All characters in sexual situations are 18 or older. Thanks for reading!
"So, you've come to take me to the bottom of the well." Ernest held his pistol before him, aiming at the nearing shadow creature.
The black monster held out its arm to him in a peaceful gesture. The elbow turned the wrong way. Two brown eyes floated under the surface of its face. A femur drifted in its chest cavity, just on the edge of visibility.
"I've stared into the well, and there is no end. It goes on forever." Ernest lowered his pistol and put it in his holster. He was close to the thing at the center of the hotel. It was only about ten floors down from his current location. There were three of its scouts in front of him. Two moved out from rooms to cut off his retreat. He looked over his shoulder. The things moved with grace. They had been so dumb and clumsy not long ago.
The lead creature beckoned him toward the stairs and turned away from him, demonstrating confidence that he would follow.
"What has it done to me? I feel... more." Ernest adjusted his sunglasses over his black eyes. He looked at his torn jacket sleeve and the black veins that branched under his exposed skin.
The creature beckoned him again and kept walking.
A sudden burst of confidence hit Ernest. He felt understanding, connectedness, and resolution. His feet moved as he followed the creature.
The other creatures fell in around him. Walking with their graceful, disjointed gaits.
"There is a bottom to the well. It's Earth. It was a gravity well I saw. And all we have to do is fall in." Ernest nodded. "I'll help you."
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"Ready to go, Mom?" George swung the backpack onto his shoulders and straightened his tie. He'd already removed the barricade and opened the door, quickly checking the hall. It was empty.
"Ready." Anna smiled at George. She straightened her bodice, tightened her sword belt, and gave the room one last inspection to see if they had forgotten anything. She gazed at the bed for a long time. That would always be the first place she'd had sex with her amazing son. In her mind, she was no longer telling herself the affair would end when they arrived back on floor one-oh-three. Instead, she was planning for how she might continue without Ernest, or anyone else, finding out. It was a ludicrous notion, but was it any less insane than what had become of their hotel? Satisfied with her appraisal of the room, she turned and limped toward her son.
"You're limping a lot. The ankle hurt that bad?" He frowned at her and offered a hand.
"My ankle hurts." She stopped and gave him a mischievous look. "You want to hear something wild?"
George nodded, giving her a wary look.
Anna made an exaggerated shocked face, with her mouth wide open. "My vagina hasn't hurt this much since I popped you out more than eighteen years ago." She put a hand over her mouth like she couldn't believe what she'd just said.
"Is that... bad?" George's frown persisted. He took her gloved hand and helped her into the hall.
"No! It does hurt, but it also feels amazing. You stretched me so much that..." Anna's words died when the door next to them opened, and Gwendolyn stepped out.
"I thought I heard someone out here." Kapnos entered the hall. She wore a new, emerald green bodice, with matching gloves and skirts. Just peeking out from the hem of her skirts were new brown shoes. Her satchel hung from one shoulder and over the opposite hip. The strap digging into her bodice between her breasts. Her blond hair was pinned, but she wore no hat. "Good afternoon, Zaals. I feel much refreshed. Did you spend your siesta time well?" She curtsied to mother and son.
"We... um... didn't sleep." Anna's cheeks turned deep crimson. She curtsied to the woman awkwardly, wincing in pain.
"Oh?" Kapnos narrowed her eyes with good-natured suspicion. "I hope you kept your ankle elevated. It looks like you're hurt."
"Yes, we kept it elevated." George couldn't help but smile, even when his mother gave him a disproving look. It was true, her feet were up in the air a good portion of the time they were in that room.
Kapnos raised an eyebrow at George. When he nodded, a broad white crescent spread across her face. She put her hand to her mouth and cleared her throat.
Anna looked between her son and their new friend. She wasn't sure what was going on between them. But there definitely seemed to be something. After what they'd just done, he couldn't possibly have designs on another woman.
Could he?
"There's an infirmary two floors down. Let's have Océane take a look at your ankle." Kapnos strolled over to them. "I'll take the backpack, Mrs. Zaal, so that you can ride your son."
"Excuse me?" Anna put a hand to her chest in shock. It wasn't feigned this time.
"It's okay, Mom. She means you can ride on my back. I can carry you down two flights of stairs." George removed the backpack and handed it to Kapnos. He turned his back to his mother and lowered himself to one knee. "Climb on."
"This isn't dignified." Anna tested her ankle. Pain surged. She wondered if spreading her legs to climb on him would make her sore vagina worse. Should she ask Océane's autodoc to look at her nethers, too? Did she dare?
"You used to give me piggyback rides when I was little. Now I'm big, and you're... not as big as me." He couldn't call her
little
. "It's my turn." He looked over his shoulder and smiled.
"Very well." Anna gave Gwendolyn a frown to let the other woman know that this wasn't palatable. She then climbed on her son's back and went for her first piggyback ride in about thirty-five years.
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"So?" Kapnos sat down next to George in the waiting room.
Inside the exam room, the autodoc was attending to Anna's wounds.
"So?" George shrugged and held back a wide grin.