***Dragons are complex and magical creatures. In Yuan's case, the emphasis is on complex but in many ways, she's a rather charmed individual.
Oh, and somehow, in my own inimitable fashion, I've managed to bugger up the parts of the various books.
~sigh~ I knew that would happen. 0_o
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Book of the Dragon Part 10
The next day, Yuan was outside, marveling at the cold temperature of the night before for one thing, but also the beauty that it left behind in the patterns of the frost on various surfaces. She hadn't planned anything much for the day. With it being so cold, she was just so thankful that she had a place to be now and one person who cared. For all of their patience, dragons can sometimes be studies in contradictions. Lust aside, in the bygone days when they were many, it could be a rather long affair to find a prospective mate which one liked and then there were the lengthy and oh so careful and cautious introductions, and if that went well, the courtship could last for years.
Then again, it might just be settled after a few really satisfying fucks, as long as both sides were pleased. All of that, for Yuan's kind of dragon, was often only the precursor -- sort of a pre-choosing of suitable partners for when the want to breed was on the female. She'd find one of her pre-chosen males, they'd spent some time in mating to breed her, and then the male would leave.
Those days were gone now, as were those dragons. The previous night had been embarked upon with hopes, surely, but still it had started out to be some casual mating and other than what was beginning between Yuan and Sheth, that was still what it was for now as far as Drene was concerned and it was obvious.
Drene's noises about love faded as the dawn approached, and Yuan had finally asked for a plain explanation as to what that meant. What she'd heard had been non-committal and that was fine, but Sheth had asked a little more pointedly and at that point they heard that Drene really still had hopes for her male demon.
"Do as you wish, Drene,"Sheth had said then, "but I can tell you how this will go with that one. You will ask and be told nothing of his intent -- if he does not lie to you then. You'll want something specific to hold onto and he will hand you a patch of fog. If Yuan wants me in either way, I am happy to stay with her, though I think that Yuan also wants a female and I can live with that, since I will not be alone anymore."
Yuan asked for a description of this male demon and what she heard mystified her a little, but at least from it, she was sure that it wasn't Ayt'han.
"If it is a demon that you truly want for yourself," she told Drene, "I know of a very fine one who has a female, but I think that after the passion, they will both want another female, since they wish to begin more than one little family. Let me know if you have an interest, but do not wait too long."
With everything out in the open now, Drene said that she'd have to see and she prepared to leave. Yuan wasn't surprised and they spoke a little at the entrance to the cave. Drene left shortly afterward.
Sheth walked up, "Well that's perfectly usual. She didn't even say goodbye -- not that she ever does."
Yuan and Sheth stood as they watched her go and he felt her take his hand to hold. "She will never leave you again," Yuan said quietly.
"She is leaving me now," he smiled, "and for the first time, I don't feel badly for it. I actually don't care. But how can she never leave me again?"
He looked at Yuan who smiled, looking down "I told her that I wish for you as my male and that if you agreed then we would pair. I told her that I could accept her as my female -- though I do not think that I can trust her somehow -- and I said that. I knew that she would not agree by not disagreeing and then filling the air between us with her nonsense.
So I waited for her to finish and then I shook my head and told her that she either stayed with us or she left, and that it was her choice, but that if she left, she was not to return thinking to mate with you or I would kill her. I made that plain as well."
Yuan chuckled a little, "But it was Drene and I know her already. She told me that she might want to come and mate with me, and I told her that in such a case, I would mate with her and then I would kill her right afterward."
Sheth nodded, understanding the way that dragons were so similar to Wotroth and that it had been said as an insult.
"It would be a meal that we would not have to hunt for," he said and she nodded with a grin, seeing that he'd understood her insult at Drene and had added to it.
She said, "I told her that I give one chance and that this was the time to speak. She said that she understood, but said nothing else. I knew this would happen. That was why I took the talk between us all in that direction earlier, to get her to say something. She talks much but says little. She does not think that I meant it, and so she has wasted her chance."
He stood listening, but he didn't move after she stopped. Yuan stood waiting and finally nudged him. Sheth looked at her a little wide-eyed, "Come back inside," he said, and as they turned, he placed his hand on her hip and Yuan's heart flew over the small gesture, "I need to know things about you and us and how I fit in to everything," he said.
Yuan shrugged and reached with her hand to cup his genitals as they walked, "It is the same all the time," she smiled, "we get this hard, I must get it wet somehow and then you push it in. You do the same for me when we see how I fit into everything."
Sheth laughed, "It was not what I meant, but I like the thought. I want to know if we are to be as a pair only, or what you wish. You are all that I need, I think, but I see more to you and so I ask," He looked down for a moment and then Sheth looked right into Yuan's eyes.
"I can see in visions," he said, "Sometimes I seek to see and often they only come to me. There will be dragon children here, Yuan. I see us with our children, but they will not be the first. I am happy, but I wish to know your thoughts, I guess."
He looked at her as she walked slowly with her head down and wished that he was better at relationships than he was. It just hit him that it was perhaps a little soon to speak of these things, but he really wished to know. More than anything, he wanted a love with Yuan -- in any way that it worked for them both. He just didn't see them alone and he wondered about it.
Yuan pulled them both to a stop. She looked into his eyes and he found her melting against him. "You saw our young, Sheth? They were ours, yours and mine?" She held his gaze and watched him carefully.
"Yes," he said, "I just ... wanted to know."
She held him to her tightly, "That is so good to hear, because I want to make young with you, Sheth. I am also the same as you and I want a female to breed as well, but there are no other dragons, besides Drene and she has chosen her path -- though she thinks that she can come back any time as is her way. But I am not like you, Sheth. If she returns one day and I am not here, then you may not mate with her if we are to breed between us. I will not allow it."
He nodded and agreed before she went on.
"I think that Wotroth are just the same as dragons here," she said, "and so we love to mate. But because of what we are, I think to make room for that in a careful way."
She reached up and toyed with his hair a little and without knowing it, she stole the last of his heart from him for the way that she looked to him then as she went on, "I do not want to see you feeling left out, Sheth. Never. You are what I want, and I know that it is the same in you. I wish to be your female, and not part of a flock. I want to hold you as MY male and not part of a harem. But at the same time, think of how we two have shown ourselves to be to each other.
If you have seen us making our babes, I feel such joy you cannot know, but I wish to see you mating with others and I wish to mate with others as well, but at the root of it, I wish to build this as our family. The others -- whatever they might be, and I do not wish to know that here -- they must be chosen, and it is not for today to even think on it. I just want you to know, and I wish to know if you think that you want this. Underneath everything, I wish to be yours and I need you to be mine. Do you agree?"
He kissed her neck and whispered to her, "I want this with you, Yuan."
"Good then," she sighed against his cheek, "but that is for the far future. First we must know each other. Come, and let us eat something other than each other for a little while."
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"Am I enough for you?" he asked after worrying about it for a little while as they ate, "I need to know this before anything else and I wish for the truth, even if it is a little cold."
Yuan nodded vigorously as she did something a little uncharacteristic of her and spoke around a half-mouthful of food because she knew that he was uncertain of himself.
"Oh yes, I think that since both of us can be two things in some ways, we have more ways to be happy with each other. If other kinds come to us, we'll need to see," she smiled, "but I love mating with you in either way and I know that you do as well. We are what we are and that means that this can easily work because we can be patient.
You are a fine male to me, Sheth. You think you are not, but I made my sounds, didn't I? Did you think that I did that because I wanted to fool you?"
She shook her head and smiled warmly to him, "No, Sheth. You drove me to my pleasure very well each time and the little words that I spoke into your ear so quietly were for only you to hear and I meant them. When I had you in my mouth, I would have been frigging myself -- it was what I wanted to do, but Drene kept doing that every time, jamming her fingers into me the hard way that she did. If I was not loving you then, I'd have hit her for it. It felt a little nice because I was as a captive then, but if it had only been her and I, she would have only tried it once. Drene is a very cold lover and she is selfish.
We need to learn of each other, but I already know that you are a good lover for me -- more than enough for me to know that I want to be your female, and I know that you would be a good father. You are different, but so am I. What does this matter if we are happy?"
"So, will you take a female?" he asked, "Of some other sort?"
She laughed, "Sheth, I have only just found you. But I know what you ask. When I fucked you, it was like nothing I had ever done before. No matter what comes for us, I will always want that."
