[Veltzeh]: 39.The Heritage of Humankind.Tales from Kyerrion.25

The femehan sailors reached Trarikkola and one of the large port cities at the coast of the Great Lake-like Forest Ocean. Gertkeret was noticeably fairly sad and wished that Tegafel would come back one day and take up a profession as a fisher or sailor.

Availon and Tegafel left straight to east. The terrain was slightly more covered with undergrowth here, but the trees were mostly the same. There were more toppenrans and toppendas around, but otherwise the place was just as would be expected from a femehan nation. The weather had started getting colder, but it was still often fairly warm and occasionally hot and especially humid, which did not make Availon feel very comfortable. They did not get a new tent since the galanfetzcan tent was by far the best tent they could have in winter, and it was not bad in summer either.

Availon soon regained eir healthy state and looks. Tegafel felt easier and happier around em now—ey knew Availon was human, as flawed and crazy as anyone. Tegafel also grew more and more convinced that Availon did not know how to do anything except manipulating people and looking omnipotent and omniscient. At least Tegafel knew how to fight and now also how to sail. And ey could survive by emself, but that was not a particularly unique skill.

One night Tegafel and Availon were sleeping together in the tent, like they usually did, and Tegafel was having a particularly sex-filled dream. First ey had sex with Roinynin, then with Krezagon and finally ey made all eir friends pleasure em, long deceased or not. And when that was not enough, ey turned to Availon and forced em into having sexual intercourse. Availon's goegen tore open and ey bled and cried.

Availon sat up in the tent, all sweaty and nearly screaming. Tegafel was startled as well, but ey was still feeling sexual pleasure and eir goninjin was swelled, standing up under eir trousers. Availon did not see it but ey knew it. Ey whimpered.

"Availon? Are you... um... I'm sorry, are you alright?"

The galanfetzcan's voice faltered again. "Y-yes."

"It was just a dream. I don't know —"

"I know. Don't mind it."

Feeling a bit bad, Tegafel gave up and settled again. Ey fell asleep soon. Availon was not calmed so easily, but was eventually able to fall asleep. Ey did not sense Tegafel dreaming, at least yet.

In the morning, Tegafel was excited again and Availon felt violated. Neither of them could remember anything, however. Availon was uneasy. They did not talk much during the day, and when night came again, they both wondered whether they would fall asleep.

They slept and dreamed and this time the dream did not even start out with Tegafel's friends, it started with Tegafel chasing Availon. Tegafel was a faster and more durable runner, ey just played with the galanfetzcan, only barely letting em get away before almost catching em again. A few times ey poked eir goninjin into Availon and then released em again. Availon was quickly losing eir will to get away. The dream went on for a long time before Availon gave in. Tegafel pressed em against a rock face down, held em by the hands and hair and raped em from behind. When ey reached climax, they both woke up.

Availon jerked upwards into a sitting position, screaming, and then curled up into a ball and bawled. Tegafel felt pleasure before starting to feel bad, inconvenienced and uneasy about what just had happened. In addition to that, ey had to clean up the mess in eir pants.

Tegafel reached out to touch Availon's back. "Availon? I —"

Availon startled, shivered and shouted no before Tegafel's fingers even made contact. Ey swayed a little, crying and hugging eir legs to emself. Tegafel stared at the bare back for a moment before deciding to go outside. The air was cold and the wetness of eir trousers did not make things better at all. Ey grimaced when the cold, moist fabric came into contact with eir sensitive parts and then spent some time trying to rub the cloth dry. Ey was cold but did not come up with enough boldness to go back into the tent with Availon.

When Tegafel was just about cold enough to finally go back into the tent, Availon came out instead and immediately walked straight away from Tegafel. Tegafel waited a bit more but went back into the tent eventually, warmed up emself and fell asleep.

In the morning, Tegafel was not sexually excited at all. Ey came out of the tent and saw Availon some distance away, under a tree, half-crying. Availon looked miserable; after all, ey had spent the rest of eir night crying there. Figuring that Availon probably still wanted to be alone, Tegafel took down the tent and packed it, performed a few more morning rituals and started making breakfast. Availon did not move. Finally, when the food was done, Tegafel said:

"Would you like some breakfast?" Ey stood there, waiting for Availon to move or say that ey did not want it. However, Availon did nothing and eventually Tegafel merely put down Availon's portion and started eating. After a while, Availon got up hesitantly, walked unstably toward eir portion and started eating it.

Availon finished eating. Ey glanced fleetingly at the femehan and said: "Please don't talk to me. I couldn't bear it." It was fairly clear that ey was not angry or malicious toward Tegafel, but that ey just could not handle it emotionally. Tegafel thought ey understood it. They continued walking. Availon was tired and they held fairly long breaks.

"Why can't you just stop it?" asked Tegafel at some point during the day. "You're a far-walker, you should be able to."

"I-I can't. It worries me... but... there's nothing wrong."

"You have to know I would never do anything like that."

"Yes... I know."

"Where can those dreams come from?"

"Don't... don't."

Availon slept the next night alone outside. Tegafel remembered no dreams, but Availon still felt tired and violated in the morning. Ey almost remembered eir dream, but not quite. Ey did not explain anything of it to Tegafel.



The next night, they slept together again and dreamed that after Availon had given up running away from Tegafel, the femehan thought it was too easy a victory and proceeded to cut off or mutilate Availon's limbs, sensitive places and sensory organs. Then Tegafel raped em again.

They both jolted up this time. Tegafel was disgusted, disturbed and yet sexually excited. Availon shrieked in horrified panic and almost thrashed the tent but ended up curling up into a ball and bawling again. Availon did not sleep that night.

As they advanced slowly the next day, Tegafel thought about how ey had wanted to make up all the injustice that Krezagon had been subjected to. Ey was quite certain that it was not eir fault if Availon got abused, mutilated and raped in eir dreams, but ey was also certain that ey did not want it happening. Ey tried to think of any ways to make it stop and did not really come up with any. The group of two did not make it far that day. Availon could not sleep. Ey sat awake in the tent and watched Tegafel. Tegafel had no dreams about sex.

They did not even start walking the next day. Availon was not in a condition to travel, for far-walkers were rather dependent on sleep. Ey tried to sleep during the day but could not.

The next night they settled in the tent again. Availon managed to finally fall asleep along Tegafel.

They woke up in the night once again. Tegafel had had no dreams and Availon merely twitched and started crying.

"Availon? ..." Tegafel tried to touch Availon, and again the galanfetzcan flinched and whimpered, not wanting Tegafel to touch emself. Tegafel was frustrated. Ey touched Availon's shoulder nevertheless, however lightly. Availon seemed to become even more upset. "Availon, I don't know what this stuff is, but it's obviously not my fault. I didn't even have a dream now." Ey grabbed Availon's shoulder and turned em toward emself. Availon put up a little resistance but felt too helpless to really prevent Tegafel from doing it. "I'd honestly never do those kind of things to you, or to anyone. I'd protect you." Tegafel pressed Availon against eir chest and the galanfetzcan did not resist. Ey grabbed Tegafel's shirt with eir hands, buried eir face in Tegafel's chest and sobbed. "You're safe with me..." Tegafel was reminded of the few days after Availon had helped em escape the prison—Availon had been so comforting, so stable and reliable. Tegafel was not a far-walker, but by now ey knew ey was not completely helpless either. Ey continued holding the little body, and eventually Availon calmed down. Tegafel grew bored and fell asleep.

In the morning, Tegafel woke up because Availon had startled and started moving. However, Availon did not start crying or even sit up. Ey turned to look at Tegafel.

"Are you okay? Did you have another nightmare?"

"In a way... I... I was having a nightmare, but this time you came in it later and saved me."

Tegafel was a bit flattered. "I didn't have a dream." Availon smiled weakly and pressed emself closer to Tegafel.

They traveled a small distance that day and talked about the reasons for Availon's nightmares.

"Have you ever had dreams like that before?" asked Tegafel.

"No. Of course I've had the few occasional nightmares and some about my youth, understandably, but not anything like this."

"Is there anything that's different now that wasn't back then?" Availon looked fairly contemplative, but said nothing. "Maybe all that killing is getting to you or something."

"Ehh. I... I doubt it."

"Why? Is violence and murdering really a thing you get used to doing? Can you do that without feeling anything?"

"Most often I could, I think."

"Maybe your subconscious is punishing you or something."

Availon felt slightly amused, but did not want to smile. The issue was not funny at all. "I doubt that too. But I don't know what it is."

"Will you be alright from now on?"

"I sincerely hope so."

Night came and they settled to sleep again, this time nearly cuddling. Availon did indeed feel safer that way, and Tegafel was happy that eir comforting worked. Neither of them remembered any dreams.



The next night started out similarly, but this time they dreamed again. The very beginning of the dream was similar to Availon's nightmares; this time two jinhaliares chased em and caught em, but Tegafel came in between and killed the jinhaliares, saving Availon. Then they figured that the best thing to do at that time was to have sex, so they had sex—no raping, forcing or even anything unpleasant; everything they did felt awesome. Just as they were about to have an orgasm, they woke up with a gasp.

Tegafel's thigh was over Availon's legs and eir goninjin was pressing against eir hip. Tegafel was embarrassed and moved a bit so as to not touch Availon. Availon was excited as well, but Tegafel did not notice.

Availon turned back at Tegafel and hugged em. Tegafel was not very receptive. Availon turned eir head a bit upward so they could see each other's faces. Tegafel looked slightly confused. Availon snuggled closer to Tegafel and only stopped after ey felt Tegafel's swelled goninjin against eir thigh. Tegafel was about to move away again, but Availon grabbed eir head and kissed em.

Tegafel had some controversial feelings about the kissing: on the other hand it felt nice and they were fairly close friends, but then again, Availon was of a different race and considerably smaller as well. Ey kissed back for a short moment, but pulled away.

Availon was quiet for a moment, looking away, but then ey looked into Tegafel's eyes and said: "Please."

Tegafel did not reply at first. "You... Do you want to have sex?"

"Yes, I do."

"With me?"

"Yes."

"But we're different race... and size!"

"Race doesn't matter, Tegafel. Neither does size, unless your goninjin is too big to be enjoyable for me. But it's not obligatory to perform intercourse while having sex."

"What? Do you think we're... compatible like that?"

"I know we are."

"You know —"

"I know how femehan reproductive organs are supposed to be like. I haven't secretly spied you or anything though," said Availon, a bit amusedly. Tegafel made half a grin. "But if you don't want to, for any reason, let's not do it. It's not... we should only do it if we both want to."

"Yeah. Uh." Tegafel started thinking again.

Availon felt a bit agitated. "So, do you want it or not?"

"Aren't you hasty now," giggled Tegafel and pressed Availon's lower back with eir hands. They kissed then and continued fondling and stroking each other. Tegafel's thoughts mostly trailed to the mythical qualities of galanfetzcans—here ey was, having sex with an intelligent, wise, beautiful, graceful and compassionate creature capable or supernatural deeds. Of course ey had not witnessed Availon doing anything supernatural, but ey did not exactly question it right now.

Tegafel sucked on Availon's nipple, making em shiver, when ey felt the galanfetzcan's crotch pressing against eir side in a new way, and ey realized that ey had never seen how a galanfetzcan's reproductive organs looked. Ey released Availon's nipple and gave it a hard rub with eir finger, which made Availon twitch.

"Can I see your crotch?" asked Tegafel.

Availon wiggled and answered: "Of course." Ey sat on Tegafel's chest and displayed what ey had between eir legs. Tegafel had of course seen some of it when they had taken a few baths together, but now it looked quite different. The whole genital area was swollen and fairly deeply colored. Availon, like all the galanfetzcans, did not have pubic hair, but ey did have some light fuzz all over eir body and also in eir crotch. Tegafel could see Availon's goegen fairly clearly, and the goinens around it were even more noticeable. The two goinens directly above and below the goegen were bigger and longer than the others. They wiggled a bit as Availon sat there, and when Tegafel poked them with eir finger, they twitched and tried to wrap themselves around eir finger. Tegafel snickered a little and Availon pressed emself closer to Tegafel's hand. "Can you put your finger in?"

"My... uh? Oh, sure..." Tegafel moved eir finger closer and poked the mucous membranes for a moment while Availon's goinens tried to poke eir hand. Availon twitched a bit, but tried to keep still. Tegafel eventually pressed eir finger into Availon's goegen—it was mucous and hot.

"Ohhh... ohh." Tegafel pressed one of the goinens with eir thumb and Availon twitched, gasping slightly.

"My goninjin is wider than my finger. Are you sure it'll fit?"

"I've given birth. I'd be surprised if it didn't fit." Tegafel removed eir finger and for the first time, managed to notice the stretch marks on Availon's belly. Ey had certainly been pregnant. Then Availon kissed Tegafel again before sucking on eir nipple.

Eventually they decided they should perform intercourse as well. Since Availon was much smaller than Tegafel, Tegafel lay down on the blanket and spread eir legs as Availon settled on top of em. Availon spent a few moments getting their genitals properly settled, but when ey finally pressed emself against Tegafel, their organs interlocked, at least mostly. Tegafel wriggled as ey felt Availon's goinens wiggling and brushing inside eir gogenjin.

They moved about, kissed and stroked each other until they reached climax. Tegafel was completely lost in the feeling of extreme pleasure, and after it could only gawk at how it had felt—after all, ey had not had sex with a far-walker before. Ey was totally spent, but Availon still clung to em and would not pull away from Tegafel. When Tegafel figured that the last spasms of eir orgasm were over, Availon had eir second orgasm and pulled Tegafel along. Tegafel grimaced in pain and pleasure, pressing Availon's ribcage against eirs.

They lay there for a long moment, breathing and resting. Tegafel started soon being full of questions, however. Availon ran eir fingers across Tegafel's face and started replying: "Sorry, I forgot you hadn't had sex with a far-walker. I should have explained it before. I... when we have sex, our minds connect. For far-walkers, sex isn't intimate just physically, it's intimate mentally too. Mostly it means that we'll be sharing the whole experience. It just happens, I can't prevent it. I hope you weren't too weirded out?"

"No, I... I just wondered why it felt like that." Tegafel did think that it had been a bit creepy, but the extra pleasure had been worth it.

"And yes... I also forgot that you only have one orgasm. We have two, the first one prepares the release of the sex fluids and the second releases them."

"The second one was kind of painful..."

"Yes, I'm sorry." Availon petted Tegafel's hair.

"Which one feels better for you?"

"Well, doing it with you, the first one. But if it's with another galanfetzcan, I'm not really sure. I guess they both feel just as good, but sometimes one of them is better and I don't know why, though." Tegafel pulled a blanket over their bodies and they cuddled there for a few moments until they fell asleep again.



Availon and Tegafel had sex somewhat regularly after that. Availon had a few more nightmares, but they faded eventually and stopped coming. It was the brink of autumn and the leaves of the trees started getting yellowish as the days grew shorter and air colder. They made it to the Great River and paid for a ride on a riverboat. Availon felt slightly seasick again, but the river was somewhat better for em—the traveling was either smooth or rough and the visual always agreed with the feeling.

One day Tegafel was sitting on a bench and watching the river banks go by. Ey was again thinking about what ey was getting into and looked contemplative. Then ey thought about sex and progressed to miss first Roinynin and then Krezagon. Roinynin was dead, Krezagon probably not. Tegafel wanted to be with Krezagon. Ey heard someone speak from eir right:

"Hi."

Tegafel turned to look at the speaker and saw a plump middle-aged or older gecod smiling at em. "Uh, hi."

"Are you feeling alright? You look rather depressed."

"I... uh. I'm... missing a friend of mine."

"Oh? Did you just leave em behind when you got on the boat, or?"

"No. Well, kind of, but a longer time ago. Over a month ago..."

"Aw, poor youth. Will you be seeing em soon?"

"...Maybe..." Tegafel had to think a little. Ey did not want to think that maybe ey would never find Krezagon since the army did not keep soldiers in the same place all the time. "...Maybe next year."

"Well, better than after ten years, or never! Are you traveling alone?"

"No, I have a friend along... Ey's at the bow, likes it better there."

"Well, that's good. It's usually not nice to travel all alone. You're a comely young wacod, you know that? Graceful, strong and pretty. But the scars —" Tegafel turned eir face away. Ey really was not too sure which had been worse: eir complimenting eir appearance or mentioning the scars. "Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that. Sorry." The gecod put eir left hand very lightly on Tegafel's right shoulder. It did not feel repulsive.

"Umh."

"...How old are you?"

"Fourteen."

"Oh, fresh adult! You look a bit older, really. Not that that was a bad thing, it isn't. Ah, I remember when I was fourteen, those were the times, ah yes... Well, say, you don't look like your spirit's feeling any better yet. Would you like a backrub?"

"I... uh. I'm not a whore."

"Ah, I'm not calling you one. Of course I wouldn't have minded a bit of action, but it's your call now, isn't it? You don't have to lie with every person you meet." The gecod spoke lightly and smiled, though Tegafel had a little trouble not starting to scream at em, even though ey was essentially of the same opinion as Tegafel. "I'll rub your back if you want to. I hate to see such a young fine kid looking so depressed, you ought to look a bit happier afterward!"

Tegafel sat quietly for a short moment, but said: "Okay..."

"Alrighty then!" The gecod got up and petted Tegafel's hair shortly before starting to rub eir back. "My name is Firennil, by the way. You?"

"I'm Tegafel."

"Well, nice to meet you, dear Tegafel." Ey kissed the top of Tegafel's head. "Now just relax and enjoy." Ey kept blabbering something about the weather, food and some other similar little issues, and Tegafel just went "mm-hm" all through it. By the time Firennil finished, Tegafel was so relaxed that eir bones seemed rubbery. Ey was also smiling a little. Firennil sat next to em. "There you go, got an adorable smile out of you!"

Tegafel hummed euphorically: "Mmm."

Firennil petted eir hair a bit while smiling at em, after which ey patted Tegafel's belly. Tegafel was so numbly relaxed that ey did not react to it. "Have you had children? You don't look like you have."

"Mmm... no."

"When are you planning to get some? Next year, with your friend maybe?"

Tegafel let out a laugh and pondered a little whether ey should upset the poor gecod in a terrifying manner. "Mmh... I don't feel responsible enough to take care of children yet."

"Wouldn't your coddins or parents help?"

"Uh." Tegafel looked down at eir thighs. "This is getting a bit too personal. But thanks for the rubbing, it felt really good."

Firennil was a little disappointed, but Tegafel naturally saw none of it. "Oh. Well, you're welcome." Ey sat quietly next to Tegafel for some time, but eventually left.

Tegafel was just about to leave when somebody grabbed eir shoulders from behind. "Well, I'll be! It's a wacod! Wow! Never really thought I'd see one of you around!" Tegafel had barely time to turn to look at the offender, an annicod just old enough to have a few wrinkles on eir face, when ey immediately pressed eir face against Tegafel's and kissed em. Tegafel hit em on the shoulder and ey backed away. "Oh sorry, where are my manners? I'm Nurintol Derrerer an' it's a pleasure to meet you."

Tegafel was burning with rage and could barely control emself. Gritting eir teeth, ey did manage to say: "Go away."

"What? Come on, couldn't be that bad." Ey smiled widely and offered Tegafel a hand, not trying to pull em—yet.

"Gzoozz off!" Now a few other passengers turned their heads toward them.

"Aioii. Are we sensitive today? Come on, I'll kiss that attitude out of you." Nurintol took a step at Tegafel, with the attempt to grab eir arm. Tegafel stood up and drew out eir knife. The annicod, as well as the others, gasped a little and stopped. "...What the groshje?"

For once, Tegafel enjoyed the negative attention. "Leave me alone. I mean it." Tegafel tried to step past Nurintol.

"You gzoozzing brat! Do you have any idea how dangerous those are? Give me that, now." Nurintol tried to grab Tegafel's knife-holding arm, but Tegafel grabbed eir arm first.

"No, it's my knife an' I DO know how to use it! Unlike you! Now leave me the groshje alone! Every one of you! I'm not a gzoozzing whore!"

"What a load of gzoozz!" The annicod tried to get eir arm free, but Tegafel would not let em go. Other people started looking like they might interfere, so Tegafel called Availon in eir mind.

Just when Tegafel had been told a few more times to let go of the knife and Nurintol, Availon appeared in the view of the group. All the people stared at em, including those who had seen em before. Availon walked toward Tegafel in a graceful manner and the two people in eir way immediately gave way to em. When ey reached Tegafel, ey offered eir hand and said: "Could you come with me to the bow, Tegafel?"

Availon also told Tegafel what to reply, so the wacod went: "Sure, anything beats being HERE." Having said that, ey led Availon back.

At the bow they both laughed at the expressions and feelings of the people when they had seen that Tegafel knew a galanfetzcan and seemed to be the more dominant one in their relationship. At least Tegafel was not bothered by the others anymore.