A Big Shiny Blue Marble Ch. 35

"There's a bad part to this somewhere, though, isn't there?"

Yuan shrugged, "I don't think so -- oh! There might be. If the dragon dies for some reason and if the pet is already far past their normal lifespan, then the pet ages very quickly and dies soon after. I have read of that happening, but the tales that I read told that with their owner dead, pets no longer want to live. I have been playing with you a little, Copper, but the truth of it is that the relationship goes very deep for dragons and their pets. We seek to always care for them and keep them well."

She rolled her eyes then, "And there is another thing."

"Aha!" Copper laughed good-naturedly, enjoying what to her was a slightly naughty little conversation. "I knew there was a catch. So go on and tell me."

"Well I am both male and female," Yuan smiled, "and everything works. I don't think that it would be a problem for Simmit anyway, but she might end up with a dragon-child by me." Yuan had said it that way, knowing that the demon was listening intently and it was all that the dragon could do to keep the smirk from her face as only a glance told her that Simmit would be fine with that as well.

Copper stared, "But wouldn't that - I mean, she's not very big, and -- how the hell is that possible?"

Yuan laughed a little, "Dragons are very accommodating -- even as babies. If a pair of us mate and the female conceives, she passes eggs and broods on them. But if the female is something else which may be bred by a dragon, the eggs is soft, only solid enough to pass. After that, the shell dissolves quickly and it is almost like a human birth then. We live in the physical world, but we are rather magical creatures -- as are demons. That is why I can have three shapes in the first place."

Copper nodded and tried to concentrate on her driving. She had another thing which was killing her to ask, but she was damned if she could figure out a way to say it. They rumbled on through the snowfall which had begun and was now growing heavier while Yuan went back to sit with Simmit, who hugged her with her two little boys climbing over them both after a moment.

"I think that I see that you would like this," Yuan said in Simmit's speech.

Simmit didn't answer for a moment as she looked at Copper who seemed lost in her thoughts. Choosing her moment, Simmit leaned in and kissed Yuan softly, but only for a moment before she sat back and they spoke quietly.

"Thank you for what you said. It made me feel good to hear that I can be wanted by someone. I am only a small one here where I have come to be. Where I am from, it was the same, but there, I knew what I was doing.

Here, I am unsure of everything and I must think of looking after myself for my young and it sounds as though I could be warm and safe. I think that I see your wish," she said, "and, " she looked down for a moment in a bit of shyness, "it is mine as well, but I do not want to be kept away from Copper. I know that she likes me, but she does not know how to show it. That is alright, Yuan, but ..."

Yuan smiled, "I understand." Yuan couldn't believe the way that she felt then, but she had to ask things, "The other dragon in this is a male and we love in both ways between us. He is not large, Simmit, and I think that he would be a good male for you as well. He is fine in his way -- or I would not want him as much as I do. Would you take him as well? I think that he could please you."

Simmit nodded instantly, "My kind needs to be loved and I have had nothing but emptiness and motherhood for a long while. If he is kind, then I would allow it, but Copper -- "

Yuan nodded, "I do not know if it can be, but I believe that Copper is hopeful as well. I must only find the way to let her come to what she wants for herself."

"Be careful then," Simmit said with some concern, "Copper does not think that anyone would like her body. It is not thin like mine. It is full and Yuan, Copper is a very strong girl. Her body is fine and very hard, but she thinks that she is not anything that another would want."

"But you wanted it, no?" Yuan smiled.

"Oh yes," the demon nodded, "She hides herself away in those lumpy clothes and she says that she does not want girls, but I could not keep my hands from her in the bed. She just didn't want me."

Yuan shook her head, "I think that she just couldn't see the way that your kind is between females who grow close. I saw this with the Tarkroth female and I think that they are the same." She smiled, "Dragons -- at least my kind -- do not care much who they fall for, as long as what comes of it is a little pure, though I have also heard that there were some who only took what they could get and cared little about anything else such as feelings. I am not like that."

She sighed a little, "I only need to do this so that it works for her as well."

The little ones were trying in their way to be noticed by the adults and the braver of them climbed up Yuan's arm and stared at her. When Yuan turned her head to face him, he stared with such huge eyes and his ears went down a little. It was more that she could stand, so she reached up and held him in place as she pressed her face against his neck and blew a raspberry.

He shrieked and giggled, trying to get away and she let him go as he scampered down. She began to play with them, wondering how they'd turned their shyness into a game with her so easily. Simmit got up and walked forward to ask if she could make them another meal.

Copper nodded, "Sure. Um, are we good, Simmit? I just want you to know how sorry I am for not understanding."

Simmit smiled, "I didn't know either. I only thought that it was the same here as where I am from and I like you." She leaned down trying not to interfere with Copper's driving and she hugged her briefly. As she turned to go, Copper grabbed her arm.

"I like you too," she said, "I've just gotta get used to us being different. I'm the first one to complain when somebody treats me like I'm some grumpy rockcarver dwarf and sees only that part of me. And here I did the same thing and hurt your feelings. I oughta know better than to assume things. Here,"

Copper reached up and pulled the zipper of her insulated coveralls open wide, "I do like the way that you hug me, Simmit and I know that you like to touch my skin when you do, so hug me again if you want."

Simmit smiled and knew that Copper was trying hard, so she hugged her again, sliding her hand under the material so that she could touch Copper's shoulder. "Thank you, Copper."

"It's alright," Copper smiled shyly, "I'm happy that we could fix this. I like you too much to have left it like it was. Are they howling for food, or can they wait a little?"

"They can wait I guess," Simmit replied, "Why?"

Copper looked up at the demon and decided that Simmit was worth a lot to her, as little as she understood everything, so she moved Simmit's hand to lay it on her breast and she winked, "I thought you might like a thrill for a minute."

Simmit leaned down to kiss Copper's cheek and she stood beside the seat a little awkwardly touching Copper's neck on the other side as well. She was probably the only creature other than a spider who could have done it in that cramped place. Yuan looked over and she smiled at the two of them, guessing where the demon's hand was and how hard Copper was trying here.

"I just don't want you to leave," Copper said, "I think I need you and your ankle-biters."

"I will not leave you. I think that Yuan has a better place, so maybe we should go there," Simmit said, "I want to know more. From what she has said, it is warm there. You remember what warm is like?"

Copper nodded, liking what Simmit's small hand was doing so gently. Warm was when Simmit was against her. Or maybe that was happy, she wasn't sure that it mattered much anymore.

"I heard you speak of pets," Simmit said," Where I am from, there are large things like what we saw that she is. They are different, though. Sometimes they take ones like me and those ones are lucky and have better lives. Maybe we can be like that. I know that she likes us both, and from what was said, and what she told me, she is a male, and there is another one. I know that you like males, and I do as well, just not the one who gave me my children for the way that it was done. I would have been more careful if he had not lied to me so well.

But we need to know more, Copper, so I will go and feed my little males."

"Boys," Copper said, "It means small, young males here. I have trouble thinking of them as little males. I mean, I know that's what they are, but the word doesn't sound right for a couple of little baby boys to me."

"Boys then," Simmit smiled.

It was a little easier feeding the two of them with Yuan holding them. They settled down right away and she remarked on it.

Simmit smiled, "They know that in here, they must behave. They love Copper, but when she gets annoyed with them, they know it, though she tries not to show that she is. She stumps around and bangs things and they know that they have done something wrong. She never shouts at them. They love to sit on her and play as they do with you, but not in here."

She laughed as she shovelled in another spoonful, "They do not even fight in here."

After the meal, it wasn't long before the small ones began to grow sleepy and Simmit asked for a little help. She had a pair of what looked like small bags hanging up and Yuan held one child while she got the other one inside one of the bags. In another minute, Yuan stared as the pair as they blinked back at her wearily from their small cocoons.

"Copper had the idea and she made the bags," Simmit smiled as she leaned to kiss them both, "She told me that the people here long ago would travel sometimes and the mothers used to do this so that they could carry their little ones along easier. This way, I can drive and they are safe and not getting into things. I thought it would be trouble, but they love their bags and how they swing a little as we drive."

She poured some water into some old-looking, but otherwise clean cups and asked if Yuan wanted some tea.

"Tea?" Yuan stared, "I have not had tea in so long..." she nodded.

When it was ready, Copper slowed to a stop and came back, "it's getting lousy out there and tough to see much of anything. We're not far from where we picked you up though. After this, I'll have to go outside and wipe the snow off of everything."

She looked at Yuan for a moment and her gaze fell on her long legs. Her eyes opened as she remembered something. "The last time that I was in town, I was in one of the clothes stores. There was only one of those little rooms where they let you try on the clothes to see if they fit. I'm not one of them great beauties, so I always feel really uncomfortable there. There's nothing like a place like that to make a stumpy dwarf-girl feel even stumpier. I wanted a pair of jeans, and I tried on a couple of pairs and they all fit me really well, so I picked up the pile and went to pay.

I'd rather find three pairs that fit and not have to come back for a long while.

Well the clerk was really unhappy that I chose right then to come to the counter and I sort of wondered why and got almost pissed at him when I figured it out. He was getting his dick sucked really good there behind the counter and I yelled at him that I didn't care about his willie, I just wanted to pay and get going. I guess that he was doing something with somebody that he shouldn't have been. He got really nervous and asked me how many pairs I was buying. I told him three and he rang it up and I paid and got out of there."

She laughed as she got up and opened a compartment, "I just scooped up the jeans and left, because I was pissed off and everything. It wasn't til I got back to where I'd hidden this rig that I looked. There had been another pair of jeans and a shirt where I'd put my jeans down and I didn't mean to, but I guess I took everything."

She grinned, "Well I was a little shocked at what they were doing, you know? Anyway, none of this stuff fits me, but looking at you, it might fit you better. Here," she said holding the clothing out, "try these on. If they fit you, they're yours. It doesn't take very long for unworn clothing to get a little musty-smelling in here, so I washed them a week back. I didn't know what to do with them. I just hate to throw good stuff away. Go on, try them on."

It was a little easier said than done, since Yuan had never owned a pair of jeans, but in a minute, the others grinned and Copper nodded as Yuan stood there wearing the jeans and a chambray shirt. Her tail had to disappear to do it, but she looked really good like that.

"I can barely move," Yuan laughed.

"Give 'em a few minutes," Copper smiled," They'll loosen up. They look like they were painted on you, like they were made for you. They must have been a custom fit job. I don't think I've ever seen jeans look that good."

"Thank you," Yuan said, "But I cannot take them for nothing, Copper."

"That's alright," the dwarf girl laughed, "They didn't cost me nuthin', and your being here helped to fix things between Simmit and me. Today I met a real dragon and you'll probably look all embarrassed to hear me say it, but I really like you and I hope we can be friends after all of this.

I'll tell you what, though. I think you're like me about accepting things like gifts, so how about ... well, I've been thinking about what we were talking about. I think that you might be able to give Simmit and her kids a good place to live if you were true about what you said over taking her as your pet.

I don't want to be without her -- I'm pretty sure, because she and her kids well, they sort of grew on me and ..."

Simmit couldn't stand it. She knew Copper well enough to be able to see that saying this was killing her and if nothing was done, Copper would speak her way to down to quiet mumbles and it wouldn't get said at all. Simmit knew that she liked the idea, but only if she could be close to Copper, so she just blurted it out.

"Copper thinks that she might like to be a pet too. Can it be done? Can she try it?"

Copper's mouth opened and she stared, "Well, I don't uh, ..."

Yuan reached over and pulled Copper up. Before she could do much about it other than marvel at how strong Yuan was, the dark dragon had her in her arms. Yuan loved the way that Copper felt to hold. She wouldn't have known, but Copper was tall for a dwarf because of her mother. She stood about five feet tall and really had quite a body, firm and hard as Simmit had said, not thin, but very nice all the same.

Copper looked up, blinking in a little shock at the face of a dragon, more beautiful than any picture or artist's rendering that she'd ever seen.

She was really in the arms of a dragon.

Well mother of pearl, she thought in amazement...

"You think that you wish to try with me to see?" Yuan laughed, "Copper, you fight and struggle more with yourself than you ever would with me. You do not need to give me anything for that."

She leaned down and Copper's breath was gone the next instant. They groaned against each other and Simmit squirmed where she sat. She'd liked it when she'd dared to kiss Yuan. She wanted to do that again. She wanted to kiss Copper like that.

She wanted to cheer.

When Yuan broke the kiss, Copper could barely stand there. She blinked for a moment before her thoughts came out.

"Holy ..."

Yuan held up her hand, "Wait a moment, "she said, smiling, "I am playing only a little here. I like you both so much, but I do not know if I want a pet, not yet anyway."

She looked at Copper, "Where you live, it is cold?"

Copper nodded, looking rather confused.

"Cold and empty too from how it was made," Simmit chimed in, "Copper tries to make a home there but ... mostly, it is cold."

"What is this place?" Yuan asked.

"It's a service bay in a maintenance garage," Copper said, "It's always been good enough for me. I grew up there. If I'd have known that I'd have three more in it -- and two of them were gonna be little guys, ..."

Yuan looked at the demon-girl, "But you like each other and you would go where Copper goes?"

Simmit nodded and Copper was surprised again, still standing in shock as she was in Yuan's arms.

"Not a good place for little ones. They will get sick," Yuan said and then she nodded, "You can both come and live with Sheth and I. It is always warm. Stay until the spring at least and decide what you want to do."

Simmit nodded, liking the idea -- almost.

"What if I've decided what I want to do?" Copper asked, looking up at Yuan, "I should do it, right? That's what you'd tell me to do, isn't it?"

She looked over at Simmit, "Should we go where it's warm? That's what I think we ought to do if you want that and I know it'll be healthier for the boys instead of always trying to stay warm."

Simmit was thinking about it, but she was wondering what had gotten into Copper all of a sudden. She felt like she'd blinked and found herself in a different conversation. She nodded.

Copper threw her arms around Yuan and began to kiss her.

When a rather surprised Yuan pulled away a few moments later, she looked at Copper, who was busy trying to pull apart the snaps on Yuan's shirt.

"But, ... I thought -- "

Copper smiled a little sheepishly -- but she kept on opening the dragon's shirt, "I don't get many chances to kiss a dragon, and I still want to try."

She sighed as she looked at Yuan's breasts and reached to touch one, "I suppose I'm just gonna have to get used to these things, is all."

Then she laughed quietly, "And I don't think it's gonna be all that tough, now that I'm doing this."

Yuan grinned and a few minutes later, Copper's coveralls were around her ankles and Simmit was on her knees helping to get them off by guiding her friend's legs out of her boots. Yuan ran her hands over Copper's skin and sucked in her breath for a moment, "Oh Copper," she sighed, "you hide treasures like this away?"

Copper moaned quietly as Yuan kissed her throat for a moment before Copper pulled the shirt back over Yuan's shoulders. Simmit was right there, helping her arms out of the sleeves.

The jeans were another story, however, and there were moments of quiet laughter as Yuan lay on her back on the bunk while the hopeful pair stood pulling them off her long legs.

She looked at the little parcels hanging up asleep, facing the front of the interior, "How long do we have?"

Simmit grinned, "They will sleep for a good while now -- if we are quiet."

Simmit pulled Copper to guide her down onto the bunk.

"I -- I don't know what to do," Copper stammered.

Yuan smiled, "Please Copper, just do not tell us that you wish for us to stop. That would be cruel."

"Why?" Copper asked, a little mystified.

"Fool," Yuan grinned, "Where are your eyes? Simmit aches to love with you. I love your body as well. Have you been drinking or something?"

Copper would have protested, but they pushed her down gently and somehow the three of them fit on the narrow bunk. While Yuan kissed Copper and ran her hands over her body. Simmit gave Copper only one reason to doubt and it was out of her playfulness as Copper caught a quick glimpse of Simmit as she spread Copper's knees apart and showed her teeth in a delighted and hungry grin.

Before Copper could even react to it, Simmit was doing what she'd wanted to do for Copper since the first night that they'd slept together out of trying to stay a little warm in the cold quarters where Copper lived alone.

She felt Simmit's hands caressing her thighs and her flanks as the demon made love to her. After Copper gave in to it and came in minutes, Simmit moved aside and Yuan slid her hardness in slowly.