Chapter 39 - Topock Follies
Topock, Arizona: 2357 June 14, 19:00 hours
The sun would be up for a long while yet and it was still pretty hot, well over 35-36 degrees Celsius I was thinking. Most of the women I saw as I walked down to the men's tent, were stripped as much as their modesty would allow and kept to the shade of the tents for the most part.
I saw Gloria and Marta walking hand in hand with towels over their shoulders toward the river.
The men's tent had the sides angled out, one side was rolled even higher on the east side that faced the company street, and a low screen of woven reeds gave an illusion of privacy around the crude furnishings. I could see that they were setting around in their shorts.
Jack grinned at me as I walked into the tent, "Hey Josh, let me get you a beer. Ron, introduce him to your Steelheads."
A guy about thirty shook my hand and said, "Happy spawning, I'm Ron Raft. I'm the Kiva master."
"Good to meet you Ron, Josh Perkins, sixth level, Lone Pine Kiva"
Ron grinned at me, "Seventh level, Steelhead Kiva, but who's counting."
Ron led me around the tent and introduced me to his guys. They were mostly well under thirty and looked at me with a bit of awe. They all gave me the "Happy spawning," line and shook my hand.
Jack came back in with a beer and handed it to me. The bottle was corked and after drinking Burney beer with the flip off stopper it seemed strange. He lifted his beer up, "To the mother goddess whatever her name. Whatever her shape, age or color. May she find satisfaction in our arms!"
I joined him in the Lone Pine toast and took a drink. The beer was only moderately cool and tasted odd. I looked at the bottle, "If you like this you are going to love Burney. They keep their beer real cold and it is a lot better than this horse piss."
Jack laughed, "Yeah, the beer's pretty pitiful here. So what is Burney like, Josh?"
"Well, it is a lot like Davis really, but different. They have a very similar technology base as far as I can tell. Their politics are a little strange."
Jack looked at me, "What do you mean?"
I started to strip, because it was so friggin' hot and sat down on one of the beds to take off my boots, "Well there's the Administration, they are the real power, but then there is the Village Council and of course the Black Brothers Trust." When I looked around all the guys were looking at me strangely.
"What about the Burney women?" one of the guys asked forlornly.
I pulled off my pants and grinned, "Very friendly, in fact so friendly that it's hard to keep their hands out of your pants, if that's what you meant?"
The guys all were grinning now gathered around me. "Tell us more," another asked.
By now most all of the women were drifting off toward the river with their towels. One of the Steelheads, looked under the tent side and asked, "Where are they going?"
I looked out of the tent, "I think the Ambassador is giving them a talk about Burney, I guess they are doing it at the river." I grinned, "That sounds like it might be fun!"
"Yeah right," one of the Steelheads said in sarcastic tone, "We've been here with over a hundred women and can't fuck any of 'em"
I looked at him, "But I thought only the Second Scouts were restricted?"
He stared back at me in disgust, "No that hard assed Major said, 'If some of the girls can't fuck, the rest should join them in solidarity. Won't none of 'em fuck!"
I thought that awfully strange since Denise had been humping my hand not much more than an hour ago!
One of the Steelheads piped up from the back, "It's cause of your skinny dick, they just won't fuck you, Brice," Brice looked around to see who had spoken.
I laughed at poor Brice along with the rest of them and figured I'd divert the mood, "Things are changing in Burney, when we first got there they kept their men in barracks and practiced artificial insemination only. The guys would get blown twice a week, by toothless grandmothers and they never got to even smell a pussy, unless one of the old women gave 'em a piece on the sly."
"Naw, that ain't right!" Ron said.
"Well like I said, things are changing. They had a vote a while back and released their breeders into the population. I still don't know how that's going to turn out, but Sarge released us to cover recreationals on the sly, the week that I left. Before that we were just doing inseminations mostly," I laughed, "Still are a lot of potential mothers left, and the night they released the men, they opened the Bath house to all the men and women who wanted to copulate. The Corp suspended our restrictions and it was a real cluster fuck, I understand."
A younger guy asked me, "What do you mean? Didn't you join in?"
I grinned, "Naw, I took two of them home, spent the night with the De Soto sisters. That was more than enough for me."
"You mean you fucked the Ambassador?"
"No, not that night. Astral and Lauren De Soto are cousins of Amelia, the Ambassador. I had covered Astral at the Bahia ceremony and Lauren is her older sister. There are a lot of De Soto's in Burney, and Blacks. I did impregnate Astral and maybe her cousin April, and one or two of the Blacks. I've got about fourteen knocked up since we got to Burney. Black Dick is leading the pack just now, I think he's at eighteen."
My score didn't appear to impress them, I guess. Even in Redding fifteen or so in three months is pretty average, so I added, "There only about 200 women in Burney, but maybe more. That's one of the things that's strange."
"How do you mean?" Ron asked and drank his beer.
I took a drink and pondered a second, "Well when we got there Ginny said that the population was about 250 with 18 men, as I remember, and Amelia made a comment about 358 or so on the way out here, but since then I've seen what, seems like, a lot more women than that, if you count the kid girls which are everywhere. Hard to tell they move around so much, and when one is pulling on your dick, it's hard to count the others," that got a few laughs and a couple of guys nodded.
"What's a Bahia ceremony?"
"The Bahia is an organization, not really Administration, although most of the Administration seems to be Bahia. When a girl gets to be eighteen, she can join the Bahia and pledge her breasts to the Community, you know to have kids for the good of the community. They do a dance and bare their breasts and everybody treats then like a Goddess for a year, then they cover one breast and they're journey women.
At the ceremony this year we popped all their cherries, well more symbolically than really, and the girls are now women, in the eyes of the people. That was a strange night, I mean there were just us six scouts and four Burney Black Brothers, and over 20 new Bahia, some guys had to do three. I just did the two, twice."
The guys nodded and whispered among themselves until one asked, "What about the HOG?"
"They don't have a HOG, just a Bath house. It's like a HOG, but without warmβ¦, errβ¦, Mothers Assistants. It's a really nice place and kind of the social center of village life. A lot of the dwellings in Burney have running water and a wood fired water heater, and showers and such, but most of the women use the community bath house at least once, or twice a week it seems. After eight o'clock it is limited to adults over 18, and then the fun starts. I spend a lot of time there because I started a business washing women's hair and giving massages."
"You mean you're never off?" a Steelhead about my age asked.
"I do it to get to know the women and find out what's happening, you hear a lot of things in the bath house. Besides you get to see the women naked in the baths and get to know them before you service them."
I took a sip and wiped the sweat off my forehead and continued, "We set up a three day rotation, Sarge Thompson is Kiva Master and has two guys up, two doing fill in and two resting, so most times you get two days to rest up, unless you want to cover overflow. The Black Brothers provide two and sometimes more a night. The women are on a schedule to make sure they're fertile, so they get a week during their season to try, or not, their choice. Most come in the day their names are posted on the bulletin board in front of the mess hall, along with our duty roster,"
I paused to take a drink and tasted sludge at the bottom of the bottle and had to get up to spit that shit out, into the street.
"Let me get you another, You'll find it's not wise to upend Puebla beer," Jack grimaced in distaste and took my bottle.
About that time a girl came up and knocked on the tent pole and Ron went over to see what she wanted. She talked to Ron quietly, but her eyes were on the mostly naked Steelheads in the tent behind him. "Hold here Sally," Ron said, "Let me get Jack."
Jack was coming in from the cooler with beer and he passed me one as he went to the door. Jack, Ron and Sally walked out into the street keeping to the lengthening shade, but where they weren't overheard.
I opened my beer and drank a goodly dose to clear out the sludge from the first one. Ron was smiling and Jack was grinning when they came back to the tent. Jack came through the door, "Listen up boys. I've got good news and I got bad news, what do you want first?"
"The good news!" the majority shouted.
Jack grinned, "You boys are about to get Fucked!"
Well that got the Steelheads wiggling and cries of, "Alright!" and "Yee Haw!" filled the tent.
"What the hell is the bad news, Jack?"
Ron bent over laughing as Jack said, "There's going to be about twenty of 'em!" Jack rubbed his hands together and someone said, "Oh that is bad news for a Pine Tree, just about enough for a Steelhead."
I laughed and asked, "How'd that happen?"
Jack said, "Well at the meeting apparently one of the engineers complained about the lack of cock around here and the Ambassador said something like, 'But there are ten or twelve men here, why are you wasting their seed?' Well there was an uproar and Major Funston got up and called off her prohibition, she said any engineer who wanted to, could get some tonight, if the men agreed. 'Course Ron and I agreed and said we could supply a dozen dicks. Sally looked really happy and ran back down the hill," Jack looked into the back of the tent and shouted, "Anybody that needs to shave ought to do it now."
Jack came back and sat on the bed with me and held up his beer. I clinked beers with him, "Looks like the Steelheads will see what a cluster fuck is like before they get to Burney."
I laughed when he grinned, and said, "I haven't had a cluster fuck since the year before last. I was down in Bakersfield and the drovers from Fort Tejon came in. It was three days of all you could eat. Are you coming Josh?"
"Nah, I can't join you guys, I already agreed to an insemination."
"Who?" Jack asked.