Steampunk Harlots Ch. 40

While Inky didn't know quite what happened on the ship between the girls in Emma's room, Hannah had explained what they had seen in the scrying bowl. The idea that Vile could watch her was exciting and she hoped she would get to see her with clients, but that was a different thing. Now, however, there was a slight vibe in the air, like when someone confesses something that nobody quite knows how to deal with or knows if it was good or bad. Blaze just looked confused but was doing her job, so whatever it was for her, it was minor. When a lesser noble approached them to inform them of an extended wait, Inky noticed his quick glance at Paje who also noticed his attention. She nodded slightly, and before the noble could say anything Paje intercepted him wearing her best smile. Inky grinned when Paje looked back with a smirk as he lead her away.

****

Hannah found the musty smell of books and the silence of the stacks to be comforting. The sound of footsteps from other patrons put her on edge, as if making a sound here was the highest crime. While the bookshop wasn't as impressive in size as a proper library or as stringent about the rules of silence, it still felt that way to her. She waited as the clerk thumbed through his card index to find the book she wanted. He glanced up frequently to eye her. Not that she could blame him. She knew what she was doing when she put on a shirt that tightly constricted her breasts and pushed the exposed skin higher. Combined with the short skirt from Mari and a leather jacket from Ving, Hannah was dressed to get attention. The jacket was mostly to hide the pistol on her belt at her back, but it smelled like Ving so she would have worn it anyway.

"Any luck?" Hannah asked, knowing he had found the card already and was pretending to flip through more to keep her in view.

"Ah yes, this one I think," he replied. The young man smiled as he pulled the card out and showed it to her so he could inspect her while she inspected it.

"Perfect. Lad the way," Hannah replied, seeing his distress the moment he realised he couldn't walk behind her rather than showing her where to go. She watched him hurry through the stacks, happy to have at least one part of the service happen quickly.

He looked at the card and then at the markings on the side of the stack before stopping and inspecting the shelves more closely. When he looked up and spotted his quarry, he turned to her and pointed. "It's up there."

Hannah could see he was tall enough to reach it but decided to throw him off balance by reaching for herself before he could show off. She tried not to smile as his jaw dropped when her shirt strained to contain her breasts as she retrieved the book. "Thank you," Hannah replied, pretending to inspect the cover instead of looking at the drop of saliva that dropped out of his open mouth.

"My pleasure," he stammered as he focused himself and wiped his chin. "Anything else I can help you fuck- find!"

Hannah mused for a moment that the last time she had fun in a library, the books were the ones getting her off. "Sounds like you have certain books in mind. Never thought to find smut to read. Any suggestions?"

His face was red, adorably so to Hannah, and he seized upon the question to recover himself. "Yes, I think I know what might be good."

Hannah thought it amusing that the man didn't need to check his cards to find the books this time. In the back, far away from any other customers or clerks, he showed her a set of shelves with recently read books. Little dust was found to be on them, and Hannah was relieved that they were also clean of anything else. She flipped through some, finding most to be rather dull and predictable with rather uninspired dialogue. "Any favourites?"

He reached behind the stack to fish out a book hidden there. "This."

She took the book but dropped it on purpose so she could bend over to pick it up and show off the underwear she stole from Cat. The title read 'All Moxie, No Mercy'.

"What's it about?"

"It's a strange fiction in the future where girls compete in a strange school sport but also have their own lives in the space over the Earth. They feel more real - the women I mean. They want it as badly as I do."

"You would be surprised," Hannah started. "Most women want it badly, but can't say it because that would imply they were more than just there to please men. Better for us to keep quiet and play our roles. A shame really, a woman can't just tell a man to grab her breasts, she has to wait for him to just do it."

He, despite a moment of uncertainty that died when her glance confirmed he wasn't imagining things, grabbed Hannah by the breasts and felt her flesh in his grip. When he heard her moan in pleasure, he held harder as he pushed her against the book stack. "Shush..."

Hannah thrilled at his sudden silencing of her, the foolish boy who couldn't hide his interest suddenly felt the rush of power that comes with finally getting what you want. She had seen it before, the kind of man who thinks things aren't for him but tries to steal what he can when suddenly being given a chance at it all. Of course, some steal more than just glances and if Hannah had suspected him of being that kind of man, she'd have left him a bloody pulp on the ground with a bullet in his groin. Instead, she felt his groin swell as he pushed it against hers while he kissed her, pinning to the stacks.

He grabbed the books from her hands and put them on the stack behind her before taking her hands and doing the same. While Hannah gripped the shelves, he lifted her shirt to show off her bare breasts and began to lick them as he gripped them again.

There was a fantasy in his heart and Hannah played along. Another story she was familiar with, they imagine something for so long that it gets deeper and more intricate as time goes by. Since playing for the fantasy of others was her job, and something she did normally anyways, she didn't mind it at all. For her, sex was about exposing your desires, and he obviously had his share. She watched as he covered her breasts in saliva, his tongue running over her flesh as if he had been starving and was finally able to feed.

He stopped only to pull a ruler out of his pocket. Hannah wondered why he carried one but that ended when he whipped it against her nipple. She gasped hard, trying not to make a sound but it was difficult. He frowned a bit, then got on his knees and reached up her skirt. His hands probed and groped before getting a hold of her underwear and started taking them off. After struggling to get them past her boots, he bunched them up and got ready to shove them in her mouth.

"Do it. I want what you want. Make me cry," she whispered before getting her mouth filled with her own wet underwear.

He took her statement to heart and started whipping her with the ruler hard. It wasn't the best tool for the job and he lacked technique, but it still stung with each strike. Once her breasts were flushed and tender, water dripped down her cheeks to land on them. He returned to gripping them tightly.

She screamed into her gag at the tight grip while he licked her tears off her breasts and she climaxed hard enough to shed more tears. Hannah kissed him when he came to her lips, still gagged but she did her best to press her lips to his as hard as she could. As he stripped his own pants off, she widened her stance, pitifully moaning for him to enter her.

Already hard, he lifted Hannah's spread legs so she had to grip the bookcase tighter, pulling her away from it. Not in any rush, he looked at his manhood pressing against her flesh, sliding through the folds but not entering. The teasing made Hannah move her hips in desperation as he admired her straining body.

Hannah was almost angry with how patient the man was being. Her arms were already sore from supporting her upper body and he wasn't even inside her yet. Her breasts stung and her legs were trying to rest on his shoulders but he kept shifting them off. Feeling him moving over the opening she wanted him inside, teasing her most sensitive spot just above, she wanted to beat him senseless for his cruelty. Then suddenly, she felt him slide right in with the passage slick with her fluids and she screamed again. He thrust into her hard like a rhythmic hammer as she spasmed in pleasure from her sudden release.

The clerk hadn't been sure the first time but he was the second time she climaxed. His patience had paid off. He looked at the woman gripping the stacks, her breasts bouncing with the force of his thrusts, and loved that he finally got what he wanted. A woman, a real woman, pleasured by him. The moment he saw her, he started making his fantasy for her, imagining all the things he wanted to do to her. Yet when she wasn't scared off by his slip of the lips, he started thinking something might actually happen. Now she had him within her body, suffering the desires he placed upon her. Seeing himself sliding in and out of a willing woman who took such pleasures from him, he knew he had what he always wanted. He slid out and let her down, pulling her arms off the stacks and putting her onto her knees.

Hannah was relieved to finally let go. Her arms hung limply at her sides as she tasted herself on the man pushing into her mouth, replacing the underwear gag with his manhood. She felt the sting in her breasts grow as the violent movements of her head shook them while he worked himself down her throat. With well-practised senses, she felt his seed moving through him and felt her mouth fill with it before he pulled out to put the rest on her face.

He slid his member over her skin, to make sure his seed covered it all while Hannah kneeled in front of him with her mouth open to show the seed in it on her tongue. Then he nodded and watched her swallow to show her mouth was empty. After getting himself cleaned off with her tongue, he put his pants back on.

Hannah re-dressed, including putting back on her underwear soaked with saliva, before picking up her books with her sore arms. "I needed that."

"Will I see you again?"

"My ship is leaving later today and there are no men allowed. Don't fall in love with me. My girl is out buying me something right now."

"Rub it into your face so it's not noticeable and then kiss her. I want to see it."

Hannah did as he asked, rubbing his seed into her skin like it was a cream or makeup. Then, after paying for her books, she left the shop and looked through the window to see him waiting there. A short time later Ving showed up with a box and bouquet of flowers.

She kissed Hannah deeply. "Whore," Ving whispered during a breath, able to tell instantly.

Hannah smiled as Ving made the kiss a bit sloppy to taste.

"Why didn't you come back tasting like someone else?" Hannah faked a slight disappointment

"I was being selfless and getting something for-" Ving was interrupted.

"Vile women!" a man shouted.

Hannah was about to make a snarky comment in agreement when she saw the flash of steel in his hand and her pistol appeared in hers. Two shots to his gut and he was screaming in blood on the street.

"I keep forgetting some people don't like two women together," Ving stated.

"Me, too, I think we-" Hannah noticed the seven guards all aiming their weapons at her, "Should comply with the local authorities."

****

Liddy was angry. "I don't care what the 'metaphor' was! The contract stipulated that the witch be removed from your lands. Now that she is on my ship, by definition the contract has been filled!"

The Duke, completely unaccustomed to anyone yelling with such anger in his court, let alone directed at him, was stunned.

"You intend to leave with her, do you not?" asked the noble Paje had entertained, who tried to cover for his Duke as much as accommodate the girl he had seeded as she smiled at him in court.

"Of course," Liddy answered. As much as she wanted to get snarky, she knew she had to be a bit more diplomatic. "She won't ever come back here on either her or my accord."

The noble looked at his Duke and nodded to suggest it was just as good a deal as anything. An act well above his station, but he was still riding high on the bliss of gratification.

"Agreed then," the Duke relented. "Seeing as you are in the right of the legal wording as well as doing what we wanted, I grant you a favour in my court. Anything else?"

"Some of my crew were assaulted by your clergy and commoners. Some consideration for that would be called for."

The Duke, clearly wanting the woman to leave as soon as possible, and wanting to be done with arguing with someone outside his direct authority, asked, "And what would that be?"

Liddy looked back at Hope as she tried to think only to see Hannah brought in clasped with irons, Ving accompanied them, holding some things in her arms. Neither looked upset, merely annoyed.

"I want that one freed." Liddy pointed at Hannah. "Trust me, you don't want her in your city any more than you do the witch. Whatever she did was probably justified anyways."

The Duke looked at the guard who was escorting Hannah. He withered under his Dukes gaze for a moment before shrugging and giving a nod. With a flick of his hands, the guard went about unlocking Hannah.

After getting her gun back and taking the books from Ving, the two of them joined Liddy as she left the court.

"Do I even want to know?" Liddy asked.

"Nobody died, just suffered from a serious case of stupid," Hannah replied.

"Also, city guards don't like being in a carriage with a pretty girl they can't fuck. So I asked if I could ride with them. Surprisingly they weren't too dense to get the hint and now I smell like six different men for my girl." Ving kissed Hannah.

"Poor bastard driving the damn cart just had to listen.," Hannah said with a laugh.

"How did you get six men, plus the two of you, inside that thing with room to fuck?" Inky asked as she pointed at the carriage.

"Oh, it's got railings and steps on the side so two can hang off either side while waiting their turn or once they finish."

Inky made an understanding noise as she nodded. "Sorry you had to sit that out, Hannah."

"Oh I had mine in the bookshop right before, I'm happy enough with the show." Hannah laughed. "Any of you have fun?"

"Meh," Paje spoke. "Not as much as I pretended to have. Why do men always feel like they are in a rush? Do they think if they don't fuck us and get off quickly that we will disappear on them?"

"Time crunch. If they don't know how much time they have, they tend to be quick," Ving explained. "Had to get six men in me by the time we arrived. Yours had a job to do. That being said, the answer to your question is more often yes. Like finally getting a favourite food after years, you eat it all quickly and it's gone, no savouring. Then regret."

"I think that's the best comparison I have ever heard on that!" Inky remarked. "We need to start telling men they have plenty of time with us. Slow things down so that maybe we can get off more often."

"Not sure I can handle 'more often'. I think it might kill me," Hannah commented. "But I will give it a try!"

The girls laughed. Liddy shook her head but couldn't disagree.

****

Tonna was exhausted and her arms were sore. All four of them. The many, many braids in Sarasha's hair all tightly bound were incredible to see, but one needed four hands to make them and hers now felt dead. She had worked in beads and baubles into the braids as requested making Tonna wish the hair hadn't been so long.

"I hear that was your work," Hannah commented as she walked to the bar and joining Tonna for a drink.

"Yes. Sexy as fuck but fuck my arms are killing me," Tonna replied.

"Mine as well. First holding myself up on a shelf while a man only supported my bottom half, then touching myself while clasped in irons after getting arrested."

Tonna regarded Hannah in confusion, "The first thing I do when I have a human body again is just follow you around and see how you get dragged into that sort of crap. What happened?"

"Well, it all started when I went to get you this." Hannah passed over the book she had gone in to get in the first place.

Tonna was caught off guard to be given a gift but took it. She looked at the cover and saw the snake.

"It's a book about snakes, their general biology and identifying marks and whatnot. Point is that this way you can learn a bit about it so you don't feel silly for not knowing. People will just assume you know because of your body. But also because if you don't know about this stuff, how will we know if something ever goes wrong? I've read a few medical textbooks before and it's handy stuff. Figured you deserve to know-"

Tonna cut Hannah off with a hard hug with all four arms, ignoring their pain. She was already crying when she spoke. "Thank you so much. For caring enough to think of me like that."

"Ving had her own issues hidden under the appearance of being a racing ace. I somehow managed to help her with that. It was a much less organised attempt. But the point is that no matter how strong we look, or scary, sometimes we need someone to help us. Yeah, you are a big sexy snake lady, but you are also a person who needs someone to care for them. So even if you haven't committed to another girl on the ship like some of us, we are still here to care for you."

"Thank you. I have been bathing, brushing, and dressing a dark-skinned beauty all day, as well as teaching her how to use that vibrating toy, and I really need someone to fuck me silly. Also, you smell like seed, so good luck leaving this room with your clothes on."

"This is the bar, not a room, but Ving is busy getting us airborne so why not. Lick my face clean with that tongue of yours."

Tonna slithered her tongue all over Hannah's face before wrapping it around the human tongue to pull Hannah close enough for a kiss.

"Really?!" Ving yelled from the bridge. "Yeah well... I am going to have Juno eat me out while I take off!"

Juno poked her head over the railing from the lounge upstairs and shouted, "Okay!"

"No sex during takeoff!" Liddy shouted.

"What the fuck?!" came Astra and Oda from behind the bar on the floor.

"I meant for Ving!" Liddy corrected. "You know, the one who can crash and kill us all if she's distracted!"

"Thank fuck!" Leira shouted from somewhere distant that Liddy suspected was her room.

Liddy shook her head as they started to get underway and noticed Blaze eyeing her. "Oh fine! But Juno, you have to wait till we're airborne and safe!"