On Trackless Seas

Chapter 12
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With Nia and Visa otherwise indisposed for a few days, Inumi was left to her own devices. It was not so surprising that, by the end of the first day, she sought me out since we were two of only three people currently conscious aboard the Whisper. Nia wouldn't select her servants/aids until they were finished having their new bodies made, even if I was sure Inumi was already working on a short list.

That night, instead of taking our meal in the small mess hall right off the kitchen in the original section of the ship, we moved out to the large, recently spacially expanded, 'open air' botanical garden (also in the original section, just enlarged). Since it was early spring aboard ship, we found a warm pavilion shaded from the artificial sun to sit under and enjoy the scenery turning green while we got to know each other.

Inumi was the quiet type, I discovered immediately. Kuudere to the core. I didn't particularly mind, but it made conversation a little difficult at times. I was fine with companionable silences, not feeling the need to fill silence with mindless chatter, but that kind of hindered learning about someone. Luckily, I knew how to deal with her type—I should, seeing as I tended to lean that way myself.

I quickly learned her interests, outside of those that were Nia-centric. Inumi enjoyed music and, in fact, played an instrument herself—a stringed instrument very similar to a viola. She also liked to sing, usually as accompaniment to her playing. Thanks to her ears, she could hear pitch perfectly, which gave her a bit of an advantage in that field.

Inumi also had a love of reading, something I could immediately relate to. Amusingly enough, her favorite genre was lewd historical fantasy, which she just came right out and admitted with a straight face, as though she hadn't just confessed to liking wordy porn. When I told her that Alice had copied all of Earth's literature in digital form and that there was an entire world of alien literature at her fingertips if she wanted it, I nearly lost her to locking herself in her room and becoming a shut-in for the next few years. Or at least until Nia came and dragged her out. Instead, she used her computer brain to start reading everything she could get her metaphorical hands on.

I found that she was a very straightforward woman. Honest, blunt, and very literal. And when she wanted something, she wasn't afraid to just come out and say it. Though her mind had a habit of taking trips out into left field occasionally, which lead to some interesting conversations.

"Will you bed me tonight as you have Nia and Visa?" She had asked, after we finished eating and our plates sank into the smart matter of the pavilion.

I was thrown for a loop but quickly recovered. "Err, no."

"Why? Do I displease you?"

"No," I drew the word out. "You're a very beautiful Eru woman, Inumi. Very pleasing to the eye. I don't think we should just jump right into bed when I've had all of about two or three days worth of getting to know you. Give it some time, let's get to know each other better first, and then we can talk about it. Okay?"

The dog eared woman had nodded, before asking, "How much time is 'enough?'"

"We'll know it when we get there."

Inumi frowned. "That seems arbitrary."

I rolled my eyes. "Maybe. Now, what do you say to a movie? I can catch you up on where Nia and Visa are."

The next day, Inumi joined me for ship tactics training at the same time she began her own physical training to learn how to use her new body for self defense. She was a complete newbie on the tactics side, where I at least had something like similar experience with various video games training me how to observe, plan, and execute. So she studied and learned. Alice had an entire database of such tactics and strategies. While I preferred to learn by doing, so I could see how they should work as I learned them, Inumi just read ahead and memorized everything.

Then, to spice things up, Alice started pitting us against each other. I hate to admit it, but for every surprise victory I won, Inumi found a new way to obliterate me. I preferred unorthodox methods and either stealth or brute force, where she was by-the-book and didn't seem to favor any one way of doing things.

But it was when we worked together that we truly began to shine in Alice's little simulations. Between the two of us, we started blowing through the basic lessons and Alice started upping the difficulty. Sessions that were hours long in the real world turned into weeks within the compressed time effect of higher CPU cycles.

On the real world side of things, I progressed a bit with my psyker powers, on top of the advancement I was steadily making acclimating to my new body. As an extension of connecting to Visa and Nia as I had, I learned how to passively sense the presence of other minds nearby. Inumi was a given, but I was somewhat surprised that the entire ship registered as Alice's mind—though I supposed I shouldn't be.

Additionally, I could sort of make telekinetic shields now. They were nowhere near as powerful as those that came with dedicated armor yet, but Alice said psyker shields were more effective against other psyker powers anyway, as opposed to physical objects or energy weapons.

Inumi was still trying to figure out how to make her own psyker powers work. She had the ability, Alice assured us that all of the new bodies would, she just didn't quite have the knack yet. And her physical training was abysmal, at best. Her body allowed her to do the things needed to train it, but she lacked the will to attack either myself or Alice in spars. To be fair though, she was an Eru. It took a special kind of Eru to even contemplate taking up arms. Of the three of them, Visa was actually the one most likely to do so, given the way she had defended Nia during the second assassination attempt.

Where Inumi truly shone on her own however was in taking to the social warfare database, particularly spycraft, information gathering, and data analysis. Considering the lack of people to practice against, she turned to me and began ferreting out information. From little behaviors and patterns I didn't even know I had to things that shouldn't have been obvious at first, or even second, glance.

I caught myself looking at her ass one day, clothed in a set of tights under her short skirt, her tail peeking out from under the skirt and it was only after using my computer brain to go back over the past several days that I noticed a pattern.

She had taken to wearing a uniform like Alice's immediately after Nia and Visa went in for their upgrades, but now… We would meet for something, part for a while on separate tasks, then join up again and her outfit would have changed subtly—her skirt growing shorter, her socks changing color and material and getting higher, her coat opening, the neckline of her blouse plunging further and the blouse itself becoming tighter, even her shoes went from sensibly flat to a modest inch or so heel.

Finally, when we ate together on the sixth night since leaving Eruvia and her outfit had changed from tights to high stockings with an S-ranked absolute territory of an inch or so of deliciously bare, muscular thighs, I gave in to curiosity and asked. "Hey, Inumi?"

"Hm?" She hummed around a mouthful of some frankly amazing chicken and dumplings.

"Why have you been changing your outfit?" I decided to just ask outright, since she appreciated forthrightness.

"To seduce you." I blinked at that. "I've been gauging your reaction to various changes. What draws your eyes, where your gaze lingers the longest, what causes you to become aroused, and so on." My mouth fell open slightly.

"Is it working?"

My eye twitched and finally, I glared mildly at the woman across the table from me. Turning to Alice, I asked, "Did you have a hand in this?"

"A little," she admitted. "I've been giving her lessons and she's taken to them well. I suggested that it would be helpful if she had a practical goal to work towards, as opposed to just something theoretical. Inumi wanted to seduce you and we both know you were going to do it eventually, so I figured… why not speed things along a little? It's not like I told her anything about you, either. She's figured you out all on her own.”

I glared at the shipgirl a moment before nodding. "Alright. Fine."

Standing up, I made my way around the table, my clothes falling off as I went. Inumi let her eyes roam over my muscular form as I approached her, a small smile pulling at her lips. "So it did work."

"Yeah, it did," I snarked, before grabbing her hips and lifting her out of her chair. Forcing the dog girl onto the table face down beside her plate, directly across from Alice, I flipped up her skirt and found…

"Do you just not wear panties?"

"I took them off after changing last. If this didn't work, I was going to find excuses to bend over in front of you."

Rolling my eyes, I slid the head of my cock along her small slit. Inumi's lips were thin and just as bare as Nia and Visa and her pussy was copiously wet, to the point that trails of moisture had run down her legs and likely pooled on the chair. I couldn't verify that without asking Alice however, because furniture ate liquid messes, I had noticed. Self-cleaning was a handy trait to have.

Slowly and carefully, I began working my way into her cunt. Inumi's tail wagged back and forth happily, brushing my chest in a way that tickled, even if she herself remained silent for the moment—not that I expected that to last, given just how responsive both Visa and Nia were. But just to make sure I got a good response out of her, I reached around and began gently pressing on her lower abdomen. Inumi's hands found mine and guided them down, before stopping and pressing my fingers into her belly.

"Here," was all she said.

I took that as an invitation and pressed hard, earning a quiet exhale of breath from her, almost a sigh. Wanting to see if I could make the dog girl scream, I went a bit rougher with her than I had with either of my other two Eru lovers. I stopped easing myself in, pulled back an inch or two, then slowly but surely hilted myself inside the brunette.

I felt the moment my cock passed under my fingers, brushing firmly against her internal clit. Inumi certainly felt it as well, as the small woman stiffened and her internal muscles clenched tightly around my cock before they began spasming and fluttering in orgasm as her whole body shook. And yet, aside from a breathy little squeak, she remained silent.

A challenge, then. Let's see how long you last.

Smirking, I settled into a nice, even rhythm—enjoying the tight heat of her tiny Eru cunt, the way her small body felt against mine, and even the brushing of her bushy brown tail against my chest and stomach. Looking across the table, I found Alice watching us with rapt attention, luminous blue eyes focused with laser intensity on the action taking place across from her as her hand slipped under her skirt and I heard the wet sounds of her rubbing herself.

"You like watching, don't you, you little voyeur?" I asked of my shipgirl.

Alice nodded, an ear to ear smile on her face. "I'd rather play too, but I do like watching. But Kyle, for the record, I can't last much longer on this sort of denial play. I'll go crazy."

I resisted the temptation of the low hanging fruit of correcting her with 'crazier.' Alice rolled her eyes, clearly picking up the thought, which really just proved my point. Instead, I turned my focus to Inumi. Reaching up with my free hand, I smacked her ass lightly.

"Do you like being watched, Inumi?"

The dog girl nodded. "Yes. Being taken in a semi-public setting with an attractive woman watching is highly arousing. I would have preferred Nia see my first time, but this is fine."

Her voice barely wavered as she spoke, and that mostly from the force at which I was fucking her. Then again, she got it out awfully fast and… I felt her clench around my cock again. So she's doing it on purpose.

That just made me want to see her break down even more. I picked up the pace and the dishes shook at the force of my thrusts. Inumi made a quiet noise somewhere deep in her throat before it choked off. Wanting to get a better read on her, I reached for her mind as I had with Nia and Visa. She was surprisingly open and receptive as I reached in, feeling her surface thoughts and feelings. And then I settled in and listened as I fucked her silly.

I felt her start to come again before she even realized it. As soon as she started coming. I grabbed her by the hips and spun her around on the table, face up. Looking at her face, I saw Inumi biting her lip to hold in her sounds, her face beet red, tears leaking from her eyes, and her nipples amazingly hard.

"So you enjoy it after all."

Inumi turned her head away, bringing up her arm to cover her face. "Don't look."

"Why not?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"…It's embarrassing. I only want Nia to see."

Chucking, I shook my head. "That's too bad. I happen to like your pretty face when it's all silly in orgasm and you can't just tell the person you're having sex with not to look."

She continued to hide her face, so I turned a look on Alice. I didn't even need to verbalize what I wanted her to do. Alice stood up and leaned over the table, grabbing Inumi's hands and pulling them up away from her face. "You're going to have to get used to it, Inumi," she pointed out.

"No~! Don't look!" Inumi wailed, losing her composure entirely. "Don't look don't look at me~"

My cock throbbed as her voice sent straight to my dick, and she became even wetter and tighter, clearly turned on by the situation. I went back to pressing on her internal clit from the outside, while at the same time I began playing with her external clit with my free hand. I synchronized the rubbing of my hand and fingers on her clits and shifted my hips a bit to get a better angle at her internal clit so more of my cock would rub it for longer and harder with ever stroke. Then, I began thrusting faster and harder slowly increasing my pace as I looked for the sweet spot that she would enjoy most.

The little Eru woman wailed, moaned, and cried as she begged us not to look at her pitiful face while I made her come herself silly. Seeing the normally stoic woman so utterly defeated, shamed, and most of all animated… I wanted to bully her more.

"Wouldn't Nia just be so ashamed to see her losing her composure like this?" I asked Alice, who caught on immediately with a leer.

"Yes, it really is rather pathetic. I'm already recording, but do you think I should show her once she wakes up? Maybe put it on one night…"

"Nooo~!" Inumi wailed, her head thrashing back and forth, legs kicking against the table to either side of me. All the while, her pussy fluttered as she clenched around my cock. "Please don't show Nia! Please no! I'll do, I'll do whatever you want, just don't let her see me like this, Lord!"

"Mm, Visa too. I'm sure she'd get a good laugh out of it," I continued as if I hadn't heard her.

"No, no! Not that! Visa still never let me live it down!"

Alice shifted Inumi's hands to one of her own and used the free hand to gently stroke the brunette's hair, scratching her ears as she did. "I don't know… It's pretty tempting if this is the response we'll get. You'd have to make a pretty compelling argument otherwise." Humming and looking up to me, she said, "She has these pretty ears and tail. You could keep her as a pet?"

I snorted softly. "If she's a pet, she already belongs to Nia. No point. Although… Having someone willing and eager to do lewd things whenever the mood strikes would be nice. Like waking everyone up with oral. Or giving us surprise sex. Being there to wash my back in the shower or help Visa give me a massage when I'm feeling tired…"

"I'll do it! Please Lord, whatever you want! Just don't show them my shame!"

"Okay, sure. But…" Inumi tensed as I let the word hang there for a moment. Grinning evilly down at her made her breath hitch. "I get to see your lewd, humiliating face any time I want. No more trying to resist, no trying to fight it. Give in and show me just how shameful you can be, Inumi. Any time I want it."

Inumi whimpered, but nodded her head once. "Good girl," I smiled down at her. Then I picked up the pace and force of my thrusts, hammering away at her cunt with enough force to steal her breath away for a moment, before she went right back to wailing as I worked both of her clits over. Alice reached down and began playing with Inumi's nipples, causing the smaller woman to rise part way off the table to try to follow her hand for more stimulation.

Feeling my orgasm approaching, I made sure to rub her inner clit deep and hard. I grunted as I came inside her and Inumi came only seconds later with a little mewl as my cock throbbed and my sperm filled her up. I pulled out with a sigh, sitting down in Inumi's chair.

The table parted like water as Alice hurried through, before falling to her knees in front of me. Her long, long hair acted as a curtain as she took my cock in her mouth and began licking and sucking at it to clean off our combined mess. Once I was clean, my clothes flowed across the floor, snaked up my body, and reformed. Alice stood up, smacked her lips with a grin, then turned and sashayed back to her seat.

Woman’s going to be the death of me, I mused, earning a chuckle from the shipgirl in question.