Note from the Author:
Hello again everyone! Thanks so much for your patience as I took the time needed to sort things out and start writing again! Over the past *checks watch* YEAR or so, I told many people many times that the next chapter would be done soon. However, every time, life got in the way. A new job, new relationship, travel, other projects, the end of covid restrictions, and good ol' fashioned burnout all took a toll. I did my best to keep in touch with everyone who messaged me, and all of your encouraging comments really helped keep me motivated. Fortunately, things have finally settled down now and I can get back to writing (and drawing, I hope) on a more regular basis.
Starting this chapter, I will be publishing shorter installments, so as to maintain a steady content flow. Writing gigantic 40K word short stories each chapter was clearly too taxing on me to maintain for long. While ambitious at the start, it quickly led to serious burnout, and wasn't a writing schedule I could really handle after several big life changes.
Hopefully these smaller uploads will suffice for everyone -- I've also heard feedback that some people find trying to read such large installations a bit daunting (which is understandable), so this should also make the act of actually reading the story less of a chore for you all (while making it less of a chore for me to write lol).
This chapter is technically only the first half of what was planned to be chapter 7, so the pacing (and amount of sexual content) isn't what I initially had in mind. I initially planned to have chapter 8 be the first "small chapter", but I wanted to share this portion now just to give everyone SOMETHING after such a long drought of content.
That said, the next part/chapter should be ready pretty soon, so there likely won't be a long wait until we get to see all the interesting new ways the Krinis have been evolving and using their cattle since Sarah and co last encountered them. Trust me, there's a lot yet to come. I'd love to be able to commit to a monthly release window or something, but I'll see how things go over the next couple chapters or so.
Anyway, as always, thanks for your continued understanding, patience, and support! I hope you manage to enjoy this chapter despite it being kinda oddly paced.
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A'luhr led the rest of the group as they slowly made their way through the winding, fleshy tunnels of the Krinis hive. Adam was still passed out from exhaustion, so she carried his trembling, naked body over one of her shoulders while Sarah leaned on her other one for support, trying to regain her energy while still moving expeditiously.
Zoey was in an even worse state than Adam. Her entire slender form was drenched in a mixture of sweat and cum, which had mostly dried into a sickening crust that made her pale skin shine in the dim lighting. Steven had desperately attempted to clean her off, but all he had at his disposal was his own bare skin - which was in only slightly better condition than hers - so there was little he could do.
Steven now held Zoey's unconscious body in a fireman's carry, flinching in embarrassment every time he felt his sister's still-hard nipples brush against his back. He trailed slightly behind the much stronger alien woman, but he didn't mind. Despite all they had been through, seeing A'luhr's shapely, tight blue ass bobbing up and down in front of him still served to put some pep back into his weary step.
The sounds of dripping fluids, moaning human captives, and squelching tentacles permeated the darkness around them as they walked in a nervous silence. A thick, sweet smelling haze filled the air and tenderly caressed their exposed flesh. Sarah felt her nipples stiffen slightly, but tried to keep her eyes locked dead ahead, as if worried that glancing at the slithering walls would greet her with the sight of a mottled tendril lurching out towards her, ready to drag her helpless body back into that hell of endless pleasure. Soon, however, the silence became too much to bear.
"Where are we going?" Sarah croaked, still having to exert considerable effort to speak complete sentences. "Did you find a way out before rescuing us?"
"Not quite," A'luhr responded, keeping her attention on the floor ahead of them to determine the optimal footfalls for avoiding any squirming, wayward tentacles. "These tunnels seem to have grown even more labyrinthian over time, so finding an easily accessible exit would be close to impossible, especially as we do not know how much time we have before The Queen returns." Sarah's already haggard expression drooped even further in disappointment.
"Yeah, but A'luhr thinks there's a chance we might find her ship somewhere in here!" Steven said, clearly trying his best to inject as much optimism as he could muster into his tone.
"Sh-ship...!?" Adam suddenly gasped, his eyes popping open as he jolted awake. The jerking movement caused him to fall off of A'luhr's shoulder and land on his rear in a pool of mucus-like orange slime. Sarah reached a hand down to him and he clasped it, rising unsteadily back to his feet while the orange goo dripped off his balls in goopy droplets. Sarah's eyes briefly flickered downward at his crotch but then awkwardly darted away as Adam finally stood in front of her.
"Oh, come on," Adam sighed, rolling his eyes. "We're all naked here, right? We've seen and done so many... things... already! So why are you being so prudish?" As Adam spoke and got a better look at his naked girlfriend, his penis - which had only recently started to soften for the first time in weeks - began to swell yet again. He mumbled something incoherent and hastily hid his erection with his hands. "...You, uh, said something about a ship?" Adam coughed, trying to regain his composure. Sarah smirked as Adam took A'luhr's arm that she offered him for support.
"It is not a certainty," A'luhr continued, walking slightly slower than before now that she had to deal with Adam's uncertain steps as well. "However, I believe it possible that my ship is mixed in with the non-organic refuse stored somewhere in the hive."
"Huh?" Sarah said, looking up at A'luhr in confusion. "The Krinis store trash?" She hadn't considered such an advanced alien race needing to deal with such mundane chores.
"I have noticed that instead of simply dissolving the captured humans' garments - something that should be quite possible for the Krinis - they instead prefer to physically remove them, possibly as it requires less resources. But where are all the discarded items?" Sarah raised her brows in surprise. Now that she thought about it, wouldn't it make sense for there to be piles of shredded clothes strewn about the squishy floors of the nest? From what she could tell, however, the surfaces were all immaculately clean, besides the countless rippling puddles of alien mucus and human cum, of course.
"It makes sense that they would want to keep the tunnels clear of debris given their need to sense vibration," Adam mused. "But how are we supposed to find whatever chamber they are using to dump stuff, if such a room even exists?"
"Simply follow the trail," A'luhr replied, using her long, antennae-like eyebrows to gesture towards a fork in the tunnel ahead. Sarah squinted into the dimly-lit recess of the fleshy walls. At first, all she saw were the several dozen naked bodies, helplessly trapped within the pulsating surfaces while being fucked in milked. Their muffled screams and moans distracted her for a moment, but as she looked closer, she saw another form of movement that stood out from the sea of otherwise writhing tentacles and limbs.
