Make Camp

"Metztli, do you know where in Ixtacotak we are?"

"One of the South-Eastern Islands, I think."

"Are there any Dragonlords nearby who be trustworthy? We need one who isn't an absolute tyrant, preferably."

"Cobri would be the best bet. He's the most Eastern Island, that's the only reason he's been able to hold his territory for so long without becoming a warmonger."

"That... might work," I say cautiously. "Tonight Delathwyn and Metztli will explore some, try and figure out where we are. The rest of us find someplace nearby to make camp for the night and set up shifts for a watch."

Metztli turns to Delathwyn. "I'm just a healer, so if there's any trouble you are the one potentially fighting monsters."

Delathwyn shrugs. "That's what I'm good at. Just don't get us lost, alright?" She turns to me. "Do we leave immediately?"

"Yes," I say. "And prioritize stealth above everything else. We don't need the Dragonlords knowing that I've already got allies yet."

The two leave. Thank Chaos there's now two less pretty humanoid bodies to distract me. I can already feel a rut coming on and I've only been here a few hours. I've shapeshifted to have a cunt instead of a dick. It being wet is a lot more subtle than a slab of meat jutting out from me.

The rest of us get to work setting up camp. Yanya and Celebron clear out a small area nearby the egg. It'll be mostly obscured by the undergrowth but still allow us to see the egg. Actually making camp in the crater it made would be a bit obvious, this will give us more protection.

Vesilia, meanwhile, is out hunting for food. Illenwyn is using her ice magic to cool down the area some; not all of them are adapted to this heat like I am. I'm sitting by Lezeli and using my upgraded vision to keep watch.

After a few minutes I'm surprised by the sound of Lezeli's soft voice. "Are you okay with your name just being Harbringer?"

"I think that's a good name for the world to know me by," I say. "But I'll need a more normal name for you guys to call me. Might be a while till we find one I like, though."

She attempts to readjust her legs. It takes her a few tries, she's still very uncoordinated. "Can I ask a question? It might be dumb."

"Go ahead," I urge.

"I - uhh - my human form has more than just legs. It's got, um, holes in it."

Fuck. How do I explain this to her? I think I'm blushing, which is definitely something a Greater Dragon should not be doing. I'm going to get a lot more wet if I have to focus on her pussy, especially if I have to explain it to her.

Yanya's apparently happy with the area she's cleared out and slithers over to sit next to us, so far as a naga can sit. "I've got a little understanding of what those are," she offers, "but I might be a little off target since I'm not a human myself."

Lezeli swallows. She was asking me, specifically, because she feels safest around me. She might consider Yanya an unwelcome intrusion. Unfortunately for Lezeli, Yanya's likely more comfortable at explaining this than I am.

"I - sure, I guess. Explain," Lezeli says.

"I'll try. Two of those holes are for getting rid of waste, I think. The smaller one on the front for liquids and the big one in the back for solids."

"Oh. In siren form I don't have holes for that."

Yanya cocks an eyebrow. "Would it be impolite of me to wonder what you do instead? Since we're already on a pretty sensitive topic anyways."

"Our gills take care of some. They take in water, filter the stuff we need out of the water, and then push the rest back out with other stuff we don't need. And then there's - other species have to breathe out of water too, right?"

"Yeah, everyone above ground has to breathe," Yanya confirms.

"That leaves a third hole. The bigger on the front."

"That one I have too, so I can answer more in detail." The naga lifts up a small piece of red cloth covering her vagina, which is set inbetween the skin of her upper body and the scales of her lower one. "It's used a lot less. Do sirens have pregnancies? That would make it a lot easier to explain."

"No clue what those are."

"Ah. Well, how do you have children?"

"We excrete a bunch of eggs during mating season, and the males excrete these white clouds that make the eggs viable when they touch them." She shifts uncomfortably. "This doesn't excrete a bunch of floating eggs, does it? That wouldn't work on land."

"No," Yanya confirms. "Those white clouds? Males have to pour them directly into you, through that hole. Entirely new organ for it. Then the babies incubate inside of the females instead of inside eggs, and then are pushed out after a couple months."

Celebron and Illenwyn are done with our campsite and walk over. "Do you guys want to sit and talk at the camp? Probably a lot more comfortable," Celebron asks.

"Umm, sure." Lezeli is the one who answers, so she must be warming up to everyone. "Yanya, can you...?"

"No problem." Yanya slithers over and gently scoops up the half-siren in a six armed bridal carry.

Our conversation is paused so that we can all settle in. We found a spot covered in thick grass and Illenwyn found a large type of fuzzy leaf to add another layer between us and the ground. Lezeli's between Yanya and I, Celebron to my left, and Illenwyn between Celebron and Yanya.

"So you said that above water males have a different organ for that?" Lezeli picks up.

Celebron turns red. "Um, what's the conversation?"

"Trying to explain human anatomy to Lezeli," Yanya replies.

"Might as well get comfortable with weird topics like this," I say to him. "We're going to be working very closely for a long time."

Illenwyn cocks her head. "With the way you say that... I don't know a good non-Elven word for this. Are we partially here for a similar reason as courtesans? Closest word I know."

Celebron turns even redder. I'm partially saved by having already known this would have to be brought at some point. "Yeah. Dragon bodies have, um, more aggressive needs than most."

Illenwyn shrugs. "Makes sense to me. I had a group of - courtesans - when I was Queen. It's just something that needs satisfied."

Yanya raises an eyebrow. "Huh. That always struck me as something that only the Dragon Courts would do, I didn't realize that was more universal.

"We call it prostitution in Andor," Celebron reluctantly chips in. "But it wasn't only geared towards royalty."

Lezeli looks very confused. "Wait. I thought most above water had families for having kids? What's the difference between a partner and a courtesan?"

Yanya swallows. "So, I'm going to answer this in a roundabout way. Everyone's bodies need food, right?"

Lezeli nods. "And when we don't get enough food, our bodies make is hungry, tell us to go find food.

"Kay, I have you so far."

"With sirens, it sounded like having kids was pretty much involuntary. When mating season came, if you were around other sirens, kids just happened?"

"Yeah, and then the babies were raised by all of us, no families."

"Well, for the rest of us we have to actively try to have kids. If we haven't had sex in a while - sex is, um, hard to explain, I'll get to that later - then our bodies make us lusty, similar to becoming hungry when you don't have enough food. Even if we aren't creating kids, we still need sex to fulfil that lust."

"So courtesans aren't for having kids. They're for sex, which can be used to have kids, but it doesn't always?"

"Yup," Yanya confirms.

Lezeli brushes a hand through her hair, clearly overwhelmed. "Explain sex later, I guess. I still want to see this new male organ. Celebron, can I see yours?"

Yanya almost starts laughing, then coughs to cover it up. Illenwyn and I manage much better, just grin a little bit. Celebron is beat red.

"What?" Lezeli asks. "What did I do?"

"Above water clothing is for more than just protection," Illenwyn explains. "It's also to hide your genitals. It's generally considered embarrassing or rude to have them out in the open. So asking Celebron to pull his pants down might make him a little - no, a lot, it looks like - uncomfortable."

"Oh. Sorry, Celebron. Is it, um, an issue that I don't have clothes on, then?"

"Not right now, I don't think it bothers any of us. But before we encounter any others clothes might be a good idea," I tell her.

"Okay. So, can someone just what the thing is like, then?"

Celebron sighs. "Harbringer is right, I might as well get used to very little being private anymore. You can just look at mine." He unstraps his greaves and then pulls down his pants.

The group's reaction to this is telling. Illenwyn doesn't really react. Keeps her eyes averted just for Celebron's sake, but doesn't act embarrassed. She was a Queen, if she doesn't want something visible in her facial expressions than it isn't. I try and replicate her demeanor, but even if it doesn't look like I'm not looking his cock is still in my line of vision. Yanya is looking, but her facial expression is mildly apologetic.

Lezeli is looking and a bit nervous, but not nervous in the way everyone else is. She scoots over and gently holds his cock in her fingers. It was already half erect and is quickly growing stiff. "So to have kids, or have sex I guess, all males have one of these and stick it in the female's hole?"

"To have kids, yes," Illenwyn answers, "but there's a lot of other options for sex. If you can trick your own body into thinking you could have just had a kid, but didn't actually, then it'll still satisfy your lust."

Lezeli scoots back. I can tell she has more questions. What are the two balls for? How do you trick your own body? Why was it getting stiffer as she touched it? But she's smart enough to know that Celebron might not like those questions, even if he would reluctantly answer them.

"You can put your clothes back on. Sorry again if it's rude or something that I myself don't have clothes."

Celebron shakes his head as he pulls them back up. "Don't worry too much about it. I don't think any of us mind at this point. Harbringer, are we going to camp here tonight? I'm not going to take the time to put my greaves back on if we are."

"Probably," I tell him.

"Alright," Illenwyn proposes, "I have more questions that I think are important, but a lot are sexual. Are all of you tired of this or can I ask?"

Mostly shrugs. "What questions would you have?" Lezeli ponders. "Shouldn't you already know everything?"

"Not about dragons."

All of them turn to me. All of a sudden my size seems much more apparent. How do I want to play this, confirm what they're going to have to do?

By building on the previous conversation. They're already pushing social boundaries and sharing personal and biological information about themselves, now it's my turn. Push past the embarrassment, act confident.

"You mean dragons in general, or me specifically?"

"You."

"Well, even for dragons I'm a more unique one. I can shapeshift my genitalia to be compatible with anyone regardless of gender, size, or race. Usually that means my genitalia are similar to that of a human's. My body's lust is also in permanent overdrive, which has... pros and cons."

"And you said that we're here partially to help you with that overdrive, right?" Illenwyn continues. Moons, she's straight to the point. I don't know if I like that or not.

"Yeah. Most humanoids can control themselves if they haven't had sex in a while. I, unfortunately, can't."

"How soon will you need sex?"

"Ah - sometime before tomorrow morning. I don't know if any of you would be comfortable with that."

"I don't mind stuff like this, so I'll always be available. Just let me know," Illenwyn says.

"No clue if this is a rude question or not," Lezeli jumps in, "but could I watch when it happens, just to see how it works?"

Illenwyn looks to me. "Yeah, sure."

Yanya is absentmindedly fiddling with her blades. "Will you want most of us to clear out when it happens, or for us to stay and watch for trouble?"

"Whatever everyone else is comfortable with works for me," I shrug.

Yanya looks at Celebron. He shakes his head. "If I watch anyone else having sex I'm going to need it myself, so I'll have to clear out."

"I'm may or may not be a virgin and not at all used to sex," Yanya confesses, "so I'll go with you."

There's a moment where the four of them just all stare at one another, apparently reaching a silent understanding. Celebron gets up to leave and Yanya follows him.

I frown. "I didn't say I needed it now."

Illenwyn raises an eyebrow. "Your body is saying it for you."

I look down to find that white fluid has leaked from my cunt down both of my back legs. So much for being subtle.

It's finally getting hot up in here! Comments really keep me going, whether they are simple corrections to spelling or predictions for how sex scenes are going to play out. Please do.