Chapter 114: Velonan Nights.
Thomas couldn't help but smile as he looked around the cave interior which had now turned into a miniature interspecies town.
There were little Rptorian prides from the Gipkas running around trying to be helpful to any male they could find from either the Hunters or any of the other Clan regiments.
And they were not alone in their endeavours.
They had been joined by the girls of the Serpentinus Royal Sword packs.
They were slithering around all over the place helping to carry things and to move boxes of all sorts of things about as the team took an inventory of what they had available.
But one sight that made him both smile and chuckle was that of Lucious.
The little Raptorian male Saviour was running around towing a tea urn about and towing a little floating anti-gravity carrier filled with both cups and little plates of what looked to be sandwiches on it.
He was being aided by what was blatantly his Velonan mate by the way she was not only helping him but blatantly guarding him against the amorous looks of some of the hopeful Raptorian prides.
That's when his vision fell upon his own pride and his smile widened even more.
His girls were busy setting up a large tent that could accommodate all of them and were not only inflating the ground mattress but covering it in anything soft they could use as both pillows and blankets, namely their sleeping bags.
"Looks like your pride is making sure that you will be comfortable tonight," a familiar voice said from his left and Thomas turned to see the commander standing there next to him.
The fact that Seekers could move so silently never failed to surprise him and he nearly jumped out of his armour when he realised how close to him she was standing and by the knowing smile she gave him she knew what he was feeling.
"They've fought hard to get here, they deserve a nice relaxing night," Thomas said trying to cover his true feelings on the matter but the smile on Misty's face told him in no uncertain terms that she saw clean through him.
"Oh, I doubt that those girls have any form of relaxing on their mind right now, though if there was a hot tub or group bath around here I'm pretty sure they could change their mind on that," Misty said with a chuckle and Thomas felt his cheeks warm as he blushed.
"Well whatever they ask of me tonight they have earned every second of it," Thomas said and Misty nodded approvingly.
"You are damn right they have, you didn't see how the remainder of your pride acted when you and Vessa were kidnapped by the bugs," she said and Thomas lifted an eyebrow at her curiously.
"Oh?" he said and she shot him a sideways glance as she watched the little Raptorian women trying their hardest to ensure that the inside of the tent was absolutely perfect.
"Tezz and the rest of your pride were ready and very willing to charge right into almost certain death if ever there was almost the slightest ghost of a chance that they could free the pair of you, it took me having to assign your team to sit on them until we were ready to hit them," she said smiling wistfully as she obviously remembered the scene.
Thomas couldn't help but smile himself as he turned his attention back to his little pride and he watched the girls playing about and teasing one another as they readied everything.
"Never doubt the power of the love of a Raptorian girl, they might be small in body but they more than make up for it in the size of their massive hearts," he said softly and Misty nodded approvingly.
"Agreed, I saw that first hand and now it's your turn to show them the truth of your heart and of your love for them, tonight they will undoubtedly come to you seeking the purest truth of your love for them Thomas, my advice to you is this, do not hold back, show them everything you are and give them nothing less, just as the Grand Matriarch and Patriarch teach us," she said softly.
"Oh don't you worry about that Commander, they have more than earned everything I can give to them and so much more, they did not let me down and I will not let them down either," he said.
Misty gave him a pat on the shoulder and nodded.
"Good," she said and with that she headed off into the middle of the scrum of people, stopping only to accept a cup of tea and a sandwich from Lucious's one Raptorian-powered tea wagon.
As he turned his attention back to his pride he found that they had all moved and were all now standing before him all smiling up at him.
"Come on Thomas we need a male perspective on whether this is comfortable enough," they all said in their group-speak before grabbing hold of both of his hands and dragging him towards the tent.
It was only then that Thomas realised that Misty had given him a gift during their interaction.
Somehow while they had been speaking she had slipped a sound dampener shield into his pouch and he only noticed it because one of his pride lifted it and looked at it curiously.
The device was a small disc-like object with a series of metal claws on it that would open upon activation and was now in Tezz's little clawed hands.
"What's this, it was hanging out of your pouch?" she asked holding it up to him as her sisters guided him towards their tent.
Thomas felt his skin warm even further as he saw the small device.
"It's umm a silence shield," he said softly as he looked at her turning the little device over in her little hands.
All of her pride sisters glanced at him and then at the device and then a collective smile passed over their scaly little lips.
"Well it seems our male has designs upon us this evening my sisters and has been planning ahead of us, well I do believe we should not disappoint him or disrupt these plans now should we?" Tezz said with a grin and suddenly the guiding turned into full-on dragging.
It still impressed Thomas how strong each of his little Raptorian girls was but together they were like a wall of scale and muscle.
"How do I use this thing?" Tezz asked as Thomas was rather unceremoniously half dragged half carried into the tent and the girls quickly sealed it up behind them.
"You err attach it to the top point of the tent and twist that little dial in the middle," Thomas said pointing to the little disc as he was deposited in the centre of the plush softness the girls had arranged.
Tezz followed his instructions and after clipping it into place and twisting the dial a shimmering thin layer of glittering smokey energy rippled its way down the inner wall of the tent.
"Oooo it's pretty, so how does it work?" Tezz asked.
"It umm disrupts soundwaves by diffusing them and disrupting them, meaning that they disperse rather than being able to pass through," Thomas said.
"Oh, so it means that we can be as loud as we'd like ehh our beautiful male?" Vessa said gently pulling Thomas towards her and beginning to pepper his face and neck with gentle sucking kisses.
"Err yeah, I guess so," Thomas said with a soft gasping voice as the pleasure of those kisses began to crackle along his nerves.
Like a pack of scaly little wolves the rest of the pride closed in on him from all sides and he felt himself being slowly dragged down onto the bedding by all of them.
Vessa moved into his lap, straddling his thighs and lowering her incredible little rear end down to rest her very lightweight on him.
She reached up and slowly wrapped her arms around his neck, running her claw-tipped fingers through his hair and gently raking the tips of her claws across his sensitive scalp.
Thomas felt two sets of scaly lips crawling over the sides of his neck and he could also feel little hands moving up his arms.
"Please don't deny us this night our male, we yearn for you and who knows when we'll get a chance like this one again," Vessa whispered in a soft and very sultry voice as she kissed his cheeks and nibbled gently on his ears.
Thomas reached up and placed his hands on her slender but firm hips, which even through the hardened plates of her armour he could feel the beautiful curve of.
"I would never deny you girls anything, I committed my life to you all the moment I accepted your offer to me to become my pride, I only wish that our beautiful little pride still had all of its members to enjoy this night together but I swear this to you all, I will honour her through my actions towards all of you and when the day finally comes where we are all reunited I will give her the same honour and make up for her absence in full," he said softly as he stroked the plates covering her curved hips.
"Oh our male, once again your words honour us, I feel the guiding roots of the Great Tree at work when she led us to you and led you into our arms, we will do everything in our power to thank her for the wonderous gift she placed in our path, now let's get this armour off shall we?" Tezz said placing a series of kisses along the back of his neck.
Thomas obliged them by reaching up and tapping the release clasps which hissed and began to retract as soon as the seals popped open and the girls wasted no time in digging their little fingers into the seams to begin pulling the various parts of the suit off him.
This left Thomas dressed only in his undersuit and that did not last long either as both Cemmil and Tezz both attacked the zipper that held the suit sealed shut and he instantly felt those little hands sliding over the now exposed flesh of his back.
"Oh his whole body is covered in those little hairs," Cemmil said in what sounded like wonderment as she ran her hands over his back and left the remainder of the task of removing the remainder of his suit to her sisters.
"Damn and here was me hoping that you wouldn't figure out that I was secretly a mammal this whole time, well I guess you caught me, so what's my punishment to be hmm?" Thomas joked as he peered over his shoulder at her.
Cemmil did that adorable Raptorian equivalent to blushing in that her feathers ruffled and fluffed up making it look like she had a fluffy halo around her beautiful head.
"Ha bloody ha," she said looking at him with a mock grumpiness to her expression but he noted that her hands never left his skin even for a second.
Meanwhile, Vessa and the others were hard at work removing the remainder of his suit until he was sat there as naked as the day he was born, but strangely he didn't actually notice at first.
It was like he had become so comfortable with the girls around him that nakedness before them was not only the most logical next step but a very distinctly comfortable one to take.
It was only when he felt a small claw-tipped hand running up his now bare thigh and rapidly making its way towards his most sensitive part that he even noticed that he was now laid bare before them.
Well, that and the comments kinda gave it away.
"Oh wow, you are even more beautiful than I ever dared to imagine," a soft voice that he instantly recognised as Yexa and he turned his head just in time to see her fingertips trace the line of the thick vein running along the length of his manhood.
"Gently sister, a thing of such beauty is always fragile, so handle with care, like this," Vessa said switching on her teacher mode again as she showed off how to correctly handle Thomas's manhood.
"Hey I'm beginning to feel left out on the view side of things here, you all are getting to admire me but all I got is armour," Thomas said a little breathlessly as two small hands very gently caressed his manhood making it fill with hot blood.
"Our beautiful male is correct, it is only fair that he gets to see the delights that he will get to sample one after the other tonight and I do hope that your stamina is good our male because tonight not one of us will settle for anything less than the whole thing," Tezz said softly as she nibbled on his earlobe with her small spikey little teeth.
"More ready than I have ever been my little love, if my time in that death tube has taught me anything it is to grab hold of the very essence of life and hold the hell on for all you are worth, well tonight I am going to hold the hell on for all of you, trust me on that one," he purred softly as he reached around to guide her into a deep kiss that caused her tail to swish.
Like a choreographed dance team, the girls all stepped back from him in unison and like they had prepared this dance every day of the lives that they had together they began to remove their armour for him.
It was a sight like no other in the universe.
Thomas simply did not know where to direct his eyes as with every second that passed him by more and more beautiful scale-covered female flesh became visible and drew them like bees to the most gorgeous flowers.
Until finally all five of them stood naked before him and he was able to see each of the beautiful differences and delightful similarities that made up his pride but it seemed that the girls did have one last trick up their sleeves for him, or rather under their tails.
"This is a sight that only you will ever see our beloved one and it is one that we discussed and agreed that we should show to you since your fascination with them has been obvious to us, so my sisters are you ready?" Vessa asked looking to her left and right to a series of nods.
Then as one all five of them twirled on their clawed toes and as one they bent double at the waist lifting their tails to fully display themselves to him as they did.
The sight not only caused Thomas's mouth to drop open but to water like he'd just been given the seat of honour during the Grand Matriarch's Freedom Day hunt before the most prime cut of meat.
His eyes darted from left to right and right into the five scaled peaches now aimed at him revealed to his eyes by their lifted tails and he also knew what a distinct taboo this was for the girls to do for him so his heart swelled along with his manhood at the sight.
He moved so fast that he felt he'd have made a Seeker envious, but he simply couldn't help himself, the banquet of scaled feminine Raptorian flesh on display before him drew him like a powerful magnet right into the midst of it.
Thomas's face impacted into Vessa's rear so hard it sent ripples bursting outwards along her scaly cheeks and right on cue she issued a rather loud alarm call dropping her tail on top of his head as she did.
But this defensive manoeuvre failed in that all it managed to do was trap his face in between her chiselled but still incredibly soft cheeks.
"Whoa, how incredibly bold!" Tezz exclaimed looking back over her shoulder and instantly seeing exactly where their pride male's face had vanished into.
But as both Tezz and Cemmil swiftly discovered that despite the scaly depths that the male's face had plunged into neither of them was safe either.
As they very swiftly discovered Thomas was a master of multi-tasking and before either of them had the chance to lower their tails and hide their feminine treasures both of his hands shot out and dove for cover under them.
Instantly both Cemmil and Tezz added their alarm calls to that of their sister and despite their tails dropping defensivly it was already too late for them.
The beautiful scaly plushness of the cheeks that he now had cupped in both of his hands drove Thomas onwards and his hands glided over the glass smooth scales of both Cemmil and Tezz's rear ends, sliding effortlessly under their tails seeking out the incredibly sensitive little fleshy triangles that they hid.
While his hands were on their attack mission so were his lips and tongue, he planted a series of deep sucking kisses on the scales of Vessa's rear and he could feel her tail quivering in nervous pleasure the closer he got to her sweet little fleshy triangle.
As soon as his lips touched it he instantly began to run his tongue over that boiling hot hidden flesh and he felt a quiver pass through the whole thing and it also caused another effect, it caused her legs to buckle out from under her.
This caused the powerful Raptorian Star Stalker to drop forward onto her hands and knees and this had the wonderful side effect of causing Thomas to fall forward with her while also taking both Cemmil and Tezz with him.
This also caused Thomas's face to slot perfectly in between Vessa's plush luciourous scaly cheeks and it forced the now dripping lips that were hiding between her thighs right against his lips.
"Holy shit our male took down three of our sisters in a sneak attack! This cannot stand, Vix on me we are counter-attacking our beautiful male will not take this pride down without a fight!" Yexa yelled as she saw all three of her sisters on their hands and knees now with their tails in the air.
"Ohhh by the Great Tree how is such pleasure even possible! I've never felt anything like this, how can having my tail hole touched like this feel soo fucking good!?" Cemmil squealed as her tail began to wag as she began to lose control of it.
"Don't ask me all I know is now I know what the Golden Garden feels like!" Tezz moaned as Thomas's fingers slid down over those fleshy little triangles and vanished between the velvet-soft lips that were hidden below them.
Meanwhile, his tongue was in heaven, it had found its way in between the velvet soft fleshy lips of Vessa's womanhood and was desperately seeking out every single little drop of thick Raptorian nectar that it could find in between those soft fleshy folds.
But while on its desperate mission if found an even more tempting target, it found a tight little fleshy burrow that it could potentially call home.
"Oh by the Great Tree! He's licking inside me! I can feel his tongue licking my insides!" Vessa squealed with a voice dripping with purest delight.
"He's touching inside of me!" Cemmil moaned loudly.
"And me!" Tezz yelled in a pleasure-soaked voice as his fingers found their hidden little burrows and sought to set up home there too.
But that was when Yexa and Vix launched their counter-attack and because his hands and lips were currently very busy attacking the sensitive hidden nerve endings of three of his scaly little wives, they were unable to fend off the lips and little hands of his other two little wives.
Both Yexa and Vix began by peppering his neck and chest with kisses and loving little licks, while Vix attacked his nipples with her silky little vicious tongue, Vexa began trailing kisses down his torso.
He could also feel her little hands running ahead of those soft little lips and tracing the gaps between his muscles as she moved southwards, infact they arrived at her destination a solid minute before her lips did.
She began to cradle and caress his manhood in her little hands which actually kinda made it feel massive despite being of rather average human size.
Her little claw-tipped fingers ran hungrily up and down his shaft testing its firmness like she was learning how to properly grip it without injuring him on accident which of course was exactly what she was doing having never done anything like this before, let alone with a human.
Now Vix joined her sister and Thomas felt her little hands speeding down his body obviously not wishing her sister to be alone and without support during her counterattack, so while Vexa's hands occupied themselves with his shaft, Vix's slipped around it and came up from underneath.
She cupped his heavy balls one in each little hand and began to roll them around while gently squeezing them, this caused a gasp of pleasure to break free of his lips and escape into Vessa's sensitive womanhood.
This caused her to let out a low moan as the vibrations of his voice and the wash of hot air that carried it washed over her most sensitive flesh.
"Oh it looks like our counterattack might have caused a bit of friendly fire," Vix said with a soft laugh.
"Oh well I guess our sister will simply have to be collateral damage for the war is not yet won!" Vexa said playfully and for a moment Thomas's pleasure-soaked brain wondered what on Earth she could be going on about, that was until he felt something very hot and slimy coil itself around his entire shaft.
It seemed that his wives learned fast from the example of their husband, not only in the art of attacking when it was least expected but also from a totally unexpected angle.
No sooner had he felt scaly little lips wrapping themselves around his tip and using that boa-tight tongue to push his foreskin back when she realised that it retracted than he heard a soft voice.
"It's working dear sister! I'd better push the advantage, Star Stalkers never retreat!' Vix cried and suddenly he felt another little soft slimy tongue playing over the sensitive flesh of his balls and not only that.
Thomas was fighting hard to maintain his composure as while two of his wives were learning to suck the pleasure right out of him he was battling to lick and finger it back into three of them.
It had become a battle of will and attrition as to who was gonna pop first.
As it turned out that honour belonged to Vessa.
As his tongue whirled and swirled around her incredibly tight insides he felt her beautiful tight little fleshy tunnel beginning to contract and it was doing so pretty much in time with the soft moans and delightful wails that were escaping her.
He could also feel her tail spazzing out above him and rubbing over the top of his head before it somehow managed to double back on itself and press against the back of his head in order to force his lips tight against her loins.
Then with a tremendous wail of the purest delight imaginable her little love tunnel clamped down hard on his tongue and tried desperately to milk it dry.
As her strength fully left her Vessa fell forward onto her face and lay there giggling and babbling in pleasure as the aftershocks of her orgasm rippled throughout her body causing little spasms through her beautiful body.
As it turned out, Raptorian prides were far more in sync than Thomas had ever realised.
Despite mauling Vessa's sensitive parts first it wasn't long before both Cemmil and Tezz joined their babbling sister on the mattress and the three of them lay together in a giggling, babbling pile of pleasure-soaked Raptorian flesh.
But that still left two of them and they were on the attack.
Vix and Yexa were still counter-mauling him and were both ravenously attacking his cock and balls with their little tongues.
But a Hunter of the proud Grand Matriaarch Tik eleth Mason does not go down easy (unless there's a cute Raptorian ass in his face.)
So rather than just lay there and take his punishment for pleasure mauling his three little helpless Surface Stalker wives, Thomas decided to add two more to the pile of giggling scaled-flesh.
With a tremendous roar of masculine pride and willpower, Thomas reached down and grabbed hold of Yexa before hoisting the surprised little Raptorian into the air and spinning her upside down.
Before the surprised little Raptorian could gather her thoughts Thomas put his newfound love of the taste of female Raptorian flesh to good use and ravenously dove his head in-between her powerful little thighs.
The squeal of purest surprise and delight that broke free of her as his tongue drove its way through those fleshy little gates and burrowed deep into her pleasure centre was music to his ears, not to mention his heart.
"He's licking inside of meeee!" Yexa squealed as her tail thrashed and spazzed out above his head signalling her brain short-circuiting due to the hot squirmy human organ invading her insides and tasting every surface it could reach.
"So bold!" Vix gasped as she looked up at her dangling helpless pride sister who had a look of pure bliss written on her face, while it also looked like her eyes might roll into her skull.
Vix decided to take her sister's place and continue the attack while her sister was held as a pleasure hostage by their crafty pride male, she nearly swallowed his whole manhood in her attempts to subdue him with passion and pleasure.
But despite her best efforts Vix failed.
As Yexa let out a pleasure-soaked screech above her she looked up to see their pride male tenderly laying down her babbling sister amongst the pile of her other sisters who all swallowed her up in the group cuddle.
This only left her valiantly standing alone against the bold passions of their pride male and she got the feeling this battle was about to ramp up into a full-blown war.
Thomas leaned down and tenderly stroked the sucking little Raptorian's muzzle before gently guiding her up off his manhood.
He lifted her into the air and then lay her down on her back before him, he could feel Vix's little heart hammering in her chest like a piston going at full chock in a mighty engine.
"Just relax my scaly little love, there is nothing to fear, especially not me, I would never hurt you, I would die for you, for all of you," Thomas whispered softly to her as he manoeuvred himself in between her powerful thighs.
There were so many roiling emotions inside of Vix right now, she never in a million lifetimes thought that she out of all of her sisters would be the first to be taken by their human pride male, but as she glanced over at her four sisters all she saw were pleasure soaked smiles of encouragement.
She felt Thomas's human manhood rubbing over her entrance and along her scaly belly, she found herself wondering how in the name of the Greta Tree all of that wonderous human flesh was going to fit inside her small body.
But by the Great Tree, she was going to try!
Her pride had been placed in his path, she and her sisters had snatched him from the clutches of all those other females and had made him theirs, now it was time to prove that they were worthy of him.
She was going to match him stroke for stroke, she was going to love him!
Thomas rubbed his manhood over the soaking and silk-soft little lips of Vix's womanhood, coating himself in a generous amount of her thick, slippery nectar.
"I want you so badly Vix, please let me take you," he whispered softly as he leaned down to kiss her deeply on the mouth.
"Take me our male, make me yours as you have already proven that you are ours," she said softly, trying to keep the nervous tremor out of her voice as she spoke.
The smile that lit his face at her words was like looking at the purest beauty, it made Vix's heart soar in her chest, so powerful was the effect on her that she didn't even notice him breaching her until there was a sharp pop and she realised his entire tip was now inside her.
The sensation of that thick pillar of human flesh burrowing its way slowly deep inside of her was like nothing she had ever imagined.
The loud moan that escaped both of them harmonized perfectly and Vix reached up to wrap her arms around Thomas's neck so she could pull him back down into a deep kiss.
She also used her thighs to help control the speed of his thrust as his manhood was much bigger than that of any male Raptorian and her little body simply wasn't made to handle it.
So she had to adapt to it and that meant slowing him down and allowing herself the time to get used to it, not to mention this being her first ever time with a male of any species meant that her tightness was at its zenith.
Vix's pussy was like sticking his dick into heaven.
She was so tight it was like Thomas was wearing her like a second skin and he could even feel every little ridge or bump that lined her insides as they stretched over him.
"Oh by the Great Tree Thomas!" Vix moaned loudly as he bottomed out inside of her and to his great surprise, he felt his balls press against the little fleshy triangle that held her tail hole.
She had taken his entire length within her and was now gripping him so tightly that he began to worry that he might not be able to pull back out of her.
A wicked idea formed in Thomas's mind and using his superior size to good use he began to grind his hips, causing his manhood to stir Vix's sensitive insides like he was stirring a pot of sticky taffy.
Oh how Vix moaned in delight at that, he possibly felt the pleasure he was causing her ringing in every note she let out, it was pure magic to hear and it only spurred him on.
To his surprise and delight it turned out that Vix's nectar made an incredible lubricant and prevented her iron-tight muscles from holding him inside her with any real conviction.
So Thomas begins to thrust deep into his little Raptorian wife and to his delight every single thrust sends shockwaves of pleasure through them both, he can almost trace the paths of the pleasure rippling through her following the same paths as the ripples their collisions are sending through her scales.
But ever the proud Star Stalker Vix was not going to be outdone, so with a monumental effort she began to find her own rhythm that matched his.
Wrapping her powerful legs fully around his slender hips Vix began to push her womanhood onto his cock so that every thrust synced up perfectly, making sure that he got as deep as it was possible for him to go inside of her.
The result was Thomas letting out a series of grunts and moans that were as much music to her ears as her high-pitched squeals of delight were to his.
Accompanying this was a crescendo of wet-sounding slaps as his flesh met her scales over and over again as the pair of them pushed one another closer and closer to the building climax that was welling between them.
Neither of them was sure exactly how long they lasted together, it could have been seconds, minutes or even hours.
But so lost in one another were they that time simply seemed to cease to exist between them.
It was like the entire universe simply shrunk down to two little specks of light that were fighting to become one singular ball of brilliance amidst the darkness.
And that's when it happened.
Neither of them could be sure who popped first but what was sure was that it echoed right into the other causing them to lose themselves as well.
Their moans entwined nearly as perfectly as their flesh did, Thomas could feel every single drop of his thick human seed being drawn from him by the relentless suction of Vix's womanhood that had turned into a little fleshy vacuum cleaner, somewhere along the way.
Vix felt like she was being blown up like a balloon, she could feel her human's seed filling her up to capacity but yet her body refused to let any of it go, it was being greedy and wanted nothing more than to drain every single drop like that essence was the essence of victory for her.
The pair collapsed together into a sweaty panting heap, with Thomas being careful to spin himself so that Vix wound up atop him rather than crushed under him.
After a little while the pair of them lifted their heads to smile at one another and something made Thomas turn his head to the right.
As he did he realised the rest of his pride was grinning at him and suddenly he got a feeling of foreboding, he got the very distinct feeling that after this night was over he would be walking up to every single one of the Drill Sargents who had forced him through the pain of exhaustion and had made him realised that the only limits he had were those that he let himself succumb to and would shake their hands.
Though with all those Yautja girls running around all over the place was it any wonder the humans got drilled so hard?
After what felt like hours the pride finally collapsed into a panting heap together with Thomas at its centre.
All of them were completely spent and all of them were wearing the very same goofy contented smile on their faces.
"Now I finally understand why the Great Tree didn't bless us with a pride male sooner, she was keeping us for something special, something wonderful, we must have pleased her in a way that I for one don't understand but give my thanks to her that we did," Vessa panted as she turned over to plant her head on Thomas's heaving chest so she could play with the little hairs that grew there.
"That's a feeling I can concur with, if this war is going to claim us at least we can stand before both the Eternal Huntress and the Great Tree and tell them proudly that we made the most of the love and the gifts they blessed us with," Thomas said.
"Don't talk like that our love, even if it is true I still want to keep our promise to Jex, we will come to her when the Great Tree deems it right and not a day early," Vessa said.
"Fair enough and don't worry my little loves, I will fight to the bitter end for every one of you, no one is going to tear this pride apart ever again, you have my word on that," he said softly and all of them nodded in agreement as it was a sentiment they all shared.
Slowly the night moved in and claimed the exhausted pride and when sleep finally claimed them their dreams were joined with that of their missing sister so they could tell her all about what she had coming her way one day in the distant future.