"Let's stay in."

"Let's stay in today, Li. I'm feeling lazy." Teysa stretched her arms and let out a huge, exaggerated yawn. "Come here, you."
Aliara pounced on her, giggling. They mock-wrestled for a moment. The half-elf was smaller, but wily. Teysa grabbed for her and momentarily had her in a lock, but the smaller woman somehow slipped out, and slid her arm just so... and without warning, Teysa found herself pinned from behind. Aliara hung on to her back, her pert breasts pressing onto Teysa's head from above. "Had enough yet?" she cackled.

"Oof! Yes, I give up, I give up!" Teysa laughed in spite of herself. The half-elf released her arm and put her hands on her hips in a mock victory pose. "I win! Now you have to do what I say!" She stuck out her lip in what she probably thought was a haughty way. "You may address me as Queen Aliara."
"Alright, my Queen. This one is your humble servant. What is your command?"
Aliara rubbed her chin in mock thought. "Your queen commands you disrobe, servant."

Teysa got out of the hammock. "As Her Majesty wishes." She sketched a low bow and began to shimmy back and forth as she slowly pulled up her silk robe. Queen Aliara sat on the edge of the hammock with her legs folded under her and her arms crossed in her lap. She clapped and cheered as the paladin swirled her hips mock-seductively and yanked her robe over her head. "Very good! Bravo! Your Queen is pleased."

"Happy to be of service, your highness." Teysa tried to control her laughter. "How shall I service you next?"
The Queen's hands flew up to her mouth and her eyes widened. "Heavens! Such a saucy tongue on you, wench! Mind I don't have it torn out with red hot pliers!"
"Wow, Li! A little intense, don't you think?"

"Silence! Do not talk back to your queen!"
Teysa smiled and knelt before her friend. "Li, listen. I know it's been... weird, these past few months. This isn't how I thought my life would go. I'm happy here, though. I'm happy with you. With you, I mean. That is, uh... I mean, I never thought I would, with anyone, but you're... and, I mean, it just happened that we were... you know..." she trailed off, blushing furiously. "I wish I had practiced this. Li, you're incredible. I always knew that. But I never knew how incredible. I want to... be with you. That is, um. If you want me to. Be with you. You know. Like that."

Aliara's face was suddenly serious. "Well, uh, I don't know what to say, Tey. I've had my share of fun on the surface, with men and women. Remember Princess Kessy'l of Garond? The one we rescued from those ogres?"
Teysa gaped. "You didn't!"

"Yup. Real screamer, too. I had to gag her with my hood."

"But her father told us to bring her back 'undefiled!'"

"Hey, I didn't do anything she didn't want!" The half-elf knotted her hands. "Anyways. I never pegged you for the free-loving type. I figured if you eventually retired you'd marry some priest somewhere. But you're brave, and you're strong, and you're loyal, and you're really really patient with me. So yes. I do want you to 'um, I mean, you know, um' be with me. Like that."

Emotion welled up in Teysa's throat. She suddenly found she could barely **** out the words. "T-thank you, Li. Thank you." She rose suddenly and threw her arms around the other woman's neck. Aliara hugged her back, then gently pushed her away by the shoulders. She stared into the paladin's eyes. She has lovely eyes, Teysa thought suddenly. Hazel. Then Aliara was putting her hands on cheeks and pulling her close and, quite suddenly, she felt the other woman's lips press against hers.

This is really happening. She felt strange, like she was having an out of body experience. Aliara's tongue parted her lips and she responded clumsily, her own tongue probing, questing inside her partner's mouth. Her hand wandered aimlessly up and down the other woman's back until Aliara grabbed it and placed it on her breast. Teysa squeezed gently and felt a squirt of warm milk trickle between her fingers, making her partner break the kiss to gasp. The paladin surged forward urgently, locking her mouth over Aliara's and bearing down. She didn't even notice she was losing her balance until both women toppled forward into the hammock. Teysa landed on top and didn't stop for a second. Her other hand ran through Aliara's hair, twirling it, holding it tight. Her knee was between Aliara's thighs and she could feel the warm wetness there. Her own cleft was tingling urgently.

This time Teysa broke the kiss. She slid downward and licked Aliara's breast in a circle around the areola. "Is this nice, Li? Do you like this?" She received a light moan in response, which she figured for good news. Her circle spiraled inward until she was caressing the half-elf's nipple with her tongue. Tiny droplets of milk beaded on it. They had a heady, slightly musky taste, and Teysa gulped them down happily. She began to exert a little bit of suction and was rewarded with a thin trickle of milk. Aliara moaned louder. "Ohhhhh, Tey. Ohhhhh, that feels nice. Stay there. Right there..." Teysa alternated circular licking and suction while she massaged and squeezed her partner's other breast. Aliara's hands were both buried in Teysa's hair and with each gasp she pulled slightly. "Tey... hold on a moment, Tey." The paladin looked up, the wet nipple popping out of her mouth with a little spray of milk. Aliara looked almost shy. "Tey, could you try kissing me... well... could you try kissing me in the, uh, between my legs region?"

Teysa nodded and slid down the hammock. "Like this? She parted Aliara's nether lips with a finger. The other woman's clitoris peeked out of its hood; a tiny pink pearl. Teysa kissed it, then let her tongue linger there. "Ooooooh! Ohh yes, like that."
The human woman grinned. "You like it when I kiss your pussy?"
Her partner's hands flew to her mouth in shock. "Tey! You know that word? I always thought you'd be so proper. 'Milady, may I lick your vagina?'"
Teysa smiled. "You 'always' thought me about asking you if I could lick your vagina?" She was pleased to see Aliara flustered for once.

"No, I mean- I juuuuUUUUUUUHhhh! Whoa!" While she had been speaking the paladin had lowered her face and begun moving her tongue rapidly in circles. As she licked she slid one finger into the half-elf's dripping slit and began to rub her partner's clit with her thumb.

Her finger slid in and out easily, so she added a second one. She could feel how tight Li still was, even after the birth; her walls contracted around Teysa's probing digits. Aliara shuddered around her. "Oh, oh, Tey, keep going, oh, that feels amazing... I'm going to..."

With a long, throaty moan she came, her hips bucking into Teysa's face, her fists clenching and unclenching. Her feet beat against the ground. "Ohhhhhhh! Ohhhhhh god, oh Quz, oh god, Teysa, Teysa, Teysa..." Teysa kept going. She could feel her own pussy dripping with moisture and she dropped a hand between her legs to begin fondling herself. She licked furiously as Aliara's climax shook her body, followed by a series of aftershocks that left the smaller woman lying limp in the hammock. Teysa's ardor cooled and she climbed up next to her friend, who was curled up happily. The human woman took the large-spoon position and wrapped one arm around Aliara's tummy.
"That was nice," the half-elf breathed. Teysa nodded. "It was. For me, too."
"I love you, Tey."
"I love you too, Li."
Her friend-- girlfriend, now, Teysa supposed, though the term seemed kind of silly in context-- sounded sleepy. "I'm sorry, babe. You didn't get to the big O, did you?"
"Next time."
"Yes, next time. I owe you one."

They lay together in blissful silence for a while. Their reverie was broken by the arrival of a servitor-drider. She scurried in frantically and quickly performed the incantation that made her speech intelligible.

{you must come quickly. the matron summons/asks/requests you in her audience chamber. it is most urgent.}

Teysa sprang up. "Alright, Li. Let's go. I knew today wouldn't be boring."
They threw on robes and followed their guide through the tunnels, emerging in the large cavern where Teysa had first accepted the matron's challenge. The large drider sat atop her pillar now. She wore a curious garment-- something like a silk shawl that covered her shoulders and hung down her back. She made a complex gesture in the air as the two women arrived, then spoke.

"Clutchmotherssssss. I have need of hyour sssservice. It isssss a matter of some... delicacy. Will hyou aid the warren?"

"That depends on what you need," responded Teysa evenly.

"We do some trade with Yth'niel, the city of the drow. My mossssssst recent caravan hasssss not returned. The drow have a new empresssssss, and I fear she doesssss not ressspect the pact made by her predecesssssor with our kind. I cannot sssssend a drider to invessssstigate. It would be... unsssssubtle. I need hyou to go invessssstigate. Find out what hassss happened."