Tales of the Apprentice - Book 1
Chapter 4
The night brought more snowfall, much to Serana's relief. The area around the house that had been denuded of snow far exceeded the range of the spell that she had put onto the house in order for it to remain inconspicuous, and she had been worried that the unnatural local thaw might attract unwanted attention. Fortunately the weather had been cold enough to keep all casual passers-by indoors, and the next morning the snow around the house might have been somewhat thinner than elsewhere, but not so that anyone would notice.
The temperature continued to drop over the course of the next few days, and the nearby stream gradually froze again. The winter became more and more severe, and the cold kept them both indoors most of the time. Galen reluctantly decided that the job of finalizing the extension to the cottage would have to wait until spring arrived, and he used the time to construct some new furniture for his room. The bed he put together was perhaps not the most elegant one, what with the wood and the tools he had to work with, but it was sturdy and serviceable, and it was far better than sleeping on the cold stone floor. A simple wooden storage chest and a modest bedside table came next, and after a while the room began to look almost homey.
The kitchen was the warmest place in the house, so Serana and Galen spent a lot of time there. Fortunately they had reached a point where Galen's Energies flowed through him quite well, so the training bench was no longer needed. The challenge Galen now faced was to gain better control of his Energies and not let them get out of hand.
Serana decided that the best way to begin that process would be to further build up his self-control in general. He had already taken the first and most important steps himself, following her initial instructions to masturbate and hold back his orgasm for as long as he could. Now he spent every evening sitting in the chair next to the kitchen fire. He kept the bin next to the fireplace well stocked with firewood, and the kitchen was always warm enough for both of them to be naked in spite of the brutal winter weather outside. Which was good, because their training sessions grew longer as his stamina increased.
The fire was burning merrily when Serana took Galen's flaccid cock in her mouth and applied the tip of her tongue to its little hole, while she lightly caressed his balls with her fingertips at the same time. It didn't take long before she felt his cock begin to swell in her mouth. As the shaft grew longer and thicker, the head began to protrude from within his foreskin, and it took only a few licks to roll the skin back all the way and expose the head fully. As he continued to grow hard in her mouth she skillfully caressed his shaft until his flesh was hot and hard and fully engorged, and she could feel his life force pulse underneath the skin. Great Mother, she loved that feeling, and she took a few long moments to savor the sensation. To make him grow big and hard that way, to feel the pressure of his blood as it filled his cock while she gently licked and sucked and caressed him... There was something special about it, something that she couldn't quite put into words.
Galen, had he known what she was thinking, would have agreed with her completely. The feeling of her tongue and lips working their magic on his most sensitive parts was absolutely incredible. It was as if little sparks of pleasure danced across the head of his cock, then ran through his rapidly swelling shaft and into his balls and groin. To feel himself grow bigger and harder in her mouth, and the feeling of her fingertips on his balls, touching them ever so lightly but always just in the right way... It was better than anything he'd ever felt before.
Once his cock was fully hard and hot, pulsing with his lifeblood, she began to stimulate him mercilessly. She used all her skill. She caressed his balls with the fingertips of one hand, tracing intricate patterns across the sac and gently rolling its delicate contents around, and every now and then her finger found its way underneath him to touch that special, magical spot there that sent wild jolts of pleasure through him. Holding his throbbing, rock-hard shaft gently but firmly with her other hand, she carefully pulled down on the skin until it was smooth and taut behind the rim of the head. Then, keeping his bulbous knob just inside her mouth, she began to bob her head up and down, her slick, wet lips sliding back and forth across the crown, while her tongue played across the sensitive spot on the underside of his head.
Galen did the best he could, but in spite of the fact that he had gotten better at holding his arousal in check, he knew it was only a matter of time before he would lose control in the face of this onslaught. She had given him a run for his money before when he had him in her mouth, but this was something of an entirely different order. The feeling of her lips sliding across the head of his cock and caressing the inside of his taut foreskin, always touching those spots that gave him the greatest amount of pleasure, was more than he could withstand for very long, and what she was doing to his balls was simply beyond what he had thought possible. And just when he felt he was about to regain some small measure of control, the tip of her tongue would find its way to the underside of his cock and flick across it in light, teasing little licks, then move around it in small circles...
Pleasure infused his groin and began to flow outward though his thighs, his stomach and even his bunghole. He gritted his teeth and held back the flood of pleasure building within him as well as he could, trying to keep it from erupting too soon. But he knew that it was only a matter of time.
Although Serana could feel the effort it took him to control himself, she gave no quarter. If it hadn't been for the fact that he had a certain amount of basic training under his belt by now, he'd never have lasted for even a minute. As it was, the torrent of delicious sensations that her fingers, lips and tongue unleashed in him caused him to gasp, and his breathing became heavy and labored.
She expertly gauged his arousal by the tension in his muscles, the hardness of his cock in her mouth, the tightness of his balls and the sound of his breathing. With her inner Vision she watched the Energies within him build rapidly, and she watched his efforts to control them. He was doing well, she had to admit. It wasn't his fault that the level of his Energies were so high that they would soon escape his control.
She siphoned off a small, measured amount of the rapidly growing cloud of blue-white light that had formed within him, drew it into herself and used it to raise her own Energy level; not by much, but just enough to merge her consciousness with his.
* Control it, Galen, *
her thought spoke within the silence of his mind.
* Oh, gods, Serana... *
his thought gasped.
Suddenly, through the melding of their minds, she felt his pleasure; his intense arousal, the exquisite sensations that were radiating outward from the head of his cock, running through the shaft and infusing his groin. She suppressed the feeling of satisfaction with the results of what she was doing to him as soon as it rose within her. The meld was a two-way thing, and it wouldn't do to let her apprentice know how delighted she was by the fact that she had lost none of her skill over the long, long centuries. Concentrating on the job at hand, she made sure to keep her thought stern and business-like.
* Focus, Galen. This is just the beginning. Compared to what you eventually must learn to handle, this is absolutely nothing. *
She felt his dismay.
* Don't worry, *
she said within his mind, her thought more kindly now.
* We will take this in stages. By the time we get to the more advanced techniques, you'll be ready for it. Now, observe, and remain passive. I'll show you what to do. Tomorrow you can try for yourself. *
Together they watched the roiling, blue-white cloud of Energy within him grow and grow as she continued to stimulate him. The meld made it a little easier for her to help him retain control; she no longer had to rely on his physical signals alone to know when to back off and let him come down a little from those precipitous heights of arousal. But as she continued to stimulate him it became more and more challenging for him to hold back the inevitable explosion. Her slick, wet lips kept sliding back and forth, back and forth, across the now super-sensitive rim of his cock-head and the inside of his foreskin just behind it, kept taut by her hand around his throbbing shaft while the tip of her tongue drew small circles across the underside of the head and her fingertips caressed his balls, occasionally straying into the region between his sac and his bunghole.
* Oh, Gods, Serana... Ooohhh... *
* Hold on to it just a little longer, Galen. Focus on your Energies. *
