"Sprawl out on the bed, Zerret," Passion cooed to his right.
Sly quivered and purred on his left. They had awakened him. His mind could interpret sensation, and his body could feel as others yet still be so much more. It had been glorious yet had almost cost him the lives of his pets. He thought it through again, taking time to organize other memories as well.
They led him to the bed and climbed onto it. Their bodies smelled so wonderful, exotic feminine musk that eager women exude when they are highly aroused. They looked at him with questioning eyes, both stealing glances at his new sexual tentacle. Passion was the first to reach out and caress it. It FELT. The sensation was like nothing he had ever known.
"You felt that!" Passion squealed. "It felt good to you, pleasurable?"
"Yes, it felt very pleasurable," he said. His mind raced to find how it had done this.
"May I pleasure this more for you, Keeper?" Passion all but begged.
He was dazed by the touch and she wanted him to have more. He just nodded. Sly watched as Passion leaned forward and took Zerret between her lips. Gently sucking as much of the flaccid phallus in to her mouth as she could, she moaned over the mantle of manhood. Zerret's mind exploded in a torrent of untapped memories. Sex, training, brushes with death, killing that which would have killed. Lifetimes of information bloomed in his awareness.
"Zerret!" someone yelled as he felt something slam into his chest.
His eyes flew open to see a panic ridden Sly holding the remains of a chair. Looking down, Passion was turning blue. She was being choked to death by his swollen penis. He regained his control and quickly reduced the size of his male appendage. Sly grabbed Passion and pulled her to the center of the bed. Passion choked and gasped. Rolling to the side of the bed, she vomited. Zerret backed away from the both of them. He retracted the phallus to the point the bracelet fell to the floor.
Passion looked over at him. Her eyes were pained and saddened. Sly moved into a defensive position over Passion. Fear and confusion marked her face.
"I am sorry, Keeper," Passion wheezed before a choking fit took hold of her again.
"What the fuck are you apologizing for?!? He could have killed you!" Sly raged.
{I am sorry. I didn't know what was happening,}
he sent.
{You couldn't feel me?}
Passion thought.
{No. The bracelet blocked my telepathy. The pleasure of your mouth overwhelmed everything.}
He sent his worry and love of her with those words.
{There is more of you now? I could feel it. It unlocked your collected knowledge, didn't it?}
she asked.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Sly grumbled.
Both of them stopped. They realized that none of this had actually been spoken.
"We are fine, Sly. He is speaking in my head," Passion soothed.
{Passion you could feel what happened?}
Zerret said in astonishment.
She nodded. Sly slid off the bed and retrieved the bracelet from the floor. She looked at it closely. An Elven warning was engraved into the inside of the band. It read, "To truth or be forsaken." Sly flipped the thing across the room and returned to Passion's side. Her color had returned and she was breathing much easier. Sly looked over at Zerret. His eyes were filled with fear and sadness.
"I shouldn't have done that," Zerret said.
"I begged you to let me. We both forgot what your Uncle warned us about," Passion said. "But your knowledge is awakened. I will be alright. Sly saved us both."
"True. If she hadn't screamed when she hit me, I may have slid into a dormant phase and not woken for who knows how long," Zerret said.
"I didn't. I just beat you with the chair until you opened your eyes," Sly said.
He looked at her questioningly. The room got blurry and the two of them slumped to the side. The knock at the door and worried presence of Loc standing on the other side began to explain much. He took a moment to finish shaking off the bracelet's effects.
{I almost killed Rincitni,}
he sent to his Illithid Uncle, opening the door for him.
{I screamed at you,}
Loc sent. {
I am somewhat to blame in this as well. There are ways this can be fixed. It will be something between us. The dragon can never know. I can make them forget, but that will not work on you. Can you keep this from them and your Uncle?}
{If it will give them peace of mind, and take the fear out of them, I will carry the secret forever,}
he sent.
{Clean up anything out of place. I will heal Rincitni and take all the memories they have from the time you came back into the room. We will put them in the bed and when you wake them, they will believe you have just returned to the room.}
Loc set about healing Passion and cleaning the memories of the past hour from their minds. Zerret felt through his new memories for the spells. It was somewhat scary that he thought that. He would think about it after Loc was gone. He gathered all of the parts to the broken chair and hid them. While Loc was truly distracted, he used his newly acquired magic to clean the floor and bedside.
They laid the women in the bed in each other's arms. Zerret found the bracelet that was the culprit behind it all. Once done, they exited the room and faced off.
{Take this back. It has a curse,}
Zerret sent