War of the Races - The Verdant Realm

Chapter 13- The Champion And The Oracle

A small shadowy figure watched Aalyn pass by on her nightly walk around the camp. No one noticed the figure moving from tent to tent, from shadow to shadow as it followed their General. A long dark cloak covered its head and fell all the way to the ground. Its magic melded it into the shadows, obscuring the figure's presence so that even if someone looked directly at it, they wouldn’t notice anything strange.

The shadow noted who Aalyn talked to, where she stopped, and watched for an opportunity to strike. When one didn’t present itself before Aalyn ended her walk at her own tent, it stepped into the woods to watch and wait. It wasn’t long before it was watching the silhouette of the woman moaning and gasping as she stood over some unknown male as he orally satisfied her. When they lay down on the bed and continued their coitus, the shadowy figure left to return to its master,

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The sun cresting over the mountains beamed in under the lowest limbs of the fir tree and woke me rather ruthlessly. I felt drowsy and tired like I hadn’t really slept all night, and then I remembered Quebracho and our hours-long pollination.

“That’s right, lover,” She purred in my head, “We’re mated now, and now I am closer to you than any other mate you ever have because we are of one flesh, in a manner of speaking.”

I smiled on the inside and sent her a mental hug and kiss as I tried to grasp what my situation was in the real world. Opening my eyes, I gazed directly into Glenna’s black orbs. She was awake and lying in front of me just as she was when I fell asleep, with her head propped on my arm like a pillow. She smiled and leaned in to kiss my fox snout as she whispered, “Good morning Virdy.”

“Um, good morning mama,” I whispered back in response.

As I took stock, I realized that Glenna’s leg was still tossed over my thighs, and her pubic mound and p***y were slowly grinding against my hardened d**k while I was sliding between her vulva and labia just as I had been when I fell asleep. The tip of my d**k was just inside her v****a, and my muscles were throbbing as she slowly moved her pelvis so that my head was continuously stimulated and never came out of her. Something about this situation felt different somehow, and then I realized she felt wet between her thighs!

“What happened last night?” I asked out of concern for what I may have done to her in my sleep, especially given what I was doing in my dream.

She smiled at me and whispered, “Nothing happened, Virdy, despite my making it abundantly clear that you could have s*x with me if you wanted to. In the end, though, I think the turmoil made you fall asleep.”

“Then why do we smell and feel like we have been having s*x all night?” I asked.

“Oh,” She said with a smile as she looked down as if looking past her breasts and our bodies to our sexes, “That would be because you have been ejaculating all night. I really wish you had just come inside me. It would be so much easier to clean up, and I wouldn’t feel quite so sticky.”

“Oh my Goddess,” I exclaimed, startling Huxian into jumping up into a crouch and looking around wildly.

“I am so sorry, mama. I'm sorry, Huxian, go back to sleep,” I apologized as I rolled away from Glenna and stood up. Stretching out a hand, when she took it, I pulled her up to stand in front of me, and indeed she was covered in my semen. It covered her pubic mound, labia, inner thighs, and the bottoms of her buttocks. Streamers ran across her thigh that had been on bottom, and now that she was standing, the sperm that was in her vulva and any that managed to go inside her v****a began running down her inner thighs.

“I am so sorry, mama,” I gushed apologetically and tightened my grip on her hand before leading her to the lake to bathe while Huxian harrumphed loudly and lay back down to sleep some more.

“It’s okay, Virdy,” She kept saying as I led her to the water, “These things happen. Priestesses exude a pheromone that makes men come often and in greater quantities.”

“I’m sorry, mama,” I apologized anyway, “Please bathe while I keep watch. When you're finished, I will give you a ride back.”

“Okay,” She sighed, realizing that I wasn’t going to listen to her and that I wasn’t alright with having s*x with her right now. She patted my arm to comfort me and then walked out to the water and cast a transmutation spell to control water. Heating it in the small area of the lake she stepped down into.

“Quebracho, will you please turn back into a breastplate and make a saddle for Glenna,” I asked as I knelt on all fours and transformed into a lion.

“Of course,” She purred in my ear as she shifted to my chest and grew and reshaped for my new form before growing the saddle.

“Thank you,” I thought to her with a mental kiss on the cheek as I lay down in the grass on the bank of the lake and watched Glenna bathe.

“I thought we would run into the Svartalf army yesterday,” Glenna yelled loudly from the lake as she washed herself, “I was wrong. Shows me, I guess, for trusting dreams to be completely accurate. So, we will need to forage for food and maybe build a better shelter.”

“Were you not warm last night?” I asked.

“Oh no,” She answered with a shake of her head and a smile, “I was plenty warm. Well, that is until you started coming on me. That was warm too, at least until it cooled. No, I was thinking that given your reactions to bedding me that you would want more space and privacy for you and Huxian.”

“As long as you're warm, you can sleep as close to me as you like,” I answered with a shake of my lion-maned head, “I will just have to get better control of myself. As for Huxian, she is an Animal and doesn’t mind who I bed as far as I know.”

Glenna stepped out of the water, and I watched as water drained down her naked, hairless body, and wondered what my f*****g problem was? I have wanted to have s*x with her all my life, so why was I skittish about it now?

I had no answers, only thoughts and an idle desire for our coupling to mean more to us than just two ships passing in the night. I wondered if I would ever get that from Glenna. She was, after all, a child of this world, and s*x was a triviality to her. Just a job, a quest, the edicts given to her by her Goddess and religious order. I wondered if she could really understand intimacy, and I immediately rejected the thought; of course she knew what intimacy was, and she enjoyed it, and shared it, as I remembered the way she was sitting on Summerset’s lap as they shared a tender moment. Maybe that was their secret, since s*x was so open in their marriage; maybe it was the non-s****l moments that they shared that meant something to them. All I knew was that I had to get Silvain out of that school, and fast. I had no intention of sharing her with anyone else!

Stepping up to Glenna, I lay down so that she could climb up into the saddle. Once she was settled, I turned and started walking back to our little camp. We were about halfway back when I asked, “Mama?”

“Yes, son,” Glenna answered.

“If the Goddess Selene hadn’t asked for her priestesses to, um, have relations to garner tithes, would you still have chosen to be a temple prostitute?” I asked as diplomatically as I could.

“What do you mean by temple prostitute?” She asked, her voice betraying a hint of offense being taken. “Of course the Church of the Moon Goddess has temple prostitutes, but that is not what I am. I was an Apostle, a missionary of the Goddess Selene, and there is much more to my position than just bedding men!”

“But you have bedded other men besides father to give blessings, and you took tithes in return,” I countered, “How can you say you’re not a temple prostitute when you are willing to breed with other men not your husband and accept money in return?”

“Even the High Priestesses themselves would give her body if need be. So why should I be an exception to the rule? What I do, I do for my Goddess,” She growled sullenly, then gasped and asked, “Is this why you won’t bed me? Because you think I am a prostitute out on the roadside sitting under a Tree of Ishtar and before the Pole of Tammuz selling my body for my faith in Selene?”

“I, yes, sort of,” I admitted with a nod, “Mother, I have wanted you all my life. You and Silvain are the two most beautiful and dearest people in my heart beside my mates, but I don’t like the idea of you being with other men!”

“What about your father?” Glenna purred now that she understood more fully what was bothering me.

“I love father,” I admitted, “I never had a dad in my-”

I forgot that I hadn’t told Glenna that I was from another world in my previous life, and I didn’t know how to explain it.

“In your previous life,” She finished for me.