Jess was hurrying towards Joel, with Marlene and Timothy coming up behind. Joel looked around, trying to spot anyone else. He couldn’t see Luneira anywhere and it made him worry for the night hag.

  “You’re a fucking idiot,” Jess snarled as she skidded to a halt beside him and drew back her bow.

  Joel watched the green arrow fly out and splash against the side of the eaer, which spasmed in pain from the effects.

  “Luneira—”

  “She’s fine,” Jess snapped. “Bit of a mess, but she was in a blob form and came out of it in one piece.”

  Joel sighed in relief and slumped back on the grass, only to groan as he felt something stabbing him within. Which was extremely apparent as he coughed up a mouthful of blood a moment later.

  “Shit, this is why I tried to stop you before,” Marlene said as she appeared over him.

  “I’d rather you look after Luneira,” Joel said and tried to grin.

  Marlene scowled as Timothy stood by to keep watch. The sounds of fighting were still going on, along with the slow hisses of the dying eaer.

  “She was fine,” Marlene grumbled, but dropped the subject as she got to work.

  “C’mon,” Joel urged her.

  Jess rolled her eyes. She, Amanda, Luneira and Jenny had kept by his side the whole way back. The final moments of the eaer were anti-climactic. Whatever Joel had done to it with the strike to the head, it was practically paralyzed. Something had gone wrong in its body and the creature was simply unable to respond meaningfully. Joel remembered something about spiders working hydraulically and that’s why they curled up when they died. There was always just the chance he’d struck a point where it had disrupted that bodily function. Forcing it to endure a slow death, picked to pieces by knives and minor magic. The mission might have been a success, but it didn’t feel good to think about.

  The eaer was a dangerous monster, but the idea of being picked to pieces like that… Joel shuddered at the thought. Still, with Jess climbing over the wall, that left Joel as the last to return. He took his job seriously, being the first one over to brave the dangers and the last to return. With his high strength stat, it was no effort at all to hoist himself over the wall and drop to the ground on the other side.

  Here, things were far more subdued. Due to the two deaths. They were preparing bodies for burial, though, Joel wondered if that was even necessary. Morpheus took the bodies in the night. There wouldn’t be anything in the morning to bury—even if they dug their graves. The dead and their friends slowly moved off, while Emily and a few helpers started bringing out food.

  Eating within the system wasn’t strictly necessary. But it boosted energy and still filled your belly. So Joel was more than happy to accept an invitation to eat.

  “I haven’t gotten a notification yet,” Jess murmured as she walked alongside.

  “I’d have thought we would have by now,” Amanda chimed in, joining the two of them.

  “You’re right, that doesn’t sound normal,” Joel said and sighed. “I get notifications all the time. Sometimes just Morpheus responding to me when I talk out loud.”

  “Not sure if that’s a good thing or not,” Jess said.

  “Do you think it watches us?” Amanda asked.

  Jess let out a soft groan and rubbed her face.

  “I think it’s one of those things we’ll never understand,” Joel tried to soothe them. “Like aliens. Entirely beyond our comprehension. So… yeah, Morpheus probably sees things we’re not comfortable with, it’s not likely to mean anything to it either.”

  “Not sure if that’s better or worse,” Jess replied.

  “I’m just going to pretend it’s not,” Amanda said while nodding to herself.

  Joel shrugged and watched as Emily headed their way with some plates. It was some roasted vegetables and a meat they didn’t quite recognize. It was cubic and came from a can. Certainly not something he expected, but it tasted decent enough.

  “Ah, do you two need to eat as well?” Emily asked.

  Joel looked up at Jenny and Luneira, who were hovering nearby. “Please,” he spoke up for them.

  Both inhuman ladies smiled widely at his request. They were truly part of Morpheus. He wasn’t sure they actually needed sustenance, but they’d had a hard fight and Joel was happy to look after them both. In fact, he kept his eye on Luneira the most. Marlene had been rather insistent that she was fine. But Joel hadn’t been entirely convinced. Even now, she looked like she was fine, but the image of her being splattered amongst the trees still filled his thoughts.

  “Master?” Luneira called softly.

  “It’s nothing,” Joel replied softly, before turning to his meal.

  “He’s worried about you,” Jess spoke up.

  “There’s no need.” Luneira smiled and with a fresh plate delivered by Emily, she came over and sat with the rest of them, while Jenny followed a step behind.

  They were seated in a small circle on the front lawn of one of the homes, staying out of the way of the others as they milled around. Some were talking about the fight, while others were trading stories about the dead. Joel paid it no mind as he focused on the ladies with him right now.

  “I am used to pain, master,” Luneira continued. “My training before… before you. It was much worse than what I endured in this fight.”

  “That’s not comforting,” Joel said and shook his head.

  “Then… should I offer you comfort?” Luneira asked.

  Jess snorted and let out a laugh. Amanda giggled softly in embarrassment, while Jenny gave them both strange looks.

  “Ummm,” Joel said and rubbed the back of his neck.

  “Yeah, you have him tonight,” Jess told the night hag. “I saw what happened, and he’s clearly a little hung up on it. Even I thought you might have died.”

  “In my solid body, that would have been likely,” Luneira conceded. “That state is far more durable, especially if I can recollect myself afterward.”

  “I’ll try to keep that in mind.” Joel furrowed his brow. “Did… I just⁠—”

  “Yup,” Jess nudged him.

  Joel nodded. “Right.”

  “So Luneira?” Jess called softly, getting the purple woman’s attention. “Which hole would you prefer your master to fuck this evening?”

  “God dammit,” Joel said and shook his head as Luneira frowned in concentration.

  “Master?”

  Joel let out a long sigh as he sat on the top step of Squishy’s pool. “Yeah, Luneira?”

  “You don’t have to sleep with me if you don’t want to.”

  Joel rolled his head back and let out a low groan. “That is not the problem here.”

  “So…” Luneira approached, shedding her clothing to sit on the step beside him. “You do want to sleep with me?”

  Joel turned his head and regarded the now voluptuous and curvy woman seated beside him in the moonlight.

  “I thought I watched you die today,” Joel said simply.

  “And I told you,” she answered slowly. “I am fine, and⁠—”

  “And being fine doesn’t change how I felt when I watched you get plastered through those trees,” Joel grunted. “It doesn’t change the memory of me sitting there, wondering if you were going to be another casualty. It doesn’t change how I felt right then, when I thought I might have lost you.”

  “You… you worried about me?” Luneira asked.

  Joel nodded. “Yeah… I did. Even if you’re okay, you still got hurt and…”

  “I understand,” she said and ducked her head.

  Joel watched as she slid into the water and turned around. She was standing chest deep with her large breasts bobbing in the water as she stared up at him.

  “Master, have I ever told you what my world was like?” she asked.

  Joel tilted his head. “Not really. You seem to have issues with your memory, so I didn’t pry.”

  “I do,” she said with a nod. “But I don’t. I don’t remember much of… me. But I remember much about my people’s way of life.”

  She waded closer and Joel watched her reach for the bar of soap on the ledge.

  “My people are matriarchal,” she said. “Men of my kind are weak, pathetic things.” She looked up at him. “Nothing like you.”

  “Well, that’s a relief,” Joel said with a smirk.

  Luneira worked the bar of soap between her hands and worked up a bit of lather. “I… don’t believe I ever participated, but… I have knowledge of how we would treat our males when they please us.”

  “I’m the one that watched while you got hurt. Shouldn’t I be the one trying to make you feel better?” Joel asked.

  Luneira smiled and moved forward, abandoning the soap as she wrapped one slippery hand around his shaft.

  “You might be my master,” Luneira whispered. “But you’re also my male. And I appreciate that you are worried about me. So unless my master wishes to order me to stop, I intend to reward my male.”

  Joel was hardly about to order her to stop. Especially when she got a cute look on her face as she brought her other hand into it. Her left hand gripped him tightly by the base of the shaft. The right, she gripped further up, loosely around the head of his cock. Slowly she jerked him from the base. She twisted her soapy hands around the head, sliding back and forth until her hands lightly met in the middle.

  Joel let out a low groan of pleasure as she worked him, and Luneira could see the enjoyment in his eyes. She felt awkward doing this, and she hadn’t been all that truthful. While this function was indeed used as a reward for males of her kind, it certainly wasn’t performed by a woman on her knees before him. And it certainly wouldn’t be done with both hands, soap and a desire to feel his seed splash across her face. No, that was something that Luneira had tried, after a few discussions with First Girlfriend Jess.

  Joel breathed through the pleasure. His fingers tightened on the stone ledge around the pool. He felt it start to crumble as Luneira increased her pace, and he forced himself to loosen his grip before he broke something.

  “It’s okay, master,” Luneira crooned as she moved in closer. “Let it out?”

  “You want it?” Joel asked.

  Luneira opened her mouth. He remembered what it was like to kiss her. That tongue of hers could move in ways a human woman’s tongue could not. It stretched slightly and was far more flexible. Which she demonstrated as she placed his cock in the center. With her eyes on him, she curled her tongue around the underside of the head and held her mouth open wide to accept what was coming.

  Joel trembled before erupting over her tongue. The white splash over the purple skin almost glowed in the moonlight. But it was only there for a moment. Luneira leaned in, and Joel gasped in surprise as his cock slipped deep into her throat. Her tongue slipped around, lapping at his balls. Joel grabbed her head and fired rope after rope of his seed down her throat while she stared up at him with wide eyes.

  “How does that feel?” Jenny asked.

  Joel jerked in place. Luneira made a noise, but she didn’t stop sucking.

  “What?” Joel grunted.

  “I want to know if that feels good.” Jenny leaned in. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

  Luneira pulled free with a pop. A final burst of seed sprayed from the tip of Joel’s cock, landing across her nose and still partially open mouth.

  “The soap isn’t pleasant, but I… find this to be.” Luneira wiped a bit of seed from her face with her finger and offered it up to Jenny.

  Joel watched as Jenny licked the finger before making a small noise. “This flavor is… not unpleasant.”

  “Want to try and earn it yourself?” Luneira asked.

  “What is even happening right now?” Joel asked.

  “I have been curious, master,” Jenny said curiously. She tilted her head as she shifted to sit beside him. She still wore her armor and the metal mask. But in the moonlight, she just looked like some kind of strange cosplayer.

  “Where my previous knowledge is different to how you live, master,” Luneira explained. “Jenny has no knowledge at all.”

  “First girlfriend Jess has explained you use certain organs for pleasure,” Jenny nodded. “And while I have tried, it caused me pain.”

  “What?” Joel turned to the wraith. “What hurt?”

  “I borrowed a cucumber. I overheard Emily telling Peter it would be a good substitute. Something about⁠—”

  “Okay, don’t need that much just… You used a cucumber?” Joel asked.

  “It was… unpleasant,” Jenny admitted.

  Joel shook his head, and even Luneira looked concerned about what she’d heard.

  “Master, maybe I should wait,” Luneira suggested.

  “Why?” Jenny asked. “I have already decided that I do not enjoy pain. I do not hold it against either of you for doing so.”

  “It’s…” Joel sighed. “It’s not supposed to be painful.”

  “Then…” Jenny frowned. “I did something wrong?”

  “Yes,” Luneira stated.

  “Then, may I ask that you teach me?” Jenny asked the night hag.

  “I would,” Luneira nodded. “But I think master should be the one to help you. Not me.”

  “Master?” Jenny turned to Joel.

  Joel looked at Jenny, then at Luneira, and back at Jenny. “Fuck it.”

  “Yes, that was the painful part⁠—”

  “No,” Joel groaned. “That’s just… an expression. If you want to fuck, there’s… a process.”

  Jenny tilted her head. “Please show me this process. I would like to make a more informed decision about the fucking later.”

  Joel grimaced slightly and nodded.

  Chapter Eleven

  “Master is going to fuck me,” Jenny said with a grin as she stepped into the living room behind Joel.

  There, Amanda and Jess sat on the couch, frozen, mid-conversation. Jess’s eyes flicked towards Joel, Amanda blushed in embarrassment, while Jenny moved up and stood beside Joel, tall and proud.

  “Is that so?” Jess asked with a slight giggle.

  “Yes,” Jenny said and nodded firmly. “He has insinuated that sex with him, and my attempts with a cucumber, will provide different results. As my master, I am willing to make this attempt.”

  “Cucumber?” Amanda continued to blush even harder.

  “I found it painful. Master assures me I did something wrong. I am not one to question him and look forward to experiencing my first orgasm.”

  Jess turned to Joel and said one word. “Foreplay.”

  Joel nodded. “Yup. A lot of it.”

  “Foreplay?” Jenny asked.

  “Similar to what you watched Luneira do for me in the pool,” Joel admitted.

  “That doesn’t make any sense,” Jenny said. “I lack a penis.”

  “Well, that’s a relief,” Joel said with a smile small.

  Jess and Amanda giggled at that before Jess stood up and hurried over. “I think Amanda and I will duck next door and spend the night over with Marlene and Timothy.”

  “Sure,” Joel agreed. “They’ll… be okay with that?”

  “They’ll be quieter than you probably will,” Jess said and winked. “Take care of her, okay?”

  Joel nodded. “That’s the plan,” he said and leaned in to kiss Jess on the cheek.

  Amanda slipped in next and Joel repeated the kiss before giving both ladies a hug. They left after a quick round of goodbyes, leaving Joel standing with a mostly silent Luneira and Jenny.

  “Right.” Joel cleared his throat. “How… do we want to do this?”

  “Perhaps, master,” Luneira spoke first. “We should all get undressed.”

  “Here in the living room?” Joel asked, only to stop as Jenny’s strange outfit peeled open and seemed to vanish behind her. Almost as if it retracted into her spine or something.

  Where it went, though, hardly mattered as Joel stared dumbly at her. It wasn’t that Joel had never considered that she was green. But now, in the nude, she was the color of verdigris, and entirely hairless from her neck to her toes. The only part of her still covered was the metal mask she wore.

  “Does that come off?” Joel asked.

  Jenny tilted her head. “Does what come off?”

  “The mask,” Joel pointed out.

  Jenny reached up and touched it for a moment before shaking her head. “Master, that is my face. It’s part of me.”

  “Does that mean the rest of your outfit is part of you?”

  “Yes,” she said.

  Joel held back a dumb joke about being a hermit crab. Instead, he took in the sight of her. She was proportioned to the same way a human was. Only a lovely shade of green. Five fingers, five toes, small nipples that were the same color as the rest of her. Between her legs, nestled a tiny, and neat little slit.

  “Am I pleasing to look at, master?” Jenny asked.

  “Yes,” Joel answered quickly. “Yes, you are.”

  “Then shall we start with the foreplay?” she asked.

  He looked into her green eyes, as most of her face was covered by the metal plate. Or… it was her face. This is how she was, and Joel was going to have to get used to it. Not that she wasn’t beautiful. She was just the most exotic woman he had ever seen before and had no idea where to start. Luneira’s culture turned out to be very different to humanities, but she at least knew what sex was. Jenny was a clean slate, and Joel wasn’t sure where to start.

  “Okay,” Joel came to a decision. “I’m going to make a few assumptions here. I’m a man. My part is pretty easy in the long run.”

  “Long run?” Jenny asked.

  “Not important.” Joel shook his head. “Right now, we need to get you comfortable with yourself.”

  “Master, I am perfectly comfortable with my body,” Jenny disagreed with a shake of her head.

  Luneira stepped up, catching Joel’s eye as she was nude as well. And extremely curvy in her plump form. “Not like that, Jenny,” Luneira crooned. “You know your body as a warrior. But you’ve never known your body as a woman, have you?”

  “I am a woman,” Jenny insisted.