~Logan~
Evening fell, and I watched it affect everyone in the room. During the years of my wanderings, I have never grown tired of this simple pleasure. I clasped my hands and let them rest against the coolness of my shirt, and I observed as the lady of the house let the wine go to her head, giggling compulsively, and the lord of the house became an historian, lecturing everyone ceaselessly about the evils of the French Revolution. It might have become boring had I not noticed the pulse quickening in the throat of their maiden daughter, Angelica.
She was young, but at eighteen, she was old to be unmarried. Most of her friends had long ago become wives and mothers. Her brown hair was piled high on her head, and tendrils curled softly beside her face. She was wearing a deep blue gown, and the pale skin that emerged from it was beginning to flush a deep pink. I met her startling blue eyes for a moment. They were frantic and conflicted, a little frightened. She glanced quickly away and began to fiddle with her napkin.
It had been a long time since I felt intrigued enough to enter someone's thoughts, but her behavior was far too enticing to ignore. Picking her thoughts out of the others in the room and becoming one with them was like relaxing into warm water. Of course, no one really thinks in complete sentences; reading people is like collecting a series of impressions based on feelings. She felt warm, her blood pulsing rapidly, and she ached deep in her body. It was an ache that brought an answering ache to my own body--she was aroused. I probed deeper, feeling her essence pulse around me, and I discovered that she did not understand why she felt aroused, and she did not know who to turn to for relief.
When I withdrew myself from her feelings, she gasped almost inaudibly and turned to look at me again. Seldom is anyone sensitive enough to notice my intrusion, and I always find it exciting when someone does. I smiled at her and nodded, and her answering shiver was the moment that sealed her fate.
~Angelica~
After everyone had retired for the evening, I found myself staring at my reflection in my mirror. It had been an exhausting evening, one in which I was plagued by an awakening I neither desired nor expected. Phantom pangs still pulsed through me. The girl in the mirror was a stranger to me at the moment. Her lust-crazed eyes searched for release. I sighed and looked away.
I thought again of the stranger at dinner, the man who, among all the guests, seemed to notice my discomfort. I blushed as I remembered the interest in his eyes, the way he continued to observe me all evening. The blush was not entirely the result of modesty. This was ridiculous. I didn't even know his name. Surely it was indecent to imagine his eyes on my naked skin, his flesh against mine...
I shook my head to clear it and returned my gaze to the mirror. It was time for bed, and I was delaying the inevitable. I undid my hair quickly and shook it out. Long brown waves cascaded around me. An impulse whispered through my body, and I obeyed it. I stood and let my dressing gown fall to the floor. The sensation of my hair against my bare back was exquisite, like a silk curtain. --Yes-- something deep inside me whispered. --More--
I swallowed. My reflection appeared completely foreign to me. A nude nymph stared back at me with tortured eyes. I found myself obsessed with her breasts, which I dimly realized were actually my own. They were plump and round, breasts that begged to be touched. --Yes,-- the voice inside me murmured. --Touch them. It will release you.--
I tried to resist, but my hands betrayed me. My eyes fluttered closed as I began kneading the sensitive flesh. I sank in the chair I had previously occupied, losing myself in the sensations I created for myself. The voice inside me was pleased, and that pleasure hummed through me as I began pinching my nipples. Soft whimpers escaped my mouth.
--Open your eyes,--the voice commanded. I did. Then I closed my mouth around my nipple. The voice was pleasantly surprised that it did not have to tell me to do this. I stared in amazed arousal at the image of the stranger in the mirror licking and sucking at her own breasts. An urgent need for release pounded inside me, and I instinctively let my hand drift lower to skim my thighs. I wanted to plunge my fingers into the mysterious opening between my legs. --No-- whispered the voice. Frustration curled through me. My gaze fell longingly on the handle of my hairbrush and I had an insane compulsion to thrust it deep inside myself.
The voice was firmer now. --No. Not yet.-- My lust crested and then abruptly stilled. The voice was gone. I stared in embarrassed shock at my reflection. I still gripped my nipple between my teeth. Quickly, I gathered my composure, blew out my candle, and turned to replace my dressing gown. Something at the window startled me. It was a sudden movement. Horror gripped my body. What if someone had seen the display I had just made of myself? I clutched the fabric of the gown to my body, hoping to cover my embarrassment.
I can't explain it, but then some impulse took hold of me. I dropped the garment to the floor and climbed naked into bed.
~Logan~
I entered Angelica's dream with ease. Penetrating her will had been child's play, and I knew this would be just as simple. She was in a field surrounded by cows. They stared at her intermittently, but seemed largely impervious to her presence.
She was lying in the grass, her hair and skirts spread around her like a halo. The dress was low-cut enough that my pulse quickened. I knew the real Angelica was sleeping naked, and I planned to take full advantage of this fact later, but the dream Angelica was still enticing.
She noticed me when I blocked the sun. She sat up with a squeak. "You!"
I nodded. "Naturally."
"What are you doing here?"
I let my gaze travel over her body. She flushed. Then I spoke. "This is your dream. I believe that is up to you." This was a fib, but the illusion of control is essential, after all.
I seated myself next to her. "Why are there so many cows?" I asked.
"I don't know."
I drew the village milkman's slumbering form to her dream. He blinked in confusion for a moment, then settled down to his business. His hands moved deftly on the cows' udders, and the milk hit his pail with rhythmic pings.
"I think you've been a naughty girl tonight, Angelica," I murmured. She was transfixed by the milkman. She barely noticed when I settled behind her. For a moment, I was transfixed myself by the luxurious view of her cleavage.
"I have?" her voice was dazed.
She was so fascinated with Roger's pulsing fists that she barely noticed when I brought my hands up her sides under her arms to cup her breasts. Her nipples hardened against the silk dress she was wearing, tickling my palms. For me, the sensation was not unpleasant, but it was also weak. In someone else's dream, it is difficult to fully awaken my own senses, although Angelica would be experiencing all the pleasure she could imagine. How could I stand it? Knowing that one day I would grope her in real life, feeling the firmness of her breasts yielding to me. And if I awakened her properly, it would be infinitely more satisfying because she would beg for it despite the fact that she was raised to be a lady.