Chapter 30

The Command Staffs weekly status review was wrapping up when Sarah said, “I think we should have representatives from each of our clans attend Lorelei and Earl’s TV show.”

“We agree,” replied everyone.

“Sarah’s and Maureen’s Clans, we need you to monitor Phoenix during the show,” said Eileen, drawing puzzled looks from the other clans. She smiled as she added, “We will be one of the groups being interviewed.”

After everyone had conveyed their congratulations, Kelly of Keriann’s Clan asked who the other groups were.

“Nancy’s, Sue’s and Leann’s Clans,” replied Eileen. “Lorelei felt that this gave the widest range of backgrounds of those who joined our family and have been here a long time. She and Earl are already thinking that there will be at least one or two more shows.”

“In fact, Lorelei had enough interest expressed in participating that they could do at least five more shows,” added Maeve of Sarah’s Clan. “The interviews will last about 20 minutes each, then the segment will close with all four groups participating. Rehearsals went very well.”

“So that is what the children were talking about,” said Alena.

“Could be,” replied Joyce. “I believe they were the audience for one of the rehearsals.”

“Okay, now it makes sense, since I didn’t associate what they were telling me with a TV broadcast. So much has happened since we arrived that I find it difficult to keep everything straight.”

“As you can see,” said Sarah, “we have the same problem. Our telepathic ability doesn’t keep us from overlooking things; usually they are items that don’t directly affect us at the time. As that is a judgment call, our mind-link, or shared thoughts tend to keep us from overlooking critical items.”

Alena noticed that the other clan members were nodding their heads, agreeing with Sarah’s comments. She said, “I find the concept of mind-link appealing. There have been many times since Scott was killed that I felt very lonely. The children know it almost immediately, and try to cheer me up.”

“Children are very perceptive readers of body language,” said Judy. “Sometimes their skill is such that you think they are telepathic, even when they are not using that ability.”

Sarah’s Clan was at breakfast two clock cycles after the TV show when Aoife said, “I heard the response to Lorelei and Earl’s show has been very positive.”

“That is good news,” replied Sarah. “Are they going to do more shows?”

“Yes,” said Tara. “After checking with the Communications groups, Lorelei and Earl committed to four more shows. They will use our staff, since they had more problems with the two cameramen the director insisted on bringing. When the director heard about his cameramen being sent home he became rather belligerent, so they sent him back as well.”

“Melinda,” added Terry, “was very suspicious of the three as soon as she met them at the airport. After the latest incident, she asked security to treat them the same way we did other spies.”

“How was that?” asked Alena.

“They will remember their visit here, but their perceptions were altered so that it will seem to have been a dream. If they try to describe their visit, they won’t be able to find the right words. Also, the video tape they are taking back only has scenes of space on it.”

Alena had a puzzled look on her face.

“The memory alteration is done using a special aspect of our psionic ability. Changing a person’s perception of something is relatively easy to do as a group, though it is nearly impossible for an individual to do correctly.”

“Why a group and not an individual?”

“Basically, because you have to be sure you don’t create any internal conflicts, and it needs to be completed as quickly as possible. By using a group, the impact of the changes can be assessed while they are in progress.”

“That makes sense.”

Alena and Sarah’s Clan chatted among themselves as they finished breakfast. Aoife noticed that Alena had been pretty quiet since they spoke about Lorelei’s show.

“Alena,” said Aoife, “are you bothered by what we did to the cameramen?”

“Oh, no. I am not sure I would have been that kind to them.”

“I sense that something is bothering you. I suspect we can help, if you want to share what it is.”

“You know,” replied Alena, blushing.

“No, not really. We wouldn’t know without specifically looking,” said Sarah’s Clan. “We just know that something is bothering you. You have come to mean a great deal to us, and we would like to help if we can.”

“Okay. First, we have decided to become an Órarduine, but you probably knew that from the way the children were acting.”

Joyce laughed, and replied, “Yea, we kind of suspected that you were going to stay from the way they acted. They really seem to like it here, and seem to have fit right in with ours.”

“I guess what you are sensing is me trying to sort through all the things that need to be done so we can move here. I am a bit apprehensive about going back to close things out.” Many of Sarah’s Clan had puzzled looks on their faces. “One of Scott’s friends has been pursuing me since he was killed. Actually, it is more like stalking. Ray frequently just shows up, and doesn’t take the hint to leave. He has been pestering me to go out with him. Frankly, I have never been particularly comfortable around him. The children tolerate him, I think because he was a friend of their father. So, basically I am concerned about what he might do when he learns we are moving here.”

Alison started to speak, but Alena continued, “Then there is the group I work with. Two of the programmers are jerks, overly friendly, sexist, and extraordinarily incompetent. They never do quite enough to justify me complaining to the boss, who is a nice guy. A couple of times they have groped me, but always when no one was around. I would prefer to not leave the boss with an unfinished project as the one I am currently working on is pretty important, both to him and the company. Besides, he really cut me some slack when my husband was killed, and he didn’t squawk too much when I asked to extend my vacation here.”

“How about this?” responded Maeve. “The children stay here, while Tara and I go back with you. I am sure the three of us can make quick work of getting you moved. We can likely help you finish your project as well, so you don’t leave your boss hanging.”

“Wow, you guys would do that for me?”

“Sure! You are very special to us. I guess we should also take Briana and Cass with us, just in case things get out of hand.”

“Maeve,” asked Tara, “why don’t we take one or two of the cats with us?”

“Cats?” said Alena.

“Oh, that’s right, you haven’t met them. We have a group of cats that look very much like full grown lions. Right now, they are part of our security group on New Comrie. Around us and our friends they are just like large friendly cats, though anyone with bad intentions sees a different side. We can connect to our lions telepathically when we need to.”

“I appreciate the offer for assistance, but the project is classified.”

“If you’re comfortable with it, we can assist you telepathically,” replied Maeve. “This would avoid any security clearance issues.” Alena had a puzzled look on her face.

“I’ll need to think about that,” replied Alena.

“Was there anything else?” asked Aoife, with a slight smile.

Alena looked at each of their faces, as she began to blush from her forehead to her chest. “Yes. There is another question. Would you accept another spouse into your clan?”

“If it was you,” came the quick reply by Sarah’s Clan, in unison. Alena sat there with a glazed look on her face as their response registered. When she didn’t react, Sarah’s Clan continued, “Alena, are you okay?”

Alena shook her head, then said, “You said, ‘yes’!”

“Of course, we said, yes! Your request to be a part of our clan makes us delightfully ecstatic.” With that, they all moved to pull her into the center of a group hug.

“I was scared to ask. I don’t know why, because I was almost certain you guys would say yes, but even with telepathy there is always the chance of misreading feelings. This is one of the greatest moments in my life. What happens next?”

“We need to bring you into our mind-link,” said Sarah. “To do that, we need to spend some time together, and this morning would be a good time.”

“Wonderful,” said Alena, with tears running down her cheeks.

“Mom, we love you,” said her children, startling her. “Now we have lots of brothers and sisters to play with, and lots of mommies to hug. Best of all, we now have another dad to help us.” Sarah’s Clan laughed on hearing the enthusiasm in the children’s thoughts.

“We can go back to our suite after this morning’s general meeting.”

“Can we go to Earth tomorrow?” asked Alena. “We should be able to do everything in two days, or perhaps three. I would really like to get the project at work finished before I resign. Besides, asking for, and then taking, an extended vacation has probably caused more problems.”

“That would be fine,” replied Maeve. “So you’re comfortable with us helping you with your programming project.”

“Yes.” Maeve raised an eyebrow. “If I understand mind-linking correctly, once we establish the bond, we will be one.”

“That is correct.”

Alena was holding hands with Sarah and Maeve, as she walked with Sarah’s Clan to their suite. Her thoughts about joining Sarah’s Clan and the Órarduine kept jumping from one thing to another so quickly that she felt bewildered.

“Relax, Alena,” said Sarah. “We love you. We are ecstatic that you are joining our clan.”

After entering their suite, Sarah and Maeve drew Alena into a hug and then everyone joined in. Alena had tears of joy in her eyes as she felt her connection grow with each of her new spouses. The words ‘her spouses’ echoed through her mind and each one brought her joy.

After a few moments the circle opened and Sarah said, “Let’s sit on the bed.” Sarah and Aoife had Alena sit between them as they formed a circle on the bed, with every member of the clan touching the person next to them.

“Alena,” said Sarah, “we were thrilled to hear your request a few moments ago. We have felt that you would be a good fit almost from the time we met you. Our approach to forming family units, or expanding them, is unique. Our next step is to bring you further into our family’s mind-link. In some respects that process has already begun.”

“I thought that us sharing thoughts was the mind-link,” responded Alena.

“It is in part, but the clan link is more than that,” said Aoife. “A clan’s mind-link is essentially an expansion of normal telepathy. A clan’s mind-link is a total sharing of ideas, memories, and senses.”

“Wow,” said Alena.

“To bring you fully into our mind-link, we first need to establish an open connection between you and each one of us individually. It is easier to add one link at a time. The reason for adding the additional links one at a time is so that each of us can organize the new information and set up critical links.” Alena nodded. “Let’s start with me.”

Alena and Aoife focused on each other, and opened their minds to each other. The other spouses smiled as they watched the expression on Alena’s face change as she established her links with Aoife. Once their links were established, Alena said, “Wow. It’s like I can see myself. I can feel me touching others besides Sarah and you.”

“Yes. You are seeing yourself through my eyes. You are feeling my leg against Joyce, who is on the other side of me. Can you see the difference between your visual perspective and mine?”

“Yes. The sense of touching Joyce is as if it was me touching her, but the sensation is different. I also know the sensation is coming through you. This is awesome.”

“Yes, it is. Our sharing now extends to our memories ... all of our memories. We can look through each other’s memories as if we were looking at our own. When looking at another’s memories, you need to remember to take their point of view at the time into consideration. If you are doing the search, it will take longer to find and bring up a new memory. This is basically because each of us indexes our memories differently. Generally, we haven’t found much need to go looking for a specific memory in one of our spouse’s minds, as sharing memories is usually done as a group.”

“So you will be able to see everything I have ever done?” A look of concern flickered across Alena’s face.

Aoife quickly responded, “Yes. Our connection will grow over the next few hours, once it is fully active you will also be able to see all my memories, the good, the bad and the ugly. We all have them. With our mind-link, it is easier to share the whole memory, including those aspects we have difficulty putting into words. Again, remember to take into account the point of view, since it can make a difference in the perspective of the event.”

“So this total sharing of thoughts, senses and memories is really what you implied when you compared each spouse to being individual facets of a virtual sphere representing the clan?”

“Yes.”

“Should we continue?” asked Aoife.

“Oh my, yes, let’s continue! I have never been a part of anything as beautiful as this. So what’s next?”

“Go to the next spouse in the circle and repeat what we did. Take your time to get everything sorted out before moving on to the next spouse. Each spousal link will feel unique. Rusty’s will likely feel quite different from the rest of us.”

Alena then began establishing her clan mind-link with her other spouses. After each connection was opened, and her links established, she paused to evaluate how her link with the newest spouse compared to the others. Each time a link was established with a new spouse, both shared some random memories with everyone. After establishing her mind-links with several spouses, Alena noticed that they were forming quicker than they had in the beginning.

Alena completed the circle by opening a mind-link with Sarah. Sarah reached over and drew Alena toward her for a kiss. As Sarah’s lips touched Alena’s, Sarah let all of her spouses’ sense their lips touching. Alena’s eyes snapped open when she realized that she could feel herself being kissed by Sarah, along with feeling her spouses. Shifting to hold Alena’s head gently in her hands, Sarah began to caress Alena’s lips with her tongue, before sliding it into Alena’s slightly open mouth. Their tongues gently caressed one another. The sensations they felt added to their passion. Sarah drew back and began to place small kisses around Alena’s face, as Aoife began to kiss Alena’s neck and shoulders on one side. Joyce moved so that she could caress the other side of Alena’s neck with kisses. Alison moved to kneel behind Alena, so that she could slide her arms around her, cupping her breasts in her hands.

While Aoife, Joyce and Sarah continued caressing Alena’s face and neck with kisses, they shifted slightly to let Sally and Terry begin caressing her nipples with their tongues. Alena’s arousal grew with each additional caress. Her other spouses joined in by caressing her legs. Each caress added to Alena’s arousal and then radiated out to the others. Fingers slid between Alena’s wet labia, to gently caress her lips and occasionally dip into the mouth of her pussy. Another set of fingers were gently caressing her clit and its hood, with the cream from her labia as lubricant.

With the clan’s focus solely on Alena, her arousal rose rapidly, until she was panting. Her nipples were puffed out and so hard they ached. She suddenly gasped and stiffened as a small orgasm washed over her. The orgasm reverberated among her spouses. Alena placed a hand behind Terry and Sally’s heads, pulling them tighter to her breasts.

“My, god,” thought Alena, “I can feel everything.”

“Yes, it is one of the benefits of our mind-link.” Just as Aoife finished sharing her thought, Alena experienced an even more intense orgasm, and again, each of them felt it. Aoife nibbled Alena’s ear, while Sarah caressed the other side for her neck. Maeve moved to plant light kisses on Alena’s lips.

“Rusty, I need you inside of me,” pleaded Alena. With that, the clan began to shift, while continuing their caresses of Alena. Alison and Claudette assisted Alena in straddling Rusty’s hips, and then Rusty placed his hands on her hips, to steady her. She looked into his eyes as she reached down to grasp his cock. She lowered her hips until its head was nestled between her wet labia, then she slid it through the trough between them, prompting a shudder. After moving his cock to the mouth of her pussy, she relaxed letting her hips settle, so that he slid into her. Her moan was echoed by all of her spouses, as each felt the warm sensations of him. Once he was fully embedded in her, she paused to savor the feeling.

While Alena was savoring the sensations of his cock, Sarah moved to place her pussy over Rusty’s mouth. She then reached over and pulled Alena’s head to her, so they could kiss. As they began kissing, their other spouses moved so that they could caress Alena and each other. Together they drifted toward a shared orgasm as they focused on sharing the physical side of their love for each other. Alena began to slowly flex her hips, so Rusty’s cock caressed her sheath. Sarah coached Alena on how to use the muscles of her vaginal sheath to give his cock more intense caresses. Soon each of the women began to have mini-orgasms. As each orgasm occurred, they would pause before resuming their caressing. The orgasms quickly grew in intensity as each built on the previous one. As each of Alena’s orgasms crested, her sheath holding Rusty’s cock would tighten, locking them together.

When Rusty thrust his hips up and released his cum, it triggered her biggest orgasm. Alena screamed into Sarah’s mouth as it peaked, then her breathing stopped momentarily. Her actions were matched by the other spouses, and the room became very quiet. Alena slumped against Sarah, trapping Sally’s and Terry’s heads between them.

When Alison recovered, she pulled Alena back toward her, letting Sally and Terry extract themselves from their entanglement. Jill, Janet and Aoife eased Alena over to Rusty’s side, so that she was lying on her back. Sarah slipped over next to Alena, and wrapped her arms around her while touching Rusty. Aoife lay down on the other side of Rusty as they recovered from the intensity of their mutual orgasm. Alison and Tara quickly moved to lick the mixed cum from Rusty’s cock and balls. Erin and Claudette moved to collect the cream flowing from Alena with their tongues while she was still in dream land. Once all the cream was cleaned from Rusty and Alena, they all lay on the bed cuddling each other and giving each other an occasional caress.

Sometime later, Alena began to stir. “Is it always that intense?”

“It can be,” replied Sarah, as Rusty turned and kissed Alena. “Are we ready to start again?”

“What?” exclaimed Alena, as she broke her kiss with Rusty. “I think I need more rest.” Everyone began chuckling.

“I guess youngsters are soft nowadays,” replied Aoife, causing more laughter.

“Hey, I’m not that much younger than any of you.” They all chuckled at Alena’s quick response.

“Alena,” said Sarah, “every time we share our physical love it is intense. It is not unusual for the first to pass out for a few minutes. We usually continue sharing until everyone who wants a ride on Rusty has had their turn. Each successive orgasm comes quicker, with the same level of enjoyment, but it is also a little softer, if that makes sense. Our sharing today had some special aspects to it, as it was your first time.”

“Alena, I love you,” said Rusty. “I love all of you. To have all of you love me is a blessing I am grateful for every moment of every day. Our children just add to the blessing.”

“This is awesome. I can feel the emotion in Rusty’s expression of his love for us. Wait, I can see each of our thoughts and senses much more vividly than earlier. The Gods and Goddesses have blessed me beyond ... oh ... this is just awesome. I love all of you more than I can say, but I know you can feel it.”

“We love you,” said Sarah’s Clan in unison.

Alena then gave each of her new spouses a passionate kiss. Turning back to Sarah, Alena kissed her as she ran her hands over Sarah’s shoulders and up to her neck. Placing her hands on each side of Sarah’s head, she broke the kiss and then began placing kisses all over her face. Alena kissed and licked Sarah’s ears as she motioned for Sarah to raise up so that she was on hands and knees over Alena. Alena then began placing kisses down Sarah’s neck on one side and then the other. She then began kissing her way to Sarah’s breasts until she reached her nipple. Everyone felt Alena’s surprise as her mouth filled with milk when she sucked a nipple into her mouth.

“Sarah, your milk tastes heavenly. How much can I have?”

“As much as you want. We are all lactating.”

Alena continued to suckle on Sarah’s nipple, as she responded with, “I really like the taste of your milk. Do you all taste the same?”

“Pretty much,” replied Rusty.

Alena moaned as Joyce placed her mouth over Alena’s pussy and slid her tongue through the crease between the labia. When Joyce pulled back slightly, Alena flexed her hips up, pushing her cunt against Joyce’s mouth.

“You are very tasty,” said Joyce.

Sarah then rose up slowly, with Alena following her nipple as she continued to suckle. Sarah placed her hands behind Alena’s head, to help her maintain contact with her nipple while she moved to straddle Rusty’s hips. Once Sarah was in position, she lowered her hips slightly, and then shivered as she felt Erin slide his cock head between her labia. Erin then placed it so that its head was at Sarah’s opening, surrounded by her, wet, swollen labia. Sarah lowered her hips more, pushing him deeper between her labia. The muscles in her labia twitched, caressing its head as her cream ran down his shaft. Continuing to lower her hips, her labia grasped and released his cock until it entered her.