“Stop it,” Daniel insisted. “Stop blaming yourself for this. Stop blaming yourself for what happened to Cilia. None of it is your fault, it never was.”
“But, Danie-”
“Stop!” Daniel ordered looking up. The reaper squeaked then remained silent, with Squeak looking at Daniel in wonder as he showed a firm expression.
“You saved Kroanette’s life, you helped me protect my family, you’ve offered us a ride and a home out here, you’ve done so much to help with our journey. We owe you so much for your generosity. So stop talking like you failed us.”
“But I-”
“Enough!” Daniel shouted. “Cilia and Ruhelia were not your responsibility, they never were. Enough talking like you’ve failed us because you haven’t, Twilight.”
“Daniel Sorres…” Twilight softly said.
Daniel held a hand over his face and struggled to think of their next move, knowing they and Kroanette were steadily closing in on a horrible scene which was going to shatter the centaur’s heart almost instantly.
“Twilight, don’t tell Kroanette,” he finally said. “If you do it will only cause more anxiety with her and press her forward even more recklessly. She won’t want to believe what you say, she’ll want to see it for herself. It’s going to hurt her so much but it can’t be avoided now. Let her keep what hope she has left before she sees the truth with her own eyes.”
“As you wish, Daniel Sorres. It’s going to pain me to see her reaction to the truth, but I suppose there is no sparing her now.”
“We’re going to keep riding as fast as we can after her, she’s going to need her family when she sees what happened.”
“My helpers can take you to Ruhelia directly with their magic,” Twilight offered. “I’ll let them know to come to you as soon as they are able. They won’t be able to teleport Kroanette however, not with her refraction bracelets. You’ll just have to wait until she arrives on her own.”
“Thank you, that would be most appreciated. And could you please tell the girls inside what happened? Let them know the truth and to be prepared to console a very upset centaur tonight.”
“I will. And… I am truly sorry for-”
“Stop apologizing, none of this is your fault. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“But I still feel like I should have-”
“Twilight, stop.”
“But this isn’t-”
“Twilight, stop apologizing for something you’re not at fault for. We’re not mad at you, I promise.”
“But still, I failed to-”
“Twilight, if you don’t stop blaming yourself for this then I swear when we open your seal the first thing I’m going to do is bend you over my knee and spank you for not listening.”
Squeak glanced to him with a faint smile that soon disappeared then looked up along with him as the reaper had fallen silent.
“You wouldn’t dare…” Twilight timidly said.
“I think you know I would,” Daniel answered looking forward again. “You didn’t cause Ruhelia to fall, that blame isn’t yours to bear. So no more talking like it is, understand?”
“…yes, Daniel Sorres,” Twilight softly replied. “I understand.”
“Good. Please go tell the others inside what’s happened, and don’t you dare tell them it’s your fault either. And don’t ever think you’ve failed us. After all you’ve done I’m indebted to you, Twilight. Don’t forget that.”
“No, it is I who is indebted to you, Daniel Sorres. And I promise I’ll pay that debt in full somehow, you have my word.”
The reaper’s voice faded from their minds while Daniel and Squeak looked to each other in concern. The ant girl squeaked before nuzzling close to Daniel as he used his arm to hold her near. The two watched Lucky pulling the carriage along the road while now knowing what lay ahead of them, something they knew was only going to cause heartache and sorrow with their family that night.
“Kroanette,” Daniel softly said. Squeak closed her eyes and cuddled against her man while he looked ahead with remorse. “I’m so sorry, Kroanette.”
*****
Inside the travelers’ home everyone had gathered in the library at a table to try to solve a very pressing mystery. After seeing something that was simply unheard of with their own eyes the girls were trying to figure out an answer for it that would make sense, and after struggling to think of one the same question that had been asked before was again brought up.
“Alright, let’s go over this one more time,” Clover announced as she stood at the table with a sharp eye on something. “It doesn’t make any fucking sense, but we need to get this figured out now. So, how the fuck are you okay, Triska?”
The other girls were seated and looking at Triska in bewilderment except for Cindy who was watching Snapper mauling her sandy bosom with tiny snarls. Alyssa was holding her head with a dull expression and slowly shaking it while Triska had a calm smile on her face.
“We saw what Alyssa was doing to you,” Specca recalled. “That sort of punishment was beyond words for us, it was simply terrifying to behold.”
“What was Alyssa doing to her?” Cindy wondered.
“Nothing that you need to know about,” Doku insisted. “Although the rest of us could certainly use an explanation as to how you’re perfectly fine now, Triska. You don’t seem to be traumatized at all.”
“Nope, I’m fine,” Triska said with a shrug.
“But how?” Falla cried out. “After what she did to you how could… how could you be fine?”
“How could I not be?” Triska asked with a smirk. “I had the time of my life in there.”
The girls looked to each other in confusion while Alyssa dropped her head onto the table with a thud.
“You had fun in there?” Luna wondered.
Star meowed at Triska with a baffled look on her face.
“Seriously, explain that shit to us!” Clover yelled out. “How can you just sit there with a smile on your face after what she did to you? How can you sit at all?”
“Yeah,” Alyssa droned as she looked up at the girls. “I forgot about it too.”
“Forgot what?” Doku asked.
“What excites Triska the most,” Alyssa flatly said with a dull glance to the smiling cambion. The other girls looked at one another curiously for a moment then to Triska as she giggled with a blush.
“She likes to be punished,” Falla remembered. “She gets off on being disciplined.”
“So she… liked what you were doing to her?” Specca wondered.
“She loved it,” Alyssa muttered, with Triska nodding and turning to her with a bashful smile. “I completely forgot why I never punished her much to begin with. It doesn’t work on her the same way.”
“You actually liked that shit?” Clover asked in bewilderment.
“I’m still confused,” Cindy said raising a hand. “What was Alyssa doing to Triska?”
“Making me so happy,” Triska sighed with a hand gently held to her cheek. “I loved every second of the time we spent together.”
“I didn’t catch on until I caught a smile she was trying to hide,” Alyssa grumbled. “She wasn’t suffering at all. She was relishing what I was doing to her. The pervert was only trying to make me do more to her the whole time.”
“You’re the pervert here,” Triska quipped with a smug grin. “I was only taking my punishment like a good girl. Just like you wanted.”
“I wanted to teach you a lesson, not to pleasure you!” Alyssa shouted back.
“Sorry,” Triska cooed while gently holding the witch’s cheek. “Want to spank me some more? Just say the word and I’ll bend over.”
Alyssa growled and pulled her hat down in frustration while Triska laughed amusedly. The other girls glanced to each other curiously then to Triska as she nonchalantly stretched out her arms with a relaxed sigh. She winked at them then noticed Kitten sitting on the table next to her, the demon watching her with a raised eyebrow and a slowly waving tail.
“You sneaky girl,” she mused. “So that’s why you so willingly accepted punishment from her. You wanted it all along.”
‘What can I say? I love being a bad girl.’
“So all that talk about taking what you deserve because it was right, that was just an excuse to get your ass spanked?”
‘No, I did have my punishment coming since I did make a mistake. I had to accept it as it was the right thing to do. It just so happens that I enjoy being punished. Not my fault, I am how I am.’
“Sneaky girl,” Kitten said with a smirk.
Triska watched Alyssa glaring at her and blew her a kiss, the witch growling while clenching her fists in frustration of her hard-to-discipline co-mate. The other girls looked to each other and shrugged, finding the answer they were given surprisingly easy to believe knowing how Triska was.
“Alright then,” Clover said with a raised eyebrow at the cambion. “That explains one mystery. Guess we should have seen that coming.”
“Love you,” Triska softly said to Alyssa.
“I hate you,” Alyssa muttered.
“I hate you more,” Triska playfully replied, then winked at Cindy. The sand wraith looked between the two then giggled as she remembered what that meant between the girls. Alyssa growled then shook her head with a scoff.
“I’ll deal with her later, somehow,” she said before pointing to the steel relic that was lying on the middle of the table. “For now what the hell happened with you girls and that thing?”
“Where did that come from?” Triska asked.
“From here,” Specca said holding a book up. She opened it and showed a hollowed slot inside the tome to the girls. “It looks like that object was in this book. When we threw it aside the object must have fallen out.”
“Why were you throwing Twilight’s books around?” Triska questioned. “That doesn’t sound like you, Specca.”
“I threw the books onto the floor so I could take Specca on the table,” Clover plainly said. Everyone looked to her in surprise while Specca blushed with a timid smile. “So sorry, next time I’ll be careful with them when I want to have sex with my co-mate.”
“Clover,” Specca shyly said holding her cheek. “Must you always be so blunt?”
“You were going to have sex with Specca?” Alyssa exclaimed. “On the table in the library?”
“Tried to, but the table broke,” Clover said with a shrug. “Damn thing couldn’t support the two of us apparently. Did not know that.”
“Whoa whoa whoa, hold on,” Triska ordered shaking her head. “You and Specca were… you…”
“Yes,” Clover sternly told her. “I was going to fuck Specca. Did you hear me this time? I was going to take her on the table and then maybe I would have taken her to the bath afterward and had my way with her again. Is there a problem with that?”
“Clover…” Specca breathed out with a hand held over her chest.
“What does that mean?” Cindy asked holding her hand up. “What were you doing with her?”
“Okay then,” Doku said rushing over and holding her wings over Cindy’s ears. “I think Clover made her point rather well. She wanted to bond with Specca in a loving and gentle way.”
“Fuck that,” Clover quipped with a smirk at the blushing nixie. “I was going to fuck her brains out.”
“Oh… my…” Specca said with a deep blush.
“Uh… you… and her?” Triska slowly questioned in bewilderment.
“She’s my co-mate, what’s wrong with that?” Clover snapped at her. “It’s not like I haven’t made love to a girl before. I know damned well how to use my hands and mouth on that girl’s body and believe me I was going to before that table broke on us.”
“Really wish it hadn’t now,” Specca quietly mentioned.
“What are you saying?” Cindy asked confusedly while Doku kept her wings pressed against her ears. “I can’t hear you.”
“You’re my family now,” Clover said looking down. “Dan’s my mate. I love him so fucking much. But I do also cherish you girls, especially since you always cared for me even when I was such a bitch to you. You’re my co-mates and I want us to get closer like we should.”
“Clover,” Triska softly marveled.
“Was I wrong to want to do that with Specca?” Clover asked her. “Am I overstepping my boundaries with her? Is eating the whore out of her something I shouldn’t do?”
“You and that dirty mouth of yours,” Specca timidly commented.
“You haven’t seen what I can do with it yet,” Clover quipped with a wink at her. The nixie blushed brightly then lowered her head with a smile while the elf glanced around at the stunned girls.
“Okay? Do you all get it now? I was going to fuck her because I love her. If that’s wrong then go ahead and chew me out over it. Otherwise you can just deal with it because that’s how I really feel.”
The girls looked to one another while Doku slowly let go of Cindy and walked back over to her seat, all of them remaining silent before turning to Clover as she crossed her arms with a stubborn scowl at them.
“Clover, I didn’t know you felt that way,” Triska admitted.
“It’s not easy showing it,” Clover confessed looking down. “But I’m trying to get out of my shell with you all. I’m trying to open up. It’s just… still a little scary.”
She felt her hand being taken hold of, her eyes turning to see Specca holding it with a gentle touch while smiling at her. Specca then pulled the elf down closer and kissed her, surprising Clover and the others who all watched in stunned silence. Clover hesitated at first then held the nixie’s cheek as she cherished the gesture from the girl. After the kiss ended Specca gave her hand a small squeeze then shrugged with a calm smile at the others.
“I don’t mind her opening up more with us.”
“You didn’t have to do that in front of all of them,” Clover stressed through her teeth as she turned away. “Geez, I wasn’t ready for that.”
“Saying out loud how you were going to ‘fuck’ me was alright, but a small kiss in front of your co-mates is crossing the line?”
“That’s different!” Clover shouted with a flustered expression. “Saying it and doing it are totally different things!”
Specca giggled at the shy elf then looked around at the girls as they smiled a little at them.
“I wasn’t against the idea of bonding with her,” Specca admitted with a shrug. “I can’t lie, she’s very skilled with her hands. She gave me the best full body massage I’ve ever had in my life.”
“She did?” Triska wondered.
“Yes, it was very soothing,” Specca agreed with a nod then showed a weak smile. “But before we could go any further than that the table broke beneath us. We tried to pick up where we left off on the floor, however…”
She looked down to the relic along with everyone else, the nixie showing a troubled expression while carefully adjusting her glasses.
“My tail slid over into the books on the floor and touched that thing. And when it did…”
“You lost your mind,” Clover recalled.
“It felt… beyond pleasurable,” Specca explained, with the girls looking to her curiously. “My entire body felt like it was bursting from within, like… like nothing I’ve ever felt before. My tail couldn’t pull away, I could hardly think, it was as if the night of the Dark Sabbath came upon me, only this time it was far, far more intense.”
“More intense than the Sabbath?” Alyssa worried.
“I thought I was going to die,” Specca fearfully told her. “It was frightening how I felt. Every bit of me was on the brink of the edge the entire time. I couldn’t stop climaxing, I could hardly draw a breath. The whole time my tail was touching that it felt like I was having sex to the highest degree, only it wouldn’t stop. I thought for sure my heart would fail from the stress.”
“It was that scary?” Luna nervously asked.
“It felt too good to resist,” Specca softly war
ned. “My inner nature hit me harder than ever, my whole body craved that damned thing uncontrollably. It was as if I was a slave to its touch, it made me feel too good. I can’t deny it, the way it made me feel… not even Daniel has ever sparked such emotion within me.”
“What?” Alyssa cried out. “That thing got you more excited than Daniel?”
“Yes,” Specca whimpered in remorse. “Alyssa, you have no idea what it was like. I couldn’t… I couldn’t control myself at all. I’ve never felt anything so strongly before in all my life, not even when I’m with Daniel. Whatever that thing is… I couldn’t resist it no matter how hard I tried.”
“My god,” Falla breathed out as all eyes turned down to the artifact. “Is that even possible?”
“I could never love anything more than Daniel,” Luna insisted. “Nothing could feel as good as it does when he holds me close.”
“How could that thing create such pleasure inside you like that?” Doku wondered.
“What is it anyway?” Clover asked glancing to Specca. “Does that book say?”
“I have no idea,” Specca said looking to the tome and flipping through its pages. “I can’t read it. I’ve never seen a language like this before.”
Star warped over and looked at the book from over the nixie’s shoulder. She tilted her head one way then another before meowing in confusion and shaking her head as the letters the book had were unlike anything she’d ever seen.
“There’s no way this thing can make me feel better than Daniel does,” Triska argued reaching out for the relic.
“Don’t!” Specca cried out. “Triska, you mustn’t-”
“Just hold on for a second!” Triska barked out. She carefully held one finger up then slowly moved closer to touch the steel rod. All the girls nervously watched as she rested her finger on the artifact before she jumped with a gasp.
“Triska?” Luna feared.
“Do you feel anything?” Alyssa asked.
Triska tried to say something but it was lost in her throat, the girl’s eyes glazing over as she trembled and struggled to breathe normally. Everyone watched with growing concern as Triska shut her eyes and clenched her teeth, her cheeks taking on a rosy color while she tightened her thighs together.
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