Bolt Action Serenade

I nearly fell, stumbling from my seat and practically throwing myself at Carmilla. She caught me and Jaina jumped up and kept us both from tumbling to the floor. “Esme, careful! You’re gonna get yourself hurt like that!” my Healer reprimanded, but I didn’t care.

I wrapped my arms around Carmilla, I held her, I pressed my face into her neck and shook as tears fell and sobs tore from my throat. “You’re h-here, you’re r-real.” I choked the words out, barely aware of anything but the feeling of her skin against my own.

“Oh dear, this was a mistake. I should have waited untill after breakfast, clearly.” I could hear her. The sound coming from outside of me. It was divine.

“I love you, I love y-you so much.” Okay, so I went on like that for a while. It was very repetitive and embarrassing so I’ll just move on to her convincing me to eat something by reminding me that I wouldn’t have the strength to hold her long if I starved myself. I still insisted on holding her hand the entire time, I was afraid if I let go she’d vanish.

Honestly I don’t even remember what the breakfast was, just that Carmilla had to repeatedly force me to keep eating because I kept taking a bite then trying to turn and just wrap myself around her again. I think I remember hearing the girls laughing, but I wasn’t paying much attention to anything but my elemental love.

But, she was right and I really needed the food. After I was fed and I started to feel better someone, I’m not sure who, helped me into the cushion pit in the rear of the vardo and settled me in against Carmilla. Sometime after that the house wagon started rocking lightly as we set off again.

“Feeling a bit better, love?” my elemental heart asked, fingers sliding through my hair. But actually doing so for once, not just a mimicked sensation. I felt like I was going to start crying again.

“Yeah, sorry. I just, I’ve been wanting to hold you for so long and now I can.” I pressed my face into her neck and took a deep breath. I expected her to have the smell of blood, but it was more like honeysuckle. I would have gotten myself drunk on her scent either way but I do admit flowers is a nicer option.

She chuckled and kissed my cheek. “Well I am as happy as you are that we can do this at last, but I think we owe our hosts an answer or two.”

I sighed and gave up my position snuggled into Carmilla and sat up, turning towards the girls, most of them at least. One very tall person was missing. I glanced over to see Luvetra’s back in the driver’s seat on the far end of the vardo. Briggavel answered the unasked question.

“She can drive as long as we’re on a trail, which we are. She’s also got the best ears and can hear everything happening here just fine if she tries.” at which the woman driving give a thumbs up, confirming she could in fact hear us.

Dekarru sat back with her arms crossed, I think maybe trying to give her an air of intimidation or maternal authority or something. But all it did was lift her breasts up and draw my eyes down for a moment. If she noticed though, she didn’t react.

“I thought you said she was a blood elemental.” was the accusation from the shaman.

I blinked in confusion. “Um, she is?”

“Not looking like that she isn’t!” she practically barked at me angrily. I felt a shiver go down my spine and it wasn’t a fun one. Okay, maybe the intimidation was working after all.

Carmilla spoke up “I can explain actually. Both my form and my beloved’s confusion. She doesn’t know what a blood elemental’s natural forms look like. She’s never seen one. She first formed a contract with me after using her body as a conduit to help me repair myself and fuse my fractured parts back together from several imperial triage bands. My first time outside of her body was when you saw me emerge earlier.”

Dekarru looked down at the runes on my arm “I thought those looked familiar. Gods and spirits, what possessed you to do something so foolish?”

I scratched my head sheepishly “Ignorance, I meant it when I said I have amnesia. Hell, it’s not just amnesia, it’s Mind Shatter. Triple S rank.”

She stared at me wide eyed, but still visibly upset with me. “Not many beings are capable of inflicting ultimate level conditions. Fewer still of both that and making a Champion like you. You claim a Fae-Lord did this?”

I paused and turned to look at Carmilla. Her eyes locked with mine and she looked worried, but after a moment’s hesitation she gave me a slight nod.

“No. That was a cover story thought up by an Uvtrayl Intelligence agent that was helping me. One I hope to get back to because I think she got into some trouble for my sake.” I admitted and the girls all tensed a bit at my words.

“Then what caused… all this?” She asked, motioning at my body.

“I’m a Saint, and I think you already knew that.” I said with a sigh “I’m sorry, I’m trying to keep someone safe. I can’t say more. I won’t.”

She huffed and tapped her fingers on her leg as she thought. “Well, I know some more than just that to be blunt. Your patron is a dream god of some sort, unfamiliar to these lands, and sneaking around behind other forces’ backs. But…” She sighed “I asked the Green Mother for guidance and received nothing. Which basically means I’m on my own for what to do about you. But it also means she doesn’t consider you a threat at least.” her anger seemed to simmer just a bit cooler as she spoke, but it was still there I think.

“I don’t want to hurt anyone, I swear it, and I wouldn’t be serving my patron if I believed that they would make me.”

“Your god. I assume they also altered Carmilla then?” she nearly grunted the words out. Yeah, she was still angry. Honestly, somehow I was more afraid of this woman than I was the angel.

Carmilla nodded. “I was granted an Advancement. I am a Sanguine Dream Elemental now. I’m only starting to learn what that means aside from a far more solid and mortal-like body than I was capable of before. I feel… new things, but familiar. That’s all I can say until I have more time to explore myself.” she was trying hard to stay well spoken and polite, but she seemed as scared as I was of the old shaman.

Dekarru narrowed her eyes. “And your connection to Uvtrayl’s government?”

I cleared my throat “That I know precious little about actually. Maybe it would be best to just tell you what I remember.” and I spent half an hour going over my life as I remembered it. Leaving out most intimate details and any more information about Vei’Ryn without hiding anything from my hosts.

Once my story was finished the shaman glared at me and leaned closer, I swallowed nervously. After several lone, tense moments… she smiled and sat back with a laugh. “Ahh, good good! Thank you for being honest with us Stareyes.”

“You… aren’t angry anymore?” I was confused. I know she was seriously pissed, my Skills made me really good at reading people and they said she was ready to kick my teeth in. But now she was just happy and amused, like a switch had been flipped.

Briggavel snorted “This old bat never gets angry. She just has a way of making ya think she is and feeling way way more worried than you should be about it. It works even when you know she’s doing it. Fekkin pain in the arse it is.”

I blinked and looked at the old woman, who just winked and blew me a kiss. “That is seriously fucking scary actually.” Got it, don’t rely so much on my Skills. At least not with Dekarru.

“Agreed, I was worried I would suddenly discover what wetting myself would feel like in this new form.” Carmilla said beside me with a relieved sigh.

The Shaman chuckled “Sorry, sorry. But you did represent a potential threat to me and mine and I had to know more. I’ll respect your secrecy about your patron as long as it doesn’t affect us negatively. You’ve been open and honest with us, more so than I expected in fact. I was damned surprised when you stumbled down those stairs naked. I figured you would want to keep yourself covered at least for some days before you adjusted to things. Not to mention that womb wrecker between your legs complicating things for you.”

I blushed at the colorful term the woman was using. “Well Jaina suggested you might appreciate it as a gesture of goodwill, and I very much want to show goodwill to you all considering what you’ve already done for me.” I shrugged “So it was worth some discomfort.”

“Still discomforted?” she asked as she sat back and lifted one leg up and to the side, baring her sex at me. It was clearly intentional and meant to get a rise out of me.

It took a monumental effort but I somehow managed to will my dick to not respond. “A bit… but I think I’m adjusting.” I managed to say without my voice breaking.

The questioning was finished and everyone separated to go take care of various tasks on their own. I wanted to take Carmilla upstairs and ravish her with abandon but I was frankly still shockingly tired and sore. I was so annoyed I asked Dekarru if she had any idea when I’d have my strength back. Apparently the answer was complicated. It wasn’t just the days of unconsciousness, both the most recent and previous periods. (Man that really was turning into a recurring theme, wasn’t it?) But there was also the issue that Vei’Ryn had dumped a massive amount of energy into me at once, mostly into my Anima which was damaged by Carmilla’s desperate struggle to stay inside me when to contract was broken. She tried to apologize but I kissed the words away, I would have done the same and she knows it. But the issue now was that I had… for lack of a better term, scratches in my Anima that were worsened by the sudden stretching. So my essence was pumping a ton of my energy into my Anima to repair it and I was going to be weak until it finished.

But, I could at least help with a few low energy tasks so I spent my days assisting the girls in one way or another. I think Dekarru was making sure I spent time alone with each of them, trying to get us to bond or seeing if any of them had a unique take on me she could help figure me out with. She wasn’t suspicious anymore I don’t think, just curious. Honestly I think they all were.

It was nice getting to know them all and I think I was starting to agree with Jaina, this being nude thing was freeing and relaxing more than I thought it was. Though every single one of the girls was a tease and more than once they managed to get me hard and it took me almost three days to realize they were making competitions out of it. Who could do it fastest, first, with the least effort, so on.

At least it was a fun week with friendly folks and nice views.