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- AIMEE' Chapter IX
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- "Master Darynn, please be brought forward."
-
- Darynn rose to his feet and allowed his to colleagues to lead him
- into the moon-shaped circle that was the petition floor for the main
- council of Mages. Around him sat his thirteen peers, each of whom had
- heard testimony from himself, Bethsany, and Aimee', as well as
- additional testimony from several of Bethsany's girls and two of
- Teltirray's servants. Still, he had to admit, the council saw things
- differently from most people and he didn't know what their decision
- would ultimately be.
-
- From the center of the council, Talen Silisto leaned over and
- looked down at him. "Master Darynn, the court has reviewed its findings
- and considered your testimony. While it would normally be outrageous
- for a mage of your standing to defy the wishes of a fellow mage and
- teach that mage's student something other than what was requested, we
- find in your case that you taught Aimee' precisely according to the
- wishes of Teltirray as best as you, yourself, could interpret. If
- Aimee' sought additional learning from you and your library, as long as
- her demanded studies did not suffer in the process, that is the mark of
- a good student, and you, sir, are to be rewarded as a good nurturer of
- that student." Master Silisto smiled, and Darynn grinned back. "This
- court finds you innocent of any wrongdoing. Would you please be
- returned to your chair?"
-
- "I would, sir."
-
- "Aimee', please be brought forward."
-
- Aimee stood and, like Darynn before, allowed herself to be led to
- the center of the circle. Darynn watched the hold of her head and found
- himself admiring the strength she was showing, as well as the
- nervousness locked into her shoulders. She looked up at Mage Silisto,
- the hood of her cloak thrown back.
-
- Mage Silisto examined her carefully. "Apprentice Aimee', the court
- has examined your conduct and your testimony, as well as that of your
- teachers and those who know you, and we can find no evidence of
- wrongdoing. As a mage, Teltirray had few peers, and in his speciality
- he had none. As a man, however, Teltirray was more monster than human
- being, and with your revelations and those contained in his journals, we
- hereby remove his name from our ranks as an honored member."
-
- "Also, this court has examined Teltirray's last moments in detail.
- Without formality, this ruling will probably face challenge, but we
- rule that you and Teltirray engaged in duel, one which he unfairly
- skewed in his favor, and that you are therefore to be benefitted in the
- manner of one who has won duel. In the presence of a Will or Deed of
- Estate, you are entitled to half of Teltirray's estate holdings.
- Without such a document, you are entitled to all." Aimee's mouth
- dropped open, and Darynn followed suit, stunned by the generosity of the
- ruiling. Talen Silisto slapped his palm on the wood of the table for
- silence, and when he got it, he turned to another standing there.
- "Ricar, is there such a document?"
-
- "No such document will be found," Ricar stated evenly.
-
- "Is there such a document," Silisto repeated. Darynn wondered at
- why Silisto needed to repeat it.
-
- Ricar stared at the mage, anger written across his mouth. Then,
- slowly, he smiled. "Master Silisto, I submit to you that no such Will
- or Deed can be found."
-
- Satisfied, Silisto turned back to Aimee'. "You are now the holder
- of the title to Teltirray's estates. This is the ruling of this mage's
- court." Silisto slapped his hand upon the table. "Recorder, let it be
- known that Master Darynn has been cleared of all charges. That
- Apprentice Aimee' has been, as well. That the court rules in the duel
- of Aimee' and Teltirray, that Aimee' is the living victor. And finally,
- that the Council of Mages grants Aimee' a white card admission to the
- College, to reside with Master Darynn-- " An uproar started in the
- audience. Darynn looked stunned, but most of them were beginning to
- applaud!
-
- Silisto banged his hand on the table. "ORDER! I will have order
- in here!" He took a deep breath. "To reside with Master Darynn, who
- has been neglecting his duties as a mentor for far too long recently,
- until such time as she earned the title of Mage."
-
-
- The smell of her hair bothered him. But he wasn't sure why, or
- even in what way, it bothered him, but it did. He tried not to listen
- to his feeling, but they would not go away merely from wishing. "Sir?"
- she asked gently.
-
- "Aimee'?"
-
- "I wanted to ask you... you said once, just eight months ago, that
- you were prepared to love me." She turned around, slipping her arms
- into his cloak and holding him close. Surprised, he looked down at the
- top of her head, inhaling the soft smell of her hair again. "Would
- you... are you ready now?"
-
- "I..." He stood, flustered, then finally smiled. "I think so,
- Aimee'." Much to even his surprise, he felt his erection growing under
- her influence. As he reflected on her touch, he realized that Bethsany
- and her girls still held no interest at all for him. Instead, Aimee'
- challenged him, excited him, because of her talents, her magic. And he
- wanted to indulge himself in her spirit and her body.
-
- He caressed her hair slowly, and her hands stroked his back, his
- fingertips arousing the skin and causing his muscles to tense up almost
- painfully. "Come with me, Aimee'," he said. She smiled and took his
- hand. He led her to the bedroom. "Sit."
-
- She sat. He sat opposite her, his hands folded in his lap. "I
- feel... uncomfortable. I have no idea where to begin with you. And,
- more honestly, I am frightened of you."
-
- "If you do not wish, sir..."
-
- "No, I have no desire to go back on my pledge. Aimee', this may
- sound odd, but while I love you, and I feel lust for you, and at my age
- I should have the wisdom to understand what I feel in here, I do not."
- He tapped himself on the chest to emphasize his words. "Men... Men are
- easy, compared to you."
-
- "You taught me, many months ago, not to be afraid of what I wanted
- or what someone else asked of me. If I could do it, and I wanted, I
- should." She smiled. "I learned that lesson very well." She rose and
- removed cloak, tossing it onto the chair by the bed. "This room has so
- much magic in it. I can feel it when I breathe."
-
- "Yes," Darynn replied. "I have had many men in this room, and cast
- many more spells." He grinned. "Shall we perform one, tonight?"
-
- She stopped, surprised. "You would do that with me?"
-
- "It would seem the natural course of action. You are an
- apprentice. I am the mage. I am supposed to teach you things. Why
- don't I show you, by example, a kind of scrying I'm familiar with?"
-
- "Please, sir!" she smiled. Darynn reached out and pulled her
- close, pushing up the cuff on her left sleeve, exposing her wrist. He
- knew she was watching as he lowered his head and kissed her wrist,
- gently. The taste of her skin was unlike anything he had ever tasted.
- It was salty, like the skin of men, but it was a different quality from
- any salt or sweat he had known with men. He could not even begin to
- place the differences.
-
- She stood, silently, while he reached out and untied the bows that
- held her tunic closed in the front. He admired the smooth flawlessness
- of her body as he exposed it, inch by inch. Her breasts, still growing,
- were already large mounds projecteing away from her body, each nipple
- pointing away from the other. He quietly cursed himself. For a sex
- mage, he had damned little vocabulary to describe the beauty of a
- woman's body. And he did find her beautiful. Her beauty was bound in
- the way she breathed, in the way her chest rose and fell with the
- excitment that was building between them as student and teacher, friend
- and lover, and he hated to admit... man to woman. The raw flux of power
- between two loving men was one thing he appreciated. Yet the strange
- flux of power, filtered by the differences in the sexes, made for a kind
- of magic he had never known.
-
- As he pushed her shirt down off her back and she shook her hair to
- free it where it had become caugt in the collar, he ceased cursing
- himself and smiled. He took her cheeks in his hands, lifted her mouth
- slightly, and kissed her. And then he laughed.
-
- "Sir?"
-
- "Oh, Aimee', what I have been thinking in the past few minutes is
- just not fit. Are you ready to share the weaknesses of an old man?"
-
- "If they are yours, sir, I will always be ready."
-
- "Very well." He rose and slowly led her to the bedside,
- encouraging her to get in. She lay down on the covers and, together,
- they worked off her breeches. "Aimee', I have been considering what a
- fool I have been for denying myself the special kind of magic that
- happens not between two men, but between a man and a woman. And then I
- realized how few people ever learn of the love between man and woman,
- even when they are made to learn that." He shook his head. "You are the
- first woman I have loved since my mother, and you may be the last. It
- is not... It is not that I have discovered women, Aimee'. It is just
- that I have discovered you."
-
- She smiled and reached up, pulling him down beside her. "Sir, one
- thing I have not yet had the pleasure of is one of my own kind. But I
- dearly wish it. I wish to learn."
-
- "I am afraid I shall have to send you to a specialist for that," he
- mused, laughing. "That sort of thing is beyond my understanding."
-
- "Yes, sir," she replied, grinning. "Remove your clothing,
- already!"
-
- "I have to prepare for the spell, first. Wait here." Darynn rose
- and left the room. He walked down the corridor to his magickal pantry,
- recovered the items he required, and returned. Aimee' was idly stroking
- her skin, scratching or self-pleasuring, he couldn't tell, and she
- smiled as he walked in. "I waited."
-
- "I see," he replied. "Come, apprentice. Help me arrange this
- spell. I will need this powder dripped into the groove on the floor
- that encircles the bed, and I will need these candles inset into the
- holders at points 1, 21, 41, 61, and 81. Clear?"
-
- "Yes, sir. Is there any need to care for the colors?"
-
- "Good question, apprentice. No, not this time."
-
- "Yes, sir." He watched, somewhat detached at the beauty of her
- body but thrilled with the eagerness in her soul, as she placed the
- candles down and began the slow and rather dull task of encircling the
- bed with the mix he had given her. He stripped off the plain blanket
- and put in its place a large, blue comforter onto which were sewn
- magical runes and sigils. "Aimee'?"
-
- "Almost done, sir," she said.
-
- "Join me when you are."
-
- He knelt on the bed, naked, as she joined him. "Now, cross your
- legs, close your eyes, and hold out your hands."
-
- She did as she was told. He looked at her, naked, vulnerable...
- and yet, he knew that if he were to arouse her anger, she would prove a
- challenge, possibly a mortal one. Unlike Teltirray, even if he did not
- see all of it, he knew the source of her power and he respected it. He
- reached over, doused the oil lamp, and settled himself before her,
- taking her hands in his. He closed his eyes.
-
- Slowly, he began chanting, swaying back and forth, feeling the
- power that was already heavily invested into this room even when no
- magick was being performed. His soul reached out, examined everything.
- His hands moved up her arms, and she mirrored his movements, until his
- forehead touched hers. Their hands roamed, and slowly he felt her open
- herself to him. For the first time, he sensed her hidden heart, which
- she had kept protected from Teltirray for all these past months. Her
- mouth began to move, although no sounds came out. He could hear her
- breath shaped into words and knew that those words were echoes of his
- own. She was losing herself to the spell, and that was as it should be.
-
- His hand caressed her breasts, and hers stroked the hardened
- muscles of his chest. Beneath her soft teats he could feel the strength
- she had earned through Teltirray's unfortunate "ministrations." He
- worried that he was being inept, or too rough, to the delicate flesh of
- her body, but she never said a word other than the whispered spell of
- scrying they worked together.
-
- His mouth touched her shoulder as they leaned together, and her
- voice suddenly took form. She took over the speaking of the spell, as
- his mouth explored her soft skin. Once more he was fascinated with a
- taste, a texture, a sensation utterly unlike that of any man or boy he
- had ever enjoyed. He pressed her down to the bed, feeling her body
- underneath his own. His skin came to life with every inch pressed to
- inch, and the mana flowed about them in torrents Darynn had shared so
- few times in his life. His mouth found her nipples. They were not so
- unlike men's, perhaps a little larger than most men he had been with,
- but not the largest. He learned to appreciate the feel of her breasts,
- the wonder and excitement inherent in them. He was fascinated, yet the
- spell called him on. There was more to do. He kissed her belly. In
- his mind, the spell wove on and on, and in his ears Aimee' chanted
- flawlessly words she had not known an hour before. His mouth trailed
- down to her sex.
-
- The scent was... distracting. Interesting. Nothing to write Thom
- about. He lowered his lips to her furred mound, slowly extending his
- tongue, tentatively tasting her flesh. The words to the spell came a
- little more breathlessly from her throat. He pulled his head back
- slightly and looked down, taking in the sight, comparing the pink flesh
- the color inside a seashell before him with what he knew in his head.
- He licked where he thought her clit should be, tasting at it. Her legs
- spread slowly wider, and a small moan ran in the undercurrent of her
- chant. He looked up and her face showed how lost she was in the magic
- and the pleasure of power.
-
- He licked at her harder. His jaw was experienced enough with the
- taste of men, but she was proving difficult to follow. He grinned to
- himself... his problem was that the target was so small!
-
- He was apparently doing enough, for her chanting changed in pitch
- and timbre as she approached her orgasm. He decided to let the spell
- rise with her. They didn't have to be joined at the hips to make this
- work; he had succeeded many times while sucking seed.
-
- He allowed her to continue weaving the spell; he fed it to her mind
- even as his mouth fed on the taste and feel of her cunt. He licked with
- enthusiasm, appreciating the way she responded so fully. It was
- different from men (he couldn't stop making the comparison), but he had
- no trouble recognizing it. He pressed his mouth against her cunt,
- licking her harder. He lay against the bedspread and felt his erection
- pressing against the rough cloth. Her orgasm was growing; he could feel
- it in her legs and see it in her heart. She growled underneath the
- chanted her spell, and he could hear the thickness in her voice that
- heralded the loss of control. Her voice grew louder as the muscles in
- her legs trembled and shook. He changed to course of spell from its
- rotating-growing phase to the outward-seeking phase, and she screamed as
- she came, the magickal words shouted from her mouth as a cruder lover
- would shout obsceneties.
-
- His vision blinked momentarily, and when he looked again the sky
- had opened up above his head and the world turned below him. Only one
- moon was in sight, but it was clearer and more radiant than he had seen
- it in many a year. He turned around slowly, and Aimee' floated besides
- him. Her eyes were closed and her chest was heaving, one hand over her
- breasts as if to feel the air entering and escaping. "Aimee'," he said.
- "Apprentice."
-
- "Sir?" she asked, blinking slowly and opening her eyes.
-
- "Look at what we have wrought." He reached out for her hand, and
- she took it. Drawing her close, he turned her so that she looked down
- upon the world. "We have left our bodies, so important to our
- pleasures, behind, so that we may see this."
-
- "Is that... that..."
-
- "That is Earth," Darynn said slowly. "We are many miles from it's
- surface."
-
- "It's round!"
-
- "Indeed," Darynn said. "And there are other secrets to be learned
- from this height. But out bodies will not long stand the strain of
- suspension like this. It is, perhaps, the strongest disadvantage of sex
- magic... the tension of ecstacy, if left too long, will harm us. And
- the pleasures of love make us inappropriate for combat magic." He
- smiled at her. "Come, we must return."
-
- "It is so beautiful," she sighed.
-
- "It is," he agreed, giving it one last glance. He spoke one more
- word.
-
- Aimee' screamed louder, her climax sweeping past her as attentions
- returned to her body. Darryn held onto her with his strong hands,
- hoping she wouldn't buck too hard and hurt his mouth or nose. Finally,
- her trembling subsided. "Oh, Master Darryn."
-
- "Apprentice Aimee'... you were most beautiful."
-
- "Thank you," she gasped, lying down on the bed and breathing hard,
- recovering her breath. "That was... the most beautiful moment of my
- life."
-
- He crawled up and lay beside her, chuckling. "It was probably one
- of the most interesting of mine," he admitted. "I did not anticipate
- your pleasure being so strong."
-
- "You enjoyed it, then?"
-
- "Oh, very much," he agreed.
-
- She turned over onto her stomach. Darynn's eyes floated over her
- buttocks, so much fuller and rounder than any boy's he had ever seen.
- "Good," she said, pulling herself over his body and lowering her head to
- his cock. Darynn trembled slightly as his cock slid into her mouth. He
- could feel her saliva against his cock, slick and warm when it was under
- her tongue, cool as it slid down his shaft. He heard his own breath and
- found he was hyperventilating. She was good, and he appreciated her
- talent.
-
- She could take all of it, too, and he looked down to see her nose
- pressing against his belly, his entire cock engulfed in her mouth. She
- sucked on his cock so well he felt his own climax reaching for him.
- "Aimee'... I'm going to come soon."
-
- She ignored his warning, sucking harder, applying just the right
- kinds of pressure to his shaft. His cock pumped a little, releasing a
- droplet, his body wound tighter than a watchman's clock. A second
- later, it broke though, making him shake and groan as his cock pumped
- her mouth full of his come. Yet, she didn't stop! She kept sucking it
- down, stroking every last drop from his shaft until he became so
- sensitive. "Aimee', I beg of you... enough!"
-
- She rose up and looked at him. Her eyes were glazed over, tears
- streaking her cheeks. He recognized the signs of fighting a gag reflex,
- and smiled, brushing away one of the small streams of wetness with his
- thumb.
-
- She held his hand to her cheek. "Thank you again, sir. Thank you
- so much."
-
- He smiled and pulled her close, until she lay atop him. "It is I
- who should be thanking you," he sighed. "That was wonderful."
-
- "Thank you. I tried my best."
-
- "And you did better than many men I've been with. Which confirms a
- theory of mine."
-
- "Sir?" she asked.
-
- "I've always thought it was passion and practice which make a good
- lover, not having a similar body. There's a belief amongst inverts that
- only we know how to pleasure one another. You give lie to that belief."
-
- She nodded, then laughed softly. "Darynn... When Teltirray was
- trying to kill me, one thought that kept going through my mind was that
- if I didn't kill him, I was going to miss class tomorrow."
-
- His laughter joined hers. "Oh, Apprentice, I do love thee."
-
- "I love you too..." She looked up into his face. "...Teacher."
-
- They lay together for a long time, and soon Aimee' had drifted off
- to sleep, turning over onto her side. Darynn rose and blew out the five
- candles; most had burned down until they were just wicks lying in
- puddles of wax. He did one last circuit of his home, insuring that
- everything was locked down tight against the cold, winter night, then
- returned to bed, one small latern his only source of light. As he
- looked down at Aimee's sleeping form, he wondered at her resiliency, and
- at his own emotions.
-
- Despite all that had happened, lust was still not in his
- vocabulary, at least not for her. He would never have sought her out,
- and he still had no desire to seek other women at all. Instead, he felt
- admired her and sought to protect her. She was so strong, yet so young
- and vulnerable. One day she would be a great mage, and perhaps that was
- his eventual legacy. It would be the ultimate irony if his greatest
- student turned out to be a woman, yet Aimee' had all the natural talent
- to be the greatest of mages.
-
- He lowerd the lampwick and curled up next to her. After dark, he
- thought, not all cats are grey, but sometimes it doesn't matter what
- color they are.
-
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- "Aimee', Chapter 9"
- Aimee' is copyright (c) 1993 Elf Mathieu Sternberg. This story may be
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