Author's note: This short vacuous historical stroker is fiction. All players are humans over age 18. Tags: Old Mexico, double dildo, servant, duenna, laundry. If you are offended, stop reading now. Views expressed may not be the author's. Details may be incorrect. Consider the story as translated from Spanish. Enjoy!
***** THE VISITOR *****
A foreign trader comes to the capitol.
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== 01 == ARRIVAL ==
This day before the June solstice in the year of our lord 1795 here in the great capitol of New Spain was hot, of course. The wet season was past. A mile and a half in the sky, this high, dry air already bore its summer smell. Mounts Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl gazed smokily on us sinners, have mercy.
My confessions are dull. The priest must fall asleep when I tell my little tales.
I sat beside my faithful girl Xochimitl, my Indio servant, on the balcony of my upstairs bedroom overlooking the cobbled
calle
. Plodding people and an occasional noisy cart or wagon moved beneath us. We paid little attention, being busy with my study — me reading passages from the weary tome on the table, she quizzing me on what I must learn to satisfy the nuns.
Literate and numerate servants are such a blessing so long as they stay honest. Paid clerks or tutors would cost Father much more. Xochimitl claims to be a
Mixteco
minor princess. They must be fairly common and cheap or Father would not have bought me one,
¿sí?
But she is pretty for an Indio, and loyal. I value loyalty.
Xochimitl and I, our feet bare, wore only simple unbelted cotton shifts for decency and ventilation in the heat. My balcony's tightly-woven railing guards us from most upturned eyes but we still cannot be naked here. Except on moonless nights. After the bats roost.
I do not mention bats in my confessions. I do not remember dreams of bats, have mercy.
A detail on the street caught my attention — not for what was there, but what was missing. Sound was missing. I saw coming from the west into town a modest wagon drawn by two sturdy horses almost silently, without the terrible screech of raw axles or the usual rocky bouncing and rattling on cobbles. But this was no noble's or bishop's fine coach, only a light wagon.
The driver was a striking man wearing tight buckskins so pale they were almost white. His sharp-featured face was not like the hidalgos, Indios, mestizos, or others here. He looked weather-worn, not old. And he stopped just next door!
Father is an important knight and owns a good plot of land a league west of
Ciudad de México
's central distinct. The damn English would call that three miles. Our hacienda sits so our street balconies are shaded from the summer sun. Smaller
casas
with gated courtyards sit on either side of Father's big house. All our houses are behind a street wall, of course, and walled from each other.
Father gave the larger house nearer the city to Jaime and Julio, our foul cousins and their worthless broods from Puebla. He gave the westerly house to Dulcia and Rosa, sweet unwed cousins from Acapulco on the
Mare Pacifica
. Horses and goats graze the pasture behind our houses, past our herb and flower gardens.
The wagoneer reigned-in next door at Dulcia and Rosa's gate. Curiosity took me. I quit my studying, peered over the balcony railing, and heard the man pull the gate's bell chain.
"Look there," I told patient Xochimitl. "I wonder at his purpose."
From my oblique angle I could not see who answered the gate. I saw the man pass papers in, followed by a long, slender box. I heard a woman squeal and saw Dulcia move out to embrace the man. She opened the gate. He smoothly drove into the cobbled courtyard.
I padded inside and peeked from my open bedroom window overlooking them. Quiet Xochimitl stood beside me. The man unhitched his horses, led them in back for the groom Diego to tend, and returned. Dulcia brought Rosa from their house; she embraced him, too. The man handed a cloth bundle from the wagon to Rosa. She and Dulcia, wearing white blouses and long flowery skirts, each held a hand of the man and led him to steps descending to the spring pool. Dulcia still held the slim package.
Many town women rely on church or public fountains for drinking and washing water. Not us. Dulcia and Rosa's house sits above a spring with an enclosed pool a few varas (yards) wide. Reinforced walls rise on three sides of the tiled pool and deck surround. The far side is open to admit light and watch the pasture and beyond but is fairly hidden from outside.
The trickle is sufficient. We all drink fresh spring water. They launder in the pool. Runoff feeds gardens and pasture. Nothing goes to waste.
Why would the cousins take this strange man there?
I felt sneaky. "Let us spy on them," I told Xochimitl. "Come on to the viewing slot."
Our houses may be separate but not totally. Narrow stairs in a twisty passageway dropped to a nook where we could peer into the secluded cavern and inhale its cool air.
Women living along New Spain's river or lake shores launder in naked groups, swimming with soaped clothes, gossiping and laughing. Dulcia and Rosa laundered naked in the pool and Xochimitl and I often swam there. I watched them and the man now — they all stripped to the skin. Rosa took the finely-muscled man's buckskins and soaked those and the clothes from his bundle in a scrub basin.
The three slipped into the tiled pool. Dulcia touched the man, and embraced and kissed him. Rosa joined them, all wrapped close together, their mouths united. I felt warm.
They stood. Rosa and the man suckled Dulcia's plump breasts. He and Dulcia nursed at Rosa. She sighed and, after a short while, led them from the pool to sit on the smoothly tiled deck. She opened the mysterious slender package and held what looked like a carved rod of burnished ivory as long as an arm, slightly curved, maybe as thick as two fingers, with knobs at each end like mitres, bishops' hats, each about as thick as two thumbs..
"What is that?" I whispered to Xochimitl.