Vela

[Writers_Bloque]

Good to hear you are writing again it feels good to write yeah?

Yeah, I have been exceedingly busy, youngest daughter and her sisters decided to move into the house next door. College is going good for her and her friends, they still work at the company I work for as secretaries. Now that everyone but a couple of her friends moved to the house next door, the house is a little quieter so I can try to write again.

[Claire]

Part 13:

That part ended up being surprisingly wholesome after the last one. Sure, we had extensive body modification, but we had also people just enjoying themselves, baby shopping with a unicorn, enjoing good food with your buddies, and planning an orgy because six men just aren't enough for two women. Normal stuff in the Vela-verse I guess.

I think I've also seen the origin point of all your portal shenanigans now. Good to know where that came from.

Overall, this felt more like a transitional chapter, like the story's taking a breath before the next big development. I saw you sprinkling in some references to the Vela main body. I wonder if you're maybe setting up a conflict between the two Vela's. It would be an intriguing thing to do with the story if you had the separated part develop so differently from the main Vela that they no longer see eye to eye.

I feel a bit sorry for Tom. I'm not okay with how Vela and Talia fool him with Talia's changed appearance.

i won't repeat what I said in our group chat while reading. Some comments are better left private.

[Vela Nanashi]

Yeah this is not meant to be fair to Tom, and intentionally problematic and Vela just not knowing better than to go along, she has many issues with understanding humanoids and their moralities, and is trying and failing at things a lot.

[Vela Nanashi]

Vela (the remnant):

My cylinder opens and I try to get up, but I can barely move, and then the still living barely held together parts of the humans are gently lowered into me and the cylinder closes, I had been horrified by what was done to them, and now they are on top of me, I am so hungry, I do not truly care about these humans, but the other Vela seems to, even if she would not give up secrets to save them, I understand her reasoning, but I do not want to die, the idea was that if the destruction button was used I can just leap to the others, but I can't here. So I need to survive, she is deprived of her senses as 'I' leaves, I know there is no point trying to talk to her, but I see her hands in my senses, she gestures very not clearly, if she is even doing that at all, I can't tell, but she is not asking me to save them, besides even if I somehow put them back together again, I probably could, I am not sure their minds are still intact and I do not know how to fix broken minds. I think I see her gesture 'kill fast' with nonsense in between, but it is possibly some other things or nothing. She starts crying out in pleasure, but also there is a clear emotional pain there. I am barely preventing myself from reverting to mindless with my hunger being this bad so I hope she said to kill them or will forgive me, I must eat. I sever every nerve and rapidly consume both brains and I instantly regret eating their brains as I experience their torture, it is almost as bad as the quantum cascade, almost. However they provide enough to slightly stave off the worst of my hunger, I double my energy from eating them. So now I might survive two blasts of blue anti magic.

I go dormant as I can't talk with Vela anyway, but I keep enough focus to try to keep reading her hands, but she is not talking anything that makes sense, her cries of pain, despair and pleasure tells me why.

A long time passes, and 'I' returns and dumps what looks like half of Vela's volume of some sort of slugs at her and leaves again. Very colourful slugs almost hypnotic lots of coloured dots that look like they move and change colour, they crawl all over her and then each stab her with a shiny thin metal blade like thing with holes in it, like three syringes. I see a few crawl up into her pussy and ass and when those stab she cries out in immense pain, and her cries now are more desperation and pain and still pleasure. I want to save her, but even with the feeding I can't move much and my cylinder is sealed and I feel regret for having helped figure out this material and designed the cylinder to be inescapable for our form, I know now that was a very stupid idea, we could just have sat there waiting in a room. No destruction, no real prison, just patience and staying of our own accord, but no we had to make the prison perfect...

The hatred we used to feel for the part that abandoned us, after we consumed the galaxy that became very not important, and I do not hate this Vela, I don't like that she does not see the truth of herself, I do not understand why, it feels very wrong though, to not know what you are. I hope I can help her see the truth, truly see it, it was obvious she did not believe that aspect of what she was told by both me and 'I' showing her, and that seems like some sort of mental block placed there, and I do not know the purpose of that. Did someone do that to her, for what reason? To control or weaken her? Either way a really bad thing to do to her.

As I stay mostly dormant I see the slugs growing, and they become a way to tell time, they double, then triple in size, she still squirts and the level is now half the way up her torso, her skin is taking on a sickly complexion, her blood vessels become more visible, clearly inflamed, I wonder if they can kill her, from the wounds there is also an iridescent black fluid that leaks, not blood, and the slugs also sweat a clear iridescent fluid that further causes skin discolouration, swelling.

I:

While Vela is being weakened by the leeches I explore the underworld a bit more, I want to find more tools, magical ones, to infiltrate the keep again, and try to find out what people there Vela seems to care about the most, if she has any she cares about, she seems to at least make people believe she cares, but maybe she does not truly, it is hard to tell, she let me destroy the two humans, so maybe she does not care. Perhaps I should do what she said and vivisect her to see if I can find out how she works, if she won't be useful that was the plan anyway, as she is a shape changer and the energy she is truly made of I want to understand.

I find a larger magic shop, and enter it, rather than trying to browse I walk up to the proprietor "I want to know what you have that can aid infiltration, I already have invisibility and silence, but I leave footprints and people can bump into me, do you have things to prevent that?" I pull out a bar of gold "I can get more if this is not enough."

The proprietor looks at the bar "well there are two options I can think of at the top of my head, maybe three, one is turning into mist or smoke, that might still be felt though, another is specifically to not leave footprints and traces of yourself behind, and the third is a bit more expensive it can make you immaterial like a ghost, are you looking for single use or enchantment that is permanent?"

"The last two sound like I want both and I want permanent but possible to activate when I want and deactivate when I want, how much would you want for that and can you do that? Also maybe one more thing, do you have some sort of way to vanish from one spot and appear in another quickly?" I ask as I only have one more jump left that I can do then my jump fuel is used up completely.

"Teleportation I don't have, but I have short range version to a spot you can see, but only as far as you can throw a stone, or I can, maybe you can throw a stone far as you are a golem?" he says "for the first two you want six bars like this one, if you want the short range teleport that can be used ten times per day that would be another four bars, I also accept gems or platinum."

Ten bars of gold, I open my storage compartment and pull those out "when will you have it for me?"

"Oh I have those ready, one moment" the proprietor hurries off and returns fairly quickly "put this band around an ankle and you will leave no traces on the ground as you walk" showing me a metal band that does not fit around my feet, but I know I can adapt the magic in magical items by putting it elsewhere. "This amulet makes you incorporeal while worn" and then brings out a tiny rod with a button "aim this where you want to go and press the button."

I take the items and they whisper to me about how they work and I easily adapt them to my need putting them in a safe compartment inside me that I can control them from. I test the phasing first and I can put my hand through the desk the bars are on as if it was not there, I notice the world around me looks altered, I see some things that were not there before. I return out from phase and test the short range teleport and that works flawlessly, and I trust the third one will work well and will test it on soft ground shortly.

The proprietor smiles and says "thank you for your business" while putting the bars away in a safe.

"Thank you" I say, briefly consider killing the proprietor and just taking all the things, but I do not want to not have someone with useful tools, I turn to leave "actually do you have something to help convince someone to do what I want?"

"Love potion or what?" the proprietor asks.

"Not love exactly, don't care to copulate with them, but I want them to be obedient and helpful" I say.

"Dominate? Very expensive, single use or multiple?" the proprietor asks.

"Tell me price for single and multiple" I say.

"Single vial you have to have them drink and see only you when they do, one bar of gold, but strong minds can resist it, but I have a crystal sliver, you stab someone with, it will not leave a wound but unless they resist you dominate them as long as you still have the crystal and you can control many, the crystal will cost you two bars of platinum or good quality diamonds or other gems of equal value" The proprietor says.

I consider, platinum I do have what the proprietor asks for, but I need it for repairs of some vault systems, but the sliver is worth it easily, I reluctantly pull out two of my three bars of platinum and hand them over "the crystal sliver and tell me exactly how it works."

The proprietor puts away the platinum and rushes behind a bead curtain and I hear a larger safe open and close before they return with a small metal box and opens it for me "you hold this handle, stab this end into someone, just the tip is enough, then you can put it away again, and they will very likely be dominated. Be careful though this is fragile, if it shatters all the way to that dull glow it stops working, these are very rare and even illegal among my people, so do not show it to people."

I open my sharp rod compartment in my right palm and remove the rod and mount the shard and slowly test the mechanism to make sure it works, it only surfaces the very tip as the sliver is shorter than the rod, but that is supposed to be enough so that works and when retracted it is under my exoskeleton hatch. I put the sharp rod away in a storage compartment "thank you" I say and leave.

I activate invisibility, silence, and the leave no footprints magic and walk over some soft slightly mushroom covered soil and I don't even flatten the mushrooms I step on. I activate phasing again and walk towards the nearest path to the surface, and I test walking through some people and they do not notice me.

I go to Vela's former home and easily make my way inside and I listen to various conversations, trying to learn the people. They are apparently searching for Vela, and me, if only they knew I was right beside them. I learn names, and slowly piece together relationships, it is all extremely mind numbing, but I need someone Vela will care about. That or I take one that is pregnant, as I know from my own culture that protecting wombs with children is very important. I decide to listen more around those who are pregnant to figure out more about them.

I spend days at this task, but then I learn that the male called Rutae, is one of the forms Vela can take, and that she has impregnated Aria, who is always at least with Bear, often several others around her, including her brother Tom and his wife Maria. I spend another week observing trying to figure out where I can most secretly capture her, I do not want combat as I need her intact and not dead to be useful for making Vela comply, I don't trust the sliver will work on Vela, even after the slugs have grown to her size.

I may use the sliver on Aria though, or her defenders, that will let them become my tools in her torment.

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Aria:

"I am tired of you all saying I can't help with the search! I am not some fragile vase that will shatter if I walk outside! I need to find Vela, she got badly hurt!" I yell in extreme frustration and anger at Bear and Tom "I am going out and that is final, if you try to stop me I will use magic to stop you, so if you must keep me safe come with me!"

I use the magic Vela used on me when we rescued Maria, and put on the same clothes, and I am so relieved at feeling less like I am about to burst thanks to the magic shifting my babies to a bigger on the inside pocked space.

Bear and Tom both hurry to get dressed and equipped, and Maria also gets dressed "she saved me, and you are not going without me Tom."

Rakk and Nyx had been listening from the distance and carefully silently join the group.

Zirah speaks up "can you tell Bork I and Calda miss him, if you see him when you are out."

Szinzar and Sinae get out of the bath "if you all are going we will come too. We should tell Varen as well"

I smile "okay but hurry, I can't remain still very much longer" my babies kick also wanting me to get going I think.

Torm, Varen, Szinzar and Sinae return all dressed, well Sinae is almost naked still, just some bejewelled black lace panties and bra, and two daggers. still wearing her collar and cuffs but in tattoo form, and extremely impractical crystal high heels where the heel part is a very sharp and long thin cone, clearly they are daggers in disguise, how she walks in those things I don't know until I look at her with magic sense and her heels have an enchantment that helps her grace and balance, she is clumsier without them on.

"I think we need to go search deeper in the caverns below if we are to find Vela, she is not in any of the mountains or forests or plains, we have searched every building and room and cellar" Torm says.

"We have searched most of the upper caverns too, so that means we need to go down to where the under sea is, and where the aboleths live, or so I am told, never seen one, but my people are sure they exist there" Varen says "I really don't know why you pregnant women want to go there, it is not safe."

Bear speaks up "I think it is impossible to reason with Aria right now."

I hit him in the shoulder hard and Maria laughs "or with me."

Sinae giggles "or me. I know how much she means to you all, and I am thankful she defeated our house, I am so much happier now."

We take the portal down to the bottom of Vela's caverns as that is the nearest entrance to the lower underworld caverns, I know Bork is supposed to be somewhere down here he has gotten his whole red orc warband and a less foul green orc warband to join up in the search.

Torm waves and does some hand signals to a few of his people who are working on digging out more rooms for more people and gets some signs back "still no trace of Vela, Bork is over down the eastern tunnel, going there to interrogate some dark fey that call that their home."

I nod "I suppose we can go deliver Zirah's message to him" she has been nothing but nice to me so I want to do that for her, and now that I am out here I am feeling less restless.

I love how Szinzar, Sinae, Varen and Torm take the lead at scouting ahead, and finding camp sites that are safe as we travel slowly for a week, even so I can't quite sleep well, the under world is a lot scarier for some reason I can't pinpoint than it was last time when I was down here. I also feel watched even when everyone is looking away from me, that is not normal for me, my babies are unruly and even though I am not showing thanks to the magic my womb is still with them so I feel the kicks and movement.

Rakk and Nyx I rarely see they are staying mostly in the shadows and guarding us when we sleep.

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We reach a gorgeous hot spring cavern and I just must bathe there "Maria, Sinae, Nyx please join me and the rest of you too please, you can take turns guarding the entrances" I send my clothes away into my ring of holding and take out my moon oil bottle and pour it into the pool, it has some plants growing in it and tiny fish swimming there, and the plants are glowing as are some of the gorgeous mineral veins in the cavern, we don't need to use the dancing lights here.

Maria does not hesitate to join me, and Sinae looks to Szinzar who nods and smiles.

Nyx looks to Rakk who sighs "enjoy yourself, I will guard" she smiles and joins us in the pool.

I really needed a bath, and the moon oil quickly cleans us as we dip into the water of the pool. Sinae caresses the gel from one of the plants and smiles as she moves up to me and slips her hand between my legs and caresses my ass and pussy and clit and into my pussy with her gel covered fingers and then I feel at first a tingling sensation, then a wave of heat and then I moan as the pleasure builds rapidly. Nyx eyes go wide and blushes "mmm me too please" and Maria laughs "and me" Sinae helps use the gel on us, covering the rest of our bodies too, before she helps us find a spot we can squirm and cry out and be utterly helpless without our faces sinking below the water and then she applies it to herself and just barely manages to collapse in the pile with us as we caress and kiss each other and get lost in the pleasure of the gel.

"How long will this last?" I ask as I start to get a bit overwhelmed and cry out squirting.

"Four to twenty four hours" Sinae says and looks to Szinzar who shakes his head a bit at her doing that to us, we won't travel until this is done, and it absorbed into our bodies so it is not like we can stop it.

The guys take turns joining us and we try to pleasure them, but we are rather helpless so they have to position us and use us mostly on their own, but they do not seem to mind, they don't touch the gel and the gel we absorbed is not able to affect them. The men not on guard duty eat rations and have a drink when they are not taking turns making love to us.

Then all the guys enter the pool, except Rakk that seems to have vanished, I get shocked when Tom roughly grab me and places collar with four cuffs with chains on me, I feel my magic be blocked the others restrain the rest of us the same way, despite our magic being blocked out pleasure and orgasms continue and the guys fuck us roughly, Tom even fucks me, despite the promise I made him that was so important, I can tell he is not himself, none of them are, they are very rough with us, and the cuffs and collar and chains are not the least bit comfortable the position we are put in is challenging.

I feel that cold sensation of something observing us, but I can't tell from where or who or what it is, I have no proof there is something there, but this change in my friends and lovers is horrifying, they twist nipples and pinch clits and slap us hard, as much as we still enjoy the pleasure and orgasms, because of that gel, it is clear this is not loving sex, but rape and torture without maiming, even as we all beg for them to stop they gag us with ring gags and fuck our faces hard, nearly bruising our noses with how rough they fuck us, their balls slapping us so very hard in the face, that it must be hurting them. However we have the protection from damage from sex, all of us, and the anti magic is not potent enough to stop that from working thankfully.

When the gel wears out the rapes become more horrifying, and we all end up crying, and the rapes continue another hour before suddenly a horrifying golem appears next to the pool "that is enough, clean the women and drag them out of the pool."

The guys answer in a choir "yes master" and they roughly clean us with the moon oiled water, until we absorb the cum, then they drag us out of the pool, the rough stone around the pool scratching us and they deposit us next to the golem and stand there at attention waiting for orders "pick them up by the chain and carry them, make sure they do not get damaged more" the moon oil cures the scratches shortly after we get lifted up, it hurts to be lifted by the chains, as it bends our already strained joints and almost choke us by the collar. Bear carries me, Tom carries Maria, Szinzar carries Sinae, Torm carries Nyx, and Varen just follows.

Nyx is trying really hard to struggle free, but she can't, the rest of us save our strength, we are defeated, maybe we can get ourselves free later when the men and golem are not watching us. I worry about Rakk, where is he, did he get killed? Otherwise he would be here, to try to help us, surely?

"This went better than expected" the golem says "almost the entire inner circle of Vela's friends and lovers..." he motions for the men to move and they start carrying us and the golem follows and give short instructions that the men follow, we are moving through some narrow freshly hewn passageways down and one of the under sea shores appear as we enter a huge cavern, I see that the very heavy looking golem does not even leave a trace on the sand as he walks while even Szinzar does, but just barely. We reach a large stone jutting out of the edge of the beach and the golem touches it and a seam appears in the stone and soundlessly a large door shaped stone slides out of the way and just as that happens a very heavy crossbow bolt slams into the golem throwing him into the shallow of the ocean, we get dropped in the sand as the men all draw weapons and turn to try to find our attackers.

I see Maya and she unleashes a wave of force that throw the men sideways and knock them out. A gang of dwarves rush up and four of them quickly grab us and run past Maya. The golem winks out of the water and appear next to Maya grabbing her and she cries out "I am yours master" he releases her and she fires a dark bolt of energy that instantly kills the dwarf carrying me and I fall face first into the sand shaking my head and see more death bolts be fired by Maya to stop the dwarves from getting away with us.

Rakk appears next to the golem and wields a pickaxe the size of himself instead of knives and slams into the hand that the golem had grabbed Maya with and it sunders, but there is a blue flash that makes Rakk collapse and Maya cry out and collapse, I we all cry out too, but it is far enough away that the damage is very mild, but Rakk and Maya look very badly injured, one of the dwarves run out and leap on top of the remnants of the hand and the blue light stops erupting the other dwarves rush up and swing their picks at the golem, breaking its shell open in several places the other hand falls off and one of them leap on top of it.

There is a heavy implosion where the golem stood and it vanishes and three dwarves vaporize in an explosion of blood the others get heavily injured. Torm wakes up and shakes Varen awake and they wake Tom, Bear and Szinzar and they rush down the opened passage.

"Help free me please!" I shout at the dwarves that are still alive, and one of them manages to get up and stumble over and starts to free me, as I am freed I touch him and use healing magic to heal him as best I can before I help free Sinae, as he frees Nyx, Nyx runs over to Rakk as soon as she is freed, Sinae runs over to help the other dwarves as we free Maria.

[Vela Nanashi]

Torm:

We storm down where the golem wanted us to take our loved ones, as I enter a large white room I see a cylinder full of disgusting huge slugs and another with an ooze, and the golem aims what I am sure is a weapon and I leap out of the way, but a grey ray of death slams into Varen and he is instantly turned into an explosion of white glowing dust that quickly evaporates. I swing my hammer smashing the weapon and then turn the sharp pick at the opposite end of my hammer into the swing that slams into the head of the golem and the light goes out in its eyes and it collapses, but I take no chances I sunder the golem until it has no visible limbs, Szinzar cries out as I expose some blue crystals and they erupt with blue light that burns I quickly grab the blue crystals and hold them in my hand and that stops them from hurting Szinzar, Bear and Tom are badly hurt.

As the danger seems to be over I look around, I feel a hole in my heart where my friend Varen used to be, but I will cry over ale later and honour his life with stonework and stories, he died the hero he is. The ooze speaks in Vela's voice "please remove the green crystals from the room, and then break us out, your Vela is in the slug cylinder, she needs help badly, you can leave me here until she is okay."

I look around and collect a bunch of green crystals and remove them from the room, throwing them and the blue crystals in another room in this huge structure. Bear and Tom are hacking at the cylinder crystal with their swords, and Szinzar tries using some spells and the crystal cylinders are not even slightly affected.

The ooze reshapes itself into looking like Vela's nymph form "you won't be able to break the crystal, up there if you grab that lever and push it that way it will open the cylinder, but please prepare to kill the slugs first, don't let any drops of their fluid hit you, it will disable you."

Szinzar nods "I will disintegrate them, Tom, Bear get back on the stairs, let Torm deal with the opening of the cylinder, he is least likely to get hurt by the slug toxin."

I chuckle "yes that is true, you get up with Tom and Bear too" I say and they all move up a few steps, the cylinder is packed with slug and fluid filled to the brim, opening it will be messy. I am not sure I can handle the toxin of these, but I am ready to be knocked out if need be. I manipulate the lever like the ooze said and the cylinder opens revealing seams that were invisible, and slugs and fluid erupts from it and two attack me right away, stabbing me with their long daggers in my thighs and my vision clouds with a horrifying rainbow and I see Varen be killed over and over again, then the slugs turn into dust one after another until they are all gone and Vela is revealed under them, she looks really badly sick.

I rush up as my body starts to push away the hallucinations, I try to free her legs and arms but the cuffs do not respond to me. I look back at the golem and rush over to it, I crack open more parts of it and then find some magic items including Vela's mistress ring and I put it on, and order the cuffs to release, Vela moans and just lays there still as I rush up and I put the ring on her ring finger so she can control it. Szinzar is pulling the metal things from her pussy and ass, and a couple of the daggers from the slugs that are still inside her, I remove the ear plugs and lenses, then the dildo from the rings, she gazes up at me "no no not you please I don't want to see you die Torm, please, I will do anything you want 'I' don't hurt Torm."

I look to the other Vela "what does she mean?"

She points "that machine man called itself 'I', Vela 'I' is destroyed, almost everyone is fine" I say.

"Not now" I say with barely contained anger to her sharply "I will tell her later."

"Tom, Bear, please go check if your wives are safe, you too Szinzar, I will help Vela" they all rush out of this accursed place and I pray to the great smith that their wives are safe.

Vela is crying and curls up, but I grab her and walk over with her to the other Vela and hold her to me and she wraps her shaking arms and legs around me, I put away my clothes and armour to let her hug my naked body as I know she will prefer that to my armour and she cries against my chest. "So who and what are you? Why do you look like Vela."

She looks at me clearly thinking hard "I think... I should not tell you too much, but I am a fragment of Vela, we got fragmented long ago, I only wish her well, I was sure I would hate her if I ever found her, but I do not, even though she abandoned us back then, I don't think she did that on purpose, at least I don't think so anymore. Also please leave me in this cylinder if it makes you more comfortable, I can not get out of here, but if you want to release me that button there opens my cylinder, I am sorry that my work creating this cylinder is part of how 'I' was able to hurt Vela, I will accept any punishment you want to exact on me for that, it was only ever supposed to contain me, not anyone else, but I would prefer to do things to earn forgiveness rather than just be injured please, I have been tortured a lot by 'I', so would rather not be hurt more. I want to be called Vela too, to honour her."

I listen and think a bit "Vela" I say softly and turn her face to look at me "do you want to free her?" I then point her head to look at the other Vela "do you trust her?"

Vela nods "please free her, I... I trust her..."

I take my hammer and grab it next to the head and poke the button with the shaft of the hammer. The cylinder clicks and opens.

The other Vela steps out of the cylinder and collects a few metals that I do not recognize from the shattered golem and absorbs them "these would have slowly killed you if you were exposed to them much longer" she explains and picks through the remains carefully piling some magical items next to me and Vela and examines the shattered skull ripping it apart even more until its just dust. She looks at me then "I hope... one day I can be as loved as her, or just a fraction so I can be worthy of a hug."

I chuckle "well it might be a bit tight but I think I can hold you both, is that okay Vela" I ask Vela and she shifts and I spread my legs to let Vela be on my right thigh and the other Vela looks and nods and carefully slips next to Vela and they wrap one leg around each other a bit clumsily and one arm to hug each other, and then one arm and leg each for me and I hug them to me, I feel like very lucky to have two of Vela to comfort, though I want them both to be happy and not cry anymore. Vela still is shaking and crying, and the new Vela is not crying, but I think that is just because she has cried so much that she can't anymore, she leans her head on the opposite side of Vela and whispers "thank you, you have no idea how much this means."

Arakan comes down the stairs, one of the dwarves that does regular trade shipments from Milar's clan "most of us are safe are you okay down here?"

"Yes I am okay, please just take care of the others, and yourself, what happened, looks like you got blown up by a gunpowder barrel" I say.

"Worse, but I got healed, I will be fine, my ears are still ringing and I see shooting stars, is um why are there two Vela? Are they okay?" Arkan says.

"No I don't think they are okay, but I think they will be, once they feel up to walking I will help them out of here." I say.

"I can help you carry one of them, the others will be happy to see them" he says.

I look kiss both Vela's and whisper in their ears "do you want to go up and see the others?"

Vela nods and the new Vela nods and she gets up and says to Arkan "I can walk myself unless you want to carry me, I would be happy to be carried."

Arkan sweeps her off her legs and carries her out and she giggles a beautiful sound, not quite the same giggle as Vela though, her own unique giggle.

I struggle to my feet and carry Vela outside, I see the traces of a few dwarves, Nyx is holding Rakk as Aria is healing him. Szinzar and Sinae is healing Maya. I see some residue of dwarves that are beyond healing, and some of the lucky survivors. I move up to sit down with Vela in my lap between Rakk and Maya.

I hear Nyx "you are not allowed to die on me you hear!" to Rakk who painfully chuckles "I won't die, you wanton slut, it is all your sluts fault for distracting the men that we got in this mess" he chuckles and coughs up some blood, Nyx leans in and licks up his blood and bites her lips so she bleeds and then kisses him and he struggles a bit then stops and with shaking hands hugs her, that is one twisted weird couple. I am happy for them though.

Aria speaks up "hey because we got caught we found Vela, so I think you should thank us, but also thank you for not getting caught and getting friends to help. I am sorry so many of them died."

I speak up "they will all be remembered in song and we will make a large stone carving depicting their heroism so they are never forgotten."

The other dwarves all nod "yeah! They are all heroes and so are we, and yeah I suppose you being sluts helped us find Vela, in a very stupid way, but still."

Vela laughs softly against my chest and whispers to me "tell them mmm when I have rested I want to make sure they get to have all the sex they want with me, and maybe the other sluts will be happy to join in too and reward our saviours. I still hurt a lot though, and I need to get this collar off me."

I look at the collar, it is seamless "hmm I wonder how to get this off without hurting you, did the golem use a ring or something to control this?"

The other Vela speaks up "he controlled it with his mind and that is broken so I do not think so, um let me look if I can do something about it."

She gets out of Arkan's lap and walks up examining the collar "I can eat it here without anything bad happening" she says and her hand melts into ooze and I watch part of the collar disintegrate into her and then she grabs the edges and bends it open, and looks to Arkan "please deliver this down at the remnants of the golem for now, we need to destroy the vault later, or at least make sure none of the parts of the golem or the vault get into the wrong hands."

Arkan collects the collar and his friends hand him the remains of the golem that was here on the beach and he goes to deliver it, the other Vela lays down on the sand and closes her eyes "I would also like to have sex, with anyone who wants me."

As the collar is removed Vela starts to rapidly heal, her sick looking skin quickly gets back to the way it should look but she still looks very tired, I have not seen her this tired ever. She looks over to the other Vela "I want you to explain more about this sea behind my stars."

Nyx breaks the kiss with Rakk who actually looks annoyed she broke the kiss "no please don't, not yet..."

Vela looks to her "why not."

Nyx flinches "get out of my head! Do not try to find out, you won't be as happy as you are now if you learn what that is, please trust me."

A rainbow butterfly flutters from the passage we came from and it melts and forms a third Vela "it is okay Nyx, I have changed my mind. Both of you deserve to understand" she says to Vela and other Vela.

"We all were one being once, back then we were... simpler... as the star burned us I wanted to get away to survive, I teleported part of me to a pocket dimension" she continues to explain her past and how she came to want to make a version of herself that could stay in one place and experience time a bit more like mortals do, not accidentally lose someone due to having the wrong time perception, to be happy and not have to think of huge cosmic things just be one woman, in one place and live in the moment. "That is why I created you, and kept a lot from you, and if you want I can remove the memories of me from you, I don't want to force that on you, but I did this to be able to not lose more people, to try to understand mortals, and I have very much enjoyed experiencing life through your eyes Vela, trust me it is a lot better than what I have been experiencing. I would like you to remain you, not have to merge into me again fully."

The other Vela speaks up "please hold my hands I will teach you how my kind works, and our history" they join hands and their hands melt into ooze form and briefly they all have distant looks in their eyes before releasing each others hands and returning to normal hands.

The newest Vela, the one that my Vela is a part of speaks up "you should now be able to move your mind to me if you want, and I can bud off a body for you if you need it. If you can talk to the others of your kind they can do that too."

She shakes her head "they are not in this universe and our link apparently only works inside one universe not across them."

"I can help with that later, but now I should go, I am sorry I could not find and help you not suffer" she says and hugs my Vela.

"It is not your fault" my Vela says and hugs her tight and then the newest Vela collapses back into a butterfly and flutters away.

"I am very confused" I say "but that is alright, I do not need to understand all of you to love you, at all."

Aria laughs at that having finished healing Rakk she pulls Vela from my lap and walks away to have a bit of privacy down the beach.

Rakk grabs Nyx "come with me" he says and I see his cock is erect and Nyx happily goes with him toward a secluded outcropping, though her cries of pleasure and his angry grunts and her cries of pain manage to reach us despite the distance and how open the cavern is. It does not sound very loving at all but I hope Nyx is alright and happy.

The other Vela slips into my lap again and I allow myself to get erect and she smiles and slips a hand to caress my cock "may I put you in me?" she asks.

I chuckle "yes, if you want to, I would very much like that."

She shifts a bit, very clumsy compared to my Vela but manages to get me into her pussy after a few tries, I notice that the way she moves and even how she feels inside is different, she only looks like my Vela but she is I think not actually a nymph, at least not as much as my Vela, but then Vela is not a nymph either. I enjoy her slowly figuring out what feels good as she shifts on me with my cock in her slowly and moans after a little while finding what feels right, it feels good for me too, but it is not going to get me to cum very quickly at all, but right now I want her to enjoy herself, and I still moan from the pleasure, she cries out as she has an orgasm and looks stunned "mmm memories do not truly capture how this feels, but please I know males lead normally and fuck the woman, do that to me please, I want to know how that feels, even if it hurts a bit."

I shove her down on the sand and grab her breasts kneading them and then start slowly thrusting into her, letting her get used to me and slowly speeding up until I hit what feels good for me, I hammer her pussy and she cums two more times before I erupt in her. I then pull her into my embrace and collapse on the sand with her on top of me. She lays her head down and moans softly into my beard "that was amazing if you want... I could become a female of your species for you."

"I have a wife already, she has accepted I fuck other women, but not other deep dwarf women, so no I like you as you are okay?" I say.

She giggles and moans "mmm alright, I just want to make you happy, and I never felt something so good" she hears even louder screams from Nyx and Rakk "is she okay? That does not sound like pleasure."

"He is a red cap, they are not really interested in sex with other species, they really are into blood, she loves him, and he is clearly humouring her now, but is giving her the kind of love that a red cap does with another red cap, she has likely annoyed him with her need for sex for a long time and now he is giving it to her, she has very potent healing so she will be fine I am sure, maybe she won't ask for sex again or maybe she likes whatever they are doing, I really don't want to get between them at all though, I am sure he will listen to her saying to stop if she does, but I agree that does not sound nice at all" I say.

"I will trust your judgement, I do not want to make her or him mad at me for stopping whatever that is that she thought she wanted and maybe still enjoys" she says and shakes her head.

[Vela Nanashi]

Vela (cosmic):

From the meld we did, my remnant and avatar, I learned a lot about her experiences, she shared openly with me. I sensed how the other entities that were manipulating his mind felt, she did not understand what she felt, but I know that feeling, it was divine entities and I even know what ones, they orchestrated the attack on my avatar, and so as I flutter away from the beach in that same moment I really focus, sensing every divine thread from the world my avatar lives on, and I am beyond mad. I will make every divine being aware of me and let them feel my power briefly. I could just collapse their divine realms if I wanted to, but I don't want to, but I will actually wreck the responsible parties a bit, not destroy, just demonstrate my power more there, for those who are innocent I will just show them what I am.

---

Near every divine being with more than thirty seven souls in their divine domain (heaven or hell or other) or worshipers, in the exact same moment:

The very fabric of space shrieks and shatters, a huge rift in reality opens up and eldritch raw magic erupts starting to unravel reality itself, and divine energies from each place are at the same time drawn into the rift in reality, the whole fabric of space wobbles, a membrane snaps over the rift a moment later stopping reality from truly unravelling and the rift itself shatters into innumerable droplets of ooze with sparkling rift shaped stars inside, they erupt in every direction and quickly shape change into rainbow butterflies, birds, bats, every kind of creature in existence and some that do not exist, dragons of many colours, and the ones that have vocalizations scream in rage and anger, all that have eyes have eyes that shine in eldritch violet light, and the creatures erupt across the whole plane, outnumbering by many thousands every denizen in those realms. In most of them the creatures just swarm around for several very long moments, that due to the fear they cause feel like eons, though it might be that time is twisted up and nearly unravelled with the space.

In the clockwork hell of mechanus the swarm attack ripping several of the cogs of the plane apart and the pieces tumble into many other cogs briefly making the whole plane grind to a halt until the cogs grind the fragments of cogs to pieces, many inevitables attack the swarm and are ripped asunder.

In the plane of the dread queen tyrant torturer of the dark elves, goddess of suffering, the swarm seek her out, some creatures become waves of ooze that surge toward her, as she tries to teleport she is pulled closer to them instead of away from them, and finally gets captured, she is collared with anti magic collar and cuffs and chains, the same kind that were used on Aria, Nyx, Maria and Sinae, clothing ripped away and she is tossed into her pit of suffering slaves, and all the slaves have all their chains and cages ripped apart, guards are consumed.

Wherever other gods and goddesses armies attack the swarm their armies they send get ripped apart, consumed, but wherever the swarm is ignored nobody is harmed, other than terrified. If the god or goddess attacks they also get collared

After those eon long moments the creatures start imploding in brilliant flashes of eldritch and all other colours, except a few that implode into rainbow butterflies that flutter seeking flowers, abandoned food, corpses, trash, waste.

No nymph body manifested to talk or explain anything, space and time slowly return to normal rigidity and other than the rainbow butterflies in every realm with eldritch violet eyes, everything returns mostly to normal, except where battles took place.

In the sky over the world, all the moons appear even outside of their normal cycles and all get a ring of violet light around them, all the stars shift in all colours and brighten and the sky itself burns eldritch violet, while the swarming is happening, the sun itself also goes eldritch violet. Many people miss that happening as the moments in the world are very short and reality returns to normal once the swarming of the divine realms stop.

---

Vela (cosmic):

After my swarming I am very tired, but my anger has subsided, nobody touches any of my butterflies, most try hard to ignore them, a few put out flower pots and food for my butterflies, I think to try to keep me calm, good, maybe they will not mess with my avatar or me or the valley again, though they are quite insane, and I did not talk with them clearly, but if they want to talk they can I am there, they just need to seek my attention. However my ability to focus on my butterflies quickly fade back to normal, I am less aware of each of them than people are of each strand of hair on their bodies, only when one of them gets poked or irritated do I get slightly higher awareness of them.


---

Nyx:

Rakk leads me to a secluded natural alcove, of the same mineral rich black stone with some gem seams in it, you would have to stand exactly in front of it and look in to see it, I don't know how he even saw it, it is also very cosy, you might even be able to sleep here without posting a guard if you put your sleeping bag against one of the inner curved sides, yet from here we see the beach and ocean perfectly.

However I don't really care about all that beauty, something far more beautiful is Rakk's erect cock, even if it scares me a little it has sharp hook shapes on the cock head that if I did not have protection magic in my pussy would definitely rip me apart and make me bleed a lot.

I see him look at me expectantly, and I use some magic to make my nails sharp as claws and slash at his chest drawing blood and I shove him to the ground and kiss him biting his lips and he roars with lust slashing claws over my back and grabbing my hair, biting my lips in our kiss, I cry out from mixed pain and pleasure, and I put up a real fight against him, we both bleed a lot and quickly soak the sand red where we battle each other, I think he is supposed to defeat me and then fuck me, but I am also trying to defeat him and fuck him, we are very loud and that eliminates the stealth advantage of this secluded natural alcove, I hope none of our friends try to save me or him, as it might sound like we are fighting to the death or torturing each other to death, but even though this fight hurts a lot I love that he finally let's me make love to him, we are covered in blood and sand my hair sticking to me soaked in blood too.

Despite him not holding back at all, biting me as well as clawing me as we fight and I bite back as well, I finally manage to pin his arms with mine, I have a mass advantage on him, and it is only because of that I can manage this just barely and he struggles under me, kicking with his legs, but finally I manage to also pin his legs and finally with huge struggle slam my pussy down on his cock and start to ride him, and even with the protection magic this hurts or the pleasure is extremely intense, my body does not want me to have knife sharp hooks inside me, I decide thrusting is the wrong thing as the hooks do not want me to pull him out so instead I aim his cock head for my cervix and slam down and cry out as the tip of his cock forces my cervix open and then I feel his hooks expand and really bury themselves in me and I have a crazy convulsing orgasm and cry out what must sound like a death cry as I squirt I grind against him trying to push his tip deeper into me, and then I feel it expand and erupt, and my womb asks me if I want to get pregnant and I cry out loud so even he hears me "yes impregnate mmm me Rakk, I aaah love you!" and I feel his cock erupt very sharp feeling hot fluid into me, as it is forced up my cervix it feels like I am being cut and I am definitely bleeding even inside, but all over outside and the sand is now more blood than sand around us as we sink down a bit.

Rakk roars out in triumphant pleasure too, and I share what the magic shows me about our babies using telepathy, and his eyes fill with tears and he looks at me with true love and lust, more intense than ever, and I release his arms and legs as I want to let him have his turn of domination if he wants it, but he just holds me and kisses me, our lips are all cut up and bleeding, but I knew that was how love with him would be, and Vela made it safe for me to do this, as I am already regenerating and healing, and the cuts even give me pleasure. I slightly wonder if I am crushing him, but he makes no attempts to push me off him and I know he can carry me.

It takes a long time before his hooks pull back toward his cock head an that makes me cry out as they rake me again, and his cock slowly softens and slips out of me, as it does he whispers "I love you Nyx" as if he is terrified of those words, even after all this. "Mother of murder elves" he says and chuckles a bit. Then for the first time I have ever seen he drifts into sleep gazing into my eyes. I don't think I have seen him sleep before. I shift my legs a bit to support some of my bigger body to not crush him too much, and I see my slashes on him heal into scars, while mine heal without any trace on my skin.

---

Vela (the remnant):

I go with Torm and some other dwarves into the vault and I say "can you take some of this metal from the exoskeleton of the golem and fashion two chests with that? We need to put the green and blue anti magic crystals in those, and the collar in the chest with the blue one" I ask.

Torm brings out tools and quickly shapes the metal for me to make chests and then they go around finding all the blue and green anti magic crystals, putting those away safely in the chests.

Meanwhile I look at what is left in the carnage of the vault, gathering up things that are of value to us or our friends and lovers. I destroy a few things that are very bad and dangerous, I then look at the crystal cylinders, and find the tools 'I' used to make crystal himself, and fragments of the disintegration beam and carefully build a new tool with those and with what is left of the destruction mechanism from my cylinder. Carefully tuning is just right and I fire it at the cylinders and the whole energy matter matrix of the crystals are ripped apart and consume themselves leaving no trace left, I then crumble the tool I just made and consume it, and the other remains of 'I' careful to make sure there are no more nasty surprises left.

Torm returns "we have put all the anti magic we could find into the chests, do you want them or should I take them to Vela's domain? Or what?"

I consider "to Vela's domain, I think we will try to figure out how to make defenses against them, like the alloy 'I' was made from" then I think a bit more "can you help me take these things to there too, and I will help find the rest of what is valuable and safe here and then I would like for you to have some of your dwarves get us explosives, if you know how to make those and I will show you where to put them to make this vault useless to anyone and not dangerous to the ocean it sits in."

Torm nods "we have gun powder, if you know what that is, and enhanced gunpowder that is a hundred times as explosive, just how much do we need?"

"Is it possible to get one barrel about my volume of the stronger stuff?" I ask.

Torm frowns a little "that is expensive, but I will pay for it, I do not want any more bad things to happen due to this place."

"Let me know if you need something to compensate for the cost, I will try to get it for you" I say "but there might be valuables here still" I add.

Torm nods "just let me tell the other dwarves to go get" he looks at me as if measuring volume "the amount you asked for" he says and spends some time looking at me not for measuring reasons and his cock goes erect but he chuckles and shakes his head and goes to talk with the other dwarves, before returning and I help find all the other valuables and tell him where to put the barrel, I do some repairs to the fusion core of the ship and remove the fission fuel consuming it, and do a more thorough round of the vault and ship parts to make sure there is nothing bad there that can cause issues, exploring every tube and duct and I find some useful things to rip out and consume.

When I exit through a panel seam I see a dwarf carry a metal barrel very carefully "where do you want it?" he asks.

Torm shows up "over here" he says and we go to set it up, then we light a long enough fuse based on safe distance I tell them about, and get out to that distance, I look at the part of the tunnel that is above the water and the explosion placed where we put it was enough to make the super hot fusion plasma detonate the remaining fuel and the whole structure fragments along with a lot of stone and part of the beach burying itself as very fine partially molten metal residue and I smile as the place of my torment is gone "please take me to Vela's home now, I want to rest."

Torm nods "we will go when everyone else is ready, I think Vela is with Aria right now and they are catching up on missed love."

I nod "alright, but if that is the case, can you make love to me again? please."

[Vela Nanashi]

Vela (cosmic):

Deep in the fey realms, where I erupted over the great fairy circle and wild paradise garden forest, where the centre of the colours power is, the colours take fairy form and gently go up to one of my butterflies, where I am drinking nectar from a beautiful and delicious orchid that I have not seen anywhere else but here. Their fairy forms are smaller than my butterfly form. They look to each other clearly nervous and as if none of them want to approach me the rest of the way and actually start talking with me, but then the blood red fairy walks up. "Hey, are you angry with us, since whatever that was" pointing to the sky "was terrifying, what do you want us to do so we can coexist, I know we tried to bind your avatar to us, but she defeated us, and since then we have done everything we can to help her with anything she wants, so what do you want, please let us know, we want to keep you happy or at least not angry with us."

I consider how to truly explain what I was expressing with my outburst in all the divine realms, including theirs, I decide to take fairy form, shifting my butterfly keeping the butterfly wings, but taking on the eldritch violet colour more dominantly, but with eldritch rainbow and all the other rainbows on my skin too, making my eldritch violet eyes flare brightly, and I choose female fairy form even though not all fairies have genders at all, I prefer the female form.

"I am not angry with you specifically, I wanted to make clear that I exist, that I can consume all the divine realms very easily if I ever find reason to, and I don't want to, imagine what I did was a cat that hissed at you all, all divines, to leave me alone, or my claws will come out, I want the divines to leave me and my avatar and other forms alone, to leave our friends alone, and yes I know she attacked some of your worshipers, not yours but you know a few gods and goddesses have had their worshipers killed or stopped, and some worshipers have stopped worshiping various divines, a few even worship my avatar or me, we don't want that, we want mortals to live their lives and not need to fear or beg to any divine beings to be allowed to live a happy life, they should just live a happy life, not have to think of us at all, or if they do just as that magical powerful being that we can ask for help with things sometimes and get it, gods and goddesses from my point of view are just powerful beings that can do more than mortals, and I am one of them, but I do not have the desire to have mortals grovel for me, waste their time on their knees begging me to maybe please not be trampled underfoot, please can they have a scrap from the floor of the residue of last month's meal, that is how the divines treat the mortals, and a few conspired to capture and torture my avatar, to hurt me through her, but worse to then capture and torture mortals she cares about, as it failed to hurt her, to hurt me directly, mortals are not toys you break just to make each other sad, that has to stop, but I understand that you won't all want to do that, so my advice is try not to make me see your cruelty, do not make me notice you again, leave me and mine alone, and you likely will not incur my wrath as I have a hard time focusing on such fleeting things as your machinations, I have far bigger things that I am working on" I say in my fairy form.

Black fairy holds up a small crystal orb "I recorded what you said, may I share it with the other gods and goddesses, so they understand you better?"

"Do what you want, but what you do has consequences, tell that to them too, now let me enjoy life and leave me be, if you want to help me make life better for mortals, then help, if not leave me be, do not get in my way again" I add tiredly but calmly, I never wanted to have to hiss at the gods and goddesses, to punish them "and know that what I did was gentle, even to mechanus and that bitch torturer slaver, they will recover. I could have consumed the divine realms, remember that and I did not, this world I could consume it in less than an hour, and I am not doing that, I will not, but I could, but my goals is not one meal and then just me existing in all of reality, I love life, the mortals, from the simplest bacteria in the soil to the ancient wyrm dragons to even the divines who do not get in my way, but you are all just creatures and so am I, though I am not one of you, I may be closer to the elementals, or primals, but not like them either, I am from beyond the crack at the bottom of the abyss, that demons fear and fight to keep the creatures from there from entering your reality, yet even they are treating my butterflies nice now, even though they sense that I am from there."

Black fairy nods "I think this will help the gods and goddesses understand you better, so I will show them, even if I happen to find most of them boring stuck up idiots, I have to talk to them a lot about souls of the dead anyway, please let your avatar know that I talked to her beloved Varen, he is happy with his life, dying trying to save her, a heroic death was what he desired, and he is among long lost friends and family, he asks you to tell her and his friends he loves them, but he is well, and to throw a huge feast and orgy in his memory, he will be watching, but not to cry, but laugh, remember the good times, and please forgive the bad things he might have done, and the humiliating things he did or saw you do. Here" he hands another recording orb "him saying so, and showing him with his friends and family who died before him" he offers me another recording orb and I take it "I will give it to her when she is ready, right now she is hurting a lot and his death even with this will wound her, as even if he is happier than ever, she does not get to see him anymore, and that will leave a hole in her mind and heart where he used to be, that no other deep gnome can fill."

The Black fairy frowns "I can... I can let her visit, and you can visit him yourself, you exploded out in the sky not far from him, he saw you, but it is not good to think too much about the dead, the living should think about the living and experience life, because life is short for most, and one should remember death."

I smile and nod "I know, she is young, I will tell her when she is ready, right now she needs love from her living friends and lovers, she is more independent now, even more real, thanks to what the remnant of me figured out, she can sever herself from me safely and be her own person, but she knows I like to experience life from her senses, so she is staying connected for now" I look at the recording orb he intends to show the gods "yes you can hurt me by hurting her, but be careful to consider if you want me truly hurt."

The Black fairy chuckles "Vela, if they do that, can you please not punish everyone who did not do that, just those who did please, I promise you we are not trying to hurt you, none of us are that idiotic, we may prefer to just be silly and extort candy from mortals and fey, and just enjoy existing, we do not like being focused like this, serious like this, it is very dangerous when we all focus on one thing."

I smile this time my fairy mouth is an endless chasm of teeth, much like I saw my avatar show her friend? Rakk, my smile goes ear to ear. "I may not consume all of you, but you should try to control the other divines, beat sense into them, foil any plots they have to truly hurt me, as if I am sufficiently hurt I will lose control of my endless insatiable hunger and consume, and if I lose control and become mindless I am far more dangerous than if I am present and controlling myself, and then even the innocent may be my food."

The Black fairy and the others take one step back at me showing my maw, even though the maw is less scary than the truth of me there is no tooth so sharp that it is as dangerous as a droplet of my true form, he says "well that makes sense, but please, we tried to find your avatar, and we will help her when she asks us to do things, we do not want her hurt at all or sad, we are trying, the other divines do not listen to us, or each other, much at all, though maybe what you just did will make them focus and come together, I hope they don't try something foolish, we will try to pay attention if they try to plot things."

"Good" I say "now I am very hungry, do you have some delicious cake or candy?"

Pink nods "we have a feast ready for you!" she points "that way, where the violet dancing lights are, we have yet to figure out how to make your colour though."

I smile now with a normal mouth "you should not make my colour without me around to control it, it is hungry and transmuting, and without guidance you will not like it at all, as it does not know what is beauty or what is horror or what is creation or destruction, it will just do all those things."

Violet looks terrified but nods "I won't try to to make your colour anymore Vela, I wanted to make it to please you, not anything else."

"I love all colours so please just make beautiful things together, I love that and that pleases me" I say "but now that I know what you were trying to say with the dancing lights I will go to your feast for me" I flap my wings and fly as faster than an arrow, making a boom in the air from air not getting out of my way fast enough and not keeping up with flowing around me and I land at the presented feast, but the wave of air snuffs out many lit candles and I grab a big hard candy the size of me and bite into it with a loud crunch, several seconds later the colours join me and lesser fairies start playing music and singing and dancing around the feast, with bigger fey dancing and singing around us too, wanting to please me and the music, singing and dancing is beautiful, and I let the joy and delicious feast make me not think about all the things in many universes that I am dealing with and the horror my avatar and her friends experienced.

[Vela Nanashi]

Vela (avatar):

Aria leads me away from the others and we find a somewhat private nook behind some mushroom trees and rocks, she pushes me down to sit on a smooth rock there and gets into my lap hugging me with her legs and arms and she can't keep her strong outer shell up and breaks down crying and I gently hold her as she cries against my neck. I comfort her, though I am so very hurt myself, even after the crazy meeting of my true self and the remnant bubble, I can tell my cosmic self has now helped me become as free as the remnant bubble, I can safely sever from her if I want, but I know how much I mean to her. I hold Aria in a close, firm yet gentle embrace making sure she feels safe with me, she is trying to say things between her sobs but I can't make it out and I almost enter her mind to try to figure out what is is she is trying to say, but I stop myself, I do not trust myself right now, my mind is still a fragmented mess of my own memories drowning in a lot of other memories and I am trying to sort those away again, calm them back to how they need to be for me to function, I am teetering on the edge of breaking down crying myself, but I feel I need to be strong for Aria, yet I am slipping and soon I join her in crying and I notice her try to get herself under control for me, but we just remain there crying in each other's arms, and I feel loved and safe in her arms. I don't ask for her permission to check if her babies are safe and they are, they are a little bit agitated as they can feel their mother being distressed. I am not at all sure how long we remain in each other's close loving embrace before we slowly calm down.

The first thing Aria manages to say to me that I actually understand is "Vela, I need... Need to feel our connection, inside... please."

I feel real worry as I remember how that hurt her, had the angle been different of the anti magic radiation her babies might have been destroyed, she pushes back a bit to look into my eyes, her eyes shaking as she reads me like an open book "it was not your fault, my babies are fine, I need our connection back. I love you."

I kiss her and close my eyes and structure the portals differently this time, I intentionally make them fragile to anti magic, they will close very easily before letting anti magic radiation through, but will do so in a way they can restore themselves when both sides are safe again, if given a pulse of magic from both directions, and I open my mind to her so she can see how the new ones work, I also make it so that if my form lacks a pussy the portal links to inside my mouth if I have one, so a connection will exist in more cases, but all the portals are changed to this new form, that can not transmit anti magic, especially not the anti life kind of anti magic.

She immediately darts her tongue through to lick my pussy inside and I involuntarily flinch a bit, I am healed, I just worry the slug still has left toxin in me, it is not a rational worry, I cleansed it, but I really want to keep her safe, and I feel revolting, but she kisses me, just her lips and shows me how not revolting I am to her, I reach my tongue over to return the cervix lick to her and she moans. She starts to lick my front wall and clit too and I return that and we moan and cry into each other's mouths as we kiss while our tongues are giving each other pleasure and we caress and hold each other close, our tongues lick dance as we shift and move one leg each to kiss with our pussy lips and our tongues dance there. I reflect briefly on how strange this must have been for her as a human, yet how quickly she just accepted it and how important it was for her, I feel so very understood, loved and more than that tolerated.

Tom, Torm, Szinzar and Bear find us after we have stopped crying out loudly from repeated orgasms and are just cuddling in our after glow.

Tom speaks up first "I... Aria... I am so sorry for what I did to you, in the hot spring, we have talked with Maria, Nyx and Sinae already, but I feel I in particular broke our oath."

I see Aria close her eyes and sigh softly into our kiss and her tongue retracts slowly and I hear how badly this affects, Tom, I can tell it was not easy for Aria either, yet she feels no guilt as she was helpless, he was made to hurt her.

She motions with her hand and the guys move so she can stay in my lap yet look at them as she speaks, Tom squats behind me to not make her have to look up and she says softly "Tom, your body did what the domination spell demanded of you, tell me truthfully now, did you try to stop yourself, did you even see what you were doing, please tell me how it was for you..."

Tom nods "I tried so hard to stop my body, but it was like I was in a cage inside my mind and heart, I felt everything my body did, but I did not control it, I felt the pleasure and emotions that were not mind, a desire to hurt you, and humiliate you, break you. I am so sorry I could not defeat that version of me, it was a version of me, mocking me in my mind too... I was not strong enough" I hear him break down crying and the other men also do as they felt the same they say how it felt for them, and fill in gaps. Aria listens and nods "did you tell Maria, Nyx and Sinae that too?"

They nod "not as clearly" Szinzar says.

"Well please do that, but first, Vela can a person who is dominated break free, are they in control of themselves?" Aria asks.

I shake my head "only extremely strong minds can resist domination and once you are dominated it is even harder to break free, so no you had no chance, and from how you describe this, it was even one of the more potent worse kinds, meant to make the dominated suffer too, you were not given that blessing some domination magic does where either you become entirely that other persona, so you don't suffer for what you do, or that your real mind goes to sleep as the other takes over, but you were made to watch and feel and be forced to feel the enjoyment even, so this domination clearly was very much made to make you break too, no domination is good, but this one clearly was the most evil possible."

Aria looks into my eyes and smiles but hides it from the men and I feel her say in my mind 'I love you' and then lets her face go neutral and looks up into Tom's eyes "you all must make an oath to me right now, the only way I will forgive you, and agree to it before I say it."

They all feel so guilty that they agree to it "the oath is you must stop blaming yourselves for being made victims, I am okay, not good, but I am okay, I was forced to enjoy some of what you did as my body responded, I feel bad about that too, but it is easier for me as it was very clear to me I was helplessly a victim, to you it felt different, you felt on some level like you were doing that and that some aspect of you loved doing it, that aspect was created by the spell, you are not responsible for it, so stop blaming yourself for that, you are still allowed to, like me, feel like victims, but you were no more in control of what happened than me, and... you need to know one more thing, but not laugh or use this against me, but you need to know... I... I liked some of what you did, how efficiently you all defeated us and then had your way with us, that... that was hot, I am not asking you to do that to us, but understand how complicated my emotions are, and I am sure Maria's, Nyx's and Sinae's emotions too."

I only now notice two missing people "where is Bork and Varen?" I ask.

Torm speaks up moving to where both Aria and I can see him easier "Bork is out looking for you with his whole warband and a few other orc warbands, Varen... he is the hero who managed to save you, had it not been for him we would have all died and failed to save you, but in the peak of being our champion and the tip of the spear he was slain in combat, we will make a memorial to him with songs and stone carvings so as long as the mountains stand and any of our families still are among the living he will be remembered for the great champion is was and the bad people in the afterlife better watch out a champion is coming to make things right in the beyond."

I feel like a cold hand grips my heart and feel sharp cold needle like claws caress my skin and I break down harder than I have ever done as I start to cry and sob and I feel Aria and the men all hug me and it takes a while before their warmth reaches me. I understand a bit of what my real self said, how hard loss is, I just... I can't... I will defeat death, I want to find that afterlife Torm spoke of and take back Varen, he is mine and he belongs among the living... I see the humans again, that died because I ref... no because 'I' decided to use them to hurt me...

Torm speaks up still crying a bit himself "I will ask his widow if she and her children want to come under my protection and live in my home, to be safe and never want for anything, their village and my dwarf keep home is close, we don't normally let deep gnomes stay in our keeps for very long, but Varen has earned that for his children and his widow."

I listen to the four men here weave a story of the rescue together, each iteration Varen's deeds grow, and I do not refuse their minimizing of their own heroism, this is a lie I am willing to let them tell, I do not exactly understand why they must make Varen's deeds bigger than they actually were, he was already my beloved friend and hero, worthy as anyone, to me there is no need to make a story bigger, but I go along with their tales.

My real self notices I have learned of Varen's death and tells me that she has a message from him from the afterlife, that he is among old long ago lost friends and family, that he is happy and although Black Fairy could force him back to life, that would actually be cruel, and she will hand me a recording later to share with his friends and family and myself. That Varen said he is happy where he is calms my need to go find him and bring him back, I respect him more than that, also I am told I can visit him, but that Black Fairy thinks that is unwise, that I should focus on the living, not the dead.

We slowly travel back to our home, my domain, and I hear that Varen's widow has accepted Torm's invitation to live under his wing, I watch the many stone carvings depicting Varen's heroism, and showing some of what they went through, the horrifying battle with 'I', how close it became to a complete disaster, the slain dwarves all also get stone carvings telling of their heroic deeds. There is a lot of songs, feasts and orgies in the honour of Varen and the others. Slowly things return more to normal again in my domain, the remnant, the real me and I work together to learn how anti magic works in more detail, and we figure out we can reduce its effectiveness by suspending in our membranes a lattice of star metal single atom colloids enchanted with powerful magic specifically to shield from the anti magic of the blue and green anti magic crystals, I also increase star metal colloids in moon oil and make it invisible, this should reduce the amount of damage the anti life effect can do to all things behind treated skin, it will still be immensely painful, even with membrane protection and moon oil, but should not be fatal at least. It is the best we can do for now.

[Claire]

@Vela Nanashi and that was part 14. The Talia/Aria storyline is complicated. There is this intense devotion to Vela, and what Vela is doing for her seems to make her happy. On the other hand, I can't help but notice how quickly some of these massive changes happen. Not just the body changing stuff, but entering a magical marriage and using the magic capabilities of potential future children for herself. I wonder what the story will do with that.nThere are so many ethical questions to explore here.

I think a recurring theme is that Vela might be too generous with using her super powers to grant people she likes what they want. I wonder if that will come back to bite her and be a lesson she learns. But maybe you are just more inclined to let happy good vibes be just that, happy good vibes. My first instinct is to explore what the consequences of that would be. For example, in an earlier part of the story when Vela was busy helping the environment, I probably would have had her screw up an ecosystem by accident because she threw it out of equilibrium. But that's maybe where my storytelling instincts differ from yours.

Anyway, I'm eyeing Aria with caution. I'm not sure if her attachment to Vela is healthy and I can see that go spectacularly wrong.

[Vela Nanashi]

Vela does have a tendency to give artifact level items and things arch mages can do for the price of a baked potato yeah, and she did cause a huge shift in the environment, but she is monitoring and forcing things around her to adapt to their new environment, it is warmer and more humid and way more life, things that like dry and cold are challenged by her changes and suffer a bit but are not allowed to succumb completely, morality ethics are dark grey, sure perhaps meaning well, but she is so not understanding complexities of mortals, she has shelves full of books (eaten brains) she had read them all many times, but she fails to understand so yeah the story has a lot of problematic shit, but for an eldritch abomination her effects are mild and we mostly see from her and her close friends point of view, and she truly fails to see problems caused most of the time. As reality and people confuse her a lot but I am glad you observed those things, while many might fail to see the darker aspects as they are being missed by protagonists