Castaway Cuckold
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“You’ve gone white as a ghost. Are you alright?” Palus asked, standing up with concern.
There was no time to recover, no way to extricate myself from the situation. Pushing forward while they were on an emotional high was necessary. I had to accept there were holes in my understanding of the marsh culture, and generally what passed for normal on this continent.
Waving Palus down while pointing to a chair for Tharin, I decided to confront my fears. It was time to bridge the technology gap and share some knowledge. The differences between my home world and Haven couldn’t be starker, but we had a plan to expose our technology in bits and pieces. While plotting the path for our return on the spaceship, my companions debated how to inform my people about modern technology. Merritt had an idea, the best one, really, to tell the story in pictures. Together we developed a number of “story” presentations on a tablet. The ship’s A.I. even illustrated the stories for us. Our shuttle held a number of cheap, rugged, personal device assistants for educational reasons. We even downloaded my implant storage of their language, and installed that translation on our computers. I retrieved the one in my backpack.
They waited patiently as I collected a couple of hand-maidens who had walked down the stairs, having finished their housekeeping chores. The two marsh women were the newest additions to the tower. My tower wives had decided to mold young women to be like ladies-in-waiting on a noble’s estate. Laudus and her sisters were their trainers since all three women were Convey nobles in their own right. For now the three sisters were only interested in running my household, my harem and the childcare. They hadn’t felt noble after being captured by slavers, ravaged for years, and used as breeding stock. Nevertheless, Swarta and I were determined to renew their belief in humanity and coax them back into accepting their heritage and position.
Everyone looked oddly at the PDA when I sat across from them. The computer tablet was dark, so I powered it up. The backlight on the screen went white, which startled both handmaidens. They let out a couple of “Oh moon mother!”, while Tharin raised an eyebrow. Coven turned his lips out, making them look plump, his face wearing a contemplative expression. My wives leaned forward trying to get a closer look, wholly trusting my magic.
One at a time, Laudus tilted the chins up of the skittish handmaidens, demanding “Trust your master. Proper young ladies show confidence in their man and themselves. You will watch and listen with dignity.”
After entering the security code and touching the teaching application, a wolf head flashed on the screen.
Laudus’s warning eyes kept the handmaidens in check, but Swarta spoiled it. “Wow, our clan totem.”
That broke the tension and Coven and Tharin both laughed. The animated illustration’s sharp teeth and wicked canine grin amused them.
“What magic is this?” asked Palus, she reached out and touched the screen in the wrong spot and the animated wolf snarled. She reacted as if she’d been bitten.
Laudus broke her serious face and farted loudly, which made both handmaidens smirk at each other. No one was brave enough to comment on the raw smell or the noise.
I touched the wolf’s nose and slid to the next slide, showing me mortally wounded in the forest. The witch rested on the blood-soaked ground, with arrows in her back. Sparrow was in the background with his bow. It didn’t really look like Sparrow, but it looked like a preteen boy of similar shape and size. Touching the screen again, two ebony women were rushing out of the background with Sparrow drawing another arrow, firing on them. The next slide illustration grunted a record cry of Kate being hit in the hand with his arrow and her firing a stun gun. Recorded with the sound of a stunner, on the next slide Sparrow froze up and fell to the ground. I flicked the next few slides showing Kate and Merritt dragging me to a ship, a fictional boxy-shuttle with a mast and a white canvas. The ship’s door closed, and then the animation floated the ship above the trees, flying to a full moon.
“Moon mother, is that how it really happened?” Laudus asked.
I just nodded, flicking to the next illustration of a tidal whirlpool surrounded by stars, into which the canvas-filled shuttle disappeared. The gurgling sound of the ship being sucked down impressed Coven. He gulped down a swig of water from his mug. With another flick of my finger, the ESC Entous appeared with the ice planet in the background. The illustration was an actually a photo with a cartooned filter. In the next cartooned animation, Merritt opened the healing bed, which showed me in it. “She is beautiful,” one of the handmaidens whispered. For once Laudus didn’t correct her.
“Yes, Merritt is a fine woman, a magic healer of sorts. She is my wife now.”
“That’s nice,” Swarta commented, as if to say in a pleasant tone what a nice day it is. “What’s the next picture? That is an amazing magic mirror.”
Another flick of my finger showed a cartooned picture of Kate flying the shuttle on approach to the hanger deck. It was a back of the headshot. The next picture was a side shot of Kate at the controls, focused on her task.
“Von, another black wife?” Palus asked.
“Yes,” I admitted. “That is Kate. She is the captain of the little ship that rescued me. She was my fiancée before I was lost in the Great Swamp. Her sister Merritt braved the extreme dangers of flying among the stars. Facing moon mother and moon father is no small feat.”
“Brave women,” Palus answered, unconcerned. “Kate has strong features, a warrior?”
“Yes, she is both a warrior and a ... scribe.” It would have been hard to explain her scientific training, but they knew a scribe was a learned person.
A few more flips showed cartoon illustrations of the ship’s bulkhead door and a couple of corridors and then my cabin. Individual pictures of the ship’s captain and my other lovers followed, all illustrations rather than photos. Kate had insisted the storyboard of my adventure include the raiders’ attack. A few illustrations of me fighting with my carbine and boarding sword were included, with the dead at my feet. An illustration of spider bots fighting the pirates was included too. The sound of their lasers firing made them jump in their seats. Merritt had included an illustration of me in full battle gear outside of medical after we vanquished the pirates. I didn’t think it was flattering, I looked tired and sad. A slide of the captain, shaking my hand was in there, as well as a wedding picture on the hanger deck of the Entous. The last few illustrations were of our flight home and a picture of the twin moons over Haven.
“That is the epic journey of Von Solon in story form,” I chimed, amidst the silence.
Swarta ran around the table and sat on my lap. As Laudus had, her lips flourished over mine, wielding passion and want. We savored each other. Palus sneaked up on us and when Swarta took a long breath and leaned back; taking advantage of our parting, Palus captured my face in her hands, and brandished her tongue in my mouth.
“That was amazing. You fought your way back to us, conquering moon father’s enemies in the stars,” Palus stated in a rush of words. “And ... you claimed more wives!”
“A busy and tiring trip,” Coven threw out with a barking laugh, thinking his comment funny.
“No doubt there are more Solon heirs on the way,” Tharin added, patting Coven on the back.
“My very thought,” Coven said with a more choking laugh.
Laudus slapped Coven on the back, hard. The whack caught him by surprise and he might have bitten his tongue, because he stopped talking. Laudus gave an evil-eye glint at Tharin, daring him to make a similar ill-toned sound.
Tharin smirked and lifted his hands in surrender. “I was just enjoying the magic mirror show, don’t mind me.”
The handmaidens were shocked at their mistress’s violence, both wide eyed with fallen chins and protruding jaws.
“Actually, you will meet my new wives tomorrow.”
Swarta and Palus looked at each other.
“Are they staying?” Tharin asked.
“Fortunately, they will. Only one of them stayed on the other side of the whirlpool. Kate and Merritt are setting up a camp site upon the mountain with the others. We will build a stone, wizard’s tower there.”
“We need to clean the guest room,” Laudus declared, not flustered in the least. She waved at the stairs, as the two handmaidens darted upstairs.
“Ask Celine to help!” Palus shouted at the women before they hit the first step.
“This is going to be interesting,” Coven commented. “A stone tower is going to take a lot of men and years to build.”
“Actually, we will use few men, if any.”
“Building magic?” Coven asked, to which I only nodded. “That’s okay then, we won’t need to slow down the ship building.”
It amazed me how they trusted my claims.
“A magical tower is going to raise more than a few brows on Convey. Your Moon mother temple-friends already have plans to build here. Now with the arrival of more moon children, the temple priestesses are going to want a cathedral in Juniper Hills,” Laudus observed, putting her hands on my shoulders and rubbing at my stressed muscles.
The men laughed, but Swarta’s nodding head and wide eyes expressed her agreement.
“We need to deal with your stress,” Laudus whispered in my ear, loud enough for Swarta to hear.
Under the table Swarta stroked my inner thigh suggestively. Palus winked at me, knowing what was going on. My male friends were oblivious, taking turns at flipping through the tablet’s presentation again.
“Are you going to share this magic mirror with anyone else,” Tharin asked in an off-hand manner.
Swarta’s teasing distraction held my interest, so I only half heard Tharin. After a moment, he repeated himself.
“Oh yes, with all the women.”
“Can your magic mirror do other things?” Coven asked, interested in the device.
“Ah, yes. We are going to use it as a teaching tool, once we get settled in.”
Swarta had moved to a more sensitive part of my anatomy and I was enjoying the gentle stroking through my pants. Tharin and Coven looked at each other, rolling their eyes and shaking their heads.
“It seems you have other things on your mind,” Coven declared.
“He certainly does,” Laudus confirmed.
“Before you’re totally distracted you need to talk to the town from the window,” Palus insisted.
“Hum,” Swarta grumbled. “Sister-wife, you are right, of course.” She stopped toying with me and stood up. “Let’s get duty behind us.”
Palus stood too, as did Tharin and Coven.
“Second floor window?” Palus asked Swarta, who nodded back.
We crowded around the bedroom window facing the commons. We could see the gathered crowd filling the open grassy area all the way to the Wolf Pavilion and Women’s Center. The town folk wanted to see us. Swarta and Palus stood on either side of me as I reassured the crowd I was here. After a few minutes of listening to their cheering, I praised my wives for holding the town together, and ran through an abbreviated explanation of my disappearance, making sure to thank Sparrow for his unexpected aid. The rest was left as a mystery for the time being. Swarta added a few words at the end, mentioning we would walk the town in an hour’s time. Laudus shut the window shutters when it was clear we’d finished the proclamations.
“Now, gentlemen, it is time for you to mingle with the town folk for an hour,” Laudus announced to Tharin and Coven. “This is an opportunity to build your own good will.”
They took the hint and left to spread bits of my adventure; both of them knew a lot more than had been told to the town.
“Laudus, take your sisters to the Women’s Center and make sure all is in order,” Swarta suggested.
“As you say,” she replied in a humored spirit, without looking back, leaving the door open.
Swarta and Palus quickly stripped me in the middle of the room. They walked around me, examining my body for any sign of new wounds; finding nothing shocking they undressed in slow motion, letting my mind switch into the appropriate mood. Palus pushed me back onto the bed once she was naked, giggling like a school girl. We hit each other with pillows, as two handmaidens walked by the door, seemingly unconcerned about our laughing and frolicking on the bed. It didn’t take long for the laughing to stop and the caressing to start. We accomplished our acts of passion in record time. The handmaidens peeked in on us the entire time; if my wives noticed they didn’t acknowledge their presence. Once Swarta was sure I was well on the way to a nap, she went and closed the door for us. The three of us cuddled, but I drifted off, fully satiated and suddenly tired.
After our happy reunion and restful nap, the three of us went for a walk. The crowd had dispersed; life was not so easy that work could be forgotten for long. Children needed care, and food had to be gathered, hunted or fished. We had mineral water shipments to prepare and craftsmen had their own work too. Perhaps the most tedious tasks were for the fixed guards we had at various stations; they rotated four hour shifts to avoid boredom and have time to deal with their own real life issues. A few tower guards were on duty at all hours, a couple of palisade-gate guards, a hidden guard to watch the beach, and another guard was at the barge dock, but only during the daytime. We were in the wilderness, and the remoteness of our location was a protection in itself, but since we had been attacked by slavers, some vigilance made sense. Our militia wore light leather armor, sandals and most days they didn’t wear headgear. They favored spears and crossbows for garrison duty, having to deal with wild animals at times.
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I woke up with my body trembling all over, muscle spasms in my feet lifting my legs off a bed. My eyes opened to find Swarta squirming nicely against my naked body. I was in a well-appointed bedroom with landscape paintings on the wall and drapes open to a nice view of the blue sky. My body sank into the depth of the most comfortable mattress in the world. The silk sheet sliding against my dry skin felt wonderful. As I turned to look at Swarta again she said, "You enter the world again. We...
After breakfast Swarta, Tharin and I found Derwen addressing a few housemaids on the back staircase. The servant women left to go about their business, and the four of us moved to a table to enjoy the song birds and breezy air. Dark clouds rolled off the sea and a storm was certain for this afternoon. I'd had time to think about Katsu and Derwen's comments at the temple. "So the former lord of this house was Katsu's father, your half-sister by the High Priestess. How many half-brothers...
Hollow female voices with high pitched tones danced in and out of my awareness. "No one wakes up from a death sleep after seven days," an older woman said. A younger woman's low voice responded, next to my ear, "Nor have I ever seen sword wounds close and heal before my very eyes like an unseen hand sewing a shirt. You were not here but I swear it is truly what happened the morning after the attack." A different woman with a raspy voice, said, "We saw the blood, the wounds and the...
The next day I surprised my wives with the special four wheel carriage I had made for the estate. The carriage was equipped with the wolf cart's design features but with larger wheels and a set of retractable canvas covers to protect against the weather. Two horses with improved harnesses could pull the light wagon with six passengers easily on the rut covered country road. The improved leaf spring suspension and larger wheels smoothed the roughness to an almost comfortable outing. Hajin on...
My link with Derwen had grown stronger over the last week and I could feel her emotions from longer ranges now. I sensed a layer of pleasure from her, perhaps being surrounded with other women, her discussion with friends portended a more favorable afternoon after the bloodshed of this morning. Hajin decided to intrude on my thoughts, "Von I have to step off the ship and arrange for the rest of the Juniper water to be sent to the estate. Lady Derwen's brother, the innkeeper in Lone Tree,...
Derwen handed me the ladle and I tasted the soup. The owner's bedroom was dark with just a low lamp, which swayed gently with the sea swell, hung above our dinner table, In the dim light, her eyes were truly dark as sea coal. Her soul was bright in my mind. Our link was warm and tender, a flowing friendship with mutual curiosities. The seafood soup was warm but not to my taste. "I will stick with the bread and beans tonight," I said. All Derwen wore was a fox wrap and boots to keep her...
Webster Mission Log: Summary The medical updates from my sub-routines report improved health from my ward since the introduction of nanomites to his female pod. Level 1 experiment conclusions logged for future recommendations on the design improvements for the implant. The effectiveness of the nanomites fluid exchange program is frustrated due to a lack of data from his females. My game theory sub-routine is constantly requesting more data on the practical target number for per annum...
"Look out, Von!" shouted Coven. With a fluid motion I pushed forward and swung my staff above my head in a threatening spin, causing the two remaining marines to pull up short rather than collide with the swirling wood. The marine on the ground started to back away and get up slowly, picking up his staff to join his partners. "Hold," I shouted. All the men stepped back, lowering their staffs. "That is how you can hold off multiple opponents for a few moments. However, I'd have to kill...
The boats cut through the shallow coastal water, while sea gulls, unhappy at our appearance, marked our progress with angry calls. The marines provided mocking compliments at the pump boats swift nature, since they were accustomed to the slow and heavy dugouts. Last night's weather dream continued to indicate clear skies for the next three days but with slightly lower temperatures. No ships were anywhere near our destination either, so our plan to attack the slavers was not going to be...
Mission Log: Summary My ward's recent attack on an enemy tribe was successful, but the frequency of armed conflict is a concern when my current resources provide little, if any, support to him. Logic dictates a series of small things brought in motion with a larger plan can create a meaningful solution, whilst still honoring the Alpha-Omega protocol. I have substantially increased the number of available repair bots on this ship to execute an extra vehicular building program on a large...
Breakfast was in the women's center and many of the new women sipped their soup and ate the biscuits with me, whilst my wives were having a counseling session with Celine in private back in the tower. Laudus and her sisters were noticeably missing but Grimm kept me company. I explained how she was to run the mule teams and train the new women in safety around the animals. She took in my words but something was clearly on her mind. Finally, Grimm said in a low voice, "The social circles...
I schooled my expression when we finished the first sailing boat, wanting to look the part of a confident leader rather than the playful school-boy I felt today. The lateen sail design was the first to be seen in the world and Celine had painted ferocious looking eyes on the bow. The overall improved features of the boat shocked our sea wives moving them to tears of joy. They had successfully put the smaller prototype to good use and the village fish's catch increases was their doing, so I...
Mission Log: Summary Phase I of the Cornerstone project has been completed. Phase II is projected for completion in one solar day. Materials for Phase III are already collected and my new repair bots are processing the gun design for manufacturing. The initial kinetic rounds are also completed. The improved data collection due to message authentication code algorithms from female return fluid exchange with my ward have flagged an issue. I identified two new black females with similar DNA...
Mission Log: Summary The elevated stress levels in Cadet Solon since the introduction of the improved pheromone adjustments warrants a change in the nanomites programming. His constant discomfort and above average blood pressure readings point to mental anguish over this adjustment. The observation of large clusters of females around him during our sample measurements confirm my current strategy is at fault. Version 3 pheromone coding is deleted from the download task list. My game theory...
Once again, my bird's eye view widens for me to see the area. A color path projection overlays the warships with time-to-land estimates for various courses. All time projections were after sunrise with the highest probability they would sweep along our shore rather than swing out to sea again. Orange targeting rings surround the ships marking them hostile. A legend left of the view identifies Orange as standby mode, red as offline, green as engage. The view changes to the normal weather map...
After a simple cold breakfast of stale bread and leftover bits of meat Sorcha and I stepped onto the deck. The cargo hold was already open and a growing number of barrels of water were accumulating on the dock; the crew seemed pretty proficient with this process after months of practice. My dream indicated a set of storms building out to sea with a high probability one would hit the island in a few days, but we would be at the estate long before the bad weather. The cloud cover was almost...
Over breakfast with Derwen and Mercedes, I discussed my planned estate improvements to help enrich the lives of the villagers. Because I had learned the topography of the estate on my last visit, I was able to identify the best placements for the two water wheels to maximize the technological improvements. Additionally, I wanted to build another clay furnace to create springs for more wolf carts, primarily to be used in conjunction with the upcoming build sites. Derwen had stock-piled sea...
The next cycle with Derwen and Mercedes brought numerous changes into our lives. Derwen's normal smirk and Mercedes' equally endearing grin made me laugh as they had me measure their growing bellies with my hands. The two women examining me for any sign of disapproval of their figure. I surveyed them from top to bottom and said, "You are both so beautiful. Nothing makes me more excited than looking at our shared love." They rushed me for hugs and Mercedes said, "You are just proud of...
Mission Log: Summary Cornerstone is complete. With the defensive asteroid platform fully operational, my game theory sub-routine's next priority project is building chaff grenade dispensers. Their purpose is to confuse and divert missiles from their targets as the fragile nature of the spy platform is a concern. It is my best resource for timely data from the planet, therefore a defensive mechanism to protect the array from space borne attack is necessary. Of course, a chaff defense is...