The Duelist 7, page 17
“See?” Shay giggled as she laced our fingers together and tugged me further out.
We drifted with surprisingly little effort, and we both spent a few moments experimenting with maneuvering through the air.
“How is this happening?” I asked as we pushed each other out so we were almost floating horizontally like in one of those indoor skydiving tubes.
“Terr is… playing with us, I think,” Shay said as she pulled our hands and brought us back together.
“Playing?” I asked.
As if it was listening, the warm current of air bobbed us up a little higher and then dropped us fast enough that Shay and I were giggling due to the champagne bubbles erupting in both of our stomachs.
“From what I can tell, Terr’s spirit is whole and healthy in a way I’ve never felt before-- at least I’ve never felt on Nata,” Shay explained, and I laughed as I parted the curtain of her scarlet and gold locks in order to see her face.
“What do you think it is?” I asked as I tugged her closer by her petite waist, and the motion caused us to revolve slowly in mid-air as if we were slow dancing.
“I’m not entirely sure…” she mused as she looped her arms around my neck in a loose embrace. “If I were pressed to describe it, I would say the island herself is grateful to us for helping her.”
“Grateful to you,” I corrected as I rubbed the tip of my nose against hers. “You healed its heart. I’m not surprised it wants to show you its appreciation.”
Shay blushed sweetly as if she hadn’t even considered the possibility it was her sole doing that caused the whole island to have a crush on her.
“Oh…” She smiled when the magical wind confirmed this by actually braiding her long mane of hair so it stopped flying into her eyes.
I cupped her face and caressed her cheek with the pad of my thumb as I gazed into her jeweled eyes. “Hello, there.”
“Hi,” she whispered as her fingers flirted with the hair at the back of my neck. “I don’t want to dredge up all of the things that took place this evening, but I do want to know if you are alright, husband.”
“I’m--” I initially wanted to brush it off and say “fine” because I didn’t really want to think about it anymore, but the truth was I wasn’t fine. And as I looked at her gentle and open expression, I was reminded once again that I didn’t have to be fine all the time. Sometimes I could let people in. Especially when it came to my wives. “I’m… not. Alright. But I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to think about it. It’s all just so fucked up, Shay.”
“Shh, dearheart,” she soothed and framed my face with her small hands. “Let me take your mind away from here.”
“Please,” I whispered as her lips came closer to mine. “I don’t want to think anymore.”
“I’m here,” she breathed, and then we both closed the distance in a passionate kiss that caused a small explosion to happen somewhere in the vicinity of my heart.
When the kiss started to heat up, I pulled Shay closer against my body because I felt the overwhelming urge to press every inch of her supple form against my hard edges just to remind myself there were softer things in this harsh world.
“Shay, I need you,” I moaned as I cupped her lush bottom in my hands, and I was unashamed of the erection I was sporting as I lightly ground myself against the soft mound between her legs.
She gasped lightly when the rigid line of my dick rubbed her through her thin flowy dress, and in the gentle throb of the green ship light, her pupils blew wide with arousal until I could barely see the thin ring of her irises. When she breathed, I could feel her erect nipples pressing into my chest, and I wrapped a leg around hers for more leverage in order to increase the friction between us in the weightless state.
“A-Alex,” she stuttered, and her hands scrabbled at my tunic and untucked it from my belt.
I groaned when she got her hands under my shirt and against my hot skin, and her sharp nails raked burning trails across my back, but I suddenly hissed when her fingers found a sensitive bruise.
Oh, yeah. I forgot I fell ten feet flat on my back earlier.
Ouch.
Shay made a small concerned noise in the back of her throat, and her touch gentled as she mapped all the places where I felt that sharp battered ache.
“Let me take care of you, husband,” she whispered.
I nodded and banked the fire of my passion so the boiling arousal I was feeling was turned down low to a simmer, and then I let her lead me by the hand back toward the platform.
Her tender ministrations combined with the way she took over the decision-making crashed over me in a wave of relief so strong, I was sure my soul left my body for a moment.
Then a pleasant haze entered my mind as I literally only had to fill my mind with the scent and sight of her.
The feel of her.
I didn’t really know if it was just the stress of the day leaving me numb, or if it was some kind of healing influence from Shay’s Incarnate powers, but everywhere she touched me, even with her gaze, my skin felt warm like a balm was sinking into me and carrying away my pain.
At some point, I surfaced through the lovely fog as Shay led us both into the wonderful bath attached to our suite of rooms. She must’ve had this all planned because the bathwater was still steamy and added another refreshing feeling against my skin as it wafted through the air.
“Are you doing this?” I asked and blinked slowly.
Her skilled fingers had divested me of my armored belt, my sword, and my ruined tunic at some point, and she was now massaging my pecs. Those deft fingers left warm traces in their wake and gave me a mild feeling of euphoria. It almost felt like we were floating weightless under the ship again, and I wondered if I might be high.
She smiled coyly as she now set about unlacing the front of my trousers. “Hm, it seems as if my theory was correct.”
“What was your theory?” I asked as I pulled the straps of her dress off her shoulders.
“You are bestowed with the Goddess’ gift of Time, as I am bestowed with her gift of Life,” Shay explained as she slowly crouched down and took my pants with her.
“Haa,” I breathed when my erection sprang free in the cooler air.
“What you are feeling is your body’s natural healing process, only sped up,” she said as she kneaded my outer thighs. “I was able to convince your power to act for you.”
“You sped up my healing through my own time power?” I asked as I tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and then caressed her cheek.
“I just encouraged it along,” she said.
“You’re amazing,” I said, and then I sucked in breath when she gripped the base of my hard cock and held it steady. “Oh, Goddess…”
Her lips made a perfect heart as they opened slowly so she could suckle my head into her mouth, and stars streaked past my vision at how glorious the sensation was.
My hips flexed of their own accord, and my hands automatically flew to her hair so I could tangle my fingers into her silky locks. I unfortunately undid the pretty plait the Terran breeze had braided into her hair, but it was worth it when I tugged close to her scalp.
She moaned as she slid her mouth farther down my shaft until the head of my cock hit the back of her throat, and the vibrations her vocal cords created when she hummed had me thrusting forward accidentally.
I pulled back right away because I thought I might have choked her, but I was surprised when she grabbed my ass with one hand to keep me from going too far. Then I feared my spinal cord would explode through the top of my skull because she inched down even more until she’d taken me into her throat without gagging.
We both stilled so she could get used to me, but it didn’t really take long for her to acclimate before she was guiding me to thrust shallowly.
Her esophagus rippled around me, and my lower stomach gave that telltale jolt that warned me I was getting close to the edge.
“Baby,” I huffed, and then I gently guided her off. Even though it would have been awesome to thrust my way to completion and come down her throat, I didn’t want this to be over so soon.
And I really wanted to cum inside of her pussy.
Her emerald irises blazed into mine as she looked up at me with those bedroom eyes. She wiped a little saliva off her chin and then rose from her crouch, so I immediately pulled her close and devoured her mouth.
She tasted like the perfect appetizer, and as nice as that was, I found I really wanted to move to the entree, so I divested her of the rest of her dress and made her sit on the edge of the large tub sunken into the floor.
My phoenix-wife followed my lead, and when I jumped into the warm water, she was already waiting for me like some filthy centerfold I wanted to capture in my memory forever.
“I want you, Alex,” she said as she trailed her hand down between her full breasts and flirted with the top edge of her neatly manicured pubic hair. Then she opened her legs wide as she leaned back against her palms and batted her red eyelashes in a very “come hither” sort of way.
I didn’t need to be told anything twice, and I draped her knees over my shoulders so I could balance her curvaceous back side right on the edge.
“Hang on,” I warned before I spread the pink shell of her pussy lips apart and dove in to feast on her tender center.
“Ahhh!” Her head dropped back as she cried out, and I could feel her muscles tighten and flutter against my lips and tongue, so I used the subtle gasps and sighs to direct me in the ways I could really make her body sing.
I put all of my past knowledge to good use in order to make her moan, and I knew I was on the right track when her ankles locked around my head.
My phoenix-wife panted heavily as her inner thighs quaked, and when a small whine started to build up in the back of her throat, I flicked my tongue rapidly over the hard nub of her clit.
With a yelp, Shay came, and right at the apex of her orgasm, I switched to rubbing her with my thumb so the intensity wouldn’t cause her to recoil, and she could ride that high for as long as possible.
“You’re so beautiful,” I said when she laid back flat with her arm draped over her eyes so she could catch her breath. I kissed the inside of her knee, and then I helped her lower her legs so she wouldn’t cramp.
She finally regained her strength and lunged at me, so I was forced to catch her and swim back into the deeper area of the small pool-slash-tub thing.
One thing I completely forgot about this magnificent airship was the amazing bath complete with a waterfall feature and sauna combo attached to our shared suite. I could tell this place would act like a much-needed sanctuary in the future-- a veritable temple for healing, sexual and otherwise.
“I love you, dearheart,” Shay said as I slowly spun us around.
“I love you, too,” I said and then leaned down to bite and suck at her plump lower lip.
Her legs wrapped around my waist, and I held her comfortably in my embrace as I ducked us under the warm waterfall and then settled her against the smooth wall.
This little cove under the shimmering sheet of water was secluded and romantic in a way that almost made up for me missing the Love Nest Shay came up with back on Ithaca’s grounds.
For now, this would be a good enough substitute altar I could use to worship every inch of her.
I started with her mouth like I was a man starving in the desert. But her mouth was just the appetizer as far as I was concerned, and I nibbled my way to the soft space behind her ear, the side of her neck, and then down to the dip of her clavicle where I laved and sucked.
The whole time, I was also massaging her voluptuous breasts, and the attention I was lavishing upon her had her panting and squirming in a delicious way that made my blood roar.
“Ah, ah, ahh!” Shay squealed again as her heels dug sharply into my buttocks. “In me! A-Alex, I n-need you, ah!”
I leaned back only briefly so I could take the opportunity to line myself up with her hot little hole, and then I slid slowly in. The warm water added another layer of intensity as it was forced around my cock and then out in order to make room, and Shay and I both gasped at the sensation.
“Fffuck,” I groaned, but the rest of my breath was stolen from me when Shay dove in for a kiss.
From there, it was all instinct in the purest carnal way, and we rocked and undulated under the water. The friction and drag as I thrusted tightly inside of her spasming channel was almost on the edge of being too much, but it caused my spine to tingle, and my toes curled against the bottom of the tub.
I was close, and I could feel myself hanging on to my impending orgasm by the tips of my fingernails as I drove up into her over and over again.
Finally, I felt her internal muscles tightening around me in that way I knew meant I could let my foot off the gas and allow my own orgasm to crest.
“Oh, Goddess!” my wife cried out as she came for the second time, and I climaxed deep within her like the crash of a cymbal. “Yes, c-come inside me. Oh, Alex! Ohhh! Fill meeee!”
My cock gave one more valiant twitch as I gave her a last thrust before I was at my limit, and when she squeezed her walls around me, I gasped and put my head down in the crook of her neck.
“God…” I breathed as I drifted down from the stratosphere, and I was too wrung out to do anything right then except just hold her tight.
“I love you, husband,” she whispered, and I could feel her placing kisses into my shoulder as she stroked her hand up and down my spine.
I was floating too high on my little bubble of bliss to respond with words, so I conveyed my adoration by kissing every inch of her dear face, from her eyelids to her high cheekbones, down to her chin, and then back up to her elfin nose.
Everything about this was what I needed, and I felt the jagged disorder in my mind become smooth and polished like marble. The cracks where doubt and discouragement were able to find a foothold were now sealed and seamless as the wounds in my spirit healed.
The reality was, it didn’t matter what universe it was, if any type of humanity existed, there was always going to be dark points and light points no matter what. Maybe it was necessary to keep some cosmic balance, but whatever the case, I decided to take a page out of Amaya’s book and surround myself with those who reminded me more of the light instead of the dark.
“Come, dearheart,” Shay said after I disengaged us and carefully set her back on her own feet.
Then she led me through the fall of water again and over to the silver tray filled with soaps and bath oils.
That docile haze descended upon me once again, and I was silent as she took care of my needs so I didn’t have to think too hard, and I closed my eyes as she washed me clean.
By the time we were both thoroughly scrubbed up and squeaky clean, I felt like a half-coherent zombie, and after Shay dried us both off, I stumbled after her like a lamb and fell into the large bed with her.
Our naked clean skin was almost satiny when we pressed into one another, and when she tucked herself up behind me as the Big Spoon, I felt comforted like never before.
“Thank you,” I managed to mumble right before I gave myself over to the sticky tendrils of slumber.
“Sleep,” she cooed against my ear, and her moist breaths sent a delicious shiver down my spine. “Rest.”
I finally did as I was told and succumbed to darkness waiting to embrace me with open arms…
The next morning, my racing thoughts and sick heart were nowhere to be found, and I greeted the dawn refreshed and ready to tackle whatever was in store for me.
Which turned out to be a lot because it happened to be the day all of us decided would be best to finally bid farewell to the noble Isle of Terr.
First, I was required by Leader Zerr, Major Tharfin, and Thas to join them for breakfast, in part so I could check out the digs Lord Griss allotted for all of the Lower Terrans to start building a life here in the Upper Echelon.
It turned out several early cliff dwellings were still in existence, and despite being only reachable by squaller, it was a good place for all the displaced people to start to make a life for themselves.
After the morning meal, my wives and I were given gifts of all shapes and sizes, some of which included art supplies for Zoie, beautiful bolts of colored fabric for Shay, and two awesome gifts from the alligator-man Zerr and his eccentric gem-cutter compy-dino girlfriend, Fasha.
The first was La, the smaller of the two pterodactyl-creatures, and my jaw popped open in shock.
“You’re giving her to me?” I asked in awe as I took the reins from Tharfin.
“Aye, kin-son,” the large dome-headed dino-man said. “This way, you are able to fly longer distances through the air, and if you want, you are able to come and visit any time you’d like.”
“Thank you. And I’ll be sure to visit, don’t worry.” A large grin lit up my face as I looked up at La.
As much as I loved and missed having my trusty butterfly-pegasus to fly me around, Prosper was not equipped to fly such a distance like in between islands, so a new steed was just what I needed.
Next, the Lower Terrans decided to band together, and between them all, they were able to build us a smaller prototype of Fasha’s awesome gem cutter.
The eccentric compy-woman herself decided to be the one to help describe the contraption, and according to her, it was just like the one in her workshop where she was able to help us split the herald cores in order to make something new.
“Now, you have the power to split any more cores that you so wish,” Fasha said with a small bow of her head. “Just do be careful”
“Will do,” I said with a large grin on my face. I was currently down one of my trusty weapons, and I already couldn’t wait to experiment with more options.
With my gifts securely in hand, I left the cliff dwellings with both my wives, and we made our way back to the palace where Lord Griss and Regent Sskern were waiting for me.
“Ah, our esteemed Ambassador has come to bid us farewell,” Lord Griss said with a sparkle in his old wizened eyes.
Several people who’d gathered in the palace courtyard where I’d landed with La started to clap and cheer, while some of the palace servants brought out boxes and crates filled with provisions.
