* second episode of PENUMBRIALS, this time the team tries to prevent another crime from happening.
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01 - Dangerous Art
Dormin sat back down at the lounge table where they had dinner earlier, after he'd retrieved a new bottle of liquor from the ship's store. 'Any results from Ismene?' he asked and filled the waiting empty glasses.
Terry put down her tablet. 'Nothing conclusive yet. She's still searching around for connections between the clues we gave her.'
Ourania unfolded a map of the city. 'Let's mark all the places Elyssa and her people were talking about. Maybe we can spot a clue in there.'
'Good thinking.' said Dormin and gave her a smile. 'I was about to ask if we had a map.'
She smiled down at the table and stroked her thigh and her tail curled around her leg when a warm sensation flowed gently through her.
Terry read the list of known and possible locations Ismene had put together while Ourania and Adalet marked them in different colours to set them apart.
Adalet tapped the location of the subway works. 'It would be most logical for the target to be around there.' She tapped the location of roadworks at major roads and a highway in the area. 'If they think about causing a blackout in the city the resulting mess would slow down traffic and keep law enforcement busy and they can use the closed roads to get away faster.'
Dormin nodded. 'So what's around there that's interesting?'
'Art dealers, expensive restaurants, the city museum.'
'Terry, can you focus on that area for Ismene's search?'
Terry typed commands in the terminal window. 'Done.'
Adalet tried to think of other interesting targets in the area. 'Something to do with art is all I can imagine. There's nothing else there as far as I know.'
'Ah!' said Terry and typed again. 'Ismene found something. An old mail in which the owner of a painting called Breeze refused to sell it to Elyssa. And it's on display at the museum for a special exposition about the painter.'
Ourania looked at Terry. 'That's it? All that trouble for a painting?'
'It's worth enough money to be on the shopping lists of plenty of wealthy people and the fact that she wants it plays a part.'
Dormin leaned forward. 'I say as long as Ismene hasn't come up with a better target we make plans on how to prevent this theft.'
The others agreed and Dormin made notes while they looked at every angle. 'It would be best to have someone present inside if the theft occurs.' said Adalet and looked at Dormin. 'With your experience you'd have to be the one.'
Terry scratched her ear. 'But that might only be possible if one of the assigned guards is unavailable and needs to be replaced.'
'I think there's still an open case file of a break in at that museum. I might be able to use that somehow.'
Terry looked up some information and hummed. 'I can register you as an employee at the security firm.' It's large enough that most people don't know their colleagues, especially when they're from other branches.
'Good.' Dormin said. 'See if Ismene can find more information on them and the guards working at the museum.'
Terry nodded and typed more.
'Let's see what else we can do to disrupt things for them.'
Some time later several lists were made and they'd get to work after they'd had their rest. Adalet, Terry, and Dormin stood up to head to their suite while Ourania took a schematic from her desk. 'I'm going to check on a control circuit before I'm going to sleep.' she said. 'It shut down intermittently and it's too important to let it fail completely.'
'Anything I can help with?' asked Terry.
Ourania shook her head. 'Not really. You'd better get your rest, then I'll take mine when you're busy.'
'If you need it though don't hesitate to wake me.' Terry said, then whispered 'Or Dormin if you need something else.' with a sly smile, and followed the others to the front suite, while Ourania suddenly felt a little hot and quickly gathered her small toolbox to distract her curious imagination with her work.
She went to the cockpit, checked the wiring and connectors running through the ceiling in the hallway behind it, measured the signal, and saw it fluctuate when she moved several cables at a tight spot along a construction beam. Her fingers slid along the cables and she detected a junction box wiggling at her touch. 'Drat.' she muttered.
She examined the space the cables went through and where the box was located, took her small toolbox, and went up to the hallway above,.There she lifted the floor panel where she had estimated the box would be underneath. She smiled a little in relief to see she could reach it easily from there.
After opening it and reattaching all connections inside the problem was fixed and the signal stayed active even while moving the cables again.
She had barely closed the floor panel when she noticed Terry's begging for something with a slight moan to her voice. She tried to ignore it but her curiosity as to what was going on was too strong, and she sneaked closer in the dark hallway to the slightly open door of the front suite. The dim light inside from the horizontal light strip at the head of the large bed was enough to witness everything.
She held her breath the moment she saw Terry naked on her hands and knees over a naked Dormin lying on his back. 'I can't hold back any longer.' Terry spoke in her husky voice while her tail weaved slightly as it stood up. 'I want you inside me so much now.'
Adalet stood next to the bed and leaned over to caress Dormin's chest. 'I feel it too.' she whispered. 'We've had to take it easy for far too long already.'
Dormin caressed their cheeks. 'I know, but I don't want to risk our recovery so far.' Terry whined softly with her ears and tail drooping but he smiled softly at her. 'So we'll have to do it gently until we're fully healed.'
Terry's ears and tail pricked up. 'Yes!' she said and kissed him hard, her tongue flashing into his mouth in happiness.
She pulled back while stroking his erection softly, happy to feel his heat in her hand. Adalet stole his next deep kiss and pulled back when she needed to breath again. Dormin sighed and smiled. 'No one will believe me how lucky I am with you.'
'Oh, we do.' chuckled Terry and moved down. 'But I also feel lucky to have met you.' She licked her lips as she looked at his hard body part in her hand. 'I didn't think I could ever feel so good.' She slid her muzzle around him and gently rounded his tip with her tongue.
Adalet didn't wait and joined her to alternately please him with their hungry mouths. He growled softly while his lower body heated up and pulled at Adalet's firm behind. 'Come here, I can't have you girls eating all by yourselves. You're not the only hungry ones.'
Adalet spread her legs above his face and lowered herself. He smiled at the wet slit and hard nub in front of him and traced them with his lips and the tip of his tongue, making her moan and pant quickly after all that time of having to do without. He inhaled her scent and slid his tongue along her slit. 'I've missed your scent and taste.'
Adalet turned even redder in the face despite turning her own tongue around him. 'Ahh.. Don't say such embarrassing things..' she moaned while her body shivered with pleasure.
Terry chuckled and took over with her mouth and agile tongue. Ourania watched them suck and lick through the crack of the door, unable to take her eyes off of the three lovers despite part of her mind telling her to leave before they'd catch her peeping.
She'd seen pictures and movies before but that had never caught her interest, yet this sight of naked flesh and fur entangled in intimate love, the moans of lust and growls of hunger and the musky scent of moist flesh stirred her insides. Her heart beat faster in knowing what she did was wrong but the itch inside her abdomen lured her mind into exploring a new pleasure.
Dormin groaned inside Adalet's hot and wet folds from the attention of both women closing their mouths together around his tip and satisfying their hunger for him. 'Ah damn. You're pushing me to the edge and I can't restrain myself this time.'
This made Adalet moan even louder than she already did when she too was close to her climax and spurred Terry on to run her tongue harder around him.
Ourania's mind had given up any thought of leaving and unconsciously she'd unbuttoned the front of her coverall when she felt too warm in it.
Dormin reached his limit and pressed his mouth hard into Adalet as he groaned hard and filled Adalet and Terry's mouths in his climax.
The vibration of his voice against her was too much for Adalet and the surge of electric heat through her lower body made her moan out loud in the satisfaction she had desired for many days.
Terry eagerly licked every drop coming from Dormin with every throb while Adalet panted, and licked her lips clean after she was done with him. Adalet licked her own lips and looked at Terry with heavy eyes. 'Meanie, you took my share.'
Terry grinned a little. 'Sorry, I was really hungry.'
Adalet smiled mischievously. 'Just for that I get to ride first.'
Terry chuckled. 'Aww.'