Chapter 36: The Day of the Deceased

  (Octokew 31st, Year 665 of the 4th Age)

  I had mixed feelings about this day. On the one hand, it was a somber day as the nation remembered the dead, primarily the ohat were once youthful, and the Darkened Seven aggrahe somberness. The flip side meant that Tyyraekuorja would be over tomorrow, and it would be a grand baal in celebration of Faer’s rejuvenation. Today was also the day I would spend the night at Gellir’s house and deal with his begetter. The thought of entering a dragon’s ir sunk into my physique as fast as my bed ingurgitated me.

  I finally left my cot and had breakfast, identical to the start of the sacrosanct remembrance. My brred at me as we enged on victuals. We had our little spat days earlier after he found out I would be at Gellir’s domicile. He was retit while he ate. His expression was adequate for his mouth. My eyes briefly g Róstran, and Róstran looked at us with some trepidation, so I dissimuted my inimicality by jocosely rubbing his head.

  The festivity enced by going to the rgest bethel erected in town because the mayor o speak to everyone. My family was one of the lucky oo nab spots ihe church with the pups, and only Róstraed to remain in his vestments. I stared at the pilose mass that extended well beyond the mairance. A male Fenri with bd red fur on his well-toned body emerged, being one of the exiguous few who had habiliments on. He began with a funereal decmation about the youth who died prematurely, including some ret examples.

  Then, the chosen priest took over and started a homily about annifice of this day. It was also the moment when the Fenri almost faced extin by Salf?egrí in the 2nd Age because Takúr?tyely and Faer killed each other days before. Tomorrow marked the end of Tyyraekuorja and the inauguration of Faegravl?rin, celebrating Faer’s temporary return to defeat Salf?egrí by king sybaritism to the max. He supplicated tod to ehe prote of the living and to guide the souls that sauntered ierlife toward deliverance.

  The furry throng moved as one as it vacated the chapel, divagating ireets to the cemeteries. Dad took his to the ossuary for the military veterans. We followed him across the wide area of grass, gravestones, and m families to where his group was, entering Tandri kneeling in front of a grave naked. I observed them paver after dad ensext to him, but the distance made it arduous to dis the topic, fretting Tandri would divulge my sin, so I scooted closer.

  “Not as many of us as it used to be, Brákfur,” Tandri sighed mencholically, coughing violently into his left fist a couple seds ter.

  “It gets smaller every year,” dad replied, ing his right arm around Tandri’s neck. “At least they’re with Faer now and no longer have to bear the toll we have.”

  “And he knows by how much.” Tandri stood up.

  Dad assisted Tandri. “Going to visit Sóld?gg , I presume.”

  Tandri nodded. “Albeit shorter than usual.” He gnced up to the blue sky. “I’ll see her soon.” He and dad were silent for almost a moment until he expected again. “Ahh. Have you thought about what you want on yrave for people to remember you by?”

  Dad grunted. “Faithful. Fearless. g.”

  Tandri chuckled slightly mirthfully. “More cocksure than I am.”

  Dad’s ears twitched. “You don’t have any?”

  “I only have ohat I yearn to earn: pleted. Other than that,” Tandri shook his head slowly, “nothing.”

  I gnced down as a random sprightly pup suddenly bumped against me as she ran by, looking back at dad as I heard him utter, “I ’t believe you don’t see the other two characteristics.”

  Tandri turned his ium toward dad. “I’m curious as to what those that are apparently fgrant to you.”

  “First one is easy.” Dad lifted a finger. “Yentle. I’ve seen you pissed off on rare occasions, but the ranever culminated into a paroxysm of violence, and the pups around tow timid of you.”

  “That is true, although I may have said or did something I repier.” Tandri hacked again. “And the other?”

  Dad lifted another finger. “Resolute. You stick to your beliefs no matter what, and if they did ge, it wasn’t a flip-flop. I remember when we were captured and witnessed you undergoing torture, and you told the torturers to burn in hell every time basically.”

  Tandri shuddered fugaciously. “So, you admire my exactitude. Would that ge if it ended up making me dretful as?” My arm iqued.

  “We spent many decades together, so I know that there isn’t a pernicious bone in your body and trust your as and reasons are noble.”

  Tandri rubbed his . “So in a hypothetical sario where you discover I kept somethiio you a secret for awhile, you won’t sider the a an act of bunko of our friendship?”

  Dad shook his head. “I would sider that rea sinful if I didn’t give myself a ce to hear you out on your reasoning. It would tarnish the oath I made to you as my brother and dearest friend for many years."

  Tandri grinned, blending in some lugubriousness. “I’m jod you think of me that way.” Dad pulled him closer for a hug, and I beheld their penises obtruding out of their sheaths. His penis was above average for a regur Fenri when it was erect, and he became flustered as it caressed dad’s testicles and shaft. “Sorry.”

  Dad chuckled a bit, patting Tandri on the back, and he held him tighter. “Don’t fret about it. There’s nothing you could do that would make me think less of you.”

  “You don’t mind if we stay like this for a little longer?”

  “Take as much time as you need, brother.” I watched dad and Tandri embrace each other for a few minutes, their genitalia pressed tightly together and leaking precum. I caught Tandri furtively grinding his penis against dad’s penis. They would’ve stayed there for Faer knew how long until mom made an exaggerated cough, causio shake the thought of them osg and rubbing each other perfervidly. At the same time, their cocks peed each other’s sheath. “That’s the signal for me to get going.” They surceased their coddling. “Take care, Tandri, and you’re more than wele to stop by my house more often, you realize.”

  Tandri waved dad farewell. “I might take you up on that offer,” he poi mom, “especially if she’s in the mood at making that wonderful dinner from st time.”

  “I reserve a day soon,” mom responded, waving at Tandri.

  We followed dad to another cemetery where the vast sea of fur was. I saw Róstran fragment from the group immediately after we ehe gate, although dad and the stepbrothers were uned with his behavior. I followed Róstran with Lárus on my tail.

  Róstran stopped at a grave in a penumbra from a nearby tall tree. He k in front of it, produced a bouquet of vender, and pced the flowers on the ground. I heard him start humming. It got louder and louder until he produced words.

  I’m lost in the void and scream out your name

  Oh, Death, strike a deal— I will

  And it feels, and it feels like

  Paradise’s out of reach

  And it pains, and it pains

  Now the world’s so frozen

  Ever since you departed

  Lárus and I waited for Róstran to finish the lyrics before ambuting to him. I noticed the letters spell out Svanh?ri, fttening my ears. “So, that’s what I happened,” I uttered.

  Róstran jumped a bit despite the lugubrious aura sm him. “Gah! When did you get here?”

  “A few minutes ago,” Lárus answered.

  “One of these days, someone will spy on you two without your knowledge and see if you enjoy your euppance,” Róstran grumbled.

  Lárus incurvated his body closer to the gravestone. “Who’s Svanh?ri?”

  “My sister,” Róstran replied with a frown.

  Lárus fttened his ears. “Oh. What happened?”

  “A monster killed her in front of my eyes, and I was impotent to do anything about it.” I saw Róstran start to quaver from losing his cool. “Today is the fifth anniversary since she immoted herself for me, right before we—” He retrogressed further, and we moved in to fort him, but he suddenly jolted and repelled us, c his head. “Don’t hurt me!” He insuffted his lungs in a panic.

  I lifted my hands up. “It’s just us, Róstran. No one’s here to harm you.”

  Lárus also had his hands up. “Like anyone could get past us. Right, Kaera?” I nodded affirmatively, and he sed all over the purlieus.

  Although his breathing was still rapid, Róstraed closer to his normal state. “Sorry about that,” he apologized to us.

  Lárus shrugged it off. “Don’t fret about it.”

  My ate brother and I fnked Róstran’s side after he spent a few more mi Svanh?ri’s grave, and I caught him staring intensely at his feet. Our parents weren’t where we st saw them, so we wahe vast sepulcher. I noticed Hjálmveig with her naked parents at anrave, so I took them on a ciravigation to her.

  Hjálmveig waved at us insipidly. “Howdy,” she spoke in a croaky voice.

  I recoiled slightly at her intonations. “Eesh. Somebody’s uhe weather in more ways than one.”

  Hjálmveig cracked a small smile. “Lucky for me, the full brunt just dissipated, or else I would still be in bed and not get the ce to pay respects to my older sister a friend for being the one I felt safe in fidis with.” She coughed into her left elbow. “?e?ggyt is not a bitch to trifle with. Five me for not talking much.”

  “We uand,” Róstran uttered, nodding once, and my twin sibling and I shook also. “We’ll let you valesd regain your voice.” Hjálmveig aowledged with a haure, aroduced ourselves to the maturer, fed Fenri couple with golden fur before leaving.

  We resumed our search for our parents or stepbrothers amongst the furry legion, dising them in the distance. An obstacle hindered us, and I perceived a familiar voice. Manasína was at one of the graves with Vak?rr and Ingileif, all three in the buff, and he appeared tankerous.

  “Hi, you three,” Manasína greeted us with a wave, and she ran toward us.

  Lárus reciprocated the wave. “Hello.” Manasína stopped just short of him. “What has your father pissed off?”

  Manasína shrugged insoutly. “He gets irascible this time of year. We are visiting his parents’ graves right now, and then we’ll head to the ossuary for military to pay respects fils.”

  “Sorry fing that old wound up.”

  Manasīna waved the apology dismissively. “All’s good. I was a young pup when the news arrived, so I don’t have much recolle about him. Hey! Did you see Hjálmveig at all today? She’s somewhere around here.”

  “We just saw her not too long ago,” I answered, frowning a couple seds ter. “That illness she’s rec from must pound on the already dissote day for her.”

  “Yeah, sidering she loves her older sister… well… adored actually. If you want my exhortation, I advise avoiding Hjálmveig on her birthday because that’s when her sibling itted suicide.”

  Thank you for dropping adamantine on my mood, Manasína, I thought. “Oh.”

  “Some ard about ?ggylín made the rounds in school several years ago, and it caused her to take her life, acc to what the lore I heard supposedly said.” Manasína started to eye Lárus’s junk.

  Lárus appeared unfortable, rubbing his neck. “That would be rough to have that occur on your birthday.”

  “Hey, Kaera!” I looked to my left, dising a naked Gellir waving at me.

  I returhe gesture. “Gellir!”

  Gellir jogged up to where we were, and I heard Manasína whistle stentorianly at his ere. “Hubba-hubba.”

  “It’s fortuitous that you are here.” Gellir gesticuted behind him without turning his head. My father and mother are just beyond that hill behind me, so you visit my domicile sooner.” He turo Lárus after Lárus growled transitorily. “Hey, Lárus. Ready for the sed biggest game of the season in a few days?”

  “Yeah, sure,” Lárus responded curtly and swiftly. He immediately stormed off with his arms folded, and Róstran appeared flicted, gng between him and me.

  Gellir’s amicable smile transmogrified into a morose frown. “Will he ever not be pugnacious about my adoration for you?”

  I grabbed Gellir’s right arm and nuzzled him. “His ely won’t have a,” I temerariously grabbed his penis and stroked it, “once you stuff your knot in me and fill my vagina with cream during our Mating Ceremony.” I quickly released his pecker once I realized how brazen I was by holding it. “Swear to Faer you won’t mention this to anyone.”

  Manasína had her left palm fag me. “I swear.”

  I promptly stared at Róstran, whose expression was redolent of Lárus’s demeanor. “You swear?” I asked sternly.

  Róstran flinched from my assertiveness. “I swear.”

  “Good.” I looked at Lárus as he walked further away. “Tell mom and dad that I’ll be with Gellir’s family now,” I vociferated. He waved while ambuting without turning around, and I turo Róstran. “You go with Lárus. I’ll be fine.” Róstran nodded and ran to him.

  I held Gellir’s left metacarpus as we headed up a hillock, and his nude parents were on the deation oher side. They took us to their coach. The trepidation emerged within me from beholding Rikka, increasing further wheered it and sat in front of him while abutting my inamorato, and the wheels started moving. My witched from a smell I koo well. Rikka’s mate was in her estrus.

  Rikka had his wife procumbent and began perforating her t the moment the carriage got out of the cemetery. I watched how they coputed. He just dht in, treating the act as a matter of invenience. I averted my gaze to the window adjoiniaking surreptitious g Gellir and his progenitors. Would they bey fate? Would the lust between Gellir and me evanesd Gellir would start treating me like an incessa? Did all couples suffer the same kismet? I supplicated that Gellir and I would live happily ever after in the fairytales I heard and from the books I read just so my brother couldn’t cim victory over this battle.

  The carriage shook and bounced from the trail and the strenuous sex between Gellir’s parents. Rikka swiftly climaxed, growling like he was gd to be finished with an irritant, and I beheld his testicles shrivel. I thought he would’ve left the act, but he demonstrated some love towards his spouse. He went for her vagina after his knot shrunk, lig his semen flowing out, and his gonads had quite the reservoir. The lights from a house on a hill appeared in the distance.

  My stupefa stood alongside my disquietude when I got a closer view of Gellir’s monarchical dwelling. It gave my mansion a run for its mohe servants promptly emerged in an orderly manner and weled us by opening the coach, and esc us to the foyer. They had us sit at the furnished diable, ing out with viands . The osure was a duck roasted whole, including its head and neck, and one of the assistants lit it on fire. It immediately burst into a blue fgration, leaving a burnish on the dark brown skin at the end, and I dug in after a server carved some meat for me.

  I sed the pictures of Rikka while ingurgitating on the estibles. They showed him and his family, going from the most ret to what I assumed was Gellir as a newborn pup to after he mated his wife at the Mating Ceremony and beyond. He still had the scary stoicism in every edition he was in, and it appeared his lineage had deep es to the Alpha Prime, like my stepdad’s heritage. I went back to one of the naked family reunions that had Gellir and about to scrutinize Aealst?nn and S?arún further when his spouse spoke.

  Rikka’s wife got his attention by waving her silverware. “You won’t believe what I picked up from hanging out with my girlfriends retly.”

  “What?” Rikka sundered some flesh off the duck’s leg.

  She skewered some pabulums with her fork. “There’s a horde of potential suitors vying for the coveted spot of being Ilmur’s mate.”

  Rikka wiped his lips with a napkin. “I could’ve jectured that.”

  The feminine spouse paused from eng on the food, l the fork. “Well, rumors are spreading that Kelm is one of the challengers.”

  Rikka raised his eyebrows briefly, even though he maintained a phlegmatic expression. “That is some news.” They furrowed while he tapped his index fiogether. “He would be a serious asset to the Church of the Red Wolf. The members from the fringe sect may be a bunch of jingoistic iocsts, from what I gathered from my association with my brother, but that could be what this try needs.” He chuckled as he swirled some rubid liquid in his gss. “It will be such a shame for íkam?n to pster his face all over the snow.”

  “The Alpha Prime should just y big brother immediately and spare everyone else the embarrassment of bating against him,” Gellir vaunted gleefully. “There’s no ohat match íkam?n.”

  I was taken aback by the drastic ge from Gellir, clearing my throat. “Doesn’t Ilmur have a say since her Mating Ceremony is especial?”

  Rikka shook his head, sounding amused with my i. “ory. She will have sex in front of the whole capital with whoever wins the tour.”

  “So, she doesn’t have a say in whatsoever?”

  “Nope.” Even Rikka’s smile had a minacious aura. I ate my dinner in silence, listening in on my future family’s gossip. Then, he apanied me to my assigned room, stopping me halfway aig at a closed door. “If there is one ukase I must bebor it is this— do er this room under any circumstahere are secrets in there only meant for Alphas.”

  I nodded vigorously and had horripition from Rikka’s gruff voice. “Uood.”

  My room ulent and more of a suite than my actual chamber, my mouth hanging open— sorry, dad. It had a huge walk-in closet, but my favorite was the extravagant bathroom terminous to the bedroom. I didn’t have to leave it to suy bdder or iine or to soak iub that could fortably house two people. I could live tently if it had a rder and a cookihod and if my ary skills were adequate.

  I immediately filled the bathtub when I was alone. I dipped my toes ier, slowly submerging myself until it just touched my . The tub was redolent to the spa I went to in the Red Zone. My mind dwelled on Róstran’s sister. I filled in many bnks on what she appeared, giving her what I deemed perfect proportions. Her breasts were symmetrical and less saggy than my mammile, and her fu lump. I gave her brown eyes and a smile that could enliven people. Yeah, only a monster could have the effroo purloin her life from this world, surmising she was a roseate individual.

  The images of Svanh?ri became ribald, and I gradually immersed myself in her, fondling her boobs, fshing her vagina in various positions, and having coitus with Róstran. A knock, followed by a sudden intrusion by Gellir, rescued me before I got too engrossed with Lárus and I joining them for a foursome.

  “Ahh!” Gellir sighed after submerging iub and f me to relocate my feet.

  “So, is that what you truly believe about the Mating Ceremony?” I catechized seriously. “That it’s a game to further your family’s power?”

  Gellir paused as he leaned back, reversing dire. “My apologies for ing off that way during supper. I received severe castigation and ation from my sire for the jeremiad I gave at your house, so I’m eschewing his asperity for awhile.”

  “You sounded indubitable.”

  Gellir pced his elbows oub’s edges. “Then, my histrionics is still sharp.”

  I sat up just a smidgen above the water, giving Gellir a pellucid view of my tits as I pced my arms oub. “You’re serious that you wa our Mating Ceremony out of unadulterated adution?”

  Gellir looked at the door to the bedroom as if he expected someoo enter from the hallway and barge through at any moment, turning his head bae seds ter. “Just between you and me— I pn on telling him that I’m not ied in politics, won’t be his pawn, and give an affable, seious valedictory that means fuck you to him.” He tilted his head up. “Or I be brusque and say fuck you and fuck off to him, skipping the magniloqueirely.” His head returo its inal positioher way, my father won’t matter mu our lives once we officially mate and move out no matter how acrimonious his philippic will be.” I observed him vacate the bathtub and grab a towel, wiping his front with his back fag me. “While we’re oopiating,” he turned around, and the towel worked on his back, “we do az version tonight, and you be the maghis time.”

  I raised an eyebrow. “You staid?”

  “I swear to Faer and also depose under him that this will t as two out of three for your debt.”

  I stood iub, snapping an arm in the bed’s dire. “The into position.”

  Gellir aowledged with a nod. “Aye, aye.”

  I noticed Gellir had a misy of lubricous items on my bed once I dried myself. I assayed eae, narrowing them to four: a colr with a leash, an artificial phallus that vibrates, a spiky ring, and straps. He became ered atingle when I tied him to the bed with the straps and ied the vivacious vibrator in his anus. I sehe domiir within me as I attached the colr and leash on his ned tightehe ring around his s despite not having anyone pull my tail retly. If only I had a scivious outfit that was fitting for a feminine predator.

  I had Gellir’s penis perfectly straight as I straddled my taint above the acicur tip, swiping a bottle of lubrit from the bed. A viscid, limpid glob plopped on the gns, and I sthered it all over his dick, smelling a fruity aroma. My hands twisted the shaft in addition to the jerks, giving the tumest part tight pressions. With the bridles on his appendages, he writhed as best as possible, and I savored watg him squirm and huff.

  The testicles dangled further from the studded ring attached to the sack. I grabbed it where I didn’t have to tend with the spikes and yahem. Gellir went ballistid he sounded like he ehe torment, so I tiugging them tightly while stroking his endowment, getting him closer to his asm. My mission was to be two-thirds of the way through my debt promptly. Plus, Rikka would erupt if he caught us coputing before our Mating Ceremony, regardless of whether his prominence could prevent us from the ornery sequences.

  I hovered my butt ellir’s cock, tugging harshly on the leash as I repeatedly plummeted strenuously on it. His knot rotrusive obstacle, barely getting farther into my anus with each desion. I varied my speed in hopes it was the key to loosening it. He acted like I was effervest and rough just for him when I actually wao fulfill my end of the bargain quickly, and I had to shut his muzzle. At least someoracted some enjoyment out of this, even if he acted. I derived some pleasure from being dominant, although I mainly felt insipid. I mao get Gellir to tie and climax inside my posterior orifice. However, I didn’t achieve my cresdo, perceiving a void instead.

  Gellir’s kually dislodged from my pucker, and I swerved around, presenting the pink aperture and my pussy to Gellir. I pulled him closer, sensing his tongue going to work back there. The ecstasy poured into my cauldron, steadily filling it. He frequently got an iota obstreperous and licked my anus and the sperm that leaked out, so I kept refog him via his leash to keep my t wet and stimuted.

  I got a hold of my inamorato’s cum-covered penis, sampling the fvor of his maleness. I tasted a co of fruity, salty, saccharine, and gamey while I bobbed my head, taking my time to not expuhe supply while I still yet to obtain my sexual apogee. Doubt came in as I noticed the unusually proloime tasm. Then, fear crept in, fretting that I retrogressed to my battle at taming my heat. I pulled harder on the leash and pressed my fu on his physiognomy while bathing his penis in saliva. At this point, I didn’t care which orifice got his tongue.

  Eventually, I got my asm, and it didn’t have as much puissance as before despite the sacchariferous deluge on his visage. I sensed a vacuity within the beatific abysm, siphoning the rapture away. I excogitated about the sudden arduousness in reag it. Perhaps I wasn’t in the mood and more focused oling the debt than engrossing myself in the amatory side of sex. It didn’t actually mean the spark between Gellir and me lost its effulgence, and it would persist when we fornicated and became mates for life.

  I got off Gellir’s tenance when I perceived the paroxysm in his muscles. He insuffted his lungs through his nostrils and beed me with his tied-up fingers. I got closer, receiving a surprise from the oscution. He kept the st amount of semen that came from my ass, exging it with me. Salty ahy fvors stormed ay tastebuds. The repeated ss aggrahe cum’s volume while diminishing its taste.

  I draihe jizz out of Gellir’s testicles throughout the night and barely came a couple of times. He insisted on keeping the ring on his ballsack while he slept after I untied him and removed the plug. He dozed off first, holding me close to his chest. I heard him hum the lyriy Precious Possession as my eyes shut, and I had a familiar dream.