Pull the Ripcord

Dalila took the silphium from her with a small chuckle and a joke about the price being worth it. Aliana couldn't agree with her more, but it was a choice she'd been robbed of. When Chimera had set her free, he'd said she would always belong to him. At the time, she thought his words meant she'd live her life alongside him, just as her own wolf, with the liberties to do as she wished and pleased. As it turned out, that wasn't the case, and she was no more free than she had been when she was purchased. The only difference was now Chimera sometimes treated her nicer and didn't bark orders at her anymore. He still exerted his dominance and will over her, still did as he pleased with her, and while none of that had bothered her (in fact she'd even quite liked it), he had gone too far with her. She'd begged him, pleaded with him to not force himself on her during her heat. He'd ignored her. By disregarding her wishes, he'd exploited her greatest fear and forcibly bred her, the very existence she'd tried to escape with the slavers and had told him she dreaded, yet he'd done it anyway. This was all the evidence she needed to know that Chimera didn't care for her, not the way she tried desperately to believe he did.

Watching Dalila take the contraceptives was both a breath of relief and also the final nail in her coffin. There was no going back, no desperate hopes on a long shot. Unless Chimera had spontaneously become infertile, she would be having his children. It was almost enough to break Ali's spirit entirely, and the clouded fae only just held back the tears in her aquamarine eyes. The damage had been done and now all she could do was live in the aftermath. Dalila, sweet darling Dalila offered her a sympathetic smile and took her paw in hers again. Ali looked at their touching paws, her breathing hitching and caught between a gasp and a sob. She looked back up and met Dalila's gaze just as the mottled fae reassured her that she and Siren would help care for her, offering whatever she needed to make it through. "Thank you, Dalila..." she said, her voice soft and quivering. Even knowing there was nothing anyone could do to reverse what was no doubt happening inside her womb, Dalila's comforts were appreciated. It made her feel less like a receptacle and more like a wolf.

One of the strange fireflies buzzed between the two faes, making Aliana blink with surprise as she followed the blue-hued bug with her eyes. When her gaze returned back to Dalila, she gasped beneath her breath to see the larger lady framed by dozens of the glowing bugs, her silhouette glowing blue and silver from the light of the moon and the fireflies. Her throat suddenly felt tight and she couldn't speak, her heart beating as fast as her breathing was. Dalila began to speak again, breaking Ali out of her trance and causing a much more noticeable blush of red to appear to her face when the pretty fae admitted bashfully to enjoying the night they'd shared with Chimera. Ali glanced down shyly as well, but the way her fluffy tail was wagging a mile a minute behind her betrayed how she really felt. Dalila wanted to sleep with her again? With just her? The blush on her face turned into a radiating overall warmth throughout her body. She'd always been curious to a more sapphic lifestyle, but thanks to Dalila she now knew it was something she wanted more of.

"I-I'd also like that... a lot," she replied, shuffling one paw timidly on the grass between them while refusing to move the paw Dalila's was still touching. "I enjoyed what we did as well. You made everything... better." Before Dalila had shown up drunk and horny, she'd been Chimera's personal outlet for 24 hours with him using her body to relieve himself whenever her heat scent began to affect him too much. Despite having Chimera beside her or on top of her and inside her at all times, Ali had never felt more trapped and alone. Dalila had been her unexpected savior, giving her a paw to hold on to through the storm, literally and figuratively. Even though she wished neither of them had wound up in this situation, she was happy Dalila had been there with her through it.

"Aliana"