Golden Change

by Lynn B. Davidson

  The day before their wedding Kylie met Aiden’s Uncle James. He shared a family resemblance with Aiden as he had the same dark blond hair and brown eyes. The facial features were similar as well, but something about the lack of facial expression in James’s face made him look nothing like Aiden at all.

  Kylie wasn’t sure she liked him and leaned into Jacob’s arm after they were introduced. Jacob put his arm around her, drawing her in. Aiden had made arrangements to meet with him at dusk. Until then they had other guests who were continuing to arrive, and they mostly sat near the concierge desk greeting guests who were coming to the wedding.

  She found out all but a few of the rooms in the palace guest quarters were being filled with their wedding guests. The courtyard and restaurant were filled with people who were there to wish them well. Of course, there were a few of the matrons there as well who had shunned her when she first came. She saw Cheryl and Betsy in particular gossiping in a corner. Both had looked up when she walked by and plastered on fake smiles and wished her well.

  Kylie spent a lot of time that day visiting with Jacob’s parents and grandparents, as they had set up in the lounge near the concierge as well. She was wearing a new gown for the occasion. It was sheer creamy beige, with some inlaid lace. It was tight, but a little longer so she could sit and stand without having to pull it down after she got up. From a distance, Aiden said she looked like she was naked.

  Kylie whispered to Victoria, “I think this dress is too close to my skin tone. People are giving me funny looks.”

  Victoria was sitting next to her and she gave her a quick look over. “Nonsense. You have become a trendsetter. I wouldn’t be surprised if next week everybody has a skin-tone gown. Look at all of the guests here.” She made a swinging head motion for her to look over her shoulder and around. “All of the women here are now wearing tight, sheer gowns like you wear. Even those two twits in the corner are wearing similar gowns.” She nodded towards Cheryl and Betsy. “Everybody now has spaghetti straps they let hang to their elbows and more of them are wearing their hair down now, too.”

  Kylie looked down at her dress again. It was actually harder to distinguish her nipples in this gown than in white-colored ones. She was content to listen to them talk as she drifted into her own thoughts.

  James came to collect them as they were eating a late snack. They followed him through the courtyard as the sun was setting. They undressed at the big pool. Aiden and Jacob jumped in before turning towards her. Kylie sat on the edge of the pool before letting herself slip in. James had jumped in as well and swam towards the waterfall.

  The tunnel looked different with the darkening sky. There were no lights here and Kylie felt a little uncomfortable. James went first. Aiden turned towards them. “Same as last time?” he asked.

  “Sure,” Jacob responded.

  Aiden ducked under the falls and swam through.

  “Okay, Kylie,” Jacob said nodding toward the tunnel. She shook her head. “I–I don’t like dark tunnels,” Kylie whispered.

  “Okay.” He was looking down at her, and even in the darkness, she could see the concern in his eyes. “It’s too narrow for us to swim side by side,” he thought aloud.

  They must have worried Aiden because he had swum back and popped up beside them.

  “Everything okay?” he asked.

  “It’s too dark for her,” Jacob explained simply.

  Aiden pulled her into his arms. “When we first met,” he explained to Jacob, “she had escaped her captors right before we stormed the bowels of the slave ship. She had managed to crawl into an air duct and had wedged herself stuck.” He was petting her hair, letting her head rest on his shoulder. Jacob had come close and wedged in as well so he was touching her back.

  “We didn’t know there was anyone missing. We had already transferred the other prisoners to another ship when one of my engineers heard something in the engine room. She had been stuck there for at least a day and a half before we found her,” Aiden continued.

  She looked over her shoulder at Jacob. “I wasn’t sure if my situation had changed with new captors. I didn’t know if things would be better or worse. I had a crude form of your language programmed into my translator. I was able to catch a few words, but I really I had no idea what they were saying as they cut me out of the air duct.”

  Aiden smiled, “She was filthy. I had no idea what she looked like until they cut her out. All I could see were her eyes blinking out of a black soot-filled face. In fact, I didn’t realize she didn’t have black hair until we got her bathed.”

  “His face was in shadow and I couldn’t see him at all from in there,” Kylie said. “I could only hear his voice and he had put his hand in and held my hand as they were cutting me out.”

  “I’m going to swim back under,” Aiden said. “When I get there I’ll put my arm through the tunnel. You won’t be able to see my face this time either, but you will be able to hold my hand.”

  Kylie nodded. Aiden swam through the hole. She waited until she felt his arm reach back through the hole. She grabbed it, ducking her head under the water. He pulled her through to the other side.

  When she popped up on the other side, she saw James standing in the middle of the pool of water. He had a golden chalice in his hand, and slung over his arm was an odd-looking necklace of sorts.

  Jacob popped up next to her.

  “Please join me in the sacred pool,” James said with a very even voice.

  The three of them walked up the steps then into the oasis pool. They were slightly huddled together. The air was cool. Kylie could feel a slight breeze on her bare skin as they stood in front of James.

  James called Kylie forward, putting the necklace over her head. She saw now the necklace was a garland of pieces of fruits and flowers that had been most likely taken from the foliage from around them. She realized he must have come here earlier to make it.

  James had knelt in the water and nodded to them to do the same. She was grateful as the hot water enveloped more of her body. They were all so tall more of their chests were exposed, but the water was up to over her breasts. The fruit necklace was floating slightly in front of her.

  “Long has this sacred spring nourished the trees here and blessed them to make fruit. Please partake of the fruit it has blessed.” James spoke in an even tone.

  Aiden lifted a piece of fruit on her necklace and bit it off the string, holding it. As he was chewing, he offered her a piece, then Jacob. The flowers even had a pleasant taste and they ate until the only thing that remained was the string.

  “The water blesses all it touches and gives us the nourishment we need,” James said. He then bowed and sipped in some water. He nodded to them to do the same.

  James stood up and they followed his lead. “I want Aiden and Jacob to lie on the side of the pool,” he instructed.

  They lay side by side, mostly out of the water. Their butts were sitting in an inch deep of water.

  It was somewhat strange, Kylie thought as she watched James arrange their bodies.

  He had them both raise their knees, then indicated they should splay their thighs open. Their knees were touching. Now was probably not the time to laugh at how they looked like frogs ready to be dissected. Kylie swallowed her smile as he turned to her.

  He had her come and lie between them. He directed her to splay her thighs open as well. Her butt was resting on their touching knees. He had each of them hold one of her knees back so her pussy was completely open.

  “We are going to ask the well to bless your bodies to bear fruit.”

  He dipped his chalice into the water and poured it over Aiden’s groin. “Bless his seed to be strong, bless his seed to bring forth fruit,” he intoned.

  Then he filled the chalice again, bringing it forward to Kylie. When it looked like he was going to actually touch her sex, Aiden started to sit up. James took his hand back, telling her, “Then you have to open your channel, so I can pour water in.”

  Ky
lie looked to Aiden, who nodded.

  Using her fingers, she opened her sex. It wasn’t embarrassing per se, but she was slightly uncomfortable as she felt the water enter her channel.

  “Bless her womb to welcome their seeds. Bless her womb to be strong to carry forth fruit.”

  Once again he filled the chalice to pour over Jacob’s groin to bless him as well.

  When again, it looked like Aiden might sit up, James told him, “You must wait until the blessing takes effect.”

  They looked at each other, but stayed as he had instructed them.

  “Thank you, Aiden,” James said. “It was my pleasure to be able to perform your blessing. Hopefully I will be blessing your children soon.”

  “How do you get babies here?” Kylie asked, thinking of the water tunnel.

  James pointed through the trees, “There is a way through there.”

  “Oh,” was all she could say.

  “Abigail offered to be your mother tonight,” James said to her.

  “What do you mean?” she asked.

  “Normally when a girl gets married, her mother helps her with her hair removal and pampers her the night before,” James explained.

  “Plus,” he added, looking at Aiden and Jacob, “you need to save all your seed for the reception, especially since she will be fertile tomorrow.”

  “What?” Aiden asked, looking troubled.

  “You are using an internal diaphragm for birth control, aren’t you?” he asked her.

  She nodded. “The spring water has most likely dissolved the diaphragm by now. Does it feel hot inside you yet?” he asked her.

  With unease filling her, she nodded as she felt her insides warming. Aiden and Jacob had frozen next to her. She felt frozen as well.

  “If you feel warmth on your cervix, it means the water is working, by tomorrow it will be gone,” he explained. “When the diaphragm dissolves, your body will act accordingly and your ovaries will release an egg. This was why I asked you to come, so your seed would be planted tomorrow.” He was looking at Aiden.

  The three of them sat up together.

  “Are you suggesting we have to both be inside her vagina tomorrow?” Aiden asked.

  “I don’t see how she can.” He looked at her not with displeasure but with a frank assessment. Kylie didn’t care for his look either way. “Zehavian women can if their husbands use a cock sheath,” James continued.

  “Since I assume you will be maintaining the ultimate authority in this relationship, I suggest you impregnate her tomorrow.” James was trying to look empirical, but he backed up when the much more intimidating Aiden stood up to face him.

  James quickly walked over to where he had a bag behind a bush. He pulled out a strange contraption. It looked like plastic and fabric all at the same time. “If you want to have sex with her at the same time, you will sit together facing Jacob. You intertwine your legs with his, pushing your cocks together. When you are hard, you wrap this around them,” James explained. “Kylie will sit between you so she can take both cocks together,” he said rather unemotionally.

  “I’ll leave you three to talk about it, but remember, no sex. Make sure you don’t stay out late. Abigail is waiting for you, Kylie.” And with his pronouncement, he picked up his bag and walked out of the secret dry entrance.

  Aiden sat back in the water with a splash. Kylie moved herself to sit next to him, as did Jacob. “God, I see now why my dad called him an ‘interfering, manipulating, self-serving bastard,’” he spit out. “He didn’t tell me anything about this negating birth control, Kylie. I hope you know I didn’t know anything of his plans.”

  “I do, Aiden,” she assured him. “I know you would never manipulate or deceive me in any way.”

  “I’m scared,” he admitted. “My own mother died in childbirth, and she was as large as any Zehavian woman. I’m afraid my seed or Jacob’s seed would kill you.”

  “It won’t,” Kylie tried to assure him. “I’ve talked about it some with Amanda. She says she knows of women who have given birth to Zehavian babies and lived. She induces them early, though, and they have to be in hospital for a while.”

  “I want to have a baby,” Kylie admitted. “I had hoped we could start a family soon.”

  “Really?” they both asked.

  “Really,” she answered.

  “You’d make a great mom,” Jacob said, and kissed her with a huge smile.

  “You would,” Aiden answered, but still looked upset. “I had been thinking maybe we’d hire a surrogate, someone who would carry a baby of your egg and one of our seeds.”

  “I want to carry any babies I have,” Kylie said. “I’ve dreamed of it forever.”

  “I still don’t like how James is trying to manipulate us, though. I think it should be your seed, Jacob, instead of mine tomorrow.”

  “I think it should be yours, Aiden, since you are more of a ‘head of the family’ type figure,” Jacob replied.

  “I think we should try the sheath, and may the first sperm win!” Kylie suggested.

  “No,” they both said firmly.

  “You are too tiny,” Aiden said softly.

  “I agree,” Jacob agreed.

  “If an earth woman can push out something this size”—Kylie held her hands in a large circle to approximate the width of a newborn baby’s head—“out of something which is normally this size”—she held up her fist—“she can handle two dicks together!” She tried to sound as confident as possible, though privately she had her own doubts.

  Both Aiden and Jacob didn’t look convinced.

  “Let’s try the sheath tomorrow and if it doesn’t work we’ll go with the one in each hole. You guys can flip a coin or something to see who gets what end,” Kylie suggested.

  “We can try,” Jacob said.

  “We’ll try, but if we can’t, Jacob, you have to promise to be the one who gets her pregnant. Plus, you have grandparents who want to have great-grandbabies soon,” Aiden said.

  “Any baby of ours is going to be their grandchild, no matter whose seed it is,” Jacob argued back.

  “You guys figure it out. Flip the coin tonight,” Kylie advised. “I don’t want to keep Abigail waiting.”

  They agreed only to discuss it later, and they jumped in the cool pool of water that had the tunnel to the other side. Kylie felt goose bumps rise on her skin as the cold water enveloped her. They swam through much in the same way as they had gotten there, Aiden pulling her through the darkness.

  Chapter 19

  Abigail was delighted to see Kylie. She welcomed her into her suite. The room was only a few suites down from them. Jacob informed them he and Aiden were heading down to the restaurant to meet some of their buddies for their “last night of freedom.” Kylie kissed them and waved them off.

  Abigail informed her Donald was staying with the general and Victoria, to give them privacy.

  She led her through the suite to where Abigail was drawing a bath for her in her master suite. She added oils as they chatted. The bathroom filled with fragrance. Once it was full, Kylie pulled off the bathrobe she had worn up from the pool and stepped into the bath. It was a perfect temperature, not too hot or too cold. Abigail washed her hair for her, and after rinsing the suds off she put creamy conditioner in her hair. Abigail wrapped all of Kylie’s hair in a hot towel and let her head rest on the side of the tub.

  When she asked about the ceremony at the pool, Kylie told her about their dilemma. Abigail looked concerned. “I know you want to be able to take both, but are you sure that is advisable?”

  “I don’t know, I’m a little afraid,” Kylie admitted. “I was thinking of asking my doctor tomorrow before the ceremony.”

  “That sounds like a good idea,” she agreed. She left her to rest in the tub until the water was getting a little cool.

  Abigail helped Kylie out of the tub since she was covered in the oil. Kylie stepped into the shower to wash off the body oil and conditioner. When she came out of the shower, Abig
ail had hung a new fluffy bathrobe alongside a towel. Kylie dried off with the towel then wrapped it around her hair. Once she had the robe on, she went out to find Abigail. Abigail was sitting on her bed holding a brush.

  Abigail patted Kylie’s hair dry before brushing it out.

  “I never had a daughter, you know,” Abigail said. “I never really missed having a daughter until Jacob announced his wedding.”

  Kylie could see their reflections in a mirror. She smiled at Abigail as their eyes met in the mirror. “Your hair is so unique,” she said as she brushed.

  “Did you know Jacob sent us pictures of you when he first came to live with you?” she asked.

  “No,” Kylie admitted. “I guess I really never thought about it.” Kylie was worried it was some of the pictures Aiden had taken of them in their more intimate moments. Hopefully it was of their everyday moments instead. Then she realized who she was talking with and, with a sigh of relief, realized he wouldn’t have sent her explicit pictures.

  “We loved the pictures he sent. Most of them were of you, but some were of Aiden and Jacob. Some were of you playing basketball with his friends, some pictures of your home, pictures of the time you burned dinner, and in all of them, do you know what I noticed most?” she asked.

  Kylie shook her head.

  “I noticed there was love and laughter in all of them,” Abigail continued.

  “I’m so proud of all of you, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome you to our family.” She hugged her from behind and Kylie hugged the arms Abigail had wrapped around her.

  “Would your family be happy for you?” she asked hesitantly.

  Kylie shook her head and felt a welling in her heart and eyes. She didn’t like to talk about her family. She didn’t want to think about the decisions they had made, which caused her to be given into slavery. It was a painful part of her past she didn’t even really understand herself. “They wouldn’t understand,” Kylie said simply.

  Abigail nodded, and smiled sadly. “I’m sorry,” she offered. She continued to brush Kylie’s hair.

  “Can I call you Mom?” Kylie asked her, meeting her eyes in the mirror.