He turned a few circles and then landed in the grove he had awoken in.He turned a few circles and then landed in the grove he had awoken in. *My memory tells me I am a newborn creature, a 'Tleil.' Are you?* Kitty thought about it. "I don't know, really." *Can you climb on and talk about it?* Pendor easily extended a foreleg, and Kathy used it as a springboard to jump up onto his back. His hide was thick and leathery, with a pronounced scaling that she could hold onto with ease. She pulled her jacket close around her, and held on for dear life. Pendor again launched himself into the sky. Once in flight, holding on was easier, but the wind was a wicked cold and strong, threatening to blow her off. She was more terrified than she'd ever been in her life, and yet, the sight of the Ring, the ground, sliding by effortlessly underneath her gave her a sensation of freedom she'd never felt before. Stranger, still, was the feeling of Pendor's monstrous shoulder sinews stretching and flexing underneath her thighs, which spurred in her mind thoughts both wild and lewd. She idly thought that if Ken knew what he had done to her by putting her in this predicament, he might have reconsidered. She was also more than a little confused. Was she feeling lust for Pendor? Especially when this Dragon seemed to be just a touch naive. She shook her head. It had been less than a week since she and Shardik had first made love. Since she had lost her virginity, the way she had wanted to. Not at the hands of some random whacko in a back alley, the way her physical maidenhood had been taken, but in the arms of someone she had trusted back on Terra, long before there was a Pendor, and now here, where she could tell he was still the same, still crazy, still setting his sights on every woman he met, and yet being so unfathomably lovable about it. |