Her moan was as soft and as exquisite as a field's first bloom, even while her quivering body like a thousand mothers birthing new life into the world. A radiant smile grew across Summer's lips as she mused on how she could still get such a reaction from her sister after all these eons. Stepping out of her form with her mind's eye, she gazed upon their avatars locked in sexual congress, tongues lapping at the wetness of each other's sex as they lay upon Spring's bed of golden down. Spring's soft brown curls spread across Summer's belly and legs just as her own golden blonde tresses flowed languidly over her sister's own legs.
Of course, their passion would have been tenfold if only Spring had consented to use her Scepter of Primacy during their intercourse. While Summer enjoyed the feeling of her sister's tongue against her sex, she much preferred being filled with its primal energy as it plunged in and out of her. It granted each sister great control of the mortal realm while they sat the Throne of Seasons, letting them ripen the crops or bring flowers to bloom, chill the lakes or have leaves cascade in an orange tumble. But the Scepter had power even while the sisters did not rule, allowing them to grant boons, change their form, or attach itself as a phallus that they could thrust into a sister's waiting hole.
But Spring was always a stickler for the rules, even if she enjoyed the occasional dalliance with all her sisters, and she would never use the Scepter during their sexual misconduct. Summer's favorite use of the Scepter was sex, and using it to plow Spring as her sister bounced upon her crotch while Autumn drunkenly straddled her face was one of Summer's best memories in the past century. That she even enjoyed using it on Winter's frigid nethers – on the rare occasion her icy sister deigned grant her access to it – proved the extent to which she enjoyed its use. Summer could count the number of times she dallied with Winter in the past millennium on one hand, and would only resort to her least favorite sister to fulfill her sexual appetite if both her other sisters and the other realms bored her.
It was her least favorite sister who now caught Summer's attention, Spring having returned to her place on the Throne to tend to the mortals. Winter seemed to be gazing in the same direction with some contempt, as was wont of her whenever she relinquished control to Spring. Dressed in a robe of black silk and sitting on her bed of hoarfrost, she was the very picture of gloom. It always took a while to get over the transition, and she often meddled in the mortal realm, tormenting whichever mortals she could in the early part's of Spring's reign. However, seeing as one of Winter's perfect silver hairs lay out of place on a cheek, and a slight flush appeared on her pale cheeks, Summer sensed that something in the mortal realm was upsetting her sister, and she decided to find out if she could add to that misery.
"What ails you, dear Winter?" Summer asked as she approached her sister. "You need not concern yourself with the mortal world any longer, it is our sister's responsibility for now. Why don't you come play, uncross those weary legs of yours. I'll even use my tongue, if that would please you." She knew this would get a rise out of Winter, as neither had forgotten the incident of the frostbitten tongue from three centuries past.
Winter fixed her baleful gaze upon her sister, and gave a short snort of disbelief. "I know you still blame me for your own mistake, sister, so I wonder why you have truly come to bother me."
Seeing no other way to satisfy her curiosity, Summer jumped onto Winter's bed and peered through her window into the mortal realm. She was looking at one of the northern regions, where the last remnants of her power gripped the land in an icy chill. Looking closer, Summer saw a man dressed in several layers of fur, topped with an enormous bearskin cloak. He had a handsome face, even if it were somewhat common, and seemed to be shielding himself from a strong wind.
"Ah, has your icy heart melted for that mortal? It's no wonder my propositions had failed." Summer said, a rosy smirk appearing on her face.
Winter returned with a stony glare, her face like a block of carved ice. "If you must know, this puny mortal is futilely resisting my winds and sleet and snow. As futile as your advances, in fact." A glimmer of a smile crossed her face. "Look at him, trying to make his way through the lands with that ridiculous cloak of his. Only a mortal could be as dumbly obstinate as this one has shown to be. It might take some time, yes, but I'm sure I will peel his stupid cloak from his hide soon enough."
"Oh really, dear sister? I think the mortals have more strength and resilience than you know. Oh certainly, if you were sitting the Throne and your Scepter charged with its full potency, his cloak would be gone in the snap of your fingers and his bones turned to ice, but our Sister reigns now and your power has a tenuous grasp at best in the mortal realm. After all, you've been battling against this simple foe for a while now, haven't you?"
"I have simply been toying with him, yielding my winds when he is at the edge of his strength, so that I might taste a despair born from the death of hope. A moment's notice, and his cloak will fall."
Summer smiled, her goading yielding the response she had been hoping for. "Is that a challenge I hear? A moment to force him to yield his cloak?" Summer plucked a feather from the singular pillow on Winter's bed, holding it in her palm. "Let's say a moment spans this feather's fall, and you know I am being generous. Remove his cloak before this feather graces the ground, and you may ask any boon of me."
"Hah, and you will have a boon of me if I should fail?" Summer gave a curt nod. Winter's smirk was as sharp as a blade of frozen grass. "As expected, you are up to your usual tricks. The feather will sink like a brick, or you will somehow shield the mortal. Why should I let you cheat me into your debt?"
"No tricks, just a simple challenge," Summer said, holding her other hand open. "In fact, I will add to my own burden. Even if you fail to win the mortal's cloak from his shoulders, I must meet the same challenge to claim your boon, or be forfeit otherwise."
Winter thought for a moment, then gave the slightest nod of consent before turning her full attention to the mortal realm. Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew at the mortal, throwing so much snow and sleet in his direction that it was like he was walking through ice. However, his cloak remained on his shoulders, flapping as it was in this blizzard.
While the man was resisting, Summer let the feather fall, and as it fell past Winter's waist, her left eyebrow twitched slightly, and she moved to redouble her efforts. Spirits of storm flew into the vicinity, adding their own winds to Winter's, and Summer realized her sister had grabbed her Scepter to summon her minions. Still, the mortal persevered, stopping in his tracks and wrapping his cloak more tightly around himself.
Winter's brow was now fully furrowed, the most worried expression Summer had seen cross her sister's face in over a century, and she could not help but laugh. Winter turned to scowl at her just as the feather touched the floor, and Summer's gleeful howl could be heard across the Court of Seasons.
Like frost in the sun, Winter's scowl soon melted, returning to her usual expressionless gaze. She said, "Fine, it seems this mortal is made of sterner stuff than most, but you should not be celebrating yet. He still wears his cloak, and I have chased off my spirits and let my winds die down." She plucked a feather and let it loose. "You barely have any influence over the storms and the cold. Whatever paltry breeze or rain you might muster will do nothing to take that damned cloak in time."
Summer merely turned and smiled her most radiant smile, and the land began to bask in the glory of her joy. Soon a drop of sweat grew on the man's brow, and it slowly gathered on his cheeks and around his collar. In an instant, he unwound the cloak from his shoulders and let it fall to the floor, and began removing his furs and undershirt as well, revealing a tan, muscular body that appeared quite delectable to Summer. The feather had barely moved past her shoulder, and she turned to blow it in Winter's face.
The frown that grew on Winter's face was like a ice-covered lake cracking open. Grabbing a stand of her perfect silver hair, she placed it in Summer's hand and said with the barest whisper, "Your boon, my lady."