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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Educating the Concubine
"It is time, my sweet child."
The dark-haired man scratched the stubble on his chin, looking down at his adult daughter with his fingers pressed together. Secluded away in the study of the mansion, which was expansive and luxurious to a fault, his kind eyes creased at the corners, laughter lines tracing routes across his pale face. His daughter knelt beside the soot blackened fireplace, flicking a scrap of string for the ginger family tomcat, who stalked it with as much eagerness as a kitten. But all was about to change for one not so little girl who had come of age.
He suppressed a smile, pressing his lips together, as his daughter shook her head and pushed herself to her bare feet. Her night shift fell to her knees, an old-fashioned style of nightwear that she had insisted on for her last birthday. It had been expensive but nothing had a price tag too great when it came to Julianne. The man's gaze slipped down her body, taking in her form speculatively.
Not with what the family had planned for her in their modern times.
"Child?" Julianne put her hands on her hips like the little girl she had once been, painted pink lips pursing in a pout. "I'm long past that! I'm a lady now!"
Her father laughed and shook his head, slouching in the armchair as his fat belly bulged. His navy dinner jacket was finely hemmed in gold thread and he fingered it lovingly as he gestured with his other hand, eyebrows pushing in to the centre of his face.
"Indeed you are, my sweet." He paused. "And that is why I must ask something great of you, as my only daughter."
Brushing her long brown hair back behind her shoulders, she stood up taller, setting her shoulders back. Her brown eyes - from her mother's side of the family- sparkled, misunderstanding the situation. Her father was so known to jest.
"What must you ask of me?"
He took a breath, straightening his back in the too comfortable chair.
"I must ask something of you, daughter, something that fathers of our family have no doubt asked for generations upon generations. It is a task that women of the family have taken on and a burden and joy that they alone have the honour to carry."
Julianne fiddled with a split end in her hair, hiding a flutter of nerves behind a steely stare that matched any male with a mind to take her on. Her father smiled. There was no doubting her spirit. She would do fine.
"What did you have in mind, father? This could not be anything to do with the alliance between our family and the Geecken's now, could it?"
Her father nodded gravely, blue eyes taking on a serious edge.
"You are sharp. It is indeed so. We must form our alliance and, if you agree, you will marry your choice of their sons, joining the harem or acting as the first concubine of one." He rolled his shoulders back, smile sheepish. "That matter depends on which son you choose, however, and I cannot tell how that side may progress from this stance."
"If I agree?"
She seemed surprised and her father frowned, leaning forward with his hands on the arms of the chair. Now, there would be none of that. They were not in the olden times any more, indeed they were not! Though that thought came with a hint of irony taking into account the notion of sending his daughter into another family's harem, all for the purpose of sealing the alliance between their noble houses. All for the greater good, of course.
"Of course. Julianne, I care for you too much to even consider the barbaric notion of forcing you into an unwanted marriage and family that may make you unhappy. I want you to be happy with this life." He tapped his fingers pointedly. "And that is why I have a surprise for you. Something to...help, you could say."
"A surprise?" That had her attention and Julianne's expression brightened, bouncing up on to the balls of her feet, toes curling. "What is it? What's the surprise?"
"It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you right now. Close your eyes."
Julianne obediently closed her eyes: she was used to doing as she was told. What reason had she to do otherwise? Her father had never led her astray. She had never wanted for anything in her life. Yet she was still due an awakening.
Through hazed eyelids, she fidgeted, shifting her weight as her father called to someone outside the room and several others traipsed in, their footsteps unusually heavy. Her forehead furrowed. How odd. Guests were usually so careful to tread lightly over the imported carpets, another symbol of their wealth. She almost broke form, opened her eyes and chastised them herself, only just holding herself in check. The bodies shuffled together as her father supposedly gathered them. She licked her lips, finding them suddenly dry. What was going on? Who was in the room? She bit the inside of her lip, forcing herself to stay in place. So many questions!
"Julianne?" Her father recalled her attention. "You can open your eyes now."
Too keenly, she opened her eyes and took a step back, dazzled by the strange and wonderful creatures that stood before her as if they belonged in the mahogany study. She looked between her father and them several times, jaw falling slack.
What she could only describe as dinosaurs stood before her, as plain as day. But they weren't dinosaurs like she had seen in her picture books as a younger girl. These dinosaurs were full of life and stood on two legs, eyeing her with great interest. First in line stood an Ankylosaurus with dark green plates covering its back and sides. Its head was smaller and blockier than expected and rimmed with white horns or tusks - Julianne could not place the correct term, so great was her shock. The young woman's gaze flicked to the next, a taller Dimetrodon clad in muddied green leathery skin and a fantastic crimson sail, complete with darker spines, right down its back from its shoulders to its gently undulating tail. A carnivore, it bared its teeth, though there was no malice in the golden eyes, only a welcome that Julianne could not understand.
A Mosasaur lay on the floor in front of their feet, glistening wetly as it raised her tail in welcome. In the place of legs was a tail with wickedly cut tail fins, giving the impression that it could power through the water with the laziest of motions. Although a Mosasaur would not have been comfortable on land all those years ago, it seemed to have no issue and wove a long snout, which glittered with fish-catching teeth, back and forth.
Tucked on the edge of the group, a small four-legged Ankylosaurus peered around the leg of its anthropomorphic counterpart, patterned in sleek, grey plates and blinking its blue eyes shyly. Although every dinosaur had their differences, Julianne gulped at the tucked up sheaths, barely a slit, nestled upon their crotches, demonstrating that they were not all that they seemed to be. Even more confusingly for her, their chests bulged in an imitation of breasts, moulding to their natural forms as perfectly as if they had always been there, only waiting to be revealed. Female? Male? What were they?
The Ankylosaurus standing on two feet crooned and shifted, cupping its breasts in both paws. Its - her? His? - eyes never left Julianne.
Julianne shivered. There was something unerringly human about them. They did not have the mindless eyes of animals or imagined images of dinosaurs. She half reached out to them and let her hand drop back to her side, hesitating in the moment. There was intelligence behind them. How could she simply touch them without permission? That wasn't something a person did to another...person?
"Oh, do enjoy them as you will," her father encouraged, heaving himself to his feet as if to better admire the group. "They are here for your pleasure. Every one of them."
Julianne shook her head.
"How...how is this even possible? What are they?"