Page 59 of The Sun God's Prize
Her breasts are warm against mine, the tight, hard nipples brushing my skin, and she moans when I gently squeeze them both, rolling them between my fingers and thumbs.Sheelan straddles me, mouth rushing the journey to my ear, to my throat, and she’s panting when she stops, lips above mine, eyes so sad I cup her face in my hands.
“I’ve never—” she stops herself abruptly.
“I’ve more than enough for both of us,” I tell her, sitting up and turning her over, laying her out in the pillows.These Sunnish women and their sex cravings unsatisfied are going to be the end of my heart, I’m sure of it.But it’s different with Sheelan than it was with Brem.The hard-bodied fighter was nervous too, but eager, and wanted to have what she’d seen the others take.In this sheltered temple, it’s clear that while the men are happy enough to satisfy themselves, none have guided the daughter of their god to the same pleasures.
I’m not opposed to being a teacher again, when required, and it’s hardly a burden.She’s a gorgeous thing, and the kinspark dances between us in its stirring joy at our lingering touch.Sheelan slides her hands into my hair when I bend to kiss her, taking my time to suck that lower lip that pouts outward, to nibble her chin, and breathe my way across her jaw.
Her hands slide down to cup my breasts, but don’t linger, and when she touches me, her hand shakes.I guide her thumb to my clit before I show her how to circle by doing the same for her, and she’s as wet as I am by the time I slide down between her thighs and lick along the folds of her pussy.I don’t have one of the cleverly shaped dildoes the ladies at the Dome prefer, so my fingers will have to do, and Sheelan seems to appreciate them when I slide two deep inside under my questing tongue.Her clit is bigger than mine, easy to suck, her thighs quivering before she closes them around my head and pulls me to her scented skin, both hands deep in my hair.I plunge into her, had meant to take my time, but she’s not interested in being slow, writhing to the steady build of her orgasm, and when she comes, she squirts, soaking my chest, my hair, spilling down across my breasts.
She pulls me up to her immediately, her hungry lips sucking and biting at mine, and I find myself on my back again, Sheelan eagerly eating me as though my cunt is her only meal and she’s been starving all along.
I gasp at her firm tongue, how she plows me with three fingers that curve as mine had done.Teeth nip my clit, and I cry out in shock at the sensation, the firm sucking following cresting into release—
—there are hands on my hips, lips on my neck, a dick deep inside me from behind, a mouth devouring me whole as fingers twist my nipples and we’re all together as I come—
Sheelan sits up abruptly, staring at me, face glistening from my wetness, and for a moment, I’m worried she might bolt.But she throws herself into my arms, hugging me tight, trembling all over again.
“Was that…” she whispers the question in my hair.
“The kinspark,” I say.“They’re waiting for us.”
She exhales against my neck, and I shiver.“I can’t leave my father,” she says.
“I know,” I tell her.And rise, leading her to the bath.
You’re wasting time.I open my eyes to the voice in my head.The dragon sounds almost petulant.
Kinspark, I remind her.I have to nurture it.And I won’t rush her.
She’s one of you, she mutters.She has no choice.Did she know?And didn’t tell me?More fucking secrets.But no, she sounds bemused by the fact.Bring her.
I’m going to, I tell her.
Beloved, she whispers then, so filled with sorrow that my heart clenches against it.I’m not exactly beloved in this place.Too many legends.There’s something wrong with her.I sit up slowly so as not to wake Sheelan, covering her in a thin sheet, shielding her with cushions, before I rise and fetch a robe.
I’m doing my best here, I tell my dragonmistresse.Because that’s what she is, like it or not.Even she treats me like a playing piece.
I’m no threat to them anymore, she says, querulous, that distance I’ve felt between us growing more so.She feels absent, as though her mind drifts, and though she’s warned me how little time remains, this is the first instance that I believe her.
I’m losing her, and I can’t do this alone.Dragon, I call out to her.What about Aurous?
I should have crushed this god thing a long time ago.She hums softly for a moment, then sighs.Where are you, sister?Neem, I’m so lonely.
I’m here, I say, chest tightening further, grief waking, tears trickling unbidden.I surprise myself, offering the only comfort I can share.I’m here, sister.
Neem.She breathes the gold dragon’s name into my mind.They’ve killed me, too.I was too late, and they’ve done me in.Save her.Something seizes my mind and I’m falling to my knees, hands pressed to the sides, because if I don’t hold it together, my head will burst from the weight of her command.Find her egg.The Flame has failed me, but you will not.Save my daughter.She’s all that matters now.She retreats a little.I’ve given everything to protect her.She’s all that ever mattered.
I will, I tell her, weeping openly now.I’ll find her.I must.The kinspark demands it, a gushing fire racing through me, the draw now so powerful that I stagger to my feet.
She’s gone then, flaring out, leaving me bereft, even the kinspark abandoning the pressure that just drove me up and forward.I find myself near the garden, my head aching, spinning.It’s a long time before I stagger to the low table where a pitcher of water waits.My hand shakes as I pour, and I gulp two full cups before I’m able to stop.
Is she dead now?The dragon whose magic brought me here?I don’t know, but I fear she is.At least, now I know why she manipulated me, why I’m here in the first place.If this egg of hers exists, if she didn’t just share some delusion in her passing, this must be the reason she brought me south.
Her daughter.Aurous.It has to be.A new dragon… I can’t comprehend what advantage a new dragon will mean for us.And yet, what good is a hatchling in a battle against the ancient magic of a murdered dragon?
There’s only one way to find out.I have to escape.This must take priority, no matter the cost.If only she’d trusted me with this before...
No.It wouldn’t have mattered.I am where I am, how things have turned out.I can’t change it.All I can do is take action.
