Talla's Fallen Temple Ch. 24

"Hah!"

Yua knew her way around a woman's genitals. How often had she done this sort of thing for Nadine? Had Nadine reciprocated the same way?

Talla looked down the length of Yua's body. She lay flat on her stomach, which was probably more comfortable than kneeling, but her legs were spread wide enough that her skirt was pushed up above her cheeks. Her hands, meanwhile, were under Talla's skirt, poking and prodding.

A wet finger made circles around Talla's entrance, asking permission. Almost involuntarily, Talla rolled her hips and opened her legs, offering silent consent. A finger began pushing its way into her body while the tongue moved around in circles.

Yua shifted suddenly, prodding Talla a little more deeply, eliciting a small cry of surprise which quickly turned to pleasure. Sensing this, Yua began rhythmically poking at Talla's insides, never going straight in but rather pushing into the sides of Talla's tunnel.

Back, front, left, right - the pattern went on, a little dance that matched the one going on around Talla's clitoris.

"I'm ready," Talla said, not quite lying but in a hurry. "Come up here."

Yua's eyes peered up over the hem of Talla's skirt as her finger froze.

"You don't want me to finish you?"

"We can mesh. Isn't that what you want?"

Yua brightened at this, though Talla couldn't figure out why.

"I forgot," Yua admitted. "We always used to take turns."

Without removing her finger, Yua carefully moved until she and Talla were facing each other, their legs interlocked so there remained only enough space between their stomachs for their hands. As Talla slid her hand along Yua's belly, Yua stopped her.

"Take off my top, Mistress."

Talla reached her arms around Yua's back and unlaced her top. Slimmer though her breasts were, they still fell a bit as the top came undone.

"And yours?"

Talla smiled. They were Abundance women, after all, weren't they? What was the point if they didn't use what they had?

Yua masturbated Talla, with one finger inside her vagina and her thumb making warm, wet circles around her clitoris. Yua's eyes, however, were focused narrowly on Talla's cleavage. With twice the number of upgrades, there were necessarily twice as many laces around the back of Talla's top. As each was undone, her heavy breasts fell just a little.

A gasp of relief came from Yua's pursed lips as Talla's chest was bared to her. Never ceasing in her fondling, Yua lowered her head to Talla's left breast and gently began to suckle at her nipple.

"Nine gods, Yua," Talla murmured, and meant it. There were certain things that another woman was simply going to be better at than any man ever could be - things that you could only get right by knowing them from the inside in a way that the mesh couldn't teach.

Talla managed to snake a hand around and under Yua, reaching down between the dark-haired girl's thighs. A wetness greeted her fingertips, leaking out of her lips, obvious before she'd made the slightest penetration.

"You're ready, aren't you?"

"Oh, yes, Mistress," Yua murmured around a mouthful of breast.

With moist ease, Talla slid her finger up inside Yua.

...

Anguish

Loneliness.

Poor Yua.

Men weren't women and she'd learned to like women.

She'd liked Nadine.

Nadine was gone.

She liked Talla now. She could mesh with Talla. She would go where Talla went.

Yua hated the Temple, too.

But she cared more about Talla than hating the Temple.

And something else...

... oh, no!

No, no, no!

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Something was tingling deep in Zhair'lo's mind. Barely conscious, he felt a presence he hadn't felt so strongly in a long time.

Talla was there, warm and fuzzy. He felt her body, pressed against him, tasted the sweat on her breasts as he suckled at her nipples. He bit down, gently, coaxing an erection from those little nubs even as he felt a hardening between his legs.

She wasn't here, though, and he wasn't with her.

Zhair'lo awoke then, somewhat groggy, and surmised that he'd been dreaming.

"Hello," Bree murmured over her shoulder.

His erection was pushing between her bare cheeks.

"You have enough energy?"

"Guess so."

Bree squirmed against him, causing more blood to rush to his groin.

"Aren't we supposed to cycle? I just Served you."

Zhair'lo shrugged against her back.

"Does that even matter, here?"

Bree had not stopped wiggling and now turned her ankles and knees so her cheeks spread for him.

"Probably not," she agreed.

"Wouldn't want to wake anybody else up."

Bree murmured agreement. "And I'm up now anyway."

"And wet," Zhair'lo pointed out, teasing the head of his manhood against her entrance.

"Always."

Zhair'lo knew there was no point waiting. The middle of the night was not the time for fancy, time consuming games. Bree shifted her hips. Zhair'lo pushed.

...

Oh, no!

No, no, no!

Talla!

Yua?

Zhair'lo!

...

Too much was happening.

How had this even started? They were so far apart. They had barely sensed each other's previous sexual encounters since he'd gone out to live with the Fighters. Was Talla closer?

...

No. I'm in the sewers under the Temple.

Fucking?

With Yua. It's a long gods-damned story.

Some other time.

...

So it had been Yua's mouth on Talla's breast, had it?

Yua and Bree, meanwhile, were in turmoil. They'd never felt a mesh like this before. Too many voices and too many emotions were driving them crazy.

...

Who is that with you?

Bree. She's a Fighter.

We have to get them through this, before they tear us apart.

Again.

I know. Are you close?

Just started. You?

Closer. Yua's been working on me.

Okay. Try to ignore us. Maybe if you can come ...

Right

...

Yua and Bree, however, were not pleased. They probably didn't sense anything directly, but the extra presences in the mesh were so foreign to them that they fought like wounded animals to tear at the extra bonds.

'Calm down,' Zhair'lo projected, hoping Bree would feel it.

"Weird," Bree said aloud.

"It's okay," Zhair'lo murmured.

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With her right hand working Yua's vagina as deeply as she could, Talla used the left to push Yua's face into her breast.

"Bite down, my sweet," Talla crooned. "Let me feel you."

Teeth sank into flesh and Yua's finger matched Talla's for depth.

"Two fingers," Talla begged, "or three if you can do it."

The mesh wouldn't let Yua's finger all the way out, but she extracted it far enough to slide two more fingers in next to it. These were all pushed inside Talla, widened her entrance. Talla clamped down as hard as she could, willing the pressure and the pain in her upgrade-sensitized breasts to bring on her orgasm.

'This has to be it.'

"Make us come, Yua," Talla whispered. "Harder."

Three fingers pumped in and out of Talla's dripping tunnel, even as Yua and Bree tried to tear at the mesh binding the four of them together.

"Yes, yes!"

Only a little longer and they'd be free.

Talla's eyes bulged as the orgasm came on. She felt her vagina clamp down painfully on Yua's fingers and something exploded inside her, causing Yua to sit up straight in panic and look Talla directly in the eyes.

There was a flash of blue light and a blast of ... something ... issued from their bodies. Whatever it was nearly blew out the torches they'd left racked on the wall sconces. Yua's body went limp, even as the two of them twitched through their orgasms, muscles spasming around fingers.

Talla could see, from the bleary look in Yua's eyes, that the girl was fading fast. It seemed only the involuntary nature of the mesh was keeping her fingers inside Talla. The moment the orgasm was over, Yua slumped against Talla's bare chest and her hands fell limply to the floor.

This was a disaster.

It struck Talla immediately that the blue flash of light was strikingly similar to what had happened the last time she and Zhair'lo had met.

'And how many people did that knock unconscious?'

Panic set in for a moment.

"Yua!" she shouted. "Wake up! We can't stay here!"

The only explanation was that her link with Zhair'lo had caused this. But they weren't out at some camp in the middle of nowhere. They were under a gods-damned Temple full of the highest ranking women in existence.

'It's the middle of the night, though, right?'

Zhair'lo was unconscious. She could tell the link between them was still there, but he was clearly out. There would be no advice from that quarter.

'I'm naked.'

They couldn't go anywhere without clothing, could they? That had to be the first priority.

Gently as she could, she laid Yua down on her side. She stirred for a moment when her breast touched the cold stone floor, but her eyes only fluttered.

Talla's top and panties were thrown on in a hurry. Yua hadn't worn anything under her skirt.

"Yua!" Talla hissed. "Wake up!"

"Uh", Yua muttered back groggily.

"I need you awake! We have to get out of here."

She pulled Yua back up to a sitting position, but her spine had only slightly more integrity than a sack of potatoes. It was enough, however, that Talla was able to put Yua's top on.

"Up you get. Now!"

That last loud hiss in Yua's ear was enough get her eyes open. Talla hauled her up on her feet, grateful for her Strength upgrade but wishing she had some Tight to go with it.

'Oh, for some legs.'

With one arm under Yua, Talla reached for the torches they'd left on the wall.

"You have to carry a torch. We can't leave anything here."

Yua nodded limply, taking one torch and letting Talla take the other. Together, they hobbled sideways through the low tunnel and over to the stairway.

"Get your feet under you, gods damn it."

How much time did they have?

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"Imminence?"

"Was that an earthquake?" the Goddess enquired of the darkness around her.

"Ah ... no, Imminence. The earth did not quake."

Gern was not built near any fault lines. There was no reason to doubt the stability of the Temple's foundation.

"Something moved."

From a room nearby, a baby mewed plaintively.

"Bring me Magnus."

"You only just fed him, Imminence."

"Indeed. Now bring him to me."

"Imminence."

She heard the sliding of bare flesh across silk and a movement that was probably a bow. A moment later, a candle was lit and a naked woman with luxurious hair decorating the triangle between her legs brought a crying baby to his mother.

"He is not hungry, Imminence," the Adept insisted. "He does not try to suckle."

"Magnus can't smell milk on you, first of all," the Goddess replied. "Second, I agree that he is not hungry. It's the wrong kind of cry."

If the Adept thought it odd that the Goddess was claiming to be able to translate baby noises, she kept it to herself.

Once in his mother's arms, Magnus quieted down. He latched to her golden breast, but took no nourishment because he wasn't searching for food, but rather comfort.

"The gold in his skin is almost gone," the Goddess remarked, "but something of my magic remains in his blood. He felt what I felt."

"There was no earthquake," the Adept insisted, a note of worried determination in her voice indicated that she feared for her career path. "I was fully awake."

"It wasn't an earthquake."

Where had the feeling come from? It had hit her in the back, for certain. How had she lain in bed? On her side, with her back to Sweetness.

But the feeling had come in strangely. She tried to imagine the topography of the Temple, with Sweetness up the hill. Had it come from inside the Temple, or over the hills beyond it? The feeling had come in so low.

Someone powerful had done this, but the only people who had ever given her this feeling were Zhair'lo and Talla. Zhair'lo was out with the Fighters, far off on the opposite side of the Temple, and Talla was in Endowment, nowhere near the source of this feeling.

Whatever it was, it could only be people having sex somewhere, which could not possibly be as important as comforting the baby in her arms..

When Magnus had fallen asleep again, she handed him off to the Adept to tuck back into his crib.

"Thank you, dear."

"Imminence," the woman replied with a light bow.

It wasn't long before the Goddess fell back to sleep.

---===================----

"Of course I felt it," the Queen of Sweetness insisted to the messenger. She pulled her red silk nightgown around her and tied it at the front as she spoke. "And you may give Pussy the same message I sent to Lips. It felt like something came out of the earth and hit my spine. I have no idea what it was because I've never felt anything like it."

The messenger disappeared almost instantly.

"You're getting a bit testy," Within advised.

"I'll feel a lot better once that child is securely away from here," the Queen snapped, folding her arms and leaning against her desk.

Within, cool as always, nodded in a strange, diagonal sort of way that spoke volumes about her opinion of her Queen.

"Subterfuge has never been our thing," the Sorceress pointed out.

"No," the harried woman in red glared at her Sorceress. How was it that Within was always properly composed and never in a hurry?

'Age,' she thought. 'She's older than me, even if only by a few years. What if we'd chosen her instead of me at the last Ascension?'

Of course it wouldn't have worked. Within being as old as she was, she'd have been Queen only briefly before the Perfections wore her out.

The Queen shook her head clear. The fact of the matter was that Within had shown up, properly dressed, at the Queen's bedroom door before either of the other Sorceresses had even managed to send a barely clothed messenger.

"What do we do about it?"

"You're asking me?" Within raised an eyebrow.

"You must have some advice."

"Go back to sleep," she said. "It could only have been caused by someone having an orgasm -"

"Hah!", the Queen retorted. "I've felt other people's orgasms. No mesh has ever made me feel that the earth was shaking!"

"That's merely a matter of magnitude and proximity," Within explained patiently. "There is no question what it was. You can either wake all the Enforcers of Form and have them search through our entire triangle for some couple engaged in an illicit sexual encounter, or you can go back to sleep."

The Queen thought about this a moment.

"Then why did you come here?"

"To advise you to do the latter. I worried you might make the wrong decision in your state of agitation."

The Queen of Sweetness put her hands on her hips and glared at her Sorceress.

"You can be a real bitch sometimes, you know that?"

Within nodded sympathetically.

"Only when I'm right."

---===================----

Talla and Yua, meanwhile, had been stumbling through the sewers, following Talla's chalk marks back toward Endowment.

"We going to make it?" Yua muttered.

"I don't know," Talla said. "It depends when and where they start searching. We have to get back to the Endowment side of the Temple, quick as we can."

"Uh-huh..."

They needn't have worried, at least not about any immediate danger.

Every single guard in the levels above them was unconscious.