A Wondrous Key

4th Maludae, the 26th day of the month of Semens (Sem), the 3672nd year of Salvation's Landing

Opening the door cautiously, Reglin peeked into the library. With it being as late as it was, he was not surprised to see it dark. There was some ambient lighting from the moon in the windows, but other than that, it was quite dark. He scanned the darkness and then saw a single flame burning in the dark. He made his way to the single candle in its holder, returned to the door and engaged the locks, and walked to the office.

The office was just the same. A wicked thought came to Reglin and he stopped to retrieve the scroll artifact. He perused it, seeing the number of streams that had wound about him today:

The Affection Multiplier

~Mana: 301~

~Mana Channels: ~Labiae Passionii (Lips of Passion) free, ~ Corpu Vigorii (Vigorous Body) 100, ~ Uirtau Proelium (Martial Prowess) 100, ~Mensu Lucidae (Bright Mind) 100, ~ Tactu Beatae (Blissful Touch) 100, ~Plurem Amatrixae Normalii (The Normalcy of Many Loves) 500, ~Corpu Libidaem (Lustful Body) 100, ~Corpu Spectabilum (Intimidating Body) 100

~Tabitha~ Affectionae: 100 Erosii: 69 Libidae: 100 (Effective 59)
~Lim~ A: 33
~Boll~ A: 20
~Grahm~ A: 29
~Lina~ A: 34
~Asha~ A: 69 E: 25 L: 34
~Princess Katya~ A: -52
~Maiden Caterina~ A: 18 E: 1 L: 2
~Maiden Gwynfuir~ A: 15
~Maiden Erynna~ A:5
~Lady Wilmyna~ A:17 L: 5
~Maiden Freighla~ A: 11 L: 3
~Lady Falina~ A: 12
~Maiden Deela~ A: 9
~Lady Vidala~ A: 6
~Maid Camilla~ A: 6 L: 4

‘Some significant mana coming to me from Asha’ He thought and had expected a jump, truthfully. So, there three hundred and one streams available to open a channel. Reglin felt like getting something to make his time with Tabitha even more special. But what to get? He read a couple:

Limbu Infinitum (Endless lust): You will be able to draw from your streams of mana to fill your cock and balls, making your capacity to ejaculate higher by an incredible amount. The amount of your cum is increased along with lowering your refractory period. 100 mana

Mentulae Potensii (Potent Cock): You will have an innate ability to find the erogenous spots of your partner with you cock. Your cock will literally grow and change to provide the best results for your partner. These spots may not be known to them, so in doing so, it can open a realm of possibilities. 150 mana

‘Ok… So, one will give me the capability to keep going with her for who knows how long. While the other seems like it is meant to be a bit more efficient. I can see the point to both. But Tabitha is called of for her duties at odd times. Perhaps she would prefer it I would be able to bring her to orgasm faster, rather than rain cum down on her.’ Reglin thought about that later thought and found it incredibly exciting. His balls ached with the thought of Tabitha wearing a layer of his seed all over. He would definitely make that happen… But not tonight. He could get both, but that somehow seemed irresponsible, that he needed to keep up with the ratio that he and Tabitha had talked about. “Mentulae Potensii” he said quietly and then rolled up the scroll and put it away in its case. Going to and opening the door to her chambers as quietly as possible, Reglin prayed to the Gods that Tabitha was not asleep.

The big wooden door opened with the slightest of noise. Apparently, they kept the hinges well-oiled. Reglin was grateful for that at least. When he looked straight in toward the east wall, the first thing he could see was Tabitha’s giant bed, covered in various blankets and furs. She was there, sitting at the end of the bed, her hair hanging loose, and she was brushing the honey-colored locks of hers in a slow and measured pace. At a quick glance, he thought that she was nude. But in the low light he could make out that she wore something… some kind of sleeping dress he had never seen.

Stepping in and closing the door behind him, he walked softly, knowing she was awake didn’t change his opinion that it just ‘felt’ like a time for quiet. Closing the distance, Reglin could make out the apparel. It was a golden color, so it was no surprise that it blended with Tabitha’s unexpectedly tanned skin at an initial look. The golden fabric was shimmering and looked soft. Some of their uniform items had some silk on them, and that’s what it looked like to him. He had just never seen silks used as sleepwear. It hung loose, yet managed to cling to her curved, if toned body. Simple tiny straps kept it on her shoulders, looking so flimsy that Reglin could just a small tug to tear them away. The burgeoning thought added itself as a precursor in his head for a scenario in which he could cover her. His libido was well off and running. That was not for this night though.

When Reglin come up behind her, he placed a hand on her shoulder gently, feeling the softness of skin. It instantly boiled up the need in him, and evidently had done something similarly to Tabitha, though her reaction was subtle. It was just a small tightening of her muscle and her next breath was noticeably deeper.

Continuing to brush her hair however, Tabitha seemed very much in control still, “You feel like spring steel pulled tight, my dear… Tell me simply, was tonight a good or bad one?” her voice fit the mood. Soft, like a caress to his ears. But she obviously wanted to his account of things while she cared for her hair.

“As with most things, a bit of both.” Maintaining contact with her, Reglin slid around in front of her. It took him a moment to take her in from his new vantage. The slip of satiny material hung loose enough for him to see a good deal of her breasts, as beautiful as they were. What the fabric did not do was conceal her erect tips standing out noticeably, giving the lie to her semblance of controlled behavior. She looked up at him standing over her and gave a subtle smile at his eyes drinking in her body. When he recovered from the vision Tabitha had given him, he cleared his throat, “Which you like to hear first?” ‘Gods, even the small bounce in her breasts as she brushes her hair has me on edge’.

The subtle smile turned knowing as Reglin’s eyes couldn’t maintain eye contact with her, “Good first. It will help us read the so-called bad things through a lighter lens.” Did she arch her back just a bit more? She wanted him to look at her tits, didn’t she? This whole recounting might prove more difficult that he had thought. But he would do his best. And so, he went about with his story, telling Tabitha of dinner, the wine that Pinnette had chosen for them, and how he and Asha both would be interested in learning a bit more about wine in general. He left out just how flirtatious Pinnette had been with him. It could have been his imagination or her just being very good at her job. He spoke of how impressed he was with Asha’s keen mind, her capability to speak on subjects intelligently and express her opinion with a good deal of logic, at least in Reglin’s mind.

Tabitha smiled at Reglin’s talk of an astute mind, the obvious relation needed no mention. But her off hand came up and patted Reglin’s chest softly, “Just a moment, love. You are planning to sleep here once more, correct?” He responded with a nod; his mind momentarily taken off course. But her hand came down, rubbing his abs, “Well, why don’t you get ready for bed while you speak on things?”

That made sense. So, Reglin went and sat in a chair to remove his boots and returned to his account of the evening. For her part, Tabitha did seem genuinely interested, interjecting a small question here and there, and smiling the entire time. As least until it came to the portion that included Ham and his drunk friends. Concern could be seen in her eyes, but it wasn’t for him or even the man who’s leg he had broken. She just said, “Was Asha alright? Did anything happen to her?”

Reglin smiled at the caring in her voice for a woman that most in Tabitha’s situation would see as a rival of sorts. But maybe that was something with the scroll, he thought, “She’s made of sterner stuff than that, Tabby.” He inwardly cringed in fear at calling her a pet name.

Her brow rose, her eyes narrowed, but her lips turned up in amusement, “Oh, Tabby, is it? Am I to be your little kitty, Reglin?” The amusement on her face did not match the tone in her voice. She was trying to sound incredulous, but he thought that she might find the name endearing.

Feeling a bit presumptuous, but still liking her response, Reglin played it safe, “I know more than most that you are only whatever you want to be, Tabitha. To be truthful, I had thought it was a cute affectation, but it just slipped out. If you hate it, it’s gone. Buuuut… Judging by your face, you don’t hate it…” Reglin took of his doublet and began unlacing his shirtsleeves.

With eyes roving over Reglin and a finger over her lips in mock consternation, Tabitha just ‘hmmm’ed. Watching her eyes move up and down him made Reglin wonder if she had lost track of what they were discussing. “I will allow it for the time being. A trial period…” She got up and walked over to put her brush away, giving Reglin the opportunity to take in how her ass looked in the nightdress. It hid the details, but her hips were accentuated by the garment, and her sway screamed a sort of sensuality that made Reglin speed up his disrobing with the pressure he felt in the crotch.

He stood in just his pants now, his mind focusing on getting clothes off as quick as possible. Tabitha turned and came back toward, but moved behind him, “Hmmm” she almost moaned that as her hands started to move on him, “There are new muscles showing up back her, dear… It’s quite interesting.” The caressing hands were soft as they played across his back. When she spoke, it was a soft and luscious voice that tingled in his ear and made his cock twitch, “You seem like you are a bit excitable… Were you not able to convince Miss Asha that your longing for her was honest?” Her hands came around as Reglin froze for the moment and deftly untied his drawstrings and before he knew it, he stood facing the bed with his pants around his ankles. Tabitha made a cooing noise and her fingers down on his hips, causing his smallclothes to slide down, “Let’s get rid of these as well. You strike me as the kind of man who would enjoy sleeping in the nude…”

Trying to bolster his control, he closed his eye and took a deep breath. He felt Tabitha’s fingers trace light lines on his skin as she orbited him. He thought those lines were correlated with muscles that had become more pronounced in the last day or so. Her soft murmur sounded like she was talking to herself, “Like spring steel indeed…” She came around to stand in front of Reglin, though he could only tell by sound and a sense of presence. Light fingers drew down his abs and further. A snort of amusement came from her when his member jumped when her hand came just above it, “So, you broke a large man’s leg in defense of a lady’s honor. How… gallant of you.”

Every word she said was a caress to his ears and a stroke to his libido, “I only know that the man was obnoxious and becoming dangerous. And I didn’t like the way he spoke of Asha.” His voice low and maybe a bit shaky. He opened his eyes and looked down at Tabitha to see that she was looking up at his face. Her hand came back up and her other joined, both hands running over his torso, “It does sound like something that could be shocking to those not accustomed to such things. How did she react?” stepping forward, their bodies were touching. Though it was only the head of his rod at full mast pressing into the soft silk of her nightgown.

The sensitive head of his cock delighted at the smooth texture, bringing out a groan from him, “She pretty much jumped onto me and said something about seeing a man being masterful was ‘titillating’ or some such. But from then on, her hands were all over me, and I made some effort to get to know her form as well. But, given that we were out on the roads we were less than spoiled for options. I had to pull back with no place for us to go.”

Tabitha’s hand came back down to his member and cupped it with his balls, “Well, you were clothed, but did she feel this?” She leaned forward and gave a light kiss to his chest, and Reglin nodded. “Be she didn’t get to really enjoy it then, did she?” Her hand took his shaft and wrapped around as much of it as she could, rubbing the length of it slowly.

“You do know that I am already on the edge, right?” Reglin couldn’t stop the moans that she was able pull from him. His hips rolled forward with her ministrations. “I hate the fact that I can’t control myself, but I feel like I am about to explode all over you.”

“Well, I suppose I should prepare for that, huh?” Her hands left him, and she stepped away. Taking hold of the hem of her nightgown, she pulled it up and over her head in one motion. “There… Now we won’t have to do any special laundry.” She tossed it the silky garment away, stepped back in and took hold of him. “I have to say, it does get me wet knowing that I may set you off at any moment.”

A growl of need came from Reglin, “What if I just take you and use you for my needs?” the control he had tried to maintain had frayed. He reached down and grabbed her hips in his hands. Lifting her up, his body barely noticed an effort with her small size, her breasts came up to his face. She squealed and wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs grabbed hold around his back. Reglin took one of her small pink nipples into his mouth and sucked on it before nipping at it with his teeth. Her own moans began to come in concert with his own.

It wasn’t long before he pulled away from her tits and lowered her down so that he could bring his mouth to hers. He kissed her passionately, his tongue pushing its way into her mouth with ardor. Another thing that came from lowering her was bringing her sex down to a point in which her netherlips were running along the length of him. She began rolling her hips, sliding her slit up and down the underside of his shaft, leaving his cock and balls well-covered in her juices.

“Fuuuuck!... You got me… So wet…” Her words were broken up with ragged breaths. She rolled her hips high enough so that her pussy was now opened up on the head of his rod. Reglin had been willing to let her catch up to him in excitement. But feeling the heat of her surrounding his head, the smell of her arousal, it was all too much. He thrust upward, impaling her with the full length of his cock. “Fuck! Yes! Give me it!” The walls of her cunt gripped him tightly, urging him to come. But Reglin did have near peak endurance and could hold on a bit longer. He wanted her to climax at the same time. Lowering her just a bit more so that he could bottom out inside her easily, one hand cupped her ass and the other came up her back and grabbed hold of her neck.

Tabitha’s hips started to rock frantically, but Reglin began to thrust into her, his arms pinned her to him. She slowly submitted to his pace and Reglin began to kiss and bite at her neck. The moans that came from Tabitha began to come between the full body clinches that told him she was close. He was too, thankfully. He slammed into her harder and harder. The slaps of their bodies coming together brought out that primitive mind of his. He wanted to plant his seed deep into her womb. His hand on her neck gripped tight and Tabitha screamed as her orgasm hit her. And like his hand gripped her, the folds in the walls of Tabitha’s cunt gripped him. But he didn’t want to move anymore anyway. He was pressed against her cervix and exploded into her, grunting with each blast he shot into her. She somehow squeezed his cock every time he shot a new rope to paint her insides with his cum.

She was shivering, her whole body relaxed, meaning that Reglin was holding her up exclusively. Walking over to the bed, Reglin lowered her onto it, but remained standing, still impaling her. Once she was on the bed, he began to move again slowly in and out. The need to cum was gone for the moment. He was just enjoying the sensation of being inside Tabitha. She gave that purr he loved, and her hips moved at the same slow pace, “So good… It’s like every movement of your cock knew right where to light my fires…” She murmured. Her hands came up to his hips just to establish more touching. Her eyes were closed, seeming to radiate in post-orgasm.

“You know I love you, don’t you Tabitha?” He said smiling down at the gorgeous woman before him. Her tanned and toned body, relaxed. Her breasts jiggling ever-so-slightly with the slow pace he moved in and out of her. It was a damned beautiful sight. At his words though, he eyes shot open in mild alarm. But in a moment, she smiled a loving smile at him, “I do… I knew before you said, though I cheat…”

Of course. His aura. She could see what he sent her way. He really needed to practice more. But he grinned at her, “I suppose you might at that.” His member was still rigid, and he pushed into her once suddenly eliciting a gasp from her. “I’ve never loved someone before. It’s a not an easy thing to try and account for all those emotions. And if they are legitimate, or of they are some sort of obsession…” Lifting her legs toward her chest, Reglin put his knees down on the bed and leaned down over her.

Tabitha once again enveloped him in her limbs, arms around his neck and legs around his hips, their physicality had turned into legitimate lovemaking. He kissed her with less passion but trying to impart the love he had in his heart through his lips. The grip of her body on his made it feel like she did not want to let go of him. “I understand, Reg. You are in uncharted waters. Waters that I had all but forgotten about. But waters that I think I am finding myself swimming in…”

Reglin had a snort of amusement, “An odd way of saying ‘I love you too’, but I will take it, Love…” And kissed once more. Her breathing was quickening again in their rhythms. “By the way, Asha knows we are lovers…” Tabitha’s walls gripped him at that, and her eyes opened wider. Did it excite her that someone knew of us? He thought. “I was honest with her and told her that I had been a virgin until yesterday. She seems to expect me to be with other women but wonders if she has the strength to be one.” He thought a bit. It was weird to be talking of a woman while making love to another. But if it were going to be acceptable by any woman, it would be Tabitha.

“Strength? Mmmm….” She moaned as Reglin pushed deeper into her womb, though his pace was still very leisurely. He must have increased a little bit of intensity though, given the quivering of her tits when he struck home.

“I’m not sure... hmmm…” The pleasure was increasing, “I don’t know. She expects me to be with others, but maybe she doesn’t know if she can handle sharing?” He pressed up against her cervix, causing a gasp once more. Her hands had moved to his back and her fingernails were digging into it.

After the gasp came a nod, “I can understand that… mmmm… I will admit to not being terribly pleased at the notion. But I see something else. Something… oh Gods!... Something she can’t. Not now, at least…” Reglin felt Tabitha hook her ankles behind him and pull him into her.

That was about all he wanted to talk about that for the moment. He wanted to make love to this vison of beauty, sweaty and impassioned as she was. Reglin leaned in to kiss her again and their tempo increased. But there was no screaming or primitive need involved. It felt exciting and tranquil all at once to him. And he felt no need to restrain his orgasm. So, when Tabitha came, he let it wash over him causing himself to cum once more.

After this one though, he pulled out of her and rolled onto the bed next to her. After some moments of recovery, Tabitha asked him, “I know you didn’t tell her about us. How did she puzzle it out?”

He could only chuckle as he remembered her clues and how silly it made him feel. “When I whispered in her ear, I smelled familiar to her earlier today. And then tonight she asked about my speech mannerisms. When I told her about your tutelage and how important you were in my life, something clicked. She likes the way your sheets smell when she takes them to launder, by the way. Those oils you use in your baths. And the baths I used yesterday…”

“Ahhh! Clever… Well, I have to wonder if she’ll enjoy this particular batch of laundry?” She chuckled in amusement, “Perhaps I should apologize to her ahead of time.” Tabitha rolled up onto her arm and looked at Reglin with mischief in those hazel eyes of hers, “Or maybe she would like to put her own scent on them with you?”

Reglin’s look of surprise made Tabitha laugh fully this time. He had to make sure. He did not want to make assumptions, “Are you saying that her and I could use your rooms?” Her response was to make her way out of bed.

She stood up, “Come. It won’t take long. And don’t worry about getting dressed…” As Reglin got out of the giant bed, Tabitha went over to a table and picked up something he could not make out in the low light. When he stepped up to her, Tabitha held a decent-sized leather pouch. She held it up and offered it to him. “A gift… Something large enough for you to put your scroll into. As well some other things… Open it.” She asked of him.

Undoing the coiled leather strap, Reglin lift the cover. No way was he going to see what was in there, so he reached in. What he found was a key. Taking it out, he looked at his lover in bemusement, “A key? The library doesn’t have key locks. What’s this to?”

Tabitha’s amused smile was adorable, but she just said, “Come.” Making her way toward her wardrobes. When they got to the easternmost wardrobe, she stopped and looked at him. She opened it and then stepped into the dark inside, “Come…” He heard her say.

And so Reglin did as he was told and stepped in. When he entered there was wood behind him and to his right. However, to the left, toward the east, there was another door. With a lock…

“Go ahead” So he did. The key of course opened the door. A light came into existence right before him, giving him a start, “Follow my light.” Tabitha’s smile showed that she was enjoying this. It was exhilarating to Reglin too. And now that he had a light source, he took a moment to gaze on her nude form as they went on some small adventure.

Stepping through the doorway, Reglin saw a spiral staircase going upward and downward. But he was told to follow the light and the light was going up the stairs. So, he followed. They ascended two stories of stairs before coming to another door like the one in her wardrobe. He did not wait for an invitation this time and unlocked the door, opening it up to a night’s sky. They were on the roof. The night was brisk, but not cold as Reglin stepped out in his skin alone. “Wow… This is gorgeous at night.” He looked at the sky, taking in the moon and stars. The roof was a massive wide-open space with crenellations all around the edge. There were other roof access points as well.

She must have known where Reglin was looking at that moment. Tabitha pointed to an access door on the north side of the palace a couple hundred yards away, “That is the servants’ stairwell, so you know… That key works on it as well.”

Making sense to him now, he turned to her, “So I can get to your room via the rooftop? Wouldn’t the basements make more sense though?” He moved to Tabitha and wrapped her in his arms in an effort to ward of the little chill with body warmth.

Her own arms reciprocating and wrapped around Reglin, “It would, if there was access in the basements. That staircase you saw goes into a vault for House Polivander.”

Reglin nodded, but still was thinking, “So you were involved in the designing of your rooms, to include the stairwell?” She nodded, “So why did you need your own roof access?”

Smiling up at him, “For many reasons, love. Quite a few of them involving magicks. But, how else do you think I have such lovely golden tan? Or how do I maintain fitness? I have a three-hour window during the day that I am given access solely. The guards, nor staff are to interrupt me.” She snuggled her head against his chest and pulled her arms in a tight embrace, “I spend a lot of time up here. I like it up here… But if a certain guardsman and a certain Laundress were to come up that stairwell over there and make their way over to this and go down to a presumably unoccupied bedroom… Why, they might be able to have themselves a good time.”

Smiling and chuckling at the notion, Reglin’s heart was filled with that loving warmth. Not only had she admitted to not really liking the idea of sharing him with others, but now she was helping facilitate him doing so in her own bed no less! “You are a marvel in so many ways, Tabby…” He said it with sincerity, but she laughed at the pet name still before another squeeze from her.

Pulling out of his grasp, she turned and started back to the stairwell, “Come on. Let’s get into our covers and warm up.” Reglin needed no more of an invitation than that. He locked all the doors behind him as they got back into her rooms and got into bed.

They spoke of small things the rest of the night that they remained awake, which wasn’t long. Reglin barely remembered the fifth Smallbell tolling before his eyes closed and sleep came for him.

~This is knowledge for the Reader~

The Affection Multiplier

~Mana: 301 (+33 - 150) 186~

~Mana Channels: ~Labiae Passionii (Lips of Passion) free, ~ Corpu Vigorii (Vigorous Body) 100, ~ Uirtau Proelium (Martial Prowess) 100, ~Mensu Lucidae (Bright Mind) 100, ~ Tactu Beatae (Blissful Touch) 100, ~Plurem Amatrixae Normalii (The Normalcy of Many Loves) 500, ~Corpu Libidaem (Lustful Body) 100, ~Corpu Spectabilum (Intimidating Body) 100, ~Mentulae Potencii (Potent Cock) 150

~Tabitha~ Affectionae: 100 Erosii: 69 (+15) 84 Libidae: 100 (Effective 35)
~Lim~ A: 33
~Boll~ A: 20
~Grahm~ A: 29
~Lina~ A: 34
~Asha~ A: 64 (+4) 68 E: 11 (+4) 15 L: 14 (+10) 24
~Princess Katya~ A: -52
~Maiden Caterina~ A: 18 E: 1 L: 2
~Maiden Gwynfuir~ A: 15
~Maiden Erynna~ A:5
~Lady Wilmyna~ A:17 L: 5
~Maiden Freighla~ A: 11 L: 3
~Lady Falina~ A: 12
~Maiden Deela~ A: 9
~Lady Vidala~ A: 6
~Maid Camilla~ A: 6 L: 4
~Night's Shift Guards~ A: (+6)
~Govren~ A: 2