12. A Soft Awakening, And Deciding The Future
You awake, once more, to Sapphire wriggling against you. The light is dimmer in this cave, but you are still capable to making out every delicious detail. Her tail is gently stroking across your stomach as she twitches, and this time you are more than capable of seeing everything. Her narrow middle fingers are thrusting into her pussy with abandon, her thumb rubbing her clit with each thrust. You can see a thin rivulet of liquid running from between her fingers, glittering wetly in the half light. Her eyes are clenched shut, and her mouth is occupied by her second hand. However, unlike yesterday, her hand is facefucking herself to the same rhythm she's using below. Soft whimpers escape each time she pulls out, wanton moans cut off as she pushes her fingers into her mouth again. The air stinks of her, entombed beneath your wing.
Gradually, her pace increases, and her hips start to buck into her hand. Recognising the signs, you shut your eyes as her body convulses, her tail going very still as one long muffled groan tears its way from her lips, still wrapped around her fingers.
You give her a few minutes to collect herself again, and then start to stir, this time moving your wing first to allow her scent to dissipate. By the time you 'awake' a second time, Sapphire is sat upright, leant against your chest and dressed. Or at least as dressed as she ever is.
“Thank you sir,” she murmurs, “I've never felt so safe, sleeping, before.”
Without waiting for a response, she makes for the tunnel out of the cavern, presumably to wash up and drink. As she passes, her hyena pulls itself up and follows her, tongue lolling from his mouth. You give them a minute to get ahead of you, so that Sapphire can clean herself in privacy, and you look over your fame sheet.
What you see there chills you to the bone
Scanning the recent activities, you see a litany of quests, hero deaths and a new entrance that shows up several times.
What is more upsetting however is that for every hero that seems to have failed whatever quest has sprung up, more have not. Then, you expand a few of the quest actions and chill once more.
A few, spaced out, were of the expected format, denoting it was an escort quest of some kind.
Many of them were not.
Quests? You had quests? Plural? You stand on shaking legs and make your way to the pool room, wondering how to deal with this.
As you enter the room, the hyena whines and Sapphire looks up at you. She seems to realise something isn't right.
“What's wrong?” she asks in her perpetual half whisper.
“Adventurers are coming. Quite a lot of them, I think”
Sapphire looks dismayed at the news, and her hyena cocks its head.
“I think we're rapidly running out of time. We were granted a grace period as people downloaded the update, and there are less players than there were... but I think the game is undergoing a bit of a revitalisation. More players than ever, and I'm a low level boss in a medium area at the minute. Whatever quests have been created most probably aim at slightly newer players. We're going to be seeing a massive upswing soon”
Sapphire walks over to you, with steel in her gaze. “We'll defeat them. What do you want to do?”