Voyagers of the Rainbow Ocean and the Void - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

---Vix continued---

We start dreaming an end up being pulled into a joint dream, at first we are back in bed on the Trycorna looking out at the rainbow mist while cuddling, then the rainbow mist coalesces into small points of light in many colours, that move as the ship flies quickly, the points of light have darkness between them and we can see very far through it, all of us, and we can see the distant crystal spheres, reflecting the sparkling light from the points, the flows look like swirling rivers of points of light that flow along the river, it is a crazy spider web of spheres, we all see spheres we were not aware of before, and flows that we did not know of, some flows have these hard to detect branches that link them to other flows, and there are flow crossroads too, had it all been hidden in the rainbow mist it would have been pure luck to find one of those, or bad luck in some cases as a few of the flows do not terminate in any sphere, but rather they either just end abruptly or enter closed loops.

We also see distant space creatures, and I for the first time see the actual legendary Spelljammer, it both scares me and excites me, I know there is a whole city in there. We also all see the vortex we created, flying around it are strange looking creatures, most of them fly back inside it again shortly after exiting, but a few swarm around it, luckily most of them are small creatures, but they all look very weird, blobs of colourful ooze, hives of tentacles, geometric shapes that should not be that warp space around them, just like our pussies warp space inside them right now, only in more twisted ways, I love how the point lights create shimmering patterns on my and Pix's skins, even to a lesser extent on Jax's skin, and he seems more mesmerized by looking at those patterns on us than looking out the window.

The more time that passes the more details fill in, though they become very tiny, too tiny even for Pix and I to see with our perfect eyes, flows and spheres and lone worlds far out there, both on flows and off flows in the stillness, we also see these opaque dark clouds and spots that hide whatever is in them, they are very ominous and then looking in the direction of travel we see our own world it is simply called "Home" in our own language, we don't bother giving it another name for others to use, and nobody has been there yet to see it, we are moving so very fast that we will be there in a few hours rather than the expected months, I love the upgrades to Trycorna, she must be the fastest ship ever now, at least I have never heard of one this fast before.

We can see the crystals around our world dancing and sparkling, giving off day and night light as they charge up energy for a long time and then flare up, there is no regular day and night cycle on our world, rather the flares of light are fairly random, but they last at least one hour, usually more, and each surface area of our planet gets at least one such flare nearly over it every day, and usually about half of the time a flare is visible from every spot on the surface, we get as much darkness as we get light, and we also get as much twilight as we get darkness or light.

It was confusing to me when I first visited a world that had a predictable cycle of light and dark and twilight, the day was way too long, and the night actually got scary and cold, it never gets cold on our world, we have no winter, we discovered snow and ice with our own magic though, but most of us do not like it, we also don't have extreme heat waves, at the hottest the air will be is as warm as our own bodies while doing intense exercise, at coolest it is enough to give us goose bumps and shivers, but we can walk naked and live outside in our world without risking death due to the elements, when it rains it can be perfect drinking temperature water, slightly chilly, but even the rains do not last long, our world is one of rapid shifting but mild weather, at least to us.

The concept of clothing was actually imported to our world by one of our explorers returning home from meeting other people at distant worlds, we had already built our cities by then, some of us enjoyed the clothes, either because it became a kink to us, or because we had a job that involved things that do not feel good against or skins, like mining or working with things that can burn our skin or sharp things, previously we made magic to protect us from those, but clothes were easier for some of the weaker magic users of our world. My own perspective on clothes is that I want to wear them around people I don't trust, so they don't get ideas, as apparently people of other races see nudity as an invitation to fuck without asking if we want to, as I learned when I first set out... No I will not let that memory bubble up now.

I kiss Pix rather suddenly and she starts kissing me back as we cuddle up together and we take turns sending our tongues into our pussies all the way out to lick the other's pussy lips and clit, we move into a tribbing position and start grinding our pussies together, moaning passionately and sending both our tongues down into our own pussies, out our pussies and into each other's pussies and then up into each other's mouths and then we have our tongues dance around with each other in our mouths as we kiss, our tongues writhe together in our pussies and our pussy muscles start to spasm and contract and release and it is the perfect storm of pleasure.

Then we feel Jax move us efforlessly up into his lap and he slides his cock up between us, our tongues wrapping around his cock as it pushes up between our clits and past or bare pubic mounds and up along our bellies to the indentation below our sternums. We giggle and focus a little bit and our tongues lick down around our breasts and then down around his cock, both Pix and I love this magic, we wonder what the limit to the length is, it feels weird for our minds to wrap around moving them sometimes but, we are getting better at it. Our pussies have also gotten used to the new configuration to some extent, although we have nowhere near the control we have when not connected, it feels good to feel each other all the time like this.

Jax moans as our tongues start licking his cock's head and wrapping around his cock "mmmm fuck aaaah, you are so amazing, goddesses of sex, and love." he has to pull rather hard to pull free from our tongues wrapping around his cock and then he pushes up into my pussy, our tongues start licking our bellies and breasts as we both moan and wait for his cock to return to between us feeling his cock enter our combined pussy and our tongues end up forming a double spiral around his cock inside us as he pushes up inside, we feel his arms and legs shake and his entire body does as well as he holds us close, he slowly exhales and keeps his eyes open and fixed upon us and then he pulls out of us, out of me and into Pix, inhaling slowly and trembling.

Jax gives off an intensely slow pleasurable moan, and then pulls back, pushing his cock up between us and our tongues capture his cock again in a loving embrace and his cock jumps and explodes up into the hive of our tongues and it ends up spraying all over the place as he hurriedly pulls back, pushing into my pussy for one shot, into her pussy for another, then mine again and he stops there and unloads the rest of his cum, cum dribbles out from our mouths and onto our breasts, I find this very hot to do with Jax, but a man with not tasty cum will never get to experience this with me, unless I have a very good reason to put up with his taste, I think I could happily live off Jax's cum, though I guess I would miss some foods I like.

Pix and I lick up the cum from our breasts and bellies and then pull our tongues back into our mouths and lick each other's faces and lips and then kiss as we send our tongues a second time down into our pussies around his cock and make Jax whimper and cum even more we both exit from Pix's pussy and start licking up the cum that has leaked out onto Jax's cock, balls and belly and around our pussy lips, it becomes a race and wrestling match to see who can get the most cum back into our pussies as we also suck and swallow most of the suction ends up exiting through the least resisting path, her pussy opening as mine is plugged with Jax's cock, this torments him with more pleasure and intense sensations. But since we are already in a dream he does not pass out.

Instead he awakens and the link pulls us with him, to our surprise we are in the same position as in the dream, except the rainbow mist is still outside the window obscuring vision, and we are on the opposite side of the bed, otherwise everything matches up with how our bodies are positioned "sleep fucking?" Pix and I think at the same time in the mind link and we make a really stupid and silly sounding laugh, spilling some cum from our mouths down between our breasts and look at Jax who is grinning at us "wow aah I better pull out before you make me pass out again, I need a bath." he says and with some effort lifts us up and places us on the bed in our entangled tribbing position and then on trembling legs walks off into the pool and collapses there and makes some whimpering sounds, probably from the fishes licking his tender cock.

We slowly start pulling our tongues back moaning deeply as it feels like a really long and but soft cock is flowing up into our pussies and then we feel rather empty as our tongues pull back out of our pussies completely, and then I get a crazy idea "Pix... um, do you think we could pull water up into our pussies and even drink that way? And maybe even shoot it out, now that we can use the suction of our mouths?" I blush after I say it.

Pix blushes too "I already could do that to a limited extent with my pussy before, I have rather good control of my muscles, but it should be even easier now yes, we might want to close the hole up when we eat though, I really don't want spicy food or drink to leak into my pussy, but otherwise I love this new thing, and I want to see if we can get used to the feeling of being joined like this and do everyday things, see if we can handle it you know? Because it feels like we are hugging each other inside all the time and I really like that."

I blush more and nod "yeah I think I would feel empty or alone without you now, you are like a part of me and I love being one with you like this, so we should only stop this if we really have to for some reason, like if one of us wants to fuck someone the other does not want to fuck, I still don't like the idea of that really huge ogre I saw earlier, his cock looked painful to me."

Pix giggles and blushes "I need to try fisting on you later, so you can get a sense for why something that big inside you feels good not bad, as long as he takes it easy."

"It did not look like he was taking it easy to me, yet you did sound like you were enjoying it, except each time he shoved you up on the bed when slamming into you, you flinched every time." I said recalling it.

"Yeah when guys bottom out in me it hurts, but if the rest of it feels good I can still tolerate it, it is not extremely painful, just something I rather avoid." Pix says and then kisses me and helps me untangle our legs and we get up and walk over to Jax in the pool and I try out my idea, closing my lips and dipping my pussy in the water I try to apply suction, but I hear Pix's pussy and mouth inhale and her tongue makes a strange fart like noise and we both giggle "we need to cooperate I think." I say

We both close our lips and dip our pussies in the water and now it is really easy to suck up the water into our pussies, the warm water feels amazing flowing up like that, and water enters our mouths and a fish pops into my mouth and I feel really surprised, then I feel several fish licking me inside my pussy and I fall into the water from surprise and squirm and once I surface I concentrate to blow the water out of my pussy and then start giggling, a few fish managed to stay in my pussy and slowly wiggle their way out on their own, I blush and although it felt sort of nice it also felt really wrong to me, fish are not sex toys or lovers, are they? I am not certain, the fish do not seem scared of us at all despite that, so they must have been fine with that.

Pix communicates covertly with Link and me in our minds "Link? Can you make it so we can close and open those tongue holes in us as easily as we can open and close our mouths?"

We both get another reward sensation and moan as he says "done, and you are really creative still, I like how you just kept making your tongues longer and longer like that, testing the limit of the spell, and to answer your question, I have limited the total tongue length to seven times the length of your bodies, as I thought that would be enough to do most anything you like, but I can make that longer if you for instance want to completely wrap yourselves in your own tongues or something like that. Actually I will let you stretch them out as long as you want from now as I like that idea a lot, just remember that the tongues have actual mass, so you need to think of that so you don't fall over if you stretch them out too far outside you."

I close all three of my tongue holes, and Pix does the same and then I open the one under my tongue and into my pussy and try sucking water in again and it works great, it flows in through both our pussies though as they are linked, Pix moans and giggles "please let the fish stay a while, I like how they feel and we both move up next to Jax and he chuckles and shakes his head and pulls up onto his thighs and kisses us.

Pix opens up her mouth to pussy hole and closes her lips and blows the water through our pussies at Jax's now resting and soft cock and then we both suck up water and blow again repeatedly and Jax moans as his cock responds and slowly gets erect, but we both just keep doing that and rest our heads on his shoulders, we are not going to do any more moves until he does. Jax caresses our hair and back and butts and pinches our butts a little bit and then gets some of the seaweed gel and starts massaging us gently and slowly as we rest there in the pool.

"So since you apparently can see how far we are or sense it somehow, how long till we get to your world?" Jax asks curiously.

Pix closes her eyes and smiles "an hour... I need to get into the helm and start slowing down soon or we will just fly by our world..." she says after blowing the water out again and closing her mouth to pussy hole, and I keep doing it on my own for a little bit until I get a burning question and then I just blow out again and close mine and then I ask "do you still have magic you can use now? Also does the link to get to your magic energy work still, I really hope it does since I loved how that felt."

Jax gazes into my eyes "you can link to me and see if it works, it does not feel like that has changed, but it does feel like I can tap into it myself too, I am just resisting the urge as I am not trained to cast spells, I would like you two to teach me though if you have time and want."

Both Pix and I move up to kiss Jax and establish the link to his magic and our minds blend together differently than Link does it, and we both pull a little of his power to us and there is a slight resistance at first and then the power flows into us and our skins get an iridescent sheen and our eyes glow softly all three of us moan at the sensation and we as one come up with a training spell that seems safe to us for Jax to try "remote caressing with full two way sensations. You can even massage us while we are clothed with that." not a surprise why we came up with that really.

Pix gets up and walks to the aft of the ship toward her door to outside "I want to take a swim before I get into the helm, you want to join me Vix?" she asks and I kiss Jax and get up "yeah, it has been a while..." and we walk up to the door and open it, the protective magic prevents the Phlogiston from leaking into the room while letting us pass through safely, we both swim out and decide to swim around the whole ship, checking the PixVixian Chidria glass integrity, it all looks completely perfect, the sailors look out from their circular windows and stare at our naked forms as we swim past their quarters and as we reach the deck it seems that nearly everyone is there to look at us, I blush fiercely, but Pix seems to just bask in the attention and her reaction helps me relax, besides most of them can't swim in the phlogiston so they would not be able to get to me right now.

We both enjoy feeling the hum of the dome shield that the PixVixian Chidria glass allows the helm to create, it pushes outward on anything solid and on phlogiston, while pushing inwards on air, it allows tooth shots, claw shots, and solid non living things to shoot out of it. The shield has zero friction with anything though, not negative with phlogiston like the PixVixian Chidria glass does but it does not have to be, its zero friction does not enhance or hinder the effect of the glass. We swim around the dome and inspect the edges between it and the actual hull before returning to the door.

We stay there floating and breathing the phlogiston while kissing each other and breathing in through our pussies, it feels crazy tingly there and feels us with a whole new level of warmth and vibrance, our bodies heal as it absorbs the energy and we become very shiny suddenly I feel my hair grow to the same length as Pix's and both our pubic mounds grow hair too, it seems our natural healing decided to restore our hair too, we feel ourselves being watched and see Jax standing by the door watching us snuggle up together and float along with the ship, then we feel the spell we came up with as he uses it to caress us all over, he does not limit it to something as simple as just one hand, it feels like hundreds of hands or not quite hands, then we realize, tongues, licking all around us and managing to give a gentle full body massage all over, and inside us too.

We end up just giving ourselves to this sensation and lose track of where we are and everything and then we have a really intense squirting orgasm, our squirt juices explode out into the phlogiston and falls away from the ship as they are not under the influence of our swimming innate magic, that lets us stay with an object we consider our current centre of mass and swim around it. We end up floating there writhing against each other and quivering until Jax finally relents as he remembers we, or rather Pix needs to control the ship. We feel a sudden jolt as we are pulled inside next to Jax, there is a small flash of magical fire around us as the phlogiston we took with us ignites, but our bodies easily handles the heat of it and turns most of the energy from it into free magic that turns it into a very bright rainbowy fire that burns out swiftly and does not spread to other things. We collapse into Jax's embrace and it takes several moments before we can stand on our quivering lets and when we can we push up and kiss Jax passionately and hungrily, we both want him in us right that instant.

Jax enjoys the kiss for a little while but he is aware of the time constraint "Pix, Vix, you have to control the ship, I promise to make as much love to the both of you once we reach your world safely as you want, I am sorry for turning you on this much and then having to deny you sex, but it is as it has to be."

We both have a hard time focusing and growl at that and then he gives us both a very gentle slap on our cheeks and we get a slight jolt of pain and adrenalin from it that cuts through the craziness, but the first thing we do is slap him from both sides giving him two hand prints, one on each cheek and he chuckles "I guess I deserve that." he says and we both kiss his cheeks and then go over to the helm, he follows and Pix takes the seat in the helm connecting her magic to it and starts funnelling energy into slowing the ship.

I take her hand and Jax her other hand and we aid her by sending magic into her, she uses the magic to increase the breaking action, both Pix and I can see our world flying towards us - yes I know it is the technically the opposite but it looked that way to me - at a really high speed, from a tiny dot until Jax says "um guys, we are going too fast, we will crash!" in a panicked tone. But Trycorna slams into the atmosphere at a relatively low, but still high speed and we skip like a stone on water over the atmosphere of Home.

On the horizon we see one of the seven over cities that is a city in a sphere high above the atmosphere, that is connected by a tower all the way down to the surface city below that has a dome, it like the others are actually in a Home-synchronous orbit neither pulling nor pushing on the tower itself, we only built seven of them around the rotational axis of our world, to make it easier for our ships to dock, most crystal spheres and their worlds do not have anything close to cities this big or things advanced like this, the possible exception being the Hive and other such trading hubs, but they are not nearly as beautiful as our cities, not as clean and like gorgeous sculptures of stone, metal, crystals, water and life.

Jax whistles as he sees it approaching and collapses on the floor stunned. Pix and I both smile and Pix caresses his hair "wait until you see it from the inside." we raise our elevation after slowing down sufficiently and align our approach with the nearest docking gate and I marvel at the way the gate looks like a beautiful inviting open pussy only with much shorter inner lips than me and Pix have, our spherical dome easily slides down the middle of the inviting passage and as we cross the edge of the opening the phlogiston gets replaced by air outside the hull, as the city is one of those with pure air inside.

We get a telepathic message telling us of where to take our ship, not that we have huge amount of traffic, but they try to make everyone get as close to the central trade hub as possible so they don't have to walk so long with their goods. We finally dock, and several mechanically enhanced sculptures of men and women extend and gently grab Trycorna holding her steady as a wide loading bridge extends from both sides to where Trycorna has openings in her railing for such, Pix let's the dome shield drop to allow the bridges to attach securely.

Pix steps out of the helm and I we walk around to help Jax up who seems to be caught in the wonder of the city, buildings reaching up and down from the central plane, made from different types of rocks, all carved into beautiful artworks, fruit bearing vines and trees and bushes, flowers and grass on the sides of the walkways, fountains and part circles where different paths connect, all of it lit by a warm sunshine like light powered by magic, just then it shifts to twilight. I silently hope that the rest of the crew and Jax can get used to our random light cycles.

We walk up to one of the windows with him to look out and he stares and after a while he says "how did you all build something as amazing as this?"

Pix giggles and replies "nearly all the cultures we have encountered in our travels have had these wars, over and over and over again, often nearly destroying all they had achieved up to that point, we have never had war, but when we learned of war, from other races, we quickly returned here and prepared protections from war, that is when we invented the claw and tooth, based loosely on your gun powder cannons, I suppose, but not really, as they use magic to create their projectiles."

I take over explaining "We also changed from just flying crystal shard proof glass to more magically enhanced glass, for the cities, just in case people from the warring worlds would come here and start shooting at the glass, not that we would choke, but the air in our cities, plus the phlogiston and explosions from guns would likely cause the entire city to blow up if its integrity was not kept."

Jax nods "yeah war is stupid, a waste, trade though, trade is great. But you must be isolated from others, so how do you get all the resources to build these amazing things?"

Pix smiles "all of that, well nearly all, is from our own planet, the only things we get from other worlds is interesting beautiful tasty unique things that we don't already have, and we try to figure out how to maintain a population of the living things we find on our own, as to not depend on the other worlds, yet we still import things from elsewhere and also export a few things from our own world, most of us make enough trading between your worlds to regularly return with a large ship full of interesting things, now I should be able to trade much faster than before, and I think Vix and I will explain this new protective and speed upgrading material to my people and maybe we will become a more common sight on the trade lanes."

Jax chuckles and is looking at the naked metallic elves walking around below on the walkways, talking with each other and several looking up at Trycorna, he waves to a few of them "I am looking forward to that, if the rest of you are as wonderful people as the two of you."

I giggle "most of us are very naïve before we leave our world, or at least I was... we need to tell our people more about how to act around the other people, the risks of being so friendly and open as is in our natures is... bad really, and it is sad that we have to learn to not be that way to stay safe."

Pix nods at that sentiment and looks understandingly at me "I am glad you are starting to feel better Vix, it took me a really long time to recover from my welcome too." she hugs Jax "but you helped Vix, and even if you don't know it you helped me too, shall we go talk with the crew and disembark with the few trade goods we have?"

Jax hugs us both close "I think I promised you sex, but we can wait with that if you two are alright with it, I am really eager to explore the city, and that crazy long tower, don't tell me it has stairs or ladders to move up and down, as I would die trying that."

I giggle "why would we use stairs or ladders? There are such and also apartments, but every floor has a teleportation pad, you can go directly to any floor you like, we have those all over our cities, and world, since well... Most of us do not want to waste time walking except when we go out to walk, as you can see many of us do, usually we teleport to a new or favourite place and walk, then teleport home. It is also how we move most of our cargo."

Jax raises an eyebrow and then asks "how do you power that much teleportation?"

Pix smiles "there is a type of crystal around our world and inside it, it normally converts phlogiston into light, but by magically altering such a crystal it will charge up magical energy from phlogiston instead of light, and they discharge it, then we have a special allow wrapped around those that captures the magic and sends it into storage, our world has access to near limitless magical energy since we discovered that, it has had a small side effect of increasing the amount of random rainbow ocean objects, junk, rocks, wrecks, that drift to our world, we think that is because we are converting a lot of phlogiston to energy and this creates a sort of very gentle flow towards our world from the surroundings, it does not worry us though as we mostly get interesting things from it, or at least harmless to us things, and most space monsters turn around as they see our world, the few that choose to attack get dealt with swiftly and we use their bodies too, some can be eaten even, others provide interesting reagents, or split apart into useful compounds or reduced to pure minerals through various alchemical processes. Or composted into good soil."

I giggle at Pix giving a very thorough explanation and diverging on a random stream of thought, but also I love hearing all these details, and so does Jax who listens intently. He then says "so I don't have to worry about your world being attacked, since you are the scariest thing in space around here at least."

Pix giggles "yeah Shadrax came here once, after we visited him, then left, did not even try to talk to us, not sure why."

I walk up to the wardrobe and look at the clothes and then I just smile and close it, I do not need clothes here, I look at Jax "do you want to have clothes on or will you go native?" Pix giggles at my term and looks at Jax to see what he says.

Jax considers "just one question, will anyone feel bad if I get a raging boner among them?"

Pix shakes her head "of course not, as long as you don't try to rub against anyone or poke anyone with it, and no shooting cum on anyone who is not ok with it either, it is generally accepted to pee or cum on the soil near the trees or in the bushes, but not the fruit bearing ones, or on those as people want their fruit to be clean."

Jax chuckles "gotcha, so don't be a jerk basically, no problem for me, you might want to tell the rest of the crew though we don't have jerks exactly, some of them are less used to being around you two naked."

"I plan on doing so" Pix says and giggles as she ascends the steps to upper deck and we follow her. The end of her instructions are "so basically to sum things up, it is alright to ask any of my people if they want to have sex, it will flatter us, but if they say no it means no, and don't mess up the common areas or food with any excretions, but things that become soil can be given to the soil, but there are toilets around too, and that will be less smelly, so try to use those. I really don't need to say this though, you are my crew, and I have selected you because you all have brains and a good heart and are not jerks or douches." she giggles at that.

Everyone gets shore leave at the same time, and all of us walk over the bridges carrying a few crates of trade goods, the crew scatter in the city. I also float the people in stasis that we rescued from Shadrax's moon, I float them to the nearest of the healing centres, Pix and Jax are following me there and we tell the healers about who the people are and all we know about them, and the healers promise to take care of them for us.

We leave the healing centre and just wander through the garden city picking a few fruits as we enjoy the beauty of it all. We find a nice little grove by one of the windows looking out over Home, a few fairies are flying about playing catch with a small spark of ever more volatile and powerful magical energy, another of the native species of our world, the game they are playing has special rules, you lose if you miss, you lose if you dodge instead of catching, and you lose if the spark blows up around you, it also tends to make you some funny colour pattern or briefly change you into some other animal or other prank like things, the only way everyone can win is if the last one to hold the shard throws it at someone just as it is about to detonate so that it detonates between everyone as then the magic will somehow produce candy, very rarely does anyone lose these games as far as I have seen, only very inexperienced fairies.

We settle down in a nice comfortable chair made out of shaped living roots from the trees around here, covered with a resilient soft purple moss that has a nice slippery and soothing gel covering it, there are also some small flowers in various colours growing among the moss, the chair fits the three of us snugly and we watch out through the window at Home, the forests below range in colours black, green, red, purple, yellow, cyan, white, blue, and all shades between, in a chaotic patchwork, and in places blending together. Not all of those are plant based jungle, there are tree like fleshy structures, mushrooms, and even mile high insect colonies that swarm, Home is very diverse, only the domed cities are really organized and orderly, and all the excavations we have made we have filled with life, no bare dead mines left behind by us. For us the ideal would be to make the entire world be made out of living matter, except for a few things made from stone, metal, crystal, glass and such like our cities, but we know that is just a wild dream, and likely not possible.

Jax finally speaks "I am feeling so very overwhelmed right now, by the beauty of your world, and sad too, that my world never got to mature into this, that it died, due to being ruled by idiots. If only we could spread this way of living to the rest of the crystal spheres, so everyone could become happy, living in this level of harmony. I mean even the other elves do not live this peacefully."

I consider this and I caress Jax's cheek and kiss him and then say "we are not completely peaceful you know, we have passion, we can get angry and such, but conflict on our world is never huge tribes, it is settled between two people and usually not in some stupid lethal manner, I am not sure if our way works for most races to be honest, for some individuals that want to learn how though, yes then it can work."

Jax considers this "I am curious about your form of government, laws and such, so that I can avoid getting into trouble."

Pix giggles "we do not have any rulers really, we just have some simple rules that everyone follows and everyone or a lot of us will enforce. The basic rule is you are not allowed to initiate any form of violence against anyone, and by violence we mean, taking or damaging something they own, we all own our bodies, and the fruits of our labours, physical or mental. So basically you can't take or destroy physical property, you can't attack someone, also you can't claim that their thoughts are your own, like if you copy their book, you can't claim it is yours, but copying someone's work and saying it is their is alright, though it is generally considered nicer if you ask them first if you can copy what they made, most of us say yes to that, and we readily trade things that can't be copied with each other, or tell people where the crafter that made it is, or in the case of plants and other things we try to let them have seeds or grafts for a small fee of course, all of us have what we need, and many of us have most of what we desire, though none of us have all we desire since even magic can't just create everything you want for everyone, we would likely suck the phlogiston dry if we tried to do that."

I nod at all that "ask anyone if they have something you want, or can do something for you that you want, and they will either say no, or tell you how much it will cost you. The currency here is deep shards, a type of crystal that we mine from deep in our world, it can hold a tremendous amount of magic in it and allow you do to really neat things with magic easier, we have small silver and gold coins holding small specks of such crystals inside a small bead in the middle, those are used for most things, but if you are buying a house or such you usually have one of the coloured gems with a speck of deep shard inside, various sizes, the bigger amount of such deep shards you have the easier the magic becomes to perform, there is a small risk though if you drain all the magic from such a shard it can disintegrate and become inert useless dust, but it does not happen very often."

Pix facepalms "I knew it was something I forgot..." she closes her eyes and sends a telepathic broadcast to our people "there now everyone in the crew has a small tab they can use for things, they know I am good for it here. Oh yeah another rule is you honour your contracts, if you want there to be an out you need to stipulate it in the contract you are making, or somehow get all parties of the contract to agree to change it later, like my telepathic contract I sent out everyone has a hundred of our gold coins worth of money to spend here, and the first one that brings up costs will explain how the money works. I think my crew deserves that much, should allow each and every one to have several months of luxury here."

I looked stunned at how much Pix just gave away "you must be really rich to give that much away, does that include for me?"

Pix smiles "you two have a red gem each, as I think as my lovers you deserve more. I have been trading for over three thousand years Vix, of course I have a lot of money, most of it is in my home down on the surface and I have a smaller home in each of the cities, connected by gateways into a single large mansion. I am so rarely there though, I like trading out there, but I bring home mementos, and the mansion is maintained by the permanent unseen and seen magical servants I have, we can go there when you guys feel like it, but I really don't want to show off or anything, I am not special, I have just worked hard for a really long time to earn all that, when I was born I was the daughter of a seamstress and cobbler, I really did not like those jobs, so while I worked those jobs I saved as much money as I could and bought my first ship when I was a hundred years old, not the Trycorna by the way, a dinky old thing it was, barely safe to travel with, but I managed to earn much more per year trading even with the crazy distances, I later had enough money to get my mother and father a nice home, and three centuries later I commissioned a new ship, Trycorna, to my own specifications, and I have been upgrading her since. I only waited that long since I wanted our best ship builder to make her, and he was both busy and very expensive, but I have not regretted waiting. I wonder what he would say about her now if he was still alive, poor old Gallagher, I miss him... I worked as an apprentice under him and learned much from him, also I stopped him from being lonely, though I never loved him, more than as a friend, way too old for me, but I had sex with him to make him happy, you know how it is?"

I raise an eyebrow and shake my head and Jax chuckles "I have not had sex with anyone I don't want to have sex with, but I know many people who do that, as a job or just out of kindness, I only do it if the act will somehow bring me pleasure too."

Pix shrugs at that "I often considered it as a work plan, I mean I had the looks for it, and it would earn more than cobbling, but at the time I did not think I could afford the magic to prevent pregnancy, and I don't want to be pregnant with some random stranger's baby, nor do I want to stop a pregnancy that has started, but now I can cast that magic myself, so it is cheaper, I still feel way too young to settle down and properly care for a baby, I am barely four millennia old yet, I mean I know most women get pregnant sooner than me... I also need to find a guy who wants to have my baby and who's baby I want to have." she looks at Jax and smiles "you might be it, but I don't know yet."

Jax chuckles "I would be honoured, but only when you feel ready to settle down, or if we can build a bigger ship where the baby can safely be taken care of. That goes for you too Vix, you and Pix are the only women who I have felt like I could consider settling down with, but I am not sure if you want to create half breeds with me, maybe you need one of your own people?"

I blush at the latter part of what Jax says "I would love to have a baby with you too, and no we are not xenophobic, but often our blood is dominant, when we interbreed with other races, very few of them get traits that are visible from their own race. Also that dominance is even stronger when the female is our race." then my mind wanders and I remember something I read about before I left "was there not a gateway that can be made with deep shards that allow both gateways to be moving and still stay connected? But maybe I am overestimating how rich you are."

Pix laughs "I am researching a version of that yes, the version you refer to is way too expensive for me, hell I am sure only the three richest people have enough for such a thing and then it will be tiny, the prototype was small enough that you could fit your little finger through it, but it works and is being used to keep a communication line between the Deep Explorer and Home. I think using strong crystal alchemy and blending deep shards with other crystals with the correct properties one could maybe make such a gate set though, I have a few promising leads but it is expensive to play with deep shards and use them up in spells you know."

I nod at that "yeah, but I would like to join your research, and maybe we can use that rod of mine to provide more power and Jax could join in too and the three of us might have enough power and insight and will to cause the correct type of material to be made."

Jax chuckles "so you could have a gate from your room on Trycorna to your mansion, that is crazy, I am all for making that happen though. Speaking of your mansion, I think I want to see it."

I giggle at that "yeah, that would be fun" there is a pop between the fairies above us and a shower of candy rains down over us, we carefully move the candy over to the top of the chair we are sitting at, never come between a fairy and its candy, never ever, it is not safe.

Pix giggles "alright, let's go" and she gets up and we go to the nearest teleport pad, and teleport away.

Continued in Chapter 5

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