When Charity woke up she was lying in the dirt on the ground. She looked around. Nothing looked familiar. There was vegetation and flying insects and birds and beasts, but none of it looked like anything that she had seen before. The terrain was mountainous and rocky, but lush.
She slowly stood up, brushing the dirt from her sore breasts, passing her hands over the metal rings looping her waist and the hard metal faceplate of her chastity belt. She shook out her long mane of dark green hair.
Hope!
Where could she be?
Charity slowly turned in a circle, gazing out into the unfamiliar landscape. After a moment, she knew which way to go and started off to find Hope.
She climbed over a mountain ridge and through a meadow filled with a herd of large mammals that mostly ignored her passage. She descended down into a valley and waded across a swift stream. She gathered some berries to eat as she traveled. She used some large, floppy leaves to carry more berries to give to Hope when she found her. She stopped and turned again until she found the proper direction to go in.
Something was wrong with Hope. She could feel it in her bones and she began to jog.
In the distance she saw a large tree. That was where Hope was. Charity knew it. She ran up to the tree and stepped into its hollow trunk. Hope was lying there, unconscious on a bed made of dry leaves. Charity knelt down next to the bed and slid a hand across Hope's cheek.
Her lips! Hope's lips did not have needles in them anymore. They were gone. Charity looked at Hope's nipples and crotch. All the needles were gone. She leaned down and kissed Hope on the lips for the first time.
Hope groaned softly. She seemed barely alive.
Charity pulled up some berries for Hope to eat. She pushed them to her mouth, but Hope weakly slapped at Charity's hand. Hope made some sounds with her mouth and briefly opened her eyes, only to close them again.
Charity found a curved piece of wood with a bit of water standing on it and touched it to Hope's lips. As Hope's little pink tongue grazed the water, Charity suddenly realized what she needed to do. A particular instinct suddenly engaged within Charity's being.
She raised Hope's head up and pressed her nipple to Hope's mouth. Charity did not know how, but ever since she had awoken her breasts had felt sore and heavy. Now, she knew why. She was beginning to lactate.
It took some work, but once Hope got a bit of a taste of Charity's milk, she gained the strength to draw forth more. Soon, she was appropriately latched and Charity settled into a strange new floating cloud of bliss.
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Faith was eating breakfast when Dammasch entered her spacious, opulent bedroom.
"I have a gift for you!" Dammasch said, presenting a tablet-sized touchscreen device for Faith to look at. "This is a way to see what is going on in that little toy universe that I made for Charity and Hope."
"Oh!" Faith said, surprised. "You have already added Charity to the simulation?"
Faith took the screen and looked at the image. "Is she breast feeding?"
"Well..." Dammash said slowly, grinning. "Now that Charity is a womanimal, there is a particularly impermeable communication gap between her and Hope. I was worried that they might grow apart over the course of time. Believe me! There is nothing more lonely than being a one-of-a-kind in an entire universe. You and I both know that!"
Faith nodded.
"So, I added a bit of extra dependency to keep the two together," Dammasch explained. "Hope can't digest any of the available food in the universe. Only Charity can nourish her."
"Why didn't you remove all their chains and piercings and Charity's chastity belt?" Faith asked. "Since they are in a simulation, there doesn't seem to be a need to carry over their, uh, metal induced restrictions."
"I got rid of all of Hope's needles!" Dammasch said. "Those were just cruel! But... when you place someone into a simulation, we have found that it's best to use an exact replica of their actual selves. When you make changes, the individual learns to deal with the change fairly quickly, but after about a year in simulation-time, they fully integrate with the change. So, if you bring them out of the simulation, there is a huge misalignment between who they are and who they think they are. It can be messy."
"What about that nursing - feeding thing that you added?" Faith asked. "Mightn't that become part of who they are?"
The Goddess shrugged her shoulders. "Hmm... Oh! Look! There are some controls here too." Dammasch grabbed the tablet and tapped a button a number of times. "This speeds up the passage of time in the simulation, so you can fast forward to some interesting events. Let's see... 3... 4... 5... Here! I just advanced the clock eight months!"
Faith looked into the screen. "Oh! Good! Hope looks much more healthy!" Hope was sitting in a meadow, smiling, watching Charity run through fields with three young, fleet footed deer-like animals. Charity circled around laughing. She did a forward roll and slid up next to Hope, kissing her on the lips, then jumping up and running off again.