Alice said suddenly, “I really like it in my mouth.”
Brenda said, “My milk?”
Alice said, “No, I, well, yeah, but that’s not what I meant. I meant, I like Ronin’s cock in my mouth. It really excites me. It feels so good. I really enjoy it and when I have an orgasm that way. I love it. I like it in my mouth.”
The two of us lay on Brenda’s shoulders and idly petted her as we rested and talked.
Alice said, “It tastes good. Both. The milk too, but I meant when he’s in my mouth. I like how his penis tastes, and I like how his semen tastes,” and she reached down and started stroking me.
She said, “I just wanted you to know, in case you were thinking that I might not. You know, because of Ichabod. I didn’t like it with him, but with you it’s so different. I love you so much, and I don’t know why, but I love sucking on your cock, and I like it when you let me have your climax in my mouth. Just so that you know.”
I said, “Alice, thank you for telling me.”
She said, “I love it when you fuck me like last night too, and I want that too, and it drove me crazy with love, but I don’t want you to think that I won’t like sucking on you, because I really do. Everything is different now.”
I said, “I’m so glad. I mean that you feel like everything is different now and you aren’t feeling bad about your past. I’m so glad. We have a lot to learn.”
Alice said, “We certainly do.”
There was a knock at the door, and without thinking, I said “Come in”, and turned to see who it was. The door opened and I was shocked to see April walking into the bedroom, me and both of the women completely naked and uncovered.
April smiled, but I gasped and said, “Oh, April, I didn’t think. I’m so sorry!” and I started trying to find a blanket to cover us with.
April said, “Why? You look nice. Anyway, I wanted to tell you about breakfast.”
I said, “Let me cover up.”
Alice said, “Ronin, what’s wrong? April, Sweetie, there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Your father is just from a different place and sometimes isn’t as comfortable being naked as we are. I honestly don’t know why.”
I did cover us up.
April said, “It’s OK. He’s awfully cute. Anyway, I can’t stay and get in bed with you right now, though I would really like to. But, we heard you having a good time, so Tanya and I started breakfast, and it’s almost ready.”
Brenda said, “What do you mean, you heard us? Were we being too loud?”
April and Alice laughed.
April said, “I think he whole village heard you. Not really, but all of us in the house sure did. It sounded like a lioness was roaring as loud as she could. Was that you? It was amazing. And kind of exciting. It was strange. I never heard anything like that before It was clear that you were enjoying something, not in trouble, but I never heard anyone scream like that before.”
Brenda said, “Oh, I did not!”
Alice laughed harder and said, “You certainly did.”
Brenda looked embarrassed and April smiled and said, “So anyway, breakfast is almost ready, if you wants some. If you want, I could bring it up here for you. Mother Brenda, your boobs look different. Prettier somehow.”
Brenda sat up and looked down at herself and said, “They do, I guess. Um, it’s, well, something happened to them. And, um, they are a little different, I guess.”
April smiled and said, “They look really nice. Maybe mine will be bigger someday. They feel really good when I wash them. And my nipples are getting rounder and stick out more. Do you want to see?”
I said quickly, “Not right now, Dear. Um, no, let’s don’t do that right now.”
Alice said, “Not right now, Sweetie. I bet they are prettier every day. We can show them to your father some other day. When we go swimming. They are pretty, aren’t they, Ronin? She a very lovely young lady, isn’t she?”
I said, “Oh, of course. April, you are the prettiest girl in the village. Really.”
April said, “I’m happy that you think so. Anyway, breakfast is almost ready.”
And with that, she smiled and left the room.
Alice said, “Do you want to shower?”
I said, “Um, yeah. Let’s take a quick shower. Is April OK? With everything?”
Alice and Brenda and I pulled ourselves out of bed, and headed for the shower. The shower in this room was big enough for the three of us, but just barely.
As we turned on the water, Alice said, “April is fine. But what about you? You seemed very upset when she came in. Why? I told her that you just come from somewhere that they aren’t comfortable being nude, but that can’t be the truth. And I didn’t want to ask you to explain it right then, in front of her, in case it was something that she shouldn’t hear yet. Ronin, what was wrong?”
We all got under the water and started washing up, and I said, “Well, it’s just that where I am from, we are fine with being nude with family members, and we even bathe together in an indoor bath, but never with people who aren’t close family.”
Alice said, “So, a father would never bathe with his daughters?”
I said, “Well, yeah, he would. And no one would think anything of it, but I guess I’m just not used to being a father. Or having a mother like Lucy, or Jean. I guess that if I had had grown up with them that it would feel different. But, at first, they seem like women, not mothers and daughters. I don’t know.”
Alice said, “So, that’s the only reason?”
I said, “I think so.”
Alice said, “Well, we all think of you as our husband and father. I don’t want April to think that there is something wrong with her. She has grown very slowly and she has had a harder life than she should have. I don’t know if she is self-conscious about how she is different than other girls or not. She never knew her first mother.”
I gasped and said, “Her first mother? What do you mean?”
Alice said, “Ronin, April was abandoned more than once. She was found in my village as a baby, left in the town square in the winter. We had no idea who her mother was. We assumed a desperate traveler had left her. I was lonely and childless and unwed, so I took her as my daughter. I was very young. Not even old enough for a husband. And after that, none of the young men were interested in me. They felt that it was bad luck to have a foundling in your house, and none of them would have me.”
I said, “Oh, Alice, I love you. We’ll make all of that work out now. We have to talk about this, but unless you need to talk about it right now, we can wait. I love you, and I love her, and we are family now, and everything is perfect for all of us.”
I took Alice in my arms and held her.
Brenda said, “Alice, you never told me!”
Alice said, “Brenda, how could I? April would be shunned. Even Ichabod didn’t know. He thought that I was a widow. I don’t want her to be shunned. She’s so lovely. Ronin, you’ll love her, won’t you?”
I said, “Of course I will. I do love her. It’s all going to be fine. Does she know?”
Alice said, “No. She thinks that she’s fifteen.”
I said, “She isn’t?”
Alice said, “No. She was probably two when I took her in. I was just thirteen. Oh please, don’t tell anyone. You love me, I know that you do, so don’t let this change things.”
I said, “So, Alice, does that mean that April is really what, twenty-seven?”
Alice was crying now and said, “Yes. She is. She ages very slowly. She was eleven when Ichabod took us in, but the years passed and I did my best to hide it from her. When she asks me how old she is, I tell her she was born fifteen years ago, and she accepts it somehow. She doesn’t do the math or remember how old she was when Ichabod came. Maybe she suspects something, but, oh I don’t know how it has worked this long, but she seemed very young, and after we had been with Ichabod, and when Brenda came, April wanted to know how old she was, and I told her that she was very young, because she looked li
ke she was.”
I said, “Twenty-seven. It’s unbelievable. Well, actually, I have some reason to believe it, but it’s a surprise.”
Alice cried some more and said, “We can’t keep it up forever. There’s only one way for it to work. She’ll have to find out some day. How can she live with that secret? And know that if she finds a husband, that if he ever knows the truth, that he will abandon her yet again, because she will be shunned by him. And everyone who knows. Ronin, what are we going to do?”
I said, “Well, first of all, we’re going to get dry. Then we are going to breakfast. Then, I’m going to make sure that April feels loved and appreciated and that she knows that she is special to me and that I will never abandon her. After that, we’ll figure the rest of it out as it comes. Alice, I love you. And I love April.”
Brenda said, “Of course. We all love April. Ronin will do the right thing, now that he knows. It will all be wonderful.”
I said, “Of course it will.”
Alice hugged me tightly and said, “I know that it will. You always make sure of it. Oh I love you.”
I said, “OK, let’s get out of the shower and go down to the breakfast that April and Tanya made for us.”
We dried off and got dressed, smiling at each other and hugging playfully to reassure everyone.
As we left the room, I stopped and said, “Wait. Are there any more big secrets that I should know about?”
Alice said, “Um, maybe. I don’t know. I don’t keep them from you intentionally. I just don’t remember them until I need to tell you.”
I said, “That’s fine. I just wondered. I don’t care. I love you all, and it is all working out wonderfully.”
The others were all seated for breakfast, and crowded around the table, the children included. Lucy wasn’t there, but had left cryptic instructions for me to call her when we were ready to go to the pools for the day. Breakfast wasn’t quite as good as Brenda usually made, but the little girls had done their best, and we all appreciated it. There was a bit of teasing about the loud screams from Brenda earlier, but it was good-natured, and Brenda didn’t mind.
I talked about taking the women on a picnic to the pools, and the children staying home. Tanya made a comment about ‘wifely things’, and they all seemed happy with the arrangements. Brenda asked if she or Alice should stay home, and let the Adventurers be alone for the day, but I assured them all that I had a secret for all of them, and that Brenda and Alice had to be there for it.
Jack said, “They frustrate me so much. You’ll straighten them you. But if they still don’t believe it when they get home, I’m going to tell them again myself.”
Brenda said, “Jack, sometimes I don’t know what gets into you. You get so upset, and I can’t figure out why.”
He sulked for a second and said, “You’ll see.” Then he brightened and said, “It’s the secret that Ronin will tell you today. But you have to believe him. It’s going to be OK. I had a talk with my advisers and we have every confidence in Commander Prince Ronin to take care of it. I’m only eight, after all.”
I winked at Jack and he smiled back at me, and we didn’t say anything else about it. After the meal, the girls said that they would clean up and help get a picnic ready. Val announced that everyone should wear light cotton dresses, and that she had a surprise for everyone as well, but that it would wait until we were on our way.
And we were on our way about a half an hour later.
Chapter 31 - Secrets and Revelations
I had considered bringing April with us, because of the revelation that she was actually an adult, even though she didn’t know it. She would have to be told eventually. And she would have to be allowed to grow up finally. But after a good deal of thought, I decided that it wouldn’t be today.
It took us almost an hour to reach the pools in the orchard, but before we got there, before we had gone very far from the house, when we were out of sight of the village, Val stopped us.
Harmony grinned and said, “Ronin, close your eyes. And no peeking. Promise?”
I said, “OK. No peeking.”
I smiled and closed my eyes, wondering what I would find when I opened them. I felt Harmony take hold of my shoulders and turn me around so that I faced away from the others, and then I heard some rustling, and a giggle here and there. I waited patiently, keeping my eyes closed as instructed, not wanting to incur the wrath of the guardian maiden of Sturgil’s Mark. I waited for perhaps two minutes and then heard Harmony say that I could turn around, but not open my eyes. I playfully turned completely around, so that I was still facing in the wrong direction, and waited again. Instead of being told to try again, as I had expected, I heard some movement, and was told to open my eyes.
Standing in front of me were all five of the women, dressed only in the tiny pieces of rabbit fur like Val had worn that first day in the fields at the farm. Two little pieces of fur, no bigger than the palm of my hand, draped over each breast, held up by a slender thong of leather tied across their chests; and two tiny pieces, no bigger than the others, hanging from a tiny thong around their waists. The top pieces were hardly big enough to hang down to hide their nipples, and the pieces on the bottom barely long enough to hide their genitals, from either the front or the rear. And only if they stood up straight, and only if the viewer was looking down on them. If they bent in any direction, something would inevitably peak out.
I smiled broadly and said, “Well, aren’t you a pretty clutch of bunnies?”
The girls giggled and Brenda said, “Ready to fuck like rabbits.”
Val had put all of their dresses in a pack, and she tossed it to me and said, “You can carry this,” and all five of them started running away toward the orchards.
I chased them, and they ran, but not too fast. And I didn’t try to actually catch them. Once in a while I would get close to one of them and make a grab for the fur piece at their tails, but I let them escape with just a little tug that exposed them for just a second as we played.
When we entered the orchards, the girls scattered, and I had to chase them around trees in various directions, first chasing one, then another, but we eventually came to the pools.
We stood panting and sweaty, and Val said, “We should swim.”
And with that, all five girls simultaneously reached behind their backs and pulled at the tie holding up their tiny tops, and let them fall into their hands. Then they did the same with the little belts holding up the bottoms. Harmony and Dawn, when they were naked, grabbed my clothes and pulled them off of me, and we ran into the water to splash and swim.
Suddenly, Lucy rose half out of the water, right in front of me, sliding her breasts up my chest. She threw her arms around my neck and pulled herself higher and kissed me.
I said, “Oh Lucy! You feel nice! Did you just get here?”
She said, “A few minutes ago. So, what’s all this about? Not just a picnic and playtime, I assume.”
I said, “It’s time to tell Alice and Brenda about their heritage, and explain a few things to the others about what we have learned so far. It’s time that they knew. They need to understand who they are if they are going to be what they must be.”
Lucy smiled in my arms and said, “You are exactly right. As always. You feel stronger. More muscled. What have you been eating?”
I said, “Um, I don’t know. Just what Brenda makes for me. I guess we better get started, huh?”
I carried Lucy in my arms, up from the water and set her on her feet at the edge of the pool. I called out to the other girls to join us, and they came, dripping and naked, to sit on the grass with Lucy and I.
I said, “OK, let’s sit down. We have several things to talk about. Everybody in a circle. OK, here’s the first thing. Alice and Brenda, this is about you, and us, and where we come from. We have something in common, more than our love for each other.
Suddenly, Lucy gasped and touched my arm and said, “Ronin, stop. There’s someone here!”
; I looked around and didn’t see anyone.
I whispered, “Where?”
Lucy said, “I don’t know exactly. Close your eyes and look!”
I slowly closed my eyes and used my elven sight to scan the area. I could clearly see each of the women, including the fact that Brenda was stronger now than she was before the dormant parts were released this morning. But Lucille was right. There was someone else. Someone very strong.
Aside from this newcomer, Harmony and I were strongest, essentially the same as each other. Then Lucille, then Val, then Dawn, then Brenda, and finally Alice. But this other person exhibited a stronger elveness than any of us. I opened my eyes and looked in the direction of the figure, but I still didn’t see anything. I closed my eyes and checked again, and they were definitely there. About twenty feet away, next to what was clearly a tree when my eyes were open.
Val said, “What’s wrong?”
Harmony said, “I see her too. But I think we better stay still for now. She’s stronger than I am.”
The women looked concerned, but everyone sat still. I opened my eyes again and stared at the spot where the woman stood. Harmony was right. Now that she had said it, I could detect that it was a woman, not a man. But I still didn’t see anything. And then I did.
She was camouflaged. She blended into the trees and leaves and plants around her almost perfectly. If I hadn’t known exactly where to look, and hadn’t concentrated so very hard, I would never have seen her.
I said, “Dawn, you have the best eyesight. Do you see her? Over there?” and I pointed.
Dawn squinted and whispered, “Oh my goodness! I do! Yes. By the tree. There.”
I took a breath and said, “Hello elf woman! Do you want to join us? We brought a picnic.”
There was a little laugh from the invisible woman, and the nearly imperceptible form took a few steps toward us. She lowered the hood of the cloak that she wore, and her face and hair come clearly into view.
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