The entire day was spent between trotting and running, with a few rests for the horses to eat and drink. Gabriel Dawson took care of the lunch with Ghar’s help, and when it was ready, Alex sat near the fire, with Wenammy on one side and Pearl on the other. Alex grabbed the plate that Ghar gave him and he asked:
“This is chicken? Because the smell of the seasoning it’s just like…”
Gabriel Dawson interrupted him:
“I met a very funny Lamia cook in your Castle, and she gave me a pot with her special seasoning mix for meat. She also gave me a bag with meat almost done, wrapped in leaves, and I just had to heat it up.”
“Oh, you meet her! I barely had time to talk to her, I had too many things to take care of. I just notice one thing. Well, I noticed when we were leaving the Castle, but… Where are the Orc thighs and the Harpy feathers that we got on our last encounter with Monsters?”
James Macdonald answered with a big smile:
“Earl Finley made a generous offer for that. He bought everything, and we got a huge bag full of coins to divide among us. He also asked a couple of servants to gather food for our voyage back, and we have enough smoked meat for the next days.”
Anika slowly sat on the floor next to Okami while Alex was talking with James Macdonald, and Okami whispered when she saw Anika biting her lip while searching for a comfortable position:
“Why don’t you use some Healing Magic? Or you like the pain?”
“I already did, because I was way worse in the morning. I am going to use some before getting up again, don’t worry. Besides, it’s not that I like pain, but every time it hurts a bit, I remember why I am like this and I can’t stop smiling.”
Okami tried her best not to laugh and whispered:
“Alex break you, didn’t he? I was also sore in the morning, but you are way more than me. It’s only your butt that hurts?”
“No, it’s on two places, actually, and my nipples are also bruised. Even like this, I can’t wait to have another night with him, it was amazing!”
Okami slowly nodded while munching:
“Yeah, he has a lot of stamina, probably because of his training. He once told me that he is used to training his body with exercises for several hours straight. Something like that does wonders for a man’s stamina in a bed! Unlucky for him, I have way more and he couldn’t last all night. What about you? You fainted, didn’t you?”
“I don’t think so, but I do recall my eyes closing when I was resting on his arm, after… I am not sure, our third? Or fourth? I lost count, really. What I do know is that I went to the moons and back, at least ten times! In the morning I was so tired that it seemed I didn’t sleep at all!”
“Yeah, Shinatobe taught him well. I also taught him a few things, I bet he asked you to do some of them to him.”
Anika nodded while munching:
“He did ask some things, but it wasn’t something weird. Not usual, but surely not weird. I did my best, but since I don’t do those very often, I guess I was not good with it. He didn’t complain, but I think I can do better.”
Okami approached her and spoke in a low voice, almost a sexy whisper:
“If you want, I can teach you, so that you make him go nuts the next time that you are with him.”
“Thanks… but… it will be difficult to be with him alone anytime soon. I may be wrong, but those two next to him said something about a night with us all at the same time with Alex. You and Shinatobe included, of course.”
Okami bit her lower lip and put a curl of Anika’s hair behind her right ear:
“I would love it, but you don’t seem too eager for that. I know Mermaids prefer men over women anytime, while Fairies and Elfians aren’t so picky.”
“Yes, it doesn’t appeal to me, being with a woman. I like to tease Wenammy about that, just to see her all flustered, but it’s not something that I fantasize about.”
“Well, when that night comes, I will make sure that you have a good time. You just need to close your eyes and let the sensations run through your body. With your eyes closed, you won’t see if it’s Alex, me or another woman touching you, so you can just enjoy and not worry about who is making you feel like that.”
Anika gulped the wine in her cup and said with a trembling voice:
“Well… I suppose it won’t be all bad… if I keep my eyes closed… Maybe a few years ahead, I get used to being with a woman like that… and I start to enjoy without so many worries…”
Okami caressed Anika’s red cheek and said:
“That’s the spirit! It will be for the best, actually, because sharing a man is not easy for a Mermaid unless you also have fun with the other women. You are very pretty and extremely sexy, it would be a shame if you didn’t give me a chance.”
Anika choked and after drinking wine to help the food to go down, she looked to the kinky smile at a few centimetres from her face:
“Alex warned me about you. You are very aggressive, Okami, way more than me. No wonder Alex was so annoyed with you on our way to Beliersia. He was a little shy and he used to worry a lot about being with a woman. At least after Shinatobe and you, he got rid of his shyness and I had such a good night with him. Maybe you can lower down a tiny bit your will to get me in a bed? It makes me feel discomfortable because I am not used to being targeted by women. It’s a little flattering, but I don’t know how I am supposed to react, and it makes me nervous.”
Okami slowly returned to her place and made a slight smile and said in a low voice:
“Don’t worry, I won’t attack you or force you to do anything. At least consider my offer. I wasn’t talking about being with me alone, only when we would be all together in a bed. Because it will eventually happen.”
While Anika was thinking about Okami’s words, Gabriel Dawson was glancing at Ghar and noticed that she was also glancing at him and they both smiled. He went for a piece of bread on the plate between them, and because Ghar was also going for one, their hands touched, and Ghar slowly caressed his fingers, from the back of his hand to the fingertips. Gabriel moved his fingers a little, and their fingers intertwined. Two seconds were more than enough for his heart to start racing, and Ghar retrieved her hand with the slice of bread and ate it while looking straight at him.
Gabriel leaned a little towards her and whispered:
“It’s just me, or you are trying to seduce me?”
Ghar also leaned and Olive spoke in her sexy, lower voice:
“If I am not mistaken, you are the one doing it, I am only here, peacefully eating, and you can’t keep your eyes from me. I may need to warn you that it has been two long years since the last time I was with a male, and if you keep on tempting me, I won’t answer for my acts.”
Gabriel gulped and after a couple of seconds, he asked:
“And… if I don’t want to stop? What if… I am considering to be with you as well?”
“Then, we may need to find a private place tonight, and I am even going to ask Olive to leave us alone, because we don’t need to talk for all that we can do during the night, right?”
“I… would like that… if you don’t mind being with a Human, that is.”
Ghar made a slight smile:
“As long as you don’t mind being with an Orc…”
“If the Orc is you, I would love it for sure…”
Ghar made such a smile that Gabriel felt like his heart was about to come out from his mouth. He was used to visiting the brothels in every City that he went, and he even had a few women over the years in the cities that he visited more often, but none of them compared to the way Ghar was making him feel, ever since he met her.
In the beginning, Gabriel had some problems accepting Ghar’s presence, but when he got used to her, he began noticing a few interesting things, like the way she giggled, how her eyes glow when she was excited like when they went for a ride on that strange elevator, and how sexy she was in her new clothes. Once or twice he got worried about being with her, considering that everyone they would meet, would have a lot of problems seeing her for what she really was, a gentle soul with the pride of a warrior. All those worries faded away every time he saw her smiling.
While Gabriel was eating and whispering to the smiling Ghar, Princess Ebell was eating in silence, glancing around to the strange group that was escorting her. The lady’s maid thought it was weird how she was so silent and whispered on her left ear:
“What’s the matter, Princess? Is something worrying you?”
“Not really, I am just looking and thinking. I never cared much about what was happening with the people around me, but I am starting to notice a few things. Earl Alex and those two women, Okami trying to seduce Miss Anika, Mister James and Miss Bethany are a couple, and even with all the weirdness, Mister Gabriel and Ghar are acting like if they are in love. Or at least, interested in each other.”
The lady’s maid frowned:
“That’s disgusting, that thing is a Monster!”
Princess Ebell drank the wine in her cup and whispered back:
“According to Miss Olive, she is also a Princess. One without a country to rule, like me, but still a Princess. You can’t deny she is cute and she has an amazing body. You saw her naked in the hot spring, right? She has a slender figure, but very muscular. Mister Gabriel is a big and muscular man, and if you look closely, they do look good together. I don’t know what will happen if other people find out what Ghar really is, and I don’t want to be near them when that happens, because I could be dragged into a mess and I can’t afford a scandal at this point, not when I am about to get married to the future ruler of Bouria!”
The maid slowly nodded and realized that the Princess was right. If the court in Bouria found out that the Princess travelled with an Orc, it could ruin her chances of becoming the future Queen. And that, the maid wouldn’t let it happen. She decided at that moment, to do anything that she could possibly do, to hide Ghar and protect her secret from any prying eye.
…
The afternoon went by with nothing unusual happening around them, besides a few caravans of Merchants that crossed their path in the dusty main road.
When they finally stopped near a hill to pass the night, Okami created a big sphere of rock with a small hole on top to work as a chimney, to be their shelter for the night. While Gabriel Dawson and Bethany Mathews were taking care of the fire to boil water to cook the potatoes that were going to be the side dish of the smoked meat, Alex was inside a cubic room at the left side of the campfire, watching Pearl Pearson carefully creating a large bed enough for three persons, made out of thin branches and with leaves on top. When she finished, Wenammy covered the leaves with blankets and stood next to Alex, looking at the bed. She tilted her head and said:
“I suppose it will do for tonight, but we might need to think about something else because sleeping on a bed like that every night, is going to ruin my back. I prefer to sleep on the floor, because it’s straight, while that bed is all bumpy.”
Alex shrugged:
“I don’t mind, I can sleep anywhere when I am tired. Not that I intend to have much sleep, because I want to be dead tired by the middle of the night.”
Pearl made a kinky smile while seating on the bed and crossing her legs:
“That’s a good point indeed. What do you two say? Shall we do something to open up our appetite? Because I won’t say no to a bit of a Fairy as an appetizer.”