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  The room I was in was pretty large, and I realized that the ground was covered in a carpet of thick fragrant grasses. I had never seen the like before! There were even some small flowers growing here and there, adding color to the living rug.

  Several colorful murals covered the cavern walls, which appeared to be made of stone. The brightness of the color contrasted with the dim room, but perfectly matched the people I had seen milling about when I first opened my eyes.

  This place was beautiful!

  The sounds of laughter, something that I rarely hear even in my own world, filled the air. These people were struggling and fighting, but they were also enjoying each moment of life that they had left to live.

  And why not? At any moment, a Triton could slip up on you and fry you with an energy blast.

  “Because you own me,” he said with a small laugh.

  I turned my eyes, wide in amazement to him.

  “I...own...you?”

  “Heart and soul,” he affirmed.

  “But...”

  “My people mate for life, Sinopee. There can be no other for me. You are the one to hold my thoughts and my desires.”

  I was speechless. I knew that Luster loved me and we had often said that we belonged to each other, but this was total devotion, that’s what it sounded like to me.

  “I love you too, Lust,” I managed as I felt tears back up in my eyes.

  How could I leave this man? Why had the fates cursed me with a whole year between couplings? A whole year to wonder if I would become pregnant, a year to miss him and wonder what he was doing. A year to hate him for making me love him this way and then leaving me! A year of feeling guilty for my selfish thoughts, then accepting what had to be?

  He was mine, but only mine for such a short period of time.

  “I know,” he said proudly as I reached out for his hand. “Otherwise the letters would have never brought you to me.”

  “Yes, letters. Oh shit! The letters!”

  “What?” He leaned down to get a clear view of my face.

  “They are gone! The letters are gone!”

  Luster reached for his thong, for the pouch that he tied there, and encountered nothing. Emptiness! Space!

  “What...?” His eyes grew into wide lavender plates as the realization of what this meant sunk in.

  “Before we rolled down the mountain! I heard it fall!”

  “Why didn’t you tell me?”

  “Because, numb-nut, you wouldn’t let me!”

  I was getting angry at this point. If he had paused for a second to listen to the magicless thinker, this could have been instantly corrected.

  “Numb nut?”

  “You refused to listen to me, Luster! Just because I have no special abilities, doesn’t mean that I can’t think or feel or see when a box falls from a pouch!”

  “You don’t know what this means!” he said, as the color fled his face. He rose up on shaky legs and stared at me.

  “It means that when the sun goes down and begins to rise again, I will probably be sucked into a deep dark abyss of space and die floating in nothingness. Of course I know what this means!”

  “It means, too, that I shall die.”

  “I hope that the void is not as cold as I think it will be. I am not equipped to deal with torture and death.” Then I brought my eyes to his pale face again. “Did you say die?”

  “You own me, Sinopee. I told you that. We mate for life! If you die, then I die as well.”

  Chapter Ten

  We were walking.

  I would have rather been discussing plans to go back out and get the letterbox before anything happened to it, but Luster wanted to plan.

  “They will have the box by now, Sinopee,” he said as he pulled me out of his chambers. “Now we have to plan on how to get it back.”

  But instead of planning, we were walking.

  I was enchanted by the underground land, of that I have no doubt, but I was too scared to give credence of the import of underground rivers and waterfalls.

  The people were interesting though, each one so different and yet so similar. I realized that I was seeing the magic in each one. That was the one thing they held in common.

  “We each are gifted, Sinopee,” he said as he led me to a vast underground waterfall. “But we can only give our hearts once. Each of us has a mate predestined. Each of us knows who our partner is. You are my partner, Sinopee. I can’t function without you. And though I only have you for one day out of the year, that one day sustains me.”

  “Then why do we have only one day, Luster? Why?”

  He turned to look at me, his purple eyes direct and serious.

  “Since I brought my people here Sinopee, since I helped us to escape that place where they held us; when I decided that I had enough, a few joined me and we went against being held…I thought it my punishment.”

  “What?” My eyes widened incredulously.

  “My punishment, for going against what surely must have been ordained. The Thinkers, Sinopee, they have always been. They were always there, ordering us, making us do things, hurting the order. The natural order of things, Sinopee. Maybe the gods decreed that we were supposed to be under Thinker rule, but I went against them and showed my people a better way, a free way of living.”

  “I always thought that the gods finally agreed with my decision, for my people flourished, something that never happened under Thinker rule. But I could never find a mate, was punished by being alone and hunted. But then I found the waterfall, Sinopee. I found the cavern and the words to the spell, and it brought me you. And now I think that the gods were testing me, Sinopee. I think that they are testing me still. And if I can overcome this latest problem, you will be mine forever. But I must prove myself first. And when I prove myself, you and I will be joined as one forever.”

  “There has to be a way to keep me here, Luster,” I sigh as I watch the waters swirl.

  I didn’t believe in his gods punishing or testing him, but there had to be a reason for his magic to bring me here. I didn’t want to leave his side, and I just knew he was going to do something foolish to keep me here.

  “I know you can’t go home with me because of the Tritons. They would destroy your people and all that you have built here. So the only solution is for me to stay here. I will help you in you battle, Luster. You have a Thinker on your side.” Then I sighed as I realized what I was facing,

  “But here, I don’t belong.”

  “You belong!” he almost shouted as he turned to grip my shoulders. “You are mine, Sinopee. You belong here with me.”

  “But I will never fit in.”

  “You can!” he insisted.

  “Lust, look around you!”

  I pulled away from him and pointed to the waterfall we were admiring.

  “Where I come from, there are no pink waterfalls, Luster. Waterfalls don’t exist underground! People are not pastel colors! Where would I fit in?”

  He stared at the waterfall for a moment.

  Its waters were pink. It fell almost eight feet to the small river that flowed through the Citadel and disappeared again under some rocks, I would assume. It was beautiful and enchanting with its white mists and sandy bank. But still, it was a pink waterfall! An underground pink waterfall!

  “You fit in next to me,” he replied. “And nothing else really matters, Sinopee. You are mine, as I am yours.”

  His words, the certainty in them, caused me to blink back a few tears as they touched my heart.

  Seeing them, he lowered his head to gently lick the salty droplets away.

  That set off a reaction in my chest that rippled over my body. I wanted him.

  It was easy to dispose of the dress. I tossed it aside, not caring that anyone could venture into this secluded spot.

  Hell, the thought of getting caught heightened my arousal. I just wanted Luster.

  Groaning, he quickly doffed his boots and pants, and stood before me gloriously naked.

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sp; His body seemed to shine in the bright light of the mist as I watched him step near.

  “For this time, in this place where you are safe, My Thinker, I am going to fuck you so hard you will never forget your place is with me. And then I am going to love you so that you will always remember.”

  I reached for him, but he backed away, beckoning me with his eyes as he backed into the water itself.

  “Come to me.”

  I was coming!

  Chapter Eleven

  Lust disappeared beneath the flowing waters of the waterfall, and eagerly, I followed.

  As the pink water touched my skin, I let out a gasp of amazement. It was almost thick and had an oily feel to it. And it was very warm.

  I giggled as I tried to imagine what he was up to.

  Eagerly following, I too stepped through the waterfall and gasped at what I saw.

  Behind the flowing pink waters, there was a smaller cavern, almost like the one in our glade.

  There, coated in the pink waters, Luster lay back against some pillows and furs.

  “What is that stuff?” I asked as I used both hands to pull my wet hair back from my face.

  “Healing waters,” he replied. “They keep the Citadel alive and feed the needs of the plants here. It maintains a balance.”

  “And this place?” I stepped forward, loving the way the odorless waters seemed to cling and bring heat with is very presence.

  “This is the place where I will claim every part of you for my own.”

  Before I could blink, he was beside me, the waters shimmering almost purple as his skin began to take on a faint glow.

  He placed his hands on my shoulders and applied a gentle pressure until I found myself kneeling, facing the object of my most recent erotic fantasies.

  Luster was built thick. His circumcised penis had a large mushroom shaped head that was now leaking precum with his arousal. His ten inches pointed in an almost forty-five degree angle, jutting out from his body like the powerful weapon it was.

  Gently, I wrapped my hand around the base and pulled him low enough to run across my lips.

  I looked up at him, wide eyed, wanting to see his every reaction, wanting him to know how much I was enjoying servicing him.

  His purple eyes beamed at me. They seemed to be lit with an inner light that transformed his masculine face into a thing of beauty. He raised his hands to his hair, to push the wet strands behind those pointed ears, and then he smiled at me.

  Grinning back, I stuck out my tongue and ran it along the ridge below his head, tasting him, the slightly salty slightly sweet taste that was Lust.

  His hands burrowed in my hair as he began to feed me his cock.

  I opened my mouth, covering my teeth with my lips, before I almost inhaled his whole length.

  “Gods, Sinopee!” he cried out and his knees began to shake.

  Still looking up at him, I placed my hands on the firm globes of his ass and pulled him in tighter. Breathing though my nose, I was able to take him deep in my throat for a few moments. I moved my head up and down along his shaft, encouraging his movements as I sought to please him.

  But doing all of this had the desired effect on my body as well.

  My nipples began to grow hard and my body clenched in arousal. I could feel the warm pink waters heat the core of my being, adding to the moisture my body produced as I turned myself on by having Lust at my control.

  And at my control he was, for any slight motion I made, he automatically adjusted, his eyes telling me that it was my game, for now.

  I winked at him before I began to swallow, caressing his cock with the strong smooth muscles of my throat.

  Quickly, the lines of power shifted.

  Lust pulled himself from my mouth and I found myself on my back in the furs.

  Grinning up at him, I cupped my breasts for him, offering him a taste.

  His body covered me completely as he spread my legs and made himself a home between them.

  His lips latched onto on nipple and held it gently between his teeth as he laved it with his tongue.

  Heat rushed through my chest at the small pleasure-pain. His other fingers were gently caressing the underside of my breast, gentling me, before his nimble fingers gripped my nipple and rolled it between his thumb and forefinger.

  “Lust? What are you doing?” I gasped. Never had he treated my body so roughly.

  I liked it.

  “Taking you places, Sinopee,” he growled before he ground his pelvis into mine, making sure that his hard-on skid across my throbbing clitoris.

  I arched up into his caresses, loving the feel of his body dominating mine. I ran my hands though his hair, tugging on fistfuls, forcing his head back to my nipple.

  But Lust had other plans.

  Pulling away, he spread my legs wider as he dropped his head between them.

  Inhaling deeply, he buried his face in my crotch.

  His hands pushed my thighs wide as be begun to feast on me as if I was pure ambrosia.

  I threw my head back, my hands going to my own breasts, tugging and pulling at the nipples as he excited my body in ways he had never done before.

  That oral incident at the boulder only heightened my feelings for him, served as foreplay for this event.

  Then I felt his fingers come into play, running thought what pink water was left on my body, then invading the hollow of my needy being.

  I arched up off of the furs and cried out as I felt his fingers, two fingers, invade me.

  Pulling his head up, his lips wet with the essence of me, he asked in a low husky voice, “Do you like that?”

  I nodded frantically, wanting only to keep this feeling growing inside of me.

  “Want more?”

  Again I nodded, knowing if I opened my mouth the screams if passion would emerge.

  Quickly his thrusting fingers were removed and replaced by something considerably larger.

  I felt he blunt cap of his mushroom head press against me and lifted my legs around his waist, waiting for the pleasure to begin.

  But he gripped my legs and pulled them higher still, until my heels rested on his shoulders.

  Then, as I felt him begin to sink inside, I felt his fingers tapping at my back door.

  “Lust?” I began a bit worried, but the sensations I got from that caress sent sparks flying through my system.

  These new sensations coupled with the feeling of him driving himself deep inside my core had my senses reeling and my mouth watering.

  My breath began to pant as my hands reached for and clutched at his shoulders, digging my nails into his flesh.

  He growled at the pain, so far gone that it was just another sensation to add to his exploding senses.

  “Keep going!” I screamed, never having felt this stimulated before.

  Tangling my hands in his hair, I shuddered at the feel of his silky strands sliding through my fingers. I clenched it tightly in my fists and urged him on.

  Slowly, his finger pressed against my rosebud, then with a slight stinging feeling, it popped thorough the muscular ring.

  I jump in shock at the feeling, but his finger stopped moving and he lowered his head to thrust his tongue deep into mine.

  My eyes, widened from the pain of this new entry, slowly closed and I moaned into his mouth. There were lots in interesting things going on down there now.

  With his finger invading no-mans-land and his cock thrusting strongly in my cunt, I was almost ready to swoon with pleasure. And the more he moved, the better the feeling got.

  Soon I was thrusting up, forcing his steely rod deeper into me, then pushing back to let his finger hit nerve endings than had never been touched before.

  “You love this,” He purred as his tongue invaded my ear making me arch my breasts up into the wall of muscle that made up his chest.

  “You want me to stop?”

  “No,” I whined lost in the pleasure, hardly paying nay attention to what he was saying.

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�Then beg me not to stop.”

  “Please, don’t!” I gasped as he punctuated his request with a deep thrust.

  “Say my name.”

  “L-Lust!”

  “Again!”

  “Lust!”

  “Again!”

  “Luster!”

  Hearing that explosion of sound from my throat, Lust bent over me and began to pound into my willing flesh.

  Harder and faster he moved his cock and his finger, working in tandem to bring me orgasmic delight.

  I felt the tension in me winding tighter and tighter and soon I knew that one more sensation would send me over.

  “Come for me” he hissed and I whimpered as my body stiffed underneath his.

  “Come on! Come for me!”

  I shuddered as the world came to a grinding halt. I felt my body arching against his, demanding that one more move, that one final caress that would send me hurtling to the stars over the precipice infinity.

  “Fucking come!”

  He slammed home within me one final time and my world exploded into a sea of red-hot fireworks and deafening explosions.

  “Oh God!” I screamed as my body was wracked with shudders. I bucked so hard underneath him that he had to use his weight to hold me down.

  Vaguely, I was aware of his shout and the feel of his cock growing larger before it too exploded in passion, but I was too far gone, lost in climatic pleasure to pay it more attention.

  Finally, the waves of release passed and I collapsed under him, the soft furs beneath and his warm hardness above.

  “I love you,” he whispered so tenderly, that tears filled my eyes. “And I will return to you.”

  I closed my eyes, wrapped my arms around his sweating heaving body and prayed.

  Chapter Twelve

  Tears ran silently down my eyes as I watched Luster depart. He did not look back as he made his way to the roots of a large tree.

  Glimmer suddenly appeared at his side looking solemn as she placed her hand beside his.

  “The tree says that all is clear.”

  I didn’t react. Oh, in normal circumstances, I would have had a million questions for that one comment. But I only saw Luster, my man, leaving to travel into what could very well be his death.