I had to hand it to Elise, she definitely worked hard. There were ten of us sitting around the dinner table with various dishes set out, from meatloaf to tuna casserole. It was pretty obvious from her exasperated expression that she considered me and Lorraine's weird ability to be a nuisance and was stressed out, but the sight of a packed dining room invoked a smile. On one long side were the girls and I and on the other were Lorraine and the guys. Sitting at the ends were Betty and Elise.
I think the girls were starting to relax in the presence of these... I don't know what to call them, fellow animalistic humanoids? Hybrids? Sonja and Steve were definitely getting along, her hyperactive and bubbly personality a perfect match to his nonstop chattering. They were both talking so fast and so loud that Lorraine and I had to repeatedly reel them in before things got too crazy.
Momo and Tobi were having a silent staring contest while they ate, but it didn't really seem to be tense or antagonistic. They were the most predatory animals in the room and I got the feeling they could sense it in each other, so they were linked in their own special wavelength.
"Momo likes your tail."
"Yours is nice, too."
It surprised me when they finally spoke to each other, but I was glad that it went that well.
Going by the pattern, next would be Chloe paired up with Alex, but that didn't seem to be happening. I don't know if it was due to his slow and docile personality as an iguana or if he had some mental disability, but it was hard to get any kind of reading from him. I had already figured out that he was a mute, but he would smile and nod whenever someone talked to him. For Chloe who was nervous and introverted, the only kind of chemistry it gave them was that neither of them acknowledged each other.
However, Betty seemed to have taken a liking to her, always keeping her gaze on her and continuing to put food on her plate while insisting she continued eating. "There you go, little one," she'd say as she'd use her napkin to wipe some cheese off Chloe's chin. I had already explained to everyone that Chloe wasn't a child; she just had a tiny body. Despite that, Chloe seemed to have stirred some kind of maternal instinct in Betty. She used to be a breeding cow after all.
"So, the two of you run the farm yourselves?" I asked, speaking to Elise and Lorraine.
"Our parents left it to us before they passed and we've been running it ever since."
"Well, right now YOU run it. I was booted out," said Lorraine.
"Come on, it's not like I had much of a choice. I didn't want to get up every morning and have to check the barn for any naked men."
"I had to do the same thing. I used to live in the suburbs and when Momo transformed, I made sure to always keep her inside so no one would see her, though we would go for walks in the evening."
"Walking your cat," said Lorraine with a laugh.
"Then after Sonja, I moved to a small cabin deep in the woods."
"That sounds really nice, I bet they were happy to have all that room," said Elise.
"Yeah, the problem is that the house loses power really easily. It was especially bad with that huge storm"
"But I bet it was easy to keep warm with all the sex you were having."
Lorraine's words made Elise spit out her drink and me choke on the food I was eating.
"Jesus Christ, Lorraine!" his sister said while coughing.
"What? We're really going to ignore the elephant in the room?" She looked at me. "Come on, you expect me to believe you've been living with three beautiful women and you've kept your hands to yourself?"
I wasn't sure how to answer. On one hand, it would have been weirder if I HADN'T had sex with the girls. But on the other, I felt like I would lose all of Elise's respect if I admitted it.
"Besides, he was balls deep in Betty this morning." She turned to the girls with a mischievous grin. "I bet he gives you all the same attention."
"Master loves to play with us! We do it every night!" Sonja proudly declared.
Oh Sonja, why?
Then Steve decided to make it even more awkward.
"We also have fun with Mistress! Every night, she invites the three of us to wrestle with her! She loves taking us all at the same time!"
I honestly felt a small part of me die when he said those words. Elise had her head in her hands, but I could tell she wasn't learning about it just now. She finally took a deep breath, sat up, emptied her wineglass, and turned to me.
"Reason #3 why I had to kick her out of the house: the incessant sound of her bedsprings. It was bad enough when it was just Steve, but when Tobi transformed, she would come down to breakfast and brag about getting double-teamed the night before."
I stared at Lorraine, aghast. "What the hell did you parents do to you?"
She seemed legitimately offended by the question. "What, so it's ok for you to have your little animal girl harem, but I'm the weirdo for enjoying a nice gangbang?"
Elise and I locked eyes and did my best to give my condolences with my facial expression. I bit my lips and gave her a mournful look. 'I'm so sorry you've had to suffer through this nightmare your whole life. You're a good sister.'
She too bit her lips, nodding with her eyes closed. 'Thank you, I really appreciate that. We all have our crosses to bear, she's mine.'
"What's a gangbang?" Chloe asked.
"Don't you remember?" Momo replied. "It's a bunch of men and one woman. We saw it in one of those porn videos."