Getting back to camp that night is an absolute agony.
Elek only just manages to belt his robe closed over his fucked-full belly, the bulge visible under his clothes -- the under tunic he hadn't even been able to put on, has it folded in his back, and with every step he takes, he can feel the eggs inside him shifting and moving, knocking against one another where they're suspended in the nourishment fluid. He has to walk with his thighs spread apart, waddling pregnant and clumsy -- his cunt is throbbing, and his cock is rubbing up against the base of his fattened belly.
Camp isn't that far from town, less than a fucking mile, and yet by the time it's within sight he is so agonisingly horny that his head is spinning, that he feels dizzy -- there's sweat all over his skin and his thighs ache and feel weak from carrying all the extra fucking weight. He's leaning heavily on his staff to keep himself upright, and he has to stop to piss about twelve fucking times, because his bladder is so crushed by all the naga eggs inside him that even a mouthful of water goes right through him and is desperate to come out again.
He had hoped against hope that, at the very least, he might be very lucky and be the first one back, but he finds that instead, he's last.
Alecs is sprawled on his belly beside the fire, kicking his legs like a fucking schoolgirl as he sketches out alchemical charts in his notebook, and Andon is sitting beside him, sat back with one of his legs extended and the other up for him to lean his elbow on, his feet flat on the floor.
Soli and Lov are sitting at one of the fold-out tables playing chess, Lov sitting cross-legged with his fingers steepled in front of his face, the tips of his index fingers pressing against his lower lip. His expression is focused and concentrated on the board, his eyebrows knitted together.
Soli, naturally, is barely paying attention -- he's sitting to the side, a book in his lap that he's paging through, and as soon as Lov moves his piece, he reaches across without turning his head and makes his retort. He doesn't even look at the board as he says, "Check."
"Fuck's sake," Lov groans, and Soli laughs and turns the page.
"Oh, you're back," he says, glancing up. "You took longer than expected -- and you look... hot. What, did you run back?"
"Did you get everything?" Alecs asks, leaving his notebook open on his bedroll as he gets to his feet.
"Yeah, here," Elek says, dropping his bag off his shoulder and trying not to groan aloud at the sudden shift in weight on his shoulders, his belly giving a painful cramp. He's so painfully full he can't stand it, his lower back twinging, and he starts to walk toward his tent, but Alecs is in front of him, and his eyes are alight.
Elek stands stock still, staring at him.
"Alecs, I'm fucking tired, I'm not in the mood to--"
"You stink of sex," Alecs says, his nostrils flaring, and Elek turns his head away, feeling his cheeks burn red with heat. Alecs' ears, tufted with fur and tipped in black, shift toward the top of his head, and Elek looks at him, at the hair thick on his body, is embarrassed as all fuck to see that the wolfman's tail is wagging.
"Do you have to be such an invasive prick?" Elek retorts.
Every other morning, Alecs will look at Elek and waggle his eyebrows because Elek's woken up wet or has touched himself before crawling out of his bedclothes, or he'll suddenly whirl and sniff the air because something unexpected in conversation has turned him on, has interested in, whether it's because he's actually getting wet or because his heart is beating faster, or just because something else about his scent has changed.
He's fucking sex-obsessed, and he's always going on and on about interspecies dynamics, about certain creatures and monsters and their biologies, and if he's not talking about what things eat or about their predator and prey behaviours or about their places in the food chain or their histories or their mythologies, he'll be talking about how they have sex, how they mate, how they breed.
He knows that Elek isn't that sexually experienced, too, has said that he can smell that on him, although Elek doesn't think that's true, that he's just a good judge of behaviour and Elek's a shit liar.
"You've had sex," Alecs says again, advancing on him, and Elek takes a step back and his foot lands on uneven ground, making him grunt at the shock it sends up his aching spine, because his swollen belly sloshes, and he feels the eggs inside him clink against one another.
Alecs must hear it, because suddenly he's staring down at Elek's belly, and he's saying, "Oh, fuck yes. You got egged? Who? What species are they? Smells reptilian--"
"Alecs!" Elek groans, but Alecs is ignoring him, has stripped off Elek's belt and thrown it aside, and Elek whimpers as Alecs bares his body to everybody in camp. His belly is big and pregnant, stretch marks visible on the sides, his belly button pushed outward by everything that's stuffing him full.
"Guys, look how fucking big he is," Alecs says, and Elek turns his head away so that he doesn't have to feel all their eyes on him.
"Fuck me," Andon muses aloud. "No wonder it took you a while to walk back. Did everyone in town take a turn on you, magic boy?"
"A sphragis!" Alecs says enthusiastically, and Elek yelps as Alecs' hand slides between his legs, the heel of his hand clumsily tapping against Elek's swollen cock as he taps his fingers against the material of the seal, nudging at it. "A naga, then? How many eggs are you in you? They don't smell fertilised -- what's all this, nourishing fluid?"
Both palms land against the naked flesh of his belly, making the eggs and liquid in him slosh harder, and Elek sobs out a noise, his knees going weak, but Alecs has caught him before he's even gotten near the floor.
"You're such a fucking pervert," Elek growls, "let me go back to my tent and just--"
"No, no, you're a pervert," Alecs rumbles back, sounding anything but disapproving. "What, somebody said they'd give you a cheaper price if you let them get you eggnant?"
Elek's tongue stops in his mouth.
Alecs laughs at him, and Elek's humiliated by it, a flush rising up the back of his neck -- he presses his knees together and it makes the seal stuffing his cunt feel all the thicker. There's wetness all over the inside of his thighs, and he doesn't know if it's from him or drip from what's supposed to be sealed inside him.