Author's notes:

This is an Alternate Reality story, where Atlantis, which the inhabitants called Baylon, was real and inhabited by a powerful humanoid race called Baylons.

About half the story happens in the bronze age and I've researched a lot for this story. If you find anything that looks like a mistake in the story, please double check to be sure that you're correct and then PM me about it. :)

A note about the language and notation:

The Baylon language is a predecessor to Latin, which is why it looks like Latin at a glance.

Mental communication is denoted by a < and ends with a >, so a mental communication will look like this: "< Who are you? >"

Some warnings:

This is erotic action adventure, meaning that there will be both sex and violence, but I don't mix the two.

It's a long story and I suggest that you read them continuously (At least for a first time read).

This story is posted on the Literotica website and the author does not give permission for it to be reposted or reprinted anywhere else without consent.

P.S. I haven't gotten an editor yet, so any mistakes are mine. Interested editors are welcome :) Just be warned that this is a LONG story :)

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Chapter 4 -- Flashback: Healing

Arcem Discendi in Lescare.

The castle's name was Arcem Discendi (Baylon: "Citadel of Learning") or rather it was the Baylon name for it. Unlike most other Baylon training castles, it wasn't located on the island of Baylon, but on a small oval shaped island far away, in an area we called Lescare.

The humans inhabiting Lescare was in general short, with dark hair and brown slanted eyes, and had formed a multitude of various sized kingdoms in the area. We traded with most of them, especially the Shang since that was one of the largest kingdoms and their ruler, Zi Zhao, wasn't scared of us, as some of the other rulers were.

The Lescarians called the castle, and the surrounding area, Mount Penglai, but as it was a training castle for Baylons and most of the students didn't speak Lescarian, almost everybody called it Arcem.

Except from holidays with my family, Arcem had been my home for most of ten years: My father had taken Kaeso Atilus Maximus up on the offer and when summer was over, I had entered Scholastics Mentalis at the Dominus Grande's personal recommendation.

Like all the other kids there, I spend five years learning the foundation of mathematics, languages, alchemy, physics and history, as well as getting the basic concept of Ars Mentalis, which is using your mind to create a desired effect on the world around you.

All this may sound boring, but Ars Mentalis teachers were masters of the mind, and they knew exactly how to make it entertaining. So, we solved funny puzzles with numbers and letters, sang children's songs about history and in general had a great time playing while learning.

Then, when I was ten, I discovered what the Dominus Grande had meant about 'personal recommendation': Instead of taking the next ten years at Schola Mentalis, a Mage showed up and transported me to Arcem Discendi, where I would train under the Dominus Grande himself along with nineteen other kids.

We still learned Ars Mentalis, math, physics, alchemy and all the other scholastic skills, but combat training was added along with many other teachings. Some easy and some difficult.

Meditation training was one of the studies that most people found extremely taxing, but as my mother had taught me that since I was four, it was easy for me along with the training in Vis Vitae that went with it.

Like mages drew from the power of magic, called Primal Essence, and Mentats drew power from the energy of the mind, users of Vis Vitae drew power from the energy of life.

While that sounds simple, it's actually rather complicated, since Vis is generated by both body and mind of all living beings. That means that a healthy body have more Vis than a sick body and a happy mind has more Vis than a sick mind.

The Lescarian regarded Vis Vitae as an almost holy force, but to me and the few other Baylons that have been trained in it, it was simply another force to be used.

Not that it's easy to use for most people, since using Vis Vitae required a special and fast form of meditation, that could be entered in a heartbeat and left again almost as fast, making Vis a useful tool in combat.

However, none of that mattered right now, as I was spending time for myself, and the castle garden has always been one of my favourite places when I need to relax. This time was no different and as always when I really needed to get my mind on something else, I was painting.

Mostly because I like to paint, but also because it's different from combat, Vis, Ars Mentalis and all the rest that we train every day and I fully understood both my mother and grandmothers need to do this. I hoped that I would be as good as they are one day.

The sound of footsteps on the gravel, made me look in the direction of the path and a moment later Verina Julia Serranus came into view. As always, she was dressed in a Lescarian kimono, complete with a fan and a golden headdress. However, with her white hair and pale blue round eyes, nobody would ever mistake her for a Lescarian.

It was like seeing double, because that was exactly what I was painting: Verina standing in that dress, with the Arcem Discendi in the background and some cherry blossom flowers drifting in the wind.

I watched as she walked towards me and remembered that another student once accused her of "going native", since she always dressed in kimono. Her reply was typical for Verina. "No, I just like the feel of silk against my body, the gentle sliding touch against my legs as I walk. It turns me on and that's a feeling that I like."

That shut the student up, which was a wise decision on his part, since Verina was one of the best martial artists in the school in general and the best when using her fans. They might look like ordinary fans, but they were made of coloured steel and the edge was razor sharp. She wouldn't use the edge on another student, but when the fans were closed, they made excellent clubs and she wasn't afraid to use them.

"Hello, Spectre." She greeted with a smile, using the nickname I had gotten at the school. "Fancy meeting you here."

"Yeah right." I replied with a grin, since she obviously had been looking for me and turned the canvas, so she couldn't see it.

She noticed the movement and her smile grew wider "Oh, a secret!"

"Don't!" I said, but it was too late. She disappeared from the path and reappeared ten feet behind me, where she could see the canvas.

For a moment, she stood there with an astonished look on her face, when she looked at herself on the painting.

I shrugged helplessly. "That's a good way to spoil a surprise."

Verina finally tore her eyes away from the painting and looked at me. "That's... beautiful, but why are you painting me? I thought you were painting some woman that I wasn't supposed to see."

"It's your birthday present." I said with a smile. "And it was supposed to be a surprise."

"Oh... Sorry about ruining it." She walked closer to the painting. "You're actually extremely good... Why haven't I seen more of your paintings?"

"'Coz you've never been to my room." I said drily.

"Good point... but then again, you never invited me." Verina said with a teasing smile.

"Do you want to be invited?"

"I don't know." She said truthfully. "I hate complications."

I nodded to that answer. As far as I knew, Verina had had her share of lovers, but she had been careful not to choose any she trained with and as she and I did train together, it might as she said, complicate matters.

I pushed the thought aside. "So why did you come here in the first place?"

"Oh, I was looking for you, actually." She said with a frown. "Master Healer Sheng asked if you could take the night duty tonight. Apparently, there's some sort of Lescarian holiday and his assistant is late in getting here."

I thought it over and nodded. I had planned to use the time to study medicine anyway, so I might as well do it while sitting in the infirmary.

"That's okay. I'll take it."

"I'll tell him." She said and to my surprise, gave me a kiss on the cheek. "It's a beautiful painting, Ivah. Thanks in advance."

Then she walked away.

I followed her with my eyes. She had a cute butt that moved just the right way in the silk kimono.

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The healer's assistant still hadn't showed when evening came, so I walked down to the infirmary to take the night duty.

As I had expected nothing happened the first few glasses and I had plenty of time to study. All agents needed a trade that they could use as a cover when the situation demands it and I had chosen to become a doctor, since I was able to heal with Vis Vitae and Ars Mentalis anyway.

It made sense when I chose it, but if I had known the amount of work that went with it, I would have chosen something else. The problem is that some people with Ars Mentalis and Ars Magica can use powers to detect lies, so all covers had to be truthful, which meant that to use that cover, I had to become a real doctor, instead of pretending to be one.

With that in mind, I studied medicine and worked in the infirmary whenever I had a chance, knowing that I had to graduate medical school at some point.

On the bright side, it was extremely interesting and Anqi Sheng, the Lescarian Vis Master who doubled as the Master Healer, was not only a wise old man, but quite funny as well.

It was mid evening when two women came in. Much to my surprise, one of them was Verina in her usual Lescarian dress and she was supporting a staggering young woman that was dressed in the same way.

"Emilian." Called Verina "We need a hand here."

That Verina called me Emilian, instead of Spectre as she usually does, meant that the young woman wasn't a fellow student.

"Put her on the bench." I said and ran over to them.

When I came nearer, I discovered the young woman wasn't a Baylon, as I had first assumed due to her height and long white hair: Her eyes were slanted and brown like a Lescarian and while pure-blooded Baylons comes in many colours, none of us have slanted eyes, which made her a half-blood. Though rare, it wasn't the first half-blood I've seen around the castle, but she was the first one I had seen with white hair.

"Hello, I'm Emilian." I said to the young woman in Lescarian. "What's your name?"

"Yang Jia." She stammered, also speaking Lescarian.

"And what is wrong?"

"I don't know." She said, still stammering. "It feels like I'm burning and freezing at the same time and I have trouble breathing."

Fever, I guessed. Luckily, we had a lot of medicine for that. "Take your kimono off and lay down on the bench, so I can examine you. I'll go get some medicine while you do that."

I looked at Verina and switched to Baylon. "What happened?"

"We were just relaxing and talking when she suddenly started to freeze and sweat. " Verina explained. "It was weird, 'coz it came so suddenly."

"Did you eat the same food as she did?"

"Yes, and I feel fine."

Nodding, I reached out with my mind, so we couldn't be overheard. "< Who is she? >"

"< Yang Zheng's daughter >" Verina answered.

That answered most questions I had about the girl. Yang Zheng was Lescarian, one of the female teachers in unarmed combat and like all the teachers did, she lived in the castle and was allowed to have her family here. In her case, it was her two daughters, named Jia and Hao. I haven't seen any of them up close, as they tended to keep to their own quarters, but I had heard about them.

With a nod, I turned towards the patient. Yang Jia lay completely naked on the bench, looking like she had fallen asleep. Apparently, my command of the Lescarian language wasn't as good as I thought it was, 'coz I far as I remembered I only asked her to take off the kimono. Unless of course that she hadn't been wearing anything else to start with.

A quick look confirmed that there wasn't anything resembling underwear near her clothes.

I send Verina a smile and she actually blushed a bit and mumbled in Baylon. "What? She's beautiful and I like her."

She had a point about the first part, because Yang Jia was well shaped from head to toe and if it weren't for the slanted brown eyes, I would have thought that she was completely Baylon with those long legs and white hair.

I started the examination, working as fast as I could.

It quickly became apparent that it was more serious than I had assumed. Mostly because Yang Jia's skin was turning slightly blue, as her breathing was becoming more and more difficult.

I shook my head when I understood that there wasn't time: It wasn't a simple fever.

"Guard me." I said and without looking at Verina, I sat crossed legged into the air next to Yang Jia and placed my hands on her chest, above her breasts.

Gathering the Vis Vitae, I entered the meditative trance required for healing, which caused the outside world faded away, as I let the Vis flow into her. My senses followed the flow, and I could see that her life force had been disrupted due to some unknown cause. Something had invaded her lungs and it was killing her while I watched.

In an attempt to remove it, I directed the flow of power from me towards her lungs, but it skipped over the invader without doing anything.

That meant that it wasn't caused by disease, but some form of poison or toxic material, which again meant that I had to use another method.

I retracted my senses and was once again in the infirmary.

"It's serious, isn't it?" asked Verina with an emptiness in her voice that spoke of extreme self-control, when I turned my head to look at her.

"Yes." I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "Turn her around on her stomach and if anything comes out of her mouth or nose, don't touch it... Oh and get the guards as well as Master Zheng in here. She has been poisoned."

Not waiting for an answer, I entered a new Vis trance and started to build up energy within me, while Verina turned Yang Jia around on her stomach.

Moments passed by slowly and it took seemingly forever before I had the amount of Vis that I needed. Opening my eyes, I forced the Vis into the girl's body, using a technique called Purgare Corpus (Baylon: "To cleanse the body").

Energy left my hands and slammed into her torso, making her entire body spasm and twitch. Then fluid and blood started running from her mouth and nose. It was a direct and hard way to do it, but it was the only way I could think of.

Verina looked at me, with worry in her blue eyes, "Is she drowning in blood?"

"Not if I can help it." I said, "I've forced the toxin out of her lungs and body."

I placed a bucket under the bench to catch the blood running from Jia and tilted the foot end, making the fluids run faster.

Since the flow of blood and poison blocked her breathing, it might kill the girl if it took too long, I admitted to myself, while I watched the flow, but at least she had a chance now.

"Have you called the guards?"

"Yes." Said Verina. "But I can't get hold of Master Healer Zheng."

I nodded and when no more fluid came out, I placed the bench on the floor again.

Hurriedly I checked the girl. The removal had taken too long, and her heart had stopped along with her breathing, but her life force hadn't left the body yet, so she could still be revived.

An Ars Mentalis cleaning trick removed both the poison and the fluid from her mouth and airways, and I used mouth to mouth a few times, before I placed a hand over her heart, slipped into Vis Meditation and send a charge of static electricity into her.

It's really a trick meant as an attack, but Master Healer Zheng had shown me that it could also be used to wake a heart that had stopped beating, if nothing else was wrong with the patient.

I checked her pulse, but still nothing.

Again, I shocked her and felt her pulse beating weakly as her heart started. With a gasp, she also started breathing.

Slipping into Vis Meditation, I poured more energy into her, strengthening her life force, before examining her again.

To my dismay, the Purgare Corpus had removed the poison from her lungs, but the part that had been absorbed in her blood was still there and it was still killing her.

I cursed loudly, causing Verina to ask, "She is not safe yet?"

"The poison has been removed from her lungs, but it's still in her blood." I said with a sigh and looked at her. Her beautiful blue eyes were brimming with tears and I realized Jia was more than just a casual sex partner for Verina.

Looking at Jia again, I went over my options in my head. I had already used Vis-healing without any effect, and I wasn't skilled enough in Ars Magica healing to do anything magical about poison, which left Ars Mentalis.

The problem with Ars Mentalis is that by and large, you can only heal yourself.

While that is practical, it's not useful for healers, who're supposed to heal others, so a method was invented to overcome that problem and it was a method I was about to use.

It's called Tralativa (Baylon: Transfer) and as the name implies it transfers a wound or any other problem from the patient to the healer. I don't know exactly how, but then again, I don't know how to make an adamantine sword either and I still use one. Needless to say, this can be extremely dangerous and usually hurts a lot, so it's normally only used as a last resort... like now.

Using Ars Mentalis, I could transfer the poison to my own body and the neutralize it. I had tried it on a few minor poisons, but never on a fatal one like this.

"I'm gonna try something." I told Verina. "Channel some Vis into us both."

Taking a deep breath, I placed my hands on Jia's body and started the Transfer.

A shimmering field surrounded us both for a few heartbeats and I swallowed a scream as my body started to feel like it was on fire when the poison was transferred into my blood.

Shaking all over, I staggered to the nearest bed and sat down before I closed my eyes and concentrated on an Ars Mentalis trick to neutralize the poison.

A net of mental energy scoured through my body, but the poison proved to be an elusive one and it passed through the net without being affected.

I felt dizzy and lightheaded as the poison spread more, but focused my mind and did it again, this time using more energy and a tighter net, but still the poison prevailed.

Nausea set in and it became harder to breathe.

Ignoring the physical discomfort, I used Ars Mentalis again, with even more energy, an even tighter net, and using even more time.

That helped, and I could feel the poison slowly being neutralized by the mental energy.

Exhausted and relived I opened my eyes again. I had been using a lot of energy in a short time and my body felt like it was composed of lead. Not to mention the fact that I had nearly killed myself, because I had underestimated the poison and overestimated my ability to remove it. "That was close."

"Too close." Agreed Verina and sat down beside me. "What the fuck happened? Jia is okay, but you have been sitting there for a long time."

I looked up at her and discovered that I was seeing double, but as I was looking at Verina, that a bonus... like watching two sunsets at the same time.

Shaking my head slightly brought my sight back to normal. "No worries. She is healed and I'm fine."

"What now?"

"Now we have the guards to secure your room just in case the poison is still there," I said and yawned. "Oh, and you stay here, while they do that."

"You're worried that I might I get sick as well?"

"No, not really," I replied tiredly. "But according to the books, the first suspect in a poison case is always the lover and, in this case, that is you." I lifted a hand to stop any protests. "Don't bother. I know it wasn't you, but others might not and there will be an investigation about this, that's for sure. Yang Jia being poisoned the same day that the Master Healer had to attend a holiday is unlikely to be a coincidence."

She nodded slowly but didn't look worried. "They will find the bastard."

I nodded in agreement. Gaius Cassius Ravilla, an Ars Mentalis teacher with specialty in Arte ex Visiones (Baylon: The Art of Visions), could take any item and look back up to two weeks in time to see what happened, so if there was anything left of the poison, the guilty person was in deep shit.

Unless of course he or she had the ability to be undetectable like me, but according to the Dominus Grande, that was an extremely rare ability.

"Do you mind putting a blanket over Jia?" I asked Verina. "I should have done it, but I'm really too tired to move or use Mentalis."

She flashed me a smile and did it before she asked. "What shall I do with the goo in the bucket?"

"Take one of the airtight containers from the herb room." I said with a yawn. "They will need to examine it."

Leaning back, I watched her cute butt as she walked out of the room.

I was still looking in the same direction when she came back and she sent me a smile, when she discovered it. "Are you sure that it's wise to check me out in your condition?"

"Yep. Makes the heart beat faster." I answered with a weak smile but became serious again. "Actually, I was thinking that since the poison was in her lungs and airways, she must have inhaled it. However, since you're fine, it couldn't have been at your place, so it must have been before."

"Makes sense," she said and grimaced, as she poured the content of the bucket into the jar and closed the lid. Then she placed it on the floor and looked at me. "Do you think that the poisoner knew that she had planned on visiting me tonight?"

I thought it over. "Most likely. Why do you ask?"

"If we assume that the poisoner knows that she and I are intimate and wants to poison her with an airborne poison, then the poison must be located near her mirror," said Verina slowly, speaking while she was thinking. "Because no woman would go on a date, without spending time in front of her mirror first."

I glanced over at Yang Jia, saw traces of makeup on her face, and nodded. "Good point... Hmm... Poison is normally a woman's choice of weapon, but if she has the same close combat skills as her mother, it might be a man as well." I blinked a few times "By the way, where is her mother?"

"Attending the same holiday as the Master Healer," said Verina with a shrug, "which is why we thought that we could spend some time together."

"Ah."

Before we could continue our guesswork, the door opened, and the Dominus Grande came marching in, causing Verina to jump to attention, while I was a bit slower to get up.

Maximus had obviously been briefed by the guards, 'coz he wasted no time. "Let me hear what happened."

We spend the next half glass retelling the evening's event in detail, only interrupted by the Dominus Grande's questions.

When we were done, he was silent for a few heartbeats, but then said, "Well, considering the gravity of these events, both of you did extremely well. I'll send somebody over to examine Yang Jia's room as well as your room, Verina, and hopefully we will catch the guilty one."

He looked at the still unconscious woman on the bench and for a moment, I could have sworn that his eyes softened a bit. That made me look at his features once again, then at Yang Jia and then at the floor as I yawned to hide my facial expression.

There was no doubt in my mind that those two were related somehow and while the Dominus Grande might not be Jia's father, someone in his family was.

Not that it really mattered to anybody here. On Baylon, it might be a scandal for a noble to father a child with a human, but we were far away from Baylon, which made it none of my business.

"Tired, Emilian?" asked the Dominus Grande, seeing my yawn.

It didn't make sense to lie, so I nodded. "Yes Sir, though I feel better now. That poison was on the edge of my ability to heal, if not actually over that edge and I used all the energy that I have."

He looked me directly into the eyes as he asked. "Why did you do it then?"

That question took me by surprise, which questions from him had a disturbing tendency to do and they always manage to me feel as if I'm taking a test, I haven't studied for.

I thought it over. One of the reasons was that Jia was Verina's lover, but that was only part of it. I did my best because I was used to doing things that way.

"Because it never occurred to me not to do it, Sir. "

Kaeso Maximus nodded with a smile. "Good work, Emilian." He stood up. "Get to bed both of you. I'll get somebody down here to staff the infirmary and keep watch over Yang Jia. Verina, you can sleep in one of the guest rooms or wherever you like. Just not in your own room until we have finished investigating this."

We both nodded and stood up.

I was smiling, when I walked out of the door, side by side with Verina.

She looked at me curiously, as the guards closed the door behind us. "What's with the grin?"

"I was thinking that some duties are more pleasant than others."

"What do you mean?"

"They're investigating this... meaning that someone will go to your room and look into what happened there before Jia became ill," I answered, while we walked over the courtyard. "I am pretty sure that whoever is going to do that, will get some nice pictures in their head."

She chuckled at the thought "Yeah. That will probably make their day." She suddenly stopped. "Which reminds me of something."

I stopped and turned to look at her. "What?"

Before I knew what happened, she took a step forward and pressed her body against mine as she hugged and kissed me at the same time.

It was a soft, gentle kiss that seemed to last forever and even as tired as I was, I could feel my body starting to react and tried to pull away, but Verina just hugged me tighter.

When she finally broke the kiss, she sent me a brilliant smile. "I need a place to sleep, and I think your room will be just fine."

My lips were still tingling from the kiss and for once, I really didn't know what to say, so I simply said, "I agree."

Verina chuckled at that and gave me another hug before she practically dragged me off to my room.

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As soon as the door to my room closed behind us, we started kissing again. This time there was more desire in the kiss as our tongues danced against each other's and the feeling of tiredness that had dominated my body earlier, slowly began to evaporate.

Tugging at the bow that held Verina's kimono closed made it unravel and a heartbeat later, it dropped to the ground, leaving Verina standing naked.

I stopped kissing her and took a step back to admire her, memorizing the sight. Her brilliant blue eyes in a beautiful face, framed by long white hair. Further down, under her strong shoulders, two full breasts dominated her torso, standing proudly by themselves, moving slightly as she breathed. A slim waist, curving out to her generous hips and long well-shaped legs.

"What?" Verina asked with a slight smile. "Never seen a naked woman before?"

I shook myself out of the mesmerizing sight. "Yeah, just not one quite as breathtakingly beautiful and erotic as you."

She broke out in a grin at that, and cast a short spell, which I didn't even try to resist, as she walked nearer. A heartbeat later, my clothes were laying on my bedtable in a neat stack.

Freed from its confinement, my hard cock sprang to attention, right into the waiting hand of Verina. "Umm... At least one part of you isn't tired."

"Not with you naked in my room." I chuckled and reached out for her, but she dodged under my arm, released my dick and gave me a playful push.

I staggered a few steps backwards and landed in the bed.

"Okay," Said Verina, following me with a satisfied look on her face, "you're exhausted and have used a lot of Vis, so just lean back and let me do the work."

Sensing there was little point in arguing, I just nodded as she spread out my legs and moved between them. Then she started to kiss my thighs, slowly moving towards my raging hard-on.

When she reached it, she gave my balls a licking, while slowly stroking me, before she traced her tongue up and down my shaft, covering it with her saliva. I couldn't hold back a moan when she finally wrapped her lips around it, sucked lightly, while her tongue swirled around the head.

Then she stopped, mumbled a satisfied "That should do it.", before she stood up and straddled me, forcing my stiff cock down against my stomach, with her pussy in top of it.

I reached up, took hold of her neck and dragged her in for another kiss and as we kissed, Verina moved her hips back and forth in a gentle rocking motion, grinding her pussy against my hard cock, making it even more wet. She moaned into my mouth when her love-pearl came into direct contact with the shaft. I did the same. The feeling of her pussy sliding over my dick, along with her big soft tits against my chest, felt fantastic.

At some point, Verina's motions took her a little too far forward, releasing my cock from the force that pressed it against me and when she moved down again, the head of my cock slipped right in between the hot, wet lips of her pussy.

She broke the kiss with a gasp and wriggled her hips, trying to take more of it inside. I moved my hips upwards in an effort to help her, but she stopped me. "Easy there... you're wider than I expected."

Lowering my hips again, I reached up and started to caress her incredible tits, while she moved up and down on my cock, working it further into her a little at a time.

I groaned at the feeling as my cock went into her hot, tight pussy, rubbing against her inner walls.

It felt like my cock was being squeezed by the most exquisite glove, her slight rotations sending pulses of pleasure through my body.

Finally, it was all the way in and for a moment, Verina sat still with closed eyes and a smile of pleasure on her face. She leaned forward, placed a hand on each side of me and started to move her hips in a nice steady back and forth rhythm, fast enough to feel really good, but not so fast it would make me come quickly.

Lowering her torso, Verina gave me a long sensual and tender kiss. I kissed her back and as the position made caressing her tits awkward, I ran my hands up and down her back instead, squeezing her firm butt whenever I got near it. Her kiss grew longer and more sensual, her breath mixing with mine and her tongue gently teasing into my mouth.

Then she broke the kiss with a moan and sat up, her hands moving to my chest for support.

Again, she sat still for a moment, and I could feel the walls of her pussy squeeze and loosen around my shaft, her body stroking and caressing it.

Moving upwards, she slowly slid her trembling pussy up off my shaft, only the head remaining inside her, before starting back down in a long slow smooth motion.

"Yesssssss." She hissed breathlessly as she slowly rode up and down my shaft.

I gave her butt a squeeze and then moved my hands back to her breasts, cupping both of them, letting my fingers tease and squeeze her rock-hard nipples in time with her strokes.

Her pussy seemed to quiver more, clenching and unclenching around my cock in fast little spasms, almost as if she were having one long drawn-out orgasm. Sweat ran down her chest and dripped from her chin as she continued to ride me, moaning louder and louder as she increased the pace.

Her moan changed to a soft scream as she bucked against me, her back arched and her entire body tensed as an orgasm rippled through her.

Closing my eyes in concentration, I absorbed the Vis energy her orgasm had released and put my arms around her to caressing her back and butt, as she collapsed onto me, gasping for air. The feeling of her spasming pussy around my cock and her big breasts being mashed against my chest made it an altogether wonderful experience and I enjoyed it tremendously.

We lay like that for a while, before Verina lifted her head from my shoulder to give me a short kiss.

"Goddess, that was good." She said with a smile.

"Better than good." I chuckled. "Though any and all credits goes to you for that. I didn't really do anything."

"Yes, you did." She kissed me again. "I can't explain why, but your cock seems to just hit all the right places at once."

That didn't make any sense to me, but before I had to chance to ask for an explanation, Verina began moving her hips in small circles, making my hard cock swirl inside her.

"Ohhhhh that's nice," she whispered into my ear and at the same time, I felt her reach out mentally to me. I accepted and a moment later, sensations washed over me, as Verina sent me what she felt. I could feel her fucking me slowly and at the same time, I could feel the pleasure she received while doing it. It was like taking a pleasure drug and having sex at the same time.

With a grunt, I closed the connection again. Keeping it open would cause me to come too soon. Reaching out, I took hold of her legs and flipped us over on the bed, so she was beneath me.

I had planned to do that without slipping out of her, but didn't succeed, so I decided to tease her.

Pulling her legs up, I placed her ankles on my shoulders, then rubbed my cock back and through her pussy, making sure I rubbed the head against her love-pearl. Then I thrust deep into her, sliding slowly back out, then quickly into her again. Verina gasped, when I hit the pleasure centre right behind the pubic bone, so I change the angle a bit, making sure I hit it every time I thrust into her.

Not only did it feel great, but the sight of her beautiful face also contorted in pleasure and her full breasts rocking back and forth with each stroke, was an almost hypnotic sight, and I enjoyed every heartbeat of it. Unfortunately, it was also a little too good and I could feel I was getting closer to coming, so I slowed down and used shorter strokes as I leaned down to kiss those tempting tits.

Verina shivered, when my lips closed around a rock-hard nipple and groaned, as I sucked it into my mouth and flicked the tip of my tongue over it.

"Oh shit, this is good!" She muttered and flexed the muscles in her pussy, making the slippery flesh grip all around my erection.

Releasing her nipple, I looked at her. "Place your hands against the wall."

She smiled and did as I asked, using her arms to stop her body from rocking and making our contact a bit firmer.

"Unnngh," she moaned under her breath. "Perfect."

"Good." I said as I moved my hips backwards, pulling out until only the head remained within her stretched lips. Then I rolled my hips in a slow circle as I slowly plunged back into her.

"Yesses," she hissed as her head tipped backwards, her eyes rolling back and closing in pleasure. I didn't stop until I felt my balls touch her soft but firm butt, and then withdrew again.

Without warning her, I changed tempo and slammed into her with long and fast strokes, taking my dick almost completely out of her, before going to the bottom again.

She moaned loudly, her strong body bucking up to meet my thrusts, while she kept her hands on the wall, preventing her from sliding further onto the bed.

"I'm coming!" she squealed as her body started to thrash about beneath me. I held on tightly as she shook like a leaf in the wind, her body shaking and quivering through a shattering release. I could feel the intense wetness inside her pussy increase as her flowing discharge coated my thrusting erection like a soothing balm.

Lowering the pace for just a moment, I moved my hands to her arms, effectively preventing her from moving, before I went back to screw her again, still using long hard strokes.

Verina screamed as a second orgasm followed right on the heels of her first, while I continued to hammer my cock all the way into her in long strokes. She was shivering, glistening perspiration glowing on her hot sexy body, as her pussy pulsed around my dick, making my own orgasm approach rapidly.

Suddenly, I withdrew totally, went down on my knees between her legs and inserted two fingers in her pussy, while my mouth closed around her love-pearl. Finding the pleasure zone behind the pubic bone was no problem and I started to massage it as fast and firmly as I could.

"Goddess!" she shouted, as another toe-curling release took control of her body, her pussy squirting a huge gush of juice out, most of it splashing against my chin. Her body jerked several times, each time associated with another gush of juice. I drank it happily, enjoying the taste.

Her orgasm was just finished, when I stood up again, slid my cock back into her and started fucking her again.

"Uh.... uh.... uh....," her moaning was continuous now as another climax shot through her.

Watching her voluptuous body responding so effortlessly turned me on even more, bringing me closer to my own climax.

"I'm going to come." I warned her.

Verina removed her hands from the wall and wrapped both them and her legs around me, holding me closer. "Yes... Come!" she groaned and came again.

That was all it took, and I saw white as I exploded inside her, coming so hard my ear rang.

Our movements became slower, and her legs unwrapped from around me.

We kissed for a while, as my cock slowly went limp inside her, but ended up laying on the bed, with her fabulous body draped halfway over mine and her head on my shoulder.

Feeling warm and cosy, I fell asleep.

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As predicted, it only took a few hours for the experts to find the person, who had tried to poison Yang Jia: It was a young man, who had asked Yang Zheng for her daughter's hand in marriage but had been turned down.

Apparently, he had decided, that if he couldn't have her, nobody could have her and proceeded to poison her with dust made from some pulverized beans. As soon as he was sure that she had inhaled the dust, he had committed suicide with more of the same dust.

It didn't make any form of logical sense to me or most of the other Baylons at the castle, but it did to the Lescarians and apparently it wasn't the first time, that something like that had happened.

The dream blurred, flickered and disappeared as the darkness came back.