A Place To Bloom

All's Fair

I snuck out during the night to stroke myself to Miyani's sublime physique. I wanted to lay her face-down on the bed and kiss her up and down her neck, then slap my dick on her butt and rest my whole body weight on her arse.

Before I could finish, my mind shifted to images of Blue ripping my liver out and leaving me a mass of shredded flesh to seize up while the remnant of me dumped gallons of blood onto the grass.

I had a problem, and I needed to stop. I'd lusted after Guenevieve, and it cost me Sarina. I'd lusted after Alys and it cost me all my friends in Kyoen. I'd lusted after Oasis, and it cost me the church in Ulum. May well cost me my life if she caught up with me in Carthia; wouldn't that be a way to go out? Giant alligators, lizards that rip your throat out, venomous snakes, an invisible enemy lying in ambush in the jungle—survive all that for one really pissed off girl to get you.

She did promise.

Carthia wasn't helping. Everywhere I went, women of every color, every shape, every size, every age walked around with their breasts out in the open, hips on full display, legs, arse, back, arms, bare feet, skin everywhere. My eyes were in heaven.

But lust was a sin.

Breakfast was the same grainy, paper-flavored slop and came with some large, green-red fruits that had a wonderfully sweet-tart yellow meat inside with a stringy texture and made a sticky, glorious mess. maŋo, they'd called it, and it was beyond delicious.

Borel was silent; he spent the morning glaring at Chirpy as she clung to Geraln's shoulder.

Northstar sat with his hands behind his head and an easy grin plastered all over his long face. Faren nodded towards him, "somebody had fun last night!"

Northstar's eyes popped. He blew out and shook his head vigorously.

Kelint's whole baby face smirked. "This place is insane, man! These girls, fucking unbelievable!"

"Women," Davod corrected him.

"Yeah yeah, that. So last night, and they've got some incredible food here if you got the kren—way better than this rubbish. We're just having a meal, and this girl..."

"Woman," we corrected him.

"Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Tobori, nice and plump. What was her name?" he looked up.

Rock stood beside him with a satisfied grin. "Two six two, eleven nine."

Kelint laughed, as did Northstar. Jame smirked. "Didn't get her name, did you?"

"Nah, nah, we did. Whatever it was."

Northstar remembered, "Isa."

"Isa," Kelint snapped his fingers. "Anyway, I'm trying to see if maybe she'll talk to one of us, you know? See if maybe we might get somewhere with her. She just comes right out with it; does you all wanting to have turns?"

Gino furrowed his brow. Davod shook his head. "Please tell me you didn't go along with that."

"The fuck not, we ain't no chastity virgins, man." Everyone glanced at me for some reason. "Of course we did! She was clear about it, too; I never heard of anything like that in my life!"

Rock waved his meaty hands side to side. "No brag. No brag!" Then he switched to Goloagi, "she was saying, you are wanting wait? Why not same time?"

Jame's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "You have got to be kidding me!"

"No brag!" he said again.