The discussion about Tara didn’t go even remotely how I thought it might. I mean, first, Regina ended up having to wade through a whole host of interrogation questions by a number of different security staff. She then had to go do another escort mission from the portal to the castle, bringing back another young recruit. The three days in between the God of Footfalls showing up and me seeing her again were wild for the both of us.

  “You’ll never believe what I had to go through to get our new friend here,” she told me, when I let her into my assigned quarters.

  I was calling them that in order to make them seem less like a skeezy college room I was only going to inhabit for ten months, and more like a cozy pce usable by many different military people.

  She once again looked gorgeous. Freckles all glittering like little gemstones in her skin, all over her face and neck and shoulders. She was wearing a… type of shirt I didn’t have a name for. Like a tube top with these adorable little sleeves. So her chest, neck and shoulders were totally exposed, along with a freckled belly button. She’d gotten a haircut too, maybe while she was on earth, because the sides of her head were shaved and the long part was draped down one side.

  I chuckled and tried to seem comfortable. I wasn’t, not even a little, and I didn’t know how long it would take before she figured it out. “I’ve got some pretty crazy stories to tell, myself.” I didn’t know when I was going to get to the discussion about Tara, but I was not up to the task at this moment. She could freak out, she could call me names, she could storm the hell out, and she could probably perpetrate violence on my poor little self.

  Because keep in mind, I still only had a Physicality and Durability of 3 by this point. Sure I didn’t know about Regina’s stats, but also did I need to? She could climb a tree effortlessly, run over meadow and vale tirelessly, and she’d carried half my supplies in from the portal while doing so.

  “Okay you go first,” she said.

  In the silence that spun out, I realized this was the best time. This was perhaps the only time, honestly. We were going to get into the weeds.

  “Okay first, is there a… is there an official designation we have? Are we exclusive? Boyfriend and girlfriend?”

  She froze and cocked her head. Whatever kind of earrings she had on, I liked them immensely, because they had a rainbow iridescent sheen to them. They were hoops, but a little wider than regur thin gold ones, and the band running up the center had that cool color-shifting sheen to it.

  “Who was it?” she asked quietly.

  “Look, I’m just asking because I don’t know, you and I didn’t talk about it, and let’s say for instance that a god got involved and I was sort of divinely forced to have sex, then—”

  “Wait what?”

  “There’s a god out there called The Lovers, and I got sex powers, and it’s really kind of freaking me out, and I’m worried you’re going to be really upset.”

  She took me by the shoulders and backed me up until the backs of my knees hit one of the easy chairs. Then, she pressed until I was obliged to sit down. She took the one across from me and scooted it close enough that we were practically touching knees.

  “There is a fudge of a lot to unpack there. Do you want to go over the god thing first or the sex powers thing first?”

  “Uh… the god thing I guess?”

  She nodded, and I went over the scene between Tara and I, without saying her name. There were a lot of runners and Guards who could’ve fit her description around, so I thought it was probably safe so long as I didn’t describe her facial features or name her.

  Regina, however, wasn’t interested in that at all. She wanted to know what Tara’s pussy looked like, how wet she got, how she sounded during orgasm, how her breasts felt, what color her nipples were, which positions we did, how her body felt in different positions, that kind of thing. By the time I got through the story, I had a painful erection, and I could tell Regina was getting—or was already very—turned on. She kept gncing at my cock and rubbing her legs together.

  “Okay, well, there’s no harm no foul,” she said. “You couldn’t have helped yourself against the power of a god, right?”

  “Well, this person also said she really wants to have a rematch. To, sort of, see whether the pleasure was all god-inspired or not.”

  “Ohhhhhhh,” Regina said, eyes a-twinkle.

  “And I told her about you, and she said okay, just talk to you about this, and if we’re just fudge buddies, then she won’t have any problem doing… me… again… yeesh this all sounds so weird.”

  “You mean you don’t discuss sex with all your partners?” she asked.

  My face twitched; I didn’t have partners with which to discuss this kind of thing. I had never been wanted by another woman while not entirely sure of my retionship status with my current sex friend.

  “I mean I’ve never been in a situation like this,” I said. “I’m not what you’d call a sex symbol or a wanted man.”

  She threw back her head and ughed. “Ohhh okay. Okay okay. Well here, first, I’m gonna need to get that in me right now.” She strode up and just brazenly rubbed on my cock. “And then we can talk about you having sex with this other girl, and whether or not I’ll be there.”

  “Uhh…” I had this weird problem of having difficulty speaking when someone other than me was handling my equipment. And also with the words she had just said.

  Regina whipped off her clothing and mine before I could say an actual coherent word. She’d gotten me standing to wrench all my clothes off. With a single finger jabbing at my chest, she pushed me backwards and back into my comfy chair, and I sat down heavily while staring into her eyes.

  She then got up and knelt on the heavily padded arms of the chairs, which put her midsection almost exactly in front of my face. I was salivating with need. Tara had gotten my engine revved up st night by rubbing herself suggestively and pulling her clothes off. I was more than ready.

  So when she rose up on her knees and put herself in my face, I grabbed onto both cheeks and buried my tongue as far up inside her as I could.

  Pleasure’s Bounty (Special Ability) may be activated during this intimate act. Would you like to spend 1 Token of your choice?

  I mentally answered Yes and spent one of my Ingenuity Tokens. I had 5 and they weren’t going to be missed.

  She responded with a gasp and then a ugh. “Is Fletcher horny? Did he have to watch a girl py with her little pussy when he couldn’t do anything about it?” Her voice dropped an octave. “Did he stay away from her just so he could ask my permission?”

  I nodded. This was technically true. Regina responded with a growl in her throat.

  She was already wet, and the sweet floral fragrance of her was intoxicating. I wanted to get all of it out of her, and she was content to rub her clit against my nose with my tongue buried up inside her.

  “I bet somebody wants a little threesome,” she muttered, her voice husky. “Some little perv wants two girls sucking his big fat cock at the same time, doesn’t he?”

  I groaned.

  “Somebody wants to watch me eat out his mystery friend,” she panted. “Somebody wants to watch me make out with her while fracking me doggystyle, doesn’t he?”

  My erection was throbbing. I had no idea she was even capable of talking like this. Holy crap.

  “Ugh, yeah, there,” she said, and started grinding herself in little circles around my mouth. “Yeah, I bet you want one of us to ride you and the other one to sit on your face, pervert. Ugh, you’re such a filthy man, Fletcher.”

  Eventually she couldn’t handle it anymore, and sprang off the chair. She immediately went to the next chair and climbed on, pointing her ass at me and looking over my shoulder.

  “Frack me,” she begged, the freckles on her nose and shoulders and all down her back sparkled in the dim light. “Fletcher, please.”

  I obliged her, lining myself up and slowly sinking in to the hilt.

  “Ohhhhh,” she moaned. “I needed this. I’ve been waiting for it.”

  “I didn’t get to expin… about the sex powers,” I told her.

  “I don’t care. Just give it to me, hard.”

  For a time, I just watched her back arch, her freckles glitter and twinkle in the light, and the ripple of her ass cheeks when I smmed into her from behind. She was incredible. Shorter and stockier than Tara, curvy in a great way. And she felt like I imagined heaven would feel.

  Regina eventually put her hands on the back of the smoking chair and put her forehead on top, doing nothing but taking me over and over again. Eventually one hand drifted down between her legs and she came almost immediately.

  “I’m cumming… I’m cumming,” she said, her voice tortured, before she set off shuddering and shivering. “Fuh… frack me. Don’t stop.”

  I didn’t, though I had the powerful urge to explode inside her. Instead I focused on the increasing pain in my legs. The growth pte injuries, the osteomyelitis and the scoliosis worked to keep me from orgasm, because so far as I knew there weren’t any condoms here.

  “Let’s change,” she panted afterwards, and I disengaged to follow her to the bed. She pushed me back onto the bed and mounted me, then rubbed herself up the full length of me and back down, smiling.

  “Do you want sex powers?” I asked.

  Now her expression changed. “What? What are you talking about?”

  “I can give them to you too,” I said. I was almost completely sure, anyway. This was a trial run situation.

  She didn’t stop rubbing herself over me, but wanted to know what I was talking about. This was how I ended up expining the second sex ability, Entwined Ecstasy, while teasing and tweaking Regina’s nipples. Which was also how, in between listening to me read the expnation of the power, she instructed me on the right pressure and how much they could be twisted.

  “The girls like to be licked,” she said, and leaned forward to get them licked when I got up on my elbows.

  “Do you want to be ‘brought into the fold?’”

  “Mmm yes,” she said.

  I mentally clicked Yes to spend the 2 Likability tokens necessary. Neither of us was sure what ‘the more pleasure you both attain from intimate acts with one another’ meant. The pleasure would be boosted… but by how much?

  Regina immediately came. I wasn’t even inside her, and she was only using my cock as a dildo to rub on herself, but there it was. She froze and started crying out in ecstasy. The shudders and shivers came over her, causing her to y her head down on my shoulder and mumble questioningly about what the fuck had just happened.

  I made her orgasm three more times, and I had two of my own. The first one happened after a good two minutes of her riding me. The buildup before had been difficult to handle, but now it just wasn’t possible. There was no resisting. I told her I was going to, and she pulled off just in time to have me spray her belly and tits.

  That was another amazing thing: I gained super spurting abilities. My capacity for distance was longer than ever before. The load itself was rger than it had been also

  “Holy shirt,” she muttered, and stared down at the mess I’d made. “That is so hot.”

  “Yeah,” I panted.

  “It’s like a porno but in real life.”

  Looking at it, I couldn’t disagree with that. Regina got that unfocused look in her eye and scooped it up, then licked it off her fingers. She locked eyes with me and made a satisfied moan.

  We spent the next hour together, going through a series of different positions and speeds and intensities. She y on the bed and pulled her legs up around her ears, tucking her feet behind her head. In that position, I could sm my entire bodyweight down into her over and over again. The newfound sensitivity of the special ability meant that I would have just orgasmed into her over and over again, except that my legs grumbled and compined after only a minute of hardcore bashing.

  Regina came, and then she came again, and begged me to stop, so we shifted positions.

  “I can’t… anymore,” she panted, and just y on her side. Then, when I scooted up behind her, she guided me back into her, so we were spooning and banging at the same time.

  It was exquisite.

  I had definitely never had anywhere near this much sex in my entire life. After that one half-real time, I had been in a dry spell.

  Now, I’d spent the st two weeks, literally every moment since getting here, either learning about this world or having mind-blowing sex. For a guy that was only two years out of high school and flush with teenage hormones from having no luck with the dies, this was a crazy fever dream I didn’t want to end.

  She came yet again with me behind her, reaching around and tweaking one nipple while kissing and licking at her ear. Finally, the pleasure was too much, and I grunted out that I was close.

  “On my face,” she begged.

  Once again, Regina amazed me with her speed. She exploded into action, off the bed, and down onto her knees. The sight before me was mesmerizing: a red-haired beauty, naked as the day she was born, shining with magic, down on her knees with mouth open and eyes mostly closed. The sight alone might have made me climax once upon a time. Now I scooted sat up and aimed for her face.

  I’m not going to lie, I came more than I ever have in my life. Regina accepted my gift with relish, and even amazement. Eventually she made a surprised sound and asked if I was trying to drown her. Then she cupped her hands under her chin, collected it up, and tried to slurp it all down.

  I stared in amazement.

  “What? It’s… it has to be influenced by the magic. It’s really good.” With that, she sighed and sank sideways against the bed.

  It was also the special ability from The Lovers. I made sure to reorient the UI messages so I could read it clearly, and read it again if I needed to.

  Entwined Ecstasy: You have entwined with Regina Hampstead. Your retionship status is close confidants. This bond isn’t easy to forge so quickly. These lovers have shared a bed a number of times, both for intimate acts and pin sleep. These two are comfortable with one another’s bodies and presence.

  Pleasure from intimate acts between close confidants is boosted strongly.

  The next UI message that arrived pertained to bringing her into the fold.

  Entwined Ecstasy: You have brought Regina Hampstead into the fold. She has gained the ability Healer’s Resistance. You have gained the ability Wild Lore from entwining with Regina Hampstead. Entwine more deeply with Regina Hampstead to unlock further abilities.

  Next, came a write up for my new ability.

  Wild Lore

  (Special Ability, Common, active)

  Concentrate on a pnt, animal or native of this world to understand it better. Information you gain is based on your Ingenuity or Affinity attributes.

  “Did you—”

  “What the flunk?” she blurted from the bathroom. Seconds ter, she burst back into the bedroom, staring wildly at me. “I think we need to have a lot more time rubbing our naughty bits together!”

  I blinked at her, and she burst out ughing. “Seriously where did you… this is your sex abilities isn’t it?”

  When I nodded, she leaped onto the bed and kissed me, grinning. “I’m gd we’re close confidants, Fletcher.”

  “Me too,” I told her. And I was. I really enjoyed being with her. “Could I ask you a favor though?”

  She squinted at me. “You want to keep these powers a secret, don’t you?”

  I felt myself go instantly red. “How did you know?”

  She shrugged. “Just a hunch.”

  “Well you’re correct. I didn’t want anybody else to go after The Lovers and possibly get themselves killed.” From what the literature said, gods were forces of nature that did not give a single solitary fuck about people, and could kill them with the slightest touch. That didn’t gel with what I’d experienced.

  But also, there were people like Bke, and Binks. In Bke’s case, I didn’t want a person selfishly trying to corner the god of sex just so he could get some kind of powers. Bke wasn’t the type of guy who needed more power anyway. In the case of Binks, I didn’t know what he would do. Build an enormous wall around all the human settlements and make a no god zone? I wouldn’t put it past him.

  “Hey when you… were talking all dirty…” I started.

  “Oh yeah?”

  “You didn’t mean any of that, did you?”

  She smiled and gave me some pyful side eye. “I don’t mind telling you… I had a bit of a bi phase my st year of college. I hooked up with a couple of girls. It was better and safer than getting with guys. The girls… they were soft. And anyway I kept my virginity like that, just hooking up a couple of times. I kind of wished I’d had a hot roommate, though… no. I wouldn’t have studied at all. I would’ve just forked her over and over. Scissored her over and over. And licked her, of course.”

  “Whoa.”

  She nodded. “I figured you would react like that. Yeah, girls taste really good.” She wasn’t wrong.

  “Because it’s hot.”

  She grinned. “So the short answer is… I didn’t not mean any of it.”

  This is Christopher’s brain exploding.