flesh.
“Allow me to help you more,” Salatis suggested. Her hands continued to roam. “Pleasure can be instructive...but it can also be a challenging distraction.”
She kissed Amanda deeply again, while her fingernails dug lightly into Amanda’s back. She then kissed along Amanda’s neck, slowly bending at the knees to sink down with her mostly naked body sliding all along Amanda’s. “Work your magic now,” Salatis beckoned.
Amanda’s breath shuddered. Those lips were on her breasts again, teasing and exciting her. “You want me to ignore that?” she whimpered.
“Ignore or enjoy,” Salatis murmured casually. She slipped one hand up Amanda’s inner thigh, coming maddeningly close to the warm wetness above but then slipping over her hip to pinch at her ass. “Pain and pleasure have much in common. They can overwhelm the senses and the mind, if we let them. Master one and you may build the willpower to overcome the other when you must.
“Surrender yourself to me, and I will give you what your body needs,” Salatis offered with a seductive grin. “Or learn to master your body, and enjoy its pleasures that much more.”
Tiny earthquakes shook the younger woman. Salatis said no more, turning instead to arousing her with those expert fingers and that talented mouth. Forcing herself to act in spite of her desires, Amanda took in a deep breath, lifted her hands, and concentrated on the words and motions of magic.
She lifted the corner of the tapestry with an invisible hand created by a simple spell. She turned the tapestry a bright shade of purple, then made it glow, then gave it a strong sent of lavender. Salatis pinched the nipple of Amanda’s breast between her lips, giving Amanda a jolt of excitement. Amanda’s hold on the tapestry wavered, but she maintained it. She summoned up a bolt of force and hurled it at the tapestry, causing it to billow and shake.
“We should have helped you practice like this all along,” Nishan grinned.
“What is your most difficult spell?” Salatis murmured. She sank down further against Amanda’s body, kneeling before her. The priestess ’s nose brushed against her belly before the knot of Amanda’s sarong came loose.
“Uhm...” Amanda’s eyes fluttered with pleasure as Salatis silently guided her to spread her legs a little more where she stood. Knowing what was coming, Amanda grew even more excited. “Ffffffireball,” she said.
“That sounds a touch too destructive for my chambers,” whispered the mouth that hovered just below Amanda’s belly. She could feel her partner’s breath upon her flesh.
“Webs,” Amanda blinked. “I can conjure webs. They’ll go everywhere but fade in moments. Aahhh,” she sighed. The tongue that crossed over her flesh left her shivering with delight. “It’s just as...just as...oh...just as hard to cast.”
“Then perhaps you should try it,” Salatis suggested before her mouth became fully occupied with her delicious work.
Amanda groaned. She had experienced a great deal of this over the past few days, but it would never get old. If anything, she learned to enjoy it more and more. She reminded herself that enjoyment wasn’t the point here, though. The point was to think past it.
Though her head swam with pleasure, Amanda recalled the words to the difficult spell. There weren’t many, but she had to get them just right, along with the motions of her hands. Amanda ran through the proper gestures, mouthed the words without voice and gently pressed herself more against that wonderful mouth that gave such rapture...
Amanda spoke the words aloud. She twisted and bent her fingers just right, feeling all along like she would soon explode, riding both the pleasures of her body and the power of her magic all at once as she threw the webs all over the room. Thick, sticky strands too strong to be cut by blades filled the chamber, covering everything around Amanda.
Ladina and Nishan both let out yelps of surprise. The
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