Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

his wives. Everything he did, he did for the ones that he loves and that seemed perfectly healthy and natural.

      It wasn’t far-fetched that his wives should feel the same way about the activities they engaged in. It just wasn’t what she thought it was, at least he didn’t think it was. They weren’t being subservient to him. They were working as a team with him. They just happened to be a team that loved and cared about each other. He just wasn’t sure if he could explain the difference. It wasn’t that long ago that he wouldn’t have felt worthy of anyone feeling this way about him.

      “It might seem like that to you, but I equally spend all my day trying to protect or please them. It is not that one is above the other, we are a team,” Jay said.

      “Of course, you work to protect your mates and cubs. That is only natural. Your other words make no sense.” Then she growled and lowered her eyes to the ground. “I fear my tongue has gotten the better of me again, lord husband. I will strive to do better. I do not mean to question you.”

      Jay shrugged and thought what the hell here goes. “I don’t mean to question your culture, but in my culture a wife may question her husband as she wishes. They are equals.”

      “Equal does not mean the same, but if that is your wish, then I do have a question for you, lord husband. May I ask it?”

      The frustration grew inside Jay, but he held it back. “Yes, that is what I meant.”

“Am I repugnant to you, lord husband?” It was hard for him to make out inflections in the Tamoori language, but her surface thoughts were so powerful that they practically jumped into his head. She was genuinely unsure of the answer he would give.

      Quickly so as to leave no doubt he replied back, “No, never. Our people do look somewhat different, but your form is very pleasing to me. Beyond that, my other wives have assured me that you are intelligent, hardworking, and honorable. Why would you ever think that?”

      She growled as she said, “I have been told that you have joined with other women since our wedding, yet you have not even bothered to speak to me alone.”

      Jay’s face went red. She was right. He had done her wrong. It certainly hadn’t been his intention, but more and more he was finding that a leader it was all too easy to make one right decision that led to another right decision that led to yet another right decision and yet the entire mess ended up being wrong.

      “What does it mean when your face turns pink like that? I’m sorry lord husband, I don’t mean to anger you. I got carried away when you said I could ask a question,” Eesa said as she dropped to one knee and held her hands out, palms up.

      “Stand up, wife. You have been honorable but through inattention I have not treated you fairly. When a human’s face does this it might mean anger but more often it means shame or embarrassment. At this moment, I am feeling shame for not having treated you correctly. Please know that the other women that I joined with are part of Team Jay and this was not a first-time thing or intended to slight you,” Jay replied

      “Oh, I was not speaking of the copulation. Certainly, it would have been more proper in the customs of my people to pay attention to a new wife on her wedding night, but your other wives have already explained the system of Team Jay. It is rather convoluted, but I understand wives, fuses, and concubines.

      At first, I thought that it was because our peoples did not have the same anatomy for mating, but I have learned that is not the case. Your wife, Huong, was most helpful in understanding that we are almost identical in that regard.  Although apparently your member does not have a barb to hold it in after mating is accomplished. I hope I am not out of line in admitting that part of the process always sounded quite painful when older women described it.”

      Her manner of fact way of talking about it was both embarrassing and refreshing at the same time. And of course, it was Huong. He just hoped she hadn’t overstepped with Eesa.

      “If you aren’t talking about the sex then what are you talking about?” Jay asked.

      “Your other wives explained what it means to be fused with you. I am the only wife who is not fused with you. Worse than that you are fused with twenty-five other females. Not even Jad-bal-ja is worthy of so many women. There is great honor to the wife of a man with more than one hundred women, but what good is it if I am a wife if I have no ability to feel your emotions or be joined with you?

      This is not something that our people have but it sounds most profound. So, I must wonder why you have not offered to fuse with me but then you go and do so freely with not one but five other women,” Eesa said.

      Jay tried to explain about Higen and Meikiyo’s request. He explained how fusion gave him great power not just a connection with the women he was fused with. She then asked him the logical question as to why he had not fused with all of his women then and Jay tried to explain about wanting to only have women that he could trust and like in his head.

      He had to be careful as he explained that not to make it sound like he had excluded her because he didn’t find