This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
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Caught Cheating
With the windows of the old truck rolled all the way down - manually, of course, as such a decrepit beast of a truck wouldn't have something akin to modern convenience - Fyr let the breeze caress her muzzle as she blasted down the dirt track road. The truck bumped and rattled through potholes and she laughed aloud to herself as clouds of dust heralded her passing. It was a rather backwards route to the little house she and Ropes had together, out in the back country, but still not all that far from the comforts of civilization. In other words, it was the perfect compromise.
Gripping the steering wheel tightly, her claws cut into the old, scuffed leather (really superfluous for such a truck) as she directed it on, the path narrowing. Farmland stretched out as far as the eye could see on either side, long, lush waves of crops undulating softly in the warm breeze. Yes, summer was well and truly on its way and, while not scorching hot as yet, the glow of sunlight on her scales was proving to be very pleasant indeed.
Fyr grinned to herself. She was late, but, when that would have once sent her stomach doing somersaults, she couldn't find it in herself to worry anymore. Life was good! She was off out, coming back from town with a full load of shopping in the truck and a big tub of raspberry ripple ice cream just waiting to be shared with her husband with a movie on the new TV later.
She couldn't have said exactly why she was taking a longer route home, however, when life was clearly so good and she had a husband waiting, no doubt eagerly, for her back at home. Then again, maybe some things simply did not need an explanation. She just enjoyed her life and needed a different way to go; that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Ropes was always saying about not letting things become stagnant with them, constantly searching for something new and different for them, whether it was a new meal or something exciting for the bedroom.
Fyr shivered pleasurably. Yes, that was it. That was exactly it. Sometimes a dragoness had to go just a little bit off the beaten path to find what she was really looking for.
Turning back onto the main road as the dirt track came to an end, she revved the engine, the beast beneath her rumbling to a greater pace. Cattle in the fields neighbouring the road lowed, tails flicking in perfect rhythm to swat away the ever present nuisance of flies. With the hottest season of the year coming, their discomfort would only grow.
She fell into a contented daze as she moseyed her way down the road, knowing its gentle curves like the back of her paw as she sped home past the familiar farmhouse, sparser and sparser as she went. Land was plentiful and they had scored an admittedly ramshackle little house and, only recently, a barn that could house horses and other animals - whatever they wanted to make their farm complete.
With daydreams taking over her mind, it was no time at all before the happy dragoness found herself pulling into their wide driveway and parking up close to the front door. The front garden was still a mess after digging up the plant beds and she made a mental note to tackle that over the weekend. There was no rest for the wicked, but, sometimes, that was exactly how she liked it.
Where was the fun in being idle anyway?
She unloaded the shopping, scooting the bag handles along her arms until she carried three on each, and staggered to the front door. The key was a fumble and she dropped it twice, grumbling with a good-natured swish of her long tail, the tip curling.
"Ropes!" She called out as she entered, barging the door open with her shoulder. "I'm back!"
She grimaced at the weight of the plastic handles cutting into her arms and wrists, sliding irrevocably down her arms.
"Sorry I took so long, dear," she went on, fighting to adjust her load and failing as she slouched against the wall. "Can you give me a hand with these? I ended up with more than I expected."
He must have been taking a cat nap. Fyr frowned, tilting her head to catch any note of sound - anything at all - from someone inside the house. Just where the heck was that cougar? No answer was forthcoming even as she waited patiently and she threw her weight back against the front door with a little more force than was strictly necessary, slamming it shut with a loud bang. Fyr smirked. There! Let the darn cat sleep through that!
Yet still the cougar did not appear even as she growled to herself and called for him twice more, voice rising in volume each time. She clicked her teeth together and shook her head, eventually giving up and stumbling slowly down the hallway to the kitchen, bypassing the sitting room even as her shoulders ached, arms protesting.
He must not have heard me, she tried to reason with herself, a muscle jumping anxiously in the corner of her jaw. Darn it, has he borrowed those headphones again? He can't hear a thing with those on!
It probably wasn't the headphones, but putting Ropes' silence down to an external factor soothed a little of the boiling anger in her stomach down to a slow simmer. She couldn't blame him. After all, she could have left the shopping by the front door and ferried it down one bag at a time, or even two bags at a time. That would have been better. As it was, she revelled in her struggle, hauling the bags up onto the kitchen counter for her unpacking attention. Although her arms burned and sweat dampened the scales behind her frill, she huffed and puffed her way through the exhilaration of moving such a load on her own.
If only Ropes had been there to smile and praise her. She bit her lip. There was nothing quite like that for her.
Unpacking the last bag in the cool comfort of the kitchen, Fyr huffed and put her paws on her hips. Ropes really should have appeared already, it was getting silly. She shook her head. Hadn't he even wondered why she'd been out for so long - longer than she'd said she would be?
Pacing to the bottom of the stairs, her back to the front door where he should have met her, Fyr listened carefully. Was the cougar even home?
Something banged upstairs, a mutter eking its way down the stairs. She tilted her head to the side, forehead furrowing.
What on earth?
"Ropes?" Fyr called up, one hand on the banisters. "What's going on up there?"
Something thumped and she swore she heard someone giggle. The hackles rose on the back of her neck, scales prickling. The sounds above her stilled, an eerie quiet settling over the house.
Ropes didn't giggle.
But then who did?