Moonstruck

The immaterial shadow manse of Cecylene glittered as Anshu looked at it through eyes opened by Pasiap's Humility - the manse he had unwittingly helped to create by slaughtering those many demons. If allowed to remain in place, the Yozi taint would spread through the city, dooming the grand circle's designs to reclaim Denandsor and turn it into a fortress and a weapon against the powers threatening Creation.

*I know a way,* whispered a voice in the back of his head - the voice of the deathknight the Neverborn wished him to be. *You and I can channel the rage of the Neverborn and create a small shadowland. If done in precisely the right place, the manse will be destroyed. But there is a price for my help.*

*What price?* Anshu inquired of his other self, his secret ebon mirror.

*I want you to break your vows for me,* the imagined Abyssal answered, *and share your body with me while you fuck Cerise tonight.*

***

The first thing Anshu had felt when he saw Cerise for the first time earlier that day as she stood outside the walls of Denandsor was recognition, with desire following closely on its heels. She had quickly walked to him and embraced him, offering condolences for his loss, and as she had held him, he had felt a spike of guilt remembering Salamander - guilt for the way his carelessness had cost her life, guilt for finding his new mate so attractive, so tempting, so soon. He had thanked her and gently removed himself from her arms.

Then later, as they were entering the city aboard an airship, a sudden evasive maneuver had thrown Anshu off his feet, and he had ended up lying tangled with Cerise on the floor. She had kissed him, and despite another spike of guilt, he had found himself enjoying the kiss, even returning it. Finally he had pulled away and told her of his vows, that there were certain things he was not allowed to do. She had seemed disappointed, but accepting, and then they had landed to face the Infernals that fired on the airship.

***

Anshu swallowed. The idea excited him, but he had told Cerise the truth. *I'm bound by my vows, no matter how inconvenient I might find them,* he reminded himself. *And it wouldn't be right to fuck her the same day I met her, either. Not when Salamander died before we could share that experience.*

*Is there nothing else you will accept in exchange?* Anshu asked the deathknight in his mind.

Ebon Mirror considered for a moment, then smiled. *There is one other thing. Once this is done, allow us to switch places until the next dawn. You will languish here in the dark, listening to the endless whispers of the Neverborn, while I have the freedom to do as I wish in the world.*

*No,* Anshu answered flatly. *Who knows what havoc you'd wreak in that time?*

In his mind's eye, Ebon Mirror shrugged. *Those are the only things I will accept. The choice is up to you, whether you choose life* - a sudden vision of Cerise naked, moaning in pleasure as he fucked her, swam into view - *or death* - and was replaced abruptly by the refugee camp, the tents stained with blood and a pall of death hovering over it.

Put in such terms, the decision was easy. *I choose life,* Anshu declared. *Let us make this shadowland.*

***

Moments later, as one of the Twilights worked sorcery to close the tiny, brand-new shadowland, Anshu pulled Cerise to one side and kissed her softly. "I have decided that I will break my vows for you tonight, if you wish," he told her.

"I do wish," she smiled and put her arms around him, pressing close. "But why the sudden change of heart?"

"Creating the shadowland made me realize that everywhere I go and everything I do, death seems to follow," Anshu said. "I would like to celebrate life."

Cerise considered him for a moment. "... I think there's more than you're telling me," she said. "But I'll accept your offer, for my own selfish reasons." She smiled again, and kissed him.

***

"What do you think, Anshu?" Cerise turned from side to side, showing off one of the toys they had found while exploring their new incense-filled Denandsor manse.

Anshu looked up at her from where he was lounging on the cushions and soft rugs piled thickly on the floor. She looked lovely with her nipples poking out through the fabric of her top. "You look so beautiful."

"I believe you," she replied with a grin, her eyes dropping to the bulge between his legs. "Now get up here and help me out of these clothes."

Anshu was on his feet in seconds and kissing her fiercely, letting his hands roam over her body as he pulled at her clothes. Her top came off first, and he tossed it to the floor as he trailed kisses down her neck, then down over her collarbone to her breasts. His tongue and his kisses spiraled in to her erect tits.

"Oooooh, Anshu..." Cerise moaned, running her hands over his head and shoulders as he nibbled on her tits. "That feels so good..."

Anshu slid her trousers down to the floor, and his kisses resumed their slow march toward her pussy. "Hopefully I'll be able to please you even more."

*Aren't you forgetting something?* Anshu's ebon mirror whispered irritably in Anshu's mind. *We had a deal.*

*We do have a deal. I will honor it when the time comes,* Anshu responded, reaching Cerise's pussy and starting to explore her with his tongue.

"Ohhhhh, Anshu!" she moaned, massaging her breasts. "Don't stop..."

*I can tell what you're doing,* the deathknight hissed.

*Then you can tell that we aren't fucking yet,* Anshu countered, squeezing her ass while his tongue roamed. *Go back to your darkness. I will call you when it is time.*

Ebon Mirror continued to curse and rant, but Anshu stopped paying attention and turned his concentration to the bond, feeling the pleasure he was providing and learning exactly what she liked. One of her hands had moved to the back of his head, holding him in place. Then she gasped as he found her clit; pleasure flooded through the bond. Anshu circled her with his tongue, listening to her gasps and moans and tasting her as she got wetter and wetter.

Finally, on the brink of orgasm, she pushed his head away and yanked him back to his feet, kissing him hard and backing him into a wall as she groped his hard cock through his pants. She pulled away and breathed, "Now it's my turn to undress you, Anshu." The she was back to kissing him fiercely, and the hand that had been groping him moved up to undo his belt. Soon his belt fluttered down to a floor littered with Cerise's discarded clothes and an assortment of sex toys (some inherited from Salamander, others collected in their explorations), all ready for use. His shirt fell a moment later, and Cerise kissed his bare, muscular chest before sinking to her knees in front of him and kissed his hard cock through the fabric of his trousers. As she undid the knot of the drawstring, Anshu leaned against the wall and feverishly imagined her mouth and tongue wrapped around his shaft. Cerise caught the mental image through the bond and glanced up at him with a promising grin while his pants slid down his legs. Her hands searched through the cushions as she kissed and nuzzled his long, hard cock, and then her hand closed around what she was looking for.

She had found it packed away with Salamander's things, which Anshu hadn't been able to bring himself to discard. Cerise brought the freshly cleaned, fluted black jade dildo underneath her and pressed it into herself. The water-aspected jade seemed to flow into her, easily and smoothly entering her ass. She moaned softly as she rained kisses on every inch of her bondmate's shaft, enjoying the fullness she felt. She left the head for last, pressing her open lips to it and tracing tiny circles with her tongue on the very tip. She could feel the dildo's magic in her throat, just starting to take effect. Slowly, she took more of Anshu's cock into her mouth, caressing him with her tongue, feeling his pleasure mount and mount again. Her lips closed around the base of his cock as he reached the brink of climax, and she let him slip from her mouth when she pulled away, leaving him glistening and wet. She looked up, grinning. "Did that feel as good as you dreamed it would?"

"Better," Anshu groaned. "Why did you stop?"

"I didn't want you to cum too soon. I'm not even close to done with you yet," she answered, bringing her mouth back to his shaft for more kisses. *Almost there,* she thought, feeling the thirst for his cum building as she teased him, caressing him with fingers, tongue, and lips. *There!* Her thought came as a relief even as her throat burned, and she took his cock into her mouth again and started to blow him, moving her head back and forth along his shaft, faster and faster.

It was too much for Anshu; he let out an explosive groan, and hot, thick, cream flooded Cerise's mouth and began dribbling down her chin as she orgasmed in answer to his pleasure. Greedily she gulped down as much as she could to satisfy the burning in her throat, but he was still cumming, and she coughed, spluttered, and pulled away. Jets of cum shot from the tip of Anshu's cock, landing on her face and in her hair and oozing down to her breasts. Finally, there was no more, and she blinked her eyes clear and looked around.

Amazingly, she seemed to have caught it all. She was dripping with cum, but the cushions around and behind her looked like they'd escaped the deluge. Anshu was breathing hard, flushed and smiling as he looked down at her. Her eyes dropped and she licked her lips, savoring the - surprisingly sweet - taste of his cum while she watched him stroking himself, his cock already halfway hard again. "Thank the gods for Solar stamina," she murmured, and pulled his hand away as she leaned forward to squeeze his shaft between her breasts. "Let's get you ready for the main event."

"That feels incredible, Cerise," Anshu said after a few moments as she continued to rub his cock with her soft breasts, even after he was fully hard, "but I thought you were getting me ready so I could fuck you properly."

Cerise chuckled deep in her throat. "Don't worry, Anshu. I want you to be stuffing your glorious Solar cock into my pussy soon too." She lowered her mouth to the tip of his cock, poking up between her breasts next to the small blue jade pendant, and kissed it, caressing it with her tongue. "I just want to test something... and do you really want to miss a chance to shoot another hot, thick, delicious load of cum all over my face and tits?"

"Well, when you put it that way..." Anshu grinned.

"I thought you'd agree with me," she purred, feeling his pleasure growing. "Don't hold back."

"I won't," Anshu groaned softly as Cerise rubbed up and down his hard length. "Oh yes, Cerise..."

"Cum! Cum all over me!" she told him, eager for the still-novel experience of an orgasm shared through the bond.

"Ngh, Cerise!" Thick ropes of cum spewed from Anshu's cock, and Cerise cried out as she was swept up in the pleasure of her bondmate's climax, opening her mouth to catch as much as she could as she received her second facial of the evening.

She let his cum sit in her mouth a moment, savoring the flavor before swallowing. "Mmmm, delicious," she said, wiping cum away from her eyes and grinning up at him. "Now I'm positive. Remember that vial you tasted earlier? It gives you huge loads that actually taste good." Cerise cupped his balls in her hand, giving them a gentle squeeze before stroking his cock, getting him hard again. "You know, I think I like being all covered like this, as long as you don't surprise me with it." She laid back on the cushions and spread her legs with a leer, her pussy glistening invitingly. "But right now there's something else that I want. Or rather, somewhere else that I want it."

*Remember our deal!* Ebon Mirror roared inside Anshu's mind.

*I remember, and I keep my word.* Leering back, Anshu cleared a space for Ebon Mirror as he knelt down and leaned over her, the tip of his cock just barely touching her pussy. "Is that so?" he heard Ebon Mirror asking through his mouth, teasing her with it. "You want this?"

"Oh yes, I want it. Fuck me hard," she breathed, and then moaned as Anshu plunged into her, his hard cock filling her hot, wet pussy and pressing against the hard fullness of the dildo in her ass. "Oh, Anshu!" He pulled back until only the tip of his cock was still inside her, and rammed into her again. She clutched at him, pulling him down into a fierce, passionate kiss and crossing her legs behind his back to keep him from pulling out again. Her hips moved in rhythm with his hard, fast thrusts, drawing his cock deeper into her pussy. Pleasure and love and lust from both sides of the bond mingled and flooded their minds, and their moans and groans and whimpers of ecstasy filled the manse as they fucked each other.

Then, all too soon, their shared pleasure peaked, and they orgasmed in unison. Cerise and Anshu cried out as her pussy tightened around his cock; his hot, thick cum erupted deep inside her. Anshu, his cock finally allowed to go limp, pulled out of her as they kissed and cuddled and caught their breath, not caring about the mess.

"Anshu... you were incredible," Cerise whispered.

"You were, too. Better than I imagined." He kissed her. *Are you satisfied now?*

*For the moment,* came Ebon Mirror's reply.

"Mmmm," she said when their lips parted. "Will you tell me now? Why you really changed your mind?"

Anshu sat up next to her, looking away. "Salamander died because I let the Neverborn touch my mind. Whispers and visions trouble my dreams as a result. But there's also a... a mirror vision of myself, a deathknight, in my head. He is... not nearly as attached to my past as I am, and just as attracted to you."

"You mean...?" Cerise asked, hurt and horror eating away at the glow of pleasure she'd felt a moment ago.

Anshu nodded. "This was his price for creating that shadowland to disrupt the Cecylenian manse earlier today. That we fuck, and that he be allowed to share in the experience." He looked back at her, letting his eyes rove over her body before meeting her eyes with a smile. "It was an easy choice to make. And if you'd like, I'll prove it, now that I can have you all to myself."

Cerise grinned at him almost despite herself. It still stung a bit to know it hadn't been all his own choice, but she could feel his honesty. "All right. But I'm going to take a lot of convincing."

"I was counting on it," he said with an answering grin, and leaned down to kiss her. "How would you feel about playing Wyld Hunt...?"