Garnet tried not to smile as she relaxed in his grip. How he managed to calm the roaring jealousy just that easily was beyond her, but she wasn’t mad about it either. She might question him later, but she couldn’t really be angry that he’d fucked other females before.
And she still wasn’t sure she was going to fuck him anyway.
He had dick barbs.
She’d asked Goldie about it, because of course she did. Her sister wasn’t oblivious to her amorous interest in the captain. She might not be saying anything about it, but that didn’t mean she didn’t notice. And who else could she ask about dick barbs?
Goldie told her that some animals on Earth had them as well. Felines coming to mind most immediately. They were meant to scratch the females internally to stimulate ovulation. It was how cats mated, she explained. Though, that didn’t seem to be the reason Tanin had his. Not judging by what he had inferred.
So, less a scratch to make her ovulate, and more a deterrent to keep her from escaping his cock before he could fill her with his cum.
Either way, it was a matter of reproduction. He told her they wouldn’t injure her, but that didn’t make her any less uneasy. She imagined she wouldn’t be soothed until she had a chance to look at his dick and saw the barbs in questions herself.
Or felt them digging in, keeping her in place, locking her on his cock.
She shivered, because she actually liked the idea. Not the idea of scratching her pussy up, of course, but just the idea of being trapped on him. Forced to cuddle. To feel him holding her. Garnet was a cuddler after sex, but not everyone was. And if her partner expressly wasn’t, it really ruined the high for her. If Tanin couldn’t pull away, he was an obligate cuddler, right?
How long did it take the barbs to go down? How big were they exactly? Were they actually sharp, or just pokey, or kind of softly barbed like the backwards facing ones on his tongue?
She didn’t know. She had no way of finding out. She and Goldie didn’t have combots – though Tanin did promise to buy them a pair today. But even once she got one, she didn’t want her first search on the alien internet to be ‘s’skree dick’. She also couldn’t ask Alred for obvious reasons. The only one who could really satisfy her curiosity – and other things – was Tanin himself.
But she didn’t want to be a cock tease. What if she came face to face with it and she was too freaked out to continue? Worse, what if she wasn’t freaked out and they had sex, but he ended up actually hurting her with the things?
What if having sex ruined everything? It was already too late for her and Goldie to change their minds. They’d willingly given up their Earth citizenship and right to return just by accepting Tanin as their sponsor and this as their lives.
But despite all that, she still felt right letting him hold her hand as the green lady, Cora, looked over the three gems she’d agreed to buy. Inspecting them with a singular glass loupe-like thing she’d placed over her eye like a futuristic monocle.
Tanin was haggling with her, the two of them tossing numbers back and forth that meant little to Garnet since she didn’t have a frame of reference for how many credz was a lot. But the number was impressively large regardless.
When they finally came to agreement, they used their combots for Cora to send credz to Tanin directly – crediting it as payment for a delivery job. Which Garnet found funny.
She didn’t know who King Gissrn was, but she hoped he missed those treasures dearly and cursed the day he hired Tanin for the rest of his life. She couldn’t do anything about him. She’d have to trust Captain Ikvar and the peacekeepers to deal with him. But knowing that they were stealing from him, and he couldn’t do a thing about it, felt pretty good.
She didn’t like the guy, but it was hard to hold resentment against someone she’d never met, never seen, and probably never would see. Tanin and Alred and a few of the other guys had already assured her that they’d never do business with the male again.
“What about the other stones?” Goldie asked when they returned to the crowd, Cora wishing them well as she took her new stones to the small area behind her stall. Storage or a bedroom or what, Garnet couldn’t tell. The curtain fell over the door before she had a chance to actually peek inside. Not that it really mattered.
She kind of didn’t want to see Cora again. She seemed nice, but it was hard to look at someone she suspected had sex with Tanin in the past.
“The others belong to the rest of the crew,” Tanin said. “They can exchange or trade theirs as they desire. And I’m sure they will. For now, let’s get started by getting you two some clothes. We can work down the list of everything else you’ll need from there.”
Space station shopping spree!
Finally!Garnet had been geared up and excited for this since they docked the Humility into one of the entrance tunnels leading into the station.
It was everything she hoped it would be.
Tanin tied one end of his ribbon around her wrist and let her go, holding onto the other end. It allowed her to bounce between stalls arm in arm with Goldie without getting away from him or Trove as they looked and giggled and gasped excitedly over everything.
They found lotions and soap and hair cleaners first. The scents were a ton of fun to pass back and forth and experience. She didn’t recognize any of them, but that was the best part. When she finally found three she liked, she offered them to Tanin to smell. Which he did, approving of all three. But the second one made his eyes darken as he looked at her, and she knew that was the one.
The second thing they found were brushes – hair and tooth and one short one that was explained to be an exfoliator for their skin.
Shortly after that, they found a place that sold weapons. Goldie looked deeply uncomfortable even holding a deactivated shock stick. Garnet, however, was excited as Tanin kept handing her new weapons to see how she held them. Adjusting her grip. Making her try testing a few jabs or smacks with whatever he pressed into her palm.
When they left, she had her own shock stick – in pretty purple! – as well as a laser knife that, while only the length of her biggest finger, was devastating. He promised to show her how to use them effectively later, but she felt big and bad having them on her waist as they kept going through the bazaar.
It was only after the weapons stall did they finally find a clothing stall.
