Chapter 2- A Lover’s Embrace
When Crystalia wakes the next morning, she dresses nicely in a navy blue, silken dress embroidered with golden thread; she then heads to the Grand Hall, and, upon arrival, she takes a seat next to Adinia, who is dressed in her normal queenly attire.
"Good morning, Crystalia!" Adinia cheers happily as her student takes her place next to her.
"Well good morning to you as well!" Crystalia smiles at Adinia's outward joy, finding it slightly contagious.
Adinia looks down at her student and winks, as if to say, 'I could ask the same of you.' She then turns back to her food and takes a bite before responding, "Just because you get a day of repite, doesn't mean I do. I have to meet with rulers of the other kingdoms to talk about peacekeeping and trade routes for the next godforsaken week!"
Adinia's voice is particularly sour at the mention of 'peacekeeping' and 'trade routes', so Crystalia dares not probe deeper about her activities, beyond asking one final question as they both wrap up their meals a few minutes later.
"May I come?" Crystalia makes certain to sound very serious as she speaks, genuinely wanting to see what Adinia does during her time on the throne.
"You'll be bored out of your mind, but sure. Just be certain to keep your tail lowered in front of the others, okay?" Adinia laughs goofily at the surprised reaction of her student, and even more so as she processes the comment, her face scrunching up thoughtfully before Crystalia sticks her tongue out at the Queen.
"I'll join y'all tomorrow... I've got someone to go visit." Crystalia winks at Adinia before she fades from existence, reappearing abruptly outside of the entrance to a cave that now felt so alien to her. She hadn't seen her mate since the time Adinia had brought Crystalia's limited friends and family to see her progress; it felt to Crystalia as though it had been years when, in reality, it had only been a few months. No matter how she looked at the situation, though, one thing was constant: the nagging desire to be with Nol once again, no matter how long they'd been apart. With that thought, Crystalia walks forward and deftly knocks on the door.
She steps back just in time for it to open inward, the groggy face of her mate poking out to greet the guest.
Nol, not recognizing her immediately, possibly due to her clothing, looks quizzically at the seemingly strange dragon that stood in their doorway, his eyes narrowed and his eye-ridges furrowed as he tried to ascertain the identity of the female that stood before him.
Crystalia bows her head, partially out of custom, but partly because she was upset that he didn't recognize her as she had him. "Good morning, Noaltro." Crystalia speaks timidly, careful not to burst into tears.
Nol's eyes open fully within a millisecond of those words being uttered, his ears perk up, and he whimpers happily, nuzzling Crystalia with a cute blush covering both their cheeks. "Well hello! Long time no see, huh!" He looks back and hollers joyfully into the house, "Mom, Crystalia just showed up! Can we go out and spend some time together?"
Nol's father can be heard laughing before he responds, "Just be careful you two, I don't need grandkids quite yet."
They both blush a crimson red, but Nol responds to his father with a sarcastic remark, "I'm certain you two have no room to talk there..." With that, Nol jumps through the door, closing it behind himself, before taking flight beside his mate.
Crystalia waits until she is absolutely certain that they are far enough away from civilization to not be overheard before she starts a gliding descent, her mate following suit. She turns to him as they land, speaking quietly as an extra precaution. "You told?" Her voice wavers slightly, the only outward sign of her inner distress.
"No, I didn't. Mom noticed that I smelled like a female's musk, and she asked me about it one night..." Nol gulps, tensing in fear of his mate's retribution. "I didn't have a choice, she already knew, she was just confirming her suspicions."
Crystalia sighs, walking forward towards her mate, ignoring his shrinking posture, gently wrapping a wing around him. "Okay, I understand. Now, can we get one last time in before we have to wait for parental approval to be together~"
Nol blushes at the forwardness of her comment, and he looks away ashamedly. "I...I guess... Can we find somewhere a bit more private though?"
"Yes, of course." Crystalia nuzzles his snout with her own, stealing a hungry glance into his eyes. "Why don't you lead the way?"
Nol nods and flares his wings, pulling them back to his sides suddenly, shooting himself into the sky.
Crystalia follows soon after, letting her mate lead the search for a private place for them to enjoy each other's company just a bit more than they were comfortable with in public.
After an hour or so, Nol lands just beside a massive, ancient oak tree that sits in a massive prairie. The grass is taller than both of them by about two feet, so Crystalia makes certain to keep her mate's tail in sight.
They only have to walk about twenty meters from where they landed at the edge of the canopy before they reach the tree's trunk, which is nearly as wide as their tails are long.
Crystalia looks lovingly at her mate through the tall grass as she undresses, throwing her fancy dress of to the side while Nol does the same with the clothes he had on. The young female rolls onto her back, legs splayed, putting everything on display for her male.
"Wow..." Nol breathes, feeling his lust for her growing by the second, his mind slowly losing out to instincts.
"I've been waiting for this for months now... Please, don't hold back..." Crystalia lets out a quiet, drawn out, and lustful moan, doing her best to tempt her mate.
Nol finds her impossible to resist, despite his best efforts, and he gives in to his instincts, lurching forward towards his love before his world goes black.
When they both return to thoughtful consciousness, they laugh excitedly, both knowing exactly what they had just done, and both happy to have the other.
"Thank you, Nolaltro." Crystalia hums to her mate, loving every second she has with him.
"Thank you, Crystalia." Nol echoes his mate's words, agreeing with them too wholeheartedly to find any better ones.
They lay there for hours, letting their paws roam, and letting their minds wander. Eventually, Crystalia speaks to her mate, breaking the sensual silence that had fallen between them. "Nol, I need to ask you something..." She pauses, waiting respectfully for her mate to respond
"Yes, what is it, my love?" When Nol responds, his voice carries with it a worry for his mate that Crystalia just cannot ignore.
"Nol, it's nothing you did... It's me." Crystalia blushes heavily and hides her head in her mate's embrace. "I...It's just...I'm worried about us. I'm scared my parents won't let us be together..."
Nol gently licks her forehead, encouraging her to look into his eyes before he responds. "Now, listen to me." His voice is deadly serious, something Crystalia didn't expect from her normally soft-spoken mate. "If I have to run away with you to be your mate, I would run to the end of the world."
Crystalia can't help but tear up at her mate's words; she then yips happily and starts licking his face playfully, voicing her agreement through her actions.
"H...Hey, that tickles!" Nol sputters, trying his best to keep his friend from licking his nose or eyes. After a few minutes of this, he tries to throw Crystalia off, but he quickly finds exactly how pinned he was, and so he gives in to laughing at the tickling touch. He soon finds that was all his mate wanted, because, as soon as he starts laughing, she jumps back, laughing her usual, goofy laugh, with her usual, goofy grin across face.
Crystalia wriggles happily, her body aching slightly from their earlier playtime, but she ignores this, instead focusing on the fun she was having with her mate. They start to wrestle, jostling Crystalia's stomach, giving her a constant pleasing feeling of her mate's essence sloshing around deep inside her, a very enjoyable feeling for the young dragoness.
As the sun begins to set, Crystalia teleports her lover home, leaving him with a goodbye and an affectionate lick on the cheek before parting ways once again, teleporting home to wash up before going to bed.
As the young dragoness lays in bed that night, Adina sits down on the bed beside her. "Hey, Crystalia, I think it's about time we had a little heart to heart..." Adinia sighs, showing outwardly a sense of discomfort for the first time that Crystalia could remember since they first met.
"What about?" Crystalia asks concernedly, scared that Adinia was mad at her for playing with her mate.
"It's about you and Nol. And before you freak out, no, I don't care that you let him breed you, I honestly did the same thing when I was your age..." Adinia takes a breath to calm her nerves before she continues to speak. "I need you to be totally honest with me, Okay?"
Crystalia nods.
"Good... Now, I need to know a bit of information about how you've felt recently." Adinia curls herself around the smaller female protectively, showing her student that she had no ill intentions. "Now, have you been hypersensitive to any private touches?"
Crystalia once again nods her silent reply.
"Now, have you noticed any abnormal feelings of lust that are dulled when you play alone?"
Crystalia nods again, starting to blush cutely.
"Okay, well, would you mind if I felt your belly a bit?"
Crystalia shakes her head, and Adinia scoots back, allowing her student to roll onto her side so she faces the older female.
Adinia takes a paw and gently slides it across Crystalia's frame. She sighs in relief upon finding no sign of pregnancy in the young dragoness. "You need to be careful in the future, Crystalia. I think you were in heat, and that means Nol could've gotten you pregnant... And you know you're way too young for a clutch..."
Crystalia blushes profusely in response, her cheeks flushing a crimson red as she gently nods, quickly absorbing the new information. "I...I understand why, but what exactly do you want me to do?"
Adinia's voice is still just as smooth and flowing as it had been, as she does her best to calm the younger dragoness. "Nothing very different, except you'll have to bear through your heats for the next few years, until you're fifteen. Then, with parental consent, you can have a clutch with your mate, if you wish."
Crystalia shivers at the idea of having a clutch at only fifteen years; she had never heard of any female younger than twenty having children... "O...Okay, I promise. May I join you tomorrow?" Crystalia eagerly changes the subject as soon as the thought comes to mind, her blush quickly fading as she puts the extremely intimate conversation behind her.
"Yes, of course. Just, please wear some perfume... none of them have a sense of smell nearly as keen as ours, but I don't want to take chances." Now was Adinia's turn to flush a deep red. It was difficult for her to make that comment, especially because it was at the cost of her student, whom she was starting to love. Not as a mother, no, as a very personal friend. This is a dangerous game, Adinia, she's mated, you're mated, and she's underage. You better n... Adinia pushes her conflicted thoughts aside and licks her student's forehead gently before whispering a goodnight and heading quickly down to her bed, tail tucked between her legs to hide herself from the younger female's view. I am definitely going to be late for tomorrow's meetings. Adinia laughs at that thought, knowing how many sideways looks she'd earn herself by coming into diplomatic meetings late and with such a young companion alongside her. She intended to contemplate that more, but sleep soon overcomes her.
Crystalia is surprised when she awakes early the next morning, long before the sun crests the horizon. When she gets up and heads down to the lower level, she finds Adinia still asleep on her bed. Out of courtesy, Crystalia wakes her, reminding her gently of the meetings she had this morning.
If Adinia was groggy when she was awoken by her student, it was completely forgotten in the adrenaline rush she felt after being reminded of her meetings, to which she could still be on time if she hurried. The Queen quickly jumps up, and starts digging through her clothe, sending dozens of multicolored fabrics flying through the air to land in a neat pile behind her. She eventually finds her best formal dress and throws it on, alongside some flowery perfume before taking time to notice that, in the time it had taken her to dress, Crystalia had dressed herself as well, having put on a beautiful, floral patterned dress with a neat sock of fabric to cover her tail and the area at its base.
"Adinia, why is there a piece of fabric for my tail?" Crystalia looks at the Queen, her head tilting curiously as she wiggles her tail in an attempt to get used to the feeling of the fabric around it.
"It's a formal thing, it covers up that area to allow more movement of your tail without exposing yourself, which is especially embarrassing in front of a dozen or so different ambassadors." Adinia turns as she explains, heading for the door, ushering her student to follow with flicks of her tail, which, thanks to the specific design of dress she wore, could be held at whatever positions she wanted without putting herself on display for any prying eyes to catch a glimpse.
Crystalia nods as Adinia leads her hurriedly through the now familiar path to the throne room, where they approach a large set of double wooden doors that reach to the nearly one hundred foot vaulted ceiling of the grand room.
"Now, Crystalia, I would prefer that you only speak after I, or at least that you clear your throat before interjecting." Adinia speaks in a low voice as she opens the massive doors a crack before she slips in, her student in tow.
The room they enter into is just as large as the grand hall, with fifty foot vaulted ceilings, and a floorspace of approximately three thousand meters. What sets this room apart, however, is the sound-dampening tiles that cover the ceilings, and the various glass display cases that line the walls, providing further echo mitigation.