On The Hunt

“Two wolves, on the hunt. Their prey, knowledge. Their hunting grounds, the library. Their goal, a feast of the mind.”

“Allie… What are you doing?” Isabella asked, watching Allie sneak between the rows of shelves while also narrating aloud.

“I was just trying to have a little bit of fun. Also, maybe the books can be lured towards a good story.”

“Well, then I suppose the opposite is true as well, and you should be quiet. Mark has rubbed off on you too much, for you to lure them with something good. Also I’ve read your fanfic, I’m sorry dear but even for smut, it’s bad.”

“I want you to realize Isabella, you have just conjured into reality a really bad fanfic of the two of us.”

“Allie, why would anyone write a fanfic of us, when they can simply watch the two of us making out.”

“Because we haven’t had a threeway with Mark yet. I’m sort of bummed that I didn’t get to have that with him first.”

“I wonder if there are even any first time bonuses left for me to earn.”

“No one has done anal yet.”

“Well you can forget about that, Allie, absolutely not.”

“Other than that, virginity and probably some esoteric stuff. Let's focus on our hunt though.”

“Fine, how do you want to do this?”

“Well let’s just wander until we hear a book move. Maybe try to be really quiet and sneaky.”

“Sure.” Isabella took Allie’s hand and they walked down the rows of books. Isabella noticed Allie closed her eyes and was both sniffing and tilting her head and ears. Isabella put an arm around Allie and let her do her thing while leading her down the shelves.

Isabella thought she heard something but Allie started sprinting with Isabella chasing after her. “Allie anything?”

“I think there is a book in this row here, not sure which side but I heard it slide into place, I think it is towards the middle of the row but not sure. So let’s just look, call out if you see anything.” The two spent the next thirty minutes combing through the books.

“Hey Allie, I think I found it.” Isabella put her hand on the book and it flew at and hit her in the face.” Allie pounced on it and pinned it to the floor.

“Isabella, are you okay?”

Isabella sat up and Allie saw she had a black eye, and winced. “That FUCKING HURT!”

“We’ll go see Aubrey after this okay. She’ll patch you up. Now could you come take off my belt? I want to wrap it around this sucker.”

“One second.” Isabella got up and went over to Allie and took off her belt, then with some effort they got the belt around the book. “Okay so the book doesn’t seem to have a title”

“At least not on the outside. I guess. Hey, can you take the strap off your purse? I want to check something.” Isabella did as requested and handed it to Allie who used it as a leash for the book. Allie took a big sniff of the book. “Okay I’m going to let go of the book if it starts flying, help me wrangle it back to the ground.” As soon as Allie let go of it started flopping about and tried to scurry away but it couldn’t fly. They easily pinned it again. “Okay well let’s take this to the front desk. We need to call the others.”

“But we can’t make phone calls here.”

“Yeah that’s why there are two of us. You can step outside, get patched up and get the others.”

“Wait. Are you sure we should tell the others?” Isabella asked hesitantly.

“What are you talking about? Of course we should.”

“Okay but we don’t know what the book is. What if it is like the other book that was constantly fighting, Flora. She seemed pretty adamant that the existence of that book being known would piss someone off. What if this one is the same?”

“Hmmm…. That is a good point.”

“It could also be something that gives us an advantage.”

“Like what?”

“I don’t know maybe a list of everything that awards VP and what still has first time bonuses to claim. I’m just saying, let’s find out the title first.”

“Fine but we should definitely call Sam.”

Isabella frowned, “Allie, I know she’s also your girlfriend but we earned this.”

“It isn’t a matter of simply sharing Isabella. I want her boon. If we get some rope she can bind the book shut and attach it to something near the entrance. That way we won’t lose the book when we both have to leave.”

“Oh, okay that is a good reason. It would also make it so no one else can get the knowledge.”

“No, we aren’t doing that. That is how we get banned by Ellen. The only way I would even consider it is if the book was something truly horrific. I would still explain to Ellen first though.”

Flora chimed in “That was a good call Allie.”

“AHHH!” Isabella and Allie jumped in surprise at Flora’s sudden appearance. Flora quickly put her foot on the book trying to escape.

Allie said, “where did you come from?”

Flora smirked, “Oh I’ve been here since a little after you bound the book with your belt.”

“What was a good call?” Asked Isabella.

“Not agreeing to try to get Sam to permanently bind books closed. I really didn’t want this to become an issue. Especially since I know I would come out on top anyway.”

“What do you mean?”

“I was already considering buying a copy of Sam’s boon, Sailor’s Knots. If you had started using it to bind the books like that to prevent the rest of us from reading them I would have accelerated my purchase of that considerably. The thing is no one would believe that it was me who tied them shut. Again I shared the info because I want people to help find the books. It’s one thing if you find a book and keep it to yourself. I’ve done that. The books you can leave with aren’t that valuable. The ones you can’t leave with will go back to the collection, so others can find it later.” Flora picked up the book under her foot. “Now let’s go up to the front, Merida is waiting for me.”

“That’s ours,” Isabella said.

“Isabella, there is literally nothing you can do to stop me from reading this. If you try and take it from me I can just go back to using my boon and you won’t realize that I ran off with it. I’m not taking it away from you. Allie you need to get Isabella with the program. As her best friend and girlfriend you should have already explained our mutual cooperation stance.” Flora began to walk to the front of the library. The other two followed her.

“Oh hey, I see ye foun’ Allie and Isabella.” Merida said. “Oh, is this yin o’ the feisty yins? Guid job, Flora.”

“We found it.” Isabella said.

“Then why is Flora holdin’ it?”

“Can we not make a thing of this please.” Allie interjected, “Let’s just find out what the book is called.”

“Agreed,” Flora lay the book on the table. “Now Allie, will you hold the book down while I take the belt off.” After Allie placed her hand on the book, Flora took the purse strap and slipped the strap through the clasp on the other end to create a quick way to collar and leash the book. Then she undid the belt. “Okay Isabella, Merida, I want you to help hold it down but the goal will be to do it once it is open.” They placed their fingers on the side of the book and pried the book open to about the middle. While everyone but Flora held the book down, she slipped the makeshift collar around the open book with it resting inside the book, then tightened it and tied it off. Then she tied the other end to the table. “Now let’s see what this little bugger is called.” Flora flipped to the front page. It read, ‘Methods to Convince Smug Lundevall to Willingly Join Mark Garret’s Harem’. Flora shut the book and held her hand on top of the book. “So are we all in agreement that we pretend we didn’t find this book?”

“No.” Isabella replied.

“Umm what?”

Isabella continued “Flora, no I’m not just ignoring this. What happens if we find out later we need Smug in the harem for some reason to help Astrid? It could be nothing, but I’m not ignoring this. Plus the title page literally says willingly. I also think the fact that Smug has the same last name is relevant.” Isabella opened the cover and with Allie’s help began reading it.

Flora backed away. “Fine, I want nothing to do with that book. I will say I like the idea of asking Sam to tie down books like that where people can read them but they can’t escape. Just be mindful about asking for some books to be put up here.” Flora reached into her satchel and handed Allie a book. ‘Allie Asher’s polyamorous fantasies involving Mark Garret’ “After all I feel like there are some things people might not want to be spread around.”

Allie snatched the book with her face going bright red. “Did… did you read that?”

“Cover to cover. Like I said. I know how to keep things to myself. Things that need to be kept quiet, just return the courtesy. Ta-Ta” Flora waved as she swished her recently returned lion’s tail behind her. “Merida you coming?” Merida hopped up and interlaced her arm with Flora and the two went off into the Library.

Isabella looked at the book in Allie’s hands. “Can I read that?”

“ABSOLUTELY NOT!”

“Now I’m even more curious. Come on I won’t judge”

“Isabella, I think we are going to need to have a talk about boundaries in this relationship. I know we are best friends and have told each other A LOT. I think some of our boundaries might need to be adjusted.”

“I’m sorry. We’ve shared plenty of sexual stuff with each other before. Even embarrassing stuff.”

“I know. Which is why I'm not upset. I simply realized this is a discussion we need to have. Our relationship is different now. It isn’t unreasonable that our boundaries would shift slightly. You know there has been stuff I confided to you way before I told Mark about it. One thing I would like to ask is if you find a book about me, don’t read it without my permission. I won’t be reading your books either.”

“Sure Allie, I can tell that this is really important to you. You’ve shifted to that tone you use when you get serious about something that if ignored is going to cause you to slap a bitch.”

“Wait, I have a tone for that?”

“Yes. It’s super obvious. I know Mark knows about it, my parents, your parents, Mark’s mom, your sister, maybe Mark’s older brother and his wife. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that a few people here have already picked up on it.”

“Well, I guess that’s good. It means people know when they better be listening to me.” Allie took a deep sniff of her book. “Well it definitely smells different than the book you have there. But I don’t know if they are all unique or if it is by type or what. They do seem to smell different than the average book though.”

“Really you sure? They all smell the same to me.”

“That’s because you haven’t embraced being a wolf-girl yet.”

“I don’t think that's how it works.”

“Then tell me why you can’t notice the difference and I can?”

“Because you’ve had the TF longer than me, Allie.”

“I’m telling you I noticed an uptick in my senses once I accepted being a wolf-girl.”

“So, immediately after getting the TF?”

“I’ll have you know while I didn’t mind it I didn’t accept it for a while. Plus if it isn’t the case then your sense should be just as sharp as mine are. You should be able to tell that these books smell different even if you can’t describe the differences.”

Isabella sniffed both books but they just smelled the same. “They both just smell like ink, paper, and glue, to me. I can’t distinguish between them. So, I’ll concede the point for now. Now help me read this book? Or do you need some alone time with your own personal fap material?” Isabella nodded towards the book Allie was still clutching.

“ISABELLA!”

“I’m just teasing. Also you shouldn’t shout. We are in a library, you know.” Allie just huffed, and sat down across from Isabella, on top of her own book, and helped to hold down the book so Isabella could read it.

“So, why gie up that book?” Merida asked Flora.

Flora repositioned Merida’s arm from intertwined with her own, to being around her back and touching her breast. “A bunch of reasons. First I don’t want to just whip it out as a threat when I need something from her. That’s **** and I don’t want that. I also wanted to remind her about what can be in here, so she would think real carefully, about tying down certain books up front.”

“So, ye arenae plannin’ on askin’ her anythin’?”

“Nope. Now if she decides to have Sam tie down something like ‘Flora’s most embarrassing dreams’ and leave it up front for everyone to read, I might end up reciprocating in kind. It was meant as a peace offering but also a warning.”

“So, who in the harem has Allie imagined a three-way wi’ Mark?”

“Merida, I'm not telling you that. Did you not hear me about people not wanting certain things spread around?”

“I won’t tell anyone.”

Flora rolled her eyes, and handed Merida a book, “Found this one earlier, I haven’t actually had a chance to read it, but I wouldn’t have read it anyway out of respect for you. Now if you don’t mind, then I’ll read it, maybe even let Mark, but I doubt that is the case.”

Merida read the title, ‘How Merida Slowly Fell In Love With A Boy And Her Passions Reignited Years Later’ Merida cracked the book and began reading and then she snapped it shut.

“Yeah I figured that might be the case. So you’re in love with Mark then?”

“I dinnae ken. I dinnae think that is the case.”

“Well, I’ll tell you that I’ve found a few of my own books. They have been completely accurate.”

“So, ye think I’m in love wi’ Mark?”

“No. I think you were in love with him though. Bet that the book even tells you exactly when you crossed the threshold into loving him. That love was probably swallowed in grief. Now you are working on it again. I’ll say this, reading that book yourself, is likely to be equal parts uncomfortable and enlightening. I would also recommend reading it.”

“Thank ye. Especially for no’ readin’ it. Did ye really read Allie’s and Chloe’s books or were ye just doin’ that tae make them sweat?”

“I read them. I actually read one of your books before we started dating.”

“What was it?”

“‘Merida’s Erotic Dreams’”

“Um… what?”

“Yeah… so essentially every single day dream or actual dream you had was included, if it was even a bit erotic. I skipped parts of it simply because some chapters were literally titled ‘Mysterious Tall Dark Stranger, plows Merida from behind versions 1-400. It was the same fantasy over and over again. Also there were occasionally pictures. Mostly of the guy. It wasn’t Mark. It was also clearly based on Mark. I would say that the guy looked like a middle ground of Mark before and after his Adonis TF, except the facial features were a bit different. Which is why I think you should read that book I just handed you. I think you still have it bad for Mark, even if you don’t want to acknowledge that consciously.”

“Can ye show me that book?”

“Sorry, it flew off. I’m pretty sure the book you are holding will too, if you let it.”

“Okay, weel, I’m goin’ tae find a place tae sit and read this then.” Merida said.

“Want me to sit with you or can I go hunting?”

“Go huntin’. I think I might like some privacy wi’ this book.” Flora kissed Merida and then skipped down the row of books. Causing Merida to think, Damn, does she hae a nice arse. Merida found a reading niche and settled in to read how she had apparently fallen in love with Mark, all those years ago.

Lucia did not know what she wanted. Sister is such a diabolical Mistress. I love it. Lucia was struggling not with the training. She actually had passed on the first day taking in all nine inches but not long enough to earn permission to climax. Laura had swapped the dildo for an eleven inch one today. I’m pretty sure that the collar count has gone up a few times… Maybe one orgasm wouldn’t hurt. No… she’s been checking on occasion. I bet she would punish me if it went down. Well… Lucia decided it was worth the risk and took the dildo in as far as she could for maximum pleasure, but she hadn’t been able to take it to the base yet. A short while later Lucia came. As she did she saw Talia watching her.

“Tsk Tsk. Laura won’t be happy about that now will she, Lucia?” Talia said smiling.

“Like… Tali, what are you, like, talking about?”

“Oh, Tali? Is that any way to talk to your Mistress’s girlfriend?”

“Like I’ll totes believe that when Mistress says it’s like true. Like even if you are. I totally made it, like, clear what my view on you is.”

“Fine, fine. I’ll just let Laura know you came, without permission, because you did. It does seem like you are having trouble with that last inch. Would you like some help?”

Lucia huffed and turned her head away in dismissal, and then went back to working on the dildo.

When Laura came down the tower, “So how is my budding cock sucker of a sister doing?”

Lucia answered, “Well, Mistress I’ve taken a bit more than ten inches so far.”

Talia answered, “She came without permission, right in front of me as I came down.”

Laura looked at Lucia, “Is that true? Were you a naughty girl?” Laura walked over and glanced at the back of the collar. Laura leaned in to whisper “Now you wouldn’t lie to me right, my pet?”

“No, Mistress. I came.”

“Well, you might be a naughty girl but at least you aren’t stupid, and admit your faults. For your honesty I’ll let you choose your punishment. The first choice is to increase the dildo size right now, that of course almost certainly means that the vibrator won’t be turning off tonight. Second, I can hit you with a full power Increase Arousal spell, for every time you climax while under it, I’ll be increasing the dildo size, by the way it will last for a few hours at full power. The final choice is to begin a secondary course of lessons.

“Like what else does Lu-Lu totally need to learn, Mistress?”

“Well there is a very nice collection of butt plu—”

“RED, LIKE TOTALLY RED!” Lucia shouted.

“Okay Lucia I understand. That’s off the table. Okay?” Lucia nodded. “Are you good to continue otherwise or do you need a break? If this is too much I will take that belt off for you.”

“Lu-Lu like, need a few minutes. This is totes enjoyable though. Sis, you, like, need to tell your girlfriend her place.”

Laura looked at both Lucia and Talia, “Talia, did you do anything to her?”

“No, I just told her I would be informing you she came and offered to give her some help with the last inch of the dildo.”

“Okay Talia, I want to make this clear.” Laura began in a serious tone. “You aren’t to touch Lucia without my direct explicit instruction and involvement. The only exception to that rule is if she is in danger and needs help. Lucia made it clear to me that she doesn’t trust you to be her Mistress and you will respect that. You may give me suggestions for what we are doing to her, but understand that if I don’t tell her to do something she isn’t expected to do it. Also to make it clear all this applies to Ellen as well. I want you to understand this Talia. I really like you but Lucia is my sister. You cross this line and we are done. Do you understand?”

“I think so. Lucia is off limits unless you are here and tell me otherwise. I can ask you to order her to do something but if I ask her myself it is simply a request, which she is free to decline. Treat Ellen and Lucia the exact same about this. Finally this is a deal breaker if I break your trust about this.”

“Good. Is that a problem?”

“No.” Talia shook her head. “I hope that changes someday but I get those rules. I also get why you don’t trust me Lucia. I’m not offended.”

“Like good. Don’t get your hopes up though.” Lucia said. “Mistress, I can like, totally continue now. I’ll take the first punishment.”

“Very well.” Laura got up and swapped out the dildo for a fifteen inch dildo. Lucia’s eyes went wide, “What? Did you think I would only go up by an inch? Tsk Tsk. This is a punishment, good luck. Also I’m going to give you an option to help you, since I’m generous. See I want you to get used to Talia being involved too. I’ll be here, so don’t worry about that. You can ask for Talia to help you take that. She is free to provide or not, any assistance you ask for.” Laura lightly patted Lucia’s cheek. “I do hope you’ll be a good girl and complete your lesson. I’m telling you to not disturb your Mistress’s sleep, because you are too prideful to ask for help.”

With that Laura kicked back in a chair propped up her feet and began to read the book Flora gave her the other day, ‘A Practical Guide to Eromancy’.

Talia lay next to Lucia. “I’ll be here. Happy to help. Just ask.”

Lucia began to work on swallowing that dildo whole, pointedly ignoring Talia.