Hearts of Ishira (Hearts of Ishira Saga) (65 page)

The two couples made out for a bit, but neither one wanted to go so far as having sex while the others were present, so they just hung out and talked, splashed in the water for awhile, and enjoyed the cool air of the cave. After only a short time, they were joined by their respective mates. Other girls started showing up with their teams as word got around that there was a nice, cool cave to be found. Hunter hauled himself gracefully out of the water and sat behind Arianna, wrapping her in his arms. After a short while, she slid back into the pool, holding herself upright, facing him with her elbows on his thighs. He seemed completely unashamed of his nudity, as were all of the men. It gave her a feeling of freedom, reminding her that this was not Earth, and that the morals and rules there were no longer hers. She began gently stroking him beneath her crossed arms, where no one could see. She loved the little jerks and hisses he occasionally made, though he tried his best not to show any reaction at all.

When Jace swam up behind her, Ri was laughing at the look on Chelsea’s face as two of her men tried to ‘help’ her out of the water, their hands in all the wrong places for lifting, but all the right places for making her squeak, squeal, and blush profusely. She swatted at them playfully, telling them to get off her, but ruined that order by letting Mors catch her, wrap her in his arms, and lay her back on the slick rock to kiss her breathless.

Jace soon had Ri giggling helplessly as he nuzzled her neck where it met her shoulder. When his hands crept around under the water, where they were hidden by Hunter’s legs, she sucked in a startled breath. His fingers closed on her nipples, pinching lightly and pulling at them. He found her pulse in her neck and began sucking on the spot in time to the pulling of his fingertips.

Ri couldn’t seem to help it when her hips wiggled backwards, her butt coming up firmly against Jace’s hard shaft. One of Jace’s hands quickly pulled her bathing suit bottoms aside and his cock nestled against her bottom. Hunter’s eyes narrowed on her face, sensing what was going on, and it fueled his own frustrated condition. Especially since she was stroking him faster, gripping him harder with Jace’s attentions, and transmitting her feelings into Hunter.

She kept up the conversation she’d been having with Bev and Trey, trying very hard to keep her breathing nice and even as Jace’s fingers slid down, finding the ties that held her ‘bottoms’ on and loosening one of them. She caught her breath as he pulled the fabric out of the way and proceeded to touch and tickle her until she lost all semblance of reason and simply held onto Hunter’s knees as Jace slid neatly into her from behind. He didn’t move once he was in her, other than to very gently nudge them both forward and back, moving with the tiny waves of the pool so that no one else knew, besides Hunter.

Hunter growled low in his throat, sliding into the pool in front of them to hide his reaction. Arianna shivered heavily as Hunter’s body stroked all along hers, Jace deep inside of her from behind. Using her shiver as an excuse to get out of there, Hunter said something about the air growing too cool for Arianna, and casually mentioned that they were going to go back out into the sun.

They needed privacy, and
now.
Jace pulled out of her, and as one, the men sandwiched Arianna between them and swam for the other side of the waterfall.

Once away from the crowd, Hunter led them to a little cove hidden from the main valley, where the men were able to stand chest-deep in the water. Ri, of course, could not. Not that they wanted her to.

In seconds, her bathing suit was gracing a smooth river rock and she was lifted and smoothly impaled on Jace’s cock. His mouth latched to one of her nipples and drew strongly on it in his passion. Hunter wrapped an arm around her waist, his hand landing on her hip to hold her, while his other hand reached around and did its best to drive her clit crazy. With Hunter behind her, holding her firmly, Jace released her and used his hands to fondle her breasts, tease and torture her nipples, then hold them for his mouth’s attack on them. She bit his shoulder a little roughly to stifle her cry as he pumped powerfully into her over and over again. She and Jace came in swift, perfect harmony.

Before she could fully come down from that, Jace slid out of her. He continued his assault on her breasts as Hunter growled low in her ear, tipped her hips back a little, and thrust easily into her from behind. Her head fell back onto his shoulder as he nibbled and bit along her neck and shoulders. His body rocked her in the water, rubbing her along all the right places to pleasure them both. She was close to bursting with another climax when Jace reached down and sweetly tortured her clit, driving her to a shivering peak, then over. Hunter ground himself deeply into her with a feral growl of satisfaction, biting her shoulder in his effort to keep quiet. She felt her body tightening in preparation for one last climax and begged wordlessly for more.

Jace took the hint and intensified his worship of her breasts, capturing a pebbled peak between his lips and nipping strongly enough to make her body buck. That little spasm was enough to drag Hunter’s cock over her G-spot, enough to have her clutching at both men, calling their names, losing her breath and her sanity at the same time. She felt her walls clutching at Hunter, milking his seed from him, and he gave it willingly, shouting his joy into her neck, hoping to muffle the sound. He shuddered against her, his cock throbbing hard and fast inside her, which only kept her own glory going.

She came down slowly, her body shaking and occasionally shivering as Hunter left her, as Jace released her nipple with one last sweet drag of his tongue. The men held her close, supporting her until her spasms stopped and she was breathing somewhat normally once more. They kissed and soothed and caressed her lovingly the whole time, reminding her of how much they adored her.

Arianna was dressed and even breathing almost normally by the time the others began emerging from the cave. She and her warriors swam and played a bit, slowly making their way toward the shore, taking their time and enjoying water games as though they were all children again. Beneath the surface of the water, though, the men were sneaking indelicate touches and occasionally penetrating her, just because they could. She let them, reveling in the uninhibited fun. She got her own sneaky feels in, too, though, often bringing the most delightful wiggles and gasps from her men, who weren’t expecting such brazenness. When Jace glared at her for ducking under water and quickly tonguing his cock, she merely grinned sweetly and blew him a kiss. His hot gaze promised retribution at the earliest opportunity. She shivered in anticipation.

By the time the threesome made it to the opposite shore, where their things were waiting, they had ‘played’ so hard that they were out of breath all over again. There was so much splashing, laughing, and playful teasing going on around them that no one really paid attention to anyone outside their family group for awhile. Arianna had the feeling that she wasn’t the only one getting fondled and pleasured by her men beneath the water.

All three fell into the grass at the lake’s edge, catching their breaths and enjoying the warm sun on their naked flesh. Arianna squeaked as soon as she realized she
was
naked, then glared at Jace, who grinned with boyish glee and tossed her sodden swimsuit to Hunter. Hunter, rat that he was, balled it up and tucked it under his butt, then laid back, arms up and fingers clasped behind his head, whistling cheekily to the clouds as she tried to pry her hands beneath his big, solid body to get her suit back. Jace just sat back and watched the show, enjoying the sight of her luscious posterior wiggling and bouncing in the sun as she fought for her suit.

Finally, when she felt Jace’s hands roaming her butt, exploring as though he were planning another attack, she whirled and glared at him, then sat down, pulled her knees up to her chest, and draped her hair over the front of her, hiding all the interesting bits. Hunter finally relented and, chuckling, tossed her suit at her.

She was dressed again just in time, as the others began heading back to shore and several teams gathered together to enjoy lunch on the banks of the lake. Trey and Bev’s team joined their ground cloth with Ri’s and they all ate with gusto as they chatted and watched the antics of their people.

An hour later, Ri was dry and hot again, but the water was still nice and cool, so she took another dip. Her men took turns trying to yank her suit off of her, enjoying her squeaks and squeals, the name-calling, and the wrestling that ensued when she got frustrated enough to attack one of them. She always lost, but she ended up with tons of triumphant kisses and quite a few naughty fondles, on all sides.

As the sun hit its zenith, Hunter took stock of the group and realized how tired the girls were. He suggested that the teams find bits of grass beneath the trees lining the valley, and rest for awhile out of the sun before they started back to the compound. Ri giggled almost uncontrollably at his suggestion of a cat-nap. Agreeing, the various family groups moved to more sheltered areas, laying out cloths for relaxing.

Ri decided that, while she
was
a bit tired, she wasn’t going to waste an outing on a nap, so she asked Hunter if he and Jace would point out some of the local flora and fauna for her. The attack from the slider had inspired her to learn much more about this world, and quickly. The men shrugged but, ever eager to feed her intelligent, curious mind, they did as she asked. Donning their trousers, boots, and weapon packs, they guided her into the shade of the forest. Ri wrapped a light, gauzy length of material around her hips, so that she had a sarong, of sorts, then walked with her mates into the cool gloom of the woods.

Hunter pointed out many of the plants that she already knew were edible, but had not seen in the wild. Jace showed her the ones that they knew were poisonous or harmful to their men, but lamented that he hadn’t yet completed programming his scanner for her race yet.

“What about fiber plants?” Arianna asked at one point. Hunter cocked his head at her.

“Fiber?” he asked, curious, “From plants?”

“Your world doesn’t use plant fibers?” she asked, incredulous. He shook his head slowly.

“We get all our clothing from the animals, though mostly from their wool, since that is a renewable resource. We only get leather from the creatures we must kill for food. There is no need to waste arable land on plants for fiber, when we have everything we need already.”

“That’s nice,” she said, “But what about linen? Cotton? We have those back on Earth, and they’re fairly easy to cultivate, though linen takes a lot more preparation to spin and weave.”

“Then why use it?” Hunter asked. “And why would you waste land cultivating plants for fiber, when you have animals that will give it freely?”

“Because it’s another fiber option,” she said, shrugging. “We figured out we could use it, so we did. And cotton is a neat one to have, though it’s a bitch to spin. It’s light and fluffy, but tends to be cooler than wool, so we like making a lot of summer clothing out of it.”

She looked around the forest speculatively.

“So you’ve never looked at any of the plants here with an eye toward spinning and weaving?” she asked excitedly. Hunter and Jace both shook their heads warily. “Oh, wow! Then I have a quest!”

“Ah, hell,” Hunter muttered. Before they could warn her to stay near them, she was hurrying through the woods, touching this plant and that, until she found a stand of what appeared to be nothing but thick grass. She was already kneeling in front of it, digging up a stalk, when they got to her.

“Hunter, do you have your knife with you?” she asked, staring at the plant. “I’m thinking that this one has the right look to the stalk. See? It has all these ridges. It looks like it could be stringy inside.”

He handed over his knife silently, throwing a rueful look at his brother as they stood watch over their intrepid mate. Arianna removed the stalk from its root, then sat on her knees in the loamy dirt to cut the stalk open and examine the inside. Finally, she cut a tiny notch in the stalk and, grasping it, pulled gently upwards. The fibers came away with her pull, wispy strings curling on the edges as she yanked the piece away from its stalk. Delighted, she got to her feet and began pulling individual strands from the plant, until she had a handful of long fibrous strings.

“What are you looking for now, woman?” Hunter asked, amused, as she patted her waist and hips.

“Something to make a spindle out of.” She grinned sheepishly up at him. “When I was working at the renaissance fairs back home, I had a leather holster someone gave me. It hooked on my belt, and it held my hand-spindle so that I always had it with me. I kinda wish I had it now!”

“Well, you’ll simply have to contain yourself for the moment,” Hunter told her, chuckling. “We could cut a number of these stalks and take them back to the compound for further study and experimentation, if you like.”

“Yes!” she breathed. “This stuff is silky, but seems nice and strong. It didn’t break while I was separating it, so that’s a good sign. We’ll have to see how it does when it dries. Oh, and maybe get a few with the root systems, so we can see if they’ll grow back home, too.”

Hunter bent to cut a nice sized bundle of the fibers and Ri tied the strands she’d already separated around them. Jace wandered the area, using his scanner to note the locations of more stands of the plant. This way, they could come back and find more, if her efforts to spin and weave with it were successful. Arianna, on the other hand, was off in search of a new plant, her excited chatter echoing off the trees. Hunter grinned and followed her through the underbrush.