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Chapter 9 - Do I Taste Like A Nectarine?

Xar's eyes circled the still-glowing puddle of my release, her pupils dilated. I'd never done that for anyone else. Well, obviously not the glowing part, but squirting in general. It was efervescent, like a glass of champagne in a spotlight, "Well that explains it."

Huh?

"Explains what Master," she was still inside me, getting gentle kisses from my thankful maid's-mouth.

"Why Bura's got such a hard-on for ya. She must have sensed it during your little demonstration," she dipped her fingers into my cum and brought them back to her coiling tongue, "You're a fuckin' nectarine."

What!? 

I stared down at my coochie.

That's gotta be good right?

"Huh... That's a matter of perspective." She said, catching me in her blue light and emptying from me to float away, "Girl like you might enjoy being in the middle of a monster-cock turf war."

"Mas- Xar, please... what do you mean?" That magical release I'd been so proud of ran down both our legs, showering the world below in luminous droplets.

"It means there's more going on with you than just scrubbing pots and flipping sheets..." the corners of that eye dropped, "You've got value and my colleagues aren't good at sharing."

I-

The forest below shook, tree-tops rolling from a central point, directly beneath us, then came a deafening wave of deep noise.

"Of course," She mouthed.

​And then I was winded, staring at where Xar had been, trying to catch my breath. There was pressure beneath my tits. Something wide, silvered by moonlight, escaped the woods. Two long sails, side by side, no, wings. I was being drug. Xar, to my side, was no longer a girl. She was an orb of chitinous flesh, dragging me by its eye-stalk.

She wrapped tight around my center and we spun, I turned to her, pulling around the stalk as tight as I could. Her central eye, pointed back at our pursuer, flashed searing orange, and I screamed.

I can't see! 

"Calm. Down." Came a voice of pure hard resonance, not feminine, not masculine.

I don't know what happened next. I kept my eyes shut, clung to her, hanging in a void of wind, reverberation, and dim flashes of light. Everything kept whirling, turning. 

I thought I heard her voice, but everything was all running together.

I was brutally overstimulated, confused, on the brink of collapse. And then we crashed.

For a moment I thought she had let me fall to ground. The slam was so intense, but she was still there, a rigid cord wrapped around me.

Frigid.

I was so cold I couldn't feel. My last breath was stolen by that collision. I tried to get it back, and a flood of ice-cold water poured into my throat. Rapid moving water roared against my thrashing legs. 

Are you dead!? Xar!

Just as quick, we ripped free of its clutch. I coughed, sputtered. Low, rumbling, she voiced the word, "Quiet."

It felt like we were hanging. The wind had calmed, though that deep bellowing from before still continued in the distance. When I finally opened my eyes, we were floating at a slow clip beneath a tree-line, on a lake's edge. She continued, "Had to ditch our scent."

Why?- Oh.

I suddenly felt ashamed.

"Stop that," She said, driving toward a cropping of trees that hemmed a muddy bank and sinking toward the ground. I tried to follow her direction, but my mind was an uncontrollable wash, "What was that thing? Are we going to be okay."

"It's nothing. I just didn't want to try anything risky with you in tow. Now wait for me here."

"Hello!?" A voice called from down the bank. She sounded scared.

"Too much noise," Xar said, it sounded like something within her had flipped. Her stalk kicked, and I fell, bottom half submerged in mud. Seeing her from this angle, she was huge. Her form turned, and that terrible orb at her center simmered to life with a dull orange glow.

Wai-

"Please. I see your lantern" the voice called again. I spotted her, about a half foot-ball field down the shoreline. Xar's eye had disappeared behind its light.

I know that voice...

"Xar, stop!" I sprang forward, my ass pulling against the mud's vacuum, legs only pushing further in, "Aaaugh- Please!"

The deafening bellow returned. Too close. It pulled my gaze to two crescents of black that sailed across the sky.

The flying thing must have seen Xar's light as well. When her eye released, it tucked its wings and rolled along that spinning beam of hellfire's edge.

I had to turn my head, my hands pulled free and mud-caked palms slapped to my face, "God Xar!"

I'd just blinded myself.

"Fuck, fuck!" I scraped my nails across my eyes. Gritty soot ground into my cuticles. I had to get them open.

The green brilliance behind my eyelids refused to dim. It wasn't working, I was just tearing at my face. I was going to hurt myself.

The roaring continued, receded. I broke, falling forward, face sideways, into the muck. I called out, "Sadie!" 

Please. Please...

My voice cracked, pleading, "Sadie!"

She couldn't...

No...

It couldn't happen that quick... I just heard her!

"...Lex?!"

I shivered. 

Thank you!

"Where are you!?" she called. 

I don't know. Where's Xar?

Another roar hammered, even farther.

Could she even find me again, if... 

"I'm here..." 

"Oh my God...How..." Her footsteps approached, shucked through mud.

"Please help..." 

"Are you... Are you hurt? Can I move you?"

It's her. Yes.

"I-"

"Okay," I felt her feet in dull ripples, straddling my head. Arms scooped down and hooked inside my shoulders, then began to tug.

"Come on," she said, straining to get me up.

That direction was all I needed. My legs began to push, kneading at the ground. When it released me, her foot was already planted behind her for stability.

We worked together up the shore, collapsing onto silt. I lay between her legs, her arms still caught beneath mine.

Without an order, all I could do was heave air. Her hands gently worked through my hair, forking out gunk and small pebbles. With my cheek was collapsed to her sternum, separated by filth, her breath quaked ragged and full of emotion.

I finally managed to say it, "I-I can't see..." 

"Oh my God!" she said trembling. Her hands grasped across my face to find my eyes. They stung. I'd been desperately holding them shut to keep everything out.

"Oh no Lex... Okay... Let's get you to the water," she said, helping me sit up. 

I reassembled myself. Stripped off ruined heels, tore my stockings at the toe and rolled them up past my ankles, it was easier than taking them off. 

Her hands were there, guiding me to my feet, and down to the shallows. She held my temples and dipped in my face, then lapped the grime away with gentle fingers. Doting. Caring. 

Why is she even out here? 

I peeled back wet eyelids that refused the process. When I finally saw her, I wished I hadn't.

"Don't... don't look at me like that."

She was threadbare. Skin taut, scraped, a long gash along her chin that had gone untended. This place knew her clothes didn't belong and had nearly destroyed them. I had felt it, leaning on her, lying on her, but didn't want to.

It's only been four days...

"Don't..." she said.

"Sadie-" I grabbed her, pulled her to me. She was rigid. "What- what happened?"

She shook, and I held tight.

"I don't want to..." That was enough. I just kept her close.

A blue beam of light fluttered to life around us, illuminating the surrounding trees and underbrush. Something small scurried away. Xar, not the terrifying orb, but the girl, loomed above us. She didn't ask any questions. 

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