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CHAPTER 14: JENNA’S FULFILLMENT
I was still confused why Wolf and Preta were with me on this visit to Agency. This visit had all the markings of my participation in new recruit training rather than any on-going evaluation of my ‘condition’, as it was being delicately referred to with so many new people around. This visit also had markings to it that seemed as though my primary purposed was to provide an unconventional and contradictory element for the recruits to deal with as a distraction. I could understand the benefit of such a tactic being introduced in their training, but it left a question in my mind what else was really happening, especially with my boys along.
As far as discovering the need for my boys, I was to discover that soon enough. And, there were few conspiratorial issues involved.
My dinner was casual and light with Jenna, Mary, and Steve. We shared alot laughter and they delved into some of the things I had experienced recently. Nobody was expecting more developmental surprises and it seemed that my tests were showing signs of reaching some equilibrium. Jenna laughed, patting me on the back, and giving me a tease from a seemingly long-ago comment of mine. “So, it seems you don’t need to worry any longer about growing that tail.” She nudged me, “At least, not at the moment.” She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, “But maybe I should do some closer inspection later tonight …” Whether Mary and Steve could overhear or not, my formerly prim and proper Doctor was becoming quite emboldened.
We were interrupted by Sam and another man who I recognized as one of the instructors that had been encircling the recruits in the training room when I arrived. Sam introduced him as Sig from the European facility. Sam made the introduction of everyone at the table, causing Jenna, Mary, and Steve to become self-conscious.
“Sig, I’m sure you believe you have the best people at your facility, too; but, in my book, there isn’t a better scientific team in all of Agency.”
He chuckled, “Well, I do think we have great people, but from what I have already seen, you do, too.” He looked right at me, smiled and turned back to the others, “What you have found and done with Ms. Linder, here, is quite amazing. Scientists willing to go outside of science for inspiration … quite unusual and productive. And, you, Ms. Linder, I was glad to see you in action without having to be facing you on the training floor.” He turned, laughing, and proceeded to the door. Sam hung back.
“Annie, are you going for your early run in the morning?” I nodded. “Good. The recruits will be going out at 0800. If you were coming back about then, it would be perfect.”
I looked after him and mumbled, “What did he mean by that?”
Steve conjected, “He assumes you are going with Wolf and Preta. The recruits don’t know about them, yet. If you were returning at 8:00 AM, they would see the three of you running up the mountainside. They will be running the ridge.”
Mary smiled and added, “Of course, he’s adding more intimidation for the recruits. Never underestimate someone new …”
Mary and Steve got up from the table, each coming to me for a hug while I remained sitting. They both expressed how happy it was to see me … how happy it always was. I shared the feeling. There was something special about this place. Maybe because of the unassuming help these people had given me. But, also because of the people they were. Different, certainly, but a special difference.
Jenna looked over her shoulders, scanning the dining room, then leaned to me, putting her hand over mine. “Annie, can I asked a very special favor?”
I smiled at her and put my free hand over hers, “There is no favor I wouldn’t do for you.”
Her look became conspiratorial, “I want to be with Wolf …” I watched her closely and a smile slowly formed on my face. I arched my eyebrows. She nodded assertively. I stood abruptly, keeping her hand in mine, and pulled her out the door. Another woman into the sisterhood. Was I a corrupting influence or an enlightening one? Regardless, so far, nobody has ever complained!
I didn’t even offer her to go to her quarters, first. I was rising early in the morning for my run and she could make her way back to her quarters while the facility was still shrouded in early morning quiet.
Inside my quarters, I could hear both Wolf and Preta jump off my bed at the sound of the door hissing open and closing. After greeting me with their usual enthusiasm, they tentatively approached Jenna. It wasn’t that they didn’t know Jenna, but she was gaining her own comfort around them. Jenna had not grown up with pets, always having been in ‘guardian’ homes near campuses. Now, the appearance of ‘pets’ was in the form of a still mostly wild panther and a wolf-like-dog that could be just as wild acting, certainly appearing.
Tonight, though, was a marked change in her approach to them. She deliberately, if still a bit tentatively, knelt down in her dress to take each of the a****ls at their level. The first couple of licks caused her to look up at me. Seeing my face light up, she freely gave her face to them for more. Soon, she was giggling and squealing with delight. She initiated tonight without any push or suggestion on my part and she was showing me her interest and resolve for it to continue.
I patted the boys on their shoulders and they made room for me. I stood Jenna up and looked her in the eyes. “You’ve not been with a man, yet.” She shook her head but did not show any weakening of her resolve. I gave her a devilish smile of understanding, “So, your first real cock will be canine.” She nodded with a growing a smile on her face that included twinkling in her eyes.
I reached behind my back and unzipped my dress. She watched and immediately began doing the same thing. She was removing her bra as I was pushing my thong down off my legs, my sundress having had built-in support. Once we were both naked, I pulled her into my body, our hands roaming freely over each other as we kissed. I broke the kiss and looked to the sides. Jenna following my gaze to find the a****ls watching intently, but patiently, undoubtedly hoping that these naked women would somehow also involve them eventually.
I slid my hand down her arm to hold her hand. I directed her attention to Wolf by directing my gaze to him. “You’ve enjoyed his tongue on your pussy and clit. As I recall, you came a couple times that night.” She nodded. Despite what she had committed herself to doing, she blushed at the memory. “Then, I think it is time for you to return the favor to him. Not to climax, though. You want him to climax inside of you, right?”
She nodded. “Yes. Yes, I do. I want to feel it all, the way I have seen you with him. I want to feel his cock and his knot and his cum. I want to feel his cum run out of me when he pulls his knot out of me. God! I am so horny. I have to have him.”
I smiled and squeezed her hand. “Then you shall …”
I stripped the bed, laid out the cover on the floor over the rug, doubled up the top sheet over that and put towels over that, then patting the surface for Wolf to lay down. He looked at me as he did, expecting me to move to him, but I didn’t. He momentarily seemed confused when I stayed still and Jenna moved down to him. I knelt next to her and petted his head, instructing her on what to do, or how I liked to do it. She didn’t hesitate or show any sign of thinking about her decision or questioning the direction of the fulfillment of her desires. She stroked the side of Wolf and moved her hands gradually to his stomach, ever moving closer to his sheath. I could see the tip of his cock sticking out from the sheath, but she stayed to my directions, touching only the sheath and his cock hidden inside it.
Wolf was calm, long since accepting of another human female caring for his needs. His head resting comfortably on the padding, he was rolled partially on his back with his hind leg raised to allow better access to the actions he was now very familiar and comfortable with.
I offered soft comments to lead Jenna in her quest for a first mating with a dog. I watched as she carefully lowered her face to Wolf’s crotch, putting her tongue out to the red tip of his cock peeking out from the sheath. I watched as the tip of her tongue came into contact with the tip of his cock and the pre-cum hanging from it. I watched as she raised her face a few inches and brought her tongue back into her mouth. I watched as mouth moved as she sucked on her tongue tip, moving the bit of fluid around her mouth.
I lowered my face to the level of hers, “Well?”
She turned her face to me and smiled. “Well, it isn’t as if I have a lot to compare it to.” We both chuckled. “But … it’s not an unpleasant taste.” She went back down to take up more that had formed. “In fact, it is a taste I won’t mind at all.”
I was going to respond, but she was already back to Wolf’s cock, now a couple inches out of the sheath. This time she parted her lips and took the tip between her lips. I saw by her cheeks that she was vigorously sucking at the pre-cum now. That action quickly produced more cock for her and she took all that became exposed. She was performing admirably for someone who had not yet been with a man. I wondered how much the dildos I left with her had been used while alone at night thinking thoughts of experiences to someday come to her, experiences that she had inklings of from our time together and her visual stimulation at the resort.
She raised her head and I now saw a good four or five inches of exposed, reddish cock. She looked at me like a student looking to a mentor and seeking confirmation. She was smiling. Finally, she asked, “Is it time? Are we ready?” I nodded at her excitement.
She moved into the hands and knees position and I patted her ass, encouraging Wolf to mount her. He sniffed and licked at her ass a few times and I heard her gasp as his tongue apparently slipped between her thighs and lapped at her pussy. I instructed her on using her hand to help him into her.
“Use your open palm, but put your thumb over the base of his cock to give just a bit more leverage in moving the cock to your hole. You are both blind in this but it is better than him butting and probing with his cock.”
The initial penetration was obvious at hearing her loud gasp and groan. Then, he gripped her tightly and moved into her more, which brought more from her.
“OH … MY … GOD! OH … oh … my … god. Oh, Annie! He … the way … godddd … he grabbed me … he pulled me onto … onto him! He squeezed my waist and … and pulled my … my hips back, pressing … me … him deeper into me.”
She moaned out the experience, her head dropping, sagging from her shoulders. I reached under her and fondled one of her breasts.
“Oh … myyyyyyy … yessssss … oh, I love the feel of this! He … I love him on me, his fur on my back. Even though … I am being fucked … like an a****l … his large, furry, strong body d****d over … like a large comforting blanket. My god, what a combination of sensations!”
It was up to the two of them now, so I call Preta to me. I stoked under his belly and felt his cock outside about three inches, which was plenty for the way I was feeling. I turned so I was alongside Jenna and smacked my ass. Preta, after watching the event so far, was on my back in that next instant and inside me the next. He started fucking into me and I reveled in the difference. It had been a long time since I took Preta without having been fucked before him and I was, again, finding this experience completely new … all over again.
Although they had a good head start on Preta and me, they would be knotted for a time after they climaxed. I knew this would work out just fine.
I was brought out of my own euphoria by grunting and strained sounds from Jenna. I knew what it was as I saw them moving. I encouraged her, again, “Press back against him. Help him. You will open. Press back.”
She grunted and groaned, but soon she gave a whimpered cry as the knot stretched her completely and passed into her and filling her like she had never dreamed.
* * * * *
“There she is.”
Sam was with the other instructors on the ridge near the exit from the facility at the ‘balcony’. The recruits were gathered for their morning training workout. Part of any mission could likely involve prolonged exertion. This morning they were going to be following the ridge line trail, which required careful placement of each step along the path dropping and rising along the natural terrain of the mountain ridge. Unknown to the recruits who were already moaning about the run over the four miles to come was the runner approaching from below them on a makeshift switchback trail, generally following a natural game trail up the side of the mountain.
It took several moments before one of the recruits finally noticed the attention the instructors were giving something down the mountainside. When he realized what he was seeing, “What the hell?” He poked whomever was next to him and soon all the recruits were now focused on the woman making her way up the mountain trail at a consistent jogging pace with two black a****ls, one in front of her and the other just behind.
Sam, of course, knew exactly who the person was and what the a****ls were. The others were perhaps more resistant to accepting what they were seeing, both that a woman was indeed running up the side of the mountain and that she was accompanied by a wolf-looking dog and what looked like a large panther.
From below, they heard a shout but unrecognizable. The instructor next to Sam asked what that was. Sam told him to wait, it will happen again and laughed.
They did watch, especially the recruits, as it became clear who the woman approaching up the trail was. The woman had made a move at a switch-back and jumped between the two a****ls again and was right on the tail of the dog. Approaching the next switch-back, the panther cut up the slope rather than taking the switch-back. Again, she cried out, clear now that they were nearer the top, “Cheater! You’re supposed to follow the trail.”
She turned off the trail and started scrambling up the rough slope using her hands for support, but was no match for the a****ls who powered up the slope efficiently using their four feet to drive them up. They sprang onto the trail not far from the other humans watching, turned and panted while watching Annie follow.
Scrambling to the top, “Enough with the racing. You two cheat every time!” She was wearing compression shorts and sports bra with running shoes. She dropped her bare knees to the rough ridge trail surface and the a****ls crowded into her, still panting as hard as she was, but seeking the reassuring petting she would give them.
* * * * *
I had a sense from the comment Sam made to me last night that this was just the appearance he was hoping I would be able to make. I was exhausted, as were Wolf and Preta, but I also knew that the run we had just completed was the type of effort that only experienced ultra-terrain runners would so casually attempt. It was one of the wonderful side benefits of what had happened to me.
I stood after giving and receiving attention with Wolf and Preta and walked through the recruits as they edged off the trail but careful not to slip down the slope. They wanted to move further off the trail as Preta followed on my heels, their eyes no longer able to dispute the a****l in their midst.
I stopped next to Sam. The rest of the group, including the instructors, had turned to follow me with their eyes. Seeing that he had their attention, or rather that I had their attention, he made his point.
“Yesterday, some of you, maybe all of you, made the mistake of judging this woman based on the appearance she presented when she arrived. Her appearance fit in with the rich, proper society from which she had actually just departed from. She was in fact meeting with the Marketing Director of Puma Venezuela, each were hoping to negotiate something from the other. Annie is a lead for a charity foundation for the poor and educational needs in Caracas. So, yes, as the taunts we heard yesterday, she might appear as something of a ‘princess’. And, you may have mistaken her interest in the sparring as we walked through as something she was unfamiliar with. I think you now realize she was just sizing up your skills. You’ve undoubtedly heard the story of how I managed to walk out of the Brazilian jungle after being ‘lost’ for five years.” He put his arm around my shoulder, “This woman, with her two friends here, brought me out. She, and them, were responsible for saving my life from the jungle several times during that trek.”
Someone in the group, “What about the a****ls? That’s a real panther?”
I smiled and put my hands down, both ducked their heads under my hands for an always appreciated pet or ear scratch. “These two, yes … Preta was a wild panther when we met. Wolf is some kind of canine mix. I met them both in the jungle and we’ve been together ever since.”
I turned to Sam, indicating I was going for a shower. I heard the instructors getting the recruits together for final instruction before their run along the ridge. Sam stopped me with a hand on my arm.
“I got a message from Jenna. She must have missed you before your run. Although, I did see her in the hall earlier this morning … in the same dress as last night.” His eyes were twinkling and he winked. I didn’t say a thing. I tried not to even flinch or lose eye contact. He continued with his smile, “She said she would like to run another test. These guys will be running, then cleaning up. I would like you to attend the simulation mission strategy session, but you should have plenty of time for both.”
I thanked him and moved to the hidden door in the rock face, but turned before getting there. “What kind of test? I thought we were past that.”
He shrugged, “I thought so, too. She didn’t say.” He turned back to the recruits. I knew he wasn’t intending to do the run with his damaged knee. But, before turning for the hidden key pad, I saw him getting into a discussion with the senior instructor.
I was curious about the test Jenna wanted. She didn’t say anything last night about it. It must be something that our discussion late last night ignited in her mind. I was also curious about the simulated mission discussion. I still wondered why Sam seemed so interested in my participation. But, first, a shower. I opened the door and called the boys into the short corridor to the elevator. First things first, trail running produced a lot of dust to collect on a sweaty body. I almost hoped I wouldn’t encounter anyone until I showered. I wondered if I could entice Wolf and Peta into the shower with me. That might be fun …
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I was still confused why Wolf and Preta were with me on this visit to Agency. This visit had all the markings of my participation in new recruit training rather than any on-going evaluation of my ‘condition’, as it was being delicately referred to with so many new people around. This visit also had markings to it that seemed as though my primary purposed was to provide an unconventional and contradictory element for the recruits to deal with as a distraction. I could understand the benefit of such a tactic being introduced in their training, but it left a question in my mind what else was really happening, especially with my boys along.
As far as discovering the need for my boys, I was to discover that soon enough. And, there were few conspiratorial issues involved.
My dinner was casual and light with Jenna, Mary, and Steve. We shared alot laughter and they delved into some of the things I had experienced recently. Nobody was expecting more developmental surprises and it seemed that my tests were showing signs of reaching some equilibrium. Jenna laughed, patting me on the back, and giving me a tease from a seemingly long-ago comment of mine. “So, it seems you don’t need to worry any longer about growing that tail.” She nudged me, “At least, not at the moment.” She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, “But maybe I should do some closer inspection later tonight …” Whether Mary and Steve could overhear or not, my formerly prim and proper Doctor was becoming quite emboldened.
We were interrupted by Sam and another man who I recognized as one of the instructors that had been encircling the recruits in the training room when I arrived. Sam introduced him as Sig from the European facility. Sam made the introduction of everyone at the table, causing Jenna, Mary, and Steve to become self-conscious.
“Sig, I’m sure you believe you have the best people at your facility, too; but, in my book, there isn’t a better scientific team in all of Agency.”
He chuckled, “Well, I do think we have great people, but from what I have already seen, you do, too.” He looked right at me, smiled and turned back to the others, “What you have found and done with Ms. Linder, here, is quite amazing. Scientists willing to go outside of science for inspiration … quite unusual and productive. And, you, Ms. Linder, I was glad to see you in action without having to be facing you on the training floor.” He turned, laughing, and proceeded to the door. Sam hung back.
“Annie, are you going for your early run in the morning?” I nodded. “Good. The recruits will be going out at 0800. If you were coming back about then, it would be perfect.”
I looked after him and mumbled, “What did he mean by that?”
Steve conjected, “He assumes you are going with Wolf and Preta. The recruits don’t know about them, yet. If you were returning at 8:00 AM, they would see the three of you running up the mountainside. They will be running the ridge.”
Mary smiled and added, “Of course, he’s adding more intimidation for the recruits. Never underestimate someone new …”
Mary and Steve got up from the table, each coming to me for a hug while I remained sitting. They both expressed how happy it was to see me … how happy it always was. I shared the feeling. There was something special about this place. Maybe because of the unassuming help these people had given me. But, also because of the people they were. Different, certainly, but a special difference.
Jenna looked over her shoulders, scanning the dining room, then leaned to me, putting her hand over mine. “Annie, can I asked a very special favor?”
I smiled at her and put my free hand over hers, “There is no favor I wouldn’t do for you.”
Her look became conspiratorial, “I want to be with Wolf …” I watched her closely and a smile slowly formed on my face. I arched my eyebrows. She nodded assertively. I stood abruptly, keeping her hand in mine, and pulled her out the door. Another woman into the sisterhood. Was I a corrupting influence or an enlightening one? Regardless, so far, nobody has ever complained!
I didn’t even offer her to go to her quarters, first. I was rising early in the morning for my run and she could make her way back to her quarters while the facility was still shrouded in early morning quiet.
Inside my quarters, I could hear both Wolf and Preta jump off my bed at the sound of the door hissing open and closing. After greeting me with their usual enthusiasm, they tentatively approached Jenna. It wasn’t that they didn’t know Jenna, but she was gaining her own comfort around them. Jenna had not grown up with pets, always having been in ‘guardian’ homes near campuses. Now, the appearance of ‘pets’ was in the form of a still mostly wild panther and a wolf-like-dog that could be just as wild acting, certainly appearing.
Tonight, though, was a marked change in her approach to them. She deliberately, if still a bit tentatively, knelt down in her dress to take each of the a****ls at their level. The first couple of licks caused her to look up at me. Seeing my face light up, she freely gave her face to them for more. Soon, she was giggling and squealing with delight. She initiated tonight without any push or suggestion on my part and she was showing me her interest and resolve for it to continue.
I patted the boys on their shoulders and they made room for me. I stood Jenna up and looked her in the eyes. “You’ve not been with a man, yet.” She shook her head but did not show any weakening of her resolve. I gave her a devilish smile of understanding, “So, your first real cock will be canine.” She nodded with a growing a smile on her face that included twinkling in her eyes.
I reached behind my back and unzipped my dress. She watched and immediately began doing the same thing. She was removing her bra as I was pushing my thong down off my legs, my sundress having had built-in support. Once we were both naked, I pulled her into my body, our hands roaming freely over each other as we kissed. I broke the kiss and looked to the sides. Jenna following my gaze to find the a****ls watching intently, but patiently, undoubtedly hoping that these naked women would somehow also involve them eventually.
I slid my hand down her arm to hold her hand. I directed her attention to Wolf by directing my gaze to him. “You’ve enjoyed his tongue on your pussy and clit. As I recall, you came a couple times that night.” She nodded. Despite what she had committed herself to doing, she blushed at the memory. “Then, I think it is time for you to return the favor to him. Not to climax, though. You want him to climax inside of you, right?”
She nodded. “Yes. Yes, I do. I want to feel it all, the way I have seen you with him. I want to feel his cock and his knot and his cum. I want to feel his cum run out of me when he pulls his knot out of me. God! I am so horny. I have to have him.”
I smiled and squeezed her hand. “Then you shall …”
I stripped the bed, laid out the cover on the floor over the rug, doubled up the top sheet over that and put towels over that, then patting the surface for Wolf to lay down. He looked at me as he did, expecting me to move to him, but I didn’t. He momentarily seemed confused when I stayed still and Jenna moved down to him. I knelt next to her and petted his head, instructing her on what to do, or how I liked to do it. She didn’t hesitate or show any sign of thinking about her decision or questioning the direction of the fulfillment of her desires. She stroked the side of Wolf and moved her hands gradually to his stomach, ever moving closer to his sheath. I could see the tip of his cock sticking out from the sheath, but she stayed to my directions, touching only the sheath and his cock hidden inside it.
Wolf was calm, long since accepting of another human female caring for his needs. His head resting comfortably on the padding, he was rolled partially on his back with his hind leg raised to allow better access to the actions he was now very familiar and comfortable with.
I offered soft comments to lead Jenna in her quest for a first mating with a dog. I watched as she carefully lowered her face to Wolf’s crotch, putting her tongue out to the red tip of his cock peeking out from the sheath. I watched as the tip of her tongue came into contact with the tip of his cock and the pre-cum hanging from it. I watched as she raised her face a few inches and brought her tongue back into her mouth. I watched as mouth moved as she sucked on her tongue tip, moving the bit of fluid around her mouth.
I lowered my face to the level of hers, “Well?”
She turned her face to me and smiled. “Well, it isn’t as if I have a lot to compare it to.” We both chuckled. “But … it’s not an unpleasant taste.” She went back down to take up more that had formed. “In fact, it is a taste I won’t mind at all.”
I was going to respond, but she was already back to Wolf’s cock, now a couple inches out of the sheath. This time she parted her lips and took the tip between her lips. I saw by her cheeks that she was vigorously sucking at the pre-cum now. That action quickly produced more cock for her and she took all that became exposed. She was performing admirably for someone who had not yet been with a man. I wondered how much the dildos I left with her had been used while alone at night thinking thoughts of experiences to someday come to her, experiences that she had inklings of from our time together and her visual stimulation at the resort.
She raised her head and I now saw a good four or five inches of exposed, reddish cock. She looked at me like a student looking to a mentor and seeking confirmation. She was smiling. Finally, she asked, “Is it time? Are we ready?” I nodded at her excitement.
She moved into the hands and knees position and I patted her ass, encouraging Wolf to mount her. He sniffed and licked at her ass a few times and I heard her gasp as his tongue apparently slipped between her thighs and lapped at her pussy. I instructed her on using her hand to help him into her.
“Use your open palm, but put your thumb over the base of his cock to give just a bit more leverage in moving the cock to your hole. You are both blind in this but it is better than him butting and probing with his cock.”
The initial penetration was obvious at hearing her loud gasp and groan. Then, he gripped her tightly and moved into her more, which brought more from her.
“OH … MY … GOD! OH … oh … my … god. Oh, Annie! He … the way … godddd … he grabbed me … he pulled me onto … onto him! He squeezed my waist and … and pulled my … my hips back, pressing … me … him deeper into me.”
She moaned out the experience, her head dropping, sagging from her shoulders. I reached under her and fondled one of her breasts.
“Oh … myyyyyyy … yessssss … oh, I love the feel of this! He … I love him on me, his fur on my back. Even though … I am being fucked … like an a****l … his large, furry, strong body d****d over … like a large comforting blanket. My god, what a combination of sensations!”
It was up to the two of them now, so I call Preta to me. I stoked under his belly and felt his cock outside about three inches, which was plenty for the way I was feeling. I turned so I was alongside Jenna and smacked my ass. Preta, after watching the event so far, was on my back in that next instant and inside me the next. He started fucking into me and I reveled in the difference. It had been a long time since I took Preta without having been fucked before him and I was, again, finding this experience completely new … all over again.
Although they had a good head start on Preta and me, they would be knotted for a time after they climaxed. I knew this would work out just fine.
I was brought out of my own euphoria by grunting and strained sounds from Jenna. I knew what it was as I saw them moving. I encouraged her, again, “Press back against him. Help him. You will open. Press back.”
She grunted and groaned, but soon she gave a whimpered cry as the knot stretched her completely and passed into her and filling her like she had never dreamed.
* * * * *
“There she is.”
Sam was with the other instructors on the ridge near the exit from the facility at the ‘balcony’. The recruits were gathered for their morning training workout. Part of any mission could likely involve prolonged exertion. This morning they were going to be following the ridge line trail, which required careful placement of each step along the path dropping and rising along the natural terrain of the mountain ridge. Unknown to the recruits who were already moaning about the run over the four miles to come was the runner approaching from below them on a makeshift switchback trail, generally following a natural game trail up the side of the mountain.
It took several moments before one of the recruits finally noticed the attention the instructors were giving something down the mountainside. When he realized what he was seeing, “What the hell?” He poked whomever was next to him and soon all the recruits were now focused on the woman making her way up the mountain trail at a consistent jogging pace with two black a****ls, one in front of her and the other just behind.
Sam, of course, knew exactly who the person was and what the a****ls were. The others were perhaps more resistant to accepting what they were seeing, both that a woman was indeed running up the side of the mountain and that she was accompanied by a wolf-looking dog and what looked like a large panther.
From below, they heard a shout but unrecognizable. The instructor next to Sam asked what that was. Sam told him to wait, it will happen again and laughed.
They did watch, especially the recruits, as it became clear who the woman approaching up the trail was. The woman had made a move at a switch-back and jumped between the two a****ls again and was right on the tail of the dog. Approaching the next switch-back, the panther cut up the slope rather than taking the switch-back. Again, she cried out, clear now that they were nearer the top, “Cheater! You’re supposed to follow the trail.”
She turned off the trail and started scrambling up the rough slope using her hands for support, but was no match for the a****ls who powered up the slope efficiently using their four feet to drive them up. They sprang onto the trail not far from the other humans watching, turned and panted while watching Annie follow.
Scrambling to the top, “Enough with the racing. You two cheat every time!” She was wearing compression shorts and sports bra with running shoes. She dropped her bare knees to the rough ridge trail surface and the a****ls crowded into her, still panting as hard as she was, but seeking the reassuring petting she would give them.
* * * * *
I had a sense from the comment Sam made to me last night that this was just the appearance he was hoping I would be able to make. I was exhausted, as were Wolf and Preta, but I also knew that the run we had just completed was the type of effort that only experienced ultra-terrain runners would so casually attempt. It was one of the wonderful side benefits of what had happened to me.
I stood after giving and receiving attention with Wolf and Preta and walked through the recruits as they edged off the trail but careful not to slip down the slope. They wanted to move further off the trail as Preta followed on my heels, their eyes no longer able to dispute the a****l in their midst.
I stopped next to Sam. The rest of the group, including the instructors, had turned to follow me with their eyes. Seeing that he had their attention, or rather that I had their attention, he made his point.
“Yesterday, some of you, maybe all of you, made the mistake of judging this woman based on the appearance she presented when she arrived. Her appearance fit in with the rich, proper society from which she had actually just departed from. She was in fact meeting with the Marketing Director of Puma Venezuela, each were hoping to negotiate something from the other. Annie is a lead for a charity foundation for the poor and educational needs in Caracas. So, yes, as the taunts we heard yesterday, she might appear as something of a ‘princess’. And, you may have mistaken her interest in the sparring as we walked through as something she was unfamiliar with. I think you now realize she was just sizing up your skills. You’ve undoubtedly heard the story of how I managed to walk out of the Brazilian jungle after being ‘lost’ for five years.” He put his arm around my shoulder, “This woman, with her two friends here, brought me out. She, and them, were responsible for saving my life from the jungle several times during that trek.”
Someone in the group, “What about the a****ls? That’s a real panther?”
I smiled and put my hands down, both ducked their heads under my hands for an always appreciated pet or ear scratch. “These two, yes … Preta was a wild panther when we met. Wolf is some kind of canine mix. I met them both in the jungle and we’ve been together ever since.”
I turned to Sam, indicating I was going for a shower. I heard the instructors getting the recruits together for final instruction before their run along the ridge. Sam stopped me with a hand on my arm.
“I got a message from Jenna. She must have missed you before your run. Although, I did see her in the hall earlier this morning … in the same dress as last night.” His eyes were twinkling and he winked. I didn’t say a thing. I tried not to even flinch or lose eye contact. He continued with his smile, “She said she would like to run another test. These guys will be running, then cleaning up. I would like you to attend the simulation mission strategy session, but you should have plenty of time for both.”
I thanked him and moved to the hidden door in the rock face, but turned before getting there. “What kind of test? I thought we were past that.”
He shrugged, “I thought so, too. She didn’t say.” He turned back to the recruits. I knew he wasn’t intending to do the run with his damaged knee. But, before turning for the hidden key pad, I saw him getting into a discussion with the senior instructor.
I was curious about the test Jenna wanted. She didn’t say anything last night about it. It must be something that our discussion late last night ignited in her mind. I was also curious about the simulated mission discussion. I still wondered why Sam seemed so interested in my participation. But, first, a shower. I opened the door and called the boys into the short corridor to the elevator. First things first, trail running produced a lot of dust to collect on a sweaty body. I almost hoped I wouldn’t encounter anyone until I showered. I wondered if I could entice Wolf and Peta into the shower with me. That might be fun …
* * * CHAPTER 15: MISSION STRATEGY will follow * * * Thanks for reading
Alessandra
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