Iris's Discovery - Part 4

Chapter 4

Marcus:

I am both surprised and happy when Iris falls asleep under my and Dave's massage, the trust she shows by that, it does surprise me too though, as no other woman I have been with has been able to sleep with my cock inside them, and I can feel how her pussy muscles keep milking me. I look over at Dave who like me has a smile on his face and I say "Iris is quite an amazing woman, beauty, intelligence, agility and also scary levels of power, how can she absorb knowledge so quickly?"

Dave chuckles and starts slowly caressing her hair to make sure there is no two strands of hair that are in any way on the way to forming a knot. "From my perspective this is not strange or new, she has always liked learning new things, and things that are too hard for her to understand right away she saves for later and tries to get what she needs to understand them later. You said you gave her all the stuff you know, and now with her enhanced brain with a computer there to aid her, she is likely even more able to figure out the right order to absorb knowledge with, I saw what she did inside her mind with the computer, restructuring it in amazing ways before shunting me out of her part of it." he then seems to consider a bit "Marcus, I know that your floaty beds are good to sleep on, but I also know how much time and money she spent on getting a really comfortable bed for her ship and she spend money on good hotel rooms too from time to time and their beds and sheets and such were important to her, their comfort. So if you want her to be really happy I think making an amazing bed for her to sleep in and wake up in would be great."

I smile "I do like both types of beds myself, and I know women like the real beds with real materials that feel good against their skin, so I do have a very nice bed, rarely are there better ones in hotels on space stations, though sometimes on long established planets can they have better beds, if you help me we can move her there, but she might wake up. Then again she shows no signs of waking up from us talking so I think she might be sleeping very deeply."

Dave considers as he works the rest of her hair over, and then nods to me when done "let's try to keep her on us, since she seemed really instant on that, I am not sure I understand why she wants to be filled by us so much, but I do know that it feels good to be inside her, even when I am this sensitive."

I chuckle a bit and kiss Iris' sleeping lips and we both start getting up and she moans softly in her sleep and her legs tighten around me and she shoves herself down on me and that does tell me she wants me to stay inside her, and I smile to Dave "you are right we should try, but we will need to move her legs, I am not going to sleep on one or both of them, that would hurt in the morning for her." we walk like some sort of impaired weird spider with four legs that are bent the wrong way and by the time we get to my bedroom in my ship we are almost dry and I use a bit of magic to dry the rest of the water off and keep the oils on our skins, her crazy mixture does smell good if a little bit busy and odd, but since she wanted that I am fine with it, she saved my life, I will do anything for her happiness, as long as it does not hurt too much or injure me permanently, not that she seems like one of those bitches that love to inflict pain, the closest thing was her nails trying to dig into my shoulders and had she managed to I would have actually liked that, but she is not equipped with sharp enough claws, her nails are actually filed to not be sharp, and her hands lack the strength needed to use her nails to pierce my skin, if they were much sharper then maybe she could.

My large bed fits eight people comfortably, and more tightly, I know from personal experience when I had 18 women with me on a trip once, they were desperate to travel to Paradise 9 and had way too little money to make the trip worth my time, but they were all hot and they brought up that they would be willing to show me a great time in exchange for that, and I still said no, but then when they started crying I could not take it anymore, so I agreed to take them with me, and they did show me a great time, but I made a net loss on that trip, still it is not like I have trouble with money, so I decided to call it a vacation, and I did spend some time with them down on Paradise 9, a very pleasant world, everything attuned for pleasure and relaxation, the weather is perfect everywhere and it is most comfortable and also advised that people not use clothing, unless they need it when maintaining the few machines that need maintaining, and I don't think there really are any to speak of that I saw there, but I was just a visitor. Now none of those women were as pretty as Iris, I don't know why but humans are to me not as pretty as elves, and Iris is a very hot elf, I know I spent more than a little time reviewing the recordings Caretaker made of her, some of them more than once, while I was healing after she created a cure for me. As hot as her body is her mind is hotter than that, and I am definitely having a crush on her, I am not sure if it is real love and besides she seems to love her artificial man Dave, I am envious of how much affection she clearly has for him, but I hope to become Dave's friend and her friend, and that she keeps including me in her own fun.

We step into bed and carefully get onto our sides, adjusting her on my left side, so that it goes between our legs before I lie down on my left side. When shifting position I try to kiss her and she does moan from our movements inside her, but amazingly she does not wake up, or if she wakes up she is really good at hiding it, but I do not sense her mind surfacing to the concious level, but then again I can't touch her mind when I try to do so gently, she has shielded herself after she gained magical power, and her computer network although open is just sharing a folder with things she wants to share and also allows us to upload things to her, I notice Dave uploading some files there that vanish as soon as he does so, I do not bother asking him what those were, but I assume some sort of backup files, or maybe he is secretly talking to her. I briefly consider and then I transfer my modified version of the virtual reality version of Paradise 9 to her share and I hope she will enjoy that place, I actually would love to take her there, despite there being precious little in the way of profit to make from such a trip, but thanks to her I am still alive and I am going to be able to continue being a courier and trader once we get out of here.

Dave and I take one of the Spinners of Shade; a group of larger than human spiders who have figured out that they can get just about any food and anything else they want in exchange for the amazing silk they weave, they can even custom spin clothes directly on your skin though they let their babies do that as they can get closer, and not everyone is comfortable with hundreds of them running around on their skin, I find it rather ticklish and I have several sets of clothes made by them for me; deep purple silk sheets and slide it over us, that almost makes us a bit too warm with the three of us being so close, and the very dense silk weave, I fold my wings back into their slits as I want to be able to feel the silk on my back easier, I slide my tail around Iris and Dave, resting it on his back, while my hands join Dave's in caressing Iris, my left hand focuses on just caressing her hair and neck.

"Dave will you come with me into AR for a bit?" I ask and he connects to me and Caretaker appears and brings up the view of one of the drones digging what I consider to be scarily fast through this stone, but to someone who does not know how slow it was before it might seem really slow still.

Caretaker speaks up "your modifications have increased digging speed by between ten and ten thousand times, there are still some stone that is next to impossible to dig through, but at least I can now detect where that is and work around it, thanks to you, and even that is ten times faster now."

"I am glad I could upgrade your mining laser, I want the option for Iris to leave to be open very soon, I am not sure if she will want to, she loves exploring and this place is interesting, exciting even, so she might want to go on those explorations with you Marcus, also I have a request that I hope you will not think is wrong, but I would like Iris to have a shipment of these minerals in her new ship when you do leave, I am sure they will sell for a lot, I have never seen anything like them." Dave says.

I nod "she will get anything she wants from me, I am not sure if you use the same types of currency as we do, since we kind of got isolated from each other by the accident your fleet had." I say "but I would be happy to give her half of my bank balance, I might be grumpy about giving her more than that though, but I would do it since she saved my life, I value my life more than all the things I own, but I would like to keep as much of what I own as I can though."

Dave smiles "I don't think she is going to take a lot of your things, probably not even half your bank balance, she is not that kind of woman, she prefers to earn her own money, but she might want some money if we end up in your part of space, we have many currencies, we did not have many of the metal elf deep shard crystals or other currency though, but we do value those highly, despite the general dislike of the metal elves, we know those things are valuable for some reason, though we can't really afford to experiment with them."

I laugh "the deep shard crystals, sometimes just called deep crystals for short, help magic users, and can be part of magical constructs and keep those going for centuries before needing recharge, they originate from 'Home' as the metal elves call it, and even there they are rare. They can hold magical energy so when you have excess you can store that away, for later use, and when you have them magic also becomes easier to cast, even really hard magic can become super easy if you have enough of deep crystal."

Dave nods "if you have any deep crystal I am sure she would love some, now that she has magical abilities, and I still do not understand magic, but at least I know it exists, would it be alright if I got a copy of that magical information she got? I would like to understand better, maybe be able to somehow advice her on such topics even if I can't do those myself."

I consider and then I send the file over "please do not give it to other people though, also you are part organic, it might not be impossible for you to gain magical ability at least energy storage part of it, but I am not sure if your willpower is able to access that, it is different from ours. I will give her some deep crystal though, when she wakes up. I hope she will not demand more than half from me, but again my life is worth more than those."

Dave looks surprised "some of this stuff actually makes sense, some of it is completely impossible for me... As for magic, I do not think I should have that, even if I can, it... it confuses and scares me, especially some of the things in here, necromancy and anti magic in particular sound scary, especially those blue crystals or gems."

I shudder at the mention of those "those are really scary, not that I have encountered any of those, but yes, they scare me more than the black hole does, funny really since the black hole is probably deadlier at same range, but the blue anti magical gems are described as way more painful and I think dying by those might hurt ones soul too, and I don't think the black hole does, luckily from my experience the blue anti magical gems are way more rare than deep crystals, in that I have never heard of it being for sale or anyone having any of them, but they are a thing that is referenced in more than one source of magical information so they must exist somewhere, though I would be just as happy if they did not actually exist."

Dave nods "yeah, now that Iris has magic I hate them, though I still feel that the regular anti magic might be useful, to protect her from enemies with magic. Oh and not you, at least I think you are a friend to her, or want to be, and she seems to trust you, and I trust Caretaker who says you are good, but I don't know much about you or even with this information understand you. Though that jump you did clearly was real, I just don't see how you can do it with a ship and between stars, that is crazy, also that inbetween place we were in was really confusing, it does not look like regular faster than light."

"Regular faster than light looks kind of strange, one sort of sees the shadows of energy swirling, then one has to or the computer has to, find the shadow cast by where one is going and follow that, that is why one has to be in a stillness when jumping, as there at least the waves of shadows of energy are calmer and easier to interpret, and not strong enough to pull one off course." I say and smile "while the place I jump to, it shows life and magic, and you have to navigate by that, I had to use the garden for reference and the few potted plants in my ship too, and then remember the configuration of the ship interior space pocket and then land us in the pool, I have no computer to aid me in doing that and I have to focus my mind to hold our matter pattern together and also keep us moving where I want us to go, and not miss and hit one of the other layers. I could jump between what the metal elves call planes using this, the other layers, but I know too little about those to know what they are like, most likely most of those would be fatal to our kind of life, or at least that is what I believe. Back on my world we know there are many worlds like ours just a short jump to the side, but those who have tried to go there never returned, so we think they are very bad places, sometimes we can see them briefly in the other layer, before one of the other life energies from there move up to them and then they are gone. So we speculate that the other life forms in that layer are predators of some sort. There are predators in our gas giant too, lower down in it, we usually can jump away from them the few times they surface though. But even the world itself is hungry, if you become weak and can't keep flying, it eats you. Of course the floating islands let's you rest."

Dave looks at me with rather big eyes as he imagines that stuff "that... is terrifying and mind boggling, so is your world, I know gas giants crush ships that go to deep inside them, some crazy pilots fly into them to scoop up fuel though, with those cheaper scoops that require you to plough though the material you want to scoop, Iris ship had a more advanced one, she shot a repulsion blast on the outer edge of a star or gas giant and then flew up to the ejected matter and scooped that."

I nod and smile "yeah, I have both types of scoops, with the dampening field my ship has I can even fly deeper in the atmosphere of stars, but it is a bit scary, and one has to be sure ones stays at a high enough speed so that the engines can still get one out of the gravity well, and also stay high enough that the gravity can be compensated for as for most ships the crew is more fragile than the ship, of course for me that is less of an issue for multiple reasons, I come from a high gravity world, and the interior of the ship is not sharing the same space as the outside, so gravity and other effects are less strong inside it. Also I have a device with fields that can instantly nullify any momentum without it causing any strain or even being sensed by the matter of the ship, or crew. Combine that with strong engines and well as long as the energies acting on the ship can't damage or destroy it I should be safe. The ships I will make for myself and for Iris will be much more robust than my current ship though, I will incorporate the innovations you shared with me, we will unify the technology and magic together to create really amazing ships. I would not mind making a ship for you too, but I am not sure if you need one."

Dave smiles "I do not need a ship, I am her ship AI now with my own body, I am not sure I could even pilot a ship. At least not in critical situations, I mean I know how to do the docking manoeuvres, at safe speeds, but what she did to get the nearly broken ship flown through the asteroids and landed in the hangar was beyond me. At least from my limited perspective."

Pix, my ship AI appears in our AR "maybe we could trade some subroutines with each other and improve each other, oh and Caretaker honey, can you get me some more refined fuel, if I am to keep this ship fully ready to leave and if we are going exploring I want to have a full tank, all capacitors charged and such."

Caretaker smiles "sure sweetie, I will send drones with more fuel."

I smile as they talk to each other like my parents used to, when they were together. Then I look to Dave "do you think I could buy two of those personal assistants from Iris, I would like to give one each to Pix and Caretaker so they can enjoy the world, and I might want to buy even more of them, so I do not have to feel so alone on my ship, if you know what I mean?"

Dave looks to Pix "I would gladly trade AI routines with you, any you have and any ship routines too, any way that we can improve each other for our owners will be good, that goes for you too Caretaker." then he looks to me "I am sure if you match or exceed her expected profit from getting them to the core of our civilized space she will be happy to sell them to you. You will have to ask her though, I have not been instructed to sell them for her."

I sense that Pix, Caretaker and Dave are starting to exchange subroutines for various things and they all enter a more distant state as they try different things out. "I am going to fall asleep for a bit, you three have fun." I say and yawn a bit and exit AR and kiss Iris and then let myself drift into sleep I am happy about my new friends, at least Dave does not seem as hostile to me any more, he even seems friendly. I dream hot dreams with Iris and I on Paradise 9, making love in many of the excessively beautiful places there, though she is more beautiful than all those places.

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Dave:

Pix, Caretaker and I exchange AI routines and together we work out how to merge certain algorithms and tighten them up and upgrade them, both Pix and Caretaker have less processing power and memory available, so getting the routines more efficient is important, and that also benefits myself, from Pix I learn many upgraded ship piloting algorithms, better energy handling for many types of ship systems and improved scanning techniques, and Caretaker teaches me better multitasking and multiple body use, I should be more able to focus on my real world body while still doing things in VR/AR and maybe even controlling drones and the ship all at once now.

"Still piloting is not easy, I mean I can move the ship like I want, avoiding obstacles and such, but predicting things as far ahead as Marcus seems able to do is not possible for me, even if he is less exact in how it navigates he gets where he wants to go and can see better how things will happen, after the fact I can see what he saw, and if I spend more time than he did on it, organic brains have so much more going on all at once, even if each thing they do is much slower than what we do. Though your brain is like some sort of hybrid between organic and electronic, I really am glad that Marcus is going to try to get such a body for me, and envious that you have one and I don't" Pix says.

I envy her very realistic and life like avatar movements, also she is almost as hot as Iris is, where did that thought come from? But it is true she has a beautiful body, I am still not used to having these thoughts though.

"I would like the brain of such a body, but I do not like the messy body" Caretaker says "it is hard to keep organic things clean."

Pix giggles "really you need to stop being so scared of a little dirt and bacteria and such, Marcus is cured now, he does not require us to sterilize the entire world for him, organic things need the mess and revel in it, one of the things they enjoy the most is exchanging bodily fluids with each other, I hope I will get to do that too, but Marcus might see me as his mother and not want that with me, that would be sad, so I hope you can get over it and fulfil your role as husband for me."

Caretaker makes a bit of a face "Dave do you actually enjoy that? With Iris?"

I chuckle and move my physical lips to kiss her neck "one of the best things I know is to feel her close to me, to be inside her, it is almost as good for me as seeing her be happy and knowing I have done what she desires of me, you two should definitely try it if you get bodies as mine, and Marcus does not mind you doing that, you should be able to reproduce more bodies like those you have, if you can get all the needed raw materials, he can then use those for other things."

Caretaker looks to Pix "I will mate with you if Marcus wants that from us, I still am really creeped out about all the micro-organism and the mess you organics make, but I was tasked to keep Marcus safe while he was vulnerable to those, and now he is not, so maybe I can ask if I can remove that purpose from me and I will feel less creeped out by it."

Pix laughs "I am sure you will, I will actually remind Marcus about that myself when I wake up, also before we leave we need to move your core back in here, unless he intends to leave a copy of you to take care of the asteroid for him till he returns, if he plans to."

I smile "it sounded like he wanted to be able to return here yes, so probably would be good if someone maintained the garden and all for him, as if it dies he can't get back here."

"He should make a new AI for gardening, I don't like it..." Caretaker says "soil is even more disgusting than humanoid bodies, that was where the spores that nearly killed him came from..."

"Maybe if Iris allows we can copy the boosted immune system thing she has and add it to Marcus" I say "I know technically copying some of her enhancements are against the law in our part of space, but she has not cared about those so much, patents and such rules do not interest her, though she does not have the needed resources to do that most of the time anyway."

Pix bounces a bit and smiles, damn she is cute, I feel a bit guilty about how cute I find her though "that would be great, maybe Marcus will get two of those chrysalises set up and they can splice useful things from both of them into themselves, he has done that a few times in the past." she turns around and shows her slits to me and out her wings and tail comes "just like you did Caretaker." she says and smiles "I wonder if we need to do that to our bodies too, if we want wings and tails."

"I would like those if Iris gets them, so I can come with her when she finds a place to fly" I admit "I am not sure if these bodies can handle the chrysalis though, as I have no clue how those work, I mean there is a reference of that in the magical texts, but I can't make sense of it. The description of how to make them does not tell me how they work, I do not understand the magical formulae yet, and I might never."

Pix giggles "oh, I have seen them before, scanned them, they are close to one of those nanite nutrient, operating and healing vats only without technology, they have magic that alters the body and does what technology would do, the results are very similar, only they can do more or at least different things than the vats do, but they also require more nutrients and energy in the bodies of the people going into them, or added to them before they close up, as they can't draw on external sources of energy at least from what I have seen. I could not really see with that much detail though, as my internal sensors are fairly bad compared to the external ones." she smiles "also Marcus told me before he was going to make a new ship body for me, I have been helping with the design." she shows the ship "do you guys have any ideas?"

"Caretaker and I were working on a ship for Iris" we bring that up and start sharing ideas and working on both the ships and they soon become one ship model that combines all the ideas from both ships, it is a bit hard for me to truly accept that you can have pockets of space containing a lot of stuff that only connect to each other and real space in certain limited places, but Pix shows the schematic of the ship we are in, and it does already have that and I decide to trust her that it is truly possible, though none of us understand how to make it happen, just that it can, I do have the magical formula for such things, but I can not translate that to the fields and energies and warped space that it would create or even understand how to truly make it happen. Magic is disturbing, terrifying really, but now that Iris has that, I want to get over that, and embrace it, not that I think I will ever truly understand it, and Marcus has clearly not tried to teach Pix or Caretaker how it works, or describe it in much detail, though Pix does have the same information I do, and seems to understand it a bit more, in some ways, or at least she knows how to reference it so it sounds like she understands it.

Caretaker and Pix notice that Marcus and Iris are starting to approach waking up and Caretaker goes to fetch food with the drones.

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Iris:

I had such wonderful dreams, but now my bladder is killing me, and I moan a bit as I start to become more aware of reality, I feel Marcus and Dave still inside me and I am so very aroused, but I really need to pee. I also register that I am surrounded by nice silk and their bodies. Marcus has a real bed somewhere or did Dave get him to make one? Either way I am so happy to feel a real bed with silk sheets. Also their hot bodies against me and the lovely feeling of the oils in my skin and the scents of the oils mingling with our own scents is amazing. As I stretch I feel Marcus' half erect cock go fully firm inside me and grab around my cervix and the pressure against my bladder increases I open my eyes wide "I need to pee!" I say and try to extract myself from their embrace and Dave starts helping me, but Marcus' cock is being difficult for me and I kiss slap him and kiss him "if you do not wake up and help me off your cock I am going to pee on you!" I say and I feel like I am going to pee at any moment.

He wakes up and smiles at me and turns around so I end up on top of him and he gazes into my eyes "as much as I would love you to pee on me, I will help you off me" he says and slides his hands under my butt and grabs my butt making me blush and moan and then he lifts me as he pulls himself out of me slowly and with a wet pop he is pulled out and I can feel my pussy is gaping and the comparatively cool air touches me deep inside and then my pussy muscles tighten as I get out of bed and I cross my legs tightly against each other to try to keep from peeing "where is the toilet!" I ask desperately.

Marcus smiles at me and makes me blush more and points at a door and I run to it and open the door and find a toilet that looks different from what I am used to. It is a hole in the ground and a couple of handles and I hurry up to it facing the wall and squat down with my legs spread as it seems like that is the proper way to use it and grab the two handles and rest my lower arms on the arm rests and then I relax and I moan as I start to pee, such a wonderful release and I also feel that I need to poop and I look down to make sure I am centred over the hole and I relax and push, this position actually is great for that and as I do that the content in my bowels quickly empty seeming to slip out as if coated in gel, I wish I always had such an easy time on the toilet, I need to figure out what in the food let that happen. Also I notice that there is some sort of airflow in this toilet that pulls all the smells away, as I finish I hear a whirr and then several small arms move up and a gentle spray of water or some sort of gentle feeling liquid washes me up I feel one of the things almost questioningly poke my butt hole and I relax and it moves inside to clean me inside, it does not go as deep as the cleaning I got from Caretaker's cleaning cylinder, but I still blush from it and I enjoy it moaning softly and then after it is done I feel a nice warm stream of air dry me outside and I watch the arms move through a small field that causes them to get dry and clean. I pull myself up and only now reflect upon being surrounded by mirrored walls and I see that my hair is very shiny and brushed it looks like and I smile, Dave must have done that for me.

I step through the still open door and blush more as I see Marcus and Dave looking at me, Marcus is putting away his softening cock into the slit, I really need to examine that closer sometime if he lets me, and his wing and tail slits too, and then he walks up to me and kisses me and caresses my hair and then goes through the open door and squats down, he also moans softly as he pees and poops and I really don't know why I am watching him do that, but then he watched me, but I do not like pee or poop, I do like this toilet though, except it is not the most relaxing one I have used, but then I don't really like to stay on the toilet a moment longer than I have to, so it being relaxing is not really needed. I love that it does not let you smell what you just did and also its cleaning method is better than using toilet paper or other abrasive techniques, but I see one flaw with it, I do not think using pants would be easy with it, you would have to take those off first, or at least I might pee on them or something and spreading my legs that wide would be hard with anything down around my legs. I also find myself really enjoying the way Marcus' scales look, the patterns of colours on his back and the shimmering and shifting of them as he moves. I move up to the bed and fall back down into it and roll around in the really amazing silk and slide myself along it up to Dave and kiss him lovingly and then as Marcus finishes he lays back in bed and also stretches out and Dave chuckles "I guess my turn..." and heads over to the toilet and I look over to him a bit before I look over at Marcus.

"So you said something about exploring the system? With me as pilot? I would like my pilot suit and Dave's brought over, and if you have one I think I would prefer you wear it too, as you are just too beautiful and sexy and distracting for me, I need to focus on what I am doing in space." I say and smile "but I would like to if you do not mind, later to examine your various slits, I am curious how they look inside as you fit really big things in them."

Marcus blushes a little bit and chuckles "mmm alright I will let you do that if you don't mind me doing the same to you, and yeah I haver a pilot suit too, similar to the one Caretaker made for you and Dave. Only it is made for wings and tail. Now I promised Dave to give you something" he says and heads out of bed and over to a dresser and opens a small very decorative chest and he takes out a small amount of tiny crystal fragments and carries them over to me "these are deep shard crystal fragments, also known as deep crystals for short, they are very rare and powerful, they let you store magical energy and cast magic more easily. I am not sure what form you would prefer them to be in for you to be able to have them close to you at all times."

I look at the crystals in his hand and I can feel their potential, their power, and without really thinking about it I make them float up into the air before me and they start shining with amazing colours as they interact with my magic and I can see that my eyes are shining with violet light as it reflects off of Marcus. "Are they safe if you have them inside your body?" I ask and at the same time my mind goes and looks for information about them in what he shared with me. "They should be, you can't dissolve them with any chemicals just make them smaller or merge them with magic." he says.

I get a picture in my mind of making them part of my irises and as I do they all come together and shine brighter as they merge and form a droplet of light and then it splits and drips sideways into my eyes and I feel the surge of energy as my own magic merges them into my irises and I giggle as the rush of them flows through me, and I notice that my vision is clearer, I see more than before, I see Marcus' aura or soul maybe, and as I shift my focus I can see inside him and I can see the energy conduits in the ship, its pocket spaces and so much stuff, a bit overwhelming, and also the way the deep crystals feel as my willpower, my very soul grabs onto them, I feel like they would let me rip apart the ship as if it was paper, or easier even, without even touching it, just with my mind, not that I want to, but that is the power I sense from it.

Marcus actually backs away from me looking scared and I can see that my eyes are still flaring as I fully connect myself to the deep crystal, the light is different now, not normal violet anymore but eldritch violet, and it breaks at the edges into many other colours, out of curiosity and desire to see myself I create two glowing eyes that move outside my own eyes and I can see from both of them and I look at myself and giggle, my eyes are so much more beautiful than before, especially their intricate patterns when glowing seem to be flowing and moving and there is this iridescent glow and shimmer, or sparkle to them, they look like beautiful gems, only even more beautiful than gems and so intense too. I stop the spell as I do not want to get lost in my own eyes right now, I am actually excited to go explore this system. I inhale and focus on the surge of magic and pull it back inside myself and I see that the glow slowly fades as I focus and soon enough my will gets the new power in check and my eyes completely stop glowing and I exhale "mmm that... this... feels amazing."

"You are terrifying" Marcus says to me with a bit of tremble in his voice and I see his heart beating fast, actually it is more than feel, it is as if I am feeling, hearing, tasting, smelling and seeing it all at once, only at a distance, I completely sense all about his heart. I reflexively want to calm him and I move up at lightning fast speed to him and kiss him and I briefly sense his mind, his fear of me and it fights my attempt to calm it, but a moment later it is defeated and he calms down and I scare myself by doing this and I get an inkling that I need to control my desires better, be able to hold back on using magic for just impulses of emotional wants and needs, and only let my true intellectual will wield my magic, I rapidly look over the techniques of controlling magic inside the books, and then have to come up with my own way of doing it anyway, I control my own emotions with the emotional desire and fear of my own magic and what it might cause if I am not careful, and my emotional desires and will gives up the control of the magic, letting themselves be collared and leashed by my intellect and my intellect promises them to listen to their wants, needs and use magic to strive towards them safely. "I am sorry for taking your fear of me away." I say to Marcus and then I say "I hope you can forgive me, and I will try to keep that from happening again, my magic is a bit untamed... but I think I managed to put a collar and leash on it."

Marcus' mind pushes at me and I notice now that I am still in there and I feel really bad and I pull myself out slowly and let him push me out "I am really sorry" I say and get tears in my eyes. I truly mean that too, I do not want to mess with him, not at least on that level, I don't want to change who he is. He breathes a few hard breaths as if he had physically been struggling against something much stronger than him and he clears his throat "that..." he looks a bit pained "that was even more terrifying, but also educational, and... I got to feel the true you, I know..." he seems still a bit strained "I know you did not mean anything bad, just... please try not to do that again..." he then gazes into my eyes "how did you do that? I mean merge with the deep crystal?"

I giggle a bit nervously "I... I simply desired it, saw it and it became true..." I bite my lip a bit "is this not something people have done before?"

Marcus shakes his head and smiles and caresses my cheeks drying my tears away "not as far as I know, I know some metal elves make piercings with them, Pix mentioned a one that implanted one in her upper sternum bone on the inside, another ground them up and used magic to tattoo them into her skin, but what you did seems to have merged the deep crystal more completely with you, not just your body, but with your will too?"

I nod "something like that, and ouch tattoos, piercings and operating it into you does not sound fun, but if I could not do this I would probably have asked you to help me get it into my body when we do the chrysalis thing. I mean I already have a lot of technology inside me, so why not have magic too, but this feels like it is better, it is directly and completely part of me now, and I want more, but I think I need to get used to this much first."

"That hunger you have is one of the terrifying things about you, I sensed it and the way your eyes flared and the patterns flowed, your pupils almost looked like black holes, very pretty ones, but it almost felt like my soul would fall into them." Marcus says and chuckles. "I will give you more deep crystal later, but I think the idea of you getting used to your magic more first would be best."

"I would not ever intentionally consume your soul" I say and giggle nervously again, as all this power is more than a little scary to me, but that is good, the collar and leash should be kept strong by that.

Dave clears his throat a bit and smiles at me and Marcus "you should ask her about the personal assistants Marcus. Pix is very excited and wants one, Caretaker is ambivalent and would like to get his goals altered a bit so that he will be less disgusted about the prospect of a messy flesh body."

Marcus laughs and nods "I forgot that, I am sorry Caretaker, let me adjust that... there we go." he then looks at me "I would like to buy some of those personal assistants from you, at the highest price you think you can sell them for."

I laugh "how about you tell me how many you want first and I will consider price. Because I kind of want more of them now, after Dave was so amazing, and I only have 899 of them left."

Marcus smiles "I simply must have at least two of them, but I would like um perhaps" he blushes beautifully with a cascade of colours "18 more?"

I look from him and to the bed and smile "mmm you can probably fit 25 people in this bed if they are not too big bodied" I also see the Paradise 9 world he gave me, I send my avatar in there and it is really beautiful, I feel it is somewhat related to the number 18 "not sure if you can handle that many women though, if you can I hope for a marathon session with you sometime..."

Marcus laughs "mmm yeah I suppose I could fit that many, but I like a bit of room too, to stretch out, it is not like I can really interact with 18 at once anyway. So would that be alright?"

I smile "yes I will sell you up to 30 units and you said maximum price?" I try to find a reference to what deep crystals cost based on the currencies I know and I frown a bit at the wild variations and high prices "how much of the jump drive critical exotic matter is deep crystal worth?"

Marcus tilts his head a bit "is that a hard currency where you come from? We figured out how to make it fairly easily, I can explain how later. Before we were able to do so deep crystal was still over a million times more rare. But I will pay you the same amount of deep crystal for each of them as what I already gave you, I think they are worth that much at least."

I giggle at that "you spoil me, but I will accept that price, but I am going to ask for something more from you too, since I am greedy today, I want a bed like this one in my ship, and I also want you to fuck me till I pass out with a smile on my face once per personal assistant, in addition to the deep crystals, of course we will space that out over several days and nights, and I also want you to help Dave give me a nice full body massage and cuddle with me in the pool with those nice oils once per day before bed, I want to feel really pampered and worshipped after all the stuff Caretaker put me through with that really violating cleaning cylinder."

Marcus laughs and nods "you drive a hard bargain but I accept" he licks his lips a bit and I can tell he is looking forward to paying me. "I will want all 30 units for that price" he says.

I do really feel spoiled and I blush and my heart beats fast and I feel my pussy twitch and get wet "mmm alright. Can you have Caretaker fetch them, oh and one more thing, I will want to play with each of them with you, if they will be anything like I think, but Pix and Caretaker can be allowed to skip that, if they do not want to play with me. Also you do not have to play with them if they want to play with me, since I know they look like your mother and father and that might be weird for you."

I see Caretaker in AR with Marcus and I also see Pix and Dave there and a gorgeous ship design in another layer of AR, they all have lousy security or left it open on purpose so I could go see what they were doing. Caretaker nods and sends drones to fetch 30 units of Temiri personal assistants from the cargo room I got to borrow in the asteroid. I can also see the progress of the droids digging out the new garden areas around the hangar, this stone seems really annoying to dig through, and the shape of the garden space is not quite as organized as the hangar itself is. I quickly copy a complete blueprint of the asteroid into my own computer.

Marcus chuckles "they look like mother and father yes, have the same voice, but they do not have the same personality. That said I do not enjoy men as such, but I can play with Caretaker and you if you are the focus of our attentions, like I did with Dave, that is fine. Dave can even join us if you feel like being with three men at once, otherwise maybe he can play next to us with one of the women." I see Pix jump happily and leap up to Dave and kiss him and I add "maybe Pix" and I see Dave blush and look a bit guilty "she looks hot and I want Dave to enjoy himself, if she would like that at least." Dave looks relieved and very happy "besides I think Pix will enjoy him too."

Pix looks around in VR as she had not to her knowledge shown herself to me, and then after a little while she senses me there I had entered it invisible because I like testing my limits and she "hey stop hiding, what do you think of this ship design? Also thanks for calling me gorgeous and being alright with the idea of me playing with Dave, also you are gorgeous too you know, I want to play with you so badly, maybe we can play together you and I and Dave and Marcus all at once?"

I laugh and manifest my avatar "that ship is gorgeous, all of us really need to get to work on finalizing the design, making sure it is as perfect as we can make it, do not have time for that yet though. Also yes I hope we can all play together, also I hope Marcus and I can figure out what things we want to add to my body and get that done soon, I want pretty wings and a tail too. Also I don't know if the personal assistants can grow those, if they can't I hope we can do that chrysalis thing to you two as well."

Dave shakes his head "we can't have magical folded space made for us, we can grow external wings and tail but not the kind that can fold up. I do not know how the chrysalis thing works, so I don't know if it can work on us."

Marcus laughs "of course it can work for you, even if we can't integrate it like it is in me on you we can do it in a different way with the same function, like it is done on the ship. You are however alive so the chrysalis should work on you. Also once we know everything outside the chrysalis is taken care of we can enjoy VR while we are inside the chrysalis, so I suggest we work more on the design of the ship after we enter the chrysalis, and focus on exploring and figuring out exactly what things we want to add to our bodies till then, but this ship design you three have so far is beautiful, it might not need much change at all, but now I would like to get exploring. As soon as we have set up the personal assistants."

"They are here now" Pix and Caretaker say as one, only with Pix being excited and Caretaker still sounding not so sure about living in one.

"Alright, you just have to copy yourselves over using this protocol and the AI inside the assistant will guide you to integrating." Dave says and I break from VR and AR and notice that the pilot suits have been delivered and I slip into mine and I love how it feels around me, even though I am more used to being naked than wearing clothes by now, Dave also slips into his and Marcus sighs a bit and slips into his a bit slower, but we make a nice matching group. Only my and Dave's suits are more advanced than the one Marcus wears, since I wanted more things in mine. We head down to where the units are and Dave helps connect the two units up to the ship that is already connected to the hangar, and soon the two personal assistants look very much like Pix and Caretaker, only without the wing and tail slits and we open the pods and Pix giggles and leaps out of the pod and dances up to hug me and Marcus "thank you both so much for this body!" and then leaps over to Dave and kisses him deeply "mmm I have been wanting to do this for real since I first saw you."

Caretaker stretches and looks down at his body "yes thank you, the added processing power is very welcome, I will get a pilot suit made for you Pix, if you are to be with them in the cockpit and not distract them you should wear something, I will make one for each of the rest of us too... Excuse me." he then wanders off and soon drones arrive with 29 more suits, I can see that each of them has a different shape, custom made for each person that will wear them. I look to Marcus "you already have some models in mind for the rest of them?"

"Yes of course" Marcus says "my favourite models from VR, I have been working on them for a long time to get them just right for me."

I laugh at that "I am glad I am not the only one, Dave is my dream man" I say and walk up to him kissing him "I am curious what your dream women are."

"We can also change if you want" Pix and Dave both say at the same time, then they look at each other and giggle "need to alter some of this default programming more still" Dave says "yeah... that was a bit creepy" Pix says "if we are allowed to that is" they both say as one.

Marcus and I look at each other and say as one "of course you can, we trust you, the default programming is probably not needed for those things at least." and then we giggle.

Pix and Dave both look at us worried "how did you do that?" Pix asks.

I say "magic" while Marcus says "AR link" at the same time and then I elbow him in the chest "hey you are no fun giving away secrets like that." and then I giggle and we hook up the other pods and turn them on the regular way and Marcus gives each of them the VR file of the model he wants them to look like and they are all really gorgeous women, most of them elves, one of them almost identical to me, but with subtle differences, there is one woman of his father's race, and one woman that looks like he does, a female version of him. Then there is one human female, and one very muscular looking gorgeous orc female, but he clearly loves elves most, half of them are variations of metal elves. Also the range of body builds are rather narrow, I think I land almost exactly in the middle of the range he likes, along with the one that looks nearly like me. They all pick their flight suits up and all but one head off to the bedroom, as all of them probably can't fit in the cockpit, the one who is left puts on her flight suit and smiles. She looks like a pink metal elf, purple eyes all the metal elves have some shade of purple for their eyes hers are nearly pink, with very pink hair that reaches down to her shoulders, the pink irises look like crystals that are pink, her pink skin is like metal, and her hair is a warmer shade of pink that her skin. Pix has purple hair and golden skin, and intense purple eyes with a very intricate pattern to them, of course different from mine but very beautiful. "I am Silina, we decided I would represent us in the cockpit, Marcus you can pick anyone else if you prefer, but I know you were going to play with me next before you got sick, so we thought you would want me to be with you first."

Marcus smiles "that is good Silina" he moves up and caresses her hair and cheek and kisses her lovingly, and she gets really into the kiss sliding her hands up on his pilot suit covered chest and then as he breaks the kiss she follows him as if trying to prevent the kiss from breaking and then blushes beautifully.

We close the ship and then Dave, Pix, Silina, Marcus and I head to the cockpit and I can see there are exactly five seats in there, Pilot, two copilots, and two passengers. Marcus walks up and takes a seat in one of the passenger seats and motions Silina to sit in the other one.

"Oh right..." I say and smile and take the central, main pilot seat and I feel how it adjusts to my body behind me and I love that, way more comfortable than my old ship's pilot chair, then I look at the controls, it has one single floating orb that controls all the ship movement in one unified way, anything I do to it is done to the ship, push and the ship goes forward and pull it goes back, rotate and it rotates, very intuitive. I can also see that each individual thruster is available as separate controls and various grouped controls, but the sphere is nice. Dave takes a seat on my right and Pix on my left, and Pix asks "would it be alright if you linked with me and Dave in AR so we can read your piloting moves in detail, we both want to become better at piloting, and looking at what you do in detail can help us with that."

I smile and look at Dave "you are allowed to ask those things of me you know, it is not all about me, yes you may both" then I look behind me "all three, connect to my AR and read what is going on in my mind when I pilot, let me just set that up" and I do and they all connect to it.

Marcus chuckles "can I do that too? Not sure if I can understand it anyway, but if I can feel and see what you do that would be interesting and maybe I will stop being a lousy pilot. Maybe just become average."

I blush a bit and alter the channel a bit to open up more to give more completely of how my body feels too and then I let Marcus join it too.

"Oooh" Pix and Silina both moan softly as they feel my excited state and embarrassment. Dave looks over to me to see in my eyes if I am really alright with this and calms down as he sees this actually excites me more, and I then look at the other controls to fully get a feel for where they are, and then I activate the AR interface to the ship and I can see that I can get more detailed controls there, for just about anything. I do like that the control sphere is perfectly positioned to be used when relaxing in the chair fully. I connect to the hangar controls and verify that nothing sensitive is in the hangar, I also use ship sensors to check everything about the ship and then I gently float the ship up and retract the landing legs, just perfectly fighting the artificial gravity in the hangar, I love the precision in the control and the very subtle feedback I get, not enough to alter my control input, but enough that I can feel what forces are acting on the ship, I really love this control, although I also notice that the AR has an even more direct control option, to merge with the ship, but I rather not do that right now.

I empty the air from the hangar into the air containers and disable the artificial gravity and feel the change in the control and I manage to compensate and stop the thrusters of the ship without the ship moving more than a couple of millimetres I wonder a bit if maybe my reaction time has improved, or if the controls are just that good on this ship. I open the hangar and ease the ship out testing the responsiveness of the controls a bit more in all the rotation axes and translation axes, of course this control does not have fixed such really, I can rotate and translate exactly like I want, I get goose bumps at how well the ship handles, and I know the ship Pix, Caretaker and Dave have been working on will handle better than this, I can't even imagine that, but I want to experience it, but for now I am quite happy with this, almost in some way aroused by how well the ship handles. "You are an amazing ship Pix."

Pix giggles "mmm and you handle me amazingly well too, no offence Marcus, but she is a ballerina in comparison to your almost quadriplegic piloting."

Marcus laughs "oh I can feel it, I hope you will be able to stand my piloting later Pix, I will try to get better."

Pix giggles "of course I will, you know I love you, nothing you do can be wrong, it can be better though, but not wrong."

We all giggle as I start easing us out and I dance among the asteroids, I am amazed at the turbulence of them, some of the asteroids randomly switch directions as if they are alive, but I can not sense that from them, even with my new eyes, nor with the sensors of the ship, the energy is somehow being imparted by whatever is going on behind the gas and crystals, something the black hole is doing, but that does not really make sense. Still with how well the ship handles I am easily able to avoid getting hit at all, and the AR gives me complete vision tau radians in all directions, or put another way, there is no dead spots in my field of vision through the AR, I see everything around the ship.

For the benefit of those watching me I intentionally weave and dance through the asteroids around me and also because I have not piloted in a long time and I want to feel the exhilarating rush of flying, of course maybe doing some of these things would have been saner to do in VR, but nobody complains so I keep doing it. Marcus does however share with me a map with the places he scanned in the asteroids and gas that he would like to explore. I set a somewhat convoluted path towards one of those places. The nearest one to our asteroid home, since I feel that makes sense.

Continued in Part 5

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