Time Traveling Stories
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Walking in, Margharita meets us, already in her evening gown, and says, "You both have been gone a day's worth of time, you both look so tired. Were you able to take care of the situation? Ana is sleeping already in my rooms, do you want to take her back to the inn with you?"
Your body feels good to mine. Sitting astride you, I lift up and pull my tunic over my head, crossing my arms as I do and tossing the undergarment aside. Lifting your undergarment blouse, I look upon your breasts, reaching down to suckle with fervor and then come up your mouth for a passionate kiss as I ride my chest against yours, skin to skin, raised nipple to firmness. I finish the kiss with a nibble on the ear then raise up and watch as you smile and open your eyes. I smile back and strike your hair. My pants throb with pleasure on you, but you recognize that I want to talk.
"My wife. My tiloni love. How I love you still. We are much different people to each other since we first met in Aum and then again in Far Payit. I look upon you and I see maturity that bloomed where youthful lust had been sown. You are even more beautiful to me than ever.". My lips require your kiss and I take it. I touch foreheads, and we look into our sweet faces, breathless and hungry. The flowered language gives way to plain talk. "As always, I am your Knight and Paladin, here to protect you and you are my goddess of empathy. Today though, I saw the limits of my armor. Even with all my strength, if that brute had still stood on one foot, he would have slain me and I would have failed you and our bean. In my vulnerability, I begged you to finish him. You would have I know, if it had been necessary. You would have protected me. I love you so much. I need you more than I know or say. I need you to be my protector even as I know that you need my divinity. Of that, I still do not understand it. I know Qotal is part of me but I do not feel him as you do Kiltzi. You can express her in your healing, in your care of our friends and of all Maztica.". Writhing my body against yours as I think this thought, I add, "I can see the divinity of the love goddess in the way you bear our children and scream their glory. You are drawn, I know, to help the young mothers of Quezalici to be their midwife when necessary. I hear that calling in you to give life to us and our community. And yet you need me to be divine as much as I need your protection. At this stage in our lives with three children already, we need everything from each other. I am so happy to have found you and walk this spiritual path together. Will you be my Knight and take me to be your Angel?"
Your lips on my body instantly starts my body to sing, allowing a small cry of joy to escape my lips. My eyes instinctively close to enjoy the experience of focusing solely on your lips and their actions on my body. Having your bare chest against mine doesn't seem close enough still and I wrap my arms around you to try and hold you even closer. I always love when our bodies can be pressed together like this and I know all too well that the luxury to do so will be gone a few weeks into our future. You pull back and our eyes meet. I see the love and desire burning in your eyes. It reminds me so much still of the look in your eyes the night we mated to each other, never a faint dissolve of it. I feel your firmness, but I know the look in your eyes so I listen instead of taking you right then and there.
Your words speak instantly to my heart. My love grows even more than it has as well as aches for you. It was never easy to see you so close to defeat no matter how many times it has happened. "My husband," I start, "my heart of hearts. The mate to both of my tilonis. While we have matured, there is much that hasn't." I emphasize this by wiggling my hips against you slightly with a coy smile before returning serious again. "I always have a weak spot for pretty faces, but there is no face more handsome than yours, even outside of Maztica. That brute was a beast, and I feared for you so strongly when I saw how much he hurt you, but I know you would never allow that to happen. And even so, you are correct. I will always protect you as you do for me, no matter what. I love you, you and our children, more than anything. And I need you just as much as you need me."
I secure my statement with a kiss before continuing, this time, holding your face as I speak. "You do not see how you are connected with Qotal? You do not think your strong desire to protect not only myself, but those who need it as well is a sign of the other tiloni you carry? I have seen how strongly you fight for us, for our friends, for our town. You are the voice of diplomacy and reason when squabbles break out in the town, assisting whenever fairness and rights are imbalanced. You are more divine my love than you realize. Embrace it, act upon that internal feeling, and it'll become just as much second nature to you as it is to me to connect with Kiltzi.
"Make no mistake Dukalu, I need you always and forever. Family or not, I will always need you beside me. I could not ask for a more perfect mate. May we be each other's protectors and angels for all eternity." I seal my desire with another kiss, this time, a long, passionate one to convey the sincerity of my words.
Opening your eyes, you see instantly why you were awakened. It seems the rope for the dimension wasn't pulled up with us in our haste and your five year old daughter's eyes are staring at you from atop your chest. The girl sits on your chest as she asks, "Daddy, I can't find my sword. Do you know where it is? I want to show MooMoo what I've learned!" Her excitement causes a stirring as I roll onto my side, still asleep, and snuggle back up to you.
So why do I have nightmares still? Loliath is no more than a repressed fear of the underworld, or a doubt that our love could produce only good? Ana is all the good in the world. We stormed the First Man's temple for just that reason, to make Maztica a safe and fair place, to give our daughter the chalice the power to make all the changes in the world that we all wanted to make, to banish sacrifices and divine meddling, to make the poor fed, to punish the criminal and forgive them at the same time. How could Ana ever be anything not good?
As I nightmare Loliath's monologue, I feel all this tension inside me to set her right and all the anxiety that maybe... maybe she is right. It still ticks me off! I take my action. I do not restrain Qotal inside me with these human frailities. I let him loose. That is all it takes to divine it seems. I don't have to believe in him or pray to him. I only need to be himself.
A surge of pluma magic swells up inside me and I rise, nay, I fly up, lifting everything else around me, Loliath, Ana's sleeping body, the stones of the tower. Qotal is enraged. I can't put restraints on hi to be good, to be anything a mortal wants his god to be. He is the leveler. He sets things right. He orders us and puts everything in his place! The whirlwind crescendos and the entire scene disappears in a storm of rage and righteousness.
"Yes love, my darling, perfect child," I find myself getting up and giving Ana her wooden sword that we had stowed. Everything will be fine.
Ana jumps around excitedly once given her sword. She starts to rush off to the rope, but stops and turns to the bedroom. "Mama?" she calls out concerned. The curtain was slightly open still and the sound of retching can be heard coming from it.
I look at you as you speak before I respond, "I do understand love," but before I can continue, you're sinking us into the sheets after I'd moved my hands up your body to try and soothe you. I knew what you needed, what we both needed. Our bond kept us close, helped our sanities, relaxed the tensions, it is everything. "Just as you are mine," I admit, "My only mate, my closest and most trusted person, the one who makes my world turn, there is nothing without you." Excitement and love begins to pool inside me. The fire seems to squelch the sickness for now as my lips pounce on yours, my hands pulling your shoulders to me. I want nothing more in this moment to find relief, find a distraction, from the world around us. I wrap my legs around your own, pinning your body to mine, as I telepath, "Love me, make love to me. My body can handle it. I need you.