“Good morning everyone,” Valeria said walking out to join us. “Are we having a family meeting?” She looked at Jill. “You must be Jill.”
“Has everyone seen my topless selfies?” Jill asked.
Valeria shook her head. “No, why, do you want us to look?”
“I was just surprised that you knew who I was.”
“Well,” Valeria said, “I knew you were staying over with Abby, so when a human I haven’t seen before arrives in earth clothes, it wasn’t hard to figure out who you were. I’m Valeria.”
“Are there a lot of humans on this world? What did you call it, Amaranth?”
Valeria shrugged. “Depends on what you mean by a lot. There aren’t as many people, demons, orcs, trolls, humans, elves, whatever – as there are on your world. At least, not around here. We’re not so squished together, like Rockville.”
Xyla finished hugging Lesseth, so she ran over to Valeria, and squished herself together with her. “Fixed!”
“If you think Rockville is squished together,” Jill said, “you should see Boston.”
Inka poked her head out the door. “Breakfast!”
“Would it be too much trouble to have it out here?” I asked. “I can set up some things for us to eat on, but it’s a beautiful day.”
“Of course it’s not too much trouble, if that’s what you want, Abby. I’m your employee, after all.”
I grabbed some bricks and some spare planks and made benches for people to sit on. I had the zombies pile up more planks, to make tables. Valeria and Gren helped.
Inka brought out bowls of oatmeal and rashers of bacon. The oatmeal had little red flecks on top. I gestured for Jill to sit and sat next to her, figuring I was at least a familiar face. Well, my face wasn’t familiar, but at least I was a familiar person.
“This is all very strange,” she said to me in a low voice. “I mean, you have to know how strange it is.”
I nodded. “Sorry. You wanted to know. There’s been … a lot going on in my life that I haven’t been able to share.”
“Yes. I see that. Don’t worry about me keeping all this a secret. No one would believe me, anyway. I’ve got a bruise from pinching myself to see if I’m dreaming; I keep doing it every few minutes.”
“Bruise where?” I asked.
She smirked. “Wouldn’t you like to know.” She looked up at Inka, as Inka was passing out spoons. “This looks lovely, Inka.”
“Thank you!” Inka said. “I think presentation is important. Food should be an intense experience for all the senses.”
I had no doubt that the red specks on my oatmeal were Inka’s philosophy put into practice. Jill picked up her spoon, and I touched her arm gently to slow her down.
“I’ve learned to wait to enjoy Inka’s cooking until the water arrives.”
Gren had gone in to help her bring it out, and soon there were pitchers and glasses and we were ready to go.
“Thank you, L’shan,” Valeria said, “for the abundance of Amaranth, and the love that you show us by providing us food, so that we may show love to others.”
“Actually I think all this food came from Earth,” Inka said.
Valeria frowned at her. Inka shrugged. I took advantage of the distraction to nudge Jill.
“There’s a trick to enjoying Inka’s cooking,” I whispered. Then I took a spoonful from the middle of the oatmeal, where the red predominated, casually let my spoon drop below the table, and thumbed most of the spice off with my thumb in a delicate and lady-like fashion. I was a little concerned I was setting up Nutty for a rude surprise, but hopefully spiced oatmeal wasn’t part of a squirrels diet.
“Ah,” Jill said. “When in a strange place, always follow your guide.” She did the same thing.
With just a little cayenne, the oatmeal was pretty good. Unusual, but pretty good. Jill was quiet, and I figured she was processing. I didn’t rush her.
Kathy and Talos came and joined us midmeal. Kendala and Gruush sat down with us, too, and I introduced everyone all around. Jill did a double take at the orc in the tie and a linen jacket.
Kathy smiled at Jill, but it didn’t take long for her to say, “We have to keep this place a secret.”
Jill nodded. “I get that.”
“Okay,” Kathy said. “Well, hopefully Abby knows what she’s doing.”
After breakfast, Jill pulled me aside. “So, I figured this weekend would be all about me and you having hot sex, and catching up.”
I nodded. “Sorry to throw you for a loop.”
“I don’t see any reason for a change in plans, Abby.”
I caught her drift. “You mean you want to –”
“Of course I do. When have I not been up for trying something different with you? The question is where? There’s not a lot of privacy, is there?”
I shook my head. “No. Our best bet is probably the forest. Xyla might come peek, but the others won’t. Of course there was the room Valeria was sleeping in, and I could tell people to give us some privacy. I haven’t put any interior locks on the doors.”
Jill grinned. “In the woods, then. Better to sneak off and risk it than make a big announcement, and it won’t be the first time we’ve had an audience. Remember that day in Lynn Woods, when that couple discovered us?”
“How can I forget?” I asked. I felt embarrassed. “They didn’t consent to that.”
Jill pshawed. “They were off-trail for the same reason we were, they were just surprised we got there first.”
So we went into the woods, found a nice clearing that wasn’t the one I usually used, and made love. Jill loved playing with my tits, and of course I’d always enjoyed playing with hers. We fucked for a while, then tried 69. She slipped her fingers into my pussy while she was sucking my cock, which made it hard to focus on the delectable treat I was licking, but I still managed to get her to climax first.
We’d known each other for years, but she was enjoying discovering my body for the first time.
We fucked again, this time with her on top, so she could play with my boobs more easily. She grinned as she pinched my nipples, but I was so turned on it didn’t really hurt.
When we were both tuckered out, we lay back against the grass and looked up at the sky through the trees.
“You know, it’s going to be hard to go back to Boston after this,” she said.
I hesitated before I said the thing that had popped in my mind, but then I decided to go ahead. “You don’t have to go back on my account.”
She laughed. “I could stay here and be part of your harem?”
“Right. You just happen to have four women who are all married to you. And I saw how those two girl orcs looked at you, too. Especially Kendala. You might be her boss, but she’d do anything for you, I think.”
Probably literally true. “That’s complicated.” I explained how they’d been gifted to me as slaves, and I’d accepted for diplomatic reasons, but had been trying to get them to accept freedom.
“Is any employee really free?” Jill asked. “Some more than others, I guess. But when your employer controls legal immigration status, or your health insurance … although I suppose there’s no health insurance here.”
“Well, there sort of is. Valeria and Talos can heal magically.”
Jill’s eyes widened. “It’s weird how the more strange things you tell me, the less I doubt the latest. Diseases too?”
“Well, that’s convenient. Especially with the orgies and all. It’s kind of like paradise, isn’t it?”
“Sometimes I think so. And then, a bunch of trolls want to burn down the forest and kill Xyla. Or a shapeshifting demon kidnaps Kathy to take her back as some sort of offering to the head demon. Or rampaging orcs threaten to kill everything in their path.”
“I can see how that would be pretty stressful.”
Jill tittered. “I don’t even have to ask you how you relieve that stress.”
“Oh, building projects,” I said, obliviously.
After a silence, Jill said, “I can’t just up and leave Boston, you know.”
I nodded. “I wasn’t asking you to. I was saying that you have choices.”
“And that your health insurance program may be better than the one I’ve got?”
“Well, that’s so, too.”
Jill nodded. “But even if I found a job, I can’t just up and leave my other lovers. You get that, right?”
“Although the plane goes both ways, I suppose. Relocating isn’t the same as leaving.” She rolled over and looked at me. “I remember you telling me that when you – relocated.”
“And I remember you agreeing.”
“I’ll keep my eyes and ears open, see if a job opens up around here.” She looked around. “This – well, this isn’t something that happens to everyone. Who knows, besides you, me, and Kathy? She’s your neighbor, right?”
“How is it you told Kathy? It requires a lot of trust, right?”
I laughed. “I didn’t tell Kathy. She found out. She’s very nosy – curious, I suppose she’d call it. A regular Nancy Drew.” I decided to leave out some of the details, because Kathy was in it now, regardless of what I thought. There was no reason for everyone not to get along. “She wanted to know what was in my basement, and she fell through, broke her ankle. Gren imprisoned her and Valeria or Talos healed her. I forget which.”
“I noticed the jail cells. Did they come with the tomb?”
“Nope, I built them to hold Valeria and Talos, originally. They’re paladins, and they wanted to kill me because they figured I was an evil necromancer.”
“Never a dull moment, is there?”
I spent the next two hours being pumped, not unwillingly, for details of my adventures
Then I got pumped in a somewhat more literal way. Jill was fascinated by my bits. I could understand that, because I was too, even if I’d gotten kinda sorta used to them.
“I don’t know what you need all of us for,” Jill teased. “You can just grope yourself whenever you want.”
I smiled at her choice of words. Of course I wanted the people I loved for reasons other than just groping. But she hadn’t said “what you need me for” or even “them” but “us.”
I had the feeling that everything was going to turn out okay between me and Jill. When I’d moved, I figured we’d most likely drift apart, and we had some, but now that we were physically together that distance seemed irrelevant. We were lying naked in the woods together as if we’d never been apart – and as if my body hadn’t changed dramatically. Love wasn’t a limited resource, even if time was.
“Dammit,” said Jill. “Now I’m going to miss you more than ever.”
“Hmm? You mean you’ll miss Amaranth, as well as me?”
I waited for her to explain.
“I mean now I’ll miss you, and your tits.” She gave me a squeeze. “These are fucking amazing.”
I chuckled. “I always figured that if that was what you wanted, you had your own to fondle.” I demonstrated, by groping her back.
“I love you more,” she said, switching.
“Then why did you leave, and why am I the one flying here?” Jill said, with a smirk.
“I – I’ve been kinda busy here,” I said, gesturing around to indicate the world.
She laughed. “I can tell it’s been work, work, work,” she said. “Let’s work some more.”
She climbed on top, and honestly, in that position she did most of the work.