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Aimee - g - Chapter
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AIMEE'
Chapter V
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Darryn looked
up from his desk. Aimee' had entered without knocking
this time, just as he had asked, and was now scanning his bookshelves
at a
furious rate. He cast a small spell to examine the titles she
was looking
at, paying attention to the ones she lingered over. He frowned
when he
noticed most of them were healing spells. Still, if that was
what she
needed, she had every right to copy and learn them.
She selected
one and pulled it down, reading through it. He paid her
little attention, dedicating himself to the spellbook before
him on the
table; the way of Deists and their spells was still beyond his
ken,
although he now understood some of what the Essentialists did.
He looked
up once in a while, noticed her penquill flying at that furious
rate that
even he envied in her, then returned his attentions to his studies.
The next time
he looked up she had fallen asleep in her chair, her
personal spellbook open but lying across her chest. He rose
from his desk
and walked over to her. "Aimee'?" he said, touching
her shoulder.
"Huh?"
she said, startling awake. "Oh, sir. Forgive me. I just...
needed to rest."
He nodded
and patted his hand on the shoulder he touched. "That is
perfectly okay, Aimee', I understand." He smiled at her.
"So, no more
storms at Bethsany's place, right?"
She shook
her head. "No, sir. I've got it under control now, I
think."
"Good,"
he said. "I should tell you, Aimee', that you are someday
going to be the most powerful mage in the world at the rate you
learn, but
that power and skill must be tempered with learning and maturity."
He
smiled at the shock on her face. "It is true, Aimee'.
Few people
recognize it, because your talent, like mine, is sexual, and
therefore
generally overlooked. In fact, are you willing to listen to
one more story
by an old man?"
"Oh,
yes sir!" she grinned, sitting up and onto the edge of her
chair.
"Good,"
Darryn commented. "Remember where my stories left off..."
It came to
pass in the Spring of my 24th year that I left my beloved
Ryuchia, just as I had left my beloved Thomorr. This time, however,
much
of the reasons for going were my own, not those of a master shooing
me out
the door. It was true; Desa had little more to teach me. I
had grown
beyond the peak of learning, and all was now a straight and understanding
path.
I travelled
down the road on horseback, armed with spells of defense
for most of the travel. Just once, the day after leaving the
mountains of
the Megassi, was I assaulted by brigands. There were six of
them, all
told, who descended upon my and demanded I stand and deliver
my gold and
posessions. They never got within a horse's length of me before
three
dragons descended from the sky. [You are protected by the will
of Desa,]
one told me. [You will reach Barraminum safely.]
They slaughtered the brigands and consumed them, leaving
their
possessions upon the ground. I learned that day to be a practical
man and
recovered their gold and their horses. At the next town I sold
them all
and left a wealthier man.
I made my
way across the rocky terrain of the northern steppes and
found myself in Barraminum after only two months of travel.
It was not an
easy two months, but it was uneventful. I learned some hardness
on that
trip that I wish I had not, but I am also glad that I did. I
still have
not decided on the good or bad of casting 'Stroke' upon a rabbit,
holding
the spell while creeping up on it, and then slitting its throat
in its
moment of ecstasy. The idea still bothers me greatly.
But it kept
me fed until I reached Barraminum's gates. The guard at
the gate wished to treat me roughly. "What do you want?"
he said.
"Directions
to the College of Mages."
"Haw!
And who's your patron?" He was a foul-faced fellow, all
pinched and dirtied. Missing a few teeth, too.
"I have
none," I said.
"Go on,
get on your way," he swore at me. "Nobody gets to
the college
without a patron. What do you think you're doing here, anyway?"
I reached
into my cloak. "I have here a signed letter from Talen
Silisto inviting me into the college as an unfettered student."
I showed
the illiterate fool the seal and quite suddenly he was nice to
me.
"Yes,
sir," he said. He seemed more than a little distraught,
an
effect I found rewarding. "I'll bring a boy to lead you
to it." He
swallowed and walked away. As he did so, I turned my sense of
hearing to
him and I heard him mutter, "One of these days I'm going
to say the wrong
thing to the wrong mage and I'll be spending the rest of my days
searching
Mrs. Right Toad." I tried not to laugh.
He did find
me someone to lead me through the city. I dismounted my
horse as he led me through the gates and to the College of Mages.
Ah, the College.
I'm sure by now you're as familiar with it as any
student, but at the time the high stone walls and the beautiful
spiraling
towers within. The open-air main building, it's roof nothing
more than
magic itself, allowing in the sun and air but not the rain, the
frame of a
roof raised on great stone pillars.
Once my invitation
was acknowledged to be genuine, I was given a place
to stable my horse and then led into the Main Hall, through a
hallway and
to an office, where I waited for Talen Silisto to meet with me.
Finally, he
did. "Ah, Darryn, you have arrived. You have no other
name?" I shook my head. "Fine, fine. I am Talen
Silisto." He was a tall
man, reedy thin, with fine, strong feature. A well-shaped face
with a
sharp nose and inquisitive blue eyes. "Come into my office,
would you?"
He directed me towards the door, walking behind me; once he
was in, he
locked the door. Needless to say, this made me nervous.
He sat back
in his chair behind his desk and examined me closely. I
felt probed, inspected, dissected by his careful vision. He
finally
pressed his fingertips together. "So you have recently
come from Desa
Megassi."
"Yes,
sir."
"How
is Desa?"
"Fine,
sir, although in his dragon form he does not get out much these
days. I only saw it once in the 25 months I lived there."
"I see,"
he said. "Still, it is nice to hear that he is alive and
well and teaching again. For a while I though I should never
hear from
him. Instead he sends me you. A student not even 25 who has
already
created an incredible spell base. And, he tell me in private,
you have
mastered another spell base that has been nobody's knowledge
for
centuries."
My jaw dropped
when I heard that. "Sir?"
"The
genetic bases. Nobody has been able to learn those; they're
almost strictly dragon lore, and now you wander into my college
knowing
them! Inconceivable!" He leaned forward. "Tell me.
If I asked you to,
could you write them down?"
Taken by surprise,
I nodded. "I could. Given time."
"Do you
think anyone else could learn them?"
"Sir,
if you're asking me to pass on my knowledge, I will gratefully
to students who can use it. But I will not simply turn my studies
over to
a book for irresponsible students to leaf through at their whim."
His expression
took on a pall of surprise, and then he leaned back in
his chair. "I see. Desa has taught you very well."
"Thank
you, sir."
He clasped
his hands together on the table. "I have no illusions
about your spell-base. 'Pleasure' is as powerful and as dangerous
a Base
of the Mind as any I have ever seen. Most of the mages who viewed
it felt
the same way. We have downplayed its existence because of that
very power.
I also understand that your power is chanelled by sexual arousal,
so I will
be sure that your teacher is one of discretion in this matter,
as well as
one acceding to your needs. I would take you as a student myself
if it
were not for my age and my preference for buxom young women instead.
You
have all the makings of a researcher, Darryn, but you must learn
to protect
yourself as well."
"Sir?"
"I am
assigning you to Lien Pappen. Lien is a sexual spellmaster of
no little skill who will teach you the ways of defensive and
offensive
magics. We will work around your trance-state methods."
"None
of the other students here will have knowledge of who you are.
Many are here on anonymous patronages; the patrons don't wish
their
neighbors to know they are financing a household mage here at
the college.
You will simply be one of those, richer than the rest, I suppose,
because
of the accumulated patronages you already have. Yes, indeed,
both Thomorr
and Desa have forwarded to me significant amounts of renumeration
to keep
you here." He smiled. "I have my doubts, Darynn.
You are young,
undisciplined, and overpowerful. Your power derives from that
most
dangerous of all human drives, sex, and not only that, the release
of that
power proffers you to be a sodomite!" He pounded the table
with his fist
while shaking his head. "Your life is going to be difficult,
Darryn. Your
teachers are putting a great deal of trust in your hands. Do
not
disappoint us."
He reached
into his desk and pulled out an envelope. "Here. This
is
your new-student orientation material." On the back, he
wrote out a name.
Opening the packet, he pulled out what appeared to be a map and
wrote on
it. "And this is where Mage Pappen lives." Finally
he wrote out a note
and placed it in an envelope. "And this is the letter of
introduction to
Mage Pappen." He rose from his desk; sensing a cue, I rose
from my chair
as well. We shook hands as he handed me the packet. "Welcome
to the
College, Darryn."
Nervous, it
took me a moment to remember my voice. "Thank you, sir,"
I finally managed to say to him.
I followed
the directions on the map, walking high and low amongst the
buildings until I found the one I was looking for. A short wooden
building
on a stone foundation, it had a comfortable look to it. I walked
onto the
porch and rang the doorbell. The door opened to reveal a young
woman
wearing nothing more than a short skirt about her waist, and
that skirt was
made of leather. The only other mark on her was an intricate
scrollwork
tatoo over her heart. "May I help you?"
"I am
Darryn, late of Megassi. I was instructed to hand this to Mage
Pappen."
"Allow
me." She reached for the envelope.
"Are
you Mage Pappen?"
"No."
"Then
I will not hand it to you. My instruction say to give it to
Mage Pappen."
"Brand,
let him in." The new voice came from a taller man whose
age
was indecipherable. He looked twenty, thirty, even forty. He
looked
strong. "I am Mage Pappen. What did you identify yourself
as?"
"Darryn,
late of Megassi."
"The
dragons?" He seemed surprised.
"The
same."
"There
must surely be some mistake. I've no ken for dragon lore."
He
opened the letter and began reading it. "Or, perhaps not."
He smiled at
me. "How old are you?"
"Twenty-five,
sir."
"Unbalance
me."
"Sir?"
"You
heard me. Unbalance me."
It took me
a moment to get up the courage to follow his command. I
have never simply demonstrated my skill in public before; it's
not often
one is commanded to masturbate publicly. Which, in effect, is
what I
needed to do to move that spell at that time.
I dropped
my pack and robes. Leaning against my staff, I reached into
my pants and found my penis, stroking it softly. It came to
life quickly,
and in less than nine seconds I found myself breathing hard enough
to
summon power. One second later I formed the base in my head,
the second
after that I built an Unbalance over that base, and in the twelfth
second I
opened one eye, looked at Mage Pappen, and released it.
The Mage looked
happily unbalanced. "You are he!"
"Yes,
sir. I created the 'Pleasure' base." I blushed, embarassed.
"I realize I have acheived a bit of notoriety from that."
"Yes.
We'll have to work on that arousal pattern you have, get it
down from twelve seconds to one." He grinned. "You'll
have to find your
arousal in the satisfaction of the act, not the other way around.
We'll
manage." He looked at my staff curiously. "Is that
staff yours?"
"Yes,
sir. It was given to me by Desa Megassi, Master Mage of
Hakkana."
"Well
then, Mage Darryn, welcome to my home. You are once again
Student Darryn as well, you understand." I bowed my head,
agreeing to the
term. "Excellent. Brand, show Darryn to room three, would
you?"
She nodded.
"Come with me."
Lien Pappen,
it turned out, was considered the sexual mage on Campus
simply because he was the only mage of advanced skill who could
do sexual
work. Sex was a consuming passion with him and what he preferred,
but it
was not what he did best. Where his expertise lay magically
was in process
work. When I described the spell I had cast on myself and my
beloved
Ryuchia, he postively glowed. "Darryn, I must ask that
I see you perform
this spell process."
"With
whom, sir?"
"I would
ask that you perform it on me. I cannot ask you to perform
it on Brand since she is a woman, and therefore not to your liking."
"Yes
sir."
I explained
the procedures necessary, and he agreed to them. We
arranged a space in his basement in which to build the equipment
necessary.
I felt releived to be in my own element again; it had been three
months
since my arrival at the campus and I had begun to feel depressed.
I was
without lovers here, a state not to my liking and certainly discouraging
to
a mage of my studies. Unlike dragons, the people in Barraminum
regarded my
preferences as disagreeable and limited my attentions to the
boyhouses by
the waterfront. And although my allowances would certainly allow
me to
wander down there once in a while for releif, I did not relish
the idea of
purchasing relief. I craved friendship and a friendly bed, not
what these
places offered.
Lien joined
me when I announced I was ready. He removed his robes to
reveal a handsome body underneath; thin, strong, and a touch
pale, his body
radiated with an inner sense of composure that comes from being
a mage.
I knew my
role' here well as he lay down on the bed. I crawled
between his legs and lowered my mouth to his groin without preface,
burying
my face between his legs and inhaling deeply. He gasped as his
cock grew
to full proportions. I stared at the purple head wavering before
my eyes,
then smiled as I slipped my mouth around it, sucking at the silken
skin of
his cockhead, then feeling press against the top of my mouth,
rippling as
it touched the back of my throat and slid further downwards.
He gasped,
his hips bouncing against the bed. I closed my lips upon the
warming
shaft, sucking his cock for all it was worth.
It was more
than skill, Aimee', it was pleasure. Pleasure from the
relief of sheer need. I needed him. It was more than his cock,
Aimee';
there was something to his carriage, to his whole being, that
fulfilled me.
And as I pumped my head back and forth on his cock, I felt that
fulfillment
deep within me.
He groaned
slightly as I stopped my sucking, reaching for the ointment
and applying it to his shaft. He looked at me apprehensively
as I knelt
over his hips and aimed his cock upwards. I pressed down upon
it, feeling
it against my anus, feeling it fill me as it penetrated me.
He was within
me. I picked up my staff and held it out. "Take it,"
I said.
He nodded
and reached up, taking the staff in his hands even as I did.
I began casting the spell, stroking his cock within me all the
while. I
was interested in letting him in on the spell, so he cast it
right along
with me.
Together,
our bodies continued in patient mating as we explored his
genetic code. He marvelled at the process, and the sub-processes
that
allowed me to explore more than the visible. He gasped with
pleasure at
the spells I had learned, then told me to "End it."
I did. The
spell collapsed. Unlike with Ryu, I had no need to see
his climax, and as the skilled sybarite, neither did he. We
ceased our
coupling and sat down on the bed together. "Marvellous,"
he said, panting
slightly as he cleaned himself off. "Simply marvellous.
You did not write
any of that yourself, I take it?"
"No sir,"
I said. "I adapted some towards my particular method of
invocation, but I did not write the spell myself." I explained
where I had
found it and what notes I had had to take in order to make it
useful to me,
rather than to dragons. I also explained the changes I had had
to make in
order to make it work on him since he was human and not a dragon.
"Astounding.
That you could take such a dangerous spell, render it
into components in just such a manner. My friend, you will go
far."
"Thank
you, sir."
I learned,
several months later, that I had a rival. By now knowledge
of both my invocation speciality and my preference in partners
was common
knowledge, and I often took abuse because of either, and often
both.
But it was
not until late that coming December and the first snows had
begun falling on the ground that I began to appreciate how much
hatred
Brand was sending in my direction. As a woman, she felt that
her capacity
for multiple orgasms naturally made her far better prepared for
the kinds
of magic I was quickly excelling at. However, as we both found
out, that
was hardly the case. She was simply a good student without the
natural
skills that I had lucked upon and without the incredibly teachers
of
Thomorr and Desa Megassi to back up those natural talents.
However the
signs began to show. Resentment, mostly. I understand
that. I had wandered in where she had once been the center of
attention
and quickly established myself as her superior. Where she still
wore robes
of black I had already earned those of green.
Then things
began to get ugly. At first, even the ugliness was
somewhat mundane, consisting of shortsheeting and the like.
The rumors
started up that I preferred little boys, children below the age
of puberty.
That all sexual mages were destroyers of everyone they touched
and claimed
to love.
What friends
I had stuck with me, and I'll grant them that. Although
more and more I found it hard to associate with my peers, simply
because
they wished to have no association with me.
Then came
the violence began. There is simply no term for it; I was
spat upon, at first, and then I became the target of thrown stones.
The
attacks grew more and more severe as time went on.
Magicians,
however, are resourcful. "Don't you worry," Mage Pappen
reassured me, "They won't get you, but we shall get them."
Mage Pappen
did indeed help me. And to his credit we eventually did
turn in most of the miscreants who comitted their abuses upon
me. Some
were discharged from the school.
It was at
this time that Brand received her green robes. Much to even
my surprise, she announced that that was sufficient to her and
that she was
heading back to her home to resume her life there, now a fully-
accreditted
mage wearing the green.
I was surprised;
I had fully exepcted her to stay and earn at least
the blue I now wore. I asked Mage Pappen about this. "You
know how it is,
Darynn. Some simply want to know all they can, and some simply
got when
they think they know enough."
My studies
continued. The attacks on me lessened, in part because
Pappen and I had decimated the ranks of those who did not approve
of me. I
started casting some spells of import, too, ones that caught
the attentions
of my fellow students. Although it took me sixteen hours to
cast, I did
one day succeed in an alteration spell that allowed me my first
wereform.
For six days afterwards I could, completely at will, take the
shape of a
wolf. I remember the feelings of fear that created within me,
fear that
the wolf shape would gain control.
Also, for
some reason, requests from my fellow students for love
potions blossomed, apparently on the theory that a sex magician
should be
good at them.
All of this
changed one night when I was walking through the city. I
had, sadly, succumbed to my needs, and gone travelling down in
the lower
blocks of the city, looking for a street boy who would take my
money in
exchange for a candlespan of attention. I wanted someone, something
specific, someone for whom I would feel something, and then later
feel
nothing.
I walked at
odds with myself, accepting than rejecting one, then
another, never sure of what I really wanted, knowing that in
truth I was
missing Thomorr and Ryuchia and that Pappen's attentions were
nothing more
than that of a teacher, not a lover. I missed love, Aimee',
truly that is
what I missed.
A hand grabbed
me by the shoulder. "'ey, m'lord, are you lookin' for
somethin' friendly?"
"Yes,
but I'm not sure-- " I never got to say another word.
As I
turned to face the man who addressed me, a fist pounded me in
the stomach,
knocking the wind from me violently. I was pushed, shoved, and
carried
into an alleyway, where three men hit me further and then carried
me in
through a back door into a small room.
A cloth was
fitted into my mouth to prevent me from speaking. I was
thrown across a solid wooden table, where rough ropes tied my
hands to the
supports. The room was dark, dingy; only two lanterns lit it
up. The
three who had carried me in were all large and hairy men wearing
the common
clothes of laborers. They tied ropes about my feet, too, but
instead of
tying those down, they tied them up to a beam that supported
the roof,
exposing my ass to their rough hands.
"He's
not a virgin," one said, his voice cracked with the twin
abuses
of tobacco and alchol. "Look a' tha' 'ole."
"He's
been had by dragons. But he'll do you quite well." I
recognized Brand's voice. What was she doing here?
"Dragons?"
the one said. "'dor, 'e'll ne'er e'en notice us!"
"It's
been a while."
One of the
men approached and touched my ass with his palm. "Smooth
as a babe's butt," he replied. "Does nothin' with
it but sit on it all
day, I reck'n." His hand was rough and calloused, the fingers
themselves
thick with the muscle of manual labor. On touched my anus.
He pressed
inwards without spit or grease. I felt like I was being entered
by a pine
cone, his hands were so rough. The pain made me cry out, but
the cloth in
my teeth dampened the sound to nothing. His finger penetrated
me to the
knuckles and I groaned. "Yeah, t' first inch is tight enough
fer me." He
pulled me across the rough table, granting more pain as the raw
wood
scraped on my back. "Take this, lad." With a rough
shove he penetrated
me, his cock mercilessly barelling into my guts. "Could
use a little
wetness, though."
"Ha'
this, then," one of the other men said clearly. The one
within
me laughed, and I felt something cold splash about my balls and
hole. It
felt cold, and then burning filled me. The smell told me what
he'd used,
and I began to cry from the pain. Rum. Alcohol. These men
cared less if
they killed me.
Another one,
to my left, climbed out of his ragged pants and
approached me, pulling off the gag. "Suck it, boy,"
he said. "Suck it
well and maybe you'll live." He pulled back his foreskin
and stuffed the
fetid thing in my face. The smell was ghastly, as if he hadn't
washed in
weeks, and I couldn't bring myself. He grasped my head in one
hand and my
nose in the other, waving that evil club before my eyes. Finally,
I had to
breath, and he shoved his cock down my throat. "Bite it
and I'll hurt you
bad."
I gagged on
the torturous thing. About the only mercy for me in this
was that the alcohol which ruined me within also entered my blood
and
lessened the pain. I choked while the two men raped me, used
me in their
laughter. The one's cock sawed in and out of my burning asshole,
the other
fed me his cheesy meat until both grunted their climaxes and
finally pulled
out. The one who had been within my ass presented his cock to
my mouth.
"Clean it, boy."
Another cock
entered my anus. Gone in pain and alcohol, I barely
noticed either of the two cocks being used on me. I felt, dimly,
the feel
of the third man's balls as he plundered my anus, raping the
juiced hole
created by the man whose cock I now washed with my tongue. I
could not
think.
And then they,
too, were gone, and a slim, delicate hand was probing
at my anus. "Darryn, can you hear me?"
"Brand...
Why are you doing this?"
"Because,"
she said as three of her fingers slipped into my asshole,
"You deserve it, you perverse monster. The Sodomite Mage.
You had to be
younger than me, prettier than me, better than me." Her
hand pressed
against my burning asshole. "I'm going to give you what
you want, Darryn,
and what you so richly deserve. I'm going to remind you of your
dragon
LOVER," she snarled as her arm slipped into me, "and
then, from within, I'm
going to kill you."
I needed to
stop her. My mind raced with all the things I could do to
stop her. I knew spells that would kill her, but they took time
to
prepare. I needed to handle her companions, too.
I thought
of a Base, a combat Base, that would help me. I imagined
what it might look like completed, as complete as a Base can
be. I needed
to be right, once, because that was all the chance I would get.
"Brand," I
snarled at her.
"Goodbye,
Darryn."
"No."
I summoned the base.
She screamed
as the bones in her arm snapped. She looked up, stunned,
as I poured power through the base. One of the men rushed me
and lightning
danced around him, knocking him against the wall, screaming.
Another
picked up a bottle and I struck him, too, with the lightning.
Just as the
base 'Pain' could be turned into 'Pleasure,' too can the bases
for healing
be turned to suffering. Brand pulled her arm free of my body,
her hands
unable to clutch anything at all. She backed away from as I
willed her to
bleed freely; it ran from her nose and she coughed it from her
mouth. She
shook her head, and in her bubbling throat I heard her say "You...
you
can't. This..."
I was developing
an erection even as she said it. My combat master
had taught me well; the satisfaction of commiting a spell need
not have
arisen from pleasure, but instead, the pleasure of winning came
from the
satisfaction of committing the spell. I had won. I burned her,
blasted
her, bled her, and broke her. And then I blacked out.
"And
then?" Aimee' asked.
"I was
rescued. One of the men who had been busily having his way
with me ran out into the street, and the screams attracted the
attention of
the local guard. I was taken back to the college, where I attracted
a lot
of attention." Darynn smiled and leaned back in his chair.
"Now, I've
taken away from your studies again to tell you a rather dull
and boring
story." He yawned to make the point.
His bait worked;
she yawned along with him. "See? I've managed to
put you back to sleep." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.
"Why
don't you return home? We'll continue this later."
She sighed
and the sound tore at his heart again. "Yes, sir.
Goodnight, sir."
"Goodnight,
Aimee'." |