Chapter 22: Of Day Thoughts & Relocation

"So, I showed you how to make that blood transferring thing?" I asked Martreen as we sat side by side on a log relaxing outside her hut. It had been a half-hour since the blood transfer and a marked improvement in Dugut's condition was easily recognizable.

Martreen looked over at me. I was pleased to see her eyes sparkling, she looked relaxed and beautiful, the previous tension and anxiety gone from her face and posture, "That's right, you showed it to me in a night thought."

I smiled, "It doesn't make much sense but I'm thankful I did, and it's nice to know you have night thoughts about me."

"I have day thoughts about you too my love." Martreen replied.

"Hmm... now that deserves a proper welcome," I turned my body allowing my lips to touch hers. She sighed into my mouth. She tasted even better than any anticipation, rekindling an overwhelming flow of feelings held in abeyance for too long.

I kissed her gently at first, touching her only with my lips, savoring the kiss, her taste, her feel, I wanted to breathe her in as I leaned forward bending to her mouth. I wanted her so badly and had missed her for so long that my control was stretched to the limit. As I took her in my arms, felt her against me, it seemed the Earth Mother and torture had collided.

Gently, I pulled away just enough to look into Martreen's eyes. Her eyes gazed back at me filled with a dazed longing, as if I held the power to determine her very survival. Cupping the back of her head with one hand and her neck with the other, I kissed her again. Gentleness reigned only for a moment before passion slammed through me like a terrified bison through tall brush. Time and place disappeared. There was only Martreen the feel of her body leaning into me, the taste and scent of her overwhelming my senses. I couldn't get close enough.

I finally backed up, keeping my hands on Martreen's shoulders. My voice sounded forced, husky, "I now know what I lost when I left you behind. Martreen, you are inside me no matter how great the distance that separates us. I want you with us. I want all of you. I want to make love with you, sleep with you, and wake up with you next to me."

"You have no idea how much I've longed for that Dac," she said almost in a whisper, "But, Roya and Sheel, the love making training, you know how important it is to them... to the world," she qualified. "Dac, these are the people who love you and whom you love. I'm not trying to argue, and you know how much I want to be with all of you, but what changed? I can't disappoint Roya and Sheel, I love them too."

I smiled, appreciative of her devotion and commitment, "Actually," I said with admiration, "It was Roya and Sheel along with Treeya that convinced me to come get you, although I must admit it didn't take much convincing."

"But..." She started to argue.

I stopped her by placing my finger over her lips, "Shush, I have a plan," I told her softly, then I slowly slid my finger in a straight line down from her lips over her chin and along the top of her throat ending in a circle inside the deep cleavage of her breasts. "I'd like you to move your clan to where we are. There's a cave right next to ours that's more than large enough to accommodate your entire clan. We have cold storage for meats, plenty of water, good hunting and good gathering. There's no reason the training can't continue from there, is there?"

"No... I... , Oh Dac, do you really think it's possible?"

"I don't see why not. As long as you can convince your clan to make the move," I answered.

"That shouldn't be a problem knowing they'll be joining your clan. Most of these people would move to the center of a glacier if you told them it was a good idea. You have no idea how revered you are around here."

"Well, it's still your clan. I don't do clans any longer. I do families."

"We don't have to tell them that. Besides, maybe in time you'll come to think of them as your big happy family." Martreen laughed.

That night just as the last rays of sunlight strayed along the western sides of the huts, I went to check on the horses while Martreen washed up. After assuring myself the horses would be fine, (Nugut had come out and was on guard duty), and then after washing up myself I entered the hut Martreen and I planned to spend the night in.

At Treeya's request, she'd asked to stay with Dugut while Martreen and I would stay together in another vacant traveling hut.

Martreen stood dressed in old style furs when I entered and my hands reached out for her. One reached inside her furs and closed around one of her firm breasts, while the other went around her waist pulling her to me.

Gently, I started to knead the breast, while the hand around her waist yanked down on her furs exposing both of her firm, round, globes. I pressed my lips onto hers, my tongue insinuating itself inside her mouth, her tongue touching mine. I pushed down harder on the furs and this time they fell to her feet, leaving her naked.