Lara picked up the silk sun dress; her eyes tracking the long legs of the girl as they strode into a huge, four pillared, open Polynesian styled veranda overlooking the ocean.
Lara followed, and was greeted by a breathtaking view of both the Pacific beyond the cliffs, and the beautiful girl she had followed seated on a giant hammock, her captivating eyes smiling invitingly into her own. She was so beautiful, so sensual, and so real. Lara was awestruck, humbled; she wanted her, needed to be wanted by her; and there was something else in those eyes: a desperate longing that mirrored her soul - SHE needed her just as intensely.
"Kotti ni kite," the girl gasped out, her full red lips trembling as her flat belly visibly fluttered.
"Come to me," Lara whispered breathlessly, repeating the girls plea with equal need, tears welling in her beautiful eyes. She swallowed hard, as her mind swam in a tempest of endorphins. Her fevered eyes moved from the beautiful, dilating eyes; to the sweat beading on the blushing rising breasts; the firm thighs rubbing nervously together; the cherry red lips panting softly as the delicate fingers danced near the achingly scarcely concealed sex. She closed her wandering eyes and moaned softly as the wind carried the longed for scent of a woman's arousal to her expectant nose.
Lara, her body flushed, her hands sweating, heart racing, took a long, deep breath, and stepped to her.
The girl smiled that same joyful smile she first gave her, like a lost child seeing her equally happy mother.
Lara blushed as the girl took hold of both of her shaking hands and squeezed them gently.
"Please sit," the girl asked softly.
Lara, her hands still held by her beautiful new friend, sat beside her on the hammock, their thighs touching lightly; Lara suddenly looked away from the others eyes nervously...
It was the beauty who spoke first, her soft, comforting voice gently coaxing the Brit out of her momentary shell; her soft, loving, familiar caressing fingers pulling Lara's long brown hair away from her lovely face, "Why are you crying?"
Lara had momentarily forgot her tears, sniffed and turned to the girls loving eyes, and gasped at their beauty, and the compassion she found there. She found her words sliding tentatively from her lips, frightened of coming on too suddenly from so genuine a place in her heart to a stranger, "I... like you. I've never been so... anxious around anyone like this. I'm overwhelmed, I feel I should be on my knees before you." she smiled, and stroked the girls inner thigh.
The girl gasped, "Never."
"Never?," Lara sighed, embarrassed by her own assumptions; perhaps the girl was drunk the other night. She made to rise, "I'm sorry. I thought... forgive me."
The girl suddenly leaned in, seeming in a panic, and held her hands as if fearful of letting her go, like a drowning woman clutching a piece of driftwood "It has been a long time. I sometimes forget the playful aspects of... "
"No harm done," Lara gasped through her smile, "It's been a long time for me too. I mean... feeling this way about someone I just met is odd, but... wonderful."
"Perhaps we've met before? In another life?" the beauty asked.
Lara smiled, "I never used to believe in that sort of thing, before... before..."
"Yama...?" the girl began to say in a whisper.
"I never should have," Lara abruptly interrupted; her words rushed, spewing from her in an unnerved torrent; triggered by her anxiety, and the sound of the girl's voice starting to say the name - a fragile, hastily constructed damn gave way to one last raindrop, "I should never have suggested we go into the..." she tried to sniff back a tear, staring at her own feet, her hands clenched together, her thoughts fragmented, "I wish I'd... oh God.". A moment after she briefly closed her eyes, her tears flowed freely again
The girl dropped to her knees before her, her right hand gently covering Lara's, her left caressed the Brit's tear streaked cheek, "Do not cry," she pleaded, "I cannot bear... cannot see why you feel such guilt ."
"I was the one. I was the one who..."
"Did you force them to board the ship?" the girl interrupted.
"No, but I..."
"Did you want to go on till all food was gone?"
"No," Lara looked into the beauty's unflinching gaze, "We wanted to..."
"Go home?"
Lara just stared as the girl placed both hands on her face and brought her mouth inches from her own, she was trembling, "Wanted to discover Yamatai... find..."
The beauty caressed Lara on the chin as she lightly brushed Lara's lips with her nose, "Himiko?"
"Yes," Lara panted.
"Well," the mysterious beauty sighed as she closed her mouth over the flushed Lara's lips, "you found her."