NOVEL SIMPLE 1.89 – Poking Around
They scattered about the lobby while waiting for Remi to come back. Thera and Sylla poked around in different directions, and Emma orbited between them. Maple tugged on the door to the gift shop and found it locked. Just idly verifying a basic, already-stated fact, as one sometimes does.
She'd never felt any kind of predisposition toward nudism, but this had kind of grown on her. Lewdness aside, she now felt comfortable being naked around the others. Free as a bird, just a simple, natural state of being.
She tugged at another door and found it unlocked. And occupied. Dort lay on the floor, on his back. Maple met his eyes first.
On top of him was Alas, at the zenith of her hip motion. She paused, and Maple met her eyes, momentarily frozen in shock. Alas smirked and, without breaking eye contact, slowly lowered herself.
Maple glanced down. Alas kept going, until all of it was inside her. Somehow. Maple met her eyes one last time and then slammed the door shut. She yelled through it.
"Sorry, Dort!"
Alas did not get an apology.
Maple walked away dumbly, face red. She shouldn't have watched as long as she had, but jeez. She sent a thought to Thera, and by accident, the entire context and memory with it.
Dort's huge.
Thera's laughter echoed from across the lobby. Maple sat down on a chair near the gift shop. It reclined, slightly. She'd had enough exploring.
Alas managed to get you back.
From when she'd caught them in the bathroom. Maple had an idea then, and tried it. Like when they'd had mental forms during the [Telepathic Orgasm], she made an avatar for herself in their shared mind. That worked well enough, it was just like daydreaming. Or one of Sasha's lucid dreams.
Then, she formed Thera's avatar, with the same mental signature as Thera's, so that it was her. A representation of her, at least. She put the both of them on a bed, and then got to work with her tongue. It took Thera a second to focus on their shared mind, but then she moved her mental body.
What's this? Ooh, it even feels good. That's...interesting.
Maple could even feel Thera's sensations herself, she just had to focus on them. They were only as vivid as a daydream, but it was something. The entire mental space was shared with little separation, so they could both control even the other's mental avatar and just had to respect each other's autonomy.
Or not.
Thera made ropes appear Maple's body, tying her down. Maple let it, but pretended to struggle. Thera went on the attack, pleasuring her in their mind.
In reality, Maple's hand wandered to her lower half. She touched lightly, just enhancing their shared fantasy. She let the fact she was doing that leak through, and Thera sent that she was doing similar.
Hehe, I'm sure this will be fun in the future. But we should ask Remi about this, and make sure it won't be a problem if I become an erogel or whatever. If she would even know.
Maple got an affirmative to that. Emma wandered over to see what she was up to again, the only not poking around the place. Maple pretended she hadn't been poking around anything at all, in fact, and let her snuggle up against her in the chair.
Emma then did her own poking around while they waited together.
Dort and Alas eventually returned under the pretense of having been poking around the place rather than inside of each other. Maple gave Alas a haughty look and spoke a single word.
"Pervert."
Alas tilted her head to her, as a proud master to a student, and said nothing. Remi soon returned with the key and they all went into the gift shop.
"Oh, wow."
Wall to wall shelves of toys. Phallic objects, plugs, apparel, ropes, chains, and more. Enough for each of them to round out their own sex dungeon, and then some. Remi crossed the room to a door and gestured them to follow.
"The rest of the inventory is back here."
And there was more. It wasn't a warehouse, just a stock room in the back, but still. Emma happily grabbed anything that caught her eye and stored it away for later. Maple looked at things, but set them back down after. Alas was giving some of the leathers and ropes more than a second glance.
"It puts even Thera's collection to shame."
"Come on, I don't have that many. I guess we could sell this stuff, but..."
"I don't know where we even would. We'd have to find a [Merchant] that specializes, or something."
Sylla put a hand on her chin in thought. Where would they offload a sex shop's worth of toys?
One type of glass dildo there were many of, both vibrated and lit up in a rainbow of colors. Garish, really. Maple set it back down. But, actually...
"I know we have our agreement, but, could I take some of these? For gifts? Or like souvenirs, I mean."
"You give your friends gifts like these, lass?"
Dort sounded surprised, despite all they'd been through together so far. Maple was kind of flustered, but she covered her face rather than her body at this point.
"Um...not usually? I have one friend in particular who'd like any of this though. Oh, and Sasha would too. I don't know about Rachel. Hm, would Bailey like any of this..."
Charlotte deserved a souvenir, at the least. Were most of Maple's friends perverts? Emma's smirking face said she might be thinking of yoinking something for Marielle. Thera answered and looked to the group for confirmation.
"I don't think we'd mind a few missing sex toys, hm?"
They didn't object, so Maple pilfered some...gifts. Definitely nothing for herself. Thera smacked a barrel that went up to her waist and cried out.
"Holy—is this all lube?"
She cracked open the top, and then reached her hand in to verify. It came out dripping with a slippery fluid. Definitely lube.
"Hah. It is. Gods, where are we going to sell all this? We'll have to rent a wagon, and—agh. Come here a second, Maple?"
"Uh, yeah?"
Thera hooked her arm around her, and wiped her hand off on Maple's front. She got more than a good feel in the process, squishing her with her slippery hand. Maple protested and tried to pull away. Or tried to try.
"Don't put it on me, jeez."
"Come on, you like it."
She did. Thera rubbed it into her. The others were right there. They barely gave them a second glance, and they'd all already crossed certain lines together, but jeez. And it was more playful than erotic, but she really wanted to make it be the other way around.
Once her front was covered in the slick oil, she hooked her own arm around Thera and pulled her against her. She rubbed her body against Thera's—it felt amazing. She wanted to do more. Thera laughed and tried to push her off.
"You were supposed to take it from me, not cover me."
"Hehe, that's what you get. You brought this on yourself."
She stopped when she noticed Remi watching them, a pleasant smile on her face. She ended her play with Thera and approached her. She noticed Emma pull Thera off to somewhere at the same time.
"Um, is there a way to stop the—prana? The horny field? We noticed it even outside of this place. The animals were all...you know."
"Oh, hm. It is rather dense. Probably a bit much for all of you, um...it'll all be used up when the erogelic transformation is activated. That'd be the best way."
Maple wiped at her slick body. Her hands and arms and—everything was covered. She'd have to get Emma to clean it off. She sent a thought to Thera.
I'm going to tell Remi.
Yep—go ahead.
She'd cut off for a moment, like something had startled her. Maple paid it no mind.
"Oh. About that...When we were in the trial, and the [Telepathic Orgasms], it uh...it's permanent now? It's like we have a second mind that we share and can talk to each other in. Do you know what that is, or if it'll affect Thera if I do the thing?"
"You soul bonded? I mean, just a guess, but that sounds like it. I don't think it should be a problem. Congratulations, though! That's great. You two must have been really close."
Remi looked surprised, and then happy for them.
"What does that mean?"
"Oh, you know, like—when two people love each other very much, they sometimes...soul bond. Or, you know the term, soul mates? Two souls are linked to each other. It doesn't always come with telepathy, it varies from couple to couple."
Maple's face fell slightly. She looked around the room worriedly.
"We weren't that close, though. We met like, a few days before all this. And—I'd have wanted that with Emma, if anyone. Can I soul bond with her, too? Maybe we can do the trial again?"
Remi inhaled and bit her lip awkwardly. Her wings fidgeted on her back.
"Well, uh. That's rough. It never happens that quick, and it's extraordinarily difficult to undo. Sometimes people regret it years later, not—hours? As for adding a third person, it doesn't really work that way. They would have to soul bond to both of the people in the existing bond, and that's really rare."
"No, I mean, I don't regret it. I like Thera. We're just—confused. And so—damn. But okay, it won't interfere with the erogelic thingamajig?"
Remi confirmed she thought it'd be fine. She looked kind of awkward, like she was talking to someone who'd just confided they wanted a divorce and didn't know how to deal with that.
Maple ran her hands through her hair—then cringed. Now her hair was all oily. She relayed the news to Thera. They were stuck that way, and soul mates apparently. Maple didn't really mind, despite how Remi had interpreted it, and Thera didn't seem to care much either. She also hadn't heard of the concept.
"Alright, um. But yeah, let's get this over with. I'm ready, I guess."
"Ooh, decided already? You'll like it I think. I liked the changes."
Remi proudly displayed her wings, her enticing body. Maple gave her the consideration she seemed to desire before responding.
"I hope so. Uh, let me have Emma clean me off first."
