studiobondurri 156- Two of Six
156- Two of Six
It didn’t take long for me to get the operation back up and running. I still had plenty of glycerine for the salve, and if possible I could use the same batch on another one of the afflicted.
Creating this series of cures wasn’t going to be an action-packed finale to a blockbuster adventure… being a healer was slow, methodical, tedious, tiresome, and sometimes a bit frustrating. And that was okay, because in the end I got to help people. Save people. It wasn’t the dramatic sort of saving most people though of when the beautiful person in danger breathlessly went ‘you’ve saved me’ but it was just as rewarding… without putting myself in the line of fire.
The other five were not the same type of creature as the Vulpetunia. They had captured one Geodile, which was larger than the Vulpetunia. This bad boy appeared to be a crocodile but with six stumpy legs, and in place of little spikes that crocs had tipping their scales, this one had chips of crystal. It also had bits of crystal in place of teeth, in lots of different colors. The massive body was not composed of stone, but had a chameleon’s ability to alter its skin color to match the color of rock. This one was, for the moment, slate gray like the cage that held it.
The other four Nakamamon infected included one that looked just like a pygmy elephant that burned with ashy smoke from various holes in its trunk, and where its tusks ought to have been. And by pygmy I meant somewhere in the realm of six and a half or seven feet tall. It was ashy gray with great big splotches of shifting magma and lava colors, like a cow. Jocinda and Claudius had named it the Hellephant.
The Shrubbit I already knew: a large hare with camouflage for a bush on its enormous ears. Next was a wolf with a green pelt called a Fenrish. The write-up in my Nakamadex told me that this thing liked to hang out in marshes, fens and swamps, where it used a powerful tail to swim, or knock projectiles at prey. After the Fenrish was a thing called an Invineity. The Wizards and Guardians had to prune it all the time and make sure the wards didn’t allow it to expand outside the bars, because this thing was like the evil version of the Shrubber-Nee! It could grow its own food using photosynthesis, but it would happily tangle up and eat anything that fell asleep or died in its vines.
It was first on my list to heal up.
Lucky for me, the Fenrish and the Invineity were both about the Vulpetunia’s size, and were also only plant aspects. The Shrubbit was smaller, and the Geodile… was going to have to be last.
It would require a more concentrated version of the henge sage, like the morpheus sage, and it would need a larger dose. Along with the henge sage, I replanted the morpheus sage but skipped the passion sage. All the other goodies got planted alongside them: the unchanged lotus flowers, the plain old bamboo, and all the other flowers and herbs I’d collected up and brought with me.
First things first: it was time to do some hardcore gardening.
Now I added the hardwood trees I had at my disposal, the black cherry, and got out some of the seeds I’d brought along with me from earth.
“This is going to be awesome.”
Vellenia peeked out over my shoulder and as soon as I explained what I was doing, exploded with cheer and excitement. Trees were the best, because over the course of 24 hours, they would go from seeds into fully matured trees. Unlike the herbs and flowers, you could sit and watch them grow right before your eyes. Now here I was with lemon seeds, apple seeds, orange and watermelon, sunflowers, and all kinds of others. I’d been eating every fruit I could find on earth: kiwis, star fruit, bananas, passion fruit, dragonfruit, and more. Lychees? No idea what those were, but I was about to grow some. I’d brought seed packets with all kinds of blends. I’d even asked the Agency to get me access to the seed vaults that existed in various places in the country, to give me more!
I was about two hours into planting when I’d attracted a crowd. Oz and Savannah were both out and doing their respective jobs in town, and several of the Wizards were setting up their own lanes and studies and re
“You know,” she said, drawing close, “we had a long day. I will help you relax…”
A tiny flash of light sped in through the window and made a squiggly afterimage in front of my eyes. Soon it resolved into the tiny form of Poppy.
“Come on,” I told the fairy. “Enough.”
Still, the little monster shook her finger at me, clearly yelling at the top of her lungs, but all I heard was a tinny little squeak at one point. She kept this up for a minute, which was enough to annoy me.
It was one thing to want something, and to be sad when you couldn’t get it. I could understand her frustration and feeling of being left out. That said, we’d just had sex the other day.
It was another thing entirely to sabotage my enjoyment with my bond mate. She had gotten in the way of Cinzy enjoying herself before. She had been insistent, even pushy in the pursuit of getting what she wanted. This was the only time when I regretted not going after that other class evolution which let me dominate and control the girls.
“We are going to have a talk,” I told her. “The way you’re going about this is completely unacceptable. Shakindria is somewhere out there, along with Regina, completely unable to be with me. Your bond mate is in another world, and hasn’t been able to enjoy any bedroom time with me for weeks. Tara also. And while Ivy and Isabelle have each other, Ivy has made it well known that she needs a little something extra, and that’s something I can’t currently provide. So comparing them to you, you’re more than spoiled, all right?”
Poppy, hovering in front of my face, gestured over at Vellenia, then back down the other way, then Vellenia, mimicking hip thrusts and adding in her own spanking gestures. Another gesture at Vellenia, then her hovering in a bent over doggystyle position, followed closely by more hip thrusting and humping gestures.
“Oh dear,” I said sarcastically, “it sure is too bad that I can’t understand what you’re saying. How terrible.”
Her hands flew up and out, then balled into fists. With my Eagle Eyed ability from Tara, I could see a whole lot that was happening in great detail. Certainly much better than my plain old human eyes. She started counting on her fingers, then jabbing one finger down into her open hand again and again, furious.
On one hand, I got it. Vellenia and I were able to have a ton of sex pretty much every night. Poppy could count on her fingers the number of times she and I had been together.
My patience with the little fairy was running thin, though. She didn’t know that I could bring Vellenia and her into the bedroom at the same time, using my Pleasure Seeker abilities as they were. Instead, she was going to have to learn.
This is Christopher about to use pleasure as a teaching tool.