Introduction
This story is a rewrite of a story written by Married_Man_63 back in 2015. I was intrigued by the set up of the story, but found myself disappointed that he didn't dig deeper into the world hinted at in the story.
With his permission, I decided to try a re-write of the story.
I made an attempt to publish this re-write a while back, but I tried to put it into the category where it best matched for content (Loving Wives). The problem is, this is a
long
story. I feel like the only place it has any possibility of being appreciated is in Novels and Novellas.
There will be lots of sex in this story, but there will also be considerable time spent trying to develop a system of magic and trying to explore the characters involved. There may be chapters with little to no sex. Often the sex will only be implied. The sex will seldom be described with lots of detail.
I think it's important to give readers a warning at this point. The protagonist of this story is a young woman who gains access to supernatural powers she never imagined possible. She is in a committed relationship with a man, but ends up using these newfound powers to explore her sexual desires with
lots
of other people of both sexes. If you do not like stories about a promiscuous woman and her man who finds that he actually
likes
this behavior, then this will not be a story for you.
There will be a lot of times in this story when characters are communicating non-verbally, essentially inside each other's heads. This presents a challenge as an author because we don't have readily accepted ways to indicate non-verbal communication. There is no equivalent to quotation marks for communication that takes place entirely within one's mind. In addition, I decided that there should be a clearly understood power dynamic with this type of non-verbal communication. One of the people will clearly take a more dominant position in the communication and the other a more submissive position. I will indicate this type of communication using dashes (-) instead of quotation marks, and will put the more dominant character in bold with the more submissive character in italics to try to make it easier to follow.
Prologue
Hamid looked down at the prostrate form of his wife and queen, Jaleh, with a tear running down his cheek. He loved her more than life itself. It was a fact he was willing to demonstrate through his own actions that very evening.
It had to be that evening. He was sure of that. He held her hand in his own. He could feel the ebbing of her life force. She would not last the night, even with the continual infusion of his energy into her. It had been three weeks since she had last been conscious enough to speak to him. It had been the hardest three weeks of his entire life.
She lay, naked, on the altar he had built out of stone with his bare hands. It pained him greatly to see her naked form, looking very much like a skeleton with a coat of skin wrapped around it. She had once been one of the most beautiful women to have ever lived. He had fallen in love with her the moment he had laid eyes on her for the first time, in spite of the fact that she had been using her power to inflict pain on someone else. He had loved her and that love had changed her. Not completely, of course. She still had a long ways to go, but he hadn't been given time to teach her everything he wanted to teach her.
The disease had ravaged her body. If not for his ability to draw on the energy of others and feed it into her, she would have been dead months ago.
He closed his eyes and looked with his soul at what appeared to be a shimmering vertical sheet of the deepest black that can be imagined, extending outwards in all directions. He reached his hand out to touch the void and could see, in his mind's eye, the swirling of colors and patterns. He had learned that he could identify those patterns and touch them and then follow them with his mind to their source, which led him inside the consciousness of others.
It had been Jaleh that had taught him how to do it. He experienced it in a way that was very different from her, but once he described his experience to her, she learned how to help him navigate the paths of subconsciousness and enter into the minds of others.
It was ironic then that he found her resisting him, even after the many years of her allowing him to learn by joining inside of her own consciousness.
-I am ready, love-