grown.
“Um… yes. It was very educational.”
Kelzy snorted smoke in dragonish laughter. I bet.
“Mama Kelzy, are you teasing my girl?” Adora gathered her daughter close for a long hug. “I’ve missed you, honey girl. What have you been doing with yourself?”
“Trying to decide if I’m going to stay.”
Belora looked so torn. Adora kept her arm around her shoulders and guided her to sit with her at the edge of Kelzy’s wallow. She shot a concerned glance to the dragon.
I thought your mating feast was set for this evening?
“It is, but I’m just not sure I can go through with it.” Her eyes looked pained and confused.
“Why not?”
“Oh, Mama, it’s so different here. The things they expect of me… I just don’t know if it’s right or if I can do it.”
“What things?” Adora’s voice held all the anger of an enraged mother hen.
She had spent most of her life protecting this girl. She’d done the best she could to raise her strong and comfortable in herself. She couldn’t fathom what the knights would ask of her that would put such fear and self-doubt in her eyes, but she didn’t like it. Indignation filled her, the inner fire that she usually kept well banked, rising to take on anyone who would hurt her baby.
Belora blushed a fiery red. “Um… sexual things. There are so few women here, you see. And when Kelvan mates, they expect me to… oh, this is hard to talk about, even with you, Mama.”
Kelzy shook her great head and sighed warm air around them. Adora pinned her with a steely gaze.
“Just what is making my brave baby girl so confused? And what has your son to do with it?”
Kelzy shifted in her wallow. It’s always hardest on those not raised in a Lair. Adora, you have to realize the bond between dragon and knight is soul deep. What he feels, we feel and vice versa. When Jared takes a woman, I feel it and if I’m ever lucky enough to be able to mate again, it will undoubtedly drive Jared into an uncontrollable lust. That’s why fighting dragons – those of us with knights – are forbidden to mate unless either our knight or our mate’s knight has a wife. When the lust rides us all, the knights will turn to their wife to share the mating fever safely.
“Wife? Only one wife for two knights?!”
Kelzy nodded her great head. There are so few women who can live among dragons. Our knights have learned to share. But their love and protection for their wife runs deeper than any regular tie. They live dangerous lives. If one knight falls, he knows his partner will be there to take care of their wife and young. It’s the way of fighting knights and dragons. It has been this way for centuries.
“Well, that’s some dirty little secret you have there.” Adora was shocked, but turned over the problem in her mind. “So just who else is my baby expected to marry tonight?”
“His name is Lars.” Belora’s voice was reserved, her face flushed and eyes confused. “He’s wonderful, Mama. Really. He’s quiet and so thoughtful and he has the gentlest heart.”
“You sound half in love with him already!” Adora was scandalized, and more than a little intrigued. Still, it didn’t sit quite right, her inexperienced baby girl being expected to welcome two brawny knights into her life and her bed.
Belora seemed to think about it. “You know, maybe I am. Gareth brought him around and helped us get to know each other. I like him a lot, but I don’t know if I can let them both…” She trailed off in embarrassment once more.
“They are expected to have her at the same time?” Adora turned accusing eyes to the dragon.
When the mating heat is upon them all, it will be inevitable. Most of the human women involved in such arrangements seem to enjoy it immensely.
Think of the benefits, child. Two men at your beck and call at all times. Two men who will love you and put your happiness and safety above all. Two men to help around the Lair and father your babies.
“This
“Um… yes. It was very educational.”
Kelzy snorted smoke in dragonish laughter. I bet.
“Mama Kelzy, are you teasing my girl?” Adora gathered her daughter close for a long hug. “I’ve missed you, honey girl. What have you been doing with yourself?”
“Trying to decide if I’m going to stay.”
Belora looked so torn. Adora kept her arm around her shoulders and guided her to sit with her at the edge of Kelzy’s wallow. She shot a concerned glance to the dragon.
I thought your mating feast was set for this evening?
“It is, but I’m just not sure I can go through with it.” Her eyes looked pained and confused.
“Why not?”
“Oh, Mama, it’s so different here. The things they expect of me… I just don’t know if it’s right or if I can do it.”
“What things?” Adora’s voice held all the anger of an enraged mother hen.
She had spent most of her life protecting this girl. She’d done the best she could to raise her strong and comfortable in herself. She couldn’t fathom what the knights would ask of her that would put such fear and self-doubt in her eyes, but she didn’t like it. Indignation filled her, the inner fire that she usually kept well banked, rising to take on anyone who would hurt her baby.
Belora blushed a fiery red. “Um… sexual things. There are so few women here, you see. And when Kelvan mates, they expect me to… oh, this is hard to talk about, even with you, Mama.”
Kelzy shook her great head and sighed warm air around them. Adora pinned her with a steely gaze.
“Just what is making my brave baby girl so confused? And what has your son to do with it?”
Kelzy shifted in her wallow. It’s always hardest on those not raised in a Lair. Adora, you have to realize the bond between dragon and knight is soul deep. What he feels, we feel and vice versa. When Jared takes a woman, I feel it and if I’m ever lucky enough to be able to mate again, it will undoubtedly drive Jared into an uncontrollable lust. That’s why fighting dragons – those of us with knights – are forbidden to mate unless either our knight or our mate’s knight has a wife. When the lust rides us all, the knights will turn to their wife to share the mating fever safely.
“Wife? Only one wife for two knights?!”
Kelzy nodded her great head. There are so few women who can live among dragons. Our knights have learned to share. But their love and protection for their wife runs deeper than any regular tie. They live dangerous lives. If one knight falls, he knows his partner will be there to take care of their wife and young. It’s the way of fighting knights and dragons. It has been this way for centuries.
“Well, that’s some dirty little secret you have there.” Adora was shocked, but turned over the problem in her mind. “So just who else is my baby expected to marry tonight?”
“His name is Lars.” Belora’s voice was reserved, her face flushed and eyes confused. “He’s wonderful, Mama. Really. He’s quiet and so thoughtful and he has the gentlest heart.”
“You sound half in love with him already!” Adora was scandalized, and more than a little intrigued. Still, it didn’t sit quite right, her inexperienced baby girl being expected to welcome two brawny knights into her life and her bed.
Belora seemed to think about it. “You know, maybe I am. Gareth brought him around and helped us get to know each other. I like him a lot, but I don’t know if I can let them both…” She trailed off in embarrassment once more.
“They are expected to have her at the same time?” Adora turned accusing eyes to the dragon.
When the mating heat is upon them all, it will be inevitable. Most of the human women involved in such arrangements seem to enjoy it immensely.
Think of the benefits, child. Two men at your beck and call at all times. Two men who will love you and put your happiness and safety above all. Two men to help around the Lair and father your babies.
“This
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