Tired After A Long Day

Melinda led the other four women down to the shoreline, explaining why it would be easier than farther up the beach. After a few minutes heading back towards the hotel at a steady pace, Lynn gently grabbed Melinda’s elbow and jerked her head backward slightly, indicating she’d like her to fall behind the others a bit.

Melinda frowned and wasn’t particularly in the mood to have a conversation with Lynn, but since they were going to be roommates for the round and both spending the night with Zach this evening, she figured she should hear her out. Melinda lagged behind enough to let Caroline, Piper, and Xin get enough of a lead over them that they wouldn’t be overheard; then she asked, “What’s up?”

“Several things. First, Zach asked if we could take our time for a little bit so Heather would be able to catch up.” Lynn replied.

Melinda nearly asked why Lynn would bother with Heather until she realized the answer was simple. Zach had asked her to. Instead, Melinda asked, “Okay, and the other things?”

“I figured we could talk about a few different things. Currently, you can only use those sabotages you get on me. Now… I figure you could do that, and in return I could retaliate by gaining a bunch of VP all at once. Maybe even buy a sabotage of my own. I don’t know how much you looked through the store, but there are several sabotages I could use on you to really punish your need for semen.”

Melinda glared at Lynn, not liking the way this conversation was going.

Lynn continued ignoring Melinda’s glare. “Or I figure we could work together this round. Help one another manage our transformations.”

Melinda raised an eyebrow. “So, you’re going to blackmail me into doing whatever you want?”

Lynn chuckled. “No. I’m not going to go after you unless you go after Xin or me first. If you don’t want to work with me, that’s your call. On the other hand, if we aren’t working together, it won’t be my fault if you need Zach to screw you senseless over and over again, because I’ve gained a bunch of VP.”

Melinda frowned. If she’s serious about working together, this could be really useful. “What exactly did you have in mind?”

Lynn stepped slightly closer to Melinda and slipped an arm around her back, resting her hand on Melinda’s ass. “Well… I need to find you a place with Zach. If you really want to have a relationship with him, that works for me, as long as you don’t try to supplant me. So I figure you can help me with my transformations by letting me train you a bit and guide you towards a role with Zach. In exchange…” Lynn really didn’t like the idea of what she was about to offer, but she was really feeling the urge both to train and manage the others. “I’ll let you take first place and help you keep it. I’ll deliberately keep my score just under yours. That way you don’t have to target me with the sabotages, and you won’t need semen injections all the time. Maybe we can find something for you to rack up some wins against me too.”

Melinda just replied with, “Hmmm.” I guess there isn’t anything problematic with that plan, except for her ‘training’ me, but I’m certain that’s a requirement of this agreement. “What do you mean by training? Also, I can already tell that we can’t just pick something I’m going to crush you at to rack up wins. It also won’t count if you aren’t trying.”

“That’s unfortunate. As for training… There are several different things, but they are all sexual. I’m not particularly looking forward to them either. We could work on your gag reflex, or endurance, but I’d prefer to work on training your ass.” Lynn gave Melinda’s butt cheek a firm squeeze.

Melinda scowled and harshly asked, “Why?”

“Because Zach isn’t sure how large of a family he really wants. If he wants kids, I’m going to be the one to give them to him; at least I’m going to be one of us giving them to him. If he only wants two or three, then you’re going to need to learn to take it up the ass to get your semen. The others aren’t going to simply let you hold onto first place, especially not Piper, and I’m not just going to let you have the wish either. Unless we do something to permanently get Zach larger loads, only oral injections will be time consuming.”

Melinda pursed her lips. Well… she isn’t wrong. Hmm, wait… will I need the injections after the show? It’s only when the others earn VP. Who am I kidding? Delilah will alter it somehow. “I mean, after this we can just use condoms or other contraceptives again.”

“Yes and no.” Lynn replied, “Condoms, sure, but Pita explained that Delilah made contraceptives permanently ineffective for us.”

“Seriously? Why?” Melinda was pissed.

“Pita mentioned something about us being proper concubines for our Master. Can I assume you are at least tentatively on board with this cooperation?”

Melinda groaned, “Yes.”

Lynn squeezed Melinda’s ass happily. “Great to hear. Now, are you prepared to screw him with me tonight or not?”

“What? You want us to have a threesome with him?”

“Yeah, why not? We both need points, and I’m willing to bet there’s something for a threesome. This will also allow you to push ahead into first place. As long as we get you several points first.”

Melinda wasn’t sure if she was okay having sex with Zach or not. Yeah, she had considered it on her date with him, but there was also a difference between having sex and a threesome. “I… maybe. I’m not opposed to doing something with him tonight… We’ll see about sex.”

Their conversation came to an abrupt end as they heard Heather jogging towards them.

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Several hours later, the six of them arrived back at the hotel lobby. Heather immediately looked at Piper and said, “See, I told you Delilah was messing with us earlier, when she prevented us from leaving through the front door.”

Piper was exhausted, sweaty, and not in the mood for ‘I told you sos’. “Maybe… maybe not. The hotel could move like the rooms.” Piper panted. “Plus… Pita made it seem like… over the dunes… wouldn’t be good for us.”

Everyone was tired. Melinda said, “I don’t know about all of you, but I’m getting a shower and then food.”

Everyone nodded in agreement, as they were covered in sand. On the way back, a breeze had started misting them with salt water, which felt quite pleasant at first. Then the wind shifted and started kicking up sand, which then clung to them because of the moisture. No one said anything on the way to the gym showers. Even Xin, who had gotten rather horny over the course of the day being surrounded by attractive women in swimsuits, was too exhausted to care about showering with everyone naked.

After a very long shower, everyone went to get food. They were surprised to find Zachary in the cafeteria munching on a snack. Lynn’s expression immediately brightened as she hurried over to him, sat on his lap, and kissed him. “The trek back was horrible.”

+0 VP Kiss (-1 Repeat Penalty Included)
+0 VP Sit on his Lap (-1 Repeat Penalty Included). You’ve exhausted these; try something spicier.

Melinda immediately frowned, seeing Lynn completely forget their agreement so fast. Everyone besides Lynn, who was making out with Zach, went to get some food. Xin was kind enough to bring Lynn a plate of food as well, while Heather brought Zach a plate because she felt like she had to. As soon as Heather put the plate in front of him, she let out a moan of pleasure as she felt her panties get wet from the action.

Lynn and Zach stopped making out as everyone else joined them. Zach had the grace to be at least slightly embarrassed about the display. Zach gently pushed Lynn off his lap and onto the bench next to him. “Thanks, Heather. You okay?”

Heather bit her lip and nodded. “Mmmhmmm. Just… that’s going to take getting used to.”

Zachary glanced towards Piper’s and Caroline’s breasts and saw they were smaller. They noticed his gaze, and Piper said, “Yes, we stopped to milk our tits. It was rather annoying having them leak, especially with the wind kicking up sand. Please don’t refund the points to my breast size. In fact, we might need to see about upping it further.”

Caroline groaned, “Please don’t. These are heavy enough as it is.”

Zachary chuckled, “Well, I have some good news. While you walked back, I decided to go to the BP store with Pita. I think I have a partial solution to the issue.”

Caroline looked skeptically at Zach. “What do you mean?”

“Well, I have full access to the BP store. Unlike the rest of you.”

“So?” Caroline asked again. “How does that help? You don’t have any BP. Pita said there wasn’t a way for us to know what any upgrade did ahead of time, if that was your plan.”

“That is true,” Zach replied while starting in on his plate. “The higher floors would help with that. Gold and Platinum membership comes with perks.”

“That’s not particularly helpful, as neither of us can access those,” Caroline replied, somewhat annoyed.

Zach nodded. “True, but there is a way around that. I checked with Pita, and you are allowed to pay for someone else’s purchases. When you do that, it counts as BP they spent. If we pool BP to one person, we should be able to get them access to the higher floors.”

Melinda interrupted Zach’s enthusiasm. “Except there is no way we’ll all do that.” Zach frowned at Melinda. So she continued to explain. “Zach, would you really expect anyone here to give up all their BP to help someone else get up to the higher floors? Especially when the higher floors might have stuff not only to help them more easily win the wish we are all competing for but also stuff to screw over everyone else? Because I’m willing to bet there are better or cheaper sabotages higher up, aren’t there?”

Zachary frowned. “I can’t actually tell you the specifics.” His tone indicated that Melinda was likely correct.

Melinda continued under the assumption she was accurate. “So, who would be willing to let me get gold membership?” No one responded. “Exactly. At which point, why would I do differently when it can bite me in the ass?”

Heather said, “Well… there is a solution to that.” Heather’s lip was quivering, as she didn’t really want to bring this up. “You could give me access. I can’t buy anything without Zachary’s permission, so it can’t come back on anyone unless he specifically allows it to.

Xin had returned to her previous schoolgirl outfit, making her a bit more intelligent than usual. “I mean, I could just get access myself, at least to the gold membership. I actually saved my BP last round specifically for that reason. Do we need the platinum, or is gold enough?”

“Gold is enough, but platinum would be better,” Zachary replied.

Xin replied, “Well, I’m not sure how much everyone has left, but I’m not forking over my BP when I can get myself access this round. Not unless you force me to, Zachary.”

“Even if I were willing to do that, which I’m not, I can’t. I can give Heather’s BP to someone else, but I can’t command the rest of you to do that.”

Lynn said, with her mouth partially full of food. “Why not just give Xin access then? I mean, besides Heather, it isn’t like anyone else has a beef with Xin. Zach, you can give Xin Heather’s BP and then Piper and Caroline, since this is to fix your problem, it makes sense that you would contribute. I’ll even throw in some of my own to help Xin out.”

Melinda was eyeing Lynn suspiciously, as it almost seemed like she was doing this to be contrary towards her.

Heather pursed her lips tightly as she had been hoping to actually spend some of her own BP. Which is why she was pleasantly surprised when Zachary said, “I’m not just going to give Heather’s BP away to anyone. If you want it, convince her first.”

Heather wasn’t the only person surprised by that statement. Lynn kept her face neutral, but internally she was panicking and really did not like this development.

Piper looked between Heather and Xin. “I mean… I’d be willing to go along with this plan. And it isn’t like we just have to give Xin the BP either, right? Like she could put stuff in her cart for the rest of us, and we would still get it afterwards; it just gets credited to her account for the membership, right?”

“Essentially,” Zach confirmed.

Heather said, “I don’t think this is a good idea.”

Xin scowled at Heather. “Oh, and why not?”

Heather’s demeanor changed slightly as she leaned forward, put her elbows on the table, and rested her chin in both hands as she batted her eyelashes at Xin. “So, Xin, would you be a dear Little and get something from the BP store for me? Zach wouldn’t let me buy it myself, puh-leeeease!”

Xin absentmindedly started nodding. “I suppose I cou—” Xin realized what was happening. “Go fuck yourself, Heather!”

Heather leaned back and held up both her hands. “I’m sorry, but I thought it important to clearly demonstrate the issue. Everyone here is going to have that power over you at some point. So doing this isn’t giving Xin access to the upper floors; it’s giving everyone access whenever they are her Big. Yes, she resisted right now, but Xin doesn’t like me, and I was asking her to spend her own BP. I’m willing to bet that if I could have her spend my BP instead, it would have been harder to resist or even notice that I was using her transformation to my advantage, and remember, we will use it to our advantage.”

Lynn shrugged, “So? Not to dismiss your problem, Xin, but I don’t see the issue with Heather’s concern. We’ll all have limited access then. Which is a level playing field. Xin also showed just now that she can refuse her Big. Plus, out of everyone here, I trust Xin the most not to screw other people over. Not to mention that Xin will know what it was you bought, so it isn’t something you can keep secret. So how about we all go shopping together tomorrow, as I don’t think there is enough time tonight to finish without being rushed, as it is only a few hours to curfew.”

Caroline, Piper, and Xin nodded their agreement. Lynn looked at Heather and Melinda. Heather said, “I’ll join you, I suppose, but I’m not committing to spending my BP for this.”

Melinda rolled her eyes. “I guess if everyone else is going on a shopping trip, I might as well join in, but I’m definitely not assisting in getting Xin access. Nothing against you, Xin, but I’m saving my BP for me. I already am behind for my own access because I let Lynn spend my BP last round.”

Lynn saw that Zach had finished his food, as had she. She looped her arm around Zach’s and said, “Well, how about we head up to our room for the evening?”

Zach looked at the others. “Do any of you want to talk with me before I disappear for the evening?”

The rest shook their heads, at which point Zach and Lynn stood. Melinda hurriedly followed after the two as they made their way to the elevator. As they got in the elevator, Lynn once again sat on Zach’s lap. Melinda sat next to him and said, “Lynn, I thought we agreed you wouldn’t do anything with him until later so you wouldn’t earn VP.”

“We did, and I haven’t. Delilah said there would be penalties for repeated actions. There’s no way that something as simple as sitting on his lap or kissing him would earn points a second time.”

Melinda seethed in anger as she had already realized exactly what Delilah had done. She couldn’t be too upset with Lynn for not realizing it, but was still annoyed with her too. “Lynn, I can tell how much I need injected, and it isn’t zero right now. It increased right when you sat down on his lap and kissed him in the cafeteria.”

Lynn looked over to Melinda curiously. “It shouldn’t have, unless I earned VP, which I’d be shocked if I did. Besides, we can fix that issue tonight if we have to.”

The ride on the elevator had been surprisingly smooth and relatively short, thanks to Lynn sitting on Zach’s lap and having her arms around his neck, but also because Zach’s arm wandered around Melinda’s back and slid up to grope her breast.

+1 VP Breasts Touched (-1 Repeat Penalty Included)(Melinda), What can I say except you’re welcome for the practically free VP.

When the elevator came to a stop and Lynn got off of Zach, she noticed where his hand was resting and that it didn’t leave Melinda’s breast as the two stood. She was really tempted to slip beside him and put his other hand on her own breast but restrained herself for the moment. Instead, she coughed and pointed towards his hand.

Zach saw where she was pointing and guiltily removed his hand.

When the three got into the suite, the scoreboard was displayed on one of the monitors. Lynn said, “See, I didn’t gain any points, unlike you.” She pointed to the scoreboard showing that Melinda was only one point behind.

Melinda replied, “I was afraid of that.” Her response confused the other two. “Delilah said there would be a penalty applied for repeated actions. I think you did gain the VP Lynn and then had a negative penalty cancel out the gain.”

Lynn frowned. “Seriously? That’s bullshit.”

Melinda shrugged. “I might be wrong, but I’m willing to bet it works that way. I could already feel the symptoms starting on the elevator ride, but Zach, you could confirm if I’m right. It should work like that for Piper’s transformation too, and she’d have extra stat points from showing you her breasts earlier.”

Zach opened up Piper’s app and found Melinda was right. He immediately sent off a message to Piper letting her know about that, and got a string of invectives towards Delilah sent back a moment later. Zach said, “You’re right.”

Lynn frowned. “Okay, well… I’m sorry, Melinda. I know what we agreed on earlier; I really didn’t think it would be a problem.”

Zach asked, “And what did you two agree on exactly?”

Lynn pulled Zach towards the bed. “That I’d let her take first place before you screw the two of us tonight, so she doesn’t have to use her sabotages on me or let them blow up on her.”

Zachary replied, “I see…” He let himself be pushed to a sitting position on the side of the bed but stopped Lynn from pushing him onto his back. He clearly wasn’t in the mood for sex at the moment. “Well, I’m glad you two talked, but we all need to talk. It’s why I had you both come up here tonight.”

Melinda sat on the opposite side of Zach from Lynn. “Okay, so talk.”

“First, Lynn, did you make that list I asked for?”

Lynn cringed. “Yes… but you aren’t going to like it.”

Zach held out a hand for it. Lynn fished it out of her pocket and handed over the folded sheet of paper. Zach read over what she had written.

Zachary’s Harem Positions.

• Lynn: Girlfriend, Future Wife, Probable mother of children?
• Heather: Maid? Servant? Sex Slave? Broodmother? Mistress? Concubine? fifth/sixth wife?
• Caroline: ???, Mother fantasies?, Breeder?, Hucow??? (Don’t know what that is, but Delilah mentioned it)
• Piper: Fucktoy, Model Girlfriend, Gamer-Girlfriend, Programmable Doll? (Probably not), Fetish slut?, Mistress?, Concubine?, Third/Fourth wife?, Possible mother of children?, Hucow???
• Melinda: Fuck buddy, private nurse, Wet Nurse?, Mistress?, Cum slut?, Girlfriend?, third/fourth wife???, Possible Mother of children?
• Xin: Girlfriend, Second wife, dress-up darling, Probable Mother of children?

Lynn was right; he wasn’t thrilled with the list, but did notice a few interesting bits. “I see in Xin’s entry it just says second wife without any question marks next to it. Unlike with the others.”

Lynn nodded. “Yes. I’m not thrilled about sharing you, but she’s nice enough, and it isn’t really her fault that she’s in this mess. I’ve already been helping her with you and managing her transformations so she doesn’t become a horny mess all the time. As long as she doesn’t try to push me out or hurt you, she’ll have my support.”

Zach said, “I did say I wasn’t sure I wanted kids anymore.”

Lynn rolled her eyes. “And I told you that the chances that none of us get pregnant are really low without contraceptives. Are you telling me that out of everyone here, if you were to have kids with someone, that you’d prefer it not be me?”

“I…” Zach shut up before saying something he’d regret. “I suppose not, but—”

“Then quit complaining about it. If Melinda and I weren’t on the same page, then she’d have to be sucking you off repeatedly or taking it up the ass to get her medicine, or she’d wind up pregnant fairly quickly. Melinda and I already talked about her position. I plan on sitting down and talking with the others this round to see what they would like, unless you’d prefer to tell me what you want out of each of them.”

Zach let out a sigh of relief. “Okay, fine. The only thing I have to say is I don’t want like a dozen kids. So don’t push anyone to have kids who don’t already want them.” Zach hesitated before continuing. “Also… regarding Heather… Don’t punish her. Actually leave her alone altogether. I’m figuring out what I want with her, and I don’t need you meddling with that.”

Lynn pursed her lips. “I’ll do my best, but I’m not sure how successful I’ll be.” Zach gave her a disapproving look. “I know, I know, I’ll try. I was the one to tell you to give her a chance, wasn’t I? I literally asked you to help her during the challenge. I’m really trying to be reasonable here, Zach.”

Melinda said, “As much as I don’t want to get involved in this mess, I actually agree with Lynn here. She is trying. I’m grateful you’ve given me a chance, but I also think you need to give all of us a bit more latitude regarding our transformations. Speaking of our transformations, I wanted to ask you. Would it be a problem if I used the sabotages? In general, I mean? As much as I don’t want to use them, I’m worried about what Pita would wind up picking if I refuse.”

Zach’s face contorted in annoyance. “That depends on who, what, when, and why you pick a sabotage or target.” He let out an exasperated sigh. “But no, simply using them in and of itself won’t get me upset with you. I actually looked over the sabotages while I was at the shop, and there are plenty you should be able to use that aren’t too problematic.”

Melinda breathed out a sigh of relief. “Is there anything else we need to discuss then? Or can I take my medicine?”

Zach held up his hands to stop both of them. “I don’t know what you were planning exactly, but I’m rather tired.” Zach stood up to get changed but found both Lynn and Melinda grabbing the back of his shirt and pulling him onto his back. “Hey! What the—” Melinda leaned over and kissed Zachary.

+1 VP Kiss the Master, About Fucking time! I really should count doing this last as a loss to everyone else, but I’m not.

Lynn started pulling down his pants. Zach pushed Melinda away and grabbed Lynn’s wrist. “Quit it! I just told you—”

“You’re tired. We know!” Lynn complained, while putting a finger on Zach’s lips. “And what happens when you’re tired on our night with you too? Huh? Are we really supposed to just accept that? Do you want a situation where someone else is on the chopping block? Because I’m not going into the next challenge having earned less than twenty-five points this round. I don’t trust Delilah not to make last place lose even more points next time.”

While Lynn was talking, Melinda had already pulled off her top and was working on her jeans and panties.

+1 VP Show Breasts (-1 Repeat Penalty Included)
+1 VP Show Pussy (-1 Repeat Penalty Included)
+0 VP Fully Nude (-1 Repeat Penalty Included) Well, damn, those clothes went flying quickly.

Melinda had started taking off Zach’s pants. While saying, “We need this, Zach. I need your semen. At a minimum, let me blow you, please.”

Zach replied, “Fine, but make it quick. I really am tired.”

Lynn started unbuttoning her blouse and slipped off her skirt. She kept her bra and panties on for the moment to keep Melinda in first place, at least for the moment. Zach grabbed Lynn’s wrist. “Sorry, but I’m just letting Melinda blow me.”

Lynn frowned. “Zach… You have stamina for days. So don’t give me that tired crap.”

Melinda had just taken Zach’s penis in her hands. “Lynn, he’s clearly not in the mood. We can try again in the morning.” She wiggled his floppy dick about. Melinda didn’t get up to change; instead, she just repositioned to the far side of the bed and got under the covers.

Zach asked, “Are you going to be okay? Without my semen, I mean?”

Melinda nodded. “I should be fine. I’m currently ahead on my leaderboard. Not by a lot, but my performance in the challenge apparently pushed me a little bit ahead.”

Lynn stripped off her bra and panties. “If you’re going to sleep nude, so am I.”

+1 VP Show Breasts (-1 Repeat Penalty Included) You think these will compete with her knockers?
+1 VP Show Pussy (-1 Repeat Penalty Included)
+0 VP Fully Nude (-1 Repeat Penalty Included) Oh, look who’s jealous.

Lynn pouted as she joined Melinda under the covers. She slid in next to her, clearly to make it so Zach was only going to sleep next to her, and started groping Melinda.

Zach shook his head as he got up and changed into pajamas. When he returned to the bed, finding both of them still waiting for him, he gestured for the two of them to make room between each other. Lynn did not move to make space, clearly unhappy with his choice. Melinda, on the other hand, was grateful for the excuse to stop Lynn from groping her and scooted away, leaving enough room for Zach.

Zach got under the covers and pulled Lynn into a spooning position. Melinda found herself slightly disappointed that he chose to spoon Lynn instead of pulling both of them in close to him. She decided she’d just have to spoon him if that was going to be the case. Zach said, “I’m sorry to both of you if I ruined your plans for the evening, but today was a lot.

Lynn was pouting and didn’t reply. Melinda said, “If you aren’t in the mood, then we’ll just have to try again later, but realize we aren’t going to be safe if you tell us no again.”

Zach nodded in understanding as he fell asleep, sandwiched between two naked women.

---

Xin and Heather were standing outside of their room. Xin said with venom in her voice, “After you, big sister.”

Heather sighed, knowing that this was going to be a long week. Heather went inside, saying, “Xin, I know you don’t like me.”

“Correct, I hate you. You ruined my life.”

Xin hesitantly followed Heather inside.

Heather just took a deep breath. “I get that, but we’re going to have to figure out how to live together. Not just this round, but in general. I’m sorry I used you like I did. Is there some way I can start making amends?”

“You do realize that not only did you mess up my life before all this, but I wouldn’t even be here if not for you?”

Heather nodded.

Xin asked, “And you think there’s something you could possibly do to make up for bringing me here?”

Heather wouldn’t look at Xin. “Not really.”

Xin said, “Let’s just get to bed. I really don’t want to talk to you right now, with your increased influence over me.”

Heather was really tempted to use that influence to push the issue, but restrained herself, knowing it would ultimately make things worse later. “Fine. Um… with what we saw when Lynn was in here, how do we want to do this?”

Xin didn’t bother getting changed and just slipped under the covers, knowing she’d simply have to deal with this. Heather changed into PJs and joined Xin under the covers, giving her as much room as she could. Both were bracing for the bed to restrict them as it had done with Lynn, but it didn’t happen.

After a few minutes of nothing happening, Xin, who was lying with her back to Heather, finally said, “You want something to do to start making things up to me? Then you’ll listen to me play my violin every morning.”

Heather let out a weak, “Okay.” Both were just getting comfortable when the clock struck 10 pm. The covers started wrapping the two up. Pushing the two closer together and forced them to face one another. Each was letting out grunts of protest as their bodies were contorted against their will. Their arms were pushed behind their backs, and wrists pressed together. Their knees were bound to each other and their faces were pressed together, making it look like they were kissing through the latex covering around their whole body. There was a sucking sound that sealed them in tightly, preventing them from being able to move. They could also feel the faint movement of air across their face as something was pumped into the seal for them to be able to breathe, even though they remained lightheaded.

Heather did her best to ignore her slowly moistening crotch, as there was clearly a gas pumped in with the air, causing them to get horny.

Xin, on the other hand, was trying and failing to thrash around for a tiny amount of release as her arousal just continued to build. Heather was surprised when she felt Xin’s lips that were pressed up against hers actually start to make out with her, and Xin pushed her tongue into Heather’s mouth. Xin was moaning in pleasure. It wasn’t until Xin passed out from climaxing that Heather finally felt Xin stop kissing her.

As she tried to fall asleep herself, Heather thought, Just great, she’s going to be pissed about that in the morning.

---

Caroline and Piper went into their room. Caroline immediately squinted her eyes as the swirling light from the constantly rotating spiral on the ceiling bothered her eyes.

Finally alone with Piper, Caroline asked, “Why did you pick this room instead of the Gilded Cage? That one would have been significantly better.” Caroline was slightly distracted as her libido was up a bit from usual. That and the steady tick, tick, tick of the clock was annoying her.

Piper let out an exasperated sigh. “Here we go again.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Caroline replied, putting her hands on her hips.

“You, questioning my choices. I’m an adult, and I thought this room would be better for me. Not to mention I knew that if I picked Gilded Cage, we couldn’t room together.”

“How is being brainwashed better than having to follow a schedule?” Caroline retorted as she began to get ready for bed.

Piper pulled out Caroline’s cow-print bikini. “You realize that you’d be in cow-print clothing all round in that room, right? That butler picks out the clothes. If you deviate from the schedule even slightly, you get punished. On the walk back from the beach, Xin even mentioned that apparently not getting to sleep on time broke the rules. What if one of the tasks had been for us to do something together?”

“We do stuff together all the time,” Caroline replied, not seeing the issue.

“Not naked. Nothing intimate.” Piper countered. “As for whatever suggestions this room has, Delilah said Zach could select what the suggestions are, so he’s at least going to respect our wishes not to be pushed to do stuff with him at the same time. Plus, Zach can already reprogram my brain if he really wanted to, and he hasn’t. Not really, anyway.”

“Not really, anyway? What’s that supposed to mean?” Caroline replied, scowling at the thought that Zachary was reprogramming her daughter at all.

“He made me into a few kinks a bit more, but he only picked things I already had an interest in. Even if he isn’t just spending the points to make me smarter or stronger, he is actually being rather nice about the point distribution.”

“You almost sound happy about this.”

Piper frowned. “Okay, I guess we need to talk about a few things. Things that are going to be uncomfortable for both of us to discuss, at least with each other.”

Caroline sat down on the edge of the bed and patted the space next to her. “Okay…” Caroline pursed her lips uncomfortably.

Piper finished changing and sat down next to Caroline. Piper was doing her best to ignore the faint whispers throughout the room. Was that ‘milk her’? Piper was fairly certain she had heard the whisper correctly. Piper fidgeted uncomfortably before finally blurting out, “I’m a bit of a pervert.” Piper went scarlet and looked away from her mom.

“What?” Was all Caroline could get out, flabbergasted at the admission.

“The first set of transformations, the one that would have had me share a perversion with those nearby… I don’t think it would have caused me to gain someone else's kinks, at least not only that. I think it was meant to expose my own kinks… Of which I have many. You might have even noticed that your libido is up some when we entered the room. I know I noticed.”

Piper couldn’t look at her mom. The two just sat in an awkward silence for a while.

Piper eventually said, “So… yeah, I am slightly enjoying all of this. If the stakes were lower, where we weren’t actually in danger, and the transformations were a bit less harsh, and you weren’t here at all, I’d… I’d probably wind up enjoying something like this.”

Caroline was shocked into silence.

Having already started admitting stuff, Piper continued. “That soundproofing I got for my room for steaming… it wasn’t just to keep noise from entering the room, but to prevent you from hearing when I was watching porn.”

Piper was rambling at this point and turned to her mom. “Would you say something?”

“I… what?”

Piper sighed as she took her mom’s hands in hers. “Look, I figured you would find out about it eventually, and I’d rather you find out from me, instead of having your libido spiking at random times be how you found things out. As it’s going to happen a lot.”

Caroline was having trouble processing what she was hearing. I thought I raised her better than this. How did my little girl get into something like this? She lied to me to watch porn!? I… Caroline heard a whisper so faint, and in her own voice, that she had trouble distinguishing it from her own thoughts. I could fix this. I could make her a proper young lady… Caroline took a deep breath, and in a calm tone that Piper had heard before only when she was in serious trouble, “Piper… Louisa… Brown… I don’t know what has gotten into you, but I’m going to sort you out one way or another. So, you chose this room because you’re into being hypnotized?” Caroline’s gaze bored into Piper. Piper meekly nodded. “Then I’ll have to see about having Zachary use this to straighten you out.”

Piper whined, “MOOOM! Please don’t do that!”

“I’m your mother, and I didn’t raise a degenerate.”

Piper was getting annoyed and pulled her hands away from her mom’s. “Point of fact, you did actually raise a degenerate pervert. Also, I would highly suggest you not go to Zach about doing that. He won’t be happy about it. Honestly, I picked this room thinking you’d get the open spot in the Gilded Cage. Even when Delilah said she was assigning them, I thought you would get that one, given how much Delilah had been calling you a cow. I’m going to sleep!” Piper stood up and moved around the bed angrily. She got under the covers and yanked them towards her, upset that her mom’s reaction had been to scold her right after she opened up to her.

Caroline turned towards Piper and said, “Piper, we aren’t—”

“YES! We are done talking! I don’t know why I thought telling you would be a good idea.” Piper was angry and had tears running down her cheeks, not that Caroline could see them, as Piper had her face in a pillow. “I’m going to sleep.”

Caroline scowled but realized that maybe she had been too harsh with Piper. I’ll talk to her about this in the morning. Maybe she’ll be more reasonable, then.

Caroline got under the covers next to her daughter but kept her distance, finding the ceiling rather captivating and distracting as she tried to sleep, as the light from the spiral would flicker across her face at irregular intervals. Until, all of a sudden, she felt very sleepy.