In another part of Muriel's house, Stacey and Lorelie cuddled up together on the bed after finishing their intimate time together, as Lorelie asked.
"So what do you think we should do about Aphrodite?"
"Right now I'm more concerned about what we should do about Muriel," Stacey remarked. "It's plainly obvious the girl wants to stick her dick in you."
"I know," Lorelie sighed. "I just need to find the right time to break the news to her."
"I don't envy you, babe," Stacey replied as she ran a finger down Lorelie's arm. "Either you break it to her early and the whole vacation becomes awkward, or you wait till just before we depart, but that would entail you leading her on the entire time."
Lorelie sighed and nodded before saying, "Considering we're fans of each other, the best thing to do is tell her as soon as possible so that she doesn't get her hopes up."
"So tomorrow then?" Stacey asked.
"Tomorrow," Lorelie nodded before asking. "So can we talk about the whole Aphrodite thing now?"
"You're not going to say that she deserves to join, are you?" Stacey asked.
"No," Lorelie answered. "Her faithfulness still needs testing; she does have a reputation for regularly changing lovers, after all."
"Then what?" Stacey asked before remembering their earlier conversation. "Are you talking about her needing to feed again soon?"
Lorelie nodded and said, "Just because we're testing her doesn't mean that she deserves to suffer."
"Are you sure it isn't because you want her to age before joining the group?" Stacey teased.
"Oh, please," Lorelie replied while rolling her eyes. "We both know that even if we made her wait till she was full of wrinkles, she would revert to her youthful appearance after feeding."
"Then what's the real reason?" Stacey asked.
"I just don't think she deserves to suffer through that after she's been so helpful recently," Lorelie replied. "Also, there's the fact that I wouldn't want Rowena to go through that, or you, for that matter, once you reach a stage where you can't live without Adam's blood."
"I guess that makes sense," Stacey conceded.
"What percentage is your blood at right now anyway?" Lorelie asked curiously.
"According to Spector, I was forty-eight percent Brood the morning after my last feeding," Stacey replied.
"Wow, you're almost half Brood now," Lorelie replied before studying Stacey's hair.
"What?" Stacey asked in confusion.
"Well, while I can tell that more of your hair has turned red, it's not half as much as I was expecting," Lorelie explained.
"What? Did you think that my hair colour would match my blood percentage?" Stacey asked in disbelief.
"Why not?" Lorelie replied while blushing slightly. "Everyone knows that full Brood have blood-red hair."
"Ok, ok," Stacey replied with a chuckle before asking. "What do you want to do about Aphrodite's feeding then?"
Lorelie thought for a moment before frowning as she said, "The obvious thing is to let her just go find someone here on Aqua Primus to feed off, but the idea of her doing that annoys me."
"Seems Adam isn't the only greedy one when it comes to harem members," Stacey teased.
"I just don't like the idea of her being with anyone but us," Lorelie replied. "I guess I'm getting used to her presence."
"I can't say I disagree." Stacey nodded. "Then who do we allow her to feed off?
Pretty sure her first choice would be Adam, but I'm also sure she wouldn't say no to either of us."
"Who is she more likely to become addicted to?" Lorelie asked in a scheming tone.
"You want to bind Aphrodite to the group?" Stacey asked in surprise.
"Why not?" Lorelie asked. "She's proven how helpful she can be since she started travelling with us, and Adam having another lover will only boost his reputation in the universe."
"Not sure how much Aphrodite would boost it," Stacey remarked.
"It will boost it plenty IF she stays his lover and doesn't get bored and depart," Lorelie replied.
"That's a big if," Stacey remarked.
"True, but imagine how people will react when they hear that Adam managed to tie her down," Lorelie smirked.
"So you want to let her feed off Adam?" Stacey asked with a frown. "Is that safe? We all know the effect she has on men."
"He's been able to resist her so far," Lorelie replied.
"True, but isn't that just because the two of us are there for him to fuck when she's naked in front of us?" Stacey asked.
"Do you really believe that Aphrodite has never been part of a similar situation in the past and that she managed to get the man to focus only on her?" Lorelie asked.
"I see your point, but I doubt she was tied up and forbidden from touching them at the time," Stacey replied.
Lorelie nodded before saying, "True, but if we want to tie her to our group, we're going to have to test Adam's resistance to her skills eventually."
"And you'd rather we test it sooner rather than later?" Stacey concluded.
"Don't you think it's the best option before she becomes too integrated into our group?" Lorelie asked.
Stacey shot her a smirk before saying, "From what you were saying earlier, it sounds like she's already reached that point."
"All the more reason to do the test now, then," Lorelie replied adamantly.
"And if Adam can't resist her and becomes addicted like so many other men before?" Stacey asked.
"Then we'll have some hard choices to make," Lorelie sighed. "At the end of the day, testing Aphrodite was always going to end in either a positive or a negative result."
Fine," Stacey sighed. "As long as grandmother agrees, then I'm also agreeable to the testing. However, there is no way we're letting them screw."
"Of course not," Lorelie agreed. "I think a simple blowjob should prove to be both an ample test to see if our love can resist becoming addicted to her and provide her with the sustenance she needs."
***
"So, Emma. How are you finding life out in the universe?" Revi asked as she relaxed on one of the living room sofas while resting her feet on Elemence's legs.
"Honestly, I'm still trying to get my head around everything," Emma replied from another chair. "If you'd told me a few years ago that I would be travelling the universe on a spaceship filled with aliens, I would have called you insane."
"Why a few years ago? Didn't you join the ship just before arriving at Fenix Nest?" Elemence asked.
"Well, sure," Emma admitted. "But it was a few years ago that I and others first learned from Adam's stream that life out here actually existed. Before he started his revenge spree, no one knew for certain if we were alone in the universe or not."
"A common misconception with what little information you had to go on," Revi replied. "Young races often think that they're the centre of the universe."
"While true, that still hurts to hear." Emma chuckled.
"I meant no offence; I was just speaking the truth," Revi stated apologetically. "Our Phoenix race was much the same before White first arrived on our planet."
"White? You mean the Dragon progenitor?" Emma asked.
"Correct," Revi nodded. "Before he arrived, we had no idea that life outside Fenix Nest existed."
"Does that mean your race is older than the Universal Senate?" Emma asked curiously. "Were you one of the founding races?"
"We were not," Elemence replied. "While we were one of the first races to join after its creation, Kavita never had a phoenix lover."
Emma nodded in understanding before Revi asked, "What about Earth? As a citizen of Earth, do you wish it to join the rest of the universe in the future?"
"Is that even possible?" Emma asked. "I mean, Earth is supposed to be far from the rest of the universe, right?"
"It's true that it is far out into unknown space, but that doesn't mean that a day won't come when another race discovers it," Revi replied.
Emma thought for a few moments before shaking her head and saying, "Earth isn't ready."
"Oh?" Revi asked with an impressed look. "Why do you say that?"
"Don't get me wrong, I would indeed like Earth to join the rest of the universe at some point in the future. But right now the citizens of Earth can't even get on with themselves, let alone another race entirely," Emma explained.
"It's foolish to believe that Earth can find peace," Elemence stated. "Even Fenix Nest isn't completely peaceful, what with criminal activities and other things of the like."
"I know that, but that's a far cry from warfare between nations," Emma replied. "I mean, are there even any planets in the known universe that have more than one nation? So far from what I've seen and heard on Adam's stream, they're all ruled by a single individual or government."
"You're mostly correct," Elemence acknowledged. "I would say over ninety percent of the planets associated with the Universal Senate's member galaxies are ruled by a single faction. However, there are still some examples of planets having multiple nations."