Cat was advising Liddy about how level the new pictures were looking when they both heard Ving swearing on the bridge. Liddy sighed, knowing full well what that meant.
"We took off too early, didn't we?" she asked Cat.
"I suppose whoever sent the telegram was either being optimistic or stupid. Or both."
Ving stormed out of the bridge to face Liddy and Cat. She paused, not having expected them to be there. Her eyes drifted over to the risque pictures already on the wall. They settled on the picture of Hannah. Liddy just waited until her foul mood was spoiled before talking.
"Looks like getting these pictures done was a good call," she commented cheerfully.
"Yeah, she's still riled up but..."
"Okay, go work it out with her. Come back when you are done."
Ving left to hunt down Hannah while Liddy went onto the bridge with Cat. Inside, Liddy withdrew a rolled up map from a cabinet and spread it out on the floor.
"So, we going to invest in a table for this?" Cat asked, getting down on her knees to help flatten the map.
"I usually just use the lounge. Though this time, I'd rather nobody knew we don't have a plan until we have a plan."
"That..." Cat paused, "makes sense I suppose."
"If the capital is still closed we need to wait somewhere. Long way around the battle lines or turning around. Nothing big enough to find work in anywhere up the coast."
Leira walked into the bridge and took a moment to check out Liddy, who was bent over the map, "So, I take it that Ving's fucking angry hijacking of the redhead I was riding means we aren't going to the big ass city?"
Liddy looked up to see the confused and disappointed Leira standing in an open bathrobe with her hands on her hips.
"Seems like," Cat replied. "Trying to decide where we should put down. Turning around seems like it would be the best call."
Leira got down on her knees and looked at the map herself. She traced her finger along the coast until she stopped at an estuary. "Can this thing land on the water?"
"It's a boat, Leira," Liddy responded with a good-natured tease before smiling. "Yes, it can land on the water. Why would it need to?"
"Hah, very fucking funny. This is where I grew up. If we don't want to turn around, we can drop in for a visit. I know it's not a working place for us but I would like some answers."
"You know what? That sounds fantastic. Let's do it. I think I can alter our course. I don't really want to interrupt Ving at the moment. Cat, go let everyone know what we are doing. Foxy, you as well."
****
Downstairs in the lower deck, Foxy was laying in Mari's bed. "I think I missed something," Foxy gasped.
Easy mumbled something in a questioning tone, not bothering to withdraw her tongue.
"What was it?" Mari asked, keeping her teeth clamped on Foxy's nipple as she did so.
"Liddy just said for me to do something like she assumed I had been listening the whole time. But I really wasn't paying attention until I heard my name."
Foxy continued to move her hips as she held Easy in place with her legs, gripping Mari by her own magnificent breasts. Mari loved the feeling of the soft fur as her breasts were made to run over it. Her nipples being teased by every fibre that touched them. She rose up to press her breasts against Foxy's and crushed them together.
"If it's important, she will have asked who..." Mari got cut off.
"Oh, Cat is telling people. We're heading to Leira's old home. Capital is still closed and Liddy really didn't want to turn around."
"Oh, well that should be... oh, fuck!" Mari screamed as Easy suddenly pushed her tongue inside.
Having both women in her face, available for penetration, was too much for Easy to resist tonguing her lover. A dainty hand began to push its way inside Foxy and the two of them thrust their hips into each other as the fairy penetrated them both. Easy, on the other hand, had the fluffy long tail of a Fox running just long enough to reach her own womanhood and used her free hand to tease herself with it. Soon she felt the familiar sensation of Mari clenching around her tongue as she climaxed. Keeping her going, she whipped her tongue around inside until suddenly her body went limp. Mari fell to the side of the bed, but foxy kept her from falling off.
"Shit, she passed out?" Foxy asked with a note of concern.
"Yeah, a little trick I do inside her gets her like this all the time," Easy responded after pulling her tongue out.
As Mari started to blink her eyes open again, Foxy relaxed and looked at Easy, "So.. um... please?"
Easy gave a devilish smile as she ran her tongue over Foxy's aching flesh in prelude to the penetration and whipcord effect of the tongue. Mari finally became aware of her surroundings again as Foxy dug her claws into the headboard to support herself. She laughed, knowing the feeling well, and pinched the fox by the nipples to tug them and send her over the edge. Although she didn't quite pass out from the climax, she wasn't aware of anything for a while. When she finally did regain awareness, Easy was on top of her, suckling at her breasts as Mari knelt behind the fairy. Foxy held the head to her breasts and gasped as she felt teeth biting into her breasts, thankful for the layer of fur protecting them.
****
Although Hannah had relaxed her quite a bit, Ving was now tense simply because water landings were tricky. Making sure to land well away from the coast to avoid shallow hazards, she had stronger currents to compete with. Everyone else had found some place secure to ride it out while she had strapped herself to the wheel. In the end, as The Lucky Harlot coasted through the water, Ving let out the breath she had been holding longer than she realised. The landing was smooth and soft. The ship rocked with the gentle swelling of the waves and she slowly turned to bring them closer to land.
"Well damn, I thought that was going to be difficult," she muttered.
Down in the hold, Vile let Inky move again after keeping her pinned 'safely' against the wall. "Well, that was less trouble than I was expecting," she commented.
"See? I didn't need your tails inside me 'just to be safe' now did I?" Inky asked somewhat rhetorically.
"No," Vile responded, withdrawing her tails from under Ink's combat skirt. "I suppose not."
Vile smiled as Inky lifted her underwear back into position. She fixed her own clothing and put her breasts away as Astra came in with the rest of the girls, all loaded for combat. Hannah was cradling her trench gun and checking the drum mag, her skirt lined with extra shells instead of the bullets the rest of the girls used.
"Alright," Inky started her briefing. "We are going to visit the fishing village that got shot up when Leira got sold off. We don't know if anyone is alive, dead, armed, or what. So while it is unlikely that this place is enemy territory, that doesn't mean it's friendly territory. You know the drill. Speak softly and carry your weapons openly."
"And open fire at the first sign of trouble?" Astra asked in a tone between a joke and wishful thinking.
"No, break the face of the first sign of trouble. After that, any other signs will be too stupid to take the hint of the soft approach. Those you can shoot."
"I love that breaking faces is your version of the soft approach," Hannah said with a smile.
****
Leira waited eagerly on the bow of the ship looking for a familiar sight while Ving watched her for any directions on where to turn. The whole process made difficult due to a foggy haze on the shoreline that seemed to be getting worse as they moved in. Liddy leant against the rear wall as Cat came in wearing an elegant dress.
"I said fishing village and you put that on?" Liddy scoffed as she admired the cleavage being pushed up by the corset.
"Yes, I really don't think I want to step off the ship, but if I do it's because you need me, and I might as well look right for the only role you would need me for specifically."
"Fair enough. Wearing anything under that?"
"Nothing that can't be removed quickly." Cat smiled back.
"Okay, calm it you two. I need to focus so if you need to fuck, just do it elsewhere," Ving scolded.
"I'm not trying to fuck Cat!" Liddy shouted back. "I mean, sure, later, but I just wondered in case it comes up later on for whatever reason."
"Right, sure." Ving sarcastically agreed a moment before Leira started waving her hands to turn and stop.
Ving spun the wheel and reversed the engines quickly, but not soon enough to avoid whatever they hit. The ship shook and stopped. Leira waived again after looking over the edge to have her shut everything off. Ving went out into the thick fog and looked over the edge. The only thing she could see was the tip of a wooden pier rubbing against the boat. All around them the grey fog blocked their vision. Ving returned to the bridge where, with the assistance of Leira, she brought the ship alongside the pier before dropping the anchor.
****
Cat watched from the window as the girls disappeared into the fog. First the soldiers, then everyone else. She was left alone on the ship, unable to see anything else, so she went into her room after retrieving the device. She tested a few of the vibration speeds on her hand before laying on her bed and putting it where she wanted.
