A Long Time from Home Ch. 19

A slight knocking woke me up. The knocking came again, and it clearly came from my door.

"Come in." I said with a yawn and switched on the light.

The door opened, and Alice looked inside.

As soon as I saw the tired expression on her face, I knew what the problem was. "Are the twins having growing pains again?"

Alice nodded tiredly. "Yes."

I sat up. "Give me a moment to take clothes on."

"Good idea and thanks." She said with a tired smile. "We're in the living room."

She left the room, and I left the bed, careful not to disturb Rita, who was still sound asleep under the duvet next to me.

Moments later, I walked up the stairs and into to living room, where Alice was busy rubbing Zena's right leg with one hand, while rubbing one of Cyra's legs with the other hand.

Both twins looked like they were in a lot of pain, so I hastened my pace and kneeled beside nearest one, which happened to be Zena.

A quick examination showed that the problem was the same as the other night, but with different energy lanes being the source of the problem, so I placed my fingers on the correct nerve centres, pressed down for a few heartbeats, and released a little bit of Vis.

The energy snapped back in the right lanes and the look of relief on Zena's face told me that the pain had gone.

Alice saw it as well and moved to the side, so I could do the same with Cyra, which I did.

"Are you okay now?" I asked the two girls.

Zena nodded, but there was some hesitation causing me to look at her firmly. "The truth, please."

She glanced at her mother and started to sign.

"She says they had nightmares too." translated Alice in a concerned voice as Zena continued to sign. "But she can't remember what it was about."

"Can you?" I asked Cyra, but she shook her head in response and signed. "No, but I really don't want to go back to sleep."

"It's okay, baby." Said Alice soothingly. "It was just a dream... It's gone now."

None of the girls looked convinced and Zena signed something again.

"Yes, you two can sleep in my bed." answered Alice and smiled, as both girls looked relived. "But first I need to go to the bathroom."

"< Geez, mom looks tired >" Remarked Zena mentally as soon as Alice had left the room.

Cyra nodded "< Yeah, we shouldn't have woken her up >"

Smiling, I stood up from the kneeling position. "< You did exactly as you were supposed to, so stop worrying >"

"< But we could have knocked on your door instead. Then you could have fixed it and mom would be sleeping now >" objected Zena.

"< Yes, but she is your mother and she need to know when something is wrong >"

Both accepted that with slow nods.

"Now off to bed with you. Alice will be there in a moment."

The two girls slipped off the sofa and gave me a hug along with a mental "< Thanks >" before disappearing into the master bedroom.

A moment later Alice came back and gave me a hug as well, before saying "Thanks Ivan. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you doing that." She paused. "Is there any way you can teach me how to do it?"

I thought it over and shook my head. "Not really. I mean, you should be able to learn it, but it will take years." An idea entered my head, causing me to smile. "But... I might be able to teach it to Karen. Since she knows acupuncture, she already knows the basics."

"That would be so cool!"

"Well, it will all depend on how much she knows already, so don't celebrate too early." I warned and looked at her. Even smiling, she looked about ready to fall asleep on her feet. "Go get some sleep. You really need it."

"Yeah, well that isn't gonna happen any time soon." She sighed. "They're gonna be awake for at least an hour now."

Smiling I took her hand and started to walk towards the bedroom. "Come."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to tell all three of you a bedtime story."

"Oh."

Since I projected sleepiness into all three of them while telling the story, it didn't take long before they were fast asleep.

I was wide-awake and decided to do something that I really should have done days ago: Examine the twin's minds and especially those connections in their minds that formed a miniature Centrum Potentia.

Closing my eyes, I relaxed and reached out with my mind, until I found Zena's and focused my attention on the connections that was different from the normal human pattern.

Unlike the Baylon Centrum Potentia, which is located in the middle of the brain, it seemed like most of the connections was located in the lower front of the right part of the brain.

Compared to a normal brain, there were a lot more connections and the pattern was much more complicated. Perhaps even a bit too complicated, because it looked like some connections had been rerouted from other parts of the brain and in some cases even blocked other connections, especially those coming from the left side.

That explained why the twins were mute because that part of the brain dealt with the spoken language and the motions of the vocal cords, which is why it was the target of most Ars Mentalis tricks aiming to silence or mute a person.

I switched to Cyra's mind to check and found the patterns in her brain were the same as her sisters. That wasn't surprising, but it was nice to know, and it supported my theory about the cause of the muteness.

Remembering the twins had told me, that some part of their brain hadn't grown right, I stopped concentrating on the mental energies in the brain and shifted to the physical part instead.

Since Alice was right next to Cyra, I did a quick comparison and there were indeed some differences in that part of the brain, which might have caused the patterns to change.

It wasn't 'it hasn't grown right', since that expression really means 'it has grown in a wrong way'. Instead, it was more of an 'it has grown in a different way'.

More importantly, it wasn't something that could be healed, since it wasn't damaged, just different and I couldn't do much about that.

Another possibility for correcting the problem was to reroute some of the blocked connections.

Because the brain is extremely adaptable, it was entirely possible that doing so would enable the twins to speak when the brain had grown accustomed to using those connections. Or rather, it would enable them to use their vocal cords. After that, they would need to learn how to form the sounds that make up words, since they had never done that before. That would also have the advantage of not touching any existing connection, leaving them with the ability to speak with their minds.

Unfortunately, there wasn't any way that I could be sure that it would work, and I had to admit to myself that I was largely guessing, since I had never encountered this problem before.

Another thing that puzzled me was why the twin's minds had developed that pattern. I've seen thousands of human mind-patterns over the years and none of them had been even close to what I had just seen in the twins.

Something in Alice's mind pattern caught my attention and after a quick examination I realized that she had mental powers as well. Just another kind of power than her daughters and another one I hadn't seen before.

Instead of being located in the communication centre of the brain as Cyra and Zena's were, Alice had a miniature Centrum Potentia located in the part of the brain that controlled movement and as far as I could detect, it sent a small amount of mental energy into her body, whenever it was needed.

If it worked somewhat like an Ars Mentalis trick, it would have the effect of boosting her endurance quite a bit, and most likely her speed as well, though the location alone ruled out any form of telepathy, telekinesis or any of the other mental powers normally associated with Mentats.

Simply put, while Alice couldn't speak to anybody with her mind, she could carry on doing physical work long after most other people had dropped from exhaustion and I had no doubt that it had helped her a lot with work and sports.

It also meant that the only reason for her to be tired now, would be lack of Vis.

Retracting from her mind, I checked the amount of Vis in her body just to make sure that my guess was correct. It was, as the amount of Vis in her body was lower than it should be, and I guessed that she subconsciously had channelled some Vis into her daughters to lessen their pain.

It wasn't the first time I had seen that, and it rarely works.

Having good sex would help, but as she didn't know how to absorb the Vis, it wouldn't be enough, so I gently placed a hand on her arm and channelled enough Vis into her to bring the level back to where it should be. It made me tired again, but I could live with that. I just needed something to eat and drink, followed by some sleep.

Carefully not to disturb Alice or the twins, I crawled out of the bed and walked to the kitchen, where I found some leftovers and a bottle of cold water in the refrigerator and settled down to devour them. As just about anything else, they tasted extremely good even cold and I took my time to enjoy the food, placing the used plate and utensils in the dishwasher when I was done.

The food had made me feel better, but I still wasn't sleepy, so I decided to go for a walk.

The strange architecture of the house meant that I had to go upstairs to get to the front door, since that was at level with the road. The route took me past the top floor bedrooms, but as the twins were sleeping in Alice's bed and Rita was in my bed, Karen was the only one currently up here. The door to her room was ajar and as I passed it, I glanced inside. The sight made me stop and look again.

The moonlight lit the room, centering on the bed where Karen was sleeping. Due to the heat, she had tossed off the duvet and was laying on the bed dressed only in a t-shirt and panties, both of which were clinging to her body in a most alluring way, while the moonlight highlighted her well-shaped body.

For a while, I stood there, enjoying the sight and the feeling of lust it caused in me.

Finally, I surrendered to the feeling, walked into her room, and closed the door behind me. I had planned on doing it silently, but the door foiled that by squawking on its hinges all the way.

"Who's there?" mumbled Karen sleepily, as she looked up.

"It's Ivan." I said softly as I walked closer to the bed. "I want you and I want you now."

Even in the semi darkness, I could see her blink in sleepy surprise, but when I reached down and took hold of her panties with one hand, she lifted her hips from the bed, so I could slide them down her legs. As soon as they reached her knees, she placed her butt on the mattress again and lifted her long legs instead. I peeled the panties off her and spread her legs, before laying down on the bed with my head between them.

"This is surprising!" She mumbled and then gasped as I began kissing the sensitive areas of the inside of her left thigh, enjoying the feel of her velvet skin against my lips. Her muscles trembled at my touch as I licked and kissed my way towards her pussy.

She hissed in pleasure as I gave her lips a few licks, but then I moved on to the other thigh, giving it the same treatment as I had given the left.

"Tease!" She whispered and ran her hands through my hair, but she clearly enjoyed the treatment, as she made no effort to make me return to her sex.

I took my time kissing her skin, but eventually worked my way back to her pussy. She was dripping wet, and I could smell the sweet scent of her arousal, as I started to lick all around her pussy without touching her lips. Karen spread her legs even wider, allowing me to give her one long slow lick from the bottom of her lips to the top, finishing off with a little circle around her clitoris.

Another hiss of pleasure escaped her, followed by a sharp intake of breath, as I sucked the clitoris in between my lips and gave it a gentle massage with my tongue.

Her hands stopped running through my hair and held on to my head instead, pressing it lightly against her pussy.

I took the cue and flicked my tongue across her clitoris a few times, each time causing her to gulp for air, followed by a sigh of pleasure.

Letting go of her clitoris, I started to move downwards, first licking the flesh between her lips and then the top of her wet opening.

Karen let go of my head and lifted her legs up into the air, giving me easy access to her.

I took advantage of it by diving between her parted lips, licking the rim of her opening all the way around, making small circles with my tongue as I drank her juices and luxuriating in the taste.

When I reached the top again, my nose accidently touched her clitoris. A jolt went through her body, followed by another muted moan.

The responses made me focus on her clitoris for a while, running my tongue in small lazy circles around it.

"Ohhhhh." Karen whispered, making me look up at her.

Bathed in moonlight, that glowed against her soft skin and highlighted the fantastic curves of her body, she had her eyes closed and a wide smile on her face.

I continued my slow, firm oral massage of her clitoris, as I brought a finger up and gently slipped it inside her wet pussy, hooking it slightly to find her internal pleasure point and began to massage that as well.

Karen tensed, mumbling. "Fuck, that's good."

Then she moaned as I slipped another finger inside her, causing her pussy to contract several times before it relaxed again.

Ever so slowly, I increased the speed of my tongue and fingers, enjoying the feel of her as well as the sound of the almost silent moans and groans that escaped her lips.

Bringing my other hand into play, I placed my thump on her rear opening and began to massage that was well, moving in small circles on the sensitive skin, while groping her marvellous butt with the rest of the hand. Our combined juices had run down and as my thump glided over the hole, I could feel the muscle clenching and unclenching. I ignored it and kept up the massage.

Karen tensed up for a few heartbeats, but then relaxed with a sigh of pleasure.

Picking up the pace again, I started to move my finger back and forth, instead of just massaging the pleasure point.

"Ohhh yesses." Karen growled and shivered, as I flicked her clitoris with the tip of my tongue.

I did it again and then once more, being rewarded with moans each time.

Steadying myself, I removed the hand from her butt and rested it the bed, using my pinkie to stimulate her hole instead, while my hand moved back and forth in her soaked pussy and my tongue danced on her clitoris.

"More... faster." Karen moaned, as her body trembled. "So close!"

Changing the angle of my hand, I started to move faster and each time my pinkie touched her little star, I stiffened it up a little, causing the tip to enter her anus a bit more each time. The first few times, she tensed up, but then she started to relax and enjoy it as any discomfort she might feel was drowned out by the pleasure from her two other pleasure zones.

"oooOOHhhhmmm..." Karen moaned, as I pushed her toward the edge.

Judging, that she was more than ready for the finale, I parted the lips of her pussy with my own lips, sucked the clitoris into my mouth and used my tongue on it, while I applied pressure on her internal pleasure zone with the two fingers in her pussy and the third finger slipped all the way inside her anus.

Within a few heartbeats, Karen went rigid. Then she hurriedly snatched a pillow and used it to dampen her voice. I felt her pussy quiver around my fingers and her hips bucked as she came with a pillow-muffled scream that just kept on going.

The same did her orgasm and all the way through it, her velvety hole rippled around my fingers in delicious spasms, bathing my hand in her gushing juices.

When the orgasm finally subsided, Karen removed the pillow from her face with a shiver and looked at me with hunger in her beautiful, slanted eyes. "Get naked!"

"As you wish." I replied with a grin, got off the bed and undressed as fast as I could.

Karen didn't take her eyes off me and as soon as I was naked, she turned around on her stomach, spread her legs and lifted her magnificent butt in an obvious invitation.

Accepting the invitation, I crawled onto the bed and positioned the head of my cock between her pussy lips, sliding it up and down to gently gather her juices on it.

"OH god yesses." Karen hissed quietly and pressed her pussy against my cock in the exact moment it was right outside her opening. Then she moaned as the head slowly, but surely, slipped into her tight pussy. "Fuck, its gooood!"

I agreed. The feel of her lips sliding over the head sent shivers down my spine.

Instead of waiting for her to do all the work, I started to make short little strokes, each one working a little more of me into her tight, wet pussy, making it expand and stretch to accept my cock. Each stroke pushed a little more of me into her and elicited a little gasp or squeak of pleasure from her lips. Stroke after stroke I worked more of myself into her until finally I could feel the end of her velvety tunnel pressing against my head.

A shiver ran through her and then she came in a sudden orgasm that made her whole body shake and caused her hips to swirl, which in turn made her pussy massage my cock in a most delightful way.

While she was still shaking, I started to fuck her with long slow strokes that pulled my whole shaft from her until I could drive it back in, each stroke making her whole body shake as my hips slapped against her firm butt.

Karen buried her head in the pillow, but I could still hear her squeak "Oh god oh god oh god." with each stroke, her whole body twitched and her pussy spasming around my dick.

It felt wonderful, but with the sex I had with Rita earlier, I wasn't even close to coming, so I just continued to fuck her at a steady pace, enjoying the situation.

Karen screamed into the pillow again as her whole body suddenly jerked and shuddered, her orgasm washing over her like a tidal wave.

When the orgasm finally subsided, she emitted complete satisfaction. I decided not to spoil the feeling and slowly pulled out of her.

The made her turn her head to look at me. "You came?"

"No, but you had enough now." I told her with a smile and leaned down to give her a kiss. "You need to be able to play your tournament tomorrow."

She kissed back, her soft lips caressing mine, before she broke the kiss. "Well, you're right, but this night-time sex was a pleasant surprise."

"Not as pleasant as feeling you come." I answered and gave her a kiss more. "Sleep well, Peach."

"You too." She mumbled sleepily.

By the time, I had finished getting dressed again, Karen was snoring lightly and with a smile, I left the room, quietly closing the door behind me. I didn't feel like taking a walk anymore and decided to go back to bed.

Living with these three beautiful women, had turned into a more sexual experience than I had ever expected and as I lay down on my bed to fall asleep next to Rita, I felt extremely lucky.