Chapter 16

I lost men-- boys, really. Almost impossible to wear sergeant's stripes in a deployed combat unit without putting your hand on a young man's eyes to close them for the last time. My father would talk about losing one of his soldiers; I lost my kids.

As a tribe, we piled ape-men bodies into the wagon and took them to the Mammoth Canyon. We needed a few trips before the clearing was free of the invaders' corpses. Caryn found it appropriate I would wish my father feast on the bodies of our enemies.

Our second duty was more onerous.

Regardless of my personal dislike for Wun, he died a man. Giving his life for Aris did not redeem him in my eyes, but I wasn't his judge in the afterlife. His judge in this life, Aris, forgave Wun so the tribe would remember him kindly.

"What are you going to do with them?" I asked the women. The tribe laid Airy and Wun side by side on furs. After a small ceremony by Caryn, the bodies were wrapped until only their chest and faces were exposed.

"They must be taken to the... Grounds," Caryn replied.

Lan placed a necklace of wolverine claws on Airy's chest. After warning me about the attack on the tribe, he stayed in place, waiting for my return. He was back to his customary silence.

Dru stepped forward and knelt between Airy and her son. She whispered to each. I looked at Els for an explanation.

"Airy died without a mate, so she would sleep alone" she told me. "With Lan's gift, she must wait for him before entering the Dark Cave."

"She doesn't have a choice?" I asked. Dru took Lan's hand to lead him away from his death mate.

"No one would choose to sleep alone, Achilles," Reia said from behind me. "Did you tell Lan to do it?"

"No," I replied. "He's going to be a good man."

"We should trade for his mates," Naris said. One track mind!

"Mates?" I smiled at her.

"A wolverine is a rare first kill," Naris said.

"Lan is also the youngest hunter I've ever heard of," Reia added. She gave me a look fraught with suspicion. Lan's kill shocked the tribe, but only Parak dared voice what everyone was thinking. Most of the doubt about the legitimacy or any on-toward help I might have lent faded when Little Stormcloud (Lan) and his twin lighting bolts faced off against their accuser.

Parak deciding the size of Lan's spears didn't affect their deadliness settled the issue. Reia and Naris were the only ones who thought Lan might have gotten a lance up from me. Saying anything about it would be tantamount to leveling some serious accusations against their Leader and a tribe hunter, so they settled for giving me looks every now and then.

"What are they doing?" I exclaimed when Parak and Leh placed the two bodies in the wagon.

"I told you," Caryn answered. "They must be taken to the... Grounds."

"The what?"

"The... Grounds," Els said slowly. We're back to this shit! I took a deep breath and stared at Els's lips. My blond was everywhere after the attack, giving the other women a shoulder to cry on and feeding the men a steady diet of encouraging smiles. With the tribe hurting and in need, Els was in her cave-momma element. She repeated the words, "The <putting the dead on the Mother's breasts for her to hold them as they sleep in the Dark Cave> Grounds."

"Buried." Fucking pain! I never shoved so much of their meaning into one of my words. I felt a little dizzy from the clash of understanding.

"You didn't bury the ones the Redbeards killed," I said after the wave passed.

"They were not Anue," Caryn said primly.

That shit is cold, yoh!

"Ema," Naris said meeting my eyes. "It's time, Achilles."

It sounded like an order. There's not much like a woman your sexually intimate with ordering you to fuck another woman. On the other hand, I couldn't tolerate a tribe member giving me orders, Naris earned a spanking. She didn't struggle when Els grabbed her. Dru pulled up Naris's deerskin skirt and bent her over my lap.

Ema was built on the blond, short, and thick scale. We'd been teasing around the edges of getting meaningfully naked. I didn't know why Naris thought Ema and I needed to set fire to each other at that particular moment, but I wasn't going to argue or ask about it.

Naris must have told Ema. She lay naked on the furs. Her legs were bent as her fingers played in blond pubes.

I'd been busy: making sure Lan got back safe, getting the ape-men's bodies burned, and watching the ceremonial wrapping of the Anue dead. Unable to take a break, the combat and post-combat tension was still bottled inside me. By pushing the tribe to get things done, I prevented them from relieving their stress too. I turned around to see people moving towards each other with the intent to affirm life.

I took a deep breath; it felt like the air was being used to expand my dick, filling up the loincloth to the point of bursting. Ema stared at my groin as I untied my covering. Her knees widened when my dick came into sight.

Ema's glistening pussy lips revealed the error of my ways. I pushed the teasing too far; fuck foreplay, my dick wanted in. It did a fantastic impersonation of a sword ready to sink into the caress of flesh. I needed to fuck Ema now! She must have felt it. Her eyes lit up as she grabbed her thighs and pulled them up.

Kneeling between Ema's legs, I pointed my dick and leaned down. She gasped at the first touch. Her pussy coated the tip of my dick with moisture. Feeling her desire was the last straw; I fucked into Ema hard. She let go of her legs and wrapped them around me. Her arms went around my body too. She dug her nails into my ass. Ema screamed and bit my chest. The pain cleared my mind for a second; Ema's pussy gripping me, her legs clamping down on my hips, and another scream clouded my thoughts again.

Her legs prevented me from pumping. I grabbed under her knees and pried Ema's legs apart. Taking a hard grip, I pushed them to either side of her breasts. I pulled back and fucked powerfully. The orgasm exploding through her body killed any protest about not having her legs around me like she wanted.

For all the finesse of our first time together, I might as well have gone the Leader's Rights route. The good thing about caveman times was the women didn't expect much from sex. Ema had gotten a good orgasm, which put me ahead of the other men on that scorecard. I could do a lot with such a lead. Holding my upper body up by pushing down on Ema's legs, I let my hips go.

Some girls are screamers; some are moaners; Ema was a nail digger. I needed to invent nail trimmers if I planned to keep doing Ema. The way her pussy opened for my dick when I thrust and closed around me when I pulled back ensured I would be fucking Ema a lot so maybe a nail file would do the trick.

I didn't notice much for the next few minutes. Naris, always knowing what I needed, gave me the perfect partner to flush the stress of the ape-men's attack. Ema didn't want more than to have me doing exactly what I needed--fuck her!

My dick got harder as I approached orgasm. Ema felt the change, and it drove her to another peak. She wriggled underneath so intensely I lost my grip on her legs. I put my hands on the floor at her sides. Ema's legs wrapped around me loosely, leaving me enough room to keep pumping into her pussy. Her nails found a new spot to dig into when I pulled my hips back one last time and sunk my dick deep.

If there is anything sexual which can make a man feel more like a man than getting up from between a woman's thighs and looking down to see her pussy weeping cum while she's knocked the fuck out, I'm sure it will happen to me eventually in my fantasy.

I was a fucking mess! Dick covered in pussy juice and dripping cum. Sweaty too! The longer I spent in my fantasy the more I favored Caryn, Els, and Naris. I would have been happy if it had stayed the four of us. Three girls meant someone was always available to clean me up. Sure, I could walk outside and the women would be happy to take care of it, but I had to walk. I preferred flopping over and, since the A-Three were tied at the hip, having another girl immediately available.

Outside, it looked like a sex bomb went off. Oh! Oh! Auoh! Gamen! Winik! If you're going to do that in public, you need to be shouting 'Gay Sex, Ho! Man Luvin! Man Luvin!' I'm not saying I mind, just needed a little visine as lubricant to lose my gay visual virginity. Holy shit! Dude, you gotta teach that to the women! For me!

"Are they supposed to be doing that?" I asked the pile of females. From the looks of my favorites, each got an orgasm so it was time to pick who would be their focus. Caryn liked to pull rank, but even when the girls squashed her effort, she didn't mind.

"They're young," Els replied. "You've taught us some... about mating."

Leh sat with his back to a tree with Li's hands in his loincloth. They were kissing deeply. From the movement of Li's forearms, she was putting into practice some of the technique she'd learned with me.

"Leh and Li know her blood belongs to the Leader," Els assured me.

Dammit, I tried! Sometimes the Leader has to take one for the tribe. I had to fuck Li and that was that.

The girls froze and watched my dick harden. It didn't have any misgivings about deflowering Li. Within seconds, my dick got to a demanding state of rigidity. I glanced at the virgin.

"When can I take Li's blood?"

"We should wait until we bury Wun and Airy," Naris said. She beat the other girls to my dick. Her eyes rolled back as she tasted the remains of Ema and I fucking. Naris's moan of pleasure spurred the other females to find a place on my dick for their tongues. Reia maneuvered behind me and went for my balls from below.

I looked around the clearing. ACK! More Gamen and Winik! Aris sat staring at the sky. As I watched her, wanting to give some solace from the sorrow she had not expected to feel, the modern man melded into their society. Pulling away from the women, I walked to stand behind Aris. She turned to look up at me. My dick touched her cheek. She breathed deeply, taking in my scent.

I got on my knees behind Aris. The women of the tribe surrounded us, giving quiet confirmation that I was doing the right thing. I pulled Aris towards me and up until my dick got under her dress. She spread her thighs as my dick touched her pussy. She trapped my dick and rubbed her pussy along the length. I grabbed the bottom of her dress. Aris raised her arms to let me take it off her body.

Outside of this hell/heaven/hallucination, sex for comfort would have been a gentle affair. I couldn't do anything about the maelstrom that Wun redeeming himself in her eyes caused Aris. I could only take away the insecurities which came with a woman of the tribe losing her mate.

I reached around Aris and spread her thighs so she straddled me. Her breath caught as I pushed her head down and knelt up. Aris spread her knees and lowered her upper body to the ground. It was a pose of submission, letting the Leader know her body belonged to him.

Fucking into Aris was echoed by a surge of possessiveness in my soul.

I had to give Naris credit. It wasn't only her intelligence which I admired, but her ability to read people. If Naris had a gentler touch on manipulation, she would have been truly dangerous. Her only weakness was easily overcome by instructing others to do her dirty work. Since my instructions were nearly always in the form of 'Stick your dick inside her', I could look upon Naris's handling of tribe members with equanimity. Not to mention, as long as I benefited what did I care if she played the tribe members like puppets. In this case, I was glad for Naris's involvement.

Ema and Aris could not live in the same sleeping space.

I took it to whole new level by killing Broken Face and Priest Dumbass, but personal enmity in the tribe was some bad juju. Ema and Aris didn't hate or even dislike each other. They were as willing to get into a female to female pussy on lip lock together as with any other woman. The problem arose when they had to share anything.

I might have dismissed the silence or looks between them as they got ready to sleep, but two women in the same area sleeping on separate furs was too far out of the ordinary for me not to notice. Area-mates kind of sprawled across each other; it almost seemed required to maintain contact with everyone else in the area while you slept. Ema had slept alone because her status as an unmated, non-harem, female was unique. Aris needing to take residence in the unmated women area should have meant a happy two-some. Yeah, how about, NOT! Considering how important a woman's relationship to the Leader was to female politics, I shuddered to think how bad it would have been if I had not fucked Ema before Aris took up residence with her.

"I'm going to have to do something about that." I lay on my stomach, staring at the Ema and Aris. Somehow, they managed to give each other the cold shoulder while asleep. The girls followed my eyes to the unmated women's sleeping area.

"Mate one of them," Els said.

"What?!?" The suggestion shocked me.

"Not to you!" Caryn's voice had a dangerous edge, matched by the flinty look in the other two girls' eyes.

"Good." I sighed dramatically. I needed to get the girls off the thought of me not being theirs as fast as possible.

"Ema to Parak or Aris to Leh," Els suggested.

"Why?" I asked.

"Aris would be better with Leh," Els said. "Of course, you shouldn't do it until after Leh and Li are mated, but an older mate would help them."

"Parak would not get along with Aris," Caryn said. "For him, Ema would be better."

"I can just mate them?" I asked. "Congratulations, Aris and Leh, you're married now."

"Only after Leh and Li are mated," Els insisted. Her answer translated to I did have the power to point at a male and female and say 'Okay, you two. Put on some Marvin Gaye, and get it on.'

"Leh would be better," Naris said.

I turned over; Caryn was trying to dig her hand underneath to get at my dick. Making their favorite toy accessible took Caryn and Els out of the conversation.

"Some of the men deserve a reward," Naris said. "Leh is not like Gamen and Winik so it cannot not be to drink your seed after morning worship."

What? She couldn't seriously think Winik and Gamen should be 'rewarded' like the women. She could not!

"Giving Aris to Leh would be best," Naris said with the tone of voice she used when it was order.

Thus calling for another spanking; for the hell of it, I did all three.

If we'd had a truck, the burial grounds would have been close by but walking there sucked. Granted, I thought walking anywhere in the Land of Let's Take Another Fucking Long Walk sucked my ass. Rutting Buffalo got the last laugh when I had to help pull/push the wagon to Earth Mother's Breasts.

Earth Mother had four very impressive breasts. The burial grounds were in the area between a square of hills.