Chapter 6

The servants and guards soon had the three tents set up.

They had placed the tents on Ricky’s grass, so the openings faced the firepit on the tiled circle. Micky’s tent was in the middle, and she assumed that Jen would join her in it later that night. She did, however, forget what night it was. Unfortunately for her, Kerr hadn’t.

Jen and Mira soon had the stores cracked open, and a passable stew was quickly simmering in a big pot on one of the barbeque grills. Damper (yeastless or soda bread) was happily rising as it cooked in the camp oven that Mira had put in the fire pit.

Mira and Jen stripped the orange flesh from a dozen beer nuts to make the stew more filling. Mira told Jen that the nuts would make the small amount of meat from the longear that was in the pot, go a lot further.

Mira also added several root vegetables and her favourite herbs. The smell from the pot was very enticing. When asked, Mira said to give the pot half an hour at least to cook, before supper.

Miles and Kerr went to the ablutions block, and none of the others was surprised when a little later they heard grunting coming from the building.

The men would have been shocked to learn that they had a viewing audience and not just a hearing one.

Ricky had been practising magic for over a hundred and thirty years.

He loved learning new tricks and spells. One of his favourite outcomes in the last fifty years had been the development of a spy system. On one of his trips abroad, he had found that he could use pieces of thin, polished obsidian glass to made great viewing screens.

He made his displays 50cm long by 35cm high. In his viewing room that was accessed from his study, he had, over time, made enough screens to form a large screen that was four rows high by six screens long.

After some considerable experimentation, he found that he could spell high-quality Quaz crystals that also doubled as his camp lights, to act as his cameras.

Initially, he got the camera-crystals to send the pictures directly to one of his screens. He had mounted the displays together so that each screen got a different view and he could see what each camera was looking at.

He then discovered he could combine sets of display screens to make fewer but larger pictures from only a couple of cameras or even have only one image displayed over the full set of monitors.

Ricky took great delight in checking out what went on in the public shower cubicles when he had visitors. He chuckled at just how many people thought themselves safe from view when they used one of the shower rooms to have sex in.

The views he received had inspired him to cover other areas of his camping ground with cameras. The fact that the cameras also ensured he knew what went on almost anywhere on his plateau was a secondary consideration. The beernut tree itself offered some of his best camera placements.

Some of the sex scenes he had viewed encouraged him to create recording cubes so he could keep the scenes and replay them later when he didn’t have guests in his park. Winters could be very long and tedious even if he did have a guest.

As he played with his ideas, he developed an even better system. For many years now, he had each camera attached to its own recording cube. They were as small as a 2cm cubed Quaz crystal and thus, very mobile. He could put them anywhere he wanted them.

He spelled each camera to be motion-activated, and they could record up to a full year (in total time) of activity before they erased the older images to create more space to keep the new pictures.

He could copy any scene to his larger storage recorder if he wished to keep the vids before he erased them from the original recorder. He could set and forget the cameras to within 10km of his treehouse. He had even developed an access and editing panel.

The control board for his viewers had twenty-four small tiles at the top set as four by six to represent and link to the screens on the wall. He then stuck small coloured discs below in rows and left room for a short title block so he could name the camera linked to the disc-shaped button.

Selecting a button and then the tile or number of tiles he wanted the picture displayed over, let him view what that camera was looking at. He even developed editing features that let him speed up the picture, he could reverse it, zoom in or out and set the copy button, so the images went to a new recorder cube.

The hardest thing was developing the index interface so he could name and retrieve the vids when he wanted to watch old recordings. He even had a ‘Play tile’ so he could attach any cube he had recorded in the past to the tile and play the vids on it or even edit them into set scenes.

Ricky had effectively created his own porno movies with the help of magic. Kerr wouldn’t have been happy to know that he had stared in several of Ricky’s oldest movies.

The penetration of Kerr’s virgin arse fifty years before was one of the first vids that Ricky had edited, a recording of himself screwing one of his visitors with the intent of keeping the data. Kerr hadn’t been a virgin otherwise.

Ricky had made a lot more vids since then.

When Ricky had first touched Kerr, who had only been twenty at the time, he knew that Kerr had penetrated quite a few girls before they had met.

As previously mentioned, Ricky didn’t like paedophiles or rapists. He did believe in consent and that his partners were sexually and mentally mature, especially with the size of his cock. He also didn’t get off by inflicting pain on the innocent.

While he may have participated in just about every kind of kinky sex act that you can think of in his long life, neither true rape nor coercion were included. His Psychic abilities let him make sure the person of interest, was truly interested.

The Burgis and Shifter races were considered legally old enough for sex at sixteen, the Pix and the Fayle liked to add a couple of years. The Faeries, and the races known as the Genteli and the Grandteli, frowned upon sex before the age of twenty-one.

The age of legal adulthood was eighteen for the Burgis, twenty-one for the Fayle, Pix and Shifters, and twenty-five for the rest of the long-lived races.

The short-statured and short-lived Prol people were considered old enough to have sex at fourteen and were adults at sixteen. They didn’t practice interracial copulation as a rule, and they were not a race found on these islands. The Keltrian races that were most common to the Tear Islands were the Burgis and Pix, and then the Fayle.