“Maybe… he isn’t hungry?”Trenet said.“Or he’s used to such small meals that he… he doesn’t know he can eat more now.”
“Our poor little love,”Vrayl said, sounding sorrowful.“Alright Asher, if you can’t eat more right now, we understand.”
Asher heard his name but refused to pick his head up. He wouldn’t eat it!
“The Match agency got back to me,”Trenet said next.“But it’s a longer missive, so I’ll read it after bathtime. For now, best to give him his humshus back so he can have something comforting filling his mouth.”
Claws slid through Asher’s long hair again, but this time they closed at his nape and pulled. Gently, but still so immovably that Asher had no choice but to let his head be tilted back unless he wanted to rip his hair out.
He clenched his teeth together. He wasn’t going to open his mouth for any of the rest of the food they wanted to feed him. For all he knew, it was made of the last Human they’d happened across.
But when he opened his eyes, it was to find that Vrayl was holding out the gag.
Asher heaved out a breath through his nose. Fucking fine. Fine! At least if he was wearing the stupid gag, they wouldn’t be trying to feed him any more meat.
He opened his mouth and let Vrayl slide the ball between his teeth. A moment later, there was a beeping sound as the gag was secured into place.
Asher deflated, blinking hard as the reality of the situation crashed over him anew. He was just so well and truly trapped here. In what universe did he ever get free?
Vrayl made another low crooning noise, stroking his free hand up and down Asher’s thigh.“There now, what a good little yshain. Being so very brave for us.”
“We’ll eat quickly, Asher,”Trenet rumbled next.“And then we’ll enjoy the baths. We can’t wait to take care of you, little love.”
Asher watched as Vrayl and Trenet set to their own meal. They moved almost in sync, passing each other dishes and leaning forward to pop bits of food into each other’s mouths. If he’d had any doubt that the two were married, the meal erased it completely.
But then it seemed as though they were finished eating. Trenet placed the covers back on the dishes, and then pushed a button on the table and the plates disappeared. It was technology Asher was unused to, and he found himself staring at the table.
“Bathtime!”Vrayl’s low growl had a hint of a musical quality. Was the Dresht… singing? Or maybe telling Asher something he was excited about?
He and Trenet had finished eating. Was it…
Was it time for Asher to be dessert?
Asher yelped as Vrayl suddenly stood, taking Asher with him. Asher was helpless but to be carried in Vrayl’s arms, wherever they were headed. Trenet was quick to follow, coming up beside Vrayl and stroking a covetous hand down Asher’s bare chest.
Because they were all stillnaked.
“He’s so soft,”Trenet said, exhaling like a sigh.“So soft and smooth.”
Vrayl smiled and nuzzled Trenet’s cheek.“You’ll have plenty of time to explore him in the baths, my mate.”
Asher tried to lift his hands to push Trenet away, but his mitts were still too fucking heavy to move more than a few inches. They weren’t pulling at his shoulders, thankfully, but he wondered how theyworked.It was like the cuffs were able to manipulate gravity.
They started walking, Vrayl holding him in his arms, but Trenet kept a heavy hand on Asher’s shoulder too, his huge thumb sweeping back and forth across Asher’s bicep.Hadthese two ever seen a Human before? Did they know what Human males tended to look like? Asher knew from his moms that he was small and slight for a male, which had been a source of great relief for them as Asher grew older and started to mature. He also wasn’t hairy like a typical Human male, because his moms had sent him to laser treatment pretty much the moment he hit puberty. The only hair Asher reallyhadwere his eyebrows, eyelashes, and the hair on his head, which reached nearly to his waist.
Asher had the general idea of what he looked like. Short and slender, green eyes and freckles, long red hair that had a wave to it. He didn’t actually know what other people might think when they saw him, though. Lilliana had thought he was pretty. His sisters and moms always said he was cute. To Trenetand Vrayl he wastiny.And probably pathetic. Not exactly a shining example of a Human.
Asher just hoped they didn’t look at him and think he would be tasty.
They turned down one last hallway and this time went through a doorway. Asher looked around the room they had entered, trying to get the measure of it. It wasbig,and when he looked up, he found that there was a window in the ceiling that would let light in during the daytime. Right now it was a vision of stars, the constellations unfamiliar.
Vrayl kept moving, so Asher pulled his attention from the stars in the window to find that they’d stopped in front of an open bowl, surrounded by nozzles.
“Why don’t you try to use the facilities before we get started,”Vrayl said, nuzzling Asher’s hair before turning him in his arms.
Asher cried out as fingers spread his cheeks, baring his hole to the room. Those same questing fingers then found the base of thesenchrand started to pull it free.
Asher groaned as thesenchrwas removed, leaving him strangely and unpleasantly empty. He’d never had something inside him before, and certainly not for solong.Suddenly being without it was—it was strange.
