Commission Story: The Northern Expedition pt2
Story by Ennek on SoFurry
Second half of the story, read the first bit if you have not https://www.sofurry.com/view/925822
Once Ridley had left, things seemed to return to normal around the tavern for Nini. She sat quietly at her own table as the rest of the village disregard the canine morph. Sure she was a quiet girl, but would it kill them to at least make an effort to try and get to know her like he had? Taking a deep breath in, the husky sighed it back out through her nose as she looked at the empty spot where the man had sat for two nights with her now. Even though it had been such a brief amount of time, Nini missed him.. she missed her new friend Ridley.
As the night went on, Nini was getting prepared to leave and make the trek back home when the first rumbles reached the town. Bowls and cups rattled on tables as the vibrations swept through, causing a mild concern among everyone gather "What was.. that?" She asked under her breath, ears perking back and forth as they turned towards someone throwing open the front door and stomping instead.
"Tis an avalanche on the southern pass! Looks like the whole damn mountain came down on it!" The man called out to the villagers, causing a murmur of conversation to run through the group; mostly complaining about who would go to clear it after the storm passed, none even thinking about the travelers that had been through. Nini however was panicked, eyes opening in alarm as she rushed out the door without even a second though.
Was it life, was it death, or maybe a void in between? Ridley managed to have presence of mind to ponder this as he float in a black sea of consciousness. He couldn't feel his body at all, and as thoughts came rushing back about that landslide of snow engulfing him he involuntarily flinched. Hopes and regrets, wishes and dreams... they all passed through his mind. "Perhaps this is how wandering spirits are made. There's so much I still wanted to do." Though his voice sounded in an echo, no movement from his lips were made. Little by little however prickling pain was settling in to his fingertips and toes, gradually traveling through his body towards his chest. He grunt and groan, wondering why he was feeling pain when the thought hit him; he was feeling something!
With this onset of pain, a new noise was echoing through the space; panting and soft speech. "H..g in t.ere! Ri..ey!" It felt so distant, but the sound grew louder by the moment and became clear. "Please be alright, oh gods we need to get somewhere warm.." He recognized that soft tone, belonging to none other that his husky companion Nini.
Urged on by this fact, Ridley felt this void of space he was in beginning to fade away until finally opening his eyes and seeing the world once more. Everything hurt, plain and simple. Fingers were sore, his legs ached, and he was fairly certain his right arm was dislocated. Carried on the lithe husky's back somehow with a strength that belied her size, one hand kept him secure while another held a lantern out in front of her to guide the way. "N-Nini.." His mouth opened, spiting out a bit of snow as his throat felt like sandpaper speaking her name.
"You're ok! Oh gods, hang in there." She looked briefly over her shoulder at him as he awoke, tail twitching in excitement that he was alive. Squinting her eyes through the snow she could make out a small roadside shack that had been far enough away from the avalanche.
"I'm so tired.." Ridley struggled to keep his eyes open, numbness creeping back in through his body as the world began to darken once more around him.
She looked back in worry at that, seeing his eyes close and feeling his weak heartbeats through the layers of his snow dampened coat. "Ridley?! No, hey come on.. keep your eyes open. Ridley?" She asked, hearing no response and not feeling his breath on her neck. "Ridley!" She cried out throwing open the doors to the shack and shutting them tightly. Mercifully all of the northern country way points just like these were built with a central fire pit and some lumber for making a fire. Setting him down gently by the fireplace, she loaded it up as swiftly as possible. Her hands shaking in worry as eyes glanced to the unconscious human on the floor. "Come on.. come on.." She silently urged herself, sparking the flint and tinder to get the place warmed up. AS the wood finally lit, crackling softly as the fire warm began spreading outward she turned once more to him.
Pulling off his damp coat and setting it aside to warm, Nini placed her ear to his chest. "......thump.. .......thump..." As faint as they were, Ridley's heart was still beating as she sighed in relief. Plenty of jokes and stories told mentioned stripping off a person's wet clothes to avoid hypothermia, as the husky's eyes looked over his body and swallowed hard. "I just wish we had a blanket.. but have to make do.." Nini reassured herself, carefully peeling off the human's garments. Snow seeped in through the material, heavy from the absorbed water weight. Try as she might to not stare at him as he was undressed before her eyes, the husky left his underpants on as she took off her own jacket to drape over the human.
Nini sat down beside him, rubbing a hand on his now covered chest as they sat by the fire, humming softly and hugging knees to her own chest with the opposite arm. The event brought to mind one time year ago when Nini herself had been but a pup. She'd played and played and played for hours, her father joking that the little canine was going to be sleeping well that night. Nini hadn't played enough though, as she took to going back outside for a final time to romp in the freshly fallen snow. She couldn't remember how it happened, just that the next thing she knew she'd been laying face up in the snow and unable to move. Her whole body felt sore and refused to move; and it was until her father rushed over to the sounds of the pups cries that she'd made it home. Scooped up in his arms, she felt safe and warm in his embrace; as the husky leaned forward and laid beside her friend. Wrapping arms and legs over his body, her head was pressed into the nape of his neck. "Please be ok.." She silently plead, drifting off into a slumber of her own cuddled up to Ridley.
They both awoke with a start, as the human gasped for breath his legs and arms twitch; immediately groaning in pain. The husky bolting awake from his movements, tail fluffing out slightly as she remembered where she was. "Ridley! You're ok?" Nini asked, sitting on her knees beside him and easing the man back to the floor with a hand on his chest as she got up to rekindle the dying fire.
"Ow.." Was his only response, thumping head back against the floor as he reached over to his right arm. He could definitely feel that it was dislocated now, grunting as he gripped his arm for a moment but looked over at Nini instead. "When you got a moment.."
She nod her head, noticing the way his arm unnaturally hung as she got the firewood set. She'd seen some of the villagers do this before, but had never experienced it firsthand. Grabbing where he dictated, Ridley gave a short countdown as they worked his arm back into the shoulder socket with an audible pop. "Gahh.. fuck..." Ridley's jaw clenched as he cursed out, feeling the rush of pain but even more so, satisfaction now. The feeling and strength had seeped back into his body, testing it out by working his hands through a few exercises.
Pulling on Nini's jacket that she'd laid over him and noticing his mostly bared body with a cough, Ridley watched as she sat down next to him beside the fire. "Am I the only one then?" He broke the silence to ask, gazing straight into the heart of that dancing flame.
The husky's ears flattened back while she frowned. "I dug and I dug.. but.." She shook her head. "The wagon was covering you upside down and wedge up against some rocks fortunately. Another dozen or so feet and you were going to be swept off the edge of the cliff." Nini idly ran her hands through her tail. "I only found your wagon too.. and the man driving it was.. gone by the time I got there.." She shook her head, eyes downcast as she recall the moment of discovery.
Ridley sat in silence after that, digesting the information. "They're dead then? Donnie and James.. Micha and Greg.. fuck..." He pressed hands to his face, half rubbing the warm in and half holding back tears for his friends. "And all the supplies! How am I going to make it home, what am I going to tell the guild? Their families? I can't-!" He was rapidly beginning to panic, the normally calm man's poise being broken but before that could continue any further Nini leaned over and cupped his cheek in her soft hands.
"You're ok though, just take a deep breath.. and look at me." She looked him directly in the eye, waiting until he took that breath in before leaning in herself. Before he could react to her movements the husky pressed her lips directly to his. Even Nini wasn't sure why she'd just done it as he looked back at her through wide eyes in surprise but made no move to pull away. The husky watched as after a few moments Ridley sighed out slowly through his nose and returned that kiss. Something about the human just made her feel so comfortable and happy, and those emotions were just pouring off from her now. The relief that he was safe at the very least, sharing warmth with her as well as that kiss, it was all so perfect. Nini just wanted to ease that pain of loosing his caravan members, if only for a short while.
The man slowly wrapped his hands around the warm canine; it was a comfort sharing that affection but yet.. the quiet whispers of doubt echoed in his mind. As it all zipped by in his head like a whirlwind, a single question settled in the front of Ridley's thoughts. As he pulled away, parting his lips from the husky's, he caught his breath for a moment as eyes opened up to look at one another. "Why? Why are you doing this?" Even putting aside the very nature of man and a beastfolk sharing an embrace like this; of which was not only highly frowned upon but never ended well in Ridley's home at the capital, but the simply fact she'd initiated it in the first place.
Still rubbing her furred hands across his cheek, she held the man gently in her palms as Nini leaned in and rest her forehead against his own. "Because you made me smile. So I-I wanted to.. well.. make you smile.. too." She fought with that slowly rising embarrassment, a shiver running down her back having nothing to do with the temperature. "Is it.. no good?" Her smile dropped slightly as she even asked it, expecting to be pushed away.
Ridley's hands did just the opposite instead, hugging her even closer as she yipped slightly like a pup. "Thank you Nini, I'm honored you'd do that for me." His head shift, leaning back in for a kiss that he wanted to start this time.
Happily meeting him halfway, Nini's tail wagged frantically behind her as the two shared in another brief kiss. "I.. want more.. if that's ok?" She swallowed hard, looking her human companion in the eye as she spoke. "I want you Ridley.." Her fingers slid down from his cheek as they brushed across the man's collarbone.
It was his turn to shiver now, also having nothing to do with the temperature as the warm husky girl positioned herself carefully on his lap. He couldn't help but smile even more as her eyes would glance at his own after that, before noticing him looking back and quickly darting her gaze; only to return a few moments later to do so all over again as she waited for his response. His brain tried to honestly come up with reasons for saying no, and truthfully had no desire to either. The simple fact was she HAD made him smile even before now, a true genuine one that very few had seen in quite a few years now. "I want you too Nini." The words left his mouth, damn the social standards and expectations that would impose him otherwise; that was the world he specifically left in the first place.
He had said it, she had clearly heard it. Ears perked forward towards him, Nini's response came as a nod of her head as hands left Ridley's body. Before he could question it however, the she-canine's hands dropped to her own clothes, wiggling out of and pulling that thick blouse off her upper body as the husky freed those bare breasts beneath. Her black nipples were perked out from both the cold and the rapidly growing excitement inside of her body; watching as his hands slid around her waist and raised to cup those exposed breasts in his warmed hands. She gasped softly, watching as the human explored her body with his fingers, teasing smooth fingertips across her sensitive nub and giving soft, furred covered breasts a slight squeeze. Her head tipped back as she bit into her lower lip to silence a moan rising from her throat; fur fluffing out suddenly as she couldn't help the soft sound from escaping anyway at the bulging sensation beneath her lap.
Nini looked between their bodies as her thighs spread slightly, seeing that in his undergarments that male arousal awakening. "I caused that.." She whimpered softly with a smile, strangely proud of this as her own fingers reached out for a little more exploring of her own.
Ridley chuckled softly at that, nodding his head and sighing softly.
The pair idly kissed one another as hands were a constant, busy work back and forth. The human's worked those soft breasts, as the canine pulled back his waistband and slid it down past that thickening cock. Nini couldn't help but stare, her imagination running wild already as fingers slowly stroked him harder by the moment. The husky could feel a warm building inside her, like a fire being stoked by this particular attention. Before too long, her ears perked as Ridley gasped softly in delight himself, stiff and hard as a rock in her hands.
"Mmm.." She moaned softly as a particular surge of pleasure shot through her as he played with her chest. "I need to get these off.." She said softly, rising to her feet above him. The canine shimmied out of her pants and panties in the same motion, already able to feel that tell tale sign of wetness between her thighs.
Given that Ridley had been sitting on the floor as she stood directly in front of him, the man was getting quite the show right now. Easily just about head height with that feminine slit between her thighs as she stripped down, to say it was arousing would be a grave understatement. Working his own undergarments fully off and placing them near the fire to hopefully warm up, Ridley's hands slid up her thighs as Nini slowly sat back down onto his lap; the motion having an entirely different tone to it now. Ridley and Nini sat in silence for a few moments, simply feeling the unique sensation of bare fur and smooth skin touching one another.
Nini rose up on her knees, as hips adjusted over him to press the underside of that manhood against her slick folds. "Just sit back then, don't wear yourself out. You're still injured after all." She gave him a smile and wink, aligning him with a hand between their bodies as she lowered down slowly. Her slit spread open for his cock, a low moan leaving Nini's throat as she took every last inch of him inside until hips were firmly pressed once more against Ridley's own. "G-good.. Ahh.." She squirmed above him, feeling his length filling her.
Grinning as he moaned softly right back as Nini slid his length inside of her, Ridley laid back against the floor as he watched the canine. He certainly wasn't going to be getting up either as the husky placed a hand firmly on his chest for support but also kept him pinned back. "Ah.. easy. It's no race ." He gave a wink, watching as Nini's tail wagged at that.
"B-but I love races." She giggled softly, moving her hips back and forth as she grind his length up against her tight walls. "Ahh." Rising up again, dragging his length through her warm canine cunt before dropping back down to burying it in deep once more. Nini set a steady pace of this, the chorus of soft gasps, heavy breaths, and muffled moans filled the room. Adding to the crackling of the nearby fire, the muffled and wet slaps each time their hips met.
Nini was having a hard time controlling herself to keep it slow, wanting to ride him faster and faster each time. The shy canine had really come out of her shell by this point, thoroughly enamored with the man as she pant above him. It had been too long since she'd even gotten herself off these days, having a warm male inside of her was practically sensory overload. Each time their hips met together the husky had a small orgasm, as the pleasure rippled through her body.
Ridley certainly wasn't trying to slow her efforts either, with hands placed firmly on her hips, moving with her through every motion as she bounced on his cock. His manhood throbbed inside of her, leaking pre cum into that already slick pussy. He shivered each time she slid up his length, feeling the stark difference of the warm inside of her as she sheathed his manhood compared to the brisk air outside of her body. "You feel amazing Nini.. I'm getting close though.." His breaths were almost panting right along with her own, feeling that familiar sensation building inside of him the longer they went on. His hands reached up and cupped her bouncing breasts in his hands as she rode him, squeezing and groping those soft orbs.
That was exactly what Nini wanted to hear, knowing he was getting just as much pleasure from this as she was. Her toes curled as he played with her breasts some more, always having been a bit sensitive to having her breasts played with, moaning out as her voiced echoed through the small shack and walls clenched down around his length. Her womanhood spasmed around that cock buried inside of her as she pressed down hard on him to make sure she had every last inch within while the husky rode out her climax.
Grunting softly as he felt those walls squeezing down on his cock, trying to milk it for his own orgasm. "F-fuck!" Ridley cursed out, unable to hold back as he joined her in that climactic high, with no where to go he came hard inside of Nini. Those heavy balls tightened closely to his body as they pulsed in time with each jet of warm cum that shot into the canine, filling her cunny on his creamy seed. "Nini.. Ahhn." He moaned as fingers tightened on her breasts as he came, watching as she leaned over the top of him for another kiss. The two swapped dancing tongues into the others mouth as they heightened each others orgasms, prolonging them.
Nini could feel that warm flooding into her body, growling softly as her deeper rooted instincts shone through as she pulled away form the kiss to lick at his neck and chest. Panting in pure bliss, resting an ear to his chest as the she-husky listened to his steady heartbeats as they came down form that orgasmic high. "S-so good.." Even after their combined release, the canine felt greedy knowing she wanted even more. "Could we.. do it mo-ahh!" She was interrupted as the human sat up, forcing her to rise with him as legs adjusted beneath them. Ridley was pushing her to lay on her back this time as the human sat on his knees between her spread thighs, still buried inside of her through the motion as hands gripped the husky's thighs.
"If you weren't about to ask, I would have." Maybe it had been the adrenaline running through him in that moment, but Ridley was feeling amazing for a man that went through an avalanche. He didn't know if what he felt for Nini was love or just lust, but what he did know is that he wanted to share it with her all the same.
"P-please." She panted, hands reaching up to play with her own breasts as Ridley took over. Her legs wrapped around his back, staring up at the human with a satisfied smile as she felt his hips slowly began pumping back and forth against her own.
Ridley had never really gone soft even after he came, easily finding himself rock hard within moments of thrusting back inside the squirming, moaning canine girl. The man waste no time getting back up to a rutting pace, as if the couple hadn't ever truly stopped in the first place but simply had adjust to the new position instead. "Ah.. guessing you don't mind me cumming inside then?" He panted out softly, motioning to the tight grip her legs held around his waist as well as the alabaster cream soaking into snowy white fur.
Shaking her head at that with a wide smile, Nini brushed a hand down her body and over her lower belly first before the canine teased her clit. "Mmm.. i-inside please. It feels great." She gasped out. That encouragement only further increased the pace, as Ridley's hands held her thighs tightly as he leaned slightly over her into each thrust, raising her backside off the shack's floor. "Yes! Just like that.."
The human pound away at the canine cunt, filling her dripping slit with his manhood even as her fingers pleasured herself at the same time. Try as he might however, his body was becoming exhausted from the exertion; knowing that even after cumming the first time he wouldn't be able to hold back for much longer. Not that Nini seemed to mind anyway, giving her body over to arousal as the husky pant with an open mouth, her eyes pleading him without even a word needing to be spoken.
Nini's back arched suddenly as thighs clenched around him tightly, tossing head back and squeezing eyes shut. "Ahhn.. c-cumming! Ohhh, awwwwwooo!" In her arousal, the husky let out a primal howl of pleasure as the gush of feminine juices coated both of their thighs; urging on her human lover to join in the moment of release.
That sound sent renewed shivers down Ridley's spine, like hearing a wolf calling for it's pack or to the very moon. Through it all however he joined in her orgasm for the second time, pushing another spurting round of human cum inside of Nini. His voice was more of a low groan, greatly pleasure but showing exhaustion as the man felt physically emptied now. Slowly leaning over the top of her with his cock buried inside of the husky, her hands happily arose to wrap around his back and pull him the rest of the way down to rest against her chest.
The moment hit like a tone of bricks, pressing his head against her chest Ridley felt the strength draining from his body as eyes grew heavy. "Thank you.." He murmured softly into her chest fluff, drifting off almost immediately.
Nini giggled softly with a smile, brushing her hand across his forehead and rubbing his head as she lulled him off to sleep. The canine hummed in her throat for a few moments until the sound of soft snoring filled the shack. Still smiling, her expression grew sheepish as a hand gently pat his back. "H-heavy.." Ears perked towards the sound of the howling wind outside as they shared the warmth of the fire together.
After that night, Ridley and Nini made it back to town together; hand in hand for part of the way before fingers slipped back into pockets at the first sign of people. Having decided his guild would send a second group to come look once they never returned home in the capital, the man was greeted back in the tavern by anxious voices and concerned faces as they recalled the tale of the storm, avalanche, and being carried to safety by Nini. Having left out very specific details of what happened after the fact however, Ridley and Nini did share a sly glance with one another for a moment before a warm bowl of soup was placed in front of him by the barkeeps wife and told to eat.
Days passed after that before the signs of the flag bearing wagons could be seen making it up the now cleared away path, Ridley and Nini never really getting the same privacy they shared that night together but the pair did exchange a kisses up in his room as hands fondled one another; each time the floor boards creaked outside in the hall however the two jolted upright and moved away from one another shyly. The two had spoken briefly over this moment, but it almost felt like it would never happen. As the lead wagon pulled into the town, it was certainly a wake up call once more; the dream was over and it was time to wake up.
Ridley and Nini hugged, not caring about what anyone might think as hands were reluctant to release one another. "Try not to look so sad Nini, I WILL be back. It just might take a month or a even a few."
"What if your guild doesn't permit any more trade after the accident though?" The husky's ears flattened against her head as she asked, not wanting to think about that possibility.
Ridley gave her a smile regardless. "If.. they do, then I'll just quit and move up here to open my own trade goods. Or buy out the one already here.. Seriously someone needs to teach that man business acumen."
His casual demeanor made Nini giggle softly at the thought, nodding her head as tail wagged slightly. "Bring me a souvenir? I mean.. if it's not too much to ask?" Even til the very end she showed that shy personality, making Ridley smile just that much more.
"I will, don't worry. But next time I do I intend on hearing more sledding tales, particularly one about you signing up for that race.. or even winning it." He gave a wink.
Nini nod once more at that, crossing her arms and giving her impression of a sincere stance. "Oh you can count on it then, Nini the fastest hound on two legs, they'll call me."
"Oh? Well I must say then that the next time we meet, I'd certainly like to experience you on all fours as well." Ridley whispered so only she could hear, delighted to see her tail wagging behind her at that.
Feeling a blush burning beneath her fur, Nini couldn't meet his gaze as she stuttered over her words. "I-ah.. well. You see.. M-maybe!" She reached back to still that traitorous tail with a big smile. Nini watched as he spoke with the caravan leader over the next few minutes before they were loaded up and making a swift exit out of town without ceremony. Ridley leaned out the back of the covered wagon and waved to her, a slight breeze in the air causing the light snowfall to drift across the scene.
Nini raised her own hand as she waved back eagerly. Even though he was leaving she couldn't have been any happier having gotten to meet him in the first place. Ridley, that strange human, her secret lover, her friend.