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She shook her head. No. At least the bobs of our heads matched.
“You need to know that I don’t want to leave this place,” I said. “It’s the only home I’ve ever known. But for you, my mate,” I swallowed down my dismay, “I would do it.”
She frowned but didn’t comment. But then, she didn’t understand me. I wanted to gnash my tusks and bellow, but I sensed that would only repel her.
I reminded myself to be patient. I’d continue to teach her our words and slowly, we’d begin to understand each other when we were outside our home.
“After our meal,” I bit down on and chewed through a spear of moobar. I wasn’t hungry any longer, but we never wasted anything sent to us by the gods. “We’ll take my hepadon to the valley to speak to the central gods.”
She licked her fingers and sat back in her wooden chair, watching me as I finished her moobars. I’d poured her a mug of wellet, but she hadn’t touched it. I nudged the drink closer to her, and she peered into the top, shaking her head before taking a tiny sip. She grimaced but drank the rest, probably to please me.
When it appeared she was finished, we left, leaving the structure to absorb the plates. They’d be renewed and returned when it was time for our next meal.
I took her to the evacuation building just in case, then back to the pools, though this time, we left the main channel and entered a small alcove on the right with a tiny pool just big enough for her to wash her hands.
She smiled up at me as we walked back out into the sunshine, and seeing her happy and knowing I was the cause, was a punch in the gut. It made my belly hurt, but it also felt amazing.
Taking her hand once more, I led her to the hepadon grazing area, the crunch of them biting off stalks of grass louder than the sound of our footsteps on the path. When we were close, I opened the gate and called for Voolon. Her head lifted and she snorted before trotting over to join us.
Van-eesa gasped and ducked behind me, seeking my protection as she should, though not from my tame hepadon.
I chuckled and dragged her forward to stand with me. “Be brave, my mate. Voolon will never cause you harm.”
Voolon came to a halt in front of us, and I reached up to pat her snout. She nibbled playfully on my fingers before peering at Van-eesa. Her nose shot out to bump my mate’s chest.
Van-eesa released another waaaa sound that must be her favorite saying.
Did she have similar pets where she came from? She must.
“Voolon is sweet,” I said. “I raised her from the time she hatched from her egg.” Later, I could take her to the hatching grounds, and she could pick out her own mount from the hepadon young. She’d raise it and train it to be gentle with her, though I didn’t mind her riding with me. There was no better feeling than Van-eesa pressing her tiny frame against mine.
I took her hand and though she resisted, I placed her palm on Voolon’s cheek. The hepadon nibbled it like she had mine. Van-eesa cringed, but she gave me a weak smile and patted the beast, quickly retracting her hand. She no longer released thewaaaasound.
“Up you go,” I said, lifting Van-eesa and sweeping around to the side of Voolon to deposit my mate on the hepadon’s back. Her eyes widened, and she gaped down at the beast who shifted but remained steady. A jump, and I mounted behind her. I tucked her back against my chest, lifting her onto my thighs.
My cocks announced they were eager for whatever might come next, the large one stiffening, the smaller one humming in tune with my heart.
Van-eesa wiggled and shot me a glare, muttering something I was grateful I couldn’t understand.
When I urged Voolon forward with a nudge of my heels, Van-eesa latched onto my arm I’d wrapped around her waist. Emitting strangled gasps, she clung as the hepadon moved slowly past the edge of my village.
Once we’d reached the upper end of the trail weaving down the mountain and into the central part of the valley where the majority of the crystal gods lived, I urged Voolon to go faster.
Air rushed past us, sweet with floral perfume, the pungent aroma lifting off the needle trees now that the sunlight had hit them. I sucked in a deep breath, grateful all over again that I had the chance to live in this world during this time, that I had a healthy clan waiting for me at home, a sturdy structure to sleep in at night, plus the care of our gods.
And my precious mate who I hadn’t given up on yet. I’d do my best to prove to her that I was worthy, and she’d soon welcome me with open arms.
As Voolon went faster, her paws thundering on the rough ground, Van-eesa shouted out her favorite word.
Grinning, I echoed it. “Waaaa!”
Chapter 13
Vanessa
I’d always thought horseback riding would be fun. But shifting on the spine of a galloping, blue crystal triceratops while Aizor’s cocks rubbed against my ass? It should be a total turn-off—but it wasn’t.
His main cock was enormous. Thick. I shouldn’t find anything about this guy appealing.
