Vellenia approached me. I backed up a step, only to come into contact with cool, slightly scratchy wall made of wooden pnks.

  “I have also been informed that the mating process should be done in privacy,” she said, her words dripping with lust. “We should hurry, before your friends return.”

  The enhanced sensation was definitely touch. I could feel the grain of the wood on my butt and upper back.

  Soon her thighs came into contact with mine and I felt that as well… way more than normal.

  “How much time do we have?” I asked quietly.

  I definitely felt the resin or cquer they’d used on pnks underfoot. And I felt her breath wash over my colrbone as she closed the distance toward me.

  “I chose this pce because it will be impossible to navigate with the rockidna quickly,” she responded in a breathy, lust-soaked tone. “They will be forced to take the long way.”

  “Uhhhh,” was all that came out of my mouth. I wanted to tell her this wasn’t necessary, that she didn’t have to, but she seemed very into it. For scientific purposes, for one. She wanted to know what it felt like. To help her people, for another. Even if the reason was made up by Regina and believed by our native guide here, it was still presently a reason in Vellenia’s mind.

  She took my hands in hers and guided them up towards her breasts. They were spectacur in feel alone, but they were bone white, giving the impression she was a superheroine wearing a skintight suit. It felt unbelievable in my hands, and Vellenia sighed as I fondled and pressed.

  “That’s right,” she mumbled. One cool hand encircled my shaft, and both of us made almost identical sounds of disbelief, awe, and arousal.

  When the prompt came to enhance our pleasure based on our retionship, I spent the Token. I distantly hoped that she was feeling the enhanced sensory effects that I was, from her ability.

  She responded with sharp gasps to me pinching and twisting at her nipples, gripping my shaft tighter and then stroking it forward and back.

  “So… massive,” she muttered.

  Slightly above average, for a human. If the male Marshins could fully retract, it seemed like they didn’t have what I did, a solid seven inches.

  “Will I hurt you?” I asked, “When it goes inside?”

  “I do not know,” she whispered, dragging herself the length of me, forward and back, forward and back, “but I will suffer if it means helping you.”

  “I’ll go slowly,” I breathed, in between kisses along her neck and up her ear.

  “We must be careful.”

  Like all the rest of the Marshins, she had a tail, and it zily swished back and forth. I know this because I gripped her springy butt in two hands and pulled her closer, and continued kissing down her colrbone and up her neck. She was delicious, tasting like fresh rain and a bit like sweet… grass? I didn’t care.

  “Th-this is p-part of the mating ritual…” she half-asked. I couldn’t speak at that point, and instead just nodded while kissing and nibbling. My cock was now nestled into the space between her thighs, and was bumping against the underside of her tail.

  The ability she’d used on me was getting me toward an inevitable and hard climax. With half my concentration, I threw another point into Stave Off and brought the level to 2.

  Vellenia was just a few inches shorter than me, and felt cool and soft in every way that mattered. Around her genitals, I was warming her up. She had moistened up and was coating my length with her liquid as she and I humped in unison. Her mound kept grinding against me, and she began to groan.

  “Take me,” she begged. “Please, human.”

  Then she pstered herself against the wall and pushed her ass out, raising her tail and showing me a set of perfectly white, wet genitals. Her legs were spread a bit, and I watched as a bead of moisture began to cascade down the inside of one thigh.

  The opening seemed small when I pced my head against it and began to push, and after a good thirty seconds of pushing, it finally popped inside. Her tail twitched and eventually rested against the side of my chest, where it continued twitching and slithering as time went on.

  Vellenia grunted in pain.

  It was time to spend more of my precious skill points. I put one into Adaptability.

  Almost immediately I cooled down and slid another inch inside.

  “Oh!” She excimed.

  “Easy,” I told her quietly. “Easy. That’s the first third.”

  “Oh, oh gods of all things great and small,” she muttered, and shuddered. “There is more. Yes, there is so much more.”

  For the time being I just pumped the final few inches in and out of her, watching her stare at nothing with wide eyes and a sck face. She drooled and her breathing came in tiny gasps. Each time I speared forward and tried to wedge more of myself inside her, she gasped.

  “Is your… curiosity… satisfied?” I grunted.

  “Not… yet…” she managed.

  A high pitched squeal came out of her, and I cmped a hand over her mouth to try to quiet her, only to have her suck my fingers into her mouth and lick them with what felt like half a dozen tongues.

  She started to orgasm with about half of my length inside her. The licking around my fingers sped up, the gasping got wilder, and she began to tremble. Her tail also twitched and spasmed suddenly.

  “Now?” I asked.

  “Ugh,” she groaned. “Almost…”

  The process was painstaking and slow, but eventually I got to the point where my hips impacted her buttocks. She was in a state of full-time orgasm by then, just slumped against the wall and letting me do whatever I liked with her.

  Vellenia’s insides clenched at me like a fist, and the combination of this and the licking at my fingers had me on the verge after only about ten minutes.

  When I pulled out to get my breath, she slid down on jelly legs, face pstered to the door. I was worried she might be hurt, until a blissed out smile spread across her face.

  “Lay back,” I told her.

  She complied, and soon I was staring down at her gorgeous self, spread wide for me.

  “Easy,” she whispered, as I lined up to take her yet again. She was right to do so; the entry was again very snug, and nearly caused me to explode. She arched her back up off the floor, staring across at the opposite wall and hands cwing at nothing. Beneath me, that tail of hers curled up and around, now stroking against my back. The rest of her flopped and trembled and came.

  Vellenia wasn’t capable of speech with me all up in her guts like this. It was like I reached all the way to her vocal cords and shut her off. The only sound that emerged was a constant ‘Uh, huh, uh,’ over and over again.

  Now that I was above her, I could see what I was doing, getting intimate with a Nakamamon for the first time. I could see her lithe body struggling to accommodate me, making my cock look absolutely enormous by comparison. Her juices coated me on every stroke.

  I wanted this to st forever. Obviously it couldn’t be. One, her body was practically massaging my cock and tightening every time I slowly eased down inside. Two, the scene itself was incredibly erotic. The novelty of it was something else. And three, Regina and Isabelle were both going to return, and neither of them could know I’d been getting down and dirty with the townsfolk.

  Gritting my teeth, I managed, “I’m going to… cum,” Containing myself was a struggle.

  “Your seed,” she moaned.

  “Yes.” I couldn’t manage to say more. All my power was focused down into keeping myself from bsting off deeper inside her than anyone had ever been.

  She opened her mouth wide, and her tongue was more like fingers than a tongue. It was like six tiny tentacles, all waving around.

  No way I was going to pass up that offer. Pulling free of her, I scooted forward and with a hand at the back of her head, shoved my hips forward.

  I had never felt anything like this. No human could’ve done this to me, wrapping a half dozen licking and sucking tendrils around my shaft and flexing independently. It was like nothing else.

  I threw back my head and yelled as I came. Vellenia’s throat contracted as she gulped down my seed: once, twice, three times. She’d gotten a hold of my balls and was gently massaging them. I kept right on spurting.

  Finally I backed off, and she allowed me to get a view of her open mouth, full of what I’d gifted her. Swallowing it all, a zy smile spread over her face.

  “I am in your debt, friend Fletcher,” she mumbled, half lidded eyes giving her the look of someone half asleep. “You have given me something none of my kind have experienced, and many have asked after.”

  “You’re… in my debt…” I said wonderingly.

  ***

  Regina and Isabelle appeared only about five minutes ter, and it was clear they had run in the hopes of maybe catching us engaged in the act. It hadn’t been a quick cleanup job, and I still couldn’t put on clothes for them to come back to a presentable me, but by that point Vellenia didn’t look freshly fucked and didn’t have that dreamy look about her that said she’d just had a zillion orgasms one after another.

  I’d decided not to ‘bring her into the fold’ for several reasons. It wasn’t because I didn’t want a free ability, I definitely did. Instead, I didn’t want her to feel used. If Regina confessed that she’d been just making shit up to mess with me, the native might misunderstand and think we’d been working together to grab at whatever psychic or empathic power she possessed.

  That didn’t stop me from getting a level in Pleasure Seeker. I wasn’t sure how that worked, because I’d had sex several times, and once with Isabelle, without leveling. But I wasn’t going to compin about reaching level 10.

  Level 10: Gained Ability: Post-Sharing Crity

  “Oh,” I said, and Vellenia regarded me from where she still y twitching on the floor. I gained post nut crity. What in the absolute hell?

  Post-Sharing Crity

  (Special Ability, Rare, Passive)

  After having intimate retions with a partner, both partners gain +2 temporary bonus to all attributes for the next 10 minutes. This bonus does not grant additional Tokens.

  The duration increases by 10 minutes for each retionship level above base acquaintances.

  Peering at my character sheet, I noted that all my attributes were boosted by two.

  Attributes:

  Affinity 7* (5/5)

  Durability 7* (5/5)

  Ingenuity 8* (5/6)

  Likability 7* (5/5)

  Physicality 6* (4/4)

  *Your stats are boosted for the next eight minutes due to the ability Post-Sharing Crity.

  Maybe it was the boosted Ingenuity. Upon reflection I realized it would’ve been a much better idea to discuss the situation with Isabelle before spending the Tokens to bring her in. Stalwart was a nice power, and I’m sure we could find uses for her ability she’d gained from me, but I hadn’t really asked. I made a mental note to apologize when we had a moment alone.

  “We’re here,” Regina said, eyes everywhere. I ughed.

  “Great! We’re going to get to it. Vellenia, if you could kindly have a table of any size brought, I’d like to set up a healing station and begin inspecting these eggs so we can deal with the more pressing issue first.”

  “Terrible news,” Ivy said, face inches from the rge eggs. “The brown stuff on these makes them useless for omelettes.”

  Everybody stared at her.

  “It was a joke! A joke!” she protested.

  “We must deal with this situation first,” Chrysta repeated what I’d said.

  “Leaving us all naked,” Isabelle said, clearly not pleased with my choice and Chrysta’s confirmation. She cocked one hip out and rested a hand on it in annoyance, though the tiny smirk on her face subverted that.

  “Correct,” I said.

  The new ability made me feel noticeably different. A clear feeling came over me that I didn’t understand at first, until I focused on it. I felt I could stand taller, that the scoliosis didn’t bother me at all.

  The colors were sharper, the textures too. It seemed like I could track the movement and position of every air molecule in here. That was nonsense, of course, but what wasn’t nonsense was the growth of my Affinity score. The temporary buff allowed me to actually see mana in the air, clearer than before, and sense how it was moving in the air and through the things around me.

  The mana wasn’t moving around the eggs well.

  Isabelle may have missed what was going on between Vellenia and I, but Regina didn’t. When I requested the table, the native I’d just mated with stood there in a daze, blinking. It took her a good few seconds to register my words, mumble that she would get right on it, and disappear out the door.

  “Let’s see what you’ve brought,” I said. Several other natives were with them, all carrying some of the many components I had at my disposal. Regina went looking for some of the materials I needed: firstly a magnifying gss, along with a series of stones for sensing various magical madies.

  Regina took this opportunity to hunker down and grin at me.

  “Vellenia looked pretty out of it,” she said. “And the smell in here is distinctly not what it was when I left. How close were we to finding you two engaged in the act?”

  I frowned at her, forgetting that the others had aspects of herself verging on or exceeding human maximums, and well exceeding them in some cases, given special abilities. Of course Regina had an enhanced sense of smell, as a Ranger. “Too close. Now, I’m afraid I need to do my job.”

  She gave me a pyful elbow jab to the shoulder and made a sound like ‘ooh you sly dog.’ It was still unthinkable to me that this stunner of a girl not only wanted to frequently have sex with me, but was totally okay with adding extra women to that mix.

  With a magnifying gss, I was able to get an even closer look at the egg shells. It wasn’t anything magically enhanced, but it did give me a better look. As the time wound down on my buff from the new Pleasure Seeker ability, I engaged the Diagnosis skill and tried to run it through each of the different aspects: Magical first, then Physical, followed by Spiritual and Mental. In either order.

  With only three minutes left on the buff, I was chomping at the bit to deal with the Diagnosis and get straight to treatment.

  Unfortunately the system didn’t like me running through checks like this.

  Diagnosis check: This check works with Affinity. This check is made at Very Difficult difficulty.

  *It seems you would like to push the Diagnosis to be completed faster. This will increase the difficulty by 3 points.

  Would you like to spend 4 Tokens for an automatic success?

  Total Tokens: 4 Affinity and 6 Free Tokens.

  Although I was tempted, I declined this and slowed down in order to lower the difficulty back to normal. I took deep, cleansing breaths and got down to the Diagnosis at the regur speed. There were small glowing stones in a cquered wooden box that would glow in the presence of a magical mady, and I asked the girls to fish it out for me, pretty please.

  It was actually a cquered wooden box filled with several smaller boxes. Each stone needed to be opened and waved near the afflicted individually. I opened the first box, hovered the AA battery-sized green crystal near the egg, and closed it back into its box before getting the second out for the same treatment.

  This pushed the difficulty back down to 5 instead. I wouldn’t have the +2 Affinity for long enough to complete the check, and I wasn’t certain I could make it happen with 4 Affinity and 3 skill levels. That should produce 2-3 successes, maybe 4 if I got lucky. I wasn’t feeling so lucky, so I spent 3 Affinity Tokens to lower the difficulty of the check by 3, succeeded, and frowned.

  The nature of the affliction is not magical, the UI reported.

  This is Christopher being quite confused.