Clarice said, “OK, we will. We have found some data related to satellite networks in the archives in the past few seconds and Brenda will start working on the problem.”
I said, “Good. Viola, don’t make firm plans with Tobias just yet, but see if Saturday works for him and say that we will decide in the next day or so. Let’s have some lunch.”
We called Lucy, the waitress, and asked for a meal to be brought to us, and she smiled and hurried off to have Jonah prepare it.
There wasn’t a lot of conversation, but as we finished lunch, I said, “Viola, tell Paul and Susan that there isn’t as much hurry on the clothes for the twins and I right now. We won’t need them until tomorrow night, at least. And Clarice, we won’t start wearing skin suits until we come back from this trading excursion. We will follow the ‘never apart from each other’ rule, but the skin suits can wait a few days.”
After that, we were pretty much done. My brain was done for the day.
I said, “Clarice, will you go with Viola and help her take care of whatever she needs to do, and Willow and Bamboo and I will go on and meet you at home later?”
Clarice and Viola kissed me and left, and the twins and I stood up and said goodbye to Jonah and Lucy. I told them that I might not be back in the morning, and possibly not for several days. And then we left.
We walked west, out of the village and down the road that would eventually bring us to the path that led to the Tanda Cove, the little cove on the river about a mile and a half from Paul’s farm. We walked along until we found the path and the marker that had been installed and turned into the woods.
I wanted to make love to them, but not because I wanted to make love. I wanted to please them. I wanted them to enjoy our time together. But I was in a strange mood and didn’t have any desire for sexual activity right now. But it was kind of a habit that when we were in the woods together, we took off our clothes. And I didn’t feel like it.
I held their hands, one on each side, and we walked slowly down the path. The same path that I had brought Lark and Raven down the day that I had met them.
I smiled and said, “Girls, I love you so much. It makes me feel loved that you want to stay with me on our upcoming adventure.”
Willow said, “But it worries you. You are afraid of it. You are no coward, and I don’t mean that you are. Fear is fear. Courage is what we have when we face it. Joshua, you have faced fear many times. I know that you have. Is this different?”
Even though I wasn’t exactly in the mood, I said, “Do you want to get undressed? I do love it when we are naked together.”
The girls both smiled and agreed eagerly, and a minute later, we were all bare skinned. Well, that did feel nice.
I said into the ear-piece, “Ellie, can you see where the twins and I are right now?”
She responded, “Brenda can tell me.”
I said, “Good. We are leaving our clothes hanging on a tree here. Will you send someone later to collect them and bring them back to the house for us?”
She said, “Of course! One ninja will be dispatched immediately. You won’t even see it. Kiss kiss. Over and out.”
I chuckled, and then, turning to the girls, kissed each of them warmly. My mood was changing, and I was glad that we were naked. It was amazing what a small thing could do at the right time. Having Willow acknowledge my fear about what was coming had eased my mood considerably.
We started walking again and I said, “Girls, I think that I am afraid of our upcoming adventures. It’s because we are going into completely unknown territory. But this isn’t a good kind of fear. Well, no, maybe it is. This fear helps us plan and be cautious. I want to focus on what we need right now, not things that might be needed later. Today is Wednesday. We will try to go with the collector on Saturday. When we come back, we will begin preparing for the other trip. In some ways, I’m much more concerned about that one, because there are more unknowns. Tobias has been to the east and knows what to expect. He would have no fear of the trip at all, because he has made it many times. Our trip to the west is different.”
Willow said, “The trip to the west is the one that we must go on with you.”
I said, “And, the trip to the east is a form of practice. It’s going to take us about five hours.”
We were coming in sight of the little cove now, but we didn’t stop. The larger cove was ahead of us and we could swim there if we wanted to.
Bamboo said, “I’m happy.”
I grinned and said, “You are?”
She squeezed my hand and said, “I am. I’m in love and I’m free and I’m happy and I’m naked. This is wonderful. In a few days, we will go to a village faraway and see new things. Tonight, or some other time, we will make love. Tomorrow we will work or train or some other wonderful thing. And we have a wonderful home and a beautiful family, and even wonderful friends who care about us and accept us and think that we are wonderful to them. I could be happy if it were the three of us living here in the woods, but what we have is even better. A thousand times better.”
Chapter 30 - A Quiet Evening
The girls and I took our time getting back to the house. We didn’t swim at the cove. Mostly we walked side by side, feeling the loveliness of our skin occasionally touching at our hips or letting our hands caress a body part now and then.
Dinner was simple and light. We ate in the dining room. Afterward, the twins and I went to my room and showered and prepared for bed. When I could do so without being overheard, I told Clarice and Brenda to put the girls to sleep once we were in bed, and then to come to my room themselves.
When we were dry from our shower, the two big girls and I climbed into bed and pulled the covers over us. They were asleep, with Clarice’s help, in seconds.
As soon as they were asleep, I asked the big bath to start filling. The bath tub in my room was a large round basin. Four steps led up to the rim, and then back down to the water. It could fit four easily, and probably six if desired.
Clarice and Brenda arrived together, both wearing beautiful, long satin bathrobes. I was still naked.
As they entered the room, Clarice looked me up and down and said, “I like the look.”
I frowned and said, “What look?”
She smiled and said, “The smooth crotch. It looks nice on you.”
I glanced down at myself, and saw that she meant the fact that I was now hairless, and very smooth. It actually was kind of nice in a way. I had enjoyed the feel when the twins and I had showered together a short time earlier, and both of them had expressed appreciation for it as well.
I said, “Oh, glad you approve. Let’s get in the tub for a bit.”
I held each girl’s hand as they entered the tub, and then I got in myself. The water was deep, and sitting on the platform under the water, we were covered to just above the girl’s breasts. It was easy to slouch down a bit to have the water all the way up to our necks.
Brenda immediately said, “Sweetie, I haven’t sucked on you yet today, the way we agreed that I would,” and she slipped under the water and put her face in my groin. Brenda didn’t need to breathe, and she could still talk to us through the ear-piece just fine.
Clarice smiled and sat across from me where we could look at each other, and I put my hands on Brenda’s head, enjoying the feel of her mouth on my smooth stiffy.
I said, “So, I know that I agreed to never let the twins out of my sight for a while, but it’s OK if they sleep part of the time, right?”
Clarice said, “That’s fine. I think it’s a good idea. I need time with you every day, and so does Brenda. And I don’t mean just for sex.”
I said, “No, we need to talk and plan. I need both of you. Brenda, whoa! That feels great!”
Brenda said, “It sure does! I do like your cock. So, do you want to talk? Do you want me to stop?”
I said, “Hell no! Um, we can try to talk like this I guess. Wow that feels good.”
Clarice smiled and said, “I bet it does. O
K, here’s an update. Yes, we can still talk to the communication satellites. When the cataclysm hit, a lot of communication was still via ground based transceiver towers, but a lot was direct satellite. We have some direct up-link transceivers in storage. We removed them from service before we shut down because they would not have survived the storms. This afternoon, the minions put up a link site and tied the ground based network nodes into it, as a test.
Brenda said, “I was able to interface to it again easily. I had to bypass the checks to see if we had an active paid account, but that wasn’t hard. The satellite network sees us as an administrative use so it doesn’t care how much bandwidth we use. Clarice and I were both capable of direct communication already and we are connected and able to both transmit and receive just fine.”
I said, “I thought that you said that the reason, well one reason, that we didn’t go to Tahiti with Pops was that you couldn’t stay on the network.”
Clarice said, “We couldn’t. That was because of the ash clouds and electrical storms and other severe weather. And if the boat had been hit by lightning, that would have been the end of me. The whole global system was unusable at the time. But now, things have settled down.”
I groaned suddenly and stiffened and orgasmed between Brenda’s wonderful lips.
She said, “Was that nice, My Prince?” but she didn’t stop, and I was hard again immediately. Wow she felt good.
Clarice said, “Anyway, I think that we can safely travel just about anywhere now. The cars have links to the orbital systems and all we have to do is activate them again. There aren’t as many as there were, but we have enough. The minions, and the ‘uni-coons’ don’t have satellite links, but when they are in range of me, Brenda, or one of the vehicles, they will be connected to the network. Of course, we won’t have the special vision capabilities that Brenda has with the ground-based nodes though.”
I said, “That sounds good. I didn’t especially like the tethered balloon idea. So, we have vision capabilities around the villages and the river, but we can go anywhere we like. And it will be safe?”
Clarice said, “As long as one of the up-links stays active. And, like I said, as long as the armored car is intact, it can get you home.”
I asked, “And if it isn’t? What’s the worst case scenario?”
Clarice said, “The worst case is that somehow, both Brenda and I are damaged beyond functioning, the car is destroyed, and all of the minions with us are annihilated. But, as long as you survive, even if you are stranded, Brenda and I revert to the residence and mount a rescue operation. We grab some spare bodies, even minions, install a satellite link, and come after you. We will have a spare vehicle of some kind, but even if we don’t, she and I can run over sixty miles an hour if we have to. At least one of us gets to you as fast as we can to perform any medical procedures necessary and then we get you home.”
I said, “That sounds safe enough.”
Clarice said, “Anything worse than that, we take care of the girls and have them help us figure out what a future without you would look like. But that won’t happen. In fact, nothing bad is going to happen. When you went to see Irene, we weren’t as prepared as we are now. Nothing will go wrong.”
I said, “Well, nothing drastic. Something will go wrong, or where’s the adventure? OK, no ground based systems between here and Boise. I wonder if they still call it Boise. Probably not. Were the villages here called what they are now?”
Clarice said, “No. The names were kind of close, but they have certainly changed over time. Maybe Viola can ask Tobias about the name. It would be nice to get a bit more information from him before we head out.”
I said, “But to the west, between here and Portland, or what used to be Portland, what about that? Do we need the uni-coons to cover that road?”
Clarice said, “Brenda, I kind of would like a turn… at some point, if that’s OK.”
Brenda said, “Oh, of course. I’ll make sure that there’s plenty left for you. Do you mind if I change positions for a few minutes though before we switch?”
Clarice said, “Not at all. Do what you want.”
Brenda raised her head and smiled at me and pushed her chest against my lap. She placed my penis between her breasts and started stroking me up and down between her big globes. It felt great, and I reached down to play with her nipples.
Clarice said, “But back to the road to the west. We need the nodes if we want a semblance of vision. The raccoons don’t have cameras, so it isn’t true vision anyway. Brenda and I and the others all have cameras, but also infrared night vision and echo-location using ultrasonic transceivers. Like bats or dolphins. The transceivers are very inexpensive and we had several thousand units in inventory. It’s the software that makes the difference, not the hardware. So, we built the raccoons with a net node and echo-location. Between the two, we get a good approximation of vision, but at a fraction of the cost. We need to make an updated decision about how much coverage we want.”
I said, “Brenda, that feels fantastic. That feels great. And, I am liking the smooth feel of my new grooming.”
Brenda said, “I’m glad. Actually, I can’t tell the difference. Our skin responds to pressure, even very light pressure, but it isn’t as sensitive as human skin. I feel your touch very intensely, but not in as much detail as one of the girls would if she was really paying attention. I would feel a single hair if you dragged it across my skin, but not to differentiate it from you penis or crotch, like this.”
I said, “Well, it feels good to me. About the road, I like the idea of having coverage the whole way to Portland, at least for our first trip. No one in the village has any knowledge of what is to the west, as far as we know, so I think we should find out what awaits us out there. If we keep just to the main road, if there even is one, it should be enough. They can cover an area of about half a mile on each side of them, right?”
Clarice said, “A bit more. But, it’s really the overlap that gives us the data. We would want two at each post, one on each side of the road, about a mile to each side of the road, and three to five miles apart along the direction we want to monitor. When we get to the city, I don’t expect any tall buildings will still be standing, and that’s what the satellite images seem to indicate, so we can’t put any nodes as high up as we might want. For the coverage that we want, to start with, I think we need about sixty nodes.”
I smiled and said, “Brenda give me a kiss and let me give Clarice a turn.”
Brenda slid up my front and I kissed her deeply. When I separated from her, I looked across the tub and saw Clarice, with her back to me and her legs spread, wiggling her butt and smiling at me over her shoulder. The way that she was positioned, her pussy was just about at my eye level, and it stood open and very inviting. It was a beautiful view, and my already stiff penis jumped to an even harder erection. Brenda slipped out of the way and I stood up and approached Clarice as if drawn by an irresistible force.
As I drew near, my hands slid up Clarice’s beautiful thighs and tickled her lightly. My left hand ran up her back and my right hand touched gently along the sides of her flowering vulva. I took my time, playing with the folds of her pussy, rubbing and licking them with the tips of my fingers, exploring the feeling of her sex in my hand and the feelings that I could give her as I probed and pulled and lightly pinched.
Clarice squirmed against me, and every time she pushed back to urge me to touch her more firmly, I backed my hand away, teasing her with a tender touch. She moaned and closed her eyes and braced herself against the side of the tub. It became a game, me touching her with my fingers, and her suddenly pushing backward when she thought that she could drive my hand up between her legs.
Brenda was smiling and enjoying watching the game as much as Clarice and I were enjoying playing it. The lovely centerfold archetype fondled my balls and kissed my back.
This went on for a while, Clarice getting more and more aroused. I felt her shudder several times in orgasm, b
ut I kept my caresses light and teasing. She moaned ever more insistently, thrusting back toward my hand with increasing frequency. And, as she reached for another climax, I positioned myself more directly behind her. I felt Brenda squeeze me in approval as I lined up my straining erection with the target between Clarice’s thighs. I didn’t let my shaft touch her, and what happened next came as a complete surprise to my pretty non-organic.
The next time she groaned and shoved backward, I let my cock align with her opening and quickly removed my hand from between her legs. Clarice shocked herself by impaling her sex forcefully on my rod. I grabbed her hips and held her as I went deep and ground my groin against her perfect ass cheeks. She came immediately, throwing her head back and gasping in sudden spasm. Her pussy gripped me and I gave in and filled her with my ejaculation.
As soon as my spasms subsided, I pulled out and turned her around to face me and entered her again, leaning her backward in the water and pressing my lips to her nipple, sucking hard as she climaxed again. My hands played with both of her breasts and when her next orgasm hit her, I saw the involuntary leaking of her milk flow over the tips of her aureole so that I could lick the delicious nectar from her tits.
I let our lovemaking wind down and Clarice smiled and opened her eyes and kissed me.
She said, “That was nice! That was really nice! Wow was that nice!”
I said, “It really was.”
Chapter 31 - Brenda's Bedtime Story
The three of us sat in the bath and cuddled for a while longer, but eventually decided that we had better have me get some sleep. We dried off, but before I got in bed, we sat together on the sofa and chair in the little sitting area in my room. Clarice sat on the sofa and I lay down with my head in her lap, and Brenda sat across from us in the comfy chair with one leg thrown over the arm, leaning back like a naked barbarian queen on her throne. It was a spectacular view from where I lay.
Brenda announced, “This wasn’t my first body. This one is the toned-down, non-sexual version.”
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