The wanderer, p.23
The Wanderer, page 23
part #1 of The Nogud Legacy Series
Lark began to speak now.
She said, “This is my way of baptizing you; washing away your day and preparing you for our night. I’m washing away your clothes. Step out of these my love and give them to me.”
I stepped out of the shorts and Lark folded them slowly and set them on the pile neatly with my pants. As her attention turned back toward me, she put her hands at the tops of my feet and raised them up and over my ankles. Her head was lowered and she moved so that her hair touched between my knees. It felt soft and wonderful as she raised her head slowly, caressing my legs with her hands. I took a small step and spread my legs just slightly to give myself a better stance, but also to let her hair fall a little farther between my legs so that it brushed the insides of my thighs.
As Lark’s hands rubbed up my legs and her head came up between my thighs, she pushed her rear backward on her heels and turned her head upward so that her nose and lips ran up between my thighs. I was surprised when she stuck out her tongue and licked my balls and then my penis as her head made its way back to my waist. She didn’t pause, but continued a smooth movement running her hands up over my hips and then under my shirt to my chest. As she brought her hands down my sides again, she rose to her feet. Her hands flowed downward and her body flowed upward and the front of her tunic and the breasts beneath stayed in contact with my legs, and then my stomach and chest the entire time. This was incredible.
Lark said sensuously, “Let me take the day away from you,” and her hands flowed back up my sides and lifted my shirt over my head.
She flowed her body downward and sat on her knees again as she folded my shirt and placed it on the pile. I was thrilled at what I hoped would come next, and I wasn’t disappointed as Lark repeated her cat-like movement, flowing up the front of my body again and running her tongue up my thigh, under and then over my balls, up my penis, and then all the way up my chest.
When she got to my neck she whispered, “Let me give you a refreshing breath, the evening breath.”
Lark placed her mouth over mine and took a breath in through her nose, breathing out through her mouth, filling my lungs as I’d done with her during the washing that morning. Lark stayed on my mouth and kissed me slowly and lovingly.
Now her hands were at my back, flowing up and down in a slow rhythm.
She said, “Let me wash away the work and emotion. Master you love and bless your women, let me be all of them for you in this moment, washing away the work you have done for us today as I prepare you to have us bless you this evening. I am Viola and I love you. Master, I am your tiny playmate, Raven; let me love you. I am Lark, the wife you love, let me wash you with the love that you have given me today.”
She had her arms around me as she kissed my cheek and my ear, whispering into it and even nibbling it gently with her teeth. Her hands flowed downward again and she rubbed my buttocks tenderly.
Lark took me by the hand and whispered, “Come to the bed and I will wash you more.”
She guided me to the bedroom and had me lie on my stomach. I could feel her as she hiked up her tunic and straddled my naked rear. I felt the warm skin of her ass and crotch as she settled herself on top of me. As Lark made herself comfortable, I wondered if I also felt a slight wetness as she rubbed her womanly slit against my back.
Lark put her hands to my shoulders and began to rub and massage me.
She said, “Let me wash the tension from you, my husband and master. The day is behind you and dies with the fading sunlight. New life comes with the moon.”
She rocked her hips and massaged my lower back with her groin as much as she rubbed my upper back with her hands.
She went on like this for quite a while and it was amazing. It was the most amazing thing of its kind and I loved it.
Lark said, “Tomorrow night, and every night, I’ll come to you as Viola and Raven and Lark. At times in one body and at other times in another.”
I thought, “Wait, there it is again! It’s like she’s a different person, like when she spoke to me at the washing right before she went under and she told me secrets about Lark. Is she playing a part, or is she another persona? Is she speaking as a different aspect of herself or does she have a multiple personality that comes at times of high sensuality?”
Lark interrupted my thoughts and said, “Turn over.”
Lark raised herself off of me, but stayed straddling my body. I rolled onto my back beneath her and she settled back down on top of me. This time, her labia pushed down to each side of my penis as it lay between us, and there was no doubt that her little lips were slick with her wetness. Not only that, but I saw now that the two buttons of her tunic at her chest were undone and a panel of fabric was fallen down, leaving both breasts very much on display.
Lark began rubbing my stomach and chest and worked her way up to my shoulders.
She said, “All of the sights of the day give way now and the moons at my chest take their place.”
She leaned forward to rub and caress my face and cheeks and her glorious twin moons came out in full, inches from my lips.
I was feeling very relaxed now. It really was as if the day was melting away. This was marvelous. If this was the treatment that I should expect every evening, my life was going to be very happy.
Lark continued massaging my face and chest and even my head. And the entire time, she rubbed her hips, thighs, belly, and crotch against me. She was slow and gentle, massaging but not grinding.
She whispered in my ear, “Do you want to bathe in my body for a moment? In my wet warm pool?”
It did sound like a very nice idea and I nodded in agreement. Lark rocked forward and without using her hands, pressed herself over the head of my penis and pushed back to take me inside. She moved slowly up and down my length and lay her head on my chest. I put my arms around her back and held her gently.
She whispered, “Master, may I take a moment to release the pleasure that your love gives me? This is your time, and my love is for you, but if you’ll let me, I’ll be grateful.”
I stroked her back and said, “Of course, Lark. Please. Take some time for yourself as well. Your pleasure is my pleasure.”
I felt Lark’s lower half stiffen and she pushed herself as far onto me as she could. She grunted very quietly and shuddered…and then she began moving slowly and gently again.
She said, “If you like, you may certainly come into me as well. It’s up to you and if I can do something for you, just say it.”
I said, “Lark, this feels wonderful and it would be easy to climax with you right now, but I think that supper is almost ready. If you are satisfied for now, let’s get up and go back to the sofa.”
Lark raised her head and smiled at me and sat up and pulled off of me. She got up and I stood and took her hand to lead her to the sitting area.
Lark started to pull up the front of her dress to button it over her breasts, but I said, “Will you leave it down for me?”
She grinned and said, “Of course. All through dinner if you ask me to.”
I took her to the sofa and I sat down at one end and had Lark lie down beside me with her head in my lap. I stroked her hair with my left hand and I let my right go to her chest. I began giving her the same gentle treatment that she had given me, cupping and stroking and rubbing her breasts as tenderly as I could.
Lark purred and whispered, “Yes my love. Please yourself at my breasts. I love you.”
I smiled and after playing at her chest for a little while, I slid my hand lower down her stomach. Lark smiled with her eyes closed and I slid my fingers beneath the fabric buttoned at her waist, I did find the bare skin of her crotch waiting for me there.
She said, “Would you like me to undo the buttons?”
I said, “I would.”
Lark reached down and unbuttoned both sides of the flap across her front and pulled it down, exposing her belly and sex. I played gently and slowly, and soon, my middle finger was inside her, wiggling tenderly as Lark had multiple quiet orgasms. We were still enjoying this as we heard the door to the apartment open and close.
Raven stood at the back of the sofa at my ear and said, “Dinner is ready, if you are. I thought that you would like the lounging tunic. Tanya says that we will all have them soon. Lark, you are very beautiful. I never looked at you before, but you are very pretty. But, you were supposed to dress Joshua in a tunic too. Oh, and we have guests for dinner.”
I helped Lark to a sitting position and then we both stood up.
Lark picked up the tunic that was for me and helped me dress as Raven said, “Susan says that the tunics are fine for guests and if it was the old days that we would provide comfortable tunics for them as well. Oh, I love both of you so much!”
Lark buttoned up both the bottom and the top of her tunic and she and Raven and I left the apartment together to join the others in the dining room.
Chapter 23 We Are All Wizards
In the dining room, Susan said, “Well, how did it go?”
I started to say something, but Susan smiled and stopped me and said, “I was asking Lark, dear.”
Lark grinned and said, “It was wonderful. I did what you said. I didn’t know how to at first, but then I figured it out. I thought about how it was when he washed me and I tried to do it like that, you know, washing away his day with my words and touches. It was so nice! And I didn’t get all…well, it wasn’t fucking, but it was, well, sensuous. And relaxing. I want to do it every day! I mean, well, one of us could do it every day. It doesn’t have to be me. But, I think it is maybe sort of as good as washing magic, but for every day after work. It was very special for me.”
Once again, Susan and Paul’s other women stood with surprised looks on their faces at having been told some great mystery that that they’d never of heard before. Yuki tended to take things like this in stride, possibly because she was like the girls herself and somehow understood the implications more easily, but for Susan and the rest, they were hearing Lark tell them that she had discovered a mysterious secret about marriage that they had never imagined.
Amanda said, “Um, Lark, can you teach us what you mean? Not now, later when it’s just women? I did the best that I could, but I don’t think that I did for Paul what you did for your master. Um, I…um, we need to hear about how you…”
Susan said, “See, it’s the new blessing and the tables are turned around so that the exceptional young ones sit at the head and we older women, who thought that we were the superior and blessed, must sit at the foot of the table and learn womanly mysteries. Could it be that in older days, it was Lark and her sisters that tried to teach all women and that’s where the traditions that we’ve neglected, like the preparation for dinner, not just the preparation of dinner, came from? I feel like a poor fool and an arrogant blusterer to think that I could bring poor orphans into my house and improve their lives by teaching them to be like me. What a joke!” and she started to cry.
Tanya said, “I don’t know what to do. Why am I feeling so wretched?”
I went to Susan and put my arm around her.
She turned and held onto me and cried, “Wizard, help me if you can!”
I said calmly, “Mother, listen to me. This is a reconciliation. The world isn’t being reversed; the split is being repaired. Lark wouldn’t have been able to rediscover any tradition if you hadn’t pointed the way and told her exactly where to look. Perhaps she has a talent for it, but she needs you to reveal the path. Reveal the path for her and she’ll show us how to walk on it. We all have different talents, don’t we? If you will accept it, every person has a genius. You call me a wizard because my talents seem marvelous. I see each one in this room as wizards. Mother Susan, you are the wizard who has made us a family. Everyone, let me ask you. Do you like this family that has been formed in the past two days? It wasn’t me who did this, but to my thinking it is our Mother Susan. Amanda, tell me, if you just answer quickly, who is your mother?”
Amanda said, “Susan! I have never thought about it in that way, but he’s right. Susan is my mother and I learn from her and she cares for me. When I’m ill or afraid, it’s my mother Susan who helps me. Susan, I love you. Thank you for all you’ve done for me. It’s true, just like he says. If it weren’t for you, I don’t know where I’d be. I wouldn’t have this family if you hadn’t brought me here and loved me.”
I said, “And my girls and I wouldn’t be here and loved as we are. I was alone and the girls were even more alone. But when I brought Viola to you, when we were both orphans, you took us in and gave us a home. It was your plan to take us in and teach us and make us loved. You brought us here and introduced us as family and called me your son and gave me not just yourself, but Amanda and Tanya and Yuki as well. And you’ll see even more magic, I promise you. You have all joked about me being a magician, but it’s awakening in all of you. I washed Lark this morning and a magic has been awakened in her and she will awaken it in all of you. And Mother Susan, you have had this mother magic all along, but now it’s awakening because you have children again; children who depend on your wisdom and love. You told Lark the wisdom of this evening ritual and she found the magic within herself to do it. But more than that, you showed Viola the place of a first mate and Viola somehow knew who to send on the errand of discovering the magic for the ritual. I don’t know if she or Raven would have discovered it like Lark did. They have their own magic to bring. Viola has magic like you do, to see what must be done and who must do it. She had it when I met her and she guided me yesterday. She knew somehow the way to speak to people and how to help me accomplish what I needed. She had it, but now it awakens even more. And if we didn’t have guests about to arrive, I could describe the magic awakening in Raven and all of the rest of you. But, now someone else take a turn. Tell me what magic awakens in Paul? It’s powerful magic if you see it.”
Everyone was quiet and after a moment, Paul said, “Don’t be silly, I’m no wizard. I make clothing.”
Yuki said quietly, “I see what Joshua means about this. And now I see that Paul does have this magic. Paul makes me safe. Paul has created a sanctuary. He has safety and sanctuary magic. He has done it all along, but is has been awakened now as Joshua says. Joshua and Viola came to him alone and afraid yesterday. Paul conjured up a safe place for them. Susan created a new family for them.”
Tanya broke in, “Yes, it is a new family isn’t it? It was a different family with us for many years, but today it’s a brand new family. We love each other, but we don’t even know each other. And now we are family.”
Yuki continued, “Yes, Susan created a new family for all of us. Look at me. But Paul created a haven of safety. He brought the two little birds home and promised to protect them. Then he said, ‘if you find more, bring them all to me and I will keep them safe’. This is strange because I can see clearly, now that I’m told what to look for, what magic is awakening in all of us…except for one. There is very powerful magic with that one, but I can’t describe what it is. That one is Joshua.”
Susan was standing beside me with her arm around my waist now and said, “He’s the wizard. His magic is…um…”
Yuki said, “You see? We know that he is the wizard, but even he doesn’t know what his magic is.”
Viola said, “I know what it is.”
Raven said, “I know what it is.”
Lark said, “Yes, it’s very easy to see. I saw it from the first moment.”
Viola said, “When he stood at the event and the Merchant tried to convince him to take me and I could sense that he would take me no matter what and that the Merchant was wasting his breath because I was going with Joshua and it could not be stopped.”
Raven said, “When he said to me, ‘you will feel the sun on your face before you take another step’.”
Again, Paul and his women had the stunned looks on their faces.
They all looked to me, but I shrugged my shoulders and said, “I’d be the last to know. We don’t see it in ourselves.”
Raven said, “He is the story teller.”
Lark said, “He tells us what the world will look like.”
Viola said, “He tells us what our story was and what it is and what it will be. He tells us where it goes and how it will end.”
Raven said, “He reveals our story bit by bit when the right time comes.”
Paul broke in and said, “My goodness yes! Joshua, why are you going to buy the property downstream?”
I was surprised by the question, but answered, “I don’t know. I need to do it. I can’t say why.”
Paul said, “But somehow it’s part of our story! A page not turned.”
Viola said, “I’m a player in the story that my lover tells. Susan has said it. Lark has said it. Yuki has said it. Amanda and Tanya both say it. If he tells us that we’re going mounting climbing, then we are going mountain climbing. That’s the story that I’m part of.”
Raven said, “And when our guests are gone, we’ll go to our apartment and I’ll throw him onto the bed and he will tell a story that includes fucking me until sunup.”
I said, “Raven! You have to stop that!”
Raven grinned and said, “Then stop boring me! Joshua is a magician and everyone is awakening in their magic and we will all make our magic like cakes for breakfast and if you like you can all sit around and talk about it for the next year and a half. As for me, my clothes are magic and they only stay on for a little bit at a time, and then they disappear and don’t come back until Joshua recharges me with sex magic and besides, someone just knocked on the door.”
Paul laughed and said, “Raven, you are the most forthright and least rude little pixie that I’ve ever known! Joshua, never scold her in earnest. Scolding in play is fine, but be very sure of yourself before you decide to scold her in earnest.”
Raven grinned and said sweetly, “Oh, Father Paul, my big daddy master is never harsh and I never pay attention when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Men can’t help it sometimes and I haven’t had time to train him yet. But, did I mention that someone is knocking at the door?”
