### Sex God Saga 35
### Calm Shenanigans Before The Storm
MONDAY:
Theo scoffed. "You'd be faster if you didn't flex after every sock you pick up."
Fulin flexed again, this time facing Theo head on. He was naked, his massive cock dangling between the thighs that matched his musclebound physique. "You'd be faster if you didn't *sniff* every sock you picked up."
"Tha-tha-that was a sneaker," Theo said, sounding way more defensive and shy than he'd wanted. "A-and how did you even see that? You had your back to me."
"Soul Joining. I could tell how you moved. Glad the link didn't make me catch a whiff, too."
"Hey, they're *your* feet."
Fulin stepped closer to the blond. In the mostly-managed chaos of the alpha's bachelor pad, Theo in a jockstrap let his eyes wander over the body that had just topped him.
"Kneel," Fulin commanded and scented Theo. The link made it work instantly.
It wasn't necessary at all -- Theo would have obeyed anyway -- but it added humiliation.
The mindless shaman licked the sole of the offered foot. After half a minute, Fulin spat into Theo's open mouth and let the scenting fade while he continued to tidy up.
Theo rose to his feet. "You know, we'd also be faster if you stopped being an asshole every five minutes."
Fulin flexed without looking. "You love it."
"Not the point."
"You love me."
"Also not the point."
Fulin glanced over, grinning. "I... love you?" He broke eye contact.
Theo giggled. "Fine. I'll accept that. I love you right back, and it's hot when you treat me like a slave. Let's move on."
The Primal hit a single bi pose and waved his cock at Theo with the free hand. "Man, if I could scent you into cleaning up, I would. Sometimes I wish I had Stygian powers. Do *not* tell the smug golden child I said that.
"No promises. Also, I'm already your maid, what more do you want?"
"Having you do it all, duh."
"I don't even know where half this stuff goes. I just put it into the boxes for you to sort."
"I'm supposed to sort them?"
They both paused.
Theo groaned. "Something about how you said that was way too cute for how dumb it is. Starting to understand how it got this messy so fast again."
"Cleaning's faster now, too, though. Maybe I'll stay on the ball."
Theo frowned. "It's going *way* faster. Notice how we're not in each other's way at all?"
"The link?"
"Yeah... and I'm wondering if that makes you better at being tidy, too. If we can intuit each other's moves, can we share abilities too?"
"Not like copying over a skill but... Since Mako's going to show up..."
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Ability sharing was shaky at best.
Mako was cooking in Fulin's kitchen and Theo helped -- without having been told the recipe. Accessing Mako's intuition wasn't foolproof and he did burn the prawns, but Theo managed to do things without being told.
Fulin's attempt at drawing them both -- using Theo's talent -- was more miss than hit. His lack of fine motor skill made it more of a rough doodle.
"But it's way better than before," Mako said, looking at the drawing. "It's got, like, shapes and stuff. You really tapped into Theo."
"Sure did," Fulin said and grabbed Theo's ass, now back in jeans.
"We should take Ace to play billiards," Mako said. "Unless the one time I played with him was a fluke, he can clear the table in two rounds. I want to steal that superpower."
"You'll make him feel competitive," Fulin said. "Only fights I ever had with him were all about games."
Mako shrugged. "We have a bottom who'll take all that aggression. Right, slut?"
Theo sighed but couldn't suppress a smile. "Yes sir."
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Mako was also the one how chauffeured him after lunch. They hung out at the Smiling Panda, where Cain was clearing tables.
Theo had fun pulsing the zombie whenever he walked past with a stack of ceramics and watching him wobble a bit. The near lack of reaction was a fun contrast to the Primals' earlier full-body tense, scream-crying sex.
A trip to the Body Changer's saw them reunite with Jun, who harshly critiques the loss of proper form Theo's training had suffered in his time at other gyms.
Theo decided to stick close to Mako and leech off of the Forgedancer's gym experience. Their link worked well in his favor but it was naturally more exhausting to train harder.
When Jun inevitably wanted to fuck Theo, the bodybuilder had to ram into a nearly unresponsive bottom, who was already feeling the aches that awaited tomorrow. Not that the Primal hunk had an issue using the shaman as a fleshlight.
Jun once again made a week's worth of meals in the closed Smiling Panda kitchen at night and Theo got a dinner out of it before going home with Cain.
"Had a good date, champ?" Cain asked.
"Yeah. So it's champ now, huh?"
"You're the champion of gay fucks."
"Ambrosia is more of a fertility goddess."
Cain poked him with every word. "Champ. Of. Fucks. In. The. Ass. By penis. From men."
"Don't you go homophobic on me, kiddo. Master Paris would have a word to say about that."
Cain shook his head. "I've decided your nickname is champ and I'll do whatever it takes to make that one stick."
Theo shrugged. "You've come up with worse. So how was work?"
"Welp, I had some things to complain about but you showed up and made me swim in hyper-mega-orgasm pleasure, so... Middling."
"Happy to help."
"Sure, champ."
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TUESDAY:
Prepping for the awakening bomb also meant checking up on relevant Outsiders living in the Harpersfeld area.
Theo was eternally glad yesterday hadn't been leg day, or else he'd have had to turn around. It wasn't even that steep an incline but the forested hills around the city could be a little exhausting to ascend.
"It's where I got Melisandre," Keith said. "If I never mentioned that. Desdemonos bound Mel to me, as a preliminary thing and, well, we stuck with each other. Cor got hers from him, too."
"Coralline had a muse?" Theo asked.
Keith absentmindedly nodded, his wisp-inhabited earring dangling with the glint of a pre-noon sun. His smooth hair stuck out under a white beanie that matched his plush vest.
"Narkissa," the Asian shaman said. "Muse of gentle slumber and unconscious relaxation, if I recall. Cor wanted to do something with kids or pets. So I guess the animal shelter suits her."
Sacred appeared next to them. His superhuman ability as a ranger-type Redeemer let him move through the forest off the beaten path like he was on flat ground. "How'd they break up?"
Keith grinned, then sighed. "There was a girl among the lady shamans, Kaitlin. She thought it was a great idea to show magic to all her girlfriends from the country club."
"What a bitch," Sacred said, perhaps just to swear.
"Okay, I don't actually know if there was a country club involved but she was the type. So poor Cor got roped in and tagged along. And guess what, the girls freaked. So the Shrouded showed up and hit the Baseliners with amnesia."
"Shrouded?" Sacred asked. "Five white tunics or veils, blowing in the wind? And sometimes wind makes the fabric flutter so it's clear there's not even an invisible person. There's just cloth."
"You had a run in?" Keith asked. "Colors and numbers vary, but otherwise that was spot on."
Sacred jumped onto a tree root that had dug through the dirt path, balancing perfectly stable on one heel. "Saw them twice, taking care of a demonic mess we'd stumbled upon. Left the Baseliners frazzled for a day or two but didn't seem too bad."
Keith shrugged. "I guess you champion of the Pactmaker get special treatment. Anyway, Baseliners just have a bad few days, although it can worsen some mental illnesses or trigger a nasty episode. The offending Knowing, however... a few hours of psychosis, then vomiting, fever, some more flashes of psychosis. Everyone who's gone through it said it was the worst thing ever."
"Pretty harsh," Theo said.
Keith scoffed. "Until last decade we didn't even call them the Shrouded. People talked *around* them so hard they had no fixed name. We have to keep the Mysterium exclusive whether we want to or not."
"Did Coralline get hit by all that?"
"She was a bystander so she got the bystander dose. She swore off magic and only kinda came back last year. Narkissa got punished, too, and they broke up mostly amicably. Kaitlin moved to Concordia City if memory serves. Never heard from her again."
"Shack sighted," Sacred said. "Remind me to share my war stories sometime. I'm ready to dish out some of the harmless ones. I was told that'll be good for me."
Theo brushed his hand against the back of Keith's. "You really took a gamble on me. Thank you."
Keith waved him off. "Nah, Mel told me you're head over heels for my pretty face. And you were in such deep shit you'd have agreed to anything that helps."
Theo laughed. "Or you could have just taken the compliment."
"I can take compliments," Keith said, mock-offended. "I can be warm and vulnerable and I'll beat the shit out of anyone saying otherwise."
"Love you," Theo said and leaned in for a kiss.
He'd expected to scare the man away, perhaps make him take a step aside, but Keith offered his cheek.
Sacred clapped once. "Get to work or I'll have to talk to my therapist about jealousy."
"You can have a kiss, too," Theo said.
"Not unless I'm balls deep inside you."
"Hm, I'll remember that."
They stepped off the path and through the Veil that kept the abandoned place out of Baseliner sight.
The sky was darker on the other side and the closer they got to the shack, the more the sun faded until it was night.