John and Argent by cmsix

Chapter 21

Shelalliea had been very surprised by everything she had seen tonight. She had stayed pretty close to me and been very quiet. I hoped that she wasn't changing her mind now. I walked over to the bed and began removing my clothes. She got another surprise when she saw my mail shirt.

"What kind of skin is that John?" She asked, after a few seconds.

"It is not a skin Shelalliea, it is called mail. Come and feel it."

She was tentative but she came and took the bottom of it in one hand. She ran her other hand across my chest then she bent closer to get a better look.

"It is made of tiny circles that are put together," she said.

"It is another one of my secrets. This mail is why the spear in my back did not hurt me. If he had sent his spear into my leg, or the back of my head it might have been a different matter."

"But no man would think to do that unless they knew about the shirt John. I see why it must always be a secret now. I will never tell it," she promised.

I finished undressing then and Shelalliea watched. When I dropped my pants she took a good look at dicky and I saw her smile. Dicky must have seen it too since he began to grow hard.

"I knew that Dalia would not have sent you for me unless she knew that you were a big man in all ways. I will have to thank her more for thinking of me," she said and smiled again.

All the others were naked now except her and as she raised her tunic over her head she had our attention. She was spectacular. Her titties were almost exactly the size of Dalia's but her nipples were even larger. She and Dalia were a lot alike in fact. They were the same height and probably the same weight.

Dalia might appear a little more muscular and Shelalliea seemed slightly more smoothly curvaceous. Her bush was the same blonde as her hair and her complexion was a little darker than Dalia's alabaster skin tone. When she was naked she came to me for a kiss and wrapped her arms around me.

The rest of my mates crowded around, stroking and caressing, and then moving us toward the bed. Shelalliea got in first and I was right behind her. She lay on her back and spread her beautiful legs, displaying her wet and engorged labia.

"Come to me now, John ,and make me one of your women. I have been ready all day and I need you now," she told me.

I was happy to. I got between her thighs and lay down on her, capturing one of her big plump nipples to suck and nibble on. She took in a breath as I chewed lightly on her nipple and she reached down to place my dick in her. I couldn't wait any longer to push it up her steaming pussy.

She was another tight one and her pussy began chewing my dick as I slid it in to the bottom. Her legs went around me as did her arms and she squeezed me to her and begged in my ear.

"Do it for me now, John. I am yours and you must show me you like my body. Use it to please yourself. Use me hard," she moaned.

That turned me on even more and I began fucking harder. Her great ass was with me for every stroke and she bounced it back up at me with enthusiasm. I knew I was banging her hard, like I had Dalia, and I could tell she loved it. She put her hands to my ass then and dug her fingers into it pulling me to her even tighter.

I wasn't the only one working on Shelalliea either. I could see that Dieta was kissing her wildly now and when I moved my mouth to suck her other nipple I had to let Dalia release it before I could latch on. Merita claimed the one that I'd just released and I think that Waaya or Winna or maybe both were squeezing and pinching her ass cheeks.

I knew that it was going to be quick for me but I also knew that Shelalliea had already had a small cum and it looked like she was building on that one rapidly. She must have been because she froze then and trembled. I slammed it to her harder as she went off and I was cumming myself as she began to go limp. I pumped her hard until I was done and then lay down on her and kissed her mouth, having to root Dieta out of the way with my head to get a taste.

"It was all true John, you are my dream come true. It is just as I dreamed it last night and I am so happy now," she was leaking tears from her eyes as she told me.

"I am glad that you are happy Shelalliea. I am very happy too. I was already very happy but I am happier now," I told her.

Dalia rolled me off her then and sucked my dick into her hot mouth while Geera devoured what I had deposited in Shelalliea. Maia had a mouthful of nipple and Jaada had claimed the other one while Dieta had resumed kissing her. Dalia was doing a good job on my dick and it would probably be rising again shortly. Waaya was sucking on my nipples and it made my balls tingle. Winna was closest to me, looking for a place to join the fun. I pulled and guided her to straddle my mouth and when I pushed my tongue up into her she screamed out my name. She didn't last three minutes before she was comming and then sank off me. Gema took her seat while Merita helped Winna lie down and Gema didn't last much longer.

Shelalliea moaned out again from Geera's work on her pussy and Gema was nearly gone when Dalia impaled herself on me and pulled Gema to her for some lip work. Mouth to mouth they twisted each other's nipples for a minute or two and then Gema was done for and soon replaced by Waaya. Waaya had a more musky smell and taste than most of the others and it was wonderful. I sucked and licked her with abandon while Dalia, sensing that it was her turn to pound on me, banged herself senseless on my dick.

I didn't go off in Dalia but Dieta was ready to board as Dalia settled to the bed. As always Dieta was too hot already to last long and it seemed that she didn't last twenty strokes before she was done too. Waaya was gone then too and as Maia saw her chance at my dick, her sister Merita took a seat on my face. Maia was just too tight to slide on all the way on the first stroke and as she worked her way down my dick I tried to drive Merita as wild as Maia seemed intent on driving me.

The sisters were kissing now and mauling each other's breasts. When Maia finally had all of me up her I pulled my tongue from Merita's sweet pussy and pressed it up her tangy asshole. She just exploded then and I reached up and pushed a finger up her pussy and put that hand's thumb on her clit for a minor rubbing. Merita went into overload and then fainted. She would have fallen if Jaada hadn't caught her. When Jaada had Merita stretched out on the bed she seemed about to saddle up on my lips but Maia went off then and she had to help her too.

Delia took the beard ride then and she was burning up too. I think I had seen her sucking on Shelalliea's nipples while Geera had just kept munching on her rug. My tongue up her ass wasn't a surprise to Delia but she did seem to love it, especially after my finger found its way up her pussy. Jaada slid down my dick slide and knocked herself out on it. She sent me over the top again too just as my finger, thumb, and tongue worked their magic on Delia.

Waaya and Winna were back with us now and as Winna help Jaada find a resting place Waaya sucked one of my balls into her mouth. Winna was back and sucking on my dick before it could even go down and as Waaya traded for the other ball Winna sealed her lips around my shaft and sucked hard. The blood rushed back into my dick.

I tried to pull Winna onto my dick in a little bit but she motioned me toward Geera's up thrust ass. I got behind Geera then and put my dick to her dripping lips. Shelalliea saw what was going on and when Geera felt my dick nosing around her pussy she took her mouth off the pussy she was licking.

"Will you mount me like a stallion, John. Don't do it, please don't fuck me like a mare," Geera wailed.

"You know that you want it Geera, so stop your crying and get back to your licking," Shelalliea told her, and then pulled Geera's face back to her pussy using two hands full of Geera's hair.

When I poked it all the way up Geera from behind she tensed up and then moaned loudly into Shelalliea's pussy. Dieta reached over and slapped one of Geera's wobbling ass cheeks soundly.

"I don't know why she cries so about it. She has been shaking for her fuck," Dieta said, reaching under Geera to pinch one of her nipples sharply.

Geera pulled her head up and wailed again.

"But he fucked me outside in the daylight and then he let one of the wolves lick first my pussy and then my other hole. He even said that if the wolf caught me naked it might try to mount me too, and then that night when I was sore you all held me down and let him fuck me again, now he is fucking me as if I were his mare," Geera moaned.

"You are bragging now Geera and you are making the rest of us jealous," Merita told her.

"Yes, I am bragging and I loved every second of it. Fuck me harder stallion. Make me cry and shake from your dick. Fuck me harder," Geera cried, screaming now.

That was the end of her little speech though because she went off, clamping down on my dick with her pussy and shaking her ass until I thought she would pull it out at the root. I grabbed her hips and pulled her back to me hard and blew off in her then too.

As I slumped down over Geera's back, panting, I thought that I should probably take them into the bathroom in a minute or two and show them exactly what a bidet was for, but I knew I didn't have the strength. Just before I slid off Geera to settle down on the mattress I happened to glance toward the entrance to Danlo's new cave. I saw Shallea and Shaala staring at us all with eyes as big as saucers. I caught their eye and as their mouths gaped open I gave them a big wink and then lay down.

Gema and Merita were licking my dick and balls clean almost before I could get still. In the rest of the bed I could hear women licking other women's cunts and I saw Shelalliea roll Geera over to return the favor of cleaning my come out of her pussy. I was done for a while so I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

I know I slept soundly for a long while but Argent did pop into a dream during the night.

"I don't mean to bother you, John, but I have to know how the new caves and the bathing facilities were received," he said.

"Everything is good. It will all be fine. Geera, one of my women, told me that I should show it all to Georgo in the morning and then tell him about the earthquake. She said that it was his business to explain things and that since he was getting such a nice cave, bed, and bath of his own we could let him explain them."

"She was brilliant then. I can't think of anything that could be better unless he thinks he should hold a ceremony about it," Argent said.

"I will ask him to, he should be able to do a small ceremony about an earthquake without breaking a sweat. I think that we should go ahead and show him the wagon tomorrow too now."

"It will all be there when you wake up, show him and please do tell him you think a ceremony is needed," Argent said.

"I'm going to. I think that it's time that we had a little shindig anyway."

"Yes. A shindig is in order," Argent said and then left me.

As I drifted out of the dream I wondered what in the hell Argent knew about a shindig. I decided he didn't know shit. I was sound asleep after that and didn't wake or dream again until morning.

I felt the bed move a little and saw Dalia's lovely naked ass as she got up. I managed to get in a little pinch just as she pulled on her clothes and went to build a fire so she could get breakfast started. She was back in only seconds shaking my shoulder.

"John you must come and see. Something else is here and I don't know what it is," she told me.

I crawled over mates licking or kissing a nipple here and there until I was able to get off the bed. Dalia helped me with my mail and tried to help with the rest of my clothes. She was nervous.

"Dalia, don't worry. You are making yourself nervous for nothing. If I have to lay you down to calm you everyone will want to get started again and you know that we are going to have a big day," I said, teasing her, then took her into my arms to kiss her and feel around on her ass a little.

She led me over to the food storage area they had set up and showed me what had appeared in the night. I guess Argent did know something about a shindig after all. There were six big titanium barrels made like giant soup or stew pots with two handles each near their tops. They were each about the size of a fifty-five gallon oil drum.

Each one contained a large beer keg and was packed with ice. Each keg had a tall spigot on top and a pump plunger installed. Near them were two Alien versions of folding tables, thirty inches wide and at least twelve feet long. They were covered with large glass beer mugs.

I went to the nearest table and picked up a mug, finding out at once that they weren't actually glass but were made of thick transparent plastic and only looked like glass. I took it to the nearest keg and drew a half mug of the beer. It was good and cold already and I could have sworn it was Lone Star.

"What is that John?" Dalia asked, dying to know.

I held the mug to her lips and she took a sip. She twisted up her mouth for a second and then her little light bulb came on.

"It is some type of bruga isn't it?" Dalia asked.

"It is called beer. This is good for us. When the ground is finished shaking and Georgo has told his tale we will ask him to have a ceremony for the new caves and the bathrooms."

"But you must not drink too much bruga John," Dalia told me.

"Do you think that Dieta and Geera will stray if I do?" I asked.

"They would never. But there are new men in camp and they may not know which of us is your mate. They could make a mistake that would make you want to kill them. Later after some weeks when everyone knows who is who it would make no difference but you should not drink much bruga today," Dalia told me, and I could tell that she was serious.

"I rarely drink beer Dalia, and never drink enough for others to notice. Do not worry; I would have understood if a man made a mistake. I know that you will all set them straight. I don't care how much bruga a man drinks though, if he tries to force a woman he will not see another day. I do not put up with that. I wouldn't even if I were not the leader," I said.

"If that becomes known you may soon have a camp full of women," Dalia told me, and laughed.

"I'm sure I could get around to welcoming them all sooner or later," I said, and laughed my self; she joined me after a second.

"I am sure that you could welcome them all sooner, and often," she said.

She pointed out some more new things then and I recognized the egg containers at once and then spied the bacon. I also saw that there were three new larger skillets. The strangest thing was three new containers of salt, each holding one hundred pounds. What in the hell did Argent think that I needed with three hundred more pounds of salt? I guess he thought it would go more quickly now that we were sharing it with the others.

My mates had started using it for cooking now and had begun giving some to the other women too, since I had made it plain that I wasn't saving it for trading, but we still had more than forty of the original fifty pounds left.

The only other things that came were several insulated coffee mugs with tops, a lot more coffee and a large party perc coffee maker. It was on a little table of its own with the new coffee mugs, I even saw that it had come with a big sugar bowl and a giant plastic jar of powdered creamer. There was also a convienient receptacle to plug it into.

I guess Argent was trying to spread the coffee addiction to all of us. It only took a few minutes to show Dalia how to make coffee in it. She asked where the heat for cooking the coffee came from, I showed her the cord and told her it came through the wire. I was sure that she cataloged it in her mind as magic then since she asked no more questions about it.

Dalia started on breakfast and I went in to try a ride on one of the new commodes. It worked as expected and it was a welcome change to have toilet paper again. I stripped off and took my first shower in a long while and enjoyed shampooing my hair again. I was a little let down after I dried off and noticed that I couldn't smell pussy in my beard anymore. I would just have to get another dose.

After I dried and brushed my hair I decided to look and see if I had any scissors with my new booty. I knew that I had forgotten to ask for any but was hoping that they might have slipped some in anyway.

Someone up there was paying attention to us now. A little looking in the drawers showed me a set of clippers that would be just right for trimming my beard; I also found that there were several hand held hair dryers. I debated with myself over showing the women what they were for.

I hadn't paid any attention before but when I found the clippers I looked back to the vanity top and there were plenty of receptacles to plug them into. I flicked them on and went to work on my beard. I left it but trimmed it fairly close.

When I'd finished I went back to Dalia. I could have found her by just smelling my way toward the frying bacon. I got one of the new insulated coffee mugs, filled it with coffee and went over to fill a plate. I saw that Geera was up too and she was cooking the eggs. She had fried some and scrambled some and I could see that Dalia was watching her closely.

"Is any of that ready for me yet?" I asked, hoping.

They both turned to tell me yes I think but they didn't make a sound at first. They just stared at my face as if I were someone they didn't recognize.

"What has happened to you John? Where has your beard gone? Are you sick, did it fall out?" Dalia asked because Geera was still too shocked to speak.

"I just trimmed it shorter. I found some clippers in the new bathroom."

"What are clippers?" Geera asked, as she came to me and ran a hand along my close-cropped jaw.

"Did it hurt?" Dalia, who was now also taking tactile stock of the situation, asked.

"It didn't hurt and clippers are for cutting hair. I know that you all must trim your hair somehow. What do you use?"

"We can use small sticks with the ends heated to embers or we can use very sharp flint blades when they are first knapped. The sticks make our hair smell bad for days though and the blades usually make a stinging pull after a while," Dalia told me.

"You might not want to use the clippers either but there are some scissors that I think you can learn to use."

"What are scissors?" Geera wanted to know.

"I will show you later. I am hungry now."

"It is ready. Where is your plate?" Geera said.

I gave it to her and she returned it piled high. I had just started shoveling it in when Georgo came into the cave.

"Welcome Georgo. We have a surprise for your breakfast and then we will have surprises for you all day long," I told him.

"I could smell the breakfast nearly as soon as I walked out of the other cave. My mouth is watering," he said.

Dalia handed him one of the new mugs filled with coffee and Geera gave him a big serving of bacon and eggs. He didn't waste any time getting some of it into his mouth either.

"Did you kill something on the way back while I was sleeping John?" he asked, between mouths full.

"No. This is a gift from a friend that is not here."

"It sounds as if I will never see him or know much of him," he said, in a laughing manner.

"I haven't seen him since I came here, except in my dreams, and I do not know much of him myself. You will see more of his work today though."

We finished eating without much more talking and after Georgo thanked Dalia and Geera we refilled our coffee mugs and I led Georgo over toward his new cave.

He noticed the new opening but didn't say anything. He couldn't hold his tongue after we got into the cave and I told him it was for him. His shiny new buckboard gleamed for his attention as I turned up the lights but he only looked it over quickly since I called him back to see his bed, his bathroom, and then his little spirit chamber. He couldn't think of anything to say. He finally asked how we would get the buckboard out since it was wider than the entrance.

"The earth will shake in a few hours and a passage out into the canyon will open," I said.

I might as well have hit him over the head with a club. He just looked at me with his mouth opening and then closing. I had him sit down on his bed.

"Have I already gone to the spirit world John?" He asked me, seriously.

"No you haven't. But you must gather your thoughts. There is more that I must show you and you must be ready with an explanation after the earth shakes, since everyone will know that something has happened then."

This got Georgo's attention and I was amazed as he changed into his professional persona. He stood up and said that he was ready to see everything. We went back into my cave and I showed him my bathroom and explained about the things in it and told him about the others that would be appearing after the quake. He took everything in stride now and didn't seem the least bit rattled. I showed him the beer last and after he tasted it he smiled.

"We need not worry now John. No matter what I tell them, when they start drinking this bruga they will understand all they need to know. This is the best that I have ever tasted and I am sure they will drink it until they cannot stand up by themselves. It will cover all the men's concerns at least and probably most of the women's also," he said.

Georgo returned to his new cave then, telling me that he must meditate over what he would say. I didn't envy him his job. He did tell me that he had been in an earthquake before and had asked again if I were sure that no one would be hurt.

I told him that I had been assured that no one would be. He said that he thought he and I should be outside when it came and that he thought that my women should be in my cave and come screaming out of it when the shaking started. He believed that they would have an easier time looking surprised that way. He was better at this than I had thought he would be.

Georgo and I were walking toward the horse cave when the shaking started. My mates knew when it would come and were the first to scream. They were not the last. I'll swear that all the caves were empty within fifteen seconds. The only ones that even got a scratch were two of the oldest boys that fell down after they ran into each other.

I noted that Jonoco, Danlo, and Nadlo ran back into the horse cave to chase out all the horses that weren't already outside grazing. I was impressed with their bravery and dedication but decided to ask them not to do that anymore. If they did it during a real quake they might be hurt or killed. I didn't want to lose a horse but there were plenty more that could be caught.

Everyone gathered around Georgo and I then. All of the men were upset and the women were more so. Most of the women were crying now, including all of my mates. They rushed to me when they saw me. All in all they were doing an excellent job of acting frightened.

"Please, everyone try to calm down. Look around and see if everyone you know is here. We need to know if we must look for those who may be hurt," I told them.

Giving them noses to count took their minds off their worries for a minute. They all finally agreed that everyone was here.

"If everyone is all right then please stay here. Georgo and I will examine the caves to see if they are much damaged or if they look like they will fall in," I told them.

Georgo and I started with the horse cave, which was now closest. We made a show of looking through every cave saving Georgo's new one for last. When we came back from his cave he started his spiel.

"We have been given a powerful sign from the spirits. They are happy that you have moved here and they have let me know that they want me to spend much more time with you. They have made a cave for me to stay in with you and have even made a spirit chamber to talk to them from," he told them, laying it on thick.

"They have also made gifts for all of you with this shaking. I have never seen such gifts but they have let me know what they are for. They are wonderful, as you will see. But we must have a ceremony to let them know that we appreciate these gifts. Go now and prepare a feast for tonight. We must celebrate to honor the spirits. Come, I will show you the gifts in the main cave first," Georgo said, and led them away.

What a relief for me. I owed Geera big time for thinking of letting Georgo explain things and I owed Georgo for taking the job. He was in his element now though and he held control of them in his hand and with his voice.

I guess Nadlo, Jonoco, and Danlo had caught on that something else was really up. Of course Danlo knew about most of it anyway. They came to me and we started clearing the big rocks that now partially blocked the entrance to Georgo and Danlo's cave.

When we had the opening cleared we went into my cave and cleaned up the broken rock that the Aliens had put there for appearances. It didn't take long. Georgo came in and told me that he had made the explanations and that now the men were cleaning up the rubble and the women were preparing a feast.

He thought that it would be a fairly simple one since they'd had no warning, but he said that he knew they would do their best for the spirits. He left us then to go meditate in his inner sanctum.

Dieta came up to me then and asked to speak to me. I knew that she meant in private, so we walked toward the bathroom. I needed to piss anyway. When we were in it I fished out my best friend and aimed him at the urinal. Dieta paid attention to it for the first time and she was curious.

"Why do men need those to make their water John?" She asked, meaning the urinal.

"We do not need them, they are just handy. I have been told that I will be the only man to use them though. There is only one in each bathroom and if you stand near it when you go in you will know that I can see everywhere in the bathroom as I stand at it. If a woman is bathing or showering while I stand here I will be able to see her," I said.

"But she would probably not mind if you looked anyway," Dieta said.

"She might not but she might be shy. It will seem normal for me to come into the bathroom even if she is in there bathing, and if I like her shape I can look at her all I want and not seem to be staring. If she looks good enough it might stand up and give her a peek too."

"I see now. You can get to see her and not seem to be trying. What will you do if it stands up?" Dieta asked, and I knew that it was ringing her bell a little.

"What do you think I should do? Do you think I should go shower with her and help her wash? Should I get into the tub with her and wash her titties or her pussy?" I asked.

"Yes. Yes you should wash her. It would be so helpful. You should make sure her titties are clean and her pussy. You should swab it out with your dick too. Your dick will help her a lot and she will be very glad. No woman would resist the leader John. Gigo fucked all the women. He fucked me often. You know that he did. Dergo did not mind even before Gigo told him that he could force Geera whenever Gigo had too much bruga. You saw us and you liked it didn't you?" She was hot now, and she practically hissed it out.

"Yes, I liked it the first time I saw you and Dergo force Geera. I wanted to come out of hiding and take you both. Now I have you both and I am very happy for it."

"We are happy for it too and you know it. We were not happy that Dergo and Gigo were killed and we hated the thought of leaving with Braato and Gordo to become their mates. When you came for us before they even got us back to their camp and we realized that they would never even finish taking us to their home it was such a relief that the sorrow from Dergo and Gigo's death seemed pale against the happiness of our rescue from Braato and Gordo. It was as if we never had time to be sad for Dergo and Gigo. The living must carry on with life and let the dead take care of their own duties.

"Then there is you. You get me so hot and Geera too. She was on fire for you last night and so was I. We all were. You should take some of the other women in camp soon too John. It is your right now that you are the leader.

"You should take the new women so they will know that you want them to stay with us, especially the unmated ones who lost their mates. All of the unmated ones have had mates before so you can take them all. Gigo even took a few that had never been mated before. He shouldn't have but he did it anyway. He did know that if no one else would mate them he would need to though," Dieta told me as she held and stroked my dick.

"Didn't the unmated ones complain?"

"They would not dare. Gigo was the leader. They could not tell him no. After it was done they did not want everyone to know it," Dieta told me.

She had me wanting some pussy now. I took her hand and pulled her into one of the crappers, shutting the door behind us.

"What are we in here for John? I do not need to use this now," She said, still pumping me.

"It can be used for other things Dieta," I pushed my pants down and sat on the lid; then I untied Dieta's trousers and pulled them down and off her as she stepped out of them.

"But how, John?" She asked.

"Like this."

I pulled her down toward my dick, guiding her legs to straddle me. When her pussy got near enough I guided my dick up in her and pulled her down farther. She was wet enough and as I thrust she began to use her legs to lift and then settle back down on me.

"Oh, I see now. This is good and you can reach far up into me this way," She said, moving her hips faster.

I caught the bottom of her tunic and lifted. She helped me get it off her as it came up above her tits. I captured a nipple with my lips and as I sucked it I took one of her buns in each hand and kneaded them firmly. She put her arms around my head and pulled me tighter to her breast as I sucked and she pumped herself up and down on me.

"This is good but I would never have thought of it," she said, moaning and panting now.

I slid one hand down to tease the back part of her pussy and get my fingers wet then I brought a finger up and began teasing her ass hole with it.

"Oh John, Oh. That is the wrong hole," She groaned, but she slammed her ass down harder onto me and got faster.

"You are my woman, all of your holes are for me and you will soon like for me to use them all."

I pushed the finger into her ass then and she tensed and then exploded, howling. She clamped down on my long dick and I let go in her and bit firmly on the nipple in my mouth.

She sagged onto me when she was done, but I was still fingering her asshole and she shivered every now and again.

"It feels strange but it is good too. Will you fuck me there? You are going to fuck me there aren't you? Won't it hurt?" She asked.

"I will fuck you there and it might hurt a little but you will get over it," I told her, almost coldly.

It was the right thing to say to Dieta. She couldn't bring herself to resist my cock in her pussy, but I think that she wished she could put on at least a little show of resistance every once in a while.

Her first ass fucking was going to give her a chance to try for that thrill. I was pretty sure she'd at least be able to act like she didn't want to do it there. I kissed on her neck and ears and then had a thought. I put my lips to Dieta's neck and started sucking. When I was through she had a pretty big hickey.

"What were you doing? It felt nice but you made such a funny noise."

"You will see when you look in the mirror."

I looked around at the cubicle for a second and it had changed. It was not just a partition around us anymore, it extended from the floor to the ceiling all the way around. When had that happened?

Argent was just full of tricks and I wondered if that was what he had been going on about with the crappers. It had to be. Hell this was great. If I caught a woman taking a piss with the door open I could just walk in, close the door, fuck her eyes out and no one would be the wiser. I was going to try it as soon as I could.

We got up and pulled our clothes back on and then left the crapper. Dieta went to look at her neck in the mirror.

"There is a mark on my neck where you were sucking," Dieta told me.

"It is a love mark, Dieta. It shows everyone that I have fucked you lately and that I loved it. It also means that I love you," I told her.

"I have never heard of that. Is it done where you come from?" She asked.

"Often."

"I think I like it. I want everyone to know that you fucked me and that you loved it," she said, smiling.

"Don't tell the others what it is. If they ask about it you can just tell them that I did it to you. It will be a surprise when I do it to them too. Like the surprise they'll get when I get them in the toilet," I told her.

"I won't tell them. They can find out like I did. They will like finding out about it better that way," she said, and then laughed.

"They will be very surprised," she said, and laughed again.

It had been a nice little afternoon fuck and I had enjoyed it. I was going to have to piss with help more often. I knew that Dieta wouldn't tell the others; she would want to think of them getting the same surprise that she did. I liked thinking about it too. She never got around to asking me whatever she had wanted to when she first asked to speak to me in private though.

All the rubble was gone by the time we got back. Since Dieta had gotten pretty loud at one point and since there were no embarrassed grins on Nadlo, Jonoco, or Danlo I figured that the closed up crapper must be soundproof too. Argent was getting devious along with secretive. It all seemed to be going my way though so I wasn't going to squawk about it.

When I went back outside I could see that a fire had been started near the mouth of my cave. It was between the opening to my cave and the new opening for Georgo's cave. There were post with forked tops on either side of it and a long spit was being loaded with bison and bear meat for cooking over the fire. There were also other fires near by that were cooking different things in suspended bags, which were obviously made from animal stomachs. Geera, Waaya, Winna, and Dalia were stealing the show with my original big stew pot though. I don't know what they were cooking in it but it smelled delicious. I could tell from the smell that they had put some of the bacon in it for flavor too.

There was some sort of large vessel made from a hollowed out section of half a tree trunk. It was a little over three feet long and the tree had probably been about thirty inches in diameter before it was split in half. Some women were putting stones that had been heated in the fires into it. It smelled like tea and when I asked they confirmed my suspicions. The woman that was overseeing that operation was one of the new arrivals. She seemed almost grateful that I was asking her about it and as I talked to her Dieta came over and introduced us.

"Roweea this is John, my mate and our leader. Roweea was the mate of the other camp's leader John," Dieta said.

I told Roweea that I was sorry for her loss but that I was glad that they had decided to join us here. I asked her if the earthquake had upset her this morning.

"I was very frightened at first until the shaman explained that the spirits had used it to give us these gifts. I have never seen anything before that showed the work of the spirits so strongly and I have never heard of anything like the gifts he gave us in the caves. I haven't tried the gifts yet but I can tell that they will be wonderful, especially when the winter is here and the snow is everywhere." She said.

"They are going to be even more useful than you think Roweea. You will see," Dieta told her.

I had been suspicious of her motives when Dieta came over to introduce us but I knew for sure now that Dieta was trying to set Roweea up for a little bathroom discovery at least. At first I thought that I might be a little put out by it and then I realized that Dieta was doing it for me and not particularly for Roweea. Dieta wanted me to fuck every woman I could. How could I be mad about that since it seemed that all my mates generally had the same idea? Dieta was just a little more enthusiastic about trying to get the ball rolling.

Dieta and I left Roweea to her tea then. I made sure to tell her that it smelled very good and that I would be coming back for a taste later. When we were out of earshot Dieta spoke.

"She is pretty isn't she John. Later I will tell her that she is welcome to use our bathroom if she needs to relieve herself while she is tending the tea."

"You little minx. I think that you want me to help her relieve herself," I said, teasing Dieta.

"Yes. Yes I want you to help her. It is making me excited just thinking about it. Will you put the mark on her neck when you do?" Dieta asked.

"I think that all of my mates should get a mark first, don't you?"

"You are right. All of us should get a love mark before Roweea or any of the others get one," Dieta said.

"You are right though, Roweea is very pretty and I will have to show you that I appreciate that you were thinking of me when I get my strength back," I said.

"I was thinking of all of us John. I think that you should ask Roweea to be one of your mates also," Dieta said.

"Don't you think I have enough mates Dieta?"

"You have many mates John but not too many for you yet. You must remember that most men will take additional mates if they can hunt well enough to provide meat for them. You should have as many mates as you can easily feed. You know that you can feed many more mates than you have. Our camp has not even eaten all the meat from your first hunt yet, let alone the meat from the bear, which you killed more or less by accident. I am not even mentioning the meat that we could get to help you. Geera and I like to hunt and I know that Dalia can hunt. You can still afford many more mates.

"Roweea was the mate of their leader. She will need to mate again and it will be better is she is mated to the leader here also. All of her camp is used to her position as leader's mate and it will seem more natural for them if she remains so.

"It never seems odd if a woman who was not a leader's mate suddenly becomes the mate of a leader. It is always uncomfortable when a woman who was a leader's mate, loses her mate and has to mate a man who isn't the leader. Ask Geera or Georgo and they will tell you the same thing.

"That is why Gigo took Winna and Dergo took Waaya when you killed the three of them. We told everyone that you had killed Gembo, Gigo killed Jabo and that Dergo killed Jenbo. That way Winna, who had been the leader's mate, would be Gigo's mate and would still be a leader's mate," Dieta explained.

It all made sense to me then and as I was thinking about it I thought of something else. I asked Dieta about it at once.

"I didn't even think of it before Dieta but now I see that when I killed Gembo I was killing Winna's son. How can she keep from hating me?" I asked.

"Gembo was not Winna's son. Gembo's mother died before he became a man. Jabo had two mates before Gembo's mother died. He had mated Winna later. Winna has never had any children. Winna does not mind that you killed Gembo because Tanta, Gembo's mother, was never kind to Winna after Jabo took her as a second mate.

Gembo was not either and was actually mean to Winna and often taunted her even before he became a man. Jabo was better to her than those two were but not very much better. It did not bother Winna at all when she heard that Jabo and Gembo were both dead," Dieta told me.

Well that little mystery was solved almost as soon as I'd thought of it. In fact it had been solved long before that. I was glad that I hadn't killed Winna's son though. Of course since she had never had a son I hadn't had a chance to.

Since I felt that Dieta was probably doing her best to steer me right and that it was only a coincidence that the direction was one that she wanted me to take anyway I decided I would ask Georgo about it. I left Dieta outside prowling around the cooking fires and getting into the spirit and went to see if I could get a word with Georgo. He was coming into my cave through the connecting entrance just as I was coming in from outside. We met near the coffee pot and I got a mug but Georgo declined.

"Dieta tells me that it would be better if I took the mate of the deceased leader of our new member's camp as one of my mates. She says that it always causes some confusion if a former leader's mate is taken for a mate by someone other than the leader of the camp she is in. Is that your opinion also?" I asked him.

"It is not opinion John, it is the way things are. It does not come up very often though since leaders are rarely killed. It is a very unusual circumstance for three different camp's leaders to be killed in so short a time. If Winna had been taken by Dergo as a mate instead of by Gigo it wouldn't have made as much difference since she was leaving the camp where she had been the leader's mate. Since Gigo took her though there was nothing in the least unusual.

"When Braato and Gordo killed Dergo and Gigo there would have been problems though, because Winna was coming back to live at the camp where she had been the leader's mate and she would have been mated to a man who had two former leader's mates for his mates. It would have been disturbing, especially since both of the men were held in low regard by the whole camp.

"When it became known that they would both be your mates and then when it was clear that you were the new leader of Gigo's camp things were more nearly normal again; even though you did cause quite a stir setting things right. If there is nothing else troublesome about it I think that you should take Roweea, the mate of your new member's former leader, as another mate. It will add to the feeling of security of all your new members and I am sure that all the members of your camp will see it as the natural thing. As long as it doesn't cause you trouble in your own cave," Georgo told me.

"That is what Dieta told me. She also encouraged me to take Roweea as a mate." I said.

"Your other mates will let you know if there is anything bothersome to them about it and I doubt that there will be. I have known Roweea for many years and she is a good obedient woman. She is also used to hunting and not much of a gatherer or cook. She has many good qualities but cooking is not among them. She is one of those that I had to endure meals from and then tell they were very good. Thankfully most of the time other women in the camp did her share of the cooking," Georgo said.

"I don't think that will cause any troubles for me. I have more mates that want to cook now than can get a chance to do it," I told him.

"I know. Dieta and Geera are a novelty since they are good hunters, good gatherers and good cooks. It is said that Dalia is also a very good hunter and I know that she is a good cook. Gembo never wanted Delia to hunt but I think she knows how and actually likes to; she is a very good cook also," Georgo said.

"I have plenty of cooks and I need almost no hunters." I said.

"I know that you can do very well hunting and I would guess that if you had to you could kill all the meat that was needed for this whole camp and more. I do think that you should encourage all that want to hunt to do so or learn to do it if they don't know already. If something were to happen to you, after you have been here a few years, they would all go hungry if they didn't know how to hunt anymore," Georgo said, explaining his thinking.

He was right and I knew it at once. I couldn't let them become dependant on me for all the hunting. It was possible that Argent might end his experiment and if he didn't let me stay they would all have hard times for a long while unless they kept up their hunting skills. I didn't anticipate leaving but I didn't know that I would be here forever. I doubted that Argent would allow me to be killed but I didn't know that. I fully intended to stay as long as I was allowed to but I didn't even know why I was here so I surely didn't know how long I would be allowed to stay. I decided that I would ask Argent if he could tell me anything about it when I talked to him again.

In the mean time I decided that I should teach them a little about a more efficient way to hunt. There was the more advanced way of casting a spear with a throwing stick but I wasn't very familiar with it and though I understood the principle I knew nothing about the details of the ultra simple device. I did fully understand how a bow and arrows worked though and was pretty sure I could construct them from the materials at hand if I had to. I didn't have to though. I had some bonus freight coming and it would be a lot easier to requisition some. If it came down to it later, more could be made and it would be easier for them after they had examples. It was a little strange when I realized that the bowstring would be the hardest thing to make in this time.

As the afternoon wore on the preparations for the feast began filling the air with delicious odors. I went out to sample Roweea's tea and it was good despite what Georgo had told me about her cooking. She seemed glad to see me again so I stood with her as I sipped mine.

"The tea is very good Roweea, I like it," I told her.

"I am glad that you do but I must confess that I didn't do anything but stand here and watch over it as the other women made it. I am a terrible cook. I tried so hard for a while to learn but finally I just spent most of my time hunting and other women took over my cooking for me. I have always liked to hunt and some of the other women were glad when I brought them meat in exchange for their cooking of our meals," She said.

"Everyone can not be good at everything. I like to hunt and I am also a terrible cook," I told her.

"You are a man, you are supposed to be a terrible cook," she laughed.

"I have known men that did only cooking. They were such good cooks that everyone else took care of their other needs if they would just continue cooking," I said.

"I have never heard of that, about a man at least. Many women never hunt. They cook, gather and clean kills and other things. I have never heard of anyone that only cooked," she said.

"It was a long time ago and a long way from here."

"Where did you come from then?" she asked.

"From very far away. I do not speak of it anymore. I am here now and it is where I will stay."

"It is lucky for Geera, Dieta, and all the others that you came. I can already tell that you are a very good leader. They are lucky that you were there to take over the leadership of Gigo's camp and we are lucky that you were here to take over the leadership of our camp," Roweea said.

"I don't know if Geera, Dieta, and their camp were lucky or not. I did cause most of their problems," I admitted.

"That is not what Georgo told us. You were minding your business and making a life with you new mates when three men came to kill you. It was their bad luck that Gigo and Dergo were there to help you. I think that you were very brave to kill Braato and Gordo after they had killed Gigo and Dergo. I know that Geera, Dieta, Waaya, and Winna are very thankful that you did it," she said.

"That really wasn't very hard either. I still wonder how Braato and Gordo managed to slip up on Gigo and Dergo and then be so stupid as to just let me walk right up to them. They even wanted to boast about it and taunt me," I told her.

"Is that why you killed them then, because they boasted and taunted you?" she asked.

"No. I knew as soon as Jonoco told us what they had done that they would be dead by my hand that day. When I saw my mates crying for the fate of their mothers, there was no other thing for me to do. The boasting and taunting only bought them a slow and painful death instead of a quick one."

"Oh, I did not know that. How did you kill them?" She asked, and I could tell that she was fascinated now.

"When they started boasting I just hit one on the end of his nose with my fist with all my strength. When the other tried to jab his spear into me I grabbed it and pulled him toward me with one hand and then hit him as hard as I could on the side of his head with my other hand. This left them both addled and they fell to the ground. After that I kicked them in the head and ribs until they were unconscious," I told her.

She asked if it hadn't hurt my feet and I showed her that I didn't wear moccasins. It seemed that she wanted to ask about my boots but I went on with the explanation of tying them up and dragging them. When I explained that the dragging only killed them after it had worn off enough skin and meat for them to bleed to death, hunter or not, she shivered at the thought.

"Please be sure to warn me if I am ever making you angry," she said.

"Roweea, how could you think that I would ever hurt a woman?"

"Many men have been known to whip and beat their wives?" she said, looking at me as if I were a simpleton.

"None will ever be known to do it more than once in my camp. If I don't kill them for it I will show them what it feels like until they will never want to do it again," I told her.

"I don't like it either but if it is their mate why should you interfere?" she asked.

"It is my understanding that when a payment is made for a mate that it is to compensate the other women for the loss of her help and companionship. That is why it is much lower if her mate lives in the same camp. Was I told wrongly?"

"No that is the reason for the mating payment," she said.

"So the man does not own his mate. If he does not he has no right to beat her. Even if it were not the case he would not beat her in my camp. Such things would have a bad effect on the whole camp.

"I will not tolerate it. If you know of men such as this in your camp you should make sure that they are warned before they make a serious mistake. I am the leader here and everyone must try to get along, if they do not I will make sure that they get along or that they leave one way or the other,"

"I am sad that my mate was killed but I am glad that we are here now. I believe I will enjoy living in your camp. No man from our camp has ever done anything like that. I have heard of it in other camps though. Most people condemn it but no leader that I have heard of has ever taken such a stand," she told me.

"I do not control other camps but I do take my attitudes with me where ever I go. I do not like to see such things anywhere and I know that I would have a hard time holding my tongue if I encountered it. I can usually get my point across," I said.

I hadn't meant to get into a lather about something that hadn't even happened yet. I knew that physical abuse of women by men could have no good results though. I wanted to make sure that Roweea let all her people know exactly where I stood. I wasn't opposed to a man in this time giving his wife a spanking if she really needed it but I hadn't seen one yet that needed one. As far as I was concerned there would never be one that needed a beating.

I drifted back to my cave then to keep from showing my displeasure at even the thought. I was anxious for the festivities to get started but I was tired of watching the preparations. I couldn't let go of my thoughts about what Roweea and I had talked about, so I went to see if Georgo was in his cave. I found him just leaving his little chamber.

I went to him and told him of my conversation with Roweea, asking him what he thought about it. He felt the same way I did about it but also told me that a leader almost never got involved in such matters.

I told him that I would be involved in every one that I heard of. He didn't think that it was out of the question for me to make it my business. He did warn me that it would come up if I invited both of the other camps that he'd told me about. Hearing that made me want to invite them all the more.

Soon after that Maia came to get us since the food was ready and it was time for the feast to start. This lifted my mood at once and Georgo and I followed Maia outside.

I found out that Georgo was always served first at the ceremonies and that I was next and then my mates. The others were to follow as their status indicated. Bigglieo was whom I considered my most important man and I'm sure everyone in my camp knew it. He was insistent that Roweea follow my mates in line though, due to her status as the other camp's leader's former mate.

A slight confusion followed after that as the new members did not know who should follow next and Bigglieo didn't either. They worked it out by alternating according to their status in the respective camps. I knew that I would have to discover that status and see if it would fit in with the way we were currently operating with regard to pecking order.

I hated this type of thing but I knew that it had to be dealt with. Everyone needed to know where they stood and what was expected of them. It would probably be a little tricky at first but I was hoping that everything would settle down soon. I did decide that I would have to ask Georgo more questions about what would be expected if I invited the other camps. I needed to find out what part the leaders of the other camps would expect to play if they came and how their men would expect to merge into mine.

It was time to forget all that now. I had some eating in mind and after Georgo had done his part for the spirits we would be bringing out the surprise bruga. I figured that things would get comical fast after that.