Chapter 26: A Fresh Start

  (Septham 29th, Year 665 of the 4th Age)

  The past several days felt prodigious to me. The sounds and air felt fresh and crisp. I tasted the same estibles as I always did, but they somehow developed better piquany tongue. I presumed these were what someone experienced when they were in a high of being smitten and deeply infatuated with another individual, acc to what my mother expio me earlier, and I had no pints. In fact, I wahe exultant rush to be amaranthine and overwhelm a differeion within me.

  I hummed Gellir's favorite song from the dance as I pyed with my breakfast more frequently than usual. Mom must've sensed my jubint energy as she appeared cheerful, presumably reminisg about her younger days or using my fortune as a vicarious substitute for her earlier years. I couldn't bme her because I had a fresh start with Gellir, tinuing her sed ce she got te st year, and I hoped he would be suffit as a lover than my brother.

  My heart fluttered rapidly to my delight when I entered Gellir in a hallway at school. I tasted lightning on his lips as we immediately oscuted and embraced each other.

  "Hey there, geous," Gellir uttered after our seemingly eversting kisses finally ended.

  "Hi, stud," I responded, huffing.

  "Are you pnning on going?”

  I gave Gellir a fused look. "To what or where?”

  "Tonight's game.”

  My eyes enrged ephemerally. "Oh yeah." I quickly articuted my ho answer, "I pn on being there.”

  Gellir beamed at my reply. "Excellent." He took a few paces away from me before something dawned on him and brought him back. "Quick question. Would you like to hang out with me after the game, maybe eat somewhere?”

  “Sure."

  Gellir's grin grew wider, and he showed his perfectly shih. "Awesome." He actually walked away this time, giving a brief salutation to Róstran and Lárus as they showed up.

  Lárus's head followed the white Direfenri for several seds aed bae. "What just happened?" There was an iota of jealousy in his iion.

  "I believe I have my first date ever in my entire life.”

  "With Gellir?”

  I nodded. "We're going to the game tonight, aakio dinner after.”

  I beheld my twin brother stymying his rage. "grats. I'll also be there along with ásyv?r, and she wants me to take her somewhere to eat, so it appears I have my first date, too.”

  It was my turn to subdue my acerbity to give Lárus a warm felicitation. “Nice."

  "You two have fun watg Mettevéúrokkig tonight," Róstran said, ued in the game.

  "You're not going, Róstran?”

  Róstran shook his head and replied in the same listless tone as if the topic was ckadaisical to him, "I find games where dolts lose what little brain cells they have left to be ptitudinous and superfluous. Why would Faer create one of those supererogatory recreations?" The warning for tardiness disrupted the versation.

  I thought about my uping first date ever with anybody during the rest of school. The csses went by in a blur, somehow remembered what my assigs were. I didn't recall much of lunch other than Lárus ag nont about my fortune. A poster advertising an avenue of tra revenue captured my attention for several transitory seds, the lo duration for araneous fortruding on my fantasy about going out with Gellir.

  Mom squealed jubintly and embraced me, followed by hugging Lárus, and she jounced eically. "Oh, I'm so happy, so happy, so happy for you two! Yonna have so much fun watg Mettevéúrokkig at school." Her eyes lit up. "In fact, I'm ing also.”

  "What about the pups?" I asked.

  "You know what— everybody's ing." Róstran did not enjoy mom's pn, and mom ambuted to her bedroom, with him, Lárus, and me following her. "I haven't goo a Mettevéúrokkig game for almost decades; I want to relive my more youthful days." She denudes herself and stops on the boundary liween the personal chamber and bathroom, turning back at us. "I'll wash myself, and then we go.”

  "Do I have to go?" Róstran inquired with a puppyish whine.

  "You don't actually have to. That was me in the heat of the moment back there. However, you'll be alone for a while." Mom's toook a subtle shift in pitch. "And it'll be dark by the time I show up. I suspect it'll be even ter for Lárus and Kaera to return.”

  "I metamorphose my previous decision and now want to go.”

  It took a multitude of carriages to trahe servants and pups to the game. The admission fee was six Liérés per person, although the students currently enrolled at the school got the price reduced to one. I noticed we were very early, so mom got the seats closest to the arena, hoping they would give the close-up a a thrilling experience.

  The pyers were on the field doing warm-ups. I ted eighteeeam, and the vast majority wore only jockstraps despite the hiemal ditions of gelid wind and snow. A small handful stood out btantly because of their distinctive attire, split evenly between more servative gear and hey all had armbands to dispy which team they beloo as. I heard mom whistle iilting my head at her.

  "They are either intrepid or imprudent," she said bluntly.

  “Who?"

  Mom pointed me toward the pyers that dispyed their penises aicles, my sex burning from beholding them and ones only in underwear, and I did not receive further answers from her. More Fenri filled the void iadium, and apparently, the game was a huge event among the popution. It was like all of álfsandur gregated and densed into a bantam space. It was an even mix of those that wore some form of habiliments and those that elected to expose their entire pilose physiques. Surprisingly, mom was in good pany as some nursing mothers had their pups with them, breastfeeding the es to no one's objes. Another surprise was her stripping to only her panties as she got in a decumbent position on a portable cushion to feed her whelps with ctation.

  My brother found ásyv?r, so he went to be with her. I saw Gellir a few mier and splintered from my family to be with him, and he had a smile that showed he was delightfully surprised I arrived before him. As a show of independence, we sat further away from our families for some privacy, chatting about bits and pieces of ourselves. Apparently, he wasn't that far from where I lived, and he could juggle.

  It was a couple minutes before the game started, so Gellir got up to grab a snack to ward off our famished stomachs. I looked around the stadium, the plete reversal of vat seats to people, and I beheld my brother with his date oher side of the field. My cheeks flushed with apoplexy and jealousy, which I knew I shouldn't have towards Lárus. I should be happy for him since he was with somebody of i, and they appeared merry in each other's pany, ásyv?r ugh at one of my sibling's jokes. If only Lárus could reciprocate the felicity towards me and Gellir like I tried to feel for them. Lárus saw where I was, and I knew he deliberately attempted to provoke the ive emotions within me as he funted his smooch with her. Gellir disrupted the choler within me as he appeared with viands, handing me a sandwich. The price was a major ripoff for the subpar quality; even redug it wouldn't persuade me to purchase some, and I held Gellir's hands.

  Everybody had to stand up to pledge our fidelity to Faer and the Alpha Prime. Then, our team started the school's t to get everyone hyped up and intimidate the opposing side, and I noticed the nurturing mothers evacuate with their pups. The entire seating area shook violently from the feet stomping on it that it was as if Faer shook the whole nd.

  The referees pced five humongous rocks on the dividing lihe rgest being in the ter, with the four smaller versions fnking it. A stentorian whistle ehe game, and the eight pyers on both teams charged on their steeds, with the remaining members staying behind as goalies. Each side had four pyers, with the rgest baskets attached to an elongated pole, and the remainder had a more bantam replica. I eventually deduced that the capaciousness of the tainers correspoo the size of the rocks as I observed them tossing the boulders to each other or at their adversaries.

  "Why are they throwing the smaller rocks at the other pyers like they io harm them?" I inquired. That aspect of the game probably led to Róstran believing the game was asinine.

  "It's a way to gain the K?llúék without trying to intercept it or waiting for it to hit the ground. If the pyer that has it falls of his horse, the other team collects it, and he must wait a minute befetting bato the a," Gellir answered.

  I nodded but was still bewildered as to why the other pyers received a fair share of attacks despite not possessing the K?llúék. "So, why are the others fair game?”

  "Everybody on their horses must wait a minute if they fall off." Gellir instantly jumped and hollered for joy as our team scored a point, sitting back down several seds ter. "It gives the other team a better ce of sg a point. The only person safe from iional assaults is the goalie.”

  The game tinued as the opposing side picked up the K?llúék and charged down the field. I lost track of where it was because of the stant passiween teammates and believing the smaller boulders were the legit version. My best method of keeping up to date on the progress was whenever someone on the opposite team intercepted a pass, followed by cheers or jeers. The way the pyers exged it between themselves was like a different show ihe game. They would suddenly toss the primary rock behind them without looking for their teammates and somehow succeed and do other tricks. Their marksmanships were also worthy of admiration because of the goal's size and the distahey had to throw from, and the defenders had quite the dyads between their legs from catg the speedy rocks with their whole bodies, sometimes scooting back. As the game intensified, I almost fot about the growing fire in my loins.

  I discovered that the teams and their respective fans were equally as rancorous towards the referees as they were toward the other fa when the arbiters threenalty at a pyer, deg the adjudicators immensely. I heard words from nearby spectators that ranged from, "He totally moved his horse or his head on purpose," to, "That should've been a fg, you fug ninpoop." Their denigrations got more sardonid security had to forcefully remove someone from the area when he called the refs wolves in his vitriol. Brief skirmishes erupted on the field occasionally, which sted close to a minute before the judges and guards disrupted the paroxysm. We all had a currence by grimag at one of the naked pyers taking a direct hit to the inguinal region. Mom was right— the nude males on the field were imbecilic or brave, going with the former.

  My school's team was in the lead, 3-1, when halftime arrived, and everybody had half an hour to walk, go to the bathroom, rab a snack or drink. I had to relieve my bdder, so I went to where the restrooms were. My inquisitiveness got the best of me when I heard rustling and yips in the nearby bushes after I emptied my bdder.

  My curiosity led me to discover two Fenri with bck fur braced against a tree. Their positions against it told me they were engaged in coitus, although clothed. It was hard to deduce where the male peed the female from my hiding spot, but that hardly mattered. They were around my age, and I saw them at school, so they were absolutely pying with fire. Surely, they khe dahey pced themselves in. If so, why were they fornig this close to people?

  My inguinal region started to burn even more fervidly from spying on the destiercourse, and my right hand crept into my pants and underwear. The digits caressed my her lips, causio bite my mouth and hiss at the thrilling stimulus. I sat behind some verdure for cover, watg the adulterous coition while fingering myself.

  The mase Fenri had acritous thrusts on his feminine partner's rear. They looked at each other with an expression that veyed their deep devotion to one another. It was the same love I observed between my parents and the deep amity I had to— get that thought out of your head, Kaera.

  I went far into my vagina, nearly iing my entire hand in there. My crotd panties were imbued with ar. I sed my fingers with a fresh array, sug the fluid off them one digit at a time. The cupist hormones in my blood impelled my freshly hand to grope my corresponding breast and squeeze it. My head swiveled in a panic toward the sound of footsteps ing at me, beholding Gellir while still having my left hand in my pants.

  "Gellir!" I whispered sharply, trying to devise an excuse to spy on the horny tryst and masturbate.

  "I got worried when you didn't show up after a few minutes," Gellir responded, staring at the libidinous couple behind me. "I see.”

  I gradually got more relieved as Gellir plopped adjat to me and looked at the Fenri pair just as the macho lover ko his womanly terpart. He insoutly allowed his ere to breathe. I couldn't believe the duo went all the way and lost their full virginity before their Mating Ceremony, even if they made an oath to Faer to be with each other. How would they keep their loss of abstemiousness hidden from society? Why didn't they have the btant expression of, "Fuck, we definitely went too far this time?" And Gellir acted just as pcid as they were. "Did they seriously just?" I couldn't finish my sentence as dread for them, and stupefa blockaded my throat.

  "Yeah," Gellir casually answered, stroking his penis.

  "But why? Aren't they taking a huge risk of discovery?”

  "Just watch; it'll expin itself eventually." Gellir prostrated against a trunk a spread-eagle, jerking his cock debonairly. "Why not finish what you started in the meantime?”

  I resumed pleasuring myself while waiting for the joined couple to detach from one another. Having Gellir stroke his diear me made me reminisce about Lárus and re the y in álfsandur's Red Zoill, the atmosphere this time didn't feel spectacur. The asdany emotional apogee was slower than usual because I wasn't in the mood ever since Gellir caught me. Perhaps I was still fretting about someone disc the two Fenri while they were still tied to each other and ruining their lives like what happeo mom.

  Gellir wasn't as anxious as I was, utilizing both hands to masturbate. His phallus had a coating of precum, indig he was enraptured by his personal session. I kept going at a pace that gave an apocryphal impression I early wao climax. The sparks I had no longer existed, and I exhausted the remaining vaginal fluids by sug them off my fingers, giving him a bit of a performah them. White, agglutinative substaravasated from his urethra and flowed down his hands, and he groaned tently at his release. I fingered my slit several more times and pretended I had an asm with him, aarted to clear the cum off himself.

  The knotted duo eventually became free, and I saw, with mostly disgust, why Gellir wasn't worried about the two individuals. I thought the virile Fenri shoved his knot into the female's pussy, expeg to witness semen oozing from the hole any sed. Her anus preseself to me, and that was where his seed came out. First off— still gross Sed— I wondered why he chose that aperture precisely. Third— he had quite the sword for being a regur Fenri.

  "She took that up her ass?”

  Gellir nodded. “Mmm-hmm."

  "Why? It doesn't really matter he shoves his penis in her sihey viote the rule of abstiil the Mating Ceremony." Like I was worthy enough to point that out.

  "It's a loophole." I gave Gellir a fused expression. "What, you expect Fenri like us to stew in our horny desires from puberty to Mating Ceremony without any source of relief other thaions?”

  “Yes."

  "You're too i, Kaera." If only Gellir khe debaucheries and other corrupted activities I partook in prior. "Let me elucidate it to you, then. Nobody bothers to check a girl's asshole, and they would discover nothing if they did. She keeps our version of chastity. If you were assiduous at frequently measuring a male's knot, the expansioing from going into it is minimal to warrant attentioainly way less thaering a vagina. A couple copute as often as it wants before its Mating Ceremony without w about hiding the perma marks until then, provided no oches them in the first pce.”

  "So?" I drawled out.

  "Do it it i, and none will be the wiser, provided that you don't use it to viote a Hjogre's actual edict." Gellir directed my attention to the romantic dyad by pointing. "Get a look at that.”

  I wished I hadn't. The male had his maw between the girl's buttcheeks, no doubt lig the sperm from her posterior orifice. “Gross."

  "Don't knock it till you try it.”

  “Experience?"

  Gellir nodded again. "You'll find nobody in e demographic gives a shit unless you provide them a reason to divulge your secret should you allow them to know." We heard a chorus of cheers erupt nearby. "e on; we're missing the game.”

  We returo our seats when the opposing team scored a point and took the lead. The other half on each side sed pces during the halftime break, notig the different pyers. The game pyed out simirly to how it ericks, harsh strikes on their genitals that made me wince regardless of prote or not, my groin burning, and disgru at the referees' pronous. One more brutal skirmish than the previous cshes broke out among the fas on the field, leading some pyers on both sides to sit out for the remainder.

  I noticed Manasína, Ingileif, and Hjálmveig arrive at some point and sit near mom and Róstran. mom being fervent and bloodthirsty about the game made me realize she was a maturer version of Manasína, who was also naked like her. I sed the seating across the arena for my brother and found him with ásyv?r in their exact spots. ásyv?r had a super-wide smile on his visage, and it appeared she was giggling. He and ásyv?r had their hands together, and I averted my gaze as I caught them kissing each other.

  The game ended with my team barely winning, 5-4, and I reunited with the other household members. Lárus showed up with ásyv?r after I arrived with Gellir, and Gellir and I parted ways with them after we left the stadium.

  "Make sure y Kaera back before eleven tonight," mom told Gellir.

  "I will," Gellir responded.

  Mom looked at my twin sibling and ásyv?r. "Are you two going somewhere else for awhile?”

  "We," Lárus started his reply.

  "We're pnning on hanging out in áílk?n Square for a couple of hours," ásyv?r instantly interjected.

  Mom appeared tent with her oldest pups. Each had a date. "Then, I shall see you, Lárus, han eleven also." She headed to the carriages with the servants and her whelps, waving farewell backward. "Have fun, you two.”

  I arrived at a fancy restaurant in an affluent part of álfsandur after following Gellir. The milieu inside from the subfuscous lighting had a calming effee, a in a darker part of the room away from the main source of coruscation. The menu items sounded ornate, and I went with múlveig while he went with seafood ?kal. We both opted for the suggested alcohol pairing to go with our meal and a pte of s crab for an appetizer at his suggestion.

  "Seafood?" I questioned out loud.

  "I'm a huge fan," Gellir replied. "Trust me; they're delicious." We got ale and a pte of s crabs that were split open. I had tently relieve my bdder, and I returned and sat in my seat, taking a det gulp of my libation. I was familiar with the booze because that was what I had during special celebrations, so I knew instantly the fvor wasn't corred had to repce it, him shove a bite into his mouth. "So, mind telling a little bit about yourself?" He catechized after swallowing the estible.

  "Like what?”

  "Like where yinally lived. I never saw you in town until retly.”

  "I grew up near Kelna and lived in a tiny shatil early this year.”

  Gellir snorted derisively. "Couldn't bme you although it was a damn miracle you escaped.”

  I agreed, although I took some offe his attitude toward the vilge. "What about you? Any siblings?”

  "I have five older brothers, but all of left the house when I was barely born, so I guess you could say I was raised as an only pup." Gellir took a sip of his alcohol. "Anything unique about yourself?”

  I thought for a moment. "Does my past t?”

  "I prefer traits.”

  I shook my head. "Then no, not really.”

  "There must be something unique.”

  I thought for a minute longer. "I like to write.”

  "Oh. Like what?" Gellir rested on his fists.

  "Mainly just jotting down my life, but maybe I could write a book iure.”

  "Any idea what to write about?”

  "Maybe entities invading from another realm— maybe forbidden love.”

  "I would gdly read a book that featured dimensional invasion with forbidden romance. I'm intrigued already.”

  I grinned as I lifted the cup to my lips. "Thanks." I lowered the beverage tainer. "What's your urait?”

  "I make my eyes move indepe of each other.”

  “Really?"

  Gellir demonstrated his point by moving his left eye up and his right eye down. It was mystifying in a freakish way as he rolled them in various dires. He then proceeded to do funny faces, which, bined with the movements, caused me to ugh and spit some of my drink.

  Our meals arrived, and he received one huge oyster filled with starchy dumplings and seafood while I stared at a golden brown pastry shaped like a horn. Ihe baked ucopia had shredded beef in a fruity sauce. My victuals had wonderful fvor, but I wasn't satisfied. They cked a homey aspect to them, and I could certainly not pin if the portion size was greater, especially for the prices. The ivorous Hangout still remained my favorite restaurant.

  Judging by the moon's position in the partly cloudy sky, it was getting te, so Gellir escorted me to my home. We ehe small stretch of forest that divided it and álfsandur, so I could hahe rest of the journey, but he grabbed my left hand as I separated from him. He pulled me in closer for aended oscution. I felt the sparks on my lips and tongue as I tasted him, and our arms explored each other's figures. He aggrandized his force, adding to the erotisation, and I sensed him getting more audacious with his touches. An instine to end the kiss as much as I hated to do so, and it was a struggle to break free again.

  "I'll see you at school," I spoke.

  "I'll see you there, too." Gellir waved as he turned away from me. "Bye, babe.”

  I waved back at him. "Bye, hot stuff." I ambuted towards my domicile and couldn't help but shiver slightly about something in Gellir's eyes, shaking my head dismissively at the fear. "That is one weird characteristic to have," I said.