Chapter Ten
Arrival
“AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEE – YES!”
Jia’s paean of victory brought Thrall out of his faint. She was still socketed astride him, still panting and quivering with exertion and orgasmic aftermath. Her jubilation filled the room.
“Superbly done, my friends! I knew none of us would fail the test!”
Thrall was still blinking away blur, but he knew she was right. The jagged mesh under them was gone, replaced by the mat he’d been meditating on a month (or million years) or so ago.
Gone too was the smoke from herb and incense. The air was as fresh as ever in a climate-controlled home and yet still had a nasty tang of pollution to it that he noticed immediately after his sojourn in Shatra. Nor was he the only one to notice this.
Suddenly the back of his head hit the floor as its p
