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"Igrayne" {Pendragon} (MF mc myth)



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IGRAYNE

by Uther Pendragon

anon584c@nyx.net.

First Part:

The Duke of Tyntigayll was dead to begin with.

Well -- actually -- to begin with, the world was created, Adam

sinned and his descendants likewise. The Duke was born, and I,

and Igrayne, I became High King and Igrayne wed the Duke. The

Duke was inimical but came to visit me to patch things over. He

and his lovely Duchess decided that I had asked them to court to

court her. This was true, but not proven, and their departure

was abrupt enough to pass for casus belli. The Duchess held one

castle, Tyntigayll and the Duke the other, Terrabyl. We besieged

his, I left the camp, he sallied and died. But one must begin

somewhere.

So we did not yet know that the Duke was dead when Merlyn, Sir

Ulfius, and I rode up to Castle Tyntigayll in disguise. Neither

did the castle occupants. Indeed, ensorcelled by Merlyn, they

took me to be the whoreson Duke, Merlyn to be Sir Jordanus, and

Sir Ulfius to be Sir Brastias. When I pled illness and went

early to bed, the only doubts in their minds were whether the

illness were real or an excuse to get alone with Igrayne the

sooner. As hostess, of course, she could not leave the table

immediately. However, when the food was gone and the ale was

passing, she was de trop. She came up to the chamber carrying a

lamp.

"Milord, art thou seriously ill? Is there a medicine which I can

fetch thee."

"Thyself is all the balm that I need."

She laughed at that, and blew out the lamp. This was to my

displeasure, but once done, relighting would cause an unwanted

delay. Besides, however glamoured she was to see me as the Duke,

unwonted behavior must disturb her. If the Duke was ass enough

to have her undress in the dark, I must lose that sight as well.

Here was where the chance of discovery resided. Merlyn was mage

indeed, but I was only an inch under six feet, one of the tallest

men in my kingdom. The Duke was five inches shorter, and Igrayne

a magnificent five foot four. When a man is stretched out above

a woman, it is hard for her to avoid noticing that his beard

reaches where she is used to finding his eyebrows.

Soon she came to bed. I was in the center, and she slipped under

the covers to my left. I reached over with my right hand. There

was neither surprise nor reluctance in her response.

I held her face until I could bring our mouths together. Then I

stroked down her side to her magnificent flank and then up her

soft belly to her breast. There I found, even while she was

lying on her back, a firm, smooth hillock. I smoothed my hand

upward to find a nipple which firmed to a height of two

fingerbreadths. I brushed this with my fingers as gently as

calluses from sword and lance can brush.

Meanwhile, we kissed. She met my lips with closed lips, as

befits a modest woman. She opened them to my tongue as befits an

obedient wife. Beyond those chaste lips, however, there awaited a

hot and hungry welcome. Her tongue met mine immediately. I slid

mine under hers and tasted a sweetness to exceed honey. She

withdrew hers to just touch mine tip-to-tip, and then flicked

hers back and forth. I was unaware that tongues could be

tickled. She brought hers to a stop and touched mine gently,

then withdrew a bit. I extended mine to touch it again and she

repeated. When I was pressing her lips against her teeth and

extending as far as possible, she closed her lips over my tongue

and sucked it. My blood, which by all logic should have followed

the suction, instead rushed to my lance which was already full.

When she relented from her suction, I withdrew my tongue. Hers

followed mine, licked its underside, then explored the insides of

my lips.

I had to enter somewhere, and I intended this tryst to last.

Without breaking the kiss, I turned so my head was above hers. I

hardened my tongue and stabbed as far forward as I could. While I

explored the roof of her mouth, she lapped at the underside of my

tongue. I chased hers and trapped it against the top of her

mouth. Again, it was flowing with sweetness. The extension was

tiring and I retreated. She followed all the way into my mouth

and played tag there. I sucked her tongue more gently than she

had sucked mine. She waggled it yet trying to reach mine and I

touched it and withdrew in a game. She pulled back slowly and I

followed continuing the tag of touches. She made it feel more

like she was licking my lips than that she was escaping their

clutches. When, for the first time since my tongue broached her

lips, both tongues were behind their own teeth, she moved her

face so that her lips were slightly upward from mine. She

gripped the hairless part of my upper lip between her two and

sucked on it. She began to lick it and I, new to this play, saw

a possibility. With only a little effort, I was able to suck on

her lower lip in turn. This stood in stead for the breast that I

was feeling with my hand. The firmness of the nipple there

called to my mouth. I was torn, but with reluctance broke the

kiss.

Twins have been born of futterings less sensuous than that kiss.

Before I could proceed downward, she caught my beard and used it

as a handle to move my face around as she sprinkled kisses

wherever she could reach. Quite forgetting that she kissed

another, I forbore my lust for the sake of her love. When she

went higher on my face, however, I kissed lower on hers. My

first kiss landed on her cheek, my second on her chin. She

forwent kissing to be kissed and I trailed a string along her jaw

line to her ear. There were folds and tastes there to keep me

and giggles and wiggles and thrashing to push me off. It was,

however, resistance to the kiss and not the lover. I captured

her lobe and sucking it was again reminded of the waiting nipple.

The path down her throat, delectable in itself, now seemed an

unbearable delay.

I was holding the left breast in my hand, and I simply moved my

mouth to where the right one must be. I met smooth skin and

kissed it, then trailed upward to pebbly skin, and thence to

upstanding smoothness. One suck and this nipple stood up. It

felt as though I had a twig in my mouth, but a blunt twig with

infinitely smooth bark. I was beyond teasing her. I merely

clung there and suckled like a lusty babe. Nothing came out, of

course, but there was still a taste of sweetness. I slowly grew

up and changed my suckling to licking and playing with lips and

tongue.

I had been hard since my entrance to the room, much less hers.

Deeply desiring this tryst to last forever, I came to want its

inevitable conclusion more. As I love a wet ride, I moved my

hand down her breast, across her belly to the nest at the top of

her thighs. She parted her legs for my hand and my scarred and

callused fingers parted her soft smooth lips where I intended to

play until she was flowing and stretched to receive my thrust. I

found her drenched, which was luck indeed. She misconstrued my

gesture out of the private conventions of her marriage. She

reached for me as soon as I had touched her center.

I am thought a strong-willed man, but there are temptations St.

Lawrence could not resist. I followed her touch perforce and

struggled to restrain from spending. Led by the reins, I

scrambled between her legs. I managed to bring the magnificent

breast back to my mouth while she lifted her legs and rested her

feet on my calves. Her soft hand slid my blunt sword home as if

into a sheath formed for it alone.

The sheathing of a sword, however, betokens the end of a

struggle, and this began one. No sooner had her hand acted my

squire, seeing me well mounted and my lance firmly couched, than

her hips and lower belly acted my opponent in the lists. They

thrust at me with enough force to unseat a rider less surely

placed. I thrust back, perforce, although there wasn't much

motion that I could make in that direction, being already firmly

seated. As she fell back, I withdrew until I was caught at the

tighter ring of her portal, then was first in the lists for the

next passage. Nor was this the last of her divided councils.

While her hips thrust against me as if to unseat me, the inner

flesh clung to me so as to hold me the firmer.

A realm so divided must certainly lose, but this combat ended

otherwise. I thrust, and she bucked. We met with an audible

smacking of flesh. My lance pierced her without doing her

injury, being instead set afire by the rubbing. All her wetness

could not extinguish the fire, but barely eased the feeling of

sweet friction. I made many passages in those lists, before

being overcome by the ache rising through me that betokened that

I must:

SPEND!

SPEND!

Spend!

Spend.

Spend...

Spent, I fell on her glorious flesh. I treated those breasts as

pillows and that destrier mare as a mere palfrey. She bore the

treatment with equanimity and me with her softness and slowing

breath. Indeed, I awoke minutes -- I hope -- later to her soft

caresses down my back. I was wilted and without, but her hands

passed from my back to my haunches and I stirred already.

I moved off her to a mattress more seemly, if less soft. Our

activities had moved us perilously close to the edge, so I moved

far away. I heard a sniff.

"Come," I said, "I came all this distance to join thee. Thou

canst move over a foot to meet me."

And move she did handsomely, measuring herself against my side in

a way that awoke both desire and fear that she must surely notice

my height. She was on her side with her front pressed against my

side. A magnificent front it was, too. But my arm was not what

I wanted there.

"Stay right here," I directed.

I moved an inch away and a cubit toward the foot of the bed.

That put both her magnificent teats within range of my mouth. I

began to kiss the sides of the nearer and circled it slowly

towards the peak. Occasionally, my beard brushed over my target

as I circled. She wiggled but did not seem displeased. When I

reached the peak, I licked the nipple all over before taking it

between my lips. I dropped back a little to the bed and pulled

at her shoulder. She got the idea and turned so that I could lie

in comfort and suck. I stroked her side with my hand running

from the very outside of her left breast to a point a little

above her knee. Occasionally, I paused at the top to stroke her

arm.

She began to move under that caress, not the undulations of deep

heat, but the acquiescent moving against the stroke that means

that it is appreciated. I changed breasts and tilted her a

little more to accommodate. The nipple was firm and smooth in my

mouth when I first drew it in. I stroked up from her hip in a

new direction, ending with my hand cupping the base of that

breast. Such was the generous size that my thumb touched naught

of my face but my beard when it extended along that length.

I fondled there for the nonce, and then stroked back down over

her belly rather than her side. This was soft, and smooth and

gently rounded. The navel was deep and my index finger could just

fit within. That brought on a fit of shaking there which even

reached her breast. The nipple barely moved in my mouth, but

that slight motion was a great pleasure. My finger left its

private lodging and rejoined the rest of the hand as it stroked a

circle around that navel. All was smooth, soft, and still

shaking. The second circle went wider and found a feathery

fluffery at the furthest reaches. I broke off the circle and

rested my hand against her there.

The pad where my thumb met my wrist was just below her navel and

the third and fourth fingers were displacing curls. Her flesh

warmed my hand, and I hope that it warmed her as well. As the

heel of my hand moved down, I left my finger tips where they were

until they were curled under and the backs of the fingers were

pressed into her curls. I brought my fingers together catching

some hairs between each pair. I lifted them enough to pull the

sweet pad, but not enough to cause pain. Then I parted the

fingers and slowly, carefully, extended them again. Doing so

combed her hair and gauged the soft, firm targe which guarded

both bone and softest flesh. The hair extended downward to cover

a softer pout and then followed the lips back further than I was

going on this survey. I patted the tiniest forward perimeter of

those lips, and reluctantly left to visit her thighs.

There was no need for reluctance, the inner thighs were silken

warmth and responded to my foray by parting slightly more and

turning out. I stopped at the limit of my comfortable reach and

started back up. Their were very fine hairs, undetectable to my

touch going in their direction, that I felt when going against

them. I tried to keep my fingers as light as possible in this

direction and to let the these hairs provide the contact. At a

point I judged half way to my ultimate goal, I reversed direction

and brushed down again. I repeated the process coming up a

fingerbreadth further on one leg and then going back down. Then

I switched legs and did it again. She stirred under these

caresses, and I was well content to be both surveying and

exciting my bedmate. Finally, my fingers brushed thicker hairs

at the top of her thigh.

Meanwhile, having laved and lipped her left nipple, I was afraid

of overstaying my welcome. She had evinced no pain, nor any

response but pleasure. The first wince, however, is not a sign

to leave off, but a sign that you have stayed far too long. So I

reluctantly loosed my lips and let the nipple slip. Then I moved

from mount to vale. I licked and kissed her pebbly flesh beside

the nipple and thence to the smooth skin further away. I kissed

downward towards the base, feeling -- all the while -- the

smoothness of the other breast brush the left side of my face.

In the valley, conscious that this was less tender flesh though

delicate and smooth to the touch, I kissed her more forcefully,

the narrowest line of lip protecting her flesh from my teeth. I

sucked wildly here, as well. A little adjustment allowed each

ear to rub a breast while I kissed the center of the valley

between.

While exploring one valley, I had reached another, as you might

remember. Just outside, my fingers toyed with locks trapped

between her smooth thighs. I played there a minute, without

touching skin. Then her own movement brought her lips within

range of my finger. I stroked a finger between the thigh and the

far edges of each lip. She parted her legs a bit more to

accommodate this, but I thought her position probably difficult.

I nuzzled my way upward and then pressed her back with my mouth,

using my arm as a lever at the same time. When she took the

idea, she rolled on her back and I was able to pull her right leg

toward me.

With this improved entree, I gently pressed the two lips and slid

them slowly against each other. I was no longer worried about

the dryness of my road, my own contribution being more than was

needed to ease any passage. I wanted to play there, however,

before any serious resumption of action. She, however, reached

for me again. I stiffened completely in her fingers, but my

mouth, at least, was able to resist this time.

"Nay, my lady, givest me a few more minutes."

"I was but inquisitive, my lord, I don't believe that I have ever

felt thee so thick."

"I have stored up a long absence. Let me, however, remind myself

of the territory before I possess it again."

She dropped back, but replied, "I had not thought that thou

wouldst ever forget that territory."

"I said not 'forget,' but 'remind.' I have thought too much

about it this whole siege through." And that, in this whole

feigned trip, was God's own truth.

Her legs were more spread now, and I divided the thicket to find

the meadow within. Her inner lips were lush and thick, even if

they stayed within her bounteous outer ones. They were together

and I first kept them that way, holding them between thumb and

first finger and rubbing them back and forth as gently as

possible. I pulled them out slightly and let them go to feel the

hairbreadth return through my fingers. I traced the minute ridge

of their meeting, glad to find it splendidly slippery. I parted

them with my fingers and felt one between finger and thumb. The

position was not best for kissing her breasts, so I bent a little

and rested my head on her belly. I dipped a finger into her

nursery to test the size. It seemed dubious that my member had

fit, let alone having room for a son.

My fingers were damp enough to fare anywhere without hurting her,

and I brought them forward to the peak of her furrow. There,

well above the nursery, I found the tiny nurse standing watch. I

spread it with the juice that I carried with me and then returned

for more. When the nurse was well wetted, Igrayne had begun to

breathe more quickly. Thankful that the nurse had carried the

message, I stroked her more and Igrayne rolled her up to me with

a rolling of her sweet hips. I again checked the nursery, this

time with two fingers. It was as tight as before, but accepted

two as easily as one. I returned with more of the liquid, and

damped down the nurse again. Igrayne began to gasp. I abandoned

all pretense of covering the entire furrow, and stayed there

playing with the nurse and plying the immediate area with the

moisture.

In ingratitude, the nurse abandoned her post. But a knight once

sworn returns not indifference to indifference. I walked my post

and hers. Meanwhile Igrayne was holding my hair in one hand and

my shoulder in the other. She was panting as from a race. My

fingers continued to pace their beats while the soft belly under

me firmed. There was still sweet padding, but it felt like it

covered not flesh but iron. Then she started. Her hips swung

sweetly into my hand. One hand pulled my hair and the other

clawed my shoulder. She tightened still more under me and

brought her head and her shoulders off the mattress. Then she

fell back and waves passed down her body. The flesh under my

face quivered like a very slow bow string. Then she shuddered

and closed her legs with a snap like a portcullis falling. Her

hips rose and fell once more and then she was still and softer

than ever under my head. Her thighs, too, relaxed. I moved my

hand to clasp her delicate curls without trespassing into more

sensitive areas.

She broke out in a sweat, and I found the blanket to cover her.

When I again lay down it was beside her with my arm just above

her breasts and my mouth inches from her ear.

"Igrayne, Igrayne," I whispered. "Lovely, Lady Igrayne. Loved

by my heart, laved by my tongue, lady of strength and grace.

Beauty and boldness, brightness beloved. Igrayne, Igrayne,

Igrayne."

Skald, I am not. Those lines will testify to that. But my

observation is that women occasionally prefer poor chants that

they are loved to wondrous renditions of the love of Leander for

Hero. This seemed such an occasion.

"Oh my lord." She answered. I presume she meant the Duke, she

may have meant Our Lord. The High King, she did not mean.

"Hush. Lie here and be hugged."

So she did, and a marvelous armful I had. Now, I love spending,

but there are things that you don't notice in the midst of your

own passion. Holding a lovely woman in your arms while she visits

her passion is a blessing of its own. Igrayne had been on that

journey and she returned slowly. While she did, I left off

clipping and played with her hair. It was held in some formal

winding by a hair clasp. I undid the clasp and pulled the

strands out into a lush curtain. It was enough to cover her

breasts, or cover my chest, or to spread over the head of the

bed. And I did all these things with it.

When her breathing eased, I essayed a kiss. Her tongue met mine

with all the passion of our first kiss. After some time dealing

with only that delight, I began to explore her whole mouth. The

roof of her mouth had its own taste, which I can't describe

except as a slightly sweet spice. Meanwhile, her tongue --

finding itself no longer the main interest of mine -- responded

like an ignored puppy. It lay in wait and then jumped up when my

attention was elsewhere. I must admit that I found these licks

much more pleasant. I pinned her down to the floor of her mouth

and she wagged her tongue so as to tickle me. I withdrew to my

own mouth and she chased me. Trapping her, I sucked as she had

sucked me. Rather than fighting it, she pressed her mouth to

mine and held my hair.

My ardor, bred up over those months of wanting, had been but

partially quenched by our first encounter. The long rest and the

clipping had quite restored it. Her ardor, once the short rest

was over, was whetted -- not abated -- by her recent solitary

vigil. I was stroking her body from neck to thigh, but the

breasts received more than their share of attention. It was time

to reenter the lists. Thinking of tilting gave me the idea that

a bolster under her hips canting them up might sweeten the angle

between her softness and my hardness. I broke the kiss to speak.

"Milady, can we have the bolster below," I asked.

"I have not sewn it to the mattress during the last months," she

replied. There was playfulness in her tone and alacrity in her

action.

She pushed the blanket aside and swung the bolster down to our

waist level. Then she raised herself up, slid the bolster under

her, and swung herself down on it kneeling and facing the head of

the bed. I had been trapped again into a marital habit. She

reached over and took me. (I was beginning to know why we call

them "reins.") I clambered into position over her legs. Her

hand clasped it tight, once, and then placed me against her.

"It *is* larger than I had remembered."

I smiled but replied not. I was investing the castle this time,

not storming it. I paused just at the foregate while I passed my

hands around those marvelous haunches onto her narrow girdle and

upward to rest on her ribs with fingers just touching the sides

of her breasts. My thumbs touched her shoulder blades and I held

her absolutely still as I parted the leaves of the gate and

entered the outer bailey. I brushed my hands down her plenteous,

now pendulous, breasts until I reached the borders of the

areolae. Then I paced the outer bailey, back and forth as there

was no room to go side to side, gathering the wealth that had

been stored there as precious mead. I rolled the tips of her

breasts on my fingers as you might drum your fingers on the table

when the benediction is too long, but at a third of the speed.

She stirred at that, and backed a fingerbreadth toward me. With

the placement of my member, that removed me from the gatehouse

rather than driving me within.

I moved my hips back until I was properly situated, and stopped

there just at the gatehouse. I bent forward slightly and passed

my hands downward until the tips of my middle fingers met the

sides of her two nipples. These I stroked up and down. She was

still, as if concentrating on her mammary sensations. I moved my

hips forward and just nudged into the gatehouse. I stretched no

gate, merely taking what space was there. I judged that the

entry I was using would pass only my least digit, and that merely

to the first knuckle. I spread my hands lower until I could

press upward on the tips of the hanging nipples. She pulled

herself upward, which moved her castle away, but I moved with

her, neither displaced nor advancing.

Then I did advance, pressing inward in the gatehouse, widening

the entrance until it would admit most of my force, only the

breadth of the van barring my passage. Here, I was feeling her

warmth and grasp for the first time and restraint was becoming a

task. A true knight, I held my post. I paused there and moved

my left hand to her downthrust belly. There I delved in her

navel with my last finger. She lifted away, the gatehouse

retreated, and I moved in perfect pace with it. The most perfect

pace, however, can not overcome a change of angle. The top

entered more, the bottom retreated, and the very slow friction of

each was sensuous torture. I held my finger there, and her belly

raised perforce, while my right hand played with her nipple. I

moved that hand up the breast to her back.

My left hand stroked across her belly to her left breast. She

eased down a bit, and again there was the exquisite sensation of

shifting within sans any forward movement. I flexed the fingers

of my right hand into claws and directed the knuckles toward me.

Then scratching with the backs of my nails I stroked her back

from right shoulder blade to left buttock. She, predictably,

dropped her belly to escape the tickle -- for I was careful that

there was no actual pain -- and drove herself back toward me. I

rode partly with this swing of hers, but still ended completely

in the gatehouse. Enveloped rather than invading, I felt the

sweet friction of her clasping flesh as my vanguard was admitted

-- or captured. She was holding herself up on her raised arms

and I dropped my left hand to the bolster to do likewise.

This allowed me to bend over far enough to kiss her on her upper

back. She wiggled at this and her rump shifted sideways and my

half-inserted self was shifted reciprocally to this. I felt

every tug and slide of the sideways shifts, but was not conscious

until later that the net result was inward. Meanwhile, I kissed

her back from left shoulder to right, licking every spot that I

had sucked, and sucking again to make sure.

I had but one hand for breasts, so I stroked them alternatively,

sometimes gliding my hand over the smooth skin, sometimes

tickling the nipples with my fingers. Meanwhile, she dodged

either kiss or tickle, her hips swayed, my member was the swivel

on which our connection turned, and I felt the always-varying

motions there as one extreme tease. I was easing through her

gatehouse in a sort of dance, back a little forth a little,

round, round, round. The travel back was less than the travel

forth, however. I suddenly sensed that the friction was on the

widest part, not on the tip. At that, I stopped peppering her

with kisses and rose back to kneeling erect. That, in itself,

provided forward impulse. With an exquisite slip through the

gate, I was in the inner bailey.

My body pulled back a bit, but it scarcely moved my invading

force. The gatehouse kept tight around the main force and the

van was held within the bailey by the width of the vanguard more

effectively than it had been kept out. I was pulling back the

merest bit while I returned to the soft teasing scratching that I

had done earlier. I used both hands this time, being careful

that the nails were always turned in and going away from their

points. I covered her lower back with these teases and then the

backs of her thighs.

I then gripped both hips and eased myself forward again. The van

now started to occupy the inner bailey, widening it as it

advanced. The defenses were only soft, frictional resistance.

Meanwhile, the gatehouse held tight to the main force of the

invaders, yielding them passage but only under resistance. I

pressed forward until the van was deeply into the castle and only

the last inch of the invasion was completely outside. The

resistance, incapable of stopping the invasion was now a threat

to the cohesion of the invader. The force, which could not be

stopped as it was, faced the possibility of firing its missiles

futilely and collapsing while still in possession.

I stopped the advance for a moment, then, and explored the

neighborhood of the castle with my hand. One finger found that,

though the castle was invested, one watchtower below it was still

manned. The hider had returned from hiding. Dipping my finger

in the honey of the outer bailey, I stroked the watchman until a

gasp from the mistress of the castle told me that the message was

received. In its pause, the invasion force had recovered, for the

nonce, from its danger.

I whispered "elbows." Igrayne dropped herself onto hers. I

pulled myself fully forward and the entire force had entered the

castle. As well, the entire inner bailey was occupied, and the

tip of the van tenderly touched the innermost keep.

Here, my metaphor, as well as my entry, was ended. The keep,

soon to be Arthur's keep, was not to be entered by the invading

force, but only by its missiles. And those would be fired

somewhat later.

She knelt with her knees on the bolster, very wide apart. My

knees were on the mattress proper, between her legs, and almost

together. Her ankles rested on my calves, with her feet touching

each other. I was, from knees to crown, rigidly erect and bent

slightly backward. Her elbows were resting on the mattress, and

-- I presume -- her head as well. Her back was arched downward,

so that our loins were pressed against each other's as firmly as

possible. My hands, at that time, were pulling her hips into me

and, by the same token, pulling myself into her.

I bowed over her back while smoothing my hands forward over her

belly to her breasts. She responded to the caress by

straightening her back. We both moved slowly and the two motions

eased me slowly out of her. I could feel the close clasp of the

gateway pass over my shaft, and the subtler, silkier, friction of

her inner bailey slide over the more sensitive head of my organ.

For the last half of the motion, the lower lips gave a fleeting

caress to the base of my shaft. Once over her, I kissed her

spine. Then I drew both my hands down her hanging breasts to the

sensitive tips. There they toyed awhile. Her breath was ragged,

but I could not tell if it were the position or the sensation.

An easing of the position seemed the best assay of which, so I

gently grasped her right shoulder and straightened myself

somewhat. She got the message and raised herself on her arms.

Each motion withdrew me slightly, and each hairbreadth withdrawal

was a sensual delight. I put both hands on her shoulders and

stroked back evenly along her sides. Where her waist flared out

from its narrowest part, I put on gentle pressure.

Simultaneously, I straightened slightly at waist and knees. My

motion within her was reversed, but the sensations remained as

delightful. I pulled her tightly to me and then bent over again.

The withdrawal was less and even slower. The pleasure, if

anything greater.

I took her breasts in my two hands and pulled back very gently.

She followed the lead and pressed into me as I pressed forward.

A minor motion forward on the breasts moved her as easily and I

backed out. She needed merely to get the message for her to

cooperate. Soon we were moving against one another at moderate

rate and the motion tightened my loins and threatened my

culmination. She, also, was panting more in the easier position.

Then she began to move more vigorously. This drove my pleasure

to the peak with my tension following amain. The bridle that I

was using was too delicate for this new ride, so I abandoned her

breasts. My left hand caught her shoulder to guide and restrain

her, my right sought below her belly to find her center.

There was no need in this position to spread the nectar which

flowed down between her lips. I merely pressed the meeting of

those lips rhythmically with her motions. At this, her motions

sped, as did mine. I backed when she went forward, using my hand

on her shoulder only to see that our partings excluded the

primary juncture. I advanced when she returned, thrusting hard

and joying in the rapid friction. I could hear her breathing two

notes above my own and could feel the shoulder muscles tense in

my hand and her thighs tense against my arm. Our pace kept

increasing until, suddenly, her knees slipped from their lodging.

I couldn't let this interfere at that point. I grabbed her left

hipbone with my right hand and held her against me. I dropped

her shoulder and supported myself on my left arm. I had to pull

back for this position to balance, but I took her with me. She

spread her legs wide and I pulled her over me until I was buried

deep. When I moved forward, she was ready to push back with her

hands. She straightened. Every muscle I could feel tightened.

Her belly rested on my arm bone and I could not have told which

was harder. I withdrew, she pulled herself forward. I pressed

forward, she pushed back and I drew her to me with my supporting

arm. In violation of all the logic of sieges, the castle

assaulted the invading force. The walls of the gatehouse

constricted rhythmically on the main body, and then the inner

bailey itself was squeezing the vanguard and the furthest

advanced forces. My invading force firmed to its uttermost, and

fired flight after flight of shafts toward the keep. I held her

up and pressed her against me. My hips were moving in thrusting

motions but her purchase on the mattress was not enough to press

back. Most of my motions brought her with me. Nevertheless, the

castle attacked the invaders, and the invaders fired on the

donjon.

Both actions stopped together. My muscles, which could have

pulled us both to the ceiling a moment earlier given a purchase,

were now hard pressed to hold myself up. Igrayne would have

overstrained my arm if she had not, herself, collapsed so that

legs on one end and head and torso on the other were on the

mattress. I had only the center to support. This I did an

instant longer as I felt her last pulses around me and the

invading force, having lost all firmness, dropped -- rather than

fired -- its last volley. I batted the bolster out of the way

and eased Igrayne, slick with perspiration, down to the bed. My

last effort was to tumble to the side so that I did not fall on

her.

Igrayne and I had striven mightily. Sleep was the victor.



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GLOSSARY

A note on spelling: This is a modern preoccupation. The

generation which thinks that the opposite of "win" is "loose" may

end this pedantry. Was the castle spelled "Tyntagil" or

"Tyntigayll"? In truth it was spelled "whatever." At the time,

only Latin words had spellings, and no one was careful about

those. I have chosen *one* spelling used by Malory, but he used

others.

The words here are those not recognized by my spell checker.

Minus a few, "fluffery," e.g., whose meaning you know without the

word having entered English. Also minus the second person

singular forms. Plus a few, "tilt," e.g., which may be

recognized by the spell checker for a different meaning.

Amain: Vigorously.

Areolae: (pl) The darker-colored flesh on the breasts around the

nipples.

Arrow Slit: Castle keeps have *THICK* walls. If you cut a window

straight through them, men might be able to enter, but sunlight

from a different angle could not. What we did was cut a tall,

very narrow, slit on the outside. Then we widened it out at an

angle, called the EMBRASURE, towards the inside. It let a

certain amount of light in, and kept most missiles out. An

archer could also stand in the embrasure and shoot out.

Bailey: see Castle.

Brastias: A knight serving the Duke of Tyntigayll. Sir Ulfius

was disguised as Sir Brastias.

Butt: A target, especially for archery.

Castle: Technically, any fortified point. The castles under

discussion here were the full versions. They consisted of a KEEP

or DONJON, the inner, hardened, multi-story, central

fortification. People lived there at all times. The INNER

BAILEY was surrounded by a tall curtain wall. The donjon was on

one side and various stables, storehouses, etc. were set around

the central area. Anything portable of military importance was

permanently housed in the inner bailey. If the enemy was in your

inner bailey you were in trouble. The OUTER BAILEY, was on the

natural approach to the inner bailey and the only way to enter

it. (It could totally surround the inner bailey, but this was

not usual.) Much economically and agriculturally important

activity occurred in the outer bailey. The surrounding curtain

walls were high enough to resist a raid and require a siege to

take them. The entrance to either bailey was through a GATEHOUSE

which contained the gate and was a tower built above the level of

the wall so as to be held independent of it. The gate, proper,

was on the inside so that people chopping at it could be

entertained by 20lb rocks, arrows, the contents of chamber pots,

boiling water, and other mementos dropped on them. See also

"Portcullis."

Casus belli: (A sure sign of a limited spellchecker.) The

occasion or opportunity for the war. Sometimes given as "cause

of war," it is a false cognate. The cause of the war might be

"If the Allies don't win soon, our Allied bonds will be

wallpaper," or "Our King wants to bed the woman that this Duke

has inconveniently wed." The casus belli would be something more

fitting. Perhaps "The vicious Huns have sunk a liner," or "The

Duke's departure was an insult to our amour propre that can only

be cleansed by blood."

Clip: To hug.

De trop: Superfluous.

Destrier: Imagine that you are a quadruped. They array you with

heavy gear and then hoist a man twice his natural weight in armor

on your back. Then they point you at a large group of equally

burdened quadrupeds with screaming riders trotting toward you

fronted by very sharp lance points. Do you go:

1) directly forward at a trot as steady as the ground allows

or

2) elsewhere?

The second option occurs even to horses. So we train them for

war and call the trained results "destriers." We don't want to

waste them, and their single pace is neither efficient nor

restful on a journey. We ride PALFREYS for travel and mount the

destriers only for battle.

Donjon: see Castle.

Duchy: A dukedom.

Ector: Sir Ector fostered Arthur. His wife was Arthur's wet

nurse.

Embrasure: see Arrow Slit.

Ensorcelled: Affected by magic, glamoured.

Ere: Before.

Fingerbreadth: The width of a finger.

Foregate: The area just outside the gate.

Forwent: Abstained.

Futterings: Activities on topic in this archive.

Garde-robe: We deterred moths from laying eggs in our (woolen)

clothes by hanging said clothes in our latrine rooms. Of course,

some dull historians claim that small rooms in our walls used as

clothes closets were properly garde-robes, and that latrine rooms

were called that as mere euphemisms.

Gatehouse: see Castle.

Gladsome: Causing joy.

Glamoured: Fooled by magic.

Haft: Handle or hilt.

Igrayne: Duchess of Tyntigayll. Later Queen of Britain.

Jordanus: Knight of the Duke of Tyntigayll. Merlyn's disguise.

Joust: See Tilt. (The 'o' is silent.)

Keep: see Castle

Laved: Washed.

List: see Tilt.

Mage: Seer, Magician, Adept.

Mead: Drink, brewed from honey. Think beer.

Merlyn: Mage who brought me into Igrayne's bed at Castle

Tyntigayll. In return he received control of Arthur's fostering

and education. The latter got him a nice sinecure much later.

Milady & Milord: Yes we spoke that way. A baron could whip his

wife with a horsewhip, and some did. No baron addressed his wife

tutoyant.

Nonce: Short while

Palfrey: horse for riding when not in combat. See Destrier.

Passage: see Tilt

Portcullis: A grillwork (usually) that could be raised and

lowered at the front (or outer) end of the gatehouse. Lowered on

its rope, it provided another obstacle to overcome in capturing a

route into the castle. If the rope were *cut* the portcullis

crashed down. This discommoded those in its way and could be

used to trap a small party inside the gatehouse where they could

be attacked from above. see Castle.

Quim: The female pudenda.

Recurved: A good longbow is made from wood that curves one way

and then is strung to curve the other. Cut the string, or even

unstring the bow, and the arc reverses.

Sally: While the besieging army is busy digging ditches, serving

the siege engines, raiding the surrounding country for supplies,

etc., the besieged army quietly gathers a force of armored,

armed, (preferably mounted) knights and men at arms. Then they

sneak out a side door (a "sally port") and fall on a portion of

besiegers. If they have the self-discipline to stop while they

are ahead, they can almost always score a minor victory. "Sally"

is both a noun and a verb.

Skald: A Scandinavian bard. One of rare training and precision.

(Skald/bard is equivalent to chef/cook.)

Straitly: Tightly, closely.

Swiving: Activity on topic in this archive.

Targe: A shield, usually a small one.

Terrabyl: The second castle of the Duchy of Tyntigayll. The

Duke holed up there, and we besieged it.

Tilt: Joust. Two men, who usually don't have any quarrel with

each other, get on expensive horses wearing very expensive armor

and ride towards each other along opposite sides of a rail fence

pointing sharp lances at one another. They do this until one is

knocked off his horse or both horse and rider are knocked down.

After a certain age, it gets hard to remember why. The place

where this takes place is called the LISTS. One ride at each

other is called a PASSAGE.

Tyntigayll: A castle, well made. A Duke, ill bred. A duchy.

Ulfius: Sir Ulfius was a faithful and intelligent retainer of

mine.

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Second Part:

The dawn wind woke me because I had set a sort of mental sentry

for that purpose. The room was against the east wall of the keep

and each arrow slit showed sky a lighter gray than the room's

blackness. Inside, I could distinguish nothing. Touch, however,

was still available, and quite enjoyable. Igrayne's back was

pressed against my front, and I held one breast in my hand. I

enjoyed these sensations as I woke, and then ran my fingers as

far over her skin as I could reach without disturbing her fit to

my body. She half woke but then snuggled against me more firmly.

The pleasure of external pressure was soon overmatched by the

discomfort of internal pressure. I visited the garde-robe. No

sight was needed to find that. On exiting, I followed the wall

until I came to the door. I placed the beam across it to lock it

fully and delved into a purse that I'd left with my clothes.

Merlyn had offered me an herb which had an enchantment against

morning breath. I chewed some and spat it out into the rushes.

I continued until the bed was dimly outlined against an arrow-

slit. I then returned to bed by keeping toward that slit.

My motions had nearly wakened Igrayne, and my return --

rustling through the rushes -- finished that task. What my

hands had explored, I wanted my mouth to taste, and I started at

her forehead and worked down. Her brows were fine, prickly on

the lips when swept inward, but smooth when slicked out. Her

temples were touched by hairs so fine my lips could not detect

them but my tongue could. Her ears were convoluted, tasty and

quite ticklish. Here she stopped me.

"My Lord, I must rise."

"Is the kitchen so laggard that they need their mistress'

supervision to serve a simple meal?" I asked.

"I doubt that any in the kitchen expect to see me ere you ride

away," she answered. "But there is a crisis threatening our

woolens and I must protect them from moths."

She left me laughing there and went to the garde-robe. I noticed

that she passed in front of all but the leftmost arrow slit to do

so. She was outlined against the gray for a moment, suspicion of

sweet breast, blockage of almost all, brief outline of hip, then

repeated. This gave me an idea. When, after what seemed a long

time, Igrayne came back out to the larger room, I asked her to

look out and report the weather.

She entered the embrasure to look in all directions and reported

that it was much lightened in the east, clouds to the south, etc.

I hardly listened. Instead I looked at what the light revealed

of her when she was so near it.

The silhouette was still the most revealing. While she tried to

describe the southern sky, her right breast was outlined. It was

large and jutting, with only the sweet sag that bespoke a woman

rather than a statue. She raised her arm to brace herself and the

breast raised slightly in response. The nipple pointed pertly in

the chill, if not so far as had met my warm mouth in the night.

She was turned slightly away and her belly made only a slight

bulge. Her hip, however, was canted out by her stance and her

flank made a sweet arc against the light. She turned so that her

head was in what light there was. It was faint enough so that

her golden hair and cream skin were the same shade of lightness.

As she walked back, there came a moment when I could see the

light framed by her thighs. These spread broad and were topped

by a tangle that was only hinted by the silhouette. Then she was

back and cool and ready to be warmed.

I was right glad to clip her in my warm arms. The morning kiss

was sweet and her tongue entered my mouth greedily. I licked the

invader and sucked gently on it. She licked the inside of my

lips once more, then broke to kiss me on the nose. I kissed her

chin and then along her jaw. My kisses were becoming wetter and I

licked, rather than really kissing, the space behind her ear from

bottom to top. This was salt and had a special taste which was

just Igrayne. I lipped the top of this ear and then licked the

inside while she wiggled. I traveled down the side of her neck

with little lip-nips and short licks. I found one spot where her

motions underwent a subtle change. Here there was no longer a

girl trying to escape a tickle, but a woman whose body responded

to a sexual thrill -- however minor.

While my mouth explored that spot and the immediate surroundings,

I stroked down her side and back and flank. All was smooth.

There was soft padding over all, but one could feel muscles move

underneath. Finally, I reached her haunch. Here was fullness,

here was softness, here was firmness when she flexed in response

to my squeezing hand. My lips left their vantage, pleasant as it

was, and kissed down her neck to her shoulder. Thence, I made a

brief expedition down her arm to her elbow and back up. I

intended nothing serious, but wanted to acknowledge that portion

of her body. From her shoulder I kissed diagonally to the edge

of her breast and then around that base. I continued down with

lip-nips and licks and real kisses, as well. As I crossed her

belly, I think she found my beard as ticklish as the kisses. I

passed about an inch to the side of her navel. Then I changed

course.

Before she could react, I was kissing her navel and searching it

with my tongue. I let go of her haunch and pushed on the front

of her thigh. She fell onto her back when she sensed my intent.

I clasped a breast in my left hand and a thigh in my right. But

I was giving the lovely, firm, belly my primary attention. I

circled the navel with licks and kisses before returning to that

center and plundering it again. I stayed until the squirming

became real dislike. She pushed me away and downward. This

direction did I take and she pulled me back immediately. From

this I guessed that the fool of a Duke had kissed only two of her

lips. I was less concerned about the disguise every moment, but

more concerned about the hour. I decided that this delight must

be delayed. I did kiss her mons, however, and pretended to pluck

its hairs with my lips. Then I reversed my course and licked and

nibbled my way up her belly toward her breasts. What my mouth was

cheated of, however, would not be denied my hand. I covered her

delta with my palm and smoothed those curls downward.

When my mouth reached her breast, I kissed a circle around its

base and then a spiral up to the top. There, I licked around the

nipple until it stood up tall and rigid. Then I blew on it until

she shivered. Only then did I take its sweetness into my mouth.

I sucked it between firm lips and then opened my mouth as wide as

I could and sucked the whole top of her breast within. I eased

all but the nipple out and rubbed my lips across that smooth

twig. Then I went to simple, gentle sucking.

Meanwhile I was fingering her lower lips. I pressed them gently

and stroked the hair on the outer ones. Then I parted those with

two fingers and slipped the middle finger between them. Her

inner lips were tight together and moistly slick. These I

stroked slowly and as gently as possible. I was at her breast at

the same time, so I had a little difficulty distinguishing her

responses to one action from her responses to the other.

Nonetheless, I took a slight easing of her thighs and rolling of

her legs as an invitation to further search below. I brought the

finger between and outer lip and the inner ones. Still with

gentle pressure, I moved that inner one against its twin. The

motion was less than half a fingerbreadth in its greatest extent.

The friction, never great, decreased as I continued. I added my

index finger to the friction and then it held the greatest

extension while the middle finger crept to the juncture.

There it parted the inner lips easily and stroked between. Here

was honey enough, generated that morning, to ease its passage to

the center. Thence I stroked in all directions, first for small

distances then, gradually, for larger ones.

Caressed at breast and groin, Igrayne was content for a bit to

lie there and react. The reaction was mostly in small motions of

her body and in quickening breath. My strokes lengthened until I

reached the fold where her inner lips met. There I met the

hider, again unhidden. I dipped below to gather more mead and

returned to stroke the hider. I dipped more mead and spread it

around the general neighborhood, dipped more and re-annointed the

hider. Igrayne's breath was coming quick indeed and I kissed

over to the other breast while continuing that pattern below.

Then, on my next trip to gather honey, I stuck my finger deep

into the hive. Igrayne gasped. I returned to the hider, but the

journey was no longer uneventful. The path was moving up and down

faster than my finger was traveling.

Then Igrayne's sweet hand moved to my chest and then downward.

The light was good enough now that I could see a pale shape that

must be Igrayne's face above me. I am sure, however, that she

could see nothing of her hand's progress between our two shapes.

"Milady," I said, "I rode yestereve, and I must ride this day."

Her hand stopped but she made no response. "And I rode twice

last night, as well."

"My lord, I am sorry."

"Art thou? Thou seemed glad enough last night. Almost as glad

as I was." Women apologize first and think next, but she was

thinking now. "Be thou the rider this dawning."

"Pfft! Right gladly, my lord." This was not a giggler, except

when tickled. This lady had a deep chuckle.

We abandoned our caresses for a moment to arrange ourselves. It

is not a position into which one falls by accident. I took a

diagonal which put my feet well to the west of my head, so that

she was facing what light there was. She moved the bolster to

the head and the blanket to the foot. Then she knelt above me and

bent forward. I stole a kiss on each nipple and then gestured

for her to proceed. She took me in her hand and then sat back.

The position had been proof against spending for my life up until

then, and I had a vigorous night behind me. The touch of that

hand, however, made me fear an exception. In any event, there

was stiffness enough for our purposes and more. She parted

herself with one hand, placed me with the other, and then stroked

the head of my member once from the back of her honeyed vale to

the front. Then she returned it to the critical location and

settled herself further.

The tip of my member was within the precincts, but she stopped.

She shifted her weight to one leg and inched the other one back

and then repeated the process. The motions, which clearly had no

erotic intent, swirled my tip within her vestibule. She was

better satisfied with this position and settled back. Her wet

warmth engulfed almost all the head of my member. She slowly

straightened and the rest of the head was within her. As she

lowered herself from there I could feel the head pass through the

entrance strictures and then that band tighten on the flesh --

even more sensitive -- just behind the head. At this point,

she moved slightly from side to side -- apparently to be sure

of the direction. This twist and turn on the closely clasped,

supersensitive, flesh made me gasp. She gave me an absent smile

and lowered herself until she knelt with her knees on either side

of my chest and her glorious haunches seated on my legs and

groin.

Here, with my essence held totally captive within her, I gestured

for her to stop and offered her the hair clasp that I had removed

the night before. That hair streaming around her was a glorious

sight, but what it hid was more glorious yet. Here, with her

very self impaled upon my lance, she straightened completely,

shook her hair back, and caged that entire wild mane at the top

of her neck. There was more light in the room and I could see

her shape as she sat there, hands reaching behind her head. The

hair, whose golden color memory had to supply in that light, hung

in waves down her back to below her waist. Her brow was wide and

high, with the eyes beneath wide apart. Her nose was small and

pert, spoiling the gravity of her expression and clashing with

the wide lines of her mouth. Her chin and jaw were sharp edged

and determined. The throat below was long and elegant, leading

to shoulders broad for a woman. There was nothing masculine

about the torso below, however. Instead of narrowing down from

below her shoulders, her chest widened to support her magnificent

breasts. These jutted forward in her present raised-arm stance.

The curve below defied simile as it defined loveliness. The

round shields at the ends, two inches across, were dark in that

light and looked roughened from the cool air. Their bosses

extended far and moved as pointers whenever Igrayne moved. Her

waist narrowed below her ribs and a small hillock with a well in

its middle was her belly. From the waist, the hips flared out

and her thighs were at a wide enough angle that I could see the

insides of both against my hips. The hair between was not

reached by the still-scant light and looked dark.

Clasp arranged, she bent forward until her nipples touched my

torso and then she began to move back and forth. The tickle of

her nipples against my skin was immensely arousing, and the pull

of her inner strictures along my member doubly so. For the

moment, I could do no more than put my hands on her side and leg

and experience all those sensations. The position, delightful as

it was, was an obvious strain on her and she straightened her

arms and changed her angle of attack. I stole a glance at her

face and noted an inward-turned expression.

By this time I was in a stable state of arousal. I was extremely

sensitive, but I knew, from previous experiences in this state

and this position, that I could go on like this indefinitely.

Such a future was, at that moment, very appealing.

She was holding herself a little above me and moving from side to

side. My member not only was drawn out at both sides of this

motion, but it was rubbed against her ultimate softness at the

middle. Her breasts swayed in time to that motion and I reached

my left hand up to catch one. As I toyed with its furthest

firmness, I slid my right hand up her left thigh. Soon I was

near the scene of the action. Without trying to interfere, I

played with her lowest curls. Then, with my fingers still there,

I ran my thumb down to the juncture of her lower lips. When I

reached there, she gasped and lowered her head. She changed her

stroke to a simple back-and-forth. The feel to my member was

little different from what my own thrusting would have delivered.

I rubbed the front of her furrow, and she straightened, but

continued her motions. I continued rubbing and she looked

worried. I played a bit with her nipple, but the surrounding

flesh was puffy and I didn't know whether to play with it or not.

I switched breasts. She was moving faster, breathing faster and

looked like she was in pain. Then she pressed down on me and

arched her back so that her belly was pushed toward me. The

effect was that of a recurved bow when its string breaks.

She moved forward until I was almost out. Then she pressed

backward twice as hard as before. Her arm muscles were sharply

delineated despite the layer of padding. Her sweet belly was so

taut that it quivered. She clasped my member as if to squeeze it

out. And then the rhythmic clasps on my member pulsed like a

beating heart, but much faster. Her face looked like she were

undergoing torture. She moaned thrice, and then hissed. The

clutch at my member faltered, then stopped. She looked at me,

unseeing. Then she fell down on me so fast that my left arm eased

her down.

I clasped her with my right arm and extricated my other. Then I

held her with both. If one leads a military force and something

totally unwonted (aside from an actual attack) happens, then one

moves off to the top of a hillock, send one small party off for

wood and another off for water, assign half the remainder to

stand guard while the other half does some camp-setting chores.

At that point one can think. Stopping to think while the army is

looking on, leads to doing something stupid in order to do

something. So it is with a woman. Hold her, hug her, pat her,

tell her that she is pretty. Then decide what the situation

calls for. Do not be surprised if the situation calls for more

clipping, more patting, and more compliments.

The top of her head being the only convenient spot, I kissed

that. I clipped her tight, flipped the hair to one side to clear

my space, and petted her from shoulder to haunch with my right

hand while merely holding her tight with my left. Then I

switched hands. She was sweating in a room still rather chill,

so I brought the hair back and arrayed it over her. I kissed the

top of her head again. Meanwhile I was crooning.

"Wondrous wife. Beloved bedmate. Lovely lass. Delightful

darling. Precious and pretty. Luscious loveling. If this trip

only brings this moment, it will be well worth the effort." (We

had spun some story about continuing on from there and rallying

the duchy. I almost said "Well worth the risk," but mention of

risk has spoilt more than one bedding. Women worry so.) "I

remember you as the loveliest lass in the world, and so you are.

But I find that I have forgotten half your beauty, even when I

think that of you."

"Milord, thou didst not. ..."

"No. I did nothing. Thou didst it all. And lie here and rest a

minute and we'll find if thou canst do still more."

I kissed the top of her head again. Then I stroked down to her

haunch with my right hand and clasped that in a friendly, and --

perhaps -- slightly lascivious, manner while she caught her

breath. The sky was somewhat brighter behind us and I could see

her hair in its true color. I strayed a hand though one of her

strands.

"Gloriously golden, her hair is revealed in heaven's rays."

She kissed my chest, and I clipped her closer. She kissed over

to my nipple, and I eased my hold. Then she rose, and I gripped

her waist and haunch and pressed her down on me. She

straightened for a moment and brushed her hair back.

"Ardently angelic," I said. That gave me an idea, after I'd said

it.

She was in more light now. Her hair, being pressed back where it

would obscure nothing, was the color of honey where it was all

together and a cloud of gold at the ends which floated free. Her

expression was slightly distracted, but her face was glorious.

The skin was cream risen in the night, her brows and lashes were

a shade darker than her hair. Her eyes were the deep blue of a

shaded lake. Her lips were the red-brown of the dried blood of

game birds. Her tongue which licked them was a brighter red. If

the skin of her face was cream, the skin of her breasts was the

milk left behind. It was the whitest white with a little blue

seeming to hide beneath it. Her nipples and the flesh around

them were bright pink. Even as I watched, those nipples were

growing out. Her belly was a white as her breasts. The well at

its center was just darkness, as was the mystery between her

thighs.

I slid my hands up the outside of her thighs to the widest part

of her hips. "Broad beamed," I said. I stroked them up her

torso until I was cupping a breast in each hand. "And buxom."

With my hands on her breasts and my thumbs on her nipples, she

began the side to side motion that she had used before. I

stroked one nipple in time with her motions, moved that thumb

off, and then stroked the other nipple. She was slightly lower,

and my member was slightly deeper within her. My eyes were on my

hands and her breasts, but my attention was lower. I finally

looked at her face, and her eyes were on my chest, but her

attention -- like mine -- seemed to be within. I felt her

clutch me within. I looked up again and she smiled at me and the

clutch came again. I thrust with my hips as best I could in that

situation.

"Closely clasping," I intoned in my best imitation of a bard's

voice.

Perhaps in response to my thrusts, she shifted into a direct up

and down movement. She rose until the head of my member was just

inside her outer ring, and then clasped that tight while still

rising. My member, perforce, rose with her. When she reversed

course, she would relax within, and I would begin to slip out.

Before the head was completely out, her downward motion stopped

the exit, and she slowly enveloped me again. I had never in my

life climaxed on my back, but that precedent had not included

such motions. I gathered my wits with some difficulty.

'Delightful darling' was unworthy of this partner. I toyed with

her nipples and pondered. 'Deceived' sprang to mind, and I

suppressed it.

"Delightful dame of dancing depths."

She straightened to a near vertical. Her movements were a

straight up-and-down along my member with no special clutches.

Her face looked worried or tired, which I could well believe. I

raised my legs behind her, but she did not use them for rest.

She moved with simplicity and economy in only one fashion.

"Endearingly eager enchantress."

I dropped my hands from her breasts to her knees. After feeling

those flex for a moment, I ran my hands up the insides of her

legs. She did rest back against my legs, then. She was fully

skewered when she did so and she rested one arm on my chest to

brace herself as she shifted her legs from a kneeling to a

squatting position. Then she raised up once and I could see the

golden gleam of her delta and myself far back piercing her. Then

she slipped almost the entire way down and began moving in

circles just above my groin.

"Faithful and faultless falcon of fervor."

The motion kept the head of my blunt arrow well within her, and

always being rubbed against some part of her entrance. It was

bliss and torment. I kept stroking her inner thigh with my left

hand while my right reached that bright delta. I stroked the

damp curls as she moved around my member. Then I spread my first

two fingers and stroked her parted lips. I returned my left hand

to her right breast and held and stroked it. I watched her face

as I stroked quim or nipple, and repeated what made her attention

turn inward. The earlier glimpse of her golden lower hair

inspired my next line.

"Gold garlands a gladsome glade."

Her attention had truly turned inward. She abandoned all

complexity to return to an up-and-down stroke. I stopped with my

middle finger just outside the meeting point of her lower lips.

Then I stroked inside. She gasped and speeded up. My member had

gone from feeling caressed by her softness to feeling burnt be

her friction.

"Hallowed and hale helpmate of my haft."

Then there was a flutter around said haft. My legs were

widespread and bent, and she reached back with one hand to push

against a knee. This turned her more toward the light and gave

her more leverage for her movements. It may have been a trick of

the dawn, but a blush spread from Igrayne's head to below her

breasts. Her breath was coming in gasps. I stroked both the

nipple and the space where her lower lips met. The flutters on

my shaft became steady graspings.

"Igrayne ignites."

And ignite she did! She threw herself backward against my raised

legs and writhed against my shaft and my rubbing finger. The

clasps on my shaft felt both pulsing and almost constant. Her

face was drawn as if by torture. She looked at the ceiling and

shouted:

"Yes? Oh. ... Ah? Yes! Yes! Oh yes. Oh, oh, oh, YES! Oh.

Oh. ... Oh. Oh."

Still clasping my essence, she threw herself forward and clung to

me. The rest of what she said was muffled in my shoulder and came

out as "mmm" and "hnnn."

I pulled her haunches against my groin and raised myself as well

as I could in that position. Then, as her pulsing grip on my

member became a recurrent clasp and then a flutter around it, I

relaxed. I raised my arms to pat her back and clip her to me.

"Kissed by my lips." I kissed the top of her head again. "Kept

in my care." (Did I mention that we were not obsessed by

spelling?)

I held her and rocked a hairbreadth each way. I waited for her

breath to slow a little. When it did, I tightened my arms a

trifle to let her know that she was held by my desire, not only

from exigency.

"Lovely and loved. ... Lady and lover. ... Lithesome lass. ...

The luxurious, lubricious, luscious, lusty, lover lies safe in

the luminous lull."

That brought a movement that was suspiciously like a suppressed

chuckle.

"So thy critical sense is back?" I asked.

"My lord, I said not one word."

"No. Thou didst not. You are loved, though. And all those

other things. And lovely. And a luscious armful. And a lusty

lover, if not precisely at this moment. Lie thou here, my lady.

That is a command!"

I spread her hair over her back. That didn't work, so I moved it

to my left, and then used my left hand to spread it over my right

arm and her back. That was much better. I kissed her hair, and

she -- after a while -- blew across my chest hairs. Otherwise

her breath was even.

My left hand had been patting down her hair. I moved it to her

rump and cuddled and squeezed there and below. She stirred.

"Art thou rested enough?"

"Fully. And the dawn is well advanced."

"Magnificent muse of merriness."

She chuckled openly at that. But she rose up, fitted me fully in

her, and resumed the up-and-down motions. When I was fully firm,

she shifted over to the rotary motion. After a minute, she went

over to the side-to-side motion. This faltered. I was

concerned.

"My lord, I cannot."

"Well, I can."

I pulled the bolster to my side and tried to turn so that she was

upon it. I came out and we were in a mess for a moment. Then I

was up and kneeling. I placed her on her back athwart the

bolster. I knelt over her for a moment then I placed myself at

her threshold and thrust within.

This was no strife, though strove we both. This was no joust,

though justly did we keep time. This was simple swiving swiftly

done.

Wet was the road by this time, and the path was now an accustomed

one. My member had been teased unmercifully in the previous

position, it felt for every crevice now. I stroked smoothly for

a dozen strokes and then the whole tension and friction of that

morning joined together to overwhelm my head.

Whatever Igrayne's weakness, it was in her legs and not between

them. Fast as I was to kindle, she took the spark first.

Straightly did I stroke and swiftly. Straitly did the sheath

grasp and slickly. Igrayne's whole body stiffened and pressed

her center toward me. My member was grasped closely with a

pulsing clench. I drove into that warm wildness and spent and

spent and spent.

We lay breathing into each other and too tired to move away.

There was a knocking at the door, whether it began then or we

just noticed it then I couldn't tell.

I summoned enough energy to rise. Igrayne started to follow. I

tossed the blanket over her.

"Jordanus! Cover yourself Igrayne." Then "Stop knocking,

Jordanus, you are heard."

I unbarred the door. Igrayne perforce covered herself. Merlyn

was carrying my armor and acted my squire.

I had a secret reason for urging Igrayne to lie still. Well I

know that the first shaft in the butt is what counts in the

archery of Eros. I always hoped, despite that fact, that Arthur

was conceived in the love of the morning rather than that of the

night. I wanted to give those shafts every chance.

Igrayne joined us for breakfast. (With her convoluted coiffure

redone.) We rode out on new palfreys leading the ones we had

ridden in on the evening before. We reached our camp to learn

that the Duke had been killed in combat.

That reversed the situation. Before, the rumor that I was after

a man's wife had stiffened his forces and demoralized mine. Now

it looked like a simple solution to everybody not personally

involved. There are no simple solutions. Igrayne, however, was

spurred by an unbleeding belly.

She also was obliged by fealty. We were not like your modern

corporations which ask loyalty and withhold it. If the Duchy of

Tyntigayll came to me as dowry, every tower came with its old

tenant. If it came by right of conquest, men who had fought for

her honor would lose their lands. She owed them any effort she

could honorably make to avoid that loss.

Igrayne plighted peace, fealty, and her troth in that order, if

not quite at that speed. I told her I had sired Arthur, and the

bargain that was struck. She served me as Queen. She gave wise

counsel always in my interest. She bore my heir and gave him

into the hands of Sir Ector and his wife (and, indirectly, of

Merlyn).

She gave me the joy of her bed and of her body. She never

(except for a brief period after the birth of Arthur) did gainsay

me that access. I had much joy of her for the few years that

remained for me. And she, too, had pleasure in those joinings,

if I know aught of woman.

But never again did I have the warm, wet, wild welcome that she

gave the semblance of that thrice-damned Duke.

The End

Uther Pendragon

1996/07/24

1997/02/18

For a much shorter story involving the wish for conception,

see:

beaut.txt

"Beautiful Everywhere"

The directory to all my stories can be found at:

index.txt