Hybrid Theory Chapter 11
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Chapter Eleven
Synchronicity and Proximity
Gods I'm stiff. I don't think I moved all night. I turned over and looked at the clock -- 9:04. How the fuck! I never sleep that long! I felt Rav stir behind me; his arms went up into a mighty stretch. The erotic musky odor I loved had intensified greatly overnight. I waved my hand in front of my face and acted like I was gagging.
"Your mock disgust is not convincing when your dick is standing straight up, Kreg" he said, voice cracking from dryness. Okay so maybe it wasn't exactly a stench, or maybe I'm more of a degenerate that I thought. I pointed out the tent in the blanket just below his belly fluff.
"I've got to piss like a river kraxnorr" he said. I didn't get the reference but I'm sure it was similar to a racehorse. He got up and I followed behind him like a well-trained pet. Saying that pissing with a hard-on is difficult is a gross understatement. I had the damn thing bent down almost painfully and couldn't get a stream started until Rav's hit the water. Finally, it let loose, and a tiny trickle started up, getting more voluminous as it went along. He finished just before I did and started filling the tub. Awesome! More playing! He got in and leaned back against the back of the tub and settled in. I was finishing another need and gave him a courtesy flush before I finished up and joined him in the tub, leaning back against him and resting my head on his shoulder. He got a glob of the furwash by the tub and started lathering me up. I just lay back and let his hands do their job. He rinsed me and pushed me forward so he could do my back, and I washed my legs while he did that. When he was done, I turned around facing him and started cleaning him. The water in the tub was so soapy, using the cup to rinse was useless, so once we were all lathered up, we dripped our way into the shower and rinsed off. I used a towel to clean up our drippage and drained the tub and rinsed it out. I was bent over the tub when he came back in and ran his fingertip through the crack of my ass, I almost fell into the tub, but he caught me by my tail and pulled me back upright.
I turned around and looked at him, still damp from the shower and shirtless, just in briefs and a pair of socks. He started pulling on his jeans and I turned him around and took hold of his tail, putting it in its groove and buttoned the strap for him. I couldn't help but notice how the muscles in his lower back twitched and he pushed back toward me a little as I did it. A quick kiss and he went back into the bedroom to finish dressing. Again, I followed him, dressed quickly and went in to join the others.
"Damn! We thought you sleeping beauties were out for the day" Mark said.
"No just finally unwinding from school a little" I said.
"Now that you guys are finally up, are you ready to go get gifts?" Mark asked.
"And give them" I replied.
Mark and Grexl walked out and called back for `last one out to lock the door'. I turned the little switch on the doorknob ad pulled the door closed. Today was different from yesterday, traffic everywhere again. I guess people were either looking for bargains or taking back stuff they didn't want. It took us 45 minutes to get to Rav's. When we walked in, Kris was watching some sports thing on TV, Danny was nowhere to be seen, and Kathy was in the kitchen.
Mark and Grex sat down with Kris. I snagged Rav to help me bring my gifts down. Danny had made it to the living room by the time we got back. I went ahead and gave him his first since it was the heaviest. He dragged the big box over to one side of the room and started ripping off the paper until he could see what it was.
"Oh, fucking cool!!!" he said, immediately covering his mouth at the same time Kathy and Kris both said "Language!"
In my snooping I was told he wanted one of these specific gaming chairs. It had Bluetooth speakers built into the headrest, cup holder, all the bells and whistles.
"This is awesome, Kreg. I love you!" he said, then quickly followed up with "No homo" which of course started me laughing again, along with Grexl and Mark.
Next, I gave a box to Kris. He pulled the paper off and sat back smiling. A bottle of 25-year-old Scotch in a gold leaf can, that only a true Scotch whiskey enthusiast would know about. According to the saved review Rav had printed out from Kris's computer, it was a `sherry bomb' and `truly a delight'. I hoped it was at $110 a bottle.
"Somebody was invading my digital privacy" he said. Ravan looked very suspicious.
"Thank you, Kreg. You didn't have to..." he started. I stopped him.
"Merry Christmas!" I told him as Kathy brought him one of his monogrammed Glencairn glasses.
"You guys want to try it?" he asked Mark and Grex. They nodded.
"Bring two more glasses, please" he turned to ask Kathy, who was already standing there with the glasses.
While she was there, I got the big flat box and handed it to her. She smiled and took it to the kitchen to open it.
"Wait, is this?" she said.
"Yes ma'am, Adrienne Gasteau Creations" I said. Kris had tipped me off that she was in love with stained glass art by this guy. He even told me the one she liked. The rest was easy. She held it up to the light and studied the details.
"Grexl, I'll admit you came into my life so fast I didn't know what to get you. You'll find a debit on that credit card you bought the ear band with" I told him.
"Thanks, little man!" he said, "Merry Christmas!"
"Uncle Mark, my boyfriend is nosy and overhears conversations like one of Santa's elves" I handed him the last box.
He pulled out a pocketknife and carefully cut the wrapping paper on his gift.
"TCX Drifters!" he showed them to Grexl. I had read mixed reviews but bought him those because he liked Grexl's so much.
"Just like mine!" Grexl said, right on time.
"These are very ex..." he started.
"Exquisite...I know" I said, interrupting him, "Or at least that's what I've heard."
My turn was over so now we all got our gifts from the others. My favorite had to be the Galaxos Data Card from Kris and Kathy. I know this thing set them back -- 1 terabyte of data I could use to talk, or I should say text with my mom." I thought about it and that much data had probably cost over $400. I bet they'd just saved the money I'd been paying them to help on bills and spent it on me. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
"Oh gods! Thanks, you guys, this is great!" I said.
It went on and on until lunch time. While Kathy was getting dinner ready, me and Rav snuck down to Danny's room to give him one more gift. Rav passed the little box to him, and we held our breath as he unwrapped it -- a box of Lifestyles Snugger fit condoms.
"Merry Christmas, pencil dick" Rav taunted, "no homo!"
Danny threw them into his nightstand drawer and jumped on Rav knocking him onto the bed. They wrestled for a minute. Rav called a time out.
"Hey, it was as much Kreg's idea as mine. He said you need protection if you're changing girlfriends so often" Rav said, throwing me under the bus. Two could play at that game.
"Yeah, but Rav is the one who told me you have a...uh...small appendage" I said, hooking my thumb at Rav.
"Kreg gets a pass because of my Christmas present...but you..." he jumped Rav again and they play fought until Kathy called up to come eat.
It kept nagging at me during dinner that the only one who hadn't gotten me a gift was Ravan. I was determined to not be petty and ask about it, and I told myself that it really didn't matter, but still... The guys left not long after dinner and the rest of us retreated to our own areas. I changed into my lounging clothes when we got in and sat on the loveseat. I watched as Ravan changed into his too. He grabbed a blanket and sat down beside me, covering us both in the blanket. I turned on the TV, I didn't even pay that much attention to what was on -- probably another cringey Hallmark movie. I leaned my head back and rested my eyes. Rav snuggled up to me, but I really wasn't much in the mood. He seemed to be very fidgety, to the point he finally sighed and got up to look for something in the kitchen. I kind of half-watched the show on the screen until he came back and tucked in beside me again. He pulled my hand from under the blanket and put a small box in it.
I didn't ask him what it was -- it had my name written on the gift tag. I pulled off the paper and slowly unwrapped it. It looked like it came from the same jewelry store where I got him the ear band. I slowly popped the lid and inside were two matching silver rings embedded with a line of prak'tarra. I looked at the rings and then back up at him.
"They're called promise rings. At least that's what that Narashi guy called them" he said, "It's a promise of love into the future...and...well...you know what the Splendor means."
I didn't even know I was crying until Rav asked me what was wrong. I felt the sticky wetness around my muzzle then.
"Nothing's wrong. It's the sweetest thing anybody's ever done for me" I said wiping at my eyes. "These had to be expensive..."
"Let's just say that Mark and Grexl helped me a little, but most of it came from my savings" he said. He took one ring out and handed it to me, then took the other for himself.
"We're supposed to read this as we put the rings on each other's hands" he said. He held the little card in his left hand as he threaded the ring on my finger, and I did the same. He looked into my eyes and asked, "Are you ready for this?" I read the card and nodded, a tear sliding down my muzzle again. Together we recited the pledge:
"My love, I offer you this ring as a sign of my undying fealty. Wear it with love and joy. I choose you to be mine. May our heartstrings forever be intertwined. I pledge to you my faithfulness, my kindness, my generosity, and most of all, my boundless love. Let this be my promise to love you as a part of myself. May our love last as long as the stars shine in the night sky."
With that we slid the rings on each other's fingers and for the first time I watched as tears flowed from Ravan's eyes. He leaned in to kiss me and I whispered in his ear "I love you." He pushed me back so that our eyes met again, "I love you more" he said.
"Ravan, I thought I was the romantic one in this relationship?" I sniffled.
"What would Danny think if he saw the two of us like this?" Rav joked.
"He'd definitely say it's too homo for him and he'd have to jet" I laughed. Rav got up and locked the door, then pulled me to the bed.
"It's about to get intensely homo" he said grinning as he started pulling my shirt off. I was compliant and lifted my arms to ease his burden, then I took his off. I unbuttoned my jeans, pulled the zipper and let them fall. Rav held both my hands and lowered me to the bed so he could pull the offending garments the rest of the way off me. He took off his own and let them drop to the floor as he joined me on the bed.
We were touching each other all over but carefully avoiding the area of each other area we wanted to touch the most. I pushed his arm up and he tucked it behind his head. I leaned in to sniff the masculine scent coming from his furry pit. As I moved across to his nipple, the arm slid back down and rested across the top of my shoulders. Meanwhile his free right arm was all over me from chest to hips, just petting me and feeling the muscles under my fur. I moved downward, leaving the shelter of his arm and worked my way across his abdomen to stick my tongue in his navel which elicited a sigh. His hand moved to my upper back and made circles gradually moving down to the lower half.
Again, I skipped the crucial area where his dick was straining and bobbing. I turned my body around for access to his thighs. I made him tremble as I left a trail of kisses from his left thigh across his perineum to the edge of the right thigh. I couldn't help but inhale the musk from the juncture of his meaty ass cheeks. I took his right thigh between my hands and followed it all the way down to his feet, then repeated the action on the other. When I looked back up toward his face, I couldn't help but see the string of clear fluid running down his rigid shaft.
All the while, he was stroking and petting me all over my back, sides, chest, stomach, upper thighs. I felt him exploring my tail. I don't know if he'd ever touched me there before. My tail is about 2 and a half inches at the base and roughly a foot and a half long. Ravan wrapped his hand around the base, very close to my entry port, and gently pulled his hand down the length of it, all the way to the tip. I know everybody is different, but for me, my tail is one of my major erogenous zones. Having someone else handle it so intimately made my stomach feel like it was full of butterflies. He went back again when he recognized what it was doing to me and as his hand made its second journey, I was leaking clear fluid onto his arm. He put a finger in the little puddle and brought it to his mouth.
I ran one fingerclaw across the bottom of his left foot and he kind of jerked a little. On a hunch, I scooted lower and sucked his big toe into my mouth -- he shuddered. I sucked on each toe in turn, then took several at once. Rav's crotch was becoming a mess from all the precum amassing. I was getting into making him crazy.
Rav shuddered again, but he had his own ideas, he gathered as much of his pre as he could and rubbed it on my hole. His hand circled the base of my tail again and squeezed it as, simultaneously, his middle finger used the precum as lubrication to slide into me. I turned more onto my stomach and reached up. While I sucked his toes, my right hand finally took his furry scrotum in its grip, and I started pulling the loaded orbs down and away from his body. He sucked in a breath.
"Please let me have you, Kreg" he murmured, half-crazy with lust, "I need you so bad!" he whined.
I released his toes and flipped myself around. I started to straddle him, but he had other ideas. He grabbed me by the hips and turned me over on my back, then grabbed our pillows, stacked them and laid his shirt over them, then lifted me by the waist and put my ass on the pillows. I kicked my legs up and pulled them back almost even with my head, opening myself fully to him. For just a few seconds I felt the weird sensation of cool air on a spot not used to a breeze.
Rav put more of his freely flowing fluids on his cock head and brought it to my opening and applied pressure. I wanted him so bad - I forced myself to open up using sheer willpower. He reached to the nightstand and retrieved the little tub and added enough lube to ease the dryness, then slowly pushed in until he was all the way inside. His hands were holding my thighs, keeping me in place as he began rocking in and out of me. His left hand let my right thigh go for a minute as it took my thick tail in its grip and held my tail as he began a businesslike pounding of my ass. The extra stimulation of his grip on my tail was too much. I put my hand on his chest to stop him.
"If you keep playing with my tail, I'm going to cum" I panted. He nodded and put his hand back on my thigh and waited a minute before continuing his assault. I began slowly stroking my cock as he languorously moved inside me. As he sped up his motions, I matched his energy with my strokes. When he knew he was getting really close, he reached down and squeezed the base of my tail again, just under the action of his pounding. As his grip tightened, I shot load after load, the first of which hit the headboard about ten inches above my head. My entire torso was covered in my cum. About 20 seconds later he slammed into me, moving me up and nearly off the pillows as he actually howled as he came. I put my cum covered hand up to quiet him and I felt his tongue dart out and start licking the cum from my fingers. Me dick flexed and another small squirt of fluid burbled out. He very gently, very slowly pulled out and laid down beside me. I lazily played in the cum on my stomach and fed it to him. He smiled and kissed me, shoving it back into my mouth. We pushed it back and forth until it was finally gone. His breath and mine were interchangeable as we panted into each other's mouths.
"Gods! We made a giant mess!" he said happily.
"An amazing, brain-melting, quivering mess" I sighed.
I pulled the pillows out from under me and wiped my body with his dirty shirt before we both fell asleep, our limbs tangled up in each other.
We woke up with somebody knocking on the door. Rav pulled the covers up over my naked body and pulled on his underwear to answer it. I could feel the cold air all the way over here when he opened the door. Danny stepped in and immediately his eye went to the clothes in the floor, especially the wadded-up tee shirt lying next to where I was laying.
"Gross!" he said, then "Oh...Mom said come on down for breakfast."
I stretched and looked at the clock -- 8am. At least she wasn't doing a dawn breakfast today. I sat up and Danny mumbled, "Nasty." I looked down at my stomach which looked like a glazed donut despite my attempts at cleaning it last night. What could I do? I gave Danny a shit-eating grin and told him, "You have to take the bad with the stupendously awesome."
"Ooookkkk...I got to go. Y'all please clean up before you come" he said.
"We've already come" Rav teased him.
"Ewww!" Danny said making a quick exit. Rav and I laughed.
"How will he ever make it if his girl toy sits on his face?" Rav chuckled. He walked into the bathroom. As much as I was cherishing the warmth of the bed I jumped up and went to join him in the shower. Despite just hours ago having probably the best sex in my entire life, by the time we got done washing each other, we were both more than half hard again. We got out and used the blow dryer to get really dried off. When it's this cold it's easier to catch colds and stuff. We got dressed, pushing swelled parts into confining clothing and went down to join the family.
I reached for one of the homemade biscuits and Kathy spotted the ring. Damn. It didn't take her two minutes. Her eyes darted over and saw its twin on Ravan's finger and smiled.
"Promise rings?" she said. We nodded. "Prak'tarra? Do you guys know the significance of that?"
"It's what that group on Vanterra use as a symbol" Rav said while chewing his food.
"But do you know why they use that stone?" she asked. Very quietly I told her our theory about how its name was similar to the slur used against them all the time.
"I hadn't even thought of that" she said, "Prak'tarra is surrounded in myths from ancient times."
"Rak'tov and Vrextarr. That's a legend you'd never learn in a Vanterran school" Kris said between bites, "But you're the one with such an intense interest in old Vanterran mythology, so do continue."
"I'm obviously not Vanterran, so I'm going to use human terms for a lot of things, just so you will get the idea" Kathy said, prefacing her story.
"Okay, so...many millennia ago, during the second kingdom, there were two laborers at the palace of the king. Rak'tov was a palace guard and Vrextarr was a personal servant to the king."
"Wait, aren't those both men's names?" Danny interrupted. Kathy nodded. "I hope this isn't going where I think it is..." he said.
"If you don't want to hear the story, finish your breakfast and leave" Kathy said, a little annoyed. Danny looked chastised and said, "Nah, it's okay, go ahead."
"Every day Rak'tov and Vrextarr's paths crossed, multiple times a day, `hellos' and `good mornings' turned into small talk, later the small talk turned into extended conversations which in turn grew into deep talks in which the two debated many hot topics of the day. Eventually the two came to consider each other as friends. Over the span of a few years, their friendship grew deeper. The two began to spend all their down time together, sparring, running, what we would call `working out' together. The two became inseparable" she said.
"In the third year of their service, Vrextarr began to feel what he considered to be `wrong' feelings for Rak'tov and, being afraid he might get careless, asked to be assigned to different duties. He cut off all ties and no longer went on the long runs and other activities with Rak'tov" Danny interrupted again.
"Why? If they were such good friends, why would he act that way?" Danny asked.
"If you'll stop interrupting me, I'll get there" she said.
"Rak'tov found himself in a deep depressive fugue, as if his ability to feel happiness had been sucked out of his body. He stopped taking care of himself, came to work drunk, his tunic always dirty and unbecoming of a palace guard. It wasn't long before he was threatened with dismissal from his palace guard position. Rak'tov didn't care, to be honest he only cared about one thing. He deeply desired to find out why Vrextarr had abandoned him. At the end of the next shift, he set out to find Vrextarr to ask him what he had done to drive his friend away. Rak'tov questioned everyone in the palace and a kitchen wench directed him to a spring in the forest at the rear of the palace. Rak'tov followed the curvy path between the trees into a small clearing. There, staring into the water that was reflecting the starry sky, sat Vrextarr weeping. The stories say that in those days the stars were all different colors, like the lights on our Christmas trees.
"The sky is beautiful tonight" Rak'tov said, breaking Vrextarr from his concentration. He looked up and saw Rak'tov.
"Courtly gossip tells me that your position is in danger, why have you let your devotion lack so?" Vrextarr asked him.
"I have an emptiness like an abyss inside me since you abandoned me" Rak'tov answered, barely audible.
"I had to break away to save us...to save you...I thought" Vrextarr said sadly, "I had begun to have feelings for you far surpassing simple friendship. Feelings and carnal desires which, if assuaged, could lead to our very destruction, at minimum -- our exile."
"I too have felt those things. In the dark of night my heart cries out for your touch and my eyes beg just for a glimpse of your sweet face. If my entire nature is anathema, then, may the gods go ahead and cast me into Trelligarr," Rak'tov replied looking up at the sky, "without you, the stars are only cold lifeless white lights in an ebon field."
Vrextarr was moved and stood to touch the cheek of his friend. A sound from the forest caused them to spring apart and tremble. Coming from the forest beyond the spring an old man appeared, hunched and withered. He walked up to stop between the two and put a firm hand on each one's shoulder and shook them lightly.
"My children, this...this meat... this flesh...is but a container for this realm" he said, "the truth of you lies within, the truth is in the invisible threads which leap from our hearts and entwine with the threads of another. This fleshy container shall perish and rot away, but your inner lights, more brilliant than the stars above shine within this envelope of flesh and your lights are never-ending, imperishable."
In the darkness of the clearing, the old man waved his hand over them and pointed to the spring. As the two looked into the reflection in the spring they saw themselves as they truly were -- beings of sparkling light with rays reaching out and intermingling with the rays from the other. So many threads were tangled between them, to cut the threads would surely cause grave damage or possibly damnation to the axe bearer. Vrextarr pulled Rak'tov into his embrace and Rak'tov wrapped his arms around his friend and their lips met."
"Yeah, that where I figured this was going" Danny almost whispered. Kathy, watery eyed, shot him an evil look and he shut up.
"They went to the king and asked for his permission to be joined, but he denied them. What righteous man could condone, nay bless such an unnatural union? He ruled that they be sent to opposite ends of Restarra, thousands of miles apart. The sentence was set, and there was no changing the monarch's mind. Chariots were summoned and as they spent their final moments together, the guards kept them separated by placing them on opposite sides of a large boulder. They stood with eyes locked and reaching with all their might they were barely able to touch the ends of their fingers together. When the chariots arrived and the guards tried to drag them away, the threads were so entwined that they snapped, and the tangled lines remained in the boulder even as both the guards and Rak'tov and Vrextarr died" Kathy said.
"No one would go near the boulder for many years. It came to be known as the shame of Restarra. Then, years after, when the incident had all but been forgotten, the boulder was being moved. The rock split open and inside was a black mineral filled with luminescent flecks of every color. The folk of the area knew immediately that this was the imprint of Rak'tov and Vrextarr, set in stone forever" she finished.
I realized that my hand was being crushed in Ravan's grip, he leaned in and without hesitation we kissed, right in front of his family. The meaning of the rings suddenly had way more gravity than we thought when we said our pledges. As I laid my head on Rav's shoulder, Kathy was silently sobbing, and I could tell even Danny had a little watering in his eyes. Kris and Kathy's hands were joined across the table as they started into each other's eyes.
"I'm sorry for kidding you guys all time" said before running back to his room. I don't think he wanted anybody to see how emotional he'd gotten. After he left there was nothing but silence for a while, then Kathy got up to start doing dishes and I let go of Rav to help her. I collected the plates, and Kris patted me on the forearm.
"I don't think those threads are just intertwined among lovers" I told him, "I feel like we're all intertwined with each other."
I heard Kathy sniff loudly and went over and we started our task. The moment was over.
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Wipe your eyes, don't get your shirt wet.