It's about the first week of the third month when it happens.
I return to my room after breakfast, after his morning load, and look at myself in the mirror, scooping the worst of the heaviness from my eyes. In my hands it's innocuous, just thick muck, stinking ancient and musky with its virile cargo. Off-white, gooey, ropey, knotted, thick. And I look at myself, and the darndest thought occurs.
What if I should just...
But when I lick my lips, the stuff evaporates. I lift my hand to my mouth, but find it empty. Elsewhere it remains, but that which I try to taste vanishes. Something magical, something strange, so I wash and relegate the detail to the banks of memory. A weirdness, but not something to say: he'd cotton on immediately to what I attempted.
Archaelaus doesn't find me in the afternoon. I ignore that, but when it grows dark, something is clearly wrong. I climb the tower from the first library to the second, and then to the laboratory. He's not behind his desk. I go and look at the tome in progress, neat and orderly, and spot the little bottle of my semen, discarded in a waste basket. Memory might fail me, but it looks no less full.
Taking that to heart, my interest changes. He needed my fluids, didn't he? But then...
'Sonny,' Archaelaus calls. His voice carries, no matter where we are, relative to one another. 'In the sitting room, my boy. Come, see me.'
I descend, at last setting eyes upon him again. The old mage sits in a dressing gown tonight, a velvet purple and blue thing, faintly regal. A fire crackles away in the large hearth, casting a warm glow on the room and its cushioned seats. Archaelaus smiles at me, beckons me to sit on the sofa opposite the flames.
'Son, we need to have a talk. About your future here.'
I sit, nod, and point upwards. 'That bottle of semen,' I say. 'You didn't use it. It was just in a bin.'
The old man steeples his hands, smirking across at me. 'Yes, you're observant. As am I.'
'What?'
'This morning, boy. I saw what you attempted.'
I shudder. 'You mean--'
'Yes, after breakfast.' He sniggers. 'You wanted something for pudding, I take it?'
'No, I mean--'
'There's no use hiding the truth, sonny. Honestly, at this point, it would be strange if you hadn't developed an interest.'
I blush, and frown. 'Fuck.'
Archaelaus smiles. 'Sonny, would you believe I'm glad it was you who came through that portal?'
'But why?'
He nods. 'Because were it the sex-demon I'd hoped for, I'd never experience the satisfaction of true willingness.'
'With an actual sex-demon?'
The old man nods. 'My boy, they have needs, like we do. But it encompasses their whole beings. You and I must soothe our sexual urges, of course, but how we do so is a matter of desire. Can you imagine receiving a blowjob, but the giver is doing so purely to sate a need? It could be any cock, could be any man, could happily be replaced by a golem, a homunculus.'
'Yeah,' I say. 'That'd be shit. But how do I fit in?'
He lowers his eyes, aglow in warm fire, dark lust. 'Because of desire. Desire is what you felt this morning, when you tried to taste my semen. That was desire. True, earnest, noble. And ever so pleasant, to be on the receptive end.'
My cheeks heat up, and I tremble on the spot. 'It was...that was...I didn't mean--'
'Like I said, sonny, there's no use hiding.' He grins, showing yellowed teeth. 'Do you know what gives me the most pleasure, of all things?'
I shake my head.
'To have a youth, of your age, desire me carnally. Not for power, not to butter me up, but truly and purely, to enjoy the process,' Archaelaus says. 'There is something wonderful, in being so appreciated. It's why I've been ejaculating on your face since that first incident. I see, each and every time, that you enjoy being marked by me. You do enjoy it, don't you?'
Slowly, I nod. 'Yes. Yeah. I shouldn't...but I do.'
Archaelaus chuckles. 'Oh, I'll be the first to acknowledge the oddity of your interest in me, but you wouldn't be the first.' His eyes, cunning and wizened, flicker as they trace out my body. 'Perhaps the first to have no ulterior motives, however. You're not like any boy from my world, I must admit.'
I feel at once weirdly honoured, and naturally disturbed by his attentions. 'What does that mean, exactly?'
'You're intelligent, for one thing. Clever, without much trying to be.' Archaelaus smirks. 'I appreciate your presence here, boyo. You're welcome company.'
'Uh, thank you?'
The smirk becomes a faint grin. 'It must've been frustrating earlier,' he says. 'When you tried to taste such tempting produce.'
'Archaelaus...'
'I've been quite busy on that return spell today, sonny, or I'd have sought you out. But I do need some relief.' He parts his feet, stretches his gait. The silken gown falls upon the unmistakeable shape of his ancient manhood. 'Why don't you do what you do so well, boy?'
Something is off, here, but I'm not sure what. And if he's truthful, if he's been working on the spell...
'You didn't use any of cum I gave you?'
Archaelaus nods. 'I needed the image of it, not the quantity. I'm familiar, now, with the universal template encoded in your seed, boyo.' He taps a slipper-clad foot. 'Now please, sonny, help an old man out.'
Fine. What's it matter? I'm just being cagey for nothing, I'm sure. The whole situation is weird, but him asking me to give him a titwank isn't something out of the ordinary.
I go to Archaelaus and drop to my knees, per protocol. He widens his gait a little more, but we both stay dressed. The way he watches me suggests he wants something of a show, so I grin and bear it. The filthy old mage stares intently as I pull my robe up over my head, big unnatural breasts jiggling, feminine curves on this modified frame wobbling. I throw aside the garment, but he remains clothed.