John and Argent by cmsix

Chapter 16

The rest of the trip was uneventful. I just lay in the wagon's bed keeping close to Waaya and giving her pussy a gentle squeeze every now and then.

When we arrived Galto bailed out over the side. He rushed up to some other men standing around and told them to get packing at once. I was a little surprised but not shocked. When he'd finished talking to that group he moved inside the dwelling. Those he had talked to did also.

The rest of us were barely out of the wagon before they all came out, asking when they should begin packing. Apparently Galto had told them of one of the new area's features that had convinced them all at once. I asked him about it and he told me that it was the frozen cave. I knew that I had mentioned that feature the first time we'd told them about it. Maybe I hadn't stressed it enough. Whatever the reason they were all ready to go now.

"I must go to my cave to pack my things and to see if I can get another horse or two tamed enough to at least follow the wagon. We will be further from the things you know when we move there and will need the horses even more. I don't know how easy it will be to catch horses there so I want to bring those I have already caught if I can get them to follow the wagon." I told the group.

They seemed to understand and said that they would spend the time until I came back cleaning and repairing their things and getting them ready for the trip. My mates and I climbed aboard the wagon again and headed home.

When we got there I parked the wagon inside and then tied all the tame horses in the small pen leaving the gate open so that curiosity could catch the wild ones for me. The women met me as I was headed inside.

"John, something has happened to the bed," Gema told me, as I neared them.

"What has happened to it Gema?" I expected her to tell me that it was gone, thinking that Argent had already moved it.

"It has grown, John. I didn't know that it could grow but it has. It is twice as big as it was when we left it," she told me, and her eyes betrayed that it was a very big shock to her.

I guess Argent had decided that I needed a bed big enough for all of us. Well he was right. I hadn't thought about asking him to make it bigger even though I had been lamenting the fact that I had more mates now than could fit into it. I had considered asking him for an additional bed but hadn't thought to do that when he'd come to me in my dream. Making this one larger was even better. It was nice to know that he was so thoughtful.

"Well that is good. I have twice as many mates as I did when we left. I'm glad it will be big enough for all of us," I told her, as if it was nothing special.

"It is very good. I am happy that it grew. I was frightened at first though because I did not know that it could grow," Maia said.

"I am happy too and even I did not know that it could grow," I told them.

"But it is so large now John, how will we move it to the new cave?" Merita asked.

"That I do know. The bed will move itself," I told them.

They looked at me like I was crazy. If I'd been in their place I would have too. I did know some things that they didn't though.

"I know that it is hard to believe but you will see. When we leave we will not take the bed. When we get to the new cave it will be waiting for us there. Do not worry about it," I said.

That seemed to be good enough for them. We all started for the cave then and when I got inside I saw that they were right. The bed looked exactly the same except that it was at least twice as large. They had been right about carrying it too. If we had to do it we would have to disassemble it and it would probably take two or three trips with the wagon to move it. Argent told me later that there was no disassembling to it. The frame was basically one piece and if we'd wanted to move it we'd have had to saw it apart.

They fixed us a meal then and I could see Gema, Merita, Maia and Delia enjoying introducing the others to the delights of canned Ranch Style Beans. They were sorry that they had no eggs left to show the others but they did show them the containers the eggs had been in. Those that had never seen the skillet, Winna, Waaya, Jaada and Dalia got the full story and a demonstration, along with a description of bacon; which we were also out of.

I didn't miss the bacon all that much since I had grown to like the taste of the fried bison strips almost as much as bacon. I knew that I would still want bacon if I could get some though.

When the cooking was done and eaten and the mess cleaned up, I was ready for the spectacle of getting undressed for bed. As the women started peeling off tunics and trousers I couldn't even undress because I was afraid I would miss something or someone. They were all different but the mothers and daughters were similar.

I had seen Geera and Dieta before but they were still lovely. Dalia was just a slightly larger version of Delia and she was now my queen of the biggest titties. Waaya and Winna were both beautiful in their own right. They were mature women and their bodies showed it. They were lovely though and while they didn't have the very biggest tits they both had a nice pair. Jaada was a little gem and her redheaded coloration was divine, especially the dusting of light freckles that I now knew covered her completely. Her breasts were not the largest but they were ample and her nipples and areolae were the pinkest by a good margin. I really didn't know where to look because they all looked so good.

"Geera, Dieta, Waaya, Winna and Jaada you are my mates now because of unfortunate acts by some. I want to tell you that I will be proud to have you as mates if you will have me. I will also tell you that if you don't want to be my mate I will understand and you may do as you please and live where you like. I would like for you to stay with me though. Will you?" I asked them, and looked at each one for an answer.

They each told me that they wanted to be my mate. I was glad and hadn't doubted it but I did want to give them a chance to go if they wanted.

"Dalia, you are not my mate and I have done nothing to allow me to claim you. I would like for you to be my mate also. You do not have to if you don't want to though. I will still provide for you and care for you if you do not want to mate me."

"John, I will be happy to be one of your mates. You did not have to ask me and still I would not have denied you. It will be an honor for me to be mated to you. From what I see it will probably be a pleasure too," she grinned, and looked right at my dick then.

The others all laughed and Gema, Merita, Maia, and Delia told her that she was right. Dieta and Geera had a smirk on their faces but didn't admit that they also knew. All of the others rushed around Dalia to welcome her into the fold. There was a lot of kissing and hugging and I even saw quite a few caresses. Dicky perked up even more at this.

It wasn't going to be a fucking night tonight though. I wasn't too tired to fuck but I didn't intend to get an all nighter started. Dicky cursed me but I was going to make him wait a night or maybe even two until we were further along with the moving. I was going to need some strength to get through it. I did promise him that we could fuck day and night as soon as we got moved into our new cave.

I was up and out before my mates could even get breakfast started the next morning. I went directly to the small pen and closed the gate. All the horses were in the pen except for a couple of this year's foals and I would be running all the younger ones out anyway. I took first Ben then Sally then Jane and lastly Dolly out of the gate and turned them out in the large pen. This left me with ten grown horses, seven of the foals and all the yearlings in the capture pen. Quite a crowd. I was dreading the job it would be to separate the yearlings and foals and get them out into the large pen.

Delia came out then and asked what I was up to.

"I'm just trying to keep all the mature horses in this small pen for now and get the yearlings and foals out into the larger pen. Then I will try to rope the others one at a time to begin their training," I told her.

"Do you want to come in and eat something now? After that I will come back out and try to help you," Delia said.

"That sounds like a plan to me," I said, and headed her way.

After eating Delia, Maia, and I headed out to the horses again. Delia worked the gate and after watching a while to see how I did it, Maia got into the pen with me to help with the sorting. It didn't take nearly as long as I'd feared it would.

When we had only grown horses in the pen I got my lariat and with Maia's help separated out my next choice. She was the largest of the remaining mares. I got a loop over her head on the first try and was soon winding her up around the snubbing post.

"John, why do you make her go around and around the post?" Delia asked.

"As she goes around the rope winds around the post and gets shorter. Soon she will be up near the post and I don't have to try to pull her to it," I told them.

As always the mare noticed what had happened only after the rope was too short for her to do anything about it. She began to fight it and closed off her breath. When she sagged to the ground I had the halter on her in a flash and when she got back up I snapped the tied off lead rope's hook into the halter's main ring. I untangled her from the lariat then and walked off letting her begin her own lesson about being tied up.

I had never envisioned needing an assembly line approach to horse training here so I had only put one snubbing post in the pen. Delia and Maia went with me and I cut and trimmed three more. It took a couple of hours to get them set in the pen and I spent a lot of time packing the loose dirt back into the holes to get them as tight as possible. I didn't want any horse to be able to pull one out.

With the new post it was only about and hour and a half more until I had four horses learning about being tied. I was tired by now and I think that Delia and Maia were a little tired too. I was also hot and sweaty. Being in need of a little inspiration also, I suggested to Delia and Maia that we might want to take a dip in the river to wash off a little. They thought it was a grand idea and Maia ran to the cave to ask if any of the others wanted to join us.

They all did. It was a lot more inspiration than I needed but I wasn't complaining. Skinny-dipping with ten great looking women is a hell of a lot of fun, even if you don't intend to fuck any of them for another day or two. I could look over their assets a lot better in the light of day and the wiggling and jiggling as they played in the water was a treat I wanted to experience often. Even if I did get a bathtub I still intended to do a little skinny-dipping with them when I could arrange it.

When we'd had enough we sat on the bank in the sun to dry off. Dicky had shrunk in the cold water but as he warmed up he stood. Soon all my mates were giggling about it and in mock seriousness I asked them not to get him angry. They laughed at my tone and joke. When we were dry we dressed and returned to the cave.

They had done a good job packing this morning while Delia, Maia, and I had been wrangling the horses. They had left several things out though, some because they weren't sure where to put them or how to handle them and some because they wanted to know what they were.

I took the time to explain about the fire rocks to those that hadn't seen them before and then I did the same with the lighters. The newbies were flabbergasted of course. They had already packed the knives so I dug out a drop point hunter and sheath for each of the women that didn't have one already.

Most of the food was already packed and I assumed that the girls that knew what was what had explained to the others as they packed. I told them about the other food that they hadn't packed yet and then told them about the coffee. I explained that it was for making a hot drink. They wanted to try it, but I put them off until tomorrow morning. I knew that if they got their first cup of coffee this afternoon they would have hell getting to sleep tonight.

My next amazing revelation was unexpected by me. They hadn't loaded the fifty-pound container of salt that I had. I hadn't really missed salt and it just hadn't been opened yet. They were curious about it so I opened it and showed them.

"How did you get so much salt John?" Geera was the first to ask.

"I have my ways, why do you ask?"

"I have never seen so much salt in my life. I have only ever seen about this much at one time," Dieta told me and held her hands out cupped together to show how much she meant.

"It is very precious and hard to get." Dalia added.

"Well as you can see we have plenty for now and I'm sure that I can get more if we need it," I said.

They didn't have a clue what sugar was either and when I had them all try a taste they were amazed again.

"It is so sweet, what is it?" Winna asked for them.

"It is called sugar and it is used for cooking and for sweetening things. Some people like to put it in their coffee. I will let you try it tomorrow. I don't put it in my coffee but some of you might like it."

That was about it for show and tell tonight. We didn't finish loading the wagon though. We just got ready for and then into bed.

I ended up with Dieta behind me and Dalia to snuggle up behind. I put an arm over Dalia and she wiggled back to press against me. My dick rose as I played with her wonderfully round and firm titties and it was soon pressing into her ass. She opened her legs a little and reached between them to grasp it and put it in place to lie between her thighs up near her pussy, then she lowered her leg to hold it along her warm cuntlips. It felt exquisite and I knew that I'd done the right thing by formally asking her to also be one of my mates. Knowing that she would deny me nothing was great, but feeling that she would offer herself freely to me was even better.

I was up early again the next morning. I dressed and returned to the horses. I hadn't been there long enough to decide which mare to start with before Delia and Maia joined me. I walked up to each mare and decided to start with the one that shied the least as I approached. I put a lead rope on her halter and then tried to lead her. She didn't want to budge. I explained to Delia and Maia how Merita had helped me last time and Maia gave it a try. It took about thirty minutes to have the mare following when I walked off and stopping when I did. She didn't seem to have any fight left in her so I took a chance and tied her to the fence near the canyon wall.

I got another one then and this time Delia helped me. This one took longer but we had her leading and stopping in a little under an hour. I tied her off to the fence too. Winna came out and asked if we didn't want to take a break and eat now and we decided to.

I had forgotten about the coffee I'd promised to make for them but remembered when I saw its container as I came inside. We ate first and then I dug out the pot and opened the coffee. I let them all smell it and of course it smelled wonderful. Even they thought so. I brewed a pot and gave them all about half a cup. To a woman they turned up their noses at what they considered the foul tasting brew.

"It takes some getting used to," I told them.

"But why would you want to get used to something that taste bad," Jaada asked.

"I'm not sure exactly. I do know that I like it now. Why don't you all drink at least what you have and tell me if you don't notice something in a little while?" I asked them

They all agreed and drank their share. Nearly twenty minutes later Jaada spoke up again.

"I feel, different. Is this what the coffee does? I feel like I want to get up and do something," She said.

"That is what the coffee does. If you drink it at night you will have a harder time going to sleep. If you drink it when you first get up in the morning you will wake up faster and want to get moving. The more you drink the more awake you will get. If you drink too much you might get nervous or get an upset stomach."

"It wasn't so bad when I got to the last of it. I might like to try it again." Merita said, and the others mostly agreed.

"It will probably never come up, but if you have to go somewhere on a horse that is very tired, you can often get them to go further and faster for a while by giving them about a half gallon of coffee. You must let it cool before you give it to them though and it will usually cause them to work themselves to death," I told them.

"Why would you want to do it then," Waaya asked.

"You would only do it if getting where you needed to was more important than keeping the horse alive. It could also not be very much farther since the horse would probably not last more than another hour or so. I doubt that it will ever come up but I wanted you to know just in case it did."

"We don't even know how to ride the horses yet," Winna added.

"I know, but you will know how soon. I will have a horse for each of you before long. You might never even want to ride one but they can help in other ways too, by carrying things for you."

With that Delia, Maia and I went back out to the horses. The next one I tried did even better than the first had. I could tell that it seemed to want to learn what I was trying to teach it. The last one of this group though, the first one I had roped yesterday, definitely didn't want to learn shit. It would stand tied peacefully by now but it just wouldn't cooperate with being led. With Delia and Maia helping we did get it over to the fence by the gate to tie it so I could use all the snubbing posts for the next bunch.

I estimated that it was about two PM when I had the last of four more mares tied to the snubbing posts. We went in and got a little something for lunch and then rested for another hour.

I was a little pissed off at the mare that wouldn't lead and as I was thinking about it the answer came to me. The wagon was already loaded except for the bedding that was on the bed and some food and utensils that we would need for cooking until we left. I went out and got Sally and Jane and hitched them up. All the girls came out to watch since I told them that it might be funny.

Maia and Delia opened the gates for me and made sure that none of the horses switched pens while I was doing this. I drove the wagon into the large pen and then into the small one then turned it around and headed back out the small pen's gate. I stopped it with its rear end just inside the gate then got down and moved the balking mare, Bonehead, and tied her to the back of the wagon.

When I got back on the wagon and signaled Sally and Jane to move out they did. Bonehead planted her feet and tried not to move. No chance of that. Sally and Jane had already learned to pull the wagon even when it was hard.

When Bonehead put a strain on the lead rope Sally and Jane just leaned into the harness and pulled. Bonehead made several attempts to stop the progress and she nearly fell over forward a time or two, but Sally and Jane knew that it was their job to keep the wagon going. Bonehead was going to learn to lead or going to break a leg, by now I didn't really care which.

Maia closed the gate and I asked Delia to open the large pen's gate. When she had it open I had Sally and Jane pull the wagon out and I headed them up river. I drove them up about two miles then turned around and came back into first the large and then the small pen. When I untied Bonehead's rope and tried to lead her off she didn't give me a bit of trouble. She followed when I walked and stopped when I stopped. I tied her back to the fence then and took the wagon back into the cave, unhitched the team, and turned them loose again. As I let them go I thanked Sally and Jane for their help but they didn't seem to notice.

It was nearing sunset now so we all went to the cave, had a little meal and then called it a night.

It was up and at 'em early again the next morning. I noticed that Delia and Maia were up and dressed with me this morning and we went out together. I gave all the horses that had learned to lead a stroll around the pen and then tied them back to the fence to start on the others. When I had two of them following me with no trouble I tied them to the fence to catch the last two for their ordeal with the post.

I'd originally planned on leaving today but there was no real hurry and I wanted to go ahead and get a handle on the horses I'd already captured. Once I had them to the halter stage the rest could be done pretty much anytime. I could have waited and caught more at the new place but I had these caught already and there was no sense turning them out just to hurry off and then need to catch more horses when I got where I was going.

After I had all but the last two trained to follow on the lead rope I decided to give those two a try. They had only been standing tied for a few hours but they had settled down and there was still enough daylight left to give them a whirl. They gave me a little extra trouble but neither was as troublesome as Bonehead had been. We would be able to leave in the morning after all.

When we'd settled in for the night I took a little time to go over my stay in this cave in my head. This would probably be the last time I slept in it. I was going to have to make at least one more trip to get my fuel cell. It wasn't mandatory at first and there just hadn't been room for it.

The next morning Delia, Maia and I were out with the horses first thing again. We each took one and led them down to the stream for a drink. I had to explain to Maia and Delia that we couldn't let them have all they wanted at first.

The foals had been a riot as we led the mares out. They had been without nursing for nearly three days and they were scrambling around looking for some titty right away. We left the small pen's gate open and I guess they all found their mother sooner or later. When all the horses were watered we went in for breakfast.

After eating I got Sally and Jane, hitched them to the wagon and had them pull it outside. I wasn't sure how easy it was going to be to get ten marginally halter broken mares to let the wagon lead them. Though there was nothing a horse could do by itself to halt the wagon with Sally and Jane pulling it, if several cut up together, I might have a mess on my hands.

We started in stages. I tied the four most cooperative mares to the back of the wagon. That took up all the room available. I let Sally and Jane pull us in a big circle and these four gave no trouble. For my next trick I tied a long lead rope from another mare to the halter of one of those tied to the wagon. When I had Sally and Jane pull off I saw that it was going to work. Lastly I found a spot to tie one horse on each side just behind the seat. I would ride Ben and lead Dolly on a rope tied to his saddle.

I closed the cave's doors and fastened them shut. Everyone but me found a place to sit in the wagon, I mounted Ben and we left. There was some kicking and squealing from the crowd of mares for about the first mile but they settled down after that. I had left all the gates open and while I wasn't surprised to see the foals following I was glad to see that all the yearlings were coming too. We would have been quite a sight if there'd been anyone to watch.

When we got to the camp everyone there was glad to see us and anxious to be on their way. I put Dolly and Ben back into the travois service. There wasn't nearly enough room for everything on this trip so I asked the others to just take what they needed for one night this time and told them we would be coming right back tomorrow and everyday until we had everything moved. They all seemed to understand and we were leaving within an hour. Two of the unmated men stayed behind to watch over things.

As we were traveling up the new river I realized that we weren't traveling as fast as usual. It was the horses that were tied to the wagon that were slowing us down a little. The others from the camp had to slow their pace to wait for us actually. I halted and took time to explain the trouble and suggested that they go on ahead so they could at least get a look around. Galto took the lead and they left us.

When we finally rolled into our new camp it was just coming sunset. Sending the others ahead had been a smart move. There was already a meal cooked and there were several fires around for light. We all went to eat without unloading one thing.

After the meal I drove the wagon into the first cave we'd come to. I intended to keep the horses in it until I had a fence across the canyon. Jonoco and Danlo were going to watch the entrance and when I had all the horses inside I let them off their leads and drove the wagon back out. I'd been surprised again when the foals and yearlings followed us in without a problem.

I drove the wagon into the big cave then while Delia led Dolly into it and Maia led Ben. Everyone unpacked their things then and when they'd finished I took the wagon into my cave, turned it heading out an unhitched the team. I saw that Argent had been true to his word and that our new bed was in place. I left the girls to the unpacking as I took Sally, Jane, Ben and Dolly to the horse cave.

When I got back to my new cave I found another surprise. Argent had moved the fuel cell while he was at it. I guess he needed it to power my cave's lighting.

The lighting was fantastic, mainly because it wasn't noticeable. There were new switches on the bed's headboard that controlled it and I found that a few of the lights stayed on at all times, making it possible to walk around at night without being blind but yet low enough so other could sleep with no trouble. All the other lights could be controlled from the bed and I found another panel near the entrance that contained the same functions.

The bed was set up in a little indentation that I hadn't noticed before. It looked like it had been made especially for it since they fit together perfectly. Hell it might have been. I had no idea what the Aliens were capable of but I figured if they'd wanted to do this they could have easily. I didn't know how they could do it, I just thought they could if they wanted to.

The girls hadn't noticed anything unusual and were taking the lighting for granted until I pointed it out to them and showed them how to control it. It was so foreign to them that they didn't even comment but just accepted it. I guess discovering that your bed could grow to accommodate more occupants and that it could move itself made the lights seem a little mundane.

When we went to bed I found myself thinking of our upcoming bathroom of all things. It reminded me that I needed to get to work on the design but I still had moving to take care of. We had all our things here now but none of the others did. It would be another start early and work late day tomorrow.