Chapter 2

Life on the other side

Now we all have those fantasy's at times, don't we.

You know, the ones where we are hanging by our fingertips over a cliff, staring down at a drop of a ten thousand feet.

With the vultures lazily circling under us and the Bengali tigers waiting above us, ready to rip our guts out. While we are busy screaming 'Please, oh please, cancel my adventure vacation. I wanna go home.'

Oh, maybe that wasn't the one?

Ok, sorry, wrong tale, now where were we?

Ah yes, dreams of having someone caring and sweet don't we? Taking care of our every need. Admit it, we all have them at times, but mostly we grow out of them though, as them usually only being fairy tale's, but then again.

Once in a blue moon someone gets lucky. And that's what Joe felt like now. From being hunted by psychotic car batteries and twisters from hell to being taken cared of by the girl of his dreams.

Although he wished he could be sure of her age. He definitely didn't want to take advantage of her innocence and naivety.

Still, it was somewhat like winning the lottery.

"My lady," he said, "may I ask for your name?" She continued walking as she answered "Evelyn my pet, can you say E v e l y n?" Joe tried to make sense of it as they walked. If he could say Evelyn?

Of course he could say Evelyn. " Evelyn." He said whereupon she clapped her hands together praising his ingenuity. "Oh what a clever Mundane you are my pet, that is so correct. E v e l y n."

Evelyn had now started to have some hopes for this shaggy Mundane, perhaps there would be a possibility of teaching him a few tricks after all. Joe who on his side couldn't help but wonder if all girls here would be as crazy as Evelyn looked at her again. He was in love, he knew that, and there was no help for it too.

So he finally decided, if she wanted a 'pet' to take care of, then for the moment he would be that pet, for the moment that is, he promised himself. As soon as he had some more information he would start to dazzle Evelyn with his mature charms and show her what a real man was.

They had now arrived to the bathroom, but it was as no bathroom Joe ever had seen. There was a huge wooden tube, big enough for five, in the middle of a big white and green tiled room. The tube was girded by several broad copper bands and had a chute hanging over it, coming to it from a hole in the wall above.

There was already water in it as well as sweet-smelling waterlily's. It had a little stair to it to help you get in as it was almost as high as Joe himself. He was very impressed as he looked at it. Evelyn who was the ever practical one, had observed his stupefied expression with a badly hidden smirk of her own now decided to speed things up a little.

After all she thought, he don't seem well groomed, and there could be all kinds of vermin hiding behind that shaggy appearance. "why were you in the sewer pet?" she asked as she donned big yellow rubber gloves. '"Playing with your friends perhaps?" As he sputtered for words she continued without giving him a chance to answer. "You know pet, here you must behave, I can not have you dirty yourself like that."

While she talked she now started to undress him. As he recoiled from her sudden touch she smiled at him comfortably while waving her gloves saying "So, so, my little pet, nothing to worry about. They are a little cold I know but I don't want to catch anything from you as you bath." What! Does she think I've got lice? Thought Joe, getting more and more pissed by the second.

But looking at her he found himself tempered by her sweet naivete and so found himself unable to hold his grudge against her highhanded treatment of him. "So Evelyn you want to undress me?" he asked. She looked at him seemingly surprised. "Can you do it by yourself Pet?" She asked. "Oh what a clever clever little boy you are." And she clapped her hands again.

He couldn't help but feel buoyed by her good spirits and so in the end he gave all modesty good riddance and accepted her terms. As she had undressed him she looked at him critically again. "A little underfeed I think." She muttered to herself. "That's what happens when one allows pets to run free" and here she nodded to herself sagely. "First a shower and then the bath" she said as she quickly washed him off.

"Now into the bath young man." She said briskly as she led him to the steps going up to the tube. It was heaven for Joe getting into that big tube at last, but now he couldn't help it. He wanted Evelyn there too. But how to get her in? She saw him as a child or? A pet? Then, how about... "Evelyn please, I'm scared, It's so deep in here. Please help me, please."

Evelyn wasn't surprised hearing him beg for her to come. As soon as they know who's the mistress they start to relax she thought contently. Then their natural insecurity and need for support comes to the surface. "So my little darling." She said as she walked up the steps. "I'm here, don't you worry a thing, little sweetheart" as she leaned over to give his back a comforting clap. However the poor boy seemed so scared of the depth that he took a hold of her arm, not letting go. "So pet, let go of my arm, let go I say" she scolded.

But he didn't seem to be able, instead he slipped and drew her with him down into the tube. Yess Yes Yes, thought Joe who now had his very own wet, ah, blouse contest? And a most sweet young thing she was too. Another dream to cross out of my almanac he thought to himself, as he gloatingly congratulated himself on his victory in the ever ongoing battle between the sexes. After a fierce scolding from Evelyn, interleaved with extremely clear instructions in how a pet should and should not behave Evelyn at last allowed herself to accept her pet's heartbroken apologies. And by that time they actually was, heartbroken that is, as well as hearing impaired...

After all she thought to herself, he's so young, only thirty-three, I wonder if he's even been weaned yet? "Pet, you know how to eat by yourself, don't you?" What! Thought Joe, smirking to himself again, and miss the chance to be feed by you? No way. He said, sounding scared again "I can try, if you want me to Evelyn." Her heart went out to him as she saw him standing there, dripping but so brave and eager to please her. "No noo child" She said. "Let me help you."

Now to understand these misunderstandings one just have to remember the age difference between Elfing's and Mundane's. And as I said before, there is one, a vast one. Evelyns age for example if recounted into Mundane terms would be approximately eighty three years of age, and she was considered young by Elfing's standards. She would easily live ten times that age before she ever got to be considered old in Elfland...

And yes, she wasn't that fascinated about Mundania and Joe was her first Mundanian Pet so she should really be excused for her ignorance on those matters. And what about Joe's ignorance you might wonder? Well he didn't even know they existed until now, did he. When he got up from the tube he found himself without clothes, Evelyn just gave him something resembling a nightshirt to take on,

When he asked why she just hushed him and told him to follow her. She took a tight grip of his hand and led him to something that had to be the kitchen and a big old oak table. There she sat him down in a special stool marked with his name in a happy red color, and then proceeded with feeding him, having already arranged to cut the food in small slices for his delight. After he had been feed she wanted to burp him but as she found him to big she decided to correct that.

With a small weave of her hands he suddenly found himself a mere toddler in size. She bent down smilingly saying, "So little one, don't be scared, it's easier for us both this way, whereupon she put him over her shoulder to burp him." After that she kept him to her bosom as she sat down in a rocking chair.

Joe who had been taken by surprise had now started to reevaluate his strategy, perhaps it wasn't so smart to follow her intentions so unresistingly he wondered as he slowly drifted of to sleep contentedly hugging her bosom. Evelyn looked down at her new pet as she sat there rocking. That unfulfilled feeling that had followed her those last weeks seemed gone for now, she thought that it might just have been a good idea after all, getting her own pet.

The next day Joe woke up in Evelyn's bed. He desperately needed to go to the batrom but when he tried to get out of her hug he couldn't. She had evidently decided to keep him at the same size as after his food yesterday. He tried to wake her the best he could but the only result he got was her drawing him even closer to her.

In pure desperation he leaned close to her sweet breasts and started to suckle on her right nipple, nipping it carefully to try to wake her. That seemed to be working at least partially as she started to moan a little in her sleep, whispering, "Oh baby ohh, you get me soo hot." But now her eyes flow open as she noticed that it was real and no dream.

"Eeccch" she squalled as she flung herself backwards away from 'Jaws' that had tried to eat her up. Joe who almost got thrown of the bed in the process wasn't too happy with her stunt but at last she seemed to to have woke up and remember yesterday. "I need to go to the toilet Evelyn!!" Joe said trying his best to transmit the sheer necessity of his needs.

"No you don't my pet" said Evelyn pouting at him in a sweet sing song voice. "My precocious little darling you." Awh shit, now she's gone nutter on me thought Joe seeing her strange behavior. "Okay, Evelyn" He said trying his best to uphold his nagged dignity. "If you want to risk your bed that's your choice, remember that I warned you baby."

It didn't help that the voice coming out of his mouth more sounded like a four years old than his own mature one. "Ohh you sweet little thing." said Evelyn as she tickled him on his belly button. "Just do it in your new nappy." It was then Joe, for his first time, started to wonder if there just might be worse things than getting hunted by Car battery's and insane twisters.

Strangely enough he got used to it. It is as they say he thought philosophically a few days later as he lay in the cradle Evelyn had set up in her office. Man is a creature of habits and can adapt to almost anything. He had tried to talk Evelyn out of it but she had refused to listen on that ear. "No mamas little sweetiepie." She had said to him in that cloyingly sweet voice one used when talking about concepts for grownups.

"You need to acclimatize yourself to Elfland and to do that best you need to be a baby." Yes, she had started to breastfeed him too, if he didn't know better he would still wonder if it were his own fault biting her nipple that first desperate morning. But apparently it wasn't, it seemed as if every realm had their own dangers and most living in them got their protection from their mothers as they grew up.

So in fact one could look at it as being similar to a inoculation program but only with natural ingredients, ah, sort of. And it did make them bond, she loved him more for every day that passed and he felt the same, and he loved the feeling of her pliable yet firm breasts with their silken skin and that sweet fragrance of safety and love combined that was hidden behind their cuddling.

And she was a hot babe, as well as his babe. He knew that now, not that she hadn't had other lovers in her life. But that was all before him, at least one thing less to worry about he thought as he tried to read a beginners book about magic that she had gotten translated into Mundania as she called it. He was learning to read Elfian too but that was a most difficult literary language reminding him a lot of Chinese. As he would grow she had promised him it would become easier but as for now he had to pace him self.

The only thing troubling him was that mixture of motherhood combined with his need for her as his woman. He thought he could hold them apart but it was a strange mixture. But on the other hand he wasn't the first man to taste his lovers breast was he. And they were right in it creating a stronger bond too.

Days like clouds

Sweeping by

lost

As they vanish in the mist

and us

Standing at the bow of the Titanic

Icebergs ahead

That unseen force that had been hunting for Joe's life

I'm sure you're wondering over that

What was it.

And how could it control the very weather?

Don't worry, you will know

Although I hope you can wait a little as we first will watch our hero grow up anew. Evelyn and Joe were at was quickly had become their favorite spot, in front of the tile stove in her large old kitchen. Two months had gone now and Joe had grown up to become a handsome young man at about ten years of age. He was slowly brushing Evelyn's hair as she was staring into the flames.

"You know." He said. "My mother used to say that one hundred pulls every day, then your hair would look good." She smiled as she with the feline grace of a cat stretched and then leaned back into his embrace. "My mother used to say the same she said." Sounding a little sad for the first time he had heard her. He tightened his embrace and whispered. "Don't be sad Evelyn, we are together now, and I will never leave you."

"Oh you." She said as she turned around to lift him up and put him in her lap. "You little tease, I think you need a spanking. Soon you will be to big for me." he squirmed in her embrace pretending to try to get away but then lifted his arms to hold her against him throwing all pretence to the winds. "I love you Evelyn, until I die and beyond." She answered in a whisper as she leaned down over him, a strand of her hair caressing his chin. "I love you dearly. And I always will."