Tales of
Erogenia
Based
on the online comic created by J.E. Draft.
Episode 2: Journey to
Jinqua
Chapter
13: Return?
Oh, Goddess!
Zenaria gasped. She was face
down on the huge bed, her arms clutching the bedpost and her hips slightly
raised by a brace of pillows. Sir
Varden was ploughing her furrow like a farmer with a three horse
team. His stamina was incredible,
more than making up for his lack of technique and his somewhat prudish nature,
and he had forced her to the edge of orgasmic
exhaustion.
Your goddess will
not save you now, Princess, Varden
replied. He reached forward,
squeezed her breasts and leaned back and slammed into her another dozen
times.
Zenaria
moaned. Varden was hung like
his horse; another characteristic that helped to make up for his neophyte
lovemaking. The head of his shaft
was tickling her cervix, and he had considerably more in
reserve. He pulled out, giving
her a brief respite before turning her on her side and lifting her left
leg. Shifting his weight he straddled
her right thigh, opening her vulva to still another
attack.
He eased his way in, using
her raised leg to hold her steady, and slowly began top move in and out of
her throbbing pleasure garden. He
pulled her close, penetrating her deeply while lightly caressing the area
just above her nether lips. Zenaria
could not hold back a scream as her body contracted in yet another
orgasm. Then Varden released
his seed into her.
Still quivering, Zenaria
settled into Vardens arms.
For all of his strength and energy, he was a gentle and compassionate
lover, one who would certainly improve with time and practice; and she fully
intended to give him that practice.
I could stay with
you forever, Princess, Varden said as he stroked her hair, but
we have already been two days in this room and I think it is time we
returned.
I suppose you are
right, Zenaria agreed, as she snuggled
closer. I still have my
embassy to complete.
Umm, Varden
hemmed, it is another reason I had in mind.
Oh? Zenaria
asked. The hesitation in the
knights voice told her that something was
coming.
Varden shifted his position
so that he could look her in the face.
I have broken my vow of
celibacy. I will admit that while
in lion form I was not in control of my faculties, but I broke it
nonetheless. And now that we
have become intimate there is no going
back. There is only one way I
can atone for my transgression.
Zenaria pushed away from
him. Are you trying to
tell me that you are ashamed of what we
did? Furious, she got to
her feet. By the Moon and
Sun, we have been intimate, as you call, it for two
days. Im so sore I can
hardly walk and you talk about your honour.
Zenaria, it is not
like that, Varden said, his voice thick with
emotion. Im just
not very good at expressing myself.
Of course I enjoyed our two days
together. It has been the most
wonderful experience of my life.
But I cannot leave you like this.
I love you and wish to marry you.
Love.
That really complicated things the way that Varden meant
it. Zenaria knew enough about
Kivalian culture to understand that it meant something different from the
way an Erogenian meant it. Liaisons
in Snow Leopard society could be anything from casual sex to very strong
love relationships, but that didnt necessarily mean a permanent
bonding. Even children could
be raised outside relationships, as was the case with her daughter, children
being considered to be the responsibility of the entire
community. The problem was she
was quite sure that Varden would not understand any of
this. Somehow she had to find
a way to explain to him that lovemaking and marriage were two quite separate
things without destroying their
friendship.
Marriage? she
said. I am a princess of
the Snow Leopard. I cannot marry
without the permission of my
queen. That was a bit of
a stretch, almost certainly Queen Cirilia, Zenarias mother, would approve
any relationship Zenaria chose.
Warriors of the Snow Leopard did not marry for dynastic or political
considerations, however, like most mothers, the Queen would probably appreciate
being informed of her daughters choice, and so it was not entirely
a lie.
Then we must return
to your homeland and seek permission, Varden
said. We should ask Alzid
at once.
I cannot return home
until I have completed my embassy, Zenaria
said. But I see no reason
why we should part.
I think, Varden
said, that you do not love me as I do you.
I suspect you are
right, Zenaria said.
It would not be candid of me to say otherwise, but I see no
reason why we should not remain lovers.
Varden seemed torn, as Zenaria
had expected he would be. Clearly
he did not understand her reluctance to commit herself to
him. To him sex was synonymous
with love; and love meant marriage.
It would take time, but she was sure that she could eventually make
things clear to him. She still
truly loved only one man and that was not the Kivalian
knight.
It is late,
she smiled, attempting to soften the
blow. And we have made
ourselves very tired. Let us
sleep and tomorrow we will go to the Emperor and ask his permission to
leave.
Varden held out his arms
and they returned to the bed. They
did not make love again, but lay together, their bodies
touching. The next morning they
requested an audience with the Emperor.
Pulan agreed to see them
almost at once. Apparently the
fact that they were officially Saviours of the Empire carried
a little bit of weight. When
they arrived in the magnificent gardens that Junal preferred to use as his
throne room both Pulan and Alzid awaited
them.
We expected that you
would eventually wish to return, Alzid
said. Preparations have
been made for that eventuality.
The preparations
appeared to be little more than greetings and gifts to Zenarias and
Vardens respective monarchs.
As befitted a warrior race Zenaria was given a sword of the finest
Jinguan steel to give to Cirilia.
It had been charged with magical properties that made it virtually
indestructible and insured that it remained razor edged even under the heaviest
use. It was a gift that Zenaria
wholeheartedly approved of and her delight was more than
obvious.
Sir Vardens gift was
a robe of the finest silk that gave its wearer the ability to instantly replenish
the healing powers characteristic of a member of Sir Vardens
order. It was something that
would go a long way to buying him absolution for the breaking of his vow
of celibacy.
The gift giving complete
and the farewells said, Zenaria and Sir Varden were escorted to the hall
housing the Orb of Power.
From here you will be sent back to where Junal abducted you,
Alzid explained. I
expect you can make your own way home from there.
Zenaria smiled,
partly because she was glad to
be returning to familiar ground and partly because she suspected that the
Jinguans were not particularly comfortable with two such potentially disruptive
barbarians in their midst. No
doubt there would be a sigh of relief when they were finally on their
way.
Alzid had them stand close
to the Orb and began the usual slow
chant. With the Orbs power
he needed no help from Pulan or Dendar.
As the chant progressed the Orb began to pulse with power and Zenaria
felt herself being drawn toward it like a chip of wood in a
whirlpool. And then there was
the almost familiar disorienting and stomach-turning sensation as the world
around her disappeared.
Alzid stood looking where
the warrior princess and her knight had
stood. Farewell,
Princess, he muttered.
I wish you and your lover good
fortune.
Zenaria stood blinking in
the bright sunlight, her sword in her
hand. She did not remember drawing
it, but it now seemed like a very good
idea. She and Varden were standing
in a wilderness setting of strange thorny trees and tall
grasses. Off in the distance
was a large herd of large-horned animals, but it was the bizarre creatures
standing just a few hundred feet away that drew their
attention.
They were the size of large
huts with huge fan-like ears and two gigantic teeth that curved out and upward
from their massive heads. But
most extraordinary was the long flexible nose of each of the creatures that
they waved about like a tentacle.
Zenaria looked at
Varden. I dont think
this is Erogenia, she sighed.
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