Rani stood tall and said, “Six!”
Aeyli said, “Six from Rani. Belle, what number do you say?”
Belle smiled and said, “Alexia for sure. She works in wood. She’s very good. I think that she would come today if we invite her. She wasn’t in the meeting last night. I think she is forlorn. I think also of the tanner’s assistant Myndee, and Manya who sells weaving. But, my number is six, for now.”
Aeyli said, “Six, six, and, cough, just three. But, I say we give him a chance to change his vote. For me, I also say Alexia must be our first choice for number four. We have to wait a bit. This time, we need to go more by customs, such as they are, moldy and crumbling dead things to be sure. Belle has named other very pretty girls of good nature and character. Um, my thoughts go to Myndee and Sashar. I don’t know that I know who Manya is. Remember, this number is for now , I mean soon, not right now. But not for all time. We will go forward in steps. We don’t want to leap too far and find no ground under our feet.”
Rani said, “You both suggest very good women. Mark, what number do you say now?”
I said, “Three!”
Aeyli smiled and said, “Good, Six it is. We will commission a new bed big enough for seven people!”
I shouted, “Seven?”
Aeyli smiled and said, “Unless you intend to sleep alone!”
I said, “Oh, yeah, six plus one. Hey, does my vote even count? I told the council that you listened to me! Was that an act you played?”
Aeyli got serious, saying, “It was no act, my prince! You are our king. Your wish is our command. And yet, you have placed yourself in my hand, haven’t you? When it comes to some things that may be best for me to decide?”
I said, “I have. You’re right.”
She continued, “Mark, our love, we play with you. If you say three and no more, in seriousness, then it will be three and no more. We play with your number three because we can feel that just as we have bound ourselves in an instant, there are others, women we love, who will want a chance at happiness, and we have happiness to spare. Think of tall, beautiful Alexia, her breasts bursting with milk because her body betrays her and her mind has no say in it, just as it was with us. Picture in your mind, you saying that you won’t choose her and sending her to her death. You have the power to give her life once again, or to send her away, never to mate or know love. Do I need to ask if you will give her life or death?”
I said, “Aeyli, when you say it like that, you know what I’ll do. Bring her here now and I’ll do what you want this minute. But is it really like that? You say that she’s beautiful. Won’t some other good man have her?”
Rani said, “Mark, what is life like where you come from that you truly don’t know? It’s as if you had been asleep since before the fall of time. Alexia is lovely in body and spirit, but you saw that only three men before you in all the village have three mates. There are no more men who will take a mate now! There are 200 men and 800 women and only 300 women have a mate. There are 500 forlorn with no one to love them. They resign themselves to dying young and childless. You will teach the men, but we will never have mates for all of these women unless this plan produces far more men. We can wait a hundred, or two hundred years, but things have to change or we will cease to be.”
Belle said, “Mark, my body chose you, and you could have rejected me, but you didn’t. You wouldn’t. Think. Tell us your number for the house. Do you say three, or do you say we must be open to a few more?”
I sighed and said, “Hear me, my number, and I will not consider a single number higher than this no matter what you say, my number is firm: five hundred and no more! I swear it. If you bring me more than that I will run away. Say your numbers again and see if we can agree.”
Aeyli: “Six”
Rani: “Six”
Belle: “Six”
I said, “And I say Six, for now. Call the carpenter and Alexia. You break my heart, do you know that?”
Aeyli said, “Let me make your heart a bit lighter: Alexia is the carpenter. We will invite her to talk and work, but we must be patient, no matter what her body says that she wants.”
Belle said, “Mark, your heart is so good; and you worry way too much. The math is simple. There are ten days in a week. Four weeks in a month. Ten months in a year. If you would take just one of us between the furs each day of the week, that’s ten mates already. The only one that you must make love to every day is me; the others will be happy with less. According to the laws, you take the number of mates that you can satisfy just twice a month. If you take me once and then one other every day, that’s twenty mates that you easily satisfy. Two per day? That’s what you’ll do before breakfast! Do you think that you’ll be too tired after just two? After you have fed at our breasts? Do you worry that you won’t be strong enough? For as few as twenty? I say that you are more than strong enough. If not, I’ll let you make love to me just every other day if you need more rest. No, on second thought, I’ll shove my tit in your mouth and revive you and you’ll take me every day!”
Rani said, “Mark, Belle teases you. But, she’s right. Let’s assume new numbers. If you take us between the furs, just one a day, and if there are ten mates, we are with you four times every month! No other woman in the village has so much love! Think. You haven’t had your breakfast yet. What will happen when you do?”
I said, “You have me. At breakfast, I’ll show Belle what we can do in a chair and then I’ll give each of you a turn as well. So, you’ll be happy if we have six in bed? You’ll be satisfied with me?”
Aeyli said, “Is that what you are afraid of? What you did to us just yesterday afternoon would last a reasonable woman for six months!”
Belle said, “But, I am a most unreasonable woman!”
Aeyli continued, “Mark, think of it this way. Is it better for a woman to live in a house where a man loves her and she calls him prince, though he only makes love to her once a month and even then she doesn’t see the ‘little death’; or for her to live alone, unloved, and no one ever to taste her milk? What do you say? You answered us already: you would take 500 women into your house rather than see them forlorn. The council has spoken and all are agreed. The bed will be made for seven; for now.”
Rani said, “Good, shall we go downstairs?”
I said, “Wait, I have a question about women and if there is a thing that is the same as it is on Earth. There is a spot that when touched, makes a woman… excited.”
Aeyli said, “What are you asking? You rub that spot on us as we make love and you licked mine with your tongue until I burst.”
I said, “No, I mean a different spot. Will one of you let me look for it?”
Rani was the first to say, “I will. What do I do?”
Both Belle and Aeyli groaned in disappointment that Rani had spoken first, but didn’t complain.
I said, “Come here and lie down and I’ll sit beside you on the bed. Spread your legs and I will look for the spot. I want you to try not to orgasm. Hold back as long as you can. If I don’t find what I’m looking for, I promise that I’ll make you happy for letting me try.”
Rani lay beside me on the bed and spread her legs wide and grinned. I sat beside her, at her hip, and placed my hand between her legs and stroked her labia gently.
I said, “Remember, try not to orgasm.”
Rani’s breathing was already becoming heavy. I gently pushed and slid two fingers into her vagina and turned my palm upward and touched her, feeling for the rough bulge that would indicate a G-Spot.
Rani yelled suddenly, before I had even begun to explore, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll try harder!”
All of the girls were extremely responsive; making them happy every day really wasn’t going to be difficult at all. I hooked my two fingers upward and felt for my target. Rani clutched at the furs and bit her lip in her attempts to resist another climax. I found the spot that I thought might be it and pressed upward, massaging it firmly, and Rani screamed!