Myka's Tail Ch. 03

"Oh my little one, treasure these moments," she counseled me with her warm and gentle voice. "They will be the light that will buoy you up during hard times, and will remind you of what is of most worth in this world."

And with that Millicent pushed me up from her lap and turned me around to face her so that she could grasp my head in her wrinkled hands as she pulled me down to plant a kiss on my forehead.

"It is time for you to go child," she said as she released me so that she could go back to tending her fire. "But before you do I will impart to you a small wisdom. You will have opportunity to make a journey very soon, and it is important that you do so. Answers will come there and you will have a choice to make. Go in peace now and do not forget to bring your totems when you travel."

I tried to ask for more detail because I was now terribly confused, but before I could utter a sound a rushing motion overtook my body as I fell through the ground into a deep blackness. The feeling lasted only moments, and when I opened my eyes to see where I had been taken I was back in my bed with daylight streaming through my window. I was awake, I had not been plagued by my nightmare, and all seemed right with the world again.

"Well, well. Good morning to you, or good afternoon rather," said a soft yet confident voice, and I turned to see Cassandra sitting primly in a chair by our bed looking up at me from the book she had been reading. "I am glad to see you back among the living dear Myka, and I am sorry that recent days have been so much trouble for you."

My body felt stiff and sluggish, which was understandable if I had been asleep for two days. I sat up and stretched my aching muscles without thinking, but the relief I felt as blood flow and movement revitalized my still slumbering body was cut short with embarrassment as full realization of my nudity hit me. I was sitting in my bed with my arms stretched above me as far as they could go, which had the effect of thrusting my very pert and firm breasts practically in Cassandra's face. The cool air in the room had caused my pink nipples to stiffen and poke out like erasers, and I belatedly dropped my arms so that I could grab my sheet to cover myself while trying to control the furious blush of magenta that had risen in my cheeks.

"Oh you silly girl," she said to me with an impish smile, causing the heat of my humiliation to deepen. "You know I do so enjoy looking at your most feminine charms, but a lady should always keep her most treasured assets hidden until the last possible moment. It makes all sorts of things much better for everyone involved."

Her comment made me giggle as I replied, "Well, apparently it's been two days or more and I think my little milk maids wanted to get some sun of their own."

We both laughed at my cheekiness and Cassandra stood and gave me a gentle kiss on the top of my head.

"I will go and let the others know that you are up," Cassandra said to me as she turned to leave the room.

"Others," I asked, with a hint of confusion in my voice. "Who else is here, besides Kelli, I mean?"

"Not to worry dear Myka. It is just Kelli and Ali in the living room. They have been arguing about various magical constructs for the last several hours. I moved in here with you, as they were causing me great consternation with their bickering, as good natured as it is."

"Yeah, that sounds like Kelli," I replied with and instant smile of understanding. "Once she gets an idea in her head it must be right. Fortunately for her it almost always is. Would you let them know I will be right out after I wash my face, please?"

"I will do so dear Myka, and take all the time you need," she replied as she left the bedroom, always the epitome of poise and grace.

I could tell by the sour taste in my mouth that I probably had morning breath straight from hell, and I was also dying for a shower. I pulled on my little silk half robe and made my way to the bathroom. With a monumental effort I forced myself to be content to just wash my face some, and to brush my teeth. A shower would be wonderful, but I really wanted to see Kelli right now and really thank her for all that she had done for me over the last several days.

Ali and Cassandra would need to leave for that to happen, though, in order to avoid loads of embarrassment. I also got a good look at myself as I was freshening up, and the dark circles and tightness around my eyes that had been prominent for some time, were all but gone. Millicent had been right, in that once I was protected from the woman in green and could sleep, both my mind and heart had begun healing.

I left the bathroom and headed towards the front of our place, and I could make out Kelli and Ali's voices as they continued to have what sounded like a very heated discussion. I silently padded my way down the hall and leaned against the corner of the wall where I could just see into our living room and I had to suppress a slight gasp. Kelli was sitting on the edge of the couch with her long red locks pulled up into a messy up-do, and I could feel myself start to get wet at the sight of her in a pair of cut-off shorts with a cropped tank top that left her delicious looking belly bare to the world, and a pair of reading glasses pushed up on her forehead. Dear god my girlfriend was absolutely the sexiest person in the world, hands down.

"I'm telling you Ali that if you practice using your transport spell, using this configuration of circles and runes, there is not any place on this planet you could not go in one step."

"And I keep trying to explain to you Kelli, that it just isn't possible to draw enough power to make that kind of leap all at once," Ali responded with the utmost frustration in her voice.

Cassandra slid up beside me and whispered, "Those two are going to be the best of friends, if they don't end up killing each other first," and I couldn't help but giggle silently at her remark.

"Ali, it's just like the ward that we crafted the other night," Kelli argued, and I could hear that she was now using her patient yet stubborn as a mule voice. Ali didn't stand a chance.

"You tell me that you draw on your innate power to move yourself from one location to another that you have already been to, correct," and Ali nodded in affirmative to the question. "And from what you have told me, the limit on distance is decided by the amount of power a witch can summon at the moment she wishes to travel, which limits the distance you can step to somewhere between a hundred to a hundred fifty miles or so."

"That's exactly what I am trying to get across to you," she replied, exasperation still lacing her words. "The power to transport comes directly from the witch who wishes to travel and that limits the distance. No one has been able to extend that mark, even using power gained from a convergence or a ley line nexus."

"That may be so, but using the circle and rune construct here," and Kelli pointed to a couple of sheets that had some arcane drawings on them before she continued. "Using these will allow a witch to expend a minimal amount of their own strength to create a power cascade that draws from the aetheric energy just like the ward. And it draws it in levels that are orders of magnitude greater than your personal power. Trust me, I know this is right, just like the ward was right. Try it tonight and you will see."

"Fine," Ali huffed as she snatched the diagrams from the coffee table in irritation. "I will try this, but when it doesn't work you owe me a steak dinner. With desert!"

At that point I couldn't help but laugh out loud and I replied to Ali's wager, "And when it does work, and it will because I know Kelli, you owe the two of us a day at the spa. You can come too to soothe your ego if you want."

Kelli jumped up the moment that I made my presence known and ran over to me, squealing with joy. Cassandra moved out of the way with her usual grace, and I was nearly knocked over by Kelli's flying hug. I basked in the warm glow of her love for me as she crushed me to her like she would never let me go, and I put my arms around her neck and kissed her with all the tenderness and emotion that had been lost in the sea of fear that had been my last two weeks.

I groaned into her mouth as our tongues parted each other's lips to reunite in their ever seductive dance, and the press of her body to mine felt like a furnace of a thousand suns. After some moments Kelli and I came up for air, and we both turned towards our guests with sheepish grins on our faces.

"Sorry for the peep show," I giggled, another blush rising heatedly through my cheeks. "She is just too hot, and I couldn't help myself."

"Damn straight," Kelli replied, as she pulled me in for another soul scorching kiss.

Cassandra gave a small sigh and then said, "Well, as interesting as it is watching the ever seductive dance of young love, there are things that I must attend to."

She then walked over to both Kelli and I, and kissed each of us with a tenderness that expressed a very deep love and caring, and with just a flick of her tongue which hinted at an epic naughtiness. We both knew that Cassandra was interested in some form of relationship with us, and the kiss we had just received sent us both into a fit of giggles and blushing, mostly because

Ali was there, and that it had her shaking her head in mock horror.

"Alas we must part my dearest ones," Cassandra said to all of us. "But I will be available to you if I am needed. All you must do is ask. Aliara, I will see you at the rites in the morning."

And with that Cassandra turned and left, with all the regal grace of a princess, and we were left with nothing but Ali's derisive snort.

"Seriously! My mom," Ali mocked. "You two are incorrigible."

"Hey, give us a break," I replied with humorous indignation. "She likes us. And, well, your mom is kinda hot."

"Dear goddess, I so did not need to hear that," she lamented as Kelli and I laughed again at Ali's misfortune. "Anyway, I have to be heading out too. I got a lot to get done before tonight. You're both coming, right?"

"Coming to what," I asked and noticed that Kelli was already nodding that we were.

"Paul McAlister, you know Paul, right," Ali grinned and I felt another heated blush suffuse my face. "He got a jazz ensemble together not long after New Year and they are having their first gig tonight. I thought that if you were finally awake and felt like it you might like to come and support him."

"Of course we will be there," Kelli affirmed, and I voiced my assent as well as it would be great to see Paul again.

"Then I will catch you both at the Tavern tonight," Ali replied as she left, giving us a jaunty wave goodbye.

"I am so glad they didn't decide to stick around that long," I moaned as I leaned back into Kelli's arms. "I so need a shower. I probably smell like ass."

"You don't quite smell like ass yet sweetie," Kelli replied, and I turned and hit her with my very best pout. She was undeterred, however.

"It's a near thing, though."

"Well, I was going to ask you if you wanted to shower with me but now..." and I left the thought hanging in the air like a petulant child.

In response, Kelli just raised an eyebrow at me while grabbing the bottom of her loose off the shoulder t-shirt. Then she stretched, oh god did she stretch, and as her arms rose above her head the shirt she was still gripping followed them and I was left staring in lustful hunger at her perfectly shaped breasts. Her shirt fell to the floor as she let her arms arc behind her head, and she thrust her chest out in a blatant display of sensuality that was clearly meant to wind me up. It worked, like it always does, and I sauntered forward with my tail whipping back and forth in lusty agitation and latched my eager lips around one of Kelli's pink nipples.

"Are you sure I can't shower with you," she groaned in pleasure as I pulled her body tightly into my face while I continued to suckle her gently.

After another second or two I moved my lips up the swell of her breast and to her neck, giving Kelli feather like licks with my tongue as I went. I only paused when I reached her ear, and I leaned in closer to her perfect body as I gently rolled the nipple I had been devouring between my thumb and fingers.

"You can always shower with me," I whispered to her, letting the quiet words fall gently from my lips, leaving an excess of desire hanging in the air.

And with that I turned from Kelli's arms and sauntered down the hall towards the bathroom. I pulled the tie on my robe and gave a little shrug which left a small puddle of midnight blue silk in my wake, and I let my hips sway back and forth in a silent call to my lover. My tail was also lashing from side to side as well, and the flick in my ears as I turned the corner into the bathroom was a signal to Kelli that she needed to hurry up and join me before I exploded.

Ribbons of steam started to rise a few seconds after I had started the flow of hot water, and I felt Kelli slide in behind me as I was adjusting the shower to a comfortable temperature. The naked heat of her breasts pressed into my back as I straightened up from the faucet, and her strong arms wrapped around my chest to pull me closer while she planted butterfly kisses along my neck. I reached up behind my head and ran my fingers through her long fiery tresses, and mewled in pleasure at her hot breath as she nibbled ever so gently on my ear.

As much as this pleased me, my desire to get clean was enough to make me unwind her grasping hands from my breasts, even after she had started pulling on my heart shaped nipple rings. I maintained a grip on her hand, though, as I slowly stepped into the shower. I infused my movements with as much sensuality as I could muster, and I let out a lust filled moan as I let the spray of warm water cascade down my body in slick rivulets. I turned to make sure Kelli had followed me into the tub and I reveled in the delicious feeling of our water slicked bodies coming together and sliding against one another.

For long minutes we just let the heat of the shower flow over ourselves as we kissed beneath the spray. Our tongues danced and twirled in a languid waltz as our hands traced leisurely paths over every possible inch of skin we could reach without separating. God, it felt good to hold Kelli like this again. The near mind fuck I had experienced the last couple of weeks had sapped any sort of sexual energy from our relationship, and now I was going to make up for lost time. With interest damnit.

Kelli turned me around as she reached down to grab the shampoo and body wash, and the smell of strawberries filled the space as she began to work the heavenly scented lather into my hair. Her fingers massaged my scalp with practiced ease, and I began purring in contentment when she moved on to my ears. After a short while Kelli put more of the soapy liquid into her hands and proceeded to run them over every inch of me she could get to. Her slippery hands moved over my neck and shoulders, gently caressing every curve as they traveled. She paused for a moment to add some of the wash to the front of her own body and then pulled me close once more.

A gasp of pure pleasure was pulled from me as Kelli kneaded my now soapy breasts, teasingly pulling on my piercings. She moved her own slick chest against my back, using her own body to scrub mine. I felt a rush of blood and heat flood between my legs, and my labia began to tingle with anticipation. While Kelli continued to wash my body, I wrapped my tail around her leg and reached back and steadied myself by lightly gripping her thigh. I then moved my other hand between our bodies with a practiced knowledge that comes from knowing nearly every inch of a person, and found her clit with my grasping fingers.

Kelli cried out in pleasure as I used my fingers to gently tug and roll her very sensitive nub, and the rhythm of her washing only faltered for a moment. She began to roll her hips in time with my hand while moving one arm down so that she could do the same to me. I nearly yowled in an overload of pleasure as Kelli found my tiny hood, letting her fingers pinch and swirl, using well timed patience to tease my own clit into revealing itself.

For the next several minutes we barely moved, other than the slow and deliberate manipulation of each other's most sensitive sex organ. In the back of my mind I noticed that the labored effort of our ragged breathing had become synchronous, as our chests rose and fell in perfect time. Our mouths were clamped shut in utmost concentration, and the only sounds to be heard over the shower were our lustful grunts between the whistle of air moving in and out of our nostrils. I could tell this was going to be a big one for both of us, as both Kelli and I started to tremble in exertion at the same moment, and a gentle spark ignited an insistent molten heat deep in my core.

On and on we continued, our mouths opening to let forth silent screams of exploding passion, as our fingers worked to push our mutual climax beyond the orgasmic threshold. Kelli toppled over the edge into bliss first, and the sensory overload caused her to pull and pinch on my swollen clit just that much harder, and that moment of slight pain and discomfort pushed me into my own raging orgasm. A primal cry exploded from my chest as we both collapsed to the floor of the shower in a mass of shaking limbs, our strength no longer enough to keep us standing. Kelli and I could do nothing but lay there together, breathing like we had sprinted a mile, while the warm rain of the still running shower rinsed away the strawberry scented lather.

"You don't know how much I needed that sweetie," Kelli crooned in my ear. "But we really need to get up and finish so we can make it to the Tavern on time."

"I needed it too, babe. I was practically starving for your touch the last couple of weeks, but couldn't do anything about it. God it was frustrating."

"I know. Dear god I know, but we have that sorted for now. Tonight, however, I'm looking forward to meeting Paul you sexy little minx."

"Ooh, I think his head might explode when we see him together," I giggled in reply. "But it's important to me that I share everything with you so he will just have to suffer through it."

That comment made Kelli laugh for a bit, and then she gave me a playful slap on the side of my ass and told me to get up so we could finish and get ready. Truth be told, I would have much rather just stayed there with her, our naked forms sprawled together. Hot water and time are precious commodities, though, that run out before you are aware of it, so I did as she asked stood, pulling her up after me.

We certainly didn't rush to finish, but our caresses were focused on actual bathing now. We finished showering each other, letting each movement and touch express our love, and then we had to scramble to get ready for an evening out. I decided to play it simple with skinny jeans, a pair of black ankle boots with a five inch heel, and a spaghetti strap t-shirt. It was Kelli, however, that chose to go in for the kill this time with a tight black mini and demi-sleeved midriff shirt. She rounded it all off with strappy three inchers and her red hair pulled into a side pony tail. She looked so damn hot that I wanted to just say fuck it and, well, fuck the night away. Kelli wasn't having any of that, though, and as soon as we were both ready she grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door.

It was a nice evening so we decided to take the train into the city, and walk from the main station. The bonus was that we didn't have to fight the night crowd for parking, and it was so very pleasant walking through the streets, hand in hand with my girl. We talked about little things, laughed and joked, and I made sure that everyone who saw us together knew she was my girl and I was hers. Soon enough we had made our way into Speakeasy Strip, a section of the down town neighborhood that had completely and totally gentrified, much to the locals' chagrin.