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This work of fiction is part of a series; if you did not already read the preceding chapters, please do that before starting this part of the story.
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~~~ Shopping for Gifts ~~~
Over the next couple weeks, the girls and I sparred. Captain Arden and Nate came to visit us, and they practiced with the girls as well. We worked on their proficiency with swords, bows, and staves. Once the captain and I were happy with their proficiency in those skills, I moved on to training their magic.
I set Tala to practicing her meditation and trying to reach out to touch her magic. She hadn't even realized that the spark had appeared inside of her. She was starting to get frustrated that she could not feel it or touch it. I told her to calm herself and focus on the meditation, I told her that I thought I had an exercise that we could do to help her focus on her magic. We would work on that after I got Eryn squared away.
Eryn was excited. She had been given the basics - which she demonstrated for me. She remarked that her lightning spells seemed to be twice as powerful as they had been before we had bonded. I told her that I had expected some improvement - especially since we were both lightning-mages. As a dragon, I have access to more realms of magic but lightning was my base - and I had anticipated that my magic would bolster hers.
She seemed to be good there, so I focused on meditation techniques - to restore her pool of mana - and some battle tactics.
As Eryn meditated, I slipped back over to work with Tala some more. I took her by the hand, and we walked over to check on the bees. They were busy. A regular caravan of workers was leaving the nest, browsing through the wildflowers, collecting the pollen, and carrying it back to the hive. Winter was coming and they seemed to be working to build their food supply as fast as possible before it got cold.
Tala and I stood, in the middle of the hubbub of activity, and held each other. There was something about all of this that seemed magical to me, and I was drawn to it. She was willing to do whatever I wanted, and we ended up just standing in the middle of all of the wondrous commotion, kissing and cuddling, smiling at each other and gazing into one another's eyes.
"Close your eyes," I told the young orc woman as I held her close. Her head was lying against my chest. "Can you feel them with your magic?"
In my mind, I watched them. They were like golden will-o-wisps, buzzing back and forth, storing away their food, checking in on their queen.
"Oh!" Tala gasped.
"What?" I asked, excited that she might actually be seeing something.
"I can see - or sense - the queen. She's like a big glow-bug on a dusky night."
"Can you see the drones or the workers?" I asked.
"They're like smaller glow-bugs," she said, her voice full of wonder. "I can see them but they're fainter."
"What else?"
"The wildflowers," she replied.
"What do they look like?"
"A light wispy green - everything just kind of glows."
She gasped.
"What?" I asked, unable to keep from grinning.
"There's a snake in the tree to my right - and - down the hill there's a brown bear moving this way. I think he's scented the honey and is coming to investigate."
It seemed like her aspect was nature - some kind of druid or something. In my mind, I could see everything she was describing. It looked the same to me. That was part of how I knew where people or animals were - and how I could trace their scent. It wasn't my primary aspect but - being a dragon - I get a little of everything and can work to strengthen it. I had worked on this aspect quite a bit. My dragon senses could smell too - and I got other information from my various other magical abilities but there was something special about the buzz of life happening all around. It was part of what drew me to the hive.
"See those brambles, around the stump where I placed the hive?" I asked her.
She focused quietly for a moment but smiled when she sensed them.
"See if you can push them to grow bigger. Let's keep your wooly friend from preemptively ruining our honey harvest and tearing up our only colony."
My eyes were open. I alternated between watching Tala concentrate on her magic - and watching the effect she was having on our surroundings.
"I think ... I think I need to be closer," she admitted.
"You may actually need to put your fingers on the briars," I told her. "If you can do this without touching them, that would be pretty incredible for your first try. Keep your eyes closed; use your magic, guide us to where we need to be."
I grinned as she squeezed me a little tighter and then began moving the two of us towards the hive. Her face was glowing - not from using her magic - just from the joy of everything she was discovering. I couldn't help but giggle at her.
"What?" she asked, giggling as well.
"You are so fucking adorable right now," I told her.
"Pretty sure that's the first time anyone has ever told an orc they were adorable," she replied, grinning - her eyes still closed as she maneuvered us through the flowers and bees.
"Not that it matters," I told her, "but I have a feeling that your mom found herself a human or elf boyfriend when she conceived you. Regardless, you ARE adorable and I'm so happy to see you discovering your magic."
"You gave it to me," she said.
"Maybe I did - or maybe my magic just made it easier for you to find," I told her.
"Thank you," she said, kissing my chin. "Thank you for not turning me away."
"I am very happy that I didn't, my lusty little orc," I said, leaning down to kiss her soft lips - and run my tongue over her dangerous tusks.
She giggled and asked, "Why do you do that?"
"What?" I asked.
"Tongue my tusks," she said, smiling broadly.
"You're my wild, dangerous, exciting, beautiful princess," I told her.
"I'm no princess," she sighed.
"Am I a prince?" I asked her.
"A king," she proclaimed.
"Then you are the queen that I've chosen to sit on my throne with me," I told her.
"You picture me sitting on a throne?" she asked.
"I picture you mounted on my rigid cock, writhing sensuously as I try to hold court with my petitioners without moaning your name as you squeeze yet another orgasm out of me with your temptuous cunt," I told her.
She opened her eyes and looked at me. Her hands moved from my waist to my ass, and she pulled my loins against hers.
"You realize you're about to make my heart explode right now, don't you?" she asked, as she claimed a kiss from me.
"Get those briars around that hive, little orc. I'm about to drag your gorgeous ass to the middle of this field of wildflowers and slam my prick into your cunt until my seed explodes into your womb."
Tala mashed her eyes closed. She reached her hand towards the briars, and I watched as the vines widened and grew - growing up and around the stump and the section of tree that held the hive that I'd brought here. Soon a latticework of thick brambles protected the whole thing. She opened her eyes and looked into mine. She smiled, looked at my lips, and rolled up onto her toes to claim another kiss.
I growled at her and sucked on one of her tusks before running my tongue across her bottom lip.
"Gods, you turn me on so much!" she purred.
I picked her up and carried her several steps into the field of flowers. I set her down onto her feet and we started tearing off our clothes and making an impromptu bed.
"Lie down," she ordered.
"Yes, my queen," I told her.
Her eyes were full of feral lust. My heart was racing, just watching the hunger in her face.
She used her mouth only long enough to stare into my eyes as she sucked the head. Then she was seated on her throne - sliding my aching cock within her tumultuous center. She growled as she slowly ground herself on me - in rocking motions that drove my rigid prick in and out of her grasping twat. My palms rested on the fronts of her thighs. The muscles of her legs pulsed as she worked my dick in and out of her pussy. Her face was rapturous. I wanted to touch her perfect breasts - to devour them - but there was no way I was interrupting my little dusky green beauty right now. She was doing some amazing things to my cock, and I really wanted to pump her full of seed. Maybe my gift would finally take hold this time.
Tala growled and moaned as her climax approached. I watched in amazement as a group of honeybees alighted in my little orc's hair and on her shoulders. In the sunlight, it made her glow like some kind of goddess.
Her vagina clenched and her face told me that her peak had arrived. I let go of the hold I'd been keeping and allowed myself to cum as well.
"Fuck, yes!" she crowed. "I love you so much!"
"I love you, too, my queen," I told her.
Suddenly, Eryn's face appeared inches above mine, and she leaned down to kiss me softly.
"How did you sneak up on us?" I asked her, laughing, after our lips separated.
"I learned a new trick," she announced, giggling.
Tala reached down and ran her fingers through the blonde's silky hair. She smirked at me when she felt my cock twitch inside of her. I loved watching my girls care for each other.
"So?" I asked the little nymph who was still hovering above my face.
She giggled again and said, "I can hide myself in a ray of sunlight."
"No shit?!" I asked. "That's pretty fucking cool!"
