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[Nordican]

Looking into Kahina's eyes I suppressed any hesitation, any fear that what I was doing would doom me... or her. I felt her hand leave mine and for a moment I thought she would stand up from the chair and give me a hard reprisal for touching her. Instead she leaned in and I could feel her breath wash over me as our eyes met. I was surprised in truth but as I looked at Khahina, this powerful and indomitable woman as she drew close to me I found there was not many choices I wanted to entertain.

Leaning in to match her movements my lips closed a little tighter with just enough gap between them before I placed them against hers. Her skin against seemed just a little rough but it was still pleasant to the taste. Letting my lips rest there I sniffed at the scent of her lips and much more. I could smell horse on her, dust from travel but most of all her and my lips moved pressing firmer still and my hand moved back over to hers almost by instinct as our lips embraced.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I did nothing and let Citus lead. The kiss was strange in the way that it was slow and felt all that more intimate because of it. His lips met mine and I closed my eyes just wishing to feel this moment for all that it was. As he pressed into me, I felt my heart spike. His hand found mine again and within seconds my palms felt sweaty. Because he had leaned in first I also leaned in but only as much as he had pressed. I was following and that was strange and new experience for me.

Inside I could feel a number of things. My heart was quickened by Citus' lips. My lugs called for more air and there was a tingling where his hand touch mine. There was also a growing warmth in the core of my stomach, like hunger pain but different and hot that traveled down my body. I could taste the clean soft of him and the smell of his wrapped around me, mixing that the scents of me and my world.

I was allowing myself this one moment of weakness, this one moment of softness before I had to return to who I was. I reached up with my free hand and gently cupped Citus' face. Feeling the roughness of a growing beard and the skin beneath. My hand moved from his cheek along his jawline, past his ear to the back of his neck. Fine hairs grew there and I carefully played my fingers thru them back and forth.

But every second that this kiss lasted the heavier the weight got in my chest until I cold stand it no longer and pulled back. I stared into his eyes, wordless in my thanks for his kiss. I once again had to be the Warlord that was required and pulled my hands and body away from Citus.

And like nothing had happened I stood up and pointed my head in the direction of Bellona's tent. "Lái ba. Nín jiāng xūyào wéi míngtiān de shòuliè wǔqì." I needed Citus to pick out hunting weapons for tomorrow's hunt and then we needed to met with Aello's hand picked guards. It was something that I wasn't looking forward to but couldn't put it off for later. Citus needed to know the people that would help and protect him when I wasn't there.

 

[Nordican]

I watched after Kahina for a moment as she pulled back. The feeling of her fingers and hand pressing against my face was almost instantly missed along with the close warmth of her breath. But we could not delay, there was business to be handled I knew but still knowing that there was part of her that matched my own interest was good enough to see me through the other challenges of the day.

I stood up slightly shifting my arms about and moved with her as she departed. Outside I saw more of the heart at work, some rode horses, some trained and some spoke. I looked for Aello but didn't immediately see her but I didn't have any problem with that.

I felt soon enough if she persisted she could very well get what she wanted. Who was I to deny any of these women. I could overpower them, well maybe not all of them but if we were in the moment what was to say I could even if I wanted to. But I chose not to think of that as my eyes traveled back and settled on the person I actually did want.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

The hunt was successful and the days passed quickly. The burn on my calf healed and to my dissatisfaction left no scar but the cut across my chest was persistent in it's annoyance. Twice it got infected and once it caught me in's fiery grip allowing Sri to bind me to the bed. It was torturous and I suspected Sri of enjoying the fever and the allowance over me it gave her. But it too was quick to pass and the next day I was well enough to be released. Still it was promising to leave a perfectly smooth scar and I was proud of it's course of healing.

In the evenings I spent my time learning from Citus the ways of his boat making. The army was cutting and hauling trees to the bay, waiting for further instruction. The nights were uneventful as I distanced myself from him. I had even gone far enough to cut another door in my tent and build another room for him. I was slow in furnishing it for him but I made it clear should he want for something that it was his without the need to even ask me.

The mornings were spent together trading new words and going over the plans for the boats. It was very enjoyable but was soured with the arrival of Citus' guards, more times then not it was Aello herself that picked him up.

During the days Aello and her handpicked guards watched over Citus and I was aware of how close they seemed to be getting. What Citus did during his day was reported to me but I hardly listened. I knew that Aello was almost always with him and that dulled my interest in his happenings. Rumors were going around that Aello had made Citus her favorite and I tried my hardest not to let it effect me but I knew it was the reason of my distance. The only thing that made it bearable was the fact that I seemed to be the only one able to speak and understand his language.

My days were filled with instructing and passing on what Citus told me, training the men in water surface scenarios and gathering and trading for the supplies needed for a sea trip. Sometime I would see Citus but I avoided him unless necessary.

Today though was a day that had been put off long enough.

"Citus?" I asked over morning tea. "Do you still have that copper bell I gave you the night I fought?" I casually asked him hiding my feelings should he have misplaced it. I had already made a new one to replace the one I have given Citus but I had been waiting to braid it back into my hair for this moment. I had yet to explain the fight to him or the importance I gave him at the end of it. The meaning of my clan token and the explanation of the braid that every warrior wore and the tokens braided in them.

 

[Nordican]

I looked up at Kahina cautiously. I didn't smile but after a few moments I nodded. I knew there was significance to the bell after everything that had happened and the ritualistic nature of her giving me the token. I hesitated only because of how Kahina had been acting around me. We spoke to one another and learned new words and actions from one another but there had been little more of anything more 'intimate' then the moment we had shared after the fight.

I didn't know what to make of it and every day Aello had persisted in gaining my fellowship. She was continually hard to resist each day as we rode or spoke or trained. But I finally slowly gave Kahina a small smile.

I reached into the back pouch of the hide pants and produced the bell. I had acquired a simple string to place it around my neck but I had held off not knowing more about it. Unfolding my fingers I produced the bell and looked over the unique markings inlaid into it. Looking up at her I was curious as to her intent this morning.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

"Oh," My heart gave a flutter. "Good. I'm glad you still have it." I sipped my tea trying to control the wave of happiness that I was feeling seeing Citus holding my token. I had spoken in his language but switched to mine to explain everything.

"That's my clan token." I started feeling like this would be more complicated then I had expected. "I am from the clan of the Heart's Eagle and our token is the bell that we tie around the eagle's leg. Each person had their own token made in different ways and of different things and we make our first one when we become a Man or a Woman." It was a rocky start but I hoped that he would understand the importance of it. "We also have our tattoos and scars that tell people who we are, where we come from and what are rank or importance in the army is but when that can't be seen the token braided on the bottom of our braid is a quick sign of who we are. It might not tell the person everything but it might be enough to keep them wise in their actions."

I pulled on the braid that was behind my ear and showed him the frayed end where I had cut off my token. "Because it is a part of who we are, because it is precious one's token is rarely given out. People bonded with tie their tokens together in their braid to show others that they are one. Sometimes warriors will share their token with another if their life was saved at risk to the other person and it will be tied in their braid with a red cord. Not many will demand a token but if you lose a battle of honor and wish your life to be spared then the victor can demand your token and will tie it high in their braid upside down with a white band showing all that they own a part of this person's life."

I wondered how he would take the meaning of my giving him my token. "And then there is tokens seen strung and braid with a blue thread. It signifies a naming placed over yours. You don't see it often because everything is earned but when you do see it, it means that the person who's token you hold places their name over yours and gives you all that they have in power, voice, standing and respect. It also places you under their protection and any who harms or offends you will be judged by the token owner." I hoped that he understood what it meant for him to have my token.

"You are the only one to have my token." I admitted looking him in the eyes. I pulled a blue thread from a pouch on my belt and slowly tied it in my hair using a binding to represent a token, to show him how to braid it in his hair. "Here." I quickly undid the thread and passed it to him. "The blue represents the sky and the water, both of which are needed to live. Now that you know what this all means you can do what you wish with my token." I nodded sitting back undoing my entire braid to make a new one where I tied my newly made bell to the bottom of it.

"I do not know how this makes you feel but it is meant to be an honor. Someone worth protecting." I told him standing up from the table. "If it displeases you melt the token down and hand it back to me in a public place where it will be witnessed." It made me nervous telling him of the way to reject my gift. I knew things were strained between us because of me and I didn't know if that's what he would do now that he knew. "I will leave to give you time to think about all that I have said and if you wish to find me I will be at the north cliffs." I reached down and finished the few sips of my tea that I had left and walked out of the tent passing Aello as she made her way to greet Citus.

 

[Nordican]

I listened intently to her words. Each lesson undid another layer of the mist that still surrounded her people. I wondered curiously if I could ever earn my own token besides the one she had given, or if that was still part left off because I was an outsider. I didn't know and part of me didn't want to know.

Then she spoke of the blue braid and it's significance. It was more than I had expected and less in some ways but I felt honored all the same. She was putting tremendous faith in me her prisoner, whats more she now seemed honor bound to protect me. I almost wished to have a token to give back to her. But then suddenly her tea was finished and she departed although she let me know where she would be going. Looking back at the blue strand and the bell I closed my hand around it thinking of home and the life I had once led. Across the sea it was lifetimes away and what were the odds I would ever see it again. Here I had a place, a still precarious one but it was a place. I had worth, to Kahina at least.

I saw Aello come in as I held the bell and braid and she gave her usual dangerous smile and I nodded to her as I stood up. "I will be with the warlord for a time." I stated simply and moved out of the tent and passed the other guards. My hair was still a bit short and it was a bit of a hassle but I managed to string the strand and bell to a bundle. The weight made the bell fall behind my ear but it would hold.

It felt strange, like a lopsided light hat but I didn't care. I joined with Kahina to follow her to the North Cliffs. As we traveled I spoke to her.

"How would I earn my own token?" I asked her. "If I were to... bond with someone I would have no token to tie with theirs." I said trying to sound uncaring and casual about the question as we traveled.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I heard the song of my bell before I saw Citus. The smile on my face filled with pleasure still there when he joined my side. I would have to teach him how to walk without sound or he would give his enemies more then he should with the ringing of the bell.

"Your own token?" I faltered in my steps. "I don't know if you could." I knew of only a few instances where a warrior bonded with a non warrior. In all cases the of from out of the Heart simply tied a plain pebble to the warrior's token. And the warrior wore a token of their bonded. The only one she personally knew of was Cimber and when he bonded with his woman she gave him a wired earring that they wore matching on the left top of their ear and she wore a pebble tired to his token in her hair. "If you were to bond with one from the Heart, without a token of your own you would wear a plain pebble."

When I told Citus of the meaning of clan tokens I didn't think he would get a mind to have one of his own. "Why would you want one?" I thought about it after asking him the question wondering if it was even possible. There were no stories or songs in the histories that spoke of something like this. "I am fairly certain that it has never happened before and I am willing to bet that it is near to impossible." I sighed. I hated being the one to tell someone that their dream is impossible. Still I squared my shoulders and explained why.

"We are a hard people and many of the nations that we have conquered or joined with have all thought so." It didn't bother me what people thought of our ways, we were hard but our way of life required it. But we were fair, honorable and loyal. To me that was more important then the things outside nations thought of us. "We have to be or we die." I shrugged knowing it to be true. "I don't know how it is in your lands but this is the way of the Heart-" I started knowing this would take longer then the walk to the North Cliff and detouring through the woods on a path that would take us to the peak and the waterfall ponds.

"Children are given their first sword and mount at the age of three. The sword wooden and the mount a sheep or a goat. It's their first lesson in being a warrior. At seven a blunted sword of metal and a pony. When they reach ten years old they should have sharpened their sword and learned from each member of the clan a skill. It's their first test and if they fail they have only two moons to retry and pass. The test is called by an Elder on their weakness and fears. Those who do not pass choose a skill or trade that benefits the Heart and they start their schooling in that. Those who do pass keep training. When they turn twelve they are tied to a post and beaten by all the warriors of their clan and left for a night. It is so they know what it feels like to be beaten and broken and how to rise above it and survive. If they can endure with honor they may pick a weapon of their own and they will train with that for a year. After that year they will pick a senior warrior and challenge him and survive for an entire day. If they are captured or submit it is the senior's decision wither or not they have fought well enough to bring the Heart pride and honor."

I paused and took a deep breath. The path was leading them into the forest and the trees around the path was thickening and the air smelled like old leaved and rich soil. "If you fail then they are sent back to repeat their year of selective weapon training to get a better feel for it or chose another weapon. If by their 15th birth year they have not passed then they will be the first support army but their main trade will be a skill within the Heart. If they are approved then they shave their hair and take their first step into warrior-hood. It is then that each soon to be warrior must prove themselves to be a Man or Woman and provide the Heart with have a squad in children." My arm reached up to touch my left arm where I knew the five circle burns were, a sign of my providence. "At your fifth birth you are eligible to serve your first campaign and wear your token without colors or binds for you are your own now."

"Many spend their first years serving under a Warlord getting the feel of what it means to be a warrior of the Heart. A rare few will join in on the winter games from the start and challenge Warlords of past campaigns for their spots and army. It takes skill and bravery to do such a thing and near to none have it within themselves to win and receive the honor and rank that comes with winning the winter games." I told Citus with a kind of proud smirk. For I was one of the few and the youngest at that the win at the winter games and to fill my line of tattoos. This was my eighth campaign as Warlord and half of those I was undefeated in the games.

"So you can see why it might be hard to want what you ask for." I didn't want to discourage Citus and patted his arm. It was the closet I had gotten to him in a while and my arm lingered. "If it were possible would you go through all that and more to have a token of your own?" I stopped walking, my arm still on his and looked him in the eye. "Is the woman you wish to bond with great enough to endure all that for? And would she return your show of love?" I couldn't see Aello going through something like that for anyone, let alone an outsider. But maybe there was more to the pair then I could see and I feared that Citus' answer would tell me so. And with that uncertainty chilling my blood that only thing I could see was MY token in Citus' hair.

 

[Nordican]

I followed her and listened intently. There were lessons in just about every sentence as I followed her path. It was definitely an intensive culture and it explained a lot about the practices that I had seen and watched over the past few weeks. I had conceded that as I was I probably was not strong enough to withstand being tied to a tree and simple wailed on by all of my family and extended family.

I paused and looked over her at her when she rested her hand on my arm as she told me the cold steady truth. It was not surprising. I knew it wouldn't just be as simple as running an obstacle course or taking one one individual. But it wasn't as if I would be completely helpless. I know if I felt I could do some.. of those things. My ears did perk up when she mentioned having half a squad as she pointed out the rings of her arm. I had not though she would have had children. Her figure betrayed little signs of it and picturing her pregnant well, it just didn't really come to mind when I had first been introduced to her. Part of me almost felt wounded she had not show him her children, but then perhaps children were different then my people's views.

I looked at her as she remained there resting her arm on his. I slowly flipped his arm over letting my fingers find hers. We were alone, away from her people, away from the rigors of duty, alone and with just one another. "I am not sure yet. She is great though I am unsure if she would return the affection I hold for her." I admitted honestly feeling that there was little point to lie or disguise the truth. Better to be open. I had already come this far and risked angering others by supporting her, there was no going back.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I was so headstrong about it being Aello that I physically recoiled from Citus' touch. "Yes. I see." I wish I could have unheard that, unseen it but there was no undoing time. Citus' face held no lie. What he felt for Aello was... well it was wonderful to feel love but I didn't know how I felt about it in the sense of him and Aello. "I wish you and Aello well. Adoption is something heard of only outside of the Heart but I can talk to the Elders and see if there is no simpler way to getting you a token of your own. Maybe if I adopt you into my clan, seeing as you are already under my name." I still was unsure of it being possible but i knew Aello would never bond with someone who was not a Warrior.

I knew this area well and wishing to silence my mind with the roar of the crashing falls I lead the way deeper into the forest and to the waterfalls, passing the mirrored pond knowing the stream was deep enough to float down.

"There do you see it?" I pointed to the peak of the waterfall. "A little down and to the left." In the rock was an arrow of metal. "The Greatest WarKing of the Heart pulled a bow so mighty that wooden arrows could not stand against it.
No matter the tree it was made from every arrow splintered when shot. The great WarKing Barza issued a challenge to any in the Heart to make him an arrow hardy enough for him to shoot. Many tied and all failed." We were closer now and you could see the age on the arrow, moss and what looked like rust covered the arrow.

"About the give up the WarKing took one more, the most unlikely of sorts. A young boy who wasn't even skilled enough to be a warrior and someone who should know nothing of woods for he was a blacksmith of the lowest class." I smiled knowing how the story ends. "The WarKing laughed when the boy handed him an arrow made of metals. Sure that this would be a failuar the WarKing shooed him off without even trying. Frill with rage and embrassment the boy picked up the nearest boy and shot it at the WarKing cutting him across the cheek and lodging solidly in the chair behind him. The entire gathering stilled and not even a breath could be heard as the WarKing whipped the blood from his face. Ready to beat the boy dead with the arrow that he made the WarKing pilled the arrow from the chair but his hand bloody slipped and was cut on the razor edges of the feathers."

"'What is this?!?!' The WarKing demanded finally pulling the arrow from the wood, feeling the lightness that the arrow held. The boy didn't reply, just held out the bow. The WarKing shook his head and retrieved his own bow. 'My air is the truest in his land, do you agree?' The WarKing asked, the boy nodded his agreement. 'The would you agree that I could hit that fruit from this distance?' He asked pointed way out into the field. Again the boy nodded his agreement. 'So it should be simple to shoot this fruit from your hands us standing so near, wouldn't you say.' The boy took the offered fruit and looked at it, not yet giving his answer. 'I will make you a deal' Tempted the WarKing. 'If I can hit the fruit from your hand with your arrow I will make you my Elder of Elements.' He offered having just recently lost his Elder of such. The boy looked at the WarKing with a smile and nodded his head. 'If I die I do not deserve such a place at your side.' It was well liked by the WarKing and regretted losing this young boy to his untested pride. Still it was heard by many and he would not lose face so he pulled back his bow and aimed."

"The arrow splint the fruit in two more cleanly then any blade could have done. 'Can you make more of these?' The WarKing asked the smiling boy. 'Many more.' He promised. From that day forth he was the WarKing's Ellder of Elements and the only soul to know the mixture of this arrows. That arrow up there was the last arrow ever made and the last arrow shot by the WarKing Barza. He was killed as he pulled his string back, fighting for his land and as his body fell to the ground dead the arrow took off and there is struck."

"The Elder of Elements swore that he would never made another arrow unless there was one who could retrieve that one. Because he would only serve one as mighty as Barza and there hasn't been a WarKing since. The legend goes to say that the one who is able to get the arrow is Barza reborn and he or she will retake his position in the Heart as WarKing." I finished the tale and walked up the the rock face and rested my hand on the cool stones looking up from where I stood, directly under the arrow.

"Many have tried to retrieve the, battles have been fought for the chance and many have died. None have even come close and now it is nothing but a tale and a nearly forgotten one at that." I frowned feeling this one part of my history dim. "One day no one will remember the young blacksmith boy who became an Elder or the mightiest of all WarKings." I sighed pulling my hand back and turning to look at Citus.

"Anyways, that was not the reason I brought you here. The waters here are cool, clean and tasty." I cupped my hand and dipped it into the pool away from the crash of the waterfall. "It is a good place to swim. I hadn't intended to swim today but the sun is out and it will warm the day so a swim might be good. What do you think, would you like to swim with me?" I hadn't meant of it that way but the moment after asking him I saw that it was a good way to keep him from Aello. "We can keep our cottons on if you wish."

 

[Nordican]

I listened intently to her story. But the feelings nagging at me from when she had pulled away did not leave my mind quickly. Why had she pulled back so quickly? Had I said or done something wrong. Then she had said 'Aello' and it was clear as a burning candle.

So I had followed her slowly, intent to fix the misunderstanding. But either her nervousness or her own will had her telling me the story of this boy blacksmith and the arrow he had crafted. Only at the end did she reveal her true purpose. Looking over the water my eyes slowly returned to hers.

I decided to be assertive, a trait I knew was well regarded by strong warriors. I stepped closer to her and I once more moved my hand to hers. The next moment however I pulled her closer to me and held her there at the edge of the water.

"It is not Aello I wish to bond with..." I said slowly as I looked at Kahina and tried to still my beating heart as I inched closer to Kahina. I had wished to taste her lips since the night after the battle but they had been denied to me. Knowing it may cost my life if she resisted or pulled back in anger I could not pull back once I closed. For a moment my lips brushed against hers and I forgot all about the camp, my arrival here, Aello, my people or anything. Then slowly I pressed my lips further against her holding my hand onto hers as I claimed her lips.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

This was a turn in events that I hadn't not, could not have seen. "But what of Aello?" Free relationships were common in the Heart as love and pleasure should be found where it is welcome but I was finding out that I was a bit possessive. I still was unsure of the reason why, I was not a girl to be love struck. Even the men whom I had birthed with didn't have this effect on me. "Heart Eagles are monogamous and females have been seen pulling other females from the sky who try to bait their mates the same with philandering mates." I warned before meeting his lips with my own.

Citus had no idea what it meant to go through a trial bond with a warrior from The Heart's Eagle clan and I wondered if they would even allow him to go through with it, with no token of his own. It was for that reason that I stopped him. "Bonding with me will be... difficult." I told him my voice soft. "You will have to endure much to claim a Warlord but worst will be from The Wise of my clan." I cupped his cheek and kissed Citus' lips softly. "Think about that before you speak of bonding again." I looked him in the eyes showing him that it was not I who placed these trials in front of him but the way of life.

"For now prove to me what you must." I challenged him with a cocky half grin. "And I will judge you worth or not." I chuckled kissing Citus with all the passion that I had held back for him. All the frustrations that I had with the thoughts of him and Aello, all the tension I held at night while we slept and all the wants that he had awoken in me.

My lips were sift but I pressed them tight to Citus'. My fingers intertwined in his, my thumb trailing along his wrist. I recalled the last kiss I had shared with him and how I had wanted more and how it had scared me. I wasn't scared anymore but it had kept me that much farther away as I thought of him as Aello's. I didn't know the relationship between them, I was more confused about it then ever but for this moment we would share in each other and it would be ours and ours alone.

 

[Nordican]

Listening to her I was surprised she felt Aello meant that much to me. Earlier I had see the potential in trying to have the two women vying for me but Kahina was the one I truly warmed for. She had seen to mine needs, looked after me taught me. She had taken me under her clan and I could feel her desire in the fleeting moments. When she stopped me I felt I had pressed to far, that my luck had failed me.

But then she slowly met her lips back with mine. I gave a soft groan feeling those lips again. I recalled the night I had first tasted them. She had smelled of blood and sweat and dust and then we had shared that moment before it was stolen away. I wanted it back. Our lips parted again and she spoke of the way of her people and what it would take to claim her. I heard them in an afterthought as she softly nudged her lips back to mine almost shyly.

Then she made the situation slightly lighter with her challenge. I suffered it all for the taste of her lips. Feeling her fingers lock with mine I pulled her body that much closer as we kissed. My tongue flicked forward slowly experimentally teasing her lips while my hand grabbed at her clothes and worked to tug apart the bindings of her top doing all that I could to remain in control of my body and my urge for her.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I could feel Citus' need and I chuckled feeling my body respond to it. It had been to long to be without but my mind had been focused on other things but since the moment I had seen Citus he had awoken in me the hunger of another and not being able to control it was a problem for me. But right now with his hands fumbling with my leathers and the heat of his lips I gave into the wild flame inside of me and forgot my place thinking of only us and the wants that I had.

I pulled back from the kiss and released Citus' hand, reaching out to take off his clothes and help with the complicated knots that kept my things in place. The mist fro mthe crashing falls rose goosebumps over my skin as I ducked out of my top, the sound of it falling to the ground was echoed with Citus' shirt. I pulled my body tight to his, my breast still bound in a cloth wrap as I pressed them against his chest kissing his neck with lips and grazed teeth.

His skin tasted of him, the salt from sweat and the smell of him filled my senses. My kiss trailed up along his jaw line and back to his lips where I lightly tugged on his bottom lip playfully. My hand traveled down his body and started on the ties that held his pants up, a wicked half cocked smile on my lips.

 

[Nordican]

Feeling her teeth and lips claim my neck I felt my cock hardening in my horse hide pants as she explored my body. The mist moved and climbed around our feet as we embraced and pulled at clothing close to the water's edge. As her fingers moved over my skin I felt the goosebumps on her arms as they ran across my flesh and it did little to calm the fire brewing within me.

When her top was removed and I could see her breasts more fully I bit my lip before her mouth fell back to me when she held me tightly tugging down on my lips. Then to my appreciation she moved her hand with a wicked smile on those hard features of her. The bonds of my pants gave away revealing my quickly awakening cock. I knew she had already glimpsed it before and feeling her hands move intimately close to it I let go a tortured breath feeling all the frustration of the stolen moment wash away as her fingers explored my hips while she pulled down my pants.

My fingers moved around her back and worked apart the bonds of the simple wrap and her breasts gave a slight shudder as their support was cut but the piece of fabric hung stubbornly to her body as she pressed hard against me and I looked at her with a deep longing as I pressed my lips in against her neck.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I took a step back from Citus and quickly undid my pants and tossed the rest of my leathers, weapons and boots far from the water's edge and stood before him naked.

My eyes trailed over his body taking in the sight of him, the half aroused state of him made me frown. Was I not enough to harden him with want? My eyes turned hard as the shadow of what I though he and Aello shared crossed my mind. No. I shook my head as I walked back to Citus with predator slow steps. I would make him hard and he would think and want only me.

I pressed my naked body against his and claimed his lips in a passionate kiss, my tongue sliding into his mouth to mate with his tongue. I kept my hands at my side but my hips swayed from side to side against him, his length brushing against me. When I was breathless and dizzy with the kiss I pulled back and kissed a trail down his neck to suck on his collarbone. My body moved down his and my lips kissed and sucked a path down him. Tiny little suck marks dotted his chest and his belly.

I stuck out my tongue and traced the circle of his belly button before latching on to the sensitive flesh below it and to the side. I used teeth this time to tease him and made a new path to his hip where I suck a hickey mark.

Citus had grown during my journey over his body but looking at it this close I knew that I could get more out of him.

I rested on my knees and looked up at him, my hands on either side of his hips. I smiled knowing what was coming and brought my face closer to his arousal. My tongue flicked out and licked the tip of him before I opened my mouth and drew him inside. I was careful of my teeth and curled my lips around the head of his length and sucked, my tongue eager to trace and lap over every inch of what I had in my mouth.

I kept my face tilted up so I could look at Citus as I swallowed more of him. He was thick and when I had half a mouthful I stopped and concentrated on bobbing my head back and forth as my tongue flattened out and rubbed the underside of him.

I wanted him to see me, watch me as I brought him pleasure. It would be my name he grunted out loud as he spilled his seed and I would make sure of it.

 

[Nordican]

I smiled watching her slip out of the rest of her clothes. Her frown threw me off for a moment before her body was slowly against mine, her warm smooth skin brushing over my own before she pressed her tongue into my mouth. The match was intense between us as both our muscles struggled for dominance. A rush coursed through my body as her hips slowly rubbed back and forth accentuating her kiss that much more though I was content to let her handle this foray for the moment as I felt my length hardening more by the moment.

I growled out in pleasure as the warlord slowly slinked down by chest and hips, kissing and sucking; marking her as her own. When I looked down and found her smiling up at me I almost wanted to drag her back up into a kiss as her fingers rubbed against his hips gently as she leaned in brushed her tongue against my hardening length. That first moment her lips opened up and slid down around my cock I felt my breath cut short as a groan left my lips as she went deeper and began to bob up and down over my length. When her tongue rested out against the bottom of my cock I rested a hand on her bare shoulder, rubbing it gently as my eyes opened and closed in growing pleasure as her breasts rubbed against my legs as she pleasured my sex.

"Kahina..." I spoke out in the midst of shortened breathing as the warmth started to increase in my loins as they throbbed more under her skilled care as she directed her energy towards my release.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

Hearing Citus' groan and his short breaths spurred me on to d more to him. I had only wanted to harden him as far as he could go but now I wanted him to release in my mouth before taking me elsewhere with his second wind.

I opened my mouth and took him deeper, feeling the tip of his length hit the back of my throat as I bobbed my head up and down. My hands roamed over his body, tickling his sac, dragging nails lightly over his chest down to his stomach and gripping his back side. Even with my mouth full there was more then could fit and my hands worked him mimicking my mouth so no part of him would feel neglected.

He was thicker the I had expected, true I had see it before but it was one thing to see it another to have it in your mouth and I wanted all of him. I took several deep breaths and relaxed, I wasn't sure how successful I would be in this but I was determined to try. I tilted my head and swallowed Citus' arousal, the head pushed into my throat and cut off my air supply. I was calm and swallow repeatedly trying to ease the gagging reflex. Tears watered in my eyes and I worked my throat muscles over Citus with my nose buried in his pubic hair.

When I could no longer hold my breath I rocked back on my heels and gasped for breath, a chain of saliva linked between his sex and my lips. It had been harder to do then I had thought due to his size but I had been able to do it. I smiled up at him and lick my lips as my hands gently griping as they worked over his slick length as I fought to catch my breath. I was determined to try that again but wanted to see Citus face and judge how he liked it before I set my mouth over him.

 

[Nordican]

My eyes rolled back in my head in delight as Kahina continued. He had not figured the warlord would be so skilled but soon enough he felt her fingers pushing and probing over his loins while she continued going down over his veiny length. When she tugged more of my cock into her throat my head rolled back again and a sigh left my lips as I felt her warm tight embrace reaching deeper.

Then suddenly I managed to glimpse my length completely disappearing inside of her lips. I felt lost for a moment and was reminded of the feelings I'd experienced being washed around in the ocean but the fear and uncertainty was replaced a growing heat and a fiercer lust for Kahina. The prize fruit at the end of the basket was feeling the soft tip of her nose rubbing just above the stem of my cock and tickling the fierce main of pubic hairs. My eyes closed as I felt a crash of warm tangling through my loins as it built up more and more.

"Mraaaayaahh." I cried out slowly and marveled at the thine thread of saliva drifted from my tip to her lips while she continued to pulled and tugged over my length eliciting another groan in combination with a bit more precum leaked out in anticipation.

"I didn't even know a woman could do that..." I barely managed as my hands rested on her shoulders, gently rubbing her flesh.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I loved the sounds I could get Citus to make and I wondered just how many more I could get from him.

"Do the women in your homeland not take a man with their mouth?" I asked confused. I didn't understand what he meant by that, did they not learn about the pleasures one body could give to another? "What else do your women not do?" I was still sexually aroused but he had sparked a curiosity in me. I wanted to know what it is that his women didn't do so I could do more of it, I wanted him to remember me with every morning stiffness.

It was possessive and selfish of me to want this but it was how I felt and if I could, I would try. There was no harm in trying was there.

"Have you mated with a woman before?" I wasn't a instructor of pleasures and didn't know if where Citus came from if they learned as she had after the blooming of her red flower. Where was this place that he came from?

Questions started to flood my mind and I dropped my hands to my side and stopped touching him. I wanted him, I could feel the warmth in my body, the slickness between my legs but I was unsure if what I was doing to him was right in his ways.

"Show me your ways." I stood up and faced him, giving him the lead.

 

[Nordican]

I smiled down at her, the curious streak that had overtaken my warlord was strange given how she always acted around me. It led me to believe there was depth to her attraction to me. A want to see me satisfied as well as her and it made me feel welcomed supremely, perhaps more than I had ever been so far.

"They do occasionally but they never push themselves generally to swalloh every inch..." I said as my eyes watched her and I grinned when she gave me the lead. I could smell her arousal, see the glint of wetness between her legs and knew how much her body was likely aching. I had felt it as her lips and tongue massaged my hardness and while I may have enjoyed showing her the trick sailors learned with their fingers I felt I could not wait longer.

Moving closer to her I pressed my hand over her breasts, rubbing gently as I moved up over her nipple, flicking my finger as I did before I pushed forward against her lips. For a moment I just held her there before I moved closer with my body, nudging her down against the wet sand near the pools and guiding her with my other hand. When my lips left hers I kissed her budding nipple and moved my guiding hand from her back to her sex. My smile widened at the feel of her dampness and then I moved down, matching my body to hers as I began to probe her opening with my hard crown.

"Sometimes amongst the young lovers there is always much teasing before the final moment. But I do not feel you are one who enjoys such acts Kahina..." I said with a grin as I gently slid my cock up and down her opening but didn't press in. She had asked to see my people's ways and I would at least hold to it for a little longer. Whatever happened next would be beyond simply my control.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

I gathered from his words that what I did to him was a rarity. I couldn't understand why someone would only 'occasionally', I wasn't completely sure of this words meaning but had a general idea as to it's meaning, bring their partner pleasure. We as a people saw sex as more then just a joining of two bodies, it was a worshiping of the gift that you were given, a praise to all that you were and the sharing of every pleasure possible. It was life and joy.

I leaned down and laid on the wet sands, letting Citus guide my body. Normally I fought for the dominate position, to be the one to ride the other but it wasn't like that with him. I wanted to know his ways and find pleasure of his body over mine. My back arched off the sand when he took my nipple in his mouth and I quickly sucked in a sharp breath of air. His mouth was hot against my cool flesh and sent shivers running down my body. I felt his hand at my center and I opened my legs wider. I wanted him to feel me and know of my want.

Citus instructed me in the ways of his young people and I listened. I didn't know what he meant by teasing. I tried to think back to my times before but it had been more like a battle in a ways. Fighting to bring the other person more pleasure before you found your own. Hard and fast with a passion the burned hotter then a smith but died quickly once fed. I wanted to know more about this teasing and what it involved but my body wanted him more then it wanted to learn.

"I've never been teased." I replied, my hips reaching to follow this movements. "But I do know that I want you." It was too easy to admit and I blushed with my truth. "I've long hungered to have you in me, to lose myself while you replace all thoughts with the feeling of you." But I did not know his way and I knew that there were people that we conquered who only mated with one person for the entire life and he still had yet to answer my question about being with another before.

I voiced my concerns between quite sighs as he passed over my opening. "I do not know what your rituals are in this matter and I do not want to bring you shame or..." I didn't know his word for what I was going to say and thought hard for a replacement word. "Anger by your people over this joining."

"MMMmmm." My body lifted off the sands and my head was thrown back as I bit my lip. As I had moved my hips down he had moved it up as it brushed over my hard nub of pleasure. If this would harm him in any way with his people I had to stop now, had to get him far away from him before I did the unthinkable and took what my body needed from him.

 

[Nordican]

Seeing the blsuh on the warlord's cheeks was too much for me. The words that followed only heightened my arousal as my cock probed at her wetness. It appeared to have the desired effect even if her reaction was different from the wanton cries that the woman I had slept with before would elicit.

My eyes watched her as her body reacted to my touch, her hips moving to capture my loins even when I pulled back and I kissed her other nipple gently eager to get more moans from my warlord.

"There have been a few besides you before Kahina but none have ever treated me as you have. None have ever wished for my touch as you..." I said softly and leaned up to kiss her lips in a passionate embrace while my hand squeezed her breast a bit harder before moving up to squeeze on the smaller surface of her nipple as my cock almost slid in an inch before I pulled back to tease her one last time.

When I slowly released my lips from hers my hand brushed over her cheek as I smiled. "Do not worry about my people or their shame. As you said I am bonded to you now. My people are no longer as close to me as I am to you." I told her and nibbled on her lips before I slowly started to push in with my hips. The crown of my cock slowly started to spread her lips wide to accommodate my length as I held myself close to her.

 

[Ohia_Lehua]

He had others before me. It was a simple statement followed with a compliment but I growled low in my throat nevertheless. I didn't know who these other women were but I had half a mind to find them and kill them. It was an absurd thought but I warmed in the violence of it. It was also very one sided of me. I had taken men before Citus, three- no four in my lifetime and I didn't expect Citus to feel the same towards them as I was about the women before me.

I would have dedicated more thought to this but Citus kissed me, his hand on my breast and his cock teasingly pushed into me. I felt my wet pussy lips part and wrap about his head and my tunnel stretch with this thickness. All thoughts left my mind but the ones that got Citus to do that again.

"Citus-" I moaned his name with frustration when he pulled out. Was this teasing? I wasn't sure if it was but I had a feeling I was liking it. My pussy was dripping wet and hot, a aching throb driving my every thought.

I didn't know how I felt about him abandoning his people so easily for mind and me. It was a hazy thought like mist touched by the morning's first light, there one moment gone the next. He was right, I didn't care about his people or their shame but I did care about him.

I cared for him in a way that I had never cared about anyone else.

The realization hit me like a thunderbolt. My body froze for one shell shocked moment. I wasn't going to let him go after this. If we continued this, if we kept going I wouldn't be able to share him. He would have to be mine and only mine. It was a frightening realization for me to feel this way about someone.

"AH!" The sunlight that was Citus blazed though my mind and left only his touch in it's place. My hips left the ground as I arched towards him wanting more as my mind tried to catch the fleeing mist of thought that I had felt so strongly about. I had to warm him, didn't I? I squeezed my eyes shut and fought to think... I was battling a loosing battle between the need in my body and my brain. I wanted, no, need to have him in me. I had to make him mine! There that was it!

"Wait, Citus-" I pushed his body back and cried when his cock pulled away from me. I was breathless and my control was slipping through my fingers like water. "I will not share you." My voice was shaky with desire but my tone was iron strong. "If we do this I will make you mine." My hips lifted off the ground searching for Citus' heat. "I can not let you do this without knowing what you will make of me." I would be possessive, territorial and passionate. I would make him own my body as I owned his. My juices would coat him and his would fill me, our scents mixing as one to be worn proudly. And Aello would be wise to keep her distance. She was a great herd master but I would kill her and any who came after Citus.

I wanted to tell him all that and more about how I felt but it was too hard to form the words and speak them with his body over mine. He would have to understand with what little I gave him. "The choice is yours." It was the hardest thing I had ever said to him. Worse then having to tell him that the odds were not with him in gaining his own token. Because if he let me now... My body shivered and cramped with the feeling of not being satisfied, of being left in this state. I wasn't sure if I could handle it but we do not force mating and it was Citus' right to be warned.

My body bowed up against his and tears came to my eyes as I thought about loosing this. I couldn't hold back any longer, Citus had to give me his answer soon or my body would take from his a mutual pleasure.

 

[Nordican]

I could feel her heat with every moment. A promise that hungered in it's own way as I rubbed and toyed with her sex while she moaned out my name. The echo sent pleasurable echos through my mind thinking about our bonding together, becoming one in her eyes and in mine.

I felt her hips move up against mine invitingly and I kneaded the well endowed flesh of her breast before kissing up her collarbone as I enjoyed the heated exchanged between our bodies as I probed her again. This time she let out a sighing moan as I enjoyed the fullness of her breast and the tightness of her vessel before suddenly she moaned again and pulled back breaking the seal around my cock as it left her opening.

I listened to her words even if I didn't understand them completely. She was the warlord, the master of her people. Why should she only have me was a curiosity for me but in that heated moment with her pussy slowly grinding against my cock in burning desire I didn't see Aello or the few other women I had shared my bed with. I only saw Kahina, the stalwart woman who had protected and guided me to this point, whose body now ached at my touch. Sure there may have been an attraction to Aello but nothing in comparison to what I felt for Kahina.

My other hand slowly slipped around the curve of her ass and pulled it towards my body till my cock opened up her lips again, stretching her in the best way possible as I sunk in deep and nibbled roughly on her lips. When I eventually stopped my eyes looked at her as I kissed her cheek.

"I've made my choice Kahina..." He told her softly and sternly as his hand on her breast pinched her nipple as his hips pulled back and then dove in again, filling her with his mighty cock once again.