Deep in the night between February ninth and tenth, 1937, the last Carnival crowd holdouts in Quito had given up. Tucked away in their beds before Ash Wednesday's liturgical, if not actual, repentance commenced, they mostly hoped for enough sleep to make their inevitable headaches at least bearable. This was not true for Yma Otón, the twenty-year-old Otavoleño native who served as live-in nanny for the young daughters of the city's alcalde, Hugo Alvarez, and his wife. She stared blankly wide-eyed at her slowly rotating ceiling fan as she lay stickily naked under a light sheet, lost in heartfelt prayer that she had dispatched a ripe egg to welcome the seed flotilla that the mayor, barely six hours earlier, had launched into her at the Hotel Plaza Grande.
Yma sighed softly. Twice, and sometimes three times, every week since she had turned eighteen on the day before Maria Alvarez entered the hospital in labor with little Dolores, the alcalde had made love to her. Her fingers twitched beside her bare hips as she did the math while thinking of the multiple ways that she had given herself so fully to her passionate lion. But this last time, the briefest and most desperate that she could remember, was different from all the others.
Hugo Alvarez was keenly conscious of the possible consequences when he enjoyed Yma's sweet sexual favors. Always, he had inquired when she had had her last period. If he thought the risks were too great, he ignored The Church and put a rubber sleeve on his carajo to corral his potency. However, last evening in the hotel suite, with baby Dolores snug in the next room, there had been no time for such a question and so, on her cycle's most fertile day, no protection had been used.
Outside Yma's open window, in the huge tree-like banana plant which dominated the Casa Alvarez inner courtyard, an Andean Potoo perched solemnly on a great stem. As its periodic querulous wails, interspersed with quieter calls, pierced the darkness in her room and registered in her brain, she wondered, "Is this an omen of change, Mamá, as you so often said when you heard the ghost bird's poignant voice? And, if so, what will the change be? Is it my time to become a madre?"
Suddenly a thick green misty haze filled Yma's bedroom. Doubting her senses, she raised up sluggishly onto her elbows and asked aloud, "What is this strange colored fog? Am I awake or dreaming?"
At once, a clear distinct voice answered, "Awake enough, but lay back unalarmed."
Yma did as she was told, as if she had no other option. As soon as her head hit her pillow again, all mobility left her body, but behind her closed eyes she listened intently for more information. The voice was beautiful and commanding; oddly familiar, yet completely unknown. For all its imperiousness, it filled her with confident calm.
Esmeralda Verde, the immortal Green Witch, condensed her illusion form into a small cloud, then hovered near her mesmerized subject's placid face and gently continued, "Yma Otón, I am here to help you fulfill your hope, if that is what you would want. Are you truly seeking change? Will you welcome my assistance?"
Without understanding her excitement, Yma cried out in her mind, "¡SÃ! ¡Ayúdame! ¡Por favor!" Inside her frozen frame her heart thundered and her panting breaths rushed in a gale.
La Hechicera smiled her satisfaction and praised, "Good girl! That is all I needed to hear. Ahora duerme un poco..."
Yma soughed quietly as she drifted obediently into dreamless slumber. In the corridor, the sorceress silently shimmered her way to the Alvarez nursery where she discarded her veiling vapor and targeted there the mayor's four young daughters in their beds. Touching their brows and muttering arcane foreign words over each child in turn, she made certain the girls would not wake before their nanny roused them to dress for breakfast.
At the long hall's end, in the master suite, Esmeralda surveilled Hugo Alvarez and his heavily pregnant wife, Maria sleeping soundly in their grand four-poster. Back-to-back, with an air pocket a half-metre wide between them, no part of one's body touched the other. Moving first to Dona Alvarez' head, the magician deepened her oblivion just as she had done for Alba, Beatriz, Carlota and Dolores in their room. Then, she moved around the bed to the curled-up alcalde, leaned close to his left ear and tugged his dark caballero-style goatee with her right hand while she whispered a different incantation.
As his lids fluttered and his glazed eyes half-focused on the enchantress, the forty-year-old submissively rolled a quarter-turn onto his back. Esmeralda dropped her left hand lightly onto his forehead, as if to check his temperature, while she let go his beard and then flipped the linen sheet off him onto his wife. Maria did not notice the new double coverage on her hefty hip, nor the sudden cool draft on her bared shoulders, except, without waking, she swam on the mattress surface closer to its edge, tightened her fetal posture and widened her distance from her entranced husband. Hugo, somnolently unfolding, laid out his arms beside his hips and straightened legs.
"Gracias, mi mascota," the Green Witch cooed, as she stroked her left fingers into the alcalde's wavy black hair and opened his pajama shirt's top button with her right hand. "Now, let's talk about your mission." Moving to the next button, and the two beyond that, she chuckled thoughtfully as she corrected herself, "Well, I'll talk. You listen."
Esmeralda spread apart Hugo's undone pajama top's plackets and then massaged slow circular swaths from his budding middle-age pot upward to his chest. As she scratched his scalp and burrowed in the wiry thatch between his soft pectoral muscles, she whispered matter-of-factly, "You have been both very lucky and very unlucky in love, my pet. But that is about to change. Your daughters are all darling, however they are obviously not the son that you have always wanted. How unfortunate. On the other hand, you have been regularly fucking their delicious nanny for two years and she has so far remained childless. "¡Hay buena suerte para ti!"
Esmeralda smiled and toyed with Hugo's nipples. He rolled his shoulders responsively while his nerves jangled and a heat began in his gut. His pantaloons tented slightly at the crotch. A low moan emanated from behind his closed lips.
La Hechicera teased, "Oh, yes? You are thinking of Yma now? And how you passionately loved her this evening while I entertained your family?"
As if in answer, Hugo's prick rose and fell behind his cotton stripes. "Well," continued the sorceress. "The vessel waits to be filled again, but I must ascertain if the instrument is up to the task."
Esmeralda's right hand south drifted south to the pajama waistband and loosed its drawstrings' bow. As she deftly twisted the single button through its loop at the top of the central vent, a ruddy round bald bulb peeked from its cave and burped a glistening viscous bead for inspection. Promptly, she poked the dewdrop with her nail and swirled it around the slit from which it came, as she proclaimed, "That's a good sign, for starters."
Hugo groaned more loudly deep in his throat, as his hardening penis pushed its fat glans upward and maximally tightened its foreskin around its pulsing petrified shaft. Esmeralda slid her encircling palm twenty-one centimetres to the wrinkled hairy bag at turgid tool's base and securely cupped its contents. As she gently hefted and squeezed his heavy nuts, she declared, "There seems to be plenty of weight here, but are any of your swimmers little boys?"
The witch traced her index finger along the seam dividing Hugo's fat testicles then closed her fist loosely upon his cock. It throbbed as it grew thicker and filled her hand. "Pues, no te preocupes, mi mascota," she said, sotto voce, as she stroked upward to the swollen head. "I have a sacred talisman for you which will guarantee our success. Oh yes, I do mean 'our' success. The son you make with Yma will be very important to me in another twenty years."
Blood surged in the boner as if the mayor could not wait to begin. Esmeralda laughed lightly again while she tightened her grip on her new familiar's erection. "Not yet, my pet," she said as she teased another drop of pre-cum with her fingernail. Removing her left hand from Hugo's scalp, she pulled from her green satin sheath's bodice an intricately carved platinum ram's head suspended on a fine platinum chain. Then, using both hands, she hung the totem around the mayor's neck and patted the ram against his sternum before returning her warm massaging fingers to their original positions on his two heads.
Hugo's ears burned and his stiff staff reflexively flexed with the magician's renewed touches. She stroked his crown while she simultaneously slid lovingly to his jewels and captured them once again. He groaned helpless and happy as his aching turmoil increased. Applying gentle pressure high and low, she opined, "I think you are ready to fulfill my purpose and to satisfy Yma's fervent hope. She is waiting. Go to her."
The alcalde recovered from his hypnotic torpor just as La Hechicera re-assumed her mist illusion, floated to the ceiling and then evaporated to nothingness. But, nothingness was the opposite of what he felt in her absence. Overwhelmed by an appetite he had not had once in the nearly three decades since his first wet dream, he instantly recalled Yma Otón's request following their frolic at the Hotel Plaza Grande. "Sneak away to my room in the casa later tonight," she had begged. "After Maria is snoring! I want to hold you inside me for at least one hour."
Hugo hesitantly poked Maria's fleshy back and asked, in a low voice which he hoped she could not hear, "¿Estás dormida, mi querida?" He breathed a relieved sigh when she was unresponsive. Slipping off the four-poster, he grinned at his rigid rampant carajo, then stepped out of his fallen pajama bottoms and strode boldly from the master bedroom with his unbuttoned shirt flapping behind him. "Here I come, little bunny," he thought gleefully.