Chapter 55

I was awakened by three bundles of energy sitting on me. I was so glad I had left my boxer-briefs on when I had stripped off for the nap. Angel, Bertron, and Grenna were all sitting on me. Angel was on my chest, and Grenna had my right leg and Bertron had my left. They were bouncing up and down on my body like playing horsey, but they didn’t know what that was yet. I fained sleep, Angel raised one of my eyelids and looked me straight in the eye and said, “Story Daddy, Now!”

I blinked a couple times to clear my tears out of that eye and said, “Where is the book?”

“Right here was the reply from Grenna,” and she handed me the book ‘The Little Engine That Could.’

I relented and said, “OK, I can’t read it this way, all of you off me so I can sit up. Now who knows where we left off?”

Angel said she didn’t remember, but Bertron opened the book and found a spot one page before I had quit the other day. I took over from there and they settled down as I read to them. Soon I had finished and said, “Daddy has to go to the bathroom, so off to your room Angel. I will be out shortly and you can play with your friends there. Besides it will be suppertime soon.” I watched them go, what a joy. Someday I will have my own again. After I dressed I stopped in to see Fred. “Fred can you get Barbara yet, or is it still too soon?”

“No Bob I can get her, they are not that far away. Let me get Caroline to get her for you, is this a private conversation?”

“Yes it is Fred, if you don’t mind?”

“Not at all Bob, I can turn off my part of this for you, so you have some privacy and I will request the same for Caroline. You will be able to talk to each other through the speaker. Here’s Barbara, goodbye for now Bob.”

“Barbara, how are you coping with this crisis? I am miserable down here, I know I have Nadira, Bertet, Gerona, and Fretail, but I miss the rest of you, especially you. You are my rock sweetheart. You hold this whole house of cards together. Without you I am lost. I’m sorry I don’t mean to make you sad, but I just miss you so much. Dignar is just like me, lost; he wanders around all day worried that his mates will not come home to him. I try to reassure him, but I’m sure you understand.’

“Bob I am so lonely, we tied two beds together last night and all four of us slept together, but it is not the same, you are missing. We tried to orally please each other but though we did get some release, it wasn’t like making love to you, or even when you are there with us when we share. I was going to ask Phil if we could swap out the helper, I guess we would be called, but then who would we swap for a day? I guess the husbands could come up for a day and then go back and we could do that say every three days until this is over. They could then see that the women are being well cared for and connubial bliss would still be available to them. As for us, I would be there every third night, but you would still be down to only four of your mates.”

“I don’t care how it works out, but I definitely need you, even if it was only for one day out of three. Get Phil on it, to come up with a schedule, and you can announce it tonight at the nightly conference. Tomorrow night will be the first transfer. Will that work for you?”

“Yes Bob, I can hardly wait, I will go right now and tell Phil he has to work something out or I will turn Cynthia on him and maybe all her husbands. Yes they were married this morning. And they are ecstatic. She is so horny she wants them all every night, sometimes twice. They look beat the next morning, but you couldn’t wipe the smile off their faces with a laser.”

“Don’t go just yet, I have another concern I need to speak with you about. First let me send my congratulations to Cynthia and her harem. Tell her that someday soon I will take her up on her offer, with your approval of course. Secondly, I spoke with Kolstar this morning about the ‘leader’s rights’ thing. According to her every female down here as well as the ones up there want a time with me, preferably more than one time. They don’t care how, where or when, but they want me. By the way that includes the unmated ones too. I told you about being approached by Bernita, well Kolstar, and Cherrine have also expressed a huge interest. Later in the morning, Conpire cornered me in the practice cave entrance and told me that I would be more than welcome in her bed anytime, even right now. I told her I appreciated the offer, but right now I was off limits to anyone but my wives. I said once this crisis was over, or it looked like doomsday, then every one of the women would have to look out. Later I saw the women break up into groups of about 15 to 20 having deep discussions while the men watched the TV and the rest of the women circulated.”

“Well I knew it wouldn’t last long. I had hoped for longer than two days.”

I interrupted Barb with, “What do you mean it wouldn’t last, what wouldn’t last?”

“We, your women, made a pact with the rest of the married women. We said that if they controlled themselves for one week we would then let you exercise your rights as leader at the first celebration. Apparently they couldn’t last, now that most of your wives were out of the way. I will have a long talk with the conniving, selfish bitches when I get back, rest assured. Now as for you; are you tempted to take any of them up on their offer?”

“Certainly not, I will await your say so. And I don’t care what they tempt me with; it couldn’t be any more tempting than Bernita’s offer. So rest assured I will not break under the tremendous pressure they put me under.”

“I know Bob; you are essentially a one woman man who’s one woman turned into eight. And now you are stuck with us, like you said, ‘for better or worse, for richer or poorer, till death do us part.’ That was the vows you said right?”

“Yes it was, and I meant every word.”

“So did I Bob, so did I. Now let me talk to Phil and the girls and see what we can work out. As for Cynthia, I might consent and let her have you but, for one night only and not all night either. But I will have to think about that some more.”

“I love you too, Barbara, see you soon.”

“Bet on it.” she said and signed off.

I walked out to the main cave and was impressed with the attitude of the people. They seemed a little more upbeat than they have been for the last two days. Joulnar called me over to a table with all the headmen at it. I wondered what this was all about. Valkorla spoke first though. “Bob we have the greatest respect for you and the sky spirits, but what can we do to help you. We are all very brave men; we have worked as a team before. If you need us for any job, we will do it. We do not care what we have to do; we will be there for you. You have given us something which we never knew existed before; a place that we would be proud to raise our children, a place for our children to raise theirs. We have made very good friends here; please let us help you and the sky spirits.”

“Valkorla, all of you men, I am so proud of you all. If there was something you could do I would not hesitate to ask you. The best thing I can ask you right now is to please know that we are trying very hard to figure this out. We want to either fix it or know how to be prepared for the next time. Right now it is just a waiting game. We need time for all the things we have done already to give us information we do not have now. The sun is so far away that it takes some time for us to get the kind of information we need. It is like trying to hunt a lone bison bull that is very far away. He is the only meat around and you are very hungry. You need his meat for your camp so you do not starve to death. First you have to get close enough to have a chance to kill him. So you travel a long ways to get close, but not too close so you scare him away. Then you must figure a way to kill him where he is. Once you figure a way to kill the bull, you must prepare for your plan. Then once you have everything ready, you spring your trap and force him to where you can kill him. Now all this takes a lot of time, right?” I see nods at the table.

“We are tracking the bison right now, but he is a very long way off so we have to get close. Once we get close and we look around, then we can make plans. Once we make plans then we may need help, but until then we need to let the sky spirits get close. Do you understand now?”

Joulnar said, “When you need us Bob, we, all of the men, and the women too, if you need them, we will be ready to help you in any way we can.”

“Thank you Joulnar, Valkorla, all of you men. You men are more than just my headmen; you are all like brothers to me. I feel like this camp is a family, not just this tribe and that tribe. You are my family and I yours. We all work together, we all cry together when someone is hurt, just like a family. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for being there when I need you and, thank you for just being who you are, a part of our family.”

We all clasped hands and said together, “Brothers, one and all.”

It was a very emotional moment and we were all kind of embarrassed afterwards. They all shuffled off to other tables and I sat pondering our fate and how I can help change it or live through it and prepare for the next time.

Supper time came and went and it was now time for our loved ones to come on the air to talk to us. Barbara was in the foreground and spoke first. “Bob and I have spoken with the sky spirits and we have been able to work something of a person swap every third day. Starting tomorrow night we will be sending home the companions of those who are mated to people there. Some people will be coming here, like Dignar. Tomorrow night after our talk, the following people will be coming here: Dignar, as I said; Grunto, Grojan and Gerona. Going back down there will be Glormon, Valkerita, and me. The very next night after our talking time the people will be swapped back. Bob and I felt that in this way everybody would be with their loved ones at least one whole day every three. You don’t know how hard it is for us up here, we are only 19 people but, we miss all the rest of our friends and family. If there was a way we would bring everybody here we would. However there is just not enough room here for all 248 of us up here. We hate the separation, especially as we were just developing family relationships with all of you.

“Bob and the sky spirits are working very hard, trying to keep us all safe. They are trying to find something to help us fight this, or help us prepare for this again. Please know that everything that can be done is being done. We do not want to lose anyone so stay safe for us. Now here is the rest of our family.” Barbara walked off screen but not before the people could see tears in her eyes.

On our end there was a lot of cheering and foot stomping. I think between my talk with the men earlier and now Barbara’s talk the people really felt more like a family than ever. We had a lot of very lively conversation tonight, I did get to talk with Marlit, Pauloa and Ambat and I told them all how much I loved them and wished I could come up there, but I was really needed down here. Marlit said it best I think, “Bob you are needed by your people, most of them are there; so that is where you should be too. They need you for moral support; they need to know you are with them in this crisis, help them to remain calm and rational. I know the big screen helps, but maybe you can get them all to do exercises or teach them the thing where you just move slowly and then fast in that kind of dance thing you do. I think that would help them. You might try it tomorrow. We all love you and miss you terribly. And when we get back home, you will have to sleep late every morning for a while.”

“Thank you Marlit, I love you too, as well as all of my wives. Your suggestions may be very sound. I will ask them in the morning if any want to learn.”

They signed off after that and Dignar came up to me and hugged me and said, “Thank you Bob, for allowing me to be with my wives, even if it is for one day at a time. You are a very kind and smart man, thank you.”

Olnafot came to me and asked, “What was this thing that Marlit spoke of, some dance thing?”

“Olnafot, there is a martial art, I don’t know the name any more and I probably never knew, but it is a way of attuning your body to its own rhythm, it kind of allows you to be as one with the spirit inside you. I will ask in the morning if any of you want to learn it.”

“Bob, I have seen you sometimes when you have done this thing. At first I thought you were crazy, but I saw the smoothness in the movements and knew that there was some reason behind it, but I could not see it. But I think I do understand a little more. Thank you Bob and I will definitely be one who wants to learn. Goodnight Bob and thank you for being here for us.”

I left the main cave to talk to Fred, but he said, “Bob we have nothing new yet, go get a good night’s sleep. We may have more information in the morning.”

‘Thanks Fred, I will.’

I went to shower and was mobbed by my wives. We washed each other and I got to wash all the little; and not so little nooks, crannies, and peaks, of my wives. We adjourned to the bed still semi wet and very horny. I said, “Alphabetically first tonight, that means Bertet, Fretail, Gerona and then Nadira. After the first time it is whoever is up to it or ready at the time; now Bertet, get ready for action.”

Bertet spread out on the bed and I crawled over her and began kissing her face, lips, eyes, nose and forehead; and then slowly worked my way to her ears and neck. I was nibbling at her neck with my lips only and suddenly gave her a love bite (or hicky as it is sometimes known). She giggled and asked, “what are you doing Bob?” I said, “I am marking my woman so all can know she is mine and I love her so.” I continued until she had a very good one, then I moved on to her upper chest, never really touching her breasts. I kissed her foothills and breastbone and then her upper arms, trailing saliva and then blowing gently to produce mountains of goosebumps, then I snuck up on her glorious tits and cherry red nipples, climbing her mound like a mountain, kissing and licking my way to the top, once I captured a turgid nipple, I sucked and licked, blew air and nipped at her cherry mountain top. By the time I reached her other summit; she was squirming around and moaning.