Road Tripping Pt. 12.5 - Time Trip Pt. 04

Shortly after the last reading the night's meeting was ended. All were very tired, and some still had to be shown their chambers and location of things they may need in the night. Tika was brought a couple of small fish, a bowl of water and a rug for sleeping in Leandros' chamber. Zephyra told him she had an older Mew but there were no others in Cortinarius, and they would introduce them tomorrow.

It took only moments for them both to be asleep on the bed in the chamber. He had left a lamp lit to try and study the drawings and writing on the walls of the room, but exhaustion quickly won out for both Human and Mew. He woke twice in the night, the first time confused by the calm and soft bed for a moment, but happy for the lamp to find the chamber basin. The dawn bought light in from around the slightly open tapestry over the doorway to a large open courtyard.

Shortly after he awoke and dressed in some simpler clothes for the day ahead Zephyra's eldest daughter called through the tapestry from the hall to him asking if he was awake and asked if he and his uncle and Nephew would join them all at breakfast.

Leandros came out smiling and refreshed from the good rest with Tika soon saying hi to nine-year-old Althea and making another friend as he went to see if all were ready to be seen by anyone yet today. Shortly all three were led to a large dining area where several men and women were cooking eggs, fish, and some vegetables while Zephyra was nursing her toddler and her sister was sitting next to her with a boy about a year old having his breakfast. It was almost like when there had been large family gatherings in his homeland except the rooms were wood instead of stone, and it was only the women were doing the cooking.

Althea led them to some clay plates and showed them some nice silver utensils and led them to the communal trays of food that had been prepared for the extended family and their guests. Leandros, Hector, and Nikephoros had no problem with the communal food because of how they lived most of their lives but Jonas led the two Egyptians in and gave them seats next to Basilia and Her son so they could talk while two of her granddaughters brought them plates of food.

They would be given some time get used to living here, and they were honored guests.

The food was excellent, and the famished crewmen were told that extra helping were no problem as they saw Hyacinthe fourteen-year-old son put down food like Leandros did at that age. He would be out fishing today with his uncle and others after a day off yesterday. It was one of the days when they usually gave the children a break from school for two days in their six-day week.

Zephyra informed Leandros his crew had been awakened and been brought to a breakfast prepared by some of the people who lived near their guest dwellings and today they would be provided with fresh food for themselves and cooking supplies to supplement what they had from the food on their ship they had already landed.

Myrine soon joined them and sat next to Leandros as they casually talked, and they both got to know the other in a household scene instead of all the formality of yesterday.

Tika was having a type of fish new to her she liked a lot from the audible purring when Zoser came in with his tail in the air looking for his breakfast. They had not smelled the others presence in the kitchen and were surprised to see the other. They sat looking on at the other warily but with look in their eyes at the other that held hope they would get along Basilia said as she stroked Zoser's head while he ate and guarded his breakfast from the hungry strangers.

After the meal and some careful introductions between the two now fed Mews, all headed out for their tasks of the day. Leandros and his crew went down to the dock and made their preparations to beach and inspect Zenais. All of her equipment would also be stored ashore for the time being. Leandros was unsure if he could replace some items here easily. The size of their island limited their resources, especially wood and sail cloth. Trees appeared to be plentiful compared to most of the other islands in the Aegean, but only because they did not waste any.

Jonas came with them for the ride to the beach and was impressed with the ship and its structure. He asked that he and some of those who built and repaired their small fleet have a good look and Zenais. Leandros agreed easily and offered to have his best repair man look at their boats and offered what supplies he could from his stocks and said if there were things needed or wanted, he could acquire them during his missions, including some large planks that his hold could carry from the larger lands.

Once the hull had been inspected and the two-medium length, shallow, scratches from the coral heads, caused no real damage Leandros had them haul out four of the six long cedar timbers they carried as spares for the trip and offered them to Jonas and his boatbuilders to use as they needed since he would replace them in his hold at their next stop. They gratefully took them and put them in a nearby cave for storage before they went to re-build their next boat on the list.

At midday the ship's crew and Jonas and those who assisted them went back to the main complex for another meal in the one of several courtyards, full of flowers and butterflies. All again had simple meals and were soon working on gathering all of the goods they brought to show and possibly trade after the tribute of the Pharoah had been given.

All, including the Egyptians had been dressed in their casual way like on the journey to Cortinarius. After all of the preparation had been made the guests were all led by various peoples to their baths carved in the rock and set up for all the people. Like the trees, fresh water was a limited resource in this land and no one "controlled the water"

Myrine explained all of this to Leandros while she led him to the bath on the wall, he had seen her at two days earlier. She had observed him last night and all day as he worked and talked with all around him. Leandros treated all with respect and kindness she had seen. The attractions were also obvious between them. Her nipples stood out through her simple wrap, and she had seen his manhood swell as they talked closely at lunch, touching more with their hips on the bench they shared and with their hands during the meal

Basilia, Theresa, and Zephyra shared a secret smile at one point noticing them having a quiet conversation and laugh between them.

"Zephyra, Basilia said in quietly so only the two women at the table with her could hear. I think tomorrow will be a good night for them to join in mushroom ceremony and let them learn more of the other before they join in the flesh. What do you say Thea? She's your daughter."

"I like him too from the little I've talked with him, and his crew has good people among them too," as she smiled at Amaros, while he ate and talked with her other daughter's husband.

"I think She will be looking for a mushroom ceremony with someone soon." Basilia laughed, until Hector came over and with a smile and asked to join them.

Zephyra laughed saying, "Looks like it could be a large ceremony," as Theresa and Basilia both looked like they had been caught acting like schoolgirls after a swim with the boys.

Zephyra excused herself saying she had to see if the necessary items were ready harvest for tomorrow night and said, "I will prepare for several to be included, just in case." Looking at her mother and her closest friend, as Hector, knew from his fifty-eight years when to keep his mouth shut.

He figured Basilia would tell him later when she had told him she would show him the gardens in their courtyards.

Myrine and Leandros left to go and get ready for the ceremonies that would take place in the early evening followed by another large dinner for all where some of the Egyptian wine would be served to all but the young children. She led him through the building and two courtyards to a set of stairs leading to the bath on the wall. She had stopped at her chamber and brought two large cloths to dry and wrap themselves after, along with some scented oils she particularly liked.

Wine had been served with the lunch that had many hemp leaves in its greens all adding to the pleasant and relaxed walk in the gardens.

"How do you like it here Leandros?"

"This is as beautiful a garden as I have seen anywhere in my travels. As he said this a butterfly landed in Myrine's hair braids on her side as she looked down and smiled at its multi color wings and soft feel in its landing. One of your friends has come by to say hello." He added with a smile and extended a hand for the creature to land on and see if he had any nectar before it moved on to a real flower.

As they walked Myrine handed Leandros a sprig of a green plant she told him to chew, and it would clear his breath and that with cleaning tended to keep their teeth in good shape. She had noticed he did wipe and clean his, which was a large bonus in this time.

They reached the staircase leading to the bath on the wall holding the others hand as they went down the steps to the pool cut into the rock with spring water flowing from above into the basin and the over boards to a channel below and into other gardens beneath. No water was wasted in Cortinarius. Most plants did not mind a little human dirt and the oils they washed with, and the goats who roamed some of the shore and had troths for drinking from along the channels.

"The pool here and the others are all fed by freshwater springs on our lands. Most run all the time, but some will dry up during really dry times such as this one which is the smallest of them. We also have three great cisterns cut below us and we can see them at some time if you like."

"If you accompany me Myrine I would love to see them and the rest of your land if it is permitted."

"All of the people can go anywhere they wish too. On many days people from the land will come to the gardens here and there are many other places we have much growing. Almost all can be eaten or used but all of the creation from the Gods is to be nurtured and loved."

"This is truly a lovely place as he stopped to look out over the water with the sun high in the sky warming all including the deep pool. This must have taken a lot of work to carve and plan. I can see this one has been in use for some time from the mature plants all around. Are more being built?"

"Come and get into the pool with me Leandros and I will tell you more as I help wash all the salt from you. It must itch after a while." She laughed as she disrobed next to him casually and led him down the steps into the water. She noticed his manhood grow nicely looking at her naked body for the first time as took off his clothes. They stopped at a platform in the pool with the surprisingly to Leandros warm water with it at their waists.

This is such a beautiful spot Myrine. I can see why it was chosen for the pool here. Your beauty Myrine adds to it even more." Leandros shifted his gaze from the water that had called to him for years to finally another person who called to him like the one he lost a world away from here.

She returned his look on his body and into his deep blue eyes. Both she found deeply appealing and could feel the fires in her sacred spaces begin to rise as she found all of him very attractive, body, mind, and soul.

Their hands clutched the others tighter just under the water as their lips met for the first time. It was a brief kiss followed by a longer and deeper one. Myrine's long and slender tongue met with his long one as the danced from one of their mouths to the others for a moment. They broke for a moment both feeling his manhood rise quickly in the warm water.

"Forgive me Myrine for overstepping my place here as he backed off for a moment, until she reached for him and renewed their kiss and let her body fall against his.

Myrine wanted to clear up any confusion in his mind and let him know she wanted this as much as she could feel he did. After a moment she felt him pressing against her with a deep urgency she would take care of after a washing.

"Rest for a moment Leandros and let me wash your body and get to know all of you. We have time and no one will disturb us here. What are your plans after you have finished with your missions for the Pharoah? From what was said you may be a rich man after, if that is something that is important to you."

"I have not made any. It will take us a year to complete all he has asked I suspect, and it could take longer. After we have finished, I am thinking of settling down. Some of my crew are tired of a life with no home and the two couples are going to settle somewhere to raise their families. One is expecting a child in the winter and the others are trying for a child. Is there a chance I would be permitted to settle here after? I see how you and your people live and it is a good way, without the greed and needless violence that's most everywhere in the world I've seen."

"I know that I have enough to buy a place in Egypt and do nothing but eat dates and drink wine for the rest of my life if I desired that but that would be an empty existence. I do not know much of your ways and your gods, but your people are happy, and your land has been blessed by them. I would not like to live a life of doing nothing, but I would like to live in a peaceful place like this. Most of the rest of the world is not a nice place. Have you ever traveled outside of Cortinarius Myrine?"

Myrine had been sitting behind him rubbing the oil into his broad shoulders with her strong and long fingers. After a moment's hesitation she spoke softly to him. "I was not born here Leandros. My family fled from invaders in our homeland to the Northeast when I was five."

Leandros turned to look in her deep brown eyes with surprise as she lost for a moment the look of happiness she usually had.

"There were many of us in a boat about the size of yours we fled in. After many days at sea, we crashed into the reefs outside of here and were wrecked. My father put me, my mother, sisters and two other women in a small boat and got us away before the large ship broke up and all the others were drowned." We were rescued the next day by the fishermen of the land and taken in by the people here. I was five years old when it happened, and I remember all of it."

"I can see in your lovely eyes some sadness in your past. Please share it with me so we can become closer. Nothing from our pasts should cloud the future I see for us if you agree Leandros."

For a moment he told her of the woman he had been joined with when he was younger and how she and a baby died in childbirth. "It has been six years since that cold day, and I have been fleeing from my sadness for a while now. I am ready to let it go and live again Myrine."

She held him close and kissed his neck tenderly after wiping the oil from his torso. They kissed again and recovered the smiles both had worn most of the time they had been in the others presence. "Let me clean the rest of your body Leandros and then we can go and dry ourselves and have a little time alone together before we must join the others again."

She kissed him again before asking him stand before here so she could wash his lower body. She let her hands run through his lightly haired groin and took her time washing his manhood as it grew in her hands. She gently rolled his foreskin back to clean him as the warm water left him easy to clean and again she was happy to find his manhood already was clean before she laughingly turned him around saying. "Can't let you get to excited in the pool. We will take care of that after our bath. It would be rude of me to leave our honored guest in such a distressed state." Holding him gently and kissing him deeply before she spun him and went to wash his ass and legs with her oiled hands, paying special attention to his sensitive areas that she hoped he would do the same with her when they were alone.

When she had finished at his calves he turned with his Phallus almost jutting out of the water, he gently took ahold of her shoulders and kissed her deeply, thanking her for the best washing in his life and asked if he could return the favor to her and oil and clean all of her lovely body.

"I would love you to. We should know all the other and never be afraid of the others body. There is no shame in the naked body, and we celebrate all of the love between all people here no matter how they want to love one another. As long as there is no harm or jealously. The more you are with us the more you will understand I think."

"You have a lovely touch Leandros." As his oiled hands began to rub her whole upper torso. His large and slightly roughed but oiled hands working all over her athletic upper body. For the moment he avoided her breasts just working her shoulders and rubbing the oil in before working his hands along her wide for a woman rib cage and strongly muscled lower torso.

"I bet you are strong and fast Myrine, I can feel the muscle you have. I will have to be on my best behavior, or you will tear something off," he laughed and kissed her again before parting and adding some oil to his hands and working it slowly into her large and firm breasts, working all around her until his had her moaning softly as his fingers lightly pinched her and fingered her oiled nipples.

Myrine felt her knees go a little week as a pulse of pleasure ran through her body and deeper moan fell from her lips into the skin on his shoulder. Their eyes met after he returned to just stroking her oiled breast in a soft and slow swirling motion and they fell into a deep extended kiss. Myrine gathering some of the oil from his hands to return to rubbing his oiled chest and return the favor to his nipples for a moment while the continued to kiss deeply.

"I am enjoying washing you as much as when you cleaned me, and I am only a quarter of the way done with your lovely body Myrine."

He turned her slowly while she stood, and he took a nearby ladle made from a gourd and poured some of the warm water over her head and hair that was flowing in as he refilled his hands with the oil and began to rub her strong shoulders in a slow and deep motion. His hands worked their way down her back in long strokes and felt her muscles jump and flex under his grip as she let out more moans while he worked lower down her body and reaching her waist.

Leandros did not stop there for long working his hands into her strongly muscled ass cheeks, as Myrine went up on a step to get herself out of the water up to mid-thigh. He took his time just teasing her as she obviously responded to his motions and encouraged him to work his hands to her center and explore as much as he wanted to.

Leandros worked his hands all along her lower back and upper thighs letting a finger from each hand tease her all crack with each pass, letting one of his fingers run over her secret flower and bring more moans to her lips. He did not penetrate her but like she had done only tease her and let her know of his interest.

He could smell her own womanly aromas emanate from her exposed and slight spread legs. The smell combined with the scent of the oil to add to the whole experience of this getting to know the other ones body. Rubbing her calves under the water he kissed each cheek of her ass and after pouring the water over her a quick kiss on her hidden flower brough her to jump and a sharp gasp from her, while his hands now lifted her carefully in the pool, so she was again standing even with him and the water up to her breasts.

He Kissed her deeply as his hands began to rub her thighs and work her legs from the front in the warm water, again teasing her keeping his hands away from the pleasure center of her sacred spaces. His hands began to move to her spreading thighs, and she said to him softly. "Leandros, My Hymen awaits your phallus to gently rupture it very soon I hope. I love all we are doing, and I hope for more before we rejoin the others but please do not penetrate my virgin birth canal with your fingers deeply. I will make your phallus happy SOOOOON!!"