“I don’t let people touch me, and it sort of forms a forcefield around me.Alphas like to have something soft to cuddle, and I am very soft.They offer me blood for the ability to wrap around me for a few hours.”
The colours flared and flashed.
She traced some of the lines with her finger.“Why do they do that?”
He chuckled and politely took her hand away, kissing her fingertips before releasing her.“I am trying to scare off other predators.”
She giggled, and they kept walking, listening to the cheering and the crashing of the teams of three that were heading to the finish line after several hours.
“Why did they do this run twice?”
“Well, on the first run, there were a few folks who were professional sportsmen, and some elves who thought teleporting to the end was funny, and several women went missing during the event, causing a huge search and rescue effort that they managed to keep out of the news.This time, all local ladies were together in the town and under guard with dozens of drones watching the shoreline.”
“Well, I understand the do-over.It was necessary to set minds at ease.”
“Correct.”
“Wait, were you involved in the search?”
“Of course.I found the little fuckers ten minutes from shore.I cut the engines, sent the signal, and went underwater to hide until they go there.”
He smiled.“So, you like search and rescue.”
“I am very good at it.I get high, and then I get very low.”She smiled.“And then I get distracted and ask local oysters to give me pearls.”
“And they do it?”
“They do.No damage, no cracking.I take the pearls and give them a little more sand to work on.Sometimes, for fun, I find a lost raw emerald and put that in there.”
He laughed and kept his hand on her lower back.They continued for half an hour and then were out in the bustling walkway on the other side of the finish line.
She smiled at the dazzled look in his eyes as he was suddenly confronted by over two hundred people in a space that normally contained fifty.
She slid her arm around his waist and steered him through the crowd and out to the merchant laneways.She walked into one of the shops and smiled at the alpha behind the counter.“Ahheel, I need cuffs.”
The alpha grinned.“I knew you couldn’t be that cute with no sex drive.”
“Oh, I have a sex drive, I just usually plow it into the wall.”She looked at the desk in the corner.“Hey, Mini.”
Minutia smiled, and when she looked at Akervel, she blinked.“Wow.”She bent her head and started typing.
Meeda leaned away and looked Akervel up and down.“Okay, I can see it.”
He grinned.
Ahheel looked at them.“So, you two haven’t...”
Meeda shrugged.“A few years ago, or months, I am not good at math.I met him when I was hungry and tried to take a bite.We got our wires crossed, so now we are looking for assistance.We need the fancy cuffs.”
Ahheel grinned.“Right.I happen to have fancy cuffs.”She reached under the counter and brought out two boxes, one in white and one in black.
Meeda sighed.“Since this was my idea, I should probably pay, right?”
Akervel chuckled.“I have a chip from Emerald.It works here.”
Ahheel smiled and presented the pay pad.Akervel extended his hand over it, and the chirp was cheerful.
He took the black cuff and snapped it on his wrist before opening the box with the white cuff, and he lifted Meeda’s hand, kissed her wrist, and then snapped the cuff onto it.The cuffs went through calibration, and then they chirped that they were ready.
