked an errant drop of slit-lube off of her lips before almost purring a sentence.

"I like the new knots."

The scent of her arousal in the air them was proof enough of that as she licked her lips and dipped her head once more. Going for his left cock this time, her tongue curled around him and she made a delightfully messy slurping noise as she wrapped her mouth around him and closed her eyes. Her head was soon bobbing as she sucked and tasted him, her tongue twisted and curled around him. Stroking in a ghostly mimicry of what her hand was doing to his other length. Focused on teasing him and exciting him, especially when he told her not to stop.

He gasped as she literally grabbed his cock with her tongue, stroking and tugging against the spines as if trying to pull him deeper down her throat. Half senseless with lust, Kesh grabbed her head and pushed downwards, forcing her jaws just a little bit further apart so he could fit his knot into her maw. The sultry red tip of his breeding flesh tickled the back of her throat, making her swallow reflexively around the intruding flesh.

Khaesho had been... entertained, for a good time during his dream, and he wasn't accustomed to just how good it felt to stretch her jaws with a canine knot. The bulbous knot was surprisingly sensitive around the outer rim, flooding him with unexpected pleasure as he knotted her throat. It was too much for him to handle too fast for him to control; The lump at the base of that dick swelled unexpectedly as he came hard and fast directly into her throat. A week-long pent up burst of thick seed spewed from his cock, filling the back of her mouth and pushing down her throat faster than she could swallow it. The sticky liquid of lust backwashed out of her mouth, bubbling past her lips as she did her best to swallow as much as she could. There was no similar gush over her hand though; a fact Kalokin commented on with his usual smugness.

Oh, and by the way, while monkeying with his fleshy bits, I found out how to... uncouple his hemipene's orgasm. Now he can cum one shaft at a time, if you want a nice filling -and- dessert...

Shou gave an appreciative murmur as she sucked hard against Khaesho's flesh, drawing her lips slowly up over his shaft to make sure that not a drop more of his sticky cum spilled. Her face was already a mess, but she wanted to enjoy as much of the salty, subtly spicy flavor as she could. She started to give him a toothy grin, but stopped with a yelp or surprise instead; His tail tip tickled the soft petals of her sex, stroking lightly before rubbing his scales against her. Rubbing with the overlap felt impossibly smooth, but when he changed directions to push back, her soft cunt caught on every overlapping scale, creating an almost sharp, sandpaper-esque feeling. After taking a moment to rub against her tantalizingly, he simply pushed the tip into her, slowly easing his tail into her warm vent inch by inch. Soft flesh spread willingly under the teasing of his tail, making her eyelids flutter spastically. Her head tilted back slightly as hiss of pleasure escaped her.

Her mouth parted and for a moment tongue and fangs were exposed; if they had looked vicious before they looked downright deadly now, but seeing those deadly instruments on a face locked in bliss only made her look more alluring... the touch of danger with the taste of lust.

She was lost in momentary euphoria as he spread open her tender sex, renewing the soft ache of her body as she rolled her hips and pressed back towards him. She'd never been the lustiest of wolves, but the way he teased her, his scent... and in all honesty, the taste of his lust on her lips drove her wild with need. A soft groan slipped from stained lips as she squirmed and rolled her hips against him. Her hunger reignited, her attention dropped to his other dick, her lips finally wrapping around the tip. As she pulled his succulent length into her mouth, a fleeting thought skipped through her lust addled mind... a kink she'd always had, mixed with a creature who defied most physical laws. The vague thought was sent towards Kalokin.

Mm, I wonder if you'd fit inside of me... in that feral form of yours...

His dark chuckle slipped through both their minds, and Khaesho gave a spurt of pre with a flex; he'd heard that thought, as well as contributed a brief mental image of what such an act might look like.

Oh, I like the way you think. No time like the present though...

Kalokin pulled a form together around her neck, just so he could have the pleasure of slithering in a spiral down her body. He quickly wound his way between her legs to spiral around one thigh. He nosed at her cunt even as Khaesho continued to stroke the fires of her lust with his tail, and he stopped for a moment to tickle her clitoris with his tiny tongue. She blushed at the new sensation, arching her back to give him better access even as she moaned into her mate's cock. He voice in the throes of lust never failed to kick a certain snake right in his kinks, making him gasp and flex all his body to maintain what control he could.

"C-careful Shou... you eat all your dessert now, and there won't be any for later."

With nothing better for his hands to do, his claws ran through her fur, scritching the back of her neck slightly as she ignored his words... for a few moments, at least. She pressed against his tail with another soft groan before pulling her lips back to plant a soft kiss on the tip. Her forked tongue escaped to give one last teasing brush before she spoke.

"M-mm... b-but I c-can't help it... y-you g-got me all excited... r-rubbing into m-me like that..."

She gave a cheeky grin and showed off her newfound skill, wrapping her tongue around just the tip to squeeze and tease him wickedly. She was quickly learning exactly how close to the edge she could bring him, and she loved to dance along that line.

Kalokin pressed his nose against her, rubbing his entire head through her lips even as Khaesho's tail quested into her depths, but the petals of her flower looked almost wilted without a healthy glazing of snake seed... so he put two and two together and congratulated himself for another grand idea. He shared a mental image with Khaesho, one that sent a shiver down the entire length of his spine. He hazarded a few words in between pants.

"Th-that sounds like something Shelandra w-would suggest..."

Well she's -my- sister. What kind of brother would I be if I didn't get advice from her from time to time?

Shou didn't get a chance to ask what it was that Kalokin had apparently conceived; her mate reached down and grabbed her by the shoulders, pulling her up off his cock with a slick pop. She gave a soft whine, like a child who'd had candy tugged from her mouth, until her lips were silenced by Khaesho's. Now with something equally pleasing to suck on, she pressed forwards into the kiss until she remembered exactly how much of his cum was on and in her mouth still. Knowing most men would consider such a thing taboo, she tried to pull back, but his arms gave her no quarter. He held her close and plunged his tongue into her mouth, licking all along the insides of her cheeks even as his cum smeared against both their lips. He couldn't decide if it was kinky or just weird; he'd never tasted his own seed before, but it was on Shou's lips, and he wanted to kiss her. It wasn't a bad flavor, but it still gave him a few mixed feelings

She stopped struggling long enough to enjoy the feel of her mate's tongue in her mouth. Her tongue curled around his as he relaxed his grip, letting her pull back while sucking on his tongue. One it slipped free of her lips, she panted out a few embarrassed words.

"Y-you don't... h-hafta kiss me... right now..." She knew he could taste it; she could see the white smears on his lips, and his flavor had still been heavy in her mouth when his tongue slipped through to dance with hers.

He smiled as he licked her cheek, pulling another errant bead of seed from her fur. His face contorted a little at the unfamiliar flavor, but his tongue returned to lick her lips clean.

"Any man not brave enough to kiss a woman who's just finished polishing his spear doesn't deserve such a woman in the first place." He wriggled a little bit, shifting her higher so she could straddle his stomach just above his cocks. She blushed prettily at his words, and nodded a little, licking her lips. A shy grin, and she murmured softly.

"I think you taste like the desert sun and spices... Kalokin tastes like cotton candy, but not as sweet..." It was an interesting description of the two, and she blushed even more as she admitted it; she realized quite suddenly that she was comparing the relative tastes of cum, and it embarrassed her even as it made her want another taste. She had a thought then and murmured past Khaesho's tongue.

"Hey, Kalokin. Do you think you could make an illusion to... give us a better view."

The trickster laughed again, quickly working through the magic needed for such an effect.

Man, we're just rolling in good ideas today. Let's see... back window?

Khaesho was laying on his back atop the folded back seat, head towards the trunk with Shou atop him. So, Kalokin layered an illusion over the back wall of the truck, giving them both an excellent view of the wolf's sodden snatch, the snake's rock-hard length, and the pale blue deity coiled around said serpent's cock.

Excitement made her moan even as embarrassment made her blush, but all the same, her thighs spread a little more, just begging for a stiff malehood to be pressed up between them. A soft groan as she watched him prod at her, teasing her. The sight of Kalokin wrapped around him, and waiting to be plunged into her soaking depths was enough to make her whimper in desire. It was strange, arousing to see herself from such an angle and she couldn't help but grind against Khaesho needily.

Kalokin, for his part, was buzzing with eagerness; literally, buzzing. His scales vibrated against them both as she ground up against him, making them both gasp in surprise and pleasure. She bit her lip at the continued teasing, wanting, needing him inside her more desperately than she could remember. Kalokin placed his scaled head atop Khaesho's fleshy one, and the Naga slowly pushing both into Shou's desperately empty snatch. She felt her lips stretch and slide over each of Kalokin's coils, until his already thick knot pressed up against her. Kalokin, half inside of her cunt and half dangling out against Khaesho's body, slithered in a circle, liberally coating himself and Khaesho with her dripping lust. He wound his coils tighter and pushed deeper, until the tip of his tail had vanished into her cunt. He nosed at her cervix, body still spiraled. He stretched then, trying to force Shou as wide apart as possible even as his scales continued to vibrate. Khaesho, for his part, just left his knot pressing against her lips, doing his best to avoid knotting her and creaming them both then and there.

Shou's eyes rolled back, her cheeks flushed and her body trembled with eager pleasure. Then she was at the base, at his knot and her thighs squeezed against his scales. Tongue lolled free, and she whined in pleasure, muscles quivered and tightened. Squeezing around Kalokin and Khaesho, walls fluttered as she milked her mate - at least attempted until Kalokin's vibrating scales spread her wide.

Hands on either side of him, she whimpered, and glanced down to meet his eyes. Shyly, Khaesho could see the uncertainty and nervousness in her gaze. Even as the pleasure and lust warmed her further and had her rolling her hips against him. She was worried what he would think, what he did think. Worried that she had pushed a line she didn't know was there. It made her whine again, even as she rocked her hips.

He could see her blush with uncertainty at how much she should be enjoying this, and in keeping with his usual remedy, he just kissed her until she didn't care. His tongue was hesitant from the taste of his seed still on her lips, but his lips found hers nonetheless. He kissed her until her fears and apprehensions vanished, and she could enjoy the feeling of Kalokin squirming inside of her.

It was something of a cramped fit, and Khaesho hadn't even knotted her yet. As he squirmed and writhed between a rock and a soft place, Kalokin made the only natural conclusion; he had to go deeper. He nosed at her cervix carefully, extending a slim line of essence directly through the puckered opening. As he poured will forth, the line expanded, pushing her cervix apart until there was a gap wide enough to wiggle his head into. He slithered forwards, into her womb, and he could tell she felt every scale as it slid deeper into her. There wasn't -much- room in her most sacred chamber, but she was stretchy, so Kalokin just kept forcing more of his scaly body inwards to stretch her out a bit. He only stopped once he'd slithered entirely into her womb, and she looked several weeks pregnant already from the swell he created in her stomach. Khaesho let a hand trace down Shou's body, to rest on her stomach. He could feel the snake still squirming within her, writhing just beneath the surface, and that was too much for him to handle.

He fucked her with a few short, rapid thrusts to build up momentum, then shoved hard to push his already swelling knot past her lips. He humped her a few more times, grinding his flesh against her soft vent before his hard dick exploded with a torrent of cum. He instantly filled what little space remained in her vaginal canal, increasing pressure until his seed had could only force itself through her cervix and into her womb. She swelled further still, stretching with his cum until her stomach felt almost pained with it.

Melting against her mate, she trembled in the aftermath of their orgasms as her body quivered. There was a touch of pain from the swell of her belly, and the stretching of her body. But it was good, so very good at the same time. A groan of pleasure and she was licking along Khaesho's neck with pleased little whines. She looked pregnant, and it made something in her squirm and warm in delight at the look. Though she worried of course, when it would actually happen, if they would think she was fat, but she couldn't deny at all that this was something she wanted, with every fiber of her soul.

Kalokin, sensing their satisfaction, realized that the fun was over. He gave one more squirming circuit inside of Shou's belly before he simply melted away into nothing. Shou's bulging stomach deflated rapidly as the mass of scales left, and her ache left with it, but not in a good way... it left her feeling strangely empty, even with her mate still belly deep, but the feeling passed after a few moments.

Rather than sink back into their minds, Kalokin gathered himself back together around both their necks, squeaky clean as if he'd not just participated in their debauchery.

"Well, that is officially the kinkiest and weirdest sex act I've ever committed, and that's with five thousand years of living with Shelandra. I don't know if I should slip into your memories to relive it from your perspective, or ignore the last fifteen minutes and pretend that I didn't swim through a pond snake and wolf juice."

The wolf girl's stamina was more than it had been upon their first joining, but she still felt warm and content enough to doze if allowed. Lazily, she opened her eyes, and smiled up to Khaesho.

"I'll let you pick through my memories later and see what it felt like, Kalokin."

Khaesho, however, had a different thought circling his mind, one he gave question to slowly, as asking Kalokin anything was normally a dangerous proceeding. "Speaking of memories, Kalokin, why does my... seed... taste like Majoram?"

Kalokin, as always, gave an effortless façade of innocence.

"Why Kay, whatever do you mean?"

"Come off it, you know exactly what I mean. I'm no expert on what serpent semen should taste like, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't taste like home-brewed soup."

"Oh, that?" They didn't need to look down, Kalokin's cheeky smile was as evident on his voice as it was on his face. "The very first time I knocked you unconscious for improvements, I altered your glands to have a little bit more... flavor. It's something I figured out how to do a looooooong time ago, and it's one of the reasons why my vessels are always a hit with the ladies. Shou certainly seems to like it."

He said this last part with a nuzzle into Shouyousei's throat, one that she returned with a pleased noise, like a purr. Her tongue swept over Khaesho's scales and she didn't see much of a reason to move just yet. Enjoying the warmth between the three of them was more than enough action for now.

"I do indeed, Khaesho tastes good... And Kalokin, you taste like cotton candy, which is also delicious..." It brought a curious tilt of her head, and a thoughtful hum. "Does that mean I taste different?"

Khaesho smiled and stole a quick kiss. As he did, he opened his mind a little more to let her feel a glimpse of what her lips tasted like to him. Beneath the heavy tones of Majoram, as he'd called it, there were colder, sharper tones. A surprised squeak escaped her, and she questioned what she'd tasted secondhand. "Was that... mint?"

"You still taste like you, but just... a little more so. A little cold, a little sharp... invigorating and dangerous at the same time. Its weird to taste cold rather than feel it... Mint, you called it?"

She flushed a warm pink at the acknowledgement that she tasted like mint; it was one of her favorite flavors. Mint tea was something she had drank quite a bit of back home, it was refreshing. A soft murmur of content, and she chuckled softly as Kalokin answered.

"Mhmm. I try to pick flavors that match a vessel's personality. Mint was hard to simulate, but I think it's close. Just don't tell Shelandra, if she knew how to alter a vessel's taste, she would abuse that power."

Shou couldn't help but ask. "How could she abuse how someone tastes?"

"Shelandra is a goddess of lust. I have no doubt that she'd find some way to twist it to her erotic gain. Make a vessel's bodily fluids addictive? She'd make them taste like pure sugar, or chocolate, or margarita's. I don't know, just don't tell her."

"Don't tell me what?"

Shelandra's lilting alto floated through the air as they all three felt her presence fill the trunk. Room was, of course, still tight, so she followed Kalokin's lead, forming into a feral copperhead. In nature, copperheads are relatively small snakes, but she cheated just a little, expanding her size to be significantly larger than Kalokin's... she was a woman who enjoyed having supple curves, after all.