The Aledan's Children - First Draft Chapter 4

 R Rated for Sexual Content  

 The time between the years when the Sential Trader made its way back to Oltarin seemed to past slowly while the times they were together seemed to fly. Then suddenly, it seemed, the day arrived for Parei and Jamerin to claim each other in their psi mating.

     Jamerin waited behind the safety barrier watching as the Sential Trader descended into the landing bay. He forced himself to remain calm against the exhilaration that bubbling up inside him.  Although he had seen her every two years since their psi-mating at age eight, the wait to be together was over.

     The last few years had been the hardest, because they had matured sexually and Jamerin had grown to a few centimeters taller than his father. He had his father’s stark green eyes and dark reddish brown hair.  His handsome facial features reminded Chelle of her late brother Jerry whereas Calan closely resembled his father.

     The last few months had been hell for Jamerin and Parei because of the psi-mating.  Though he tried to keep his libido under control, all too often all he could think about was finally making love to Parei.

     They had shared erotic dreams for months of coming together for the first time. Their only satisfaction completed by their only hands. Now they were deemed by their parents old enough at eighteen to actually mate.

     Normally, young men and women would be starting university studies at that age, but they had both completed their studies well before their eighteenth year.  Jamerin took four degrees---astrophysics and navigation, math, biophysics, and Wholaskan philosophy.  Parei took the same. 

      Ever since his trip to Velran as a child, Jamerin had dreamed of going back into space and owning his own ship like Captain Otian. He and Parei would be co-captains. Parei was born in space and knew no other life nor did she want one. She wanted that life with Jamerin.

     It seemed to take forever for the Sential Trader to land and dock in its assigned bay.  Jamerin could sense that Parei was just as eager to see him as he was to see her. Finally, the ship settled to the ground and the docking tube was extended to the loading dock.  The hatch slid opened and Parei burst from the opening, running to Jamerin, and flinging herself into his waiting arms.

Parei!

     Jamerin!

     Without preamble, their mouths came together in a long heated kiss. Love and desire resonated back and forth between their minds without words, just pure feelings. In their minds, they had been lovers in love for a couple years. Now finally, those dreams were coming true.

     “Okay, you two,” Otian laughed.  “Get out of here before you embarrass us all.”

Finally, their lips parted.  Jamerin and Parei were both shaking with desire, needing to complete their union sooner than later.  “We’ll com you later,” said Jamerin, forcing himself to speak in a normal tone. 

     The two slowly drew apart, then left the landing bay walking each with one arm around the other. They took Jamerin’s hovercraft on a ten-minute flight to the isolated cottage on Sapphire Lake that he had rented for their joining.  As the craft set down at the lakeshore in front of the cottage, they realized their first time would not be slow and romantic as they dreamed.

     Because of their psi-mating, they had been so aroused for so long they needed to simply come together.  It was the first sexual encounter for both of them---not that they hadn’t had prior opportunities in their young lives.  They had made a pact to be each other’s first and hopefully last and only. They were both virgins, though Parei had psionically dispensed with her hymen to avoid the pain and mess of first coitus.

     They were barely inside the door when they started pulling off their clothes.  Although they were eager to come together, they stopped to simply gaze at each other naked. Suddenly they were grinning at each other at the pure joy of the moment.  There Parei stood before him, shorter than he by a head with a beautiful figure just shy of voluptuous, long dark hair and dominant hazel eyes, soft full lips parted and ripe for kissing.

     Parei gazed back a Jamerin in wonder.  Tall but more muscular than his father with the dark red hair and stark emerald green eyes. Her eyes fell to his long, thick, erect phallus and she imagined how it would feel inside her.

     “Parei---“Jamerin murmured hoarsely and held out his arms. 

She leapt into his arms, wrapped her legs around his waist, and fused her mouth to his. He walked them into the bed room and they fell onto the bed.  I need you now, Jamie. She planted her feet on the soft bed and opened her thighs wide to welcome him, wet and ready. Even so, it was a tight fit and he had to go slowly, giving time for her inner tissues to stretch to accommodate him.

     They moaned aloud almost in unison at the exquisite sensations of first joining body to body, mouth to mouth.  Feelings of pure joy echoed enveloped them. Jamerin could sense the taut feeling of her nipples rubbing against his chest and how she felt as he thrust into channel compounding his own sensations. Parei sensed the way his cock throbbed with each thrust and his pleasure at the way her nipples felt as they rubbed against his chest.

     Harder, faster! Parei urged and Jamerin complied.  She met him thrust for thrust as he slammed into her driving them toward that pinnacle of their first mutual orgasm. It came quickly and seemed to go on and on in a sensual high that they would never forget.  They had dreamed it many times together across the vast expanse of space that separated them.  Now it was real augmented by the deep and abiding love they shared. 

     In their ten years of knowing as psi-mates, their love had grown from the platonic love of friendships as children to the sexually charged passion that brought them together as lovers.  Every touch, every kiss was born of that love and the passion of sexual maturity. In the heat of their desire, they exchanged their profound love in its purest form, mind to mind.

In their three days alone at the lake shore, they sated their primal lust repeatedly.  They even made love on the sand at the water’s edge, one of the many sexual bonding experiences they shared in their dreams. 

     At the end of those three days, Jamerin took Parei to his family’s home on the high plateau Blue Summit Mountain for their formal pledging. Their parents originally wanted them to wait until they were at least twenty-one to take a lifemate pledge. But their psi-mating made the purpose of waiting superfluous.  Psi-mating was for life.  There was no reason to wait.

     Their families and friends had gathered at the family home on Blue Summit by the time Jamerin and Parei arrived.  The spacious garden in the front had been transformed with festive decorations. At its center was a large pond with a fountain in the middle of it.  The fountain was not as grand as the Narcaza fountain on Aledus that Hankura and Chelle had memory shared with their children, but the water climbed high into the air before it arched and fell back into the pond.  Jamerin and Parei paused to admire it before they went into the house to prepare for the ceremony.

       They stood together holding hands, watching the water rise and fall for several minutes. Having studied Wholaskan philosophy and the Patterns of Insight on which the Path of Insight doctrine was based, Jamerin could appreciate the significance of the fountain. He had shared that knowledge with Parei as well and they had incorporated it into their pledges.  After a few minutes they went inside and separated to dress for the ceremony.

     Lara was waiting when Parei came inside and ran to hug her friend.  It’s so good to see you again!  I wanted to come and meet you at the Starport, but Jamie insisted the wanted to meet you alone.

I thought of you, Parei responded silently.

Right---for about ten seconds before you were in Jamie’s arms. Was he worth the wait? Lara giggled.

Yes, but I am sure glad the wait is over.

     When Lara released her friend, Chelle, Rona, Nalina, and Lishaad hugged her in turn.  There were tears in her eyes when they finished at the love these women bestowed on her and she sent it back to them.  They didn’t have to ask about her tears as she brushed them off her face with her hands.  The four psions could feel her happiness and Nalina could see it.

     Lara and Rona each took one of Parei’s hands and led her to the mirrored dressing table in the master bedroom shared by Hankura and Chelle.  Rona applied her daughter’s make-up while Nalina arranged Parei’s long hair in an upswept style with dozens of curls atop her head laced with ice blue ribbons and pearl beads.  When her hair and make-up were finished, Lara and Lishaad brought out Parei’s dress.  It was made of a silky, shimmering ice blue material with a halter top that dipped into a V between her breasts then fell into an A-line to her ankles, and left her back bare to the waist.  It was both sexy and elegant. Lara and Lishaad helped her put it on from the floor up so as not to damaged her elaborate hair arrangement.

     “Oh, baby, you look so beautiful,” Rona said to her daughter, framing her face in her hands. “I can hardly believe you are old enough to be pledging a lifemate already.”

Parei laughed softly.  “Mom, it wouldn’t matter how old I am, you would still think I’m not old enough. But you only get one psi-mate.  Besides, it’s not like I’m going anywhere.  Jamerin’s coming with us when we leave.”

     “Goddess, I’m going to miss him,” Chelle sighed.  “I never expected him to be psi-mated, but then why not.  His parents are.  We psi-mated when I was five and Hankura was ten. Space, that seems an age ago---45 years later.”

     Yet, Chelle as the other women had not seemed to age at all. With lifespans of two hundred years or more, fifty was more or less equivalent to twenty-five for life spans half that.  It just didn’t seem that her eldest son should be leaving home just yet. The other two would be next, she realized as tears pricked her eyes.  She sniffed them back as she saw everyone was ready to proceed.

     Unlike the weddings of old Earth, it was customary for the mother to give the female child into the keeping of her new mate.  Rona walked arm in arm with Parei down the stone path to the pond where the pledging ceremony would commence. In contrast to Parei’s ice blue gown, Rona and her attendants wore shimmery gowns of periwinkle blue in the same style as Parei’s. The exotic music of a flute like instrument accompanied the procession to the water’s edge.

     Wearing a two-piece tunic and trouser suit, Jamerin was accompanied by his father and attendants who wore slightly dark shade of royal blue tunic and trouser suits like Jamerin’s.

     Parei and Jamerin were handed off to each other at the edge of the pond in direct line with the fountain at the center, surrounded by their family and many friends old and new.  Jamerin’s attendants also included Casir, Delmran, Otian, Orin and Calan.  The attendants fanned out so they could all observe the pledging couple.

     The guests included the McKells of the mountain clans, as well as representatives from the lake clans.  Parei’s family consisted of Captain Otian, her stepfather, her mother and her half brother and sister and honorary family, the crew of the Sential Trader.

     The din of human voices filled the air until the young couple came together at the water’s edge. The crowd hushed and waited while the two took each other’s hands, facing each other.

Jamerin spoke first:

     "In the Path of Insight, it was written by Arall: 'The Mother of Life is responsible for the evolution of humankind throughout the Galaxy. She gifts some humans with a special insight--the gift of mind sight . . ..

     "'Through the gift of mind sight, those who are chosen will recognize their soul mates as they meet through the will of the Mother . . . And those who meet will be destined to share a Path of Insight for all time. For through time and space, the human soul knows no bounds.

     “Love has many facets, my beautiful Parei, and knowing love is a precious gift. You give your love freely, and what's more, you accept my love freely.  Parei, I give you my love now and always. As it travels the circle of our thoughts from my mind to your mind and back again, it grows and blossoms to a joy beyond words, pure and untouched inside us.”

     He looked at Parei with eyes full of love unspoken that flowed freely between them and waited for her to speak.

     “Beloved Jamerin, I love all that you are . . . with all that I am . . . all that I will ever be. We are like the water that ripples in the pond. Your love is my love . . . and your joy is my joy . . . your sorrow, my sorrow . . . your pain is my pain. We are one with our love. We are one now and always, and with all that we are, we will protect our life together from this moment on.”

     Then they came together and kissed and hugged amid cheers and applause from their guests. An evening of drinking, dancing and socializing followed the ceremony.

     In the days after their pledging, Jamerin and Parei divided their time between packing Jamerin’s essentials and trail riding in the mountains with his family.  Otian and Rona passed in favor of spending a few days at a Sapphire Lake resort.  But Parei had learned to love riding from Jamerin and Lara from the first year she had met him just before the Aledan’s family returned from Velran via the Sential Trader. Though Jamerin would miss his parents and friends, he was eager to start his new life with Parei on the Sential Trader. 

     In the years since Otian had taken his family to Velran and back when Jamerin was a child, Otian had built up his specialty transport business with the help of Rona’s business acumen. They now had two ships and were planning on acquiring a third when Jamerin finished his pilot and navigator apprenticeship in four years.  Parei had a head start on her apprenticeship because she was a resident aboard the Trader. As such she had integrated her general education with her apprenticeship.

     Jamerin would easily catch up.  Though highly intelligent, only Parei and very few others had Jamerin’s level of intellect or psionic abilities. Ever since that trip to Velran, Jamerin always planned a career in space, but he was not inclined to join the Federation Military Space Force.  He wanted the freedom of a tramp freighter.

     Younger sister Lara rivaled her brother, but was bound to make her life on Oltarin by her love for horses.  She had used part of her trust fund to buy a few hectares of land adjacent to her family’s agricomplex to build a small horse farm.  Her house and barns would be built while she attended the veterinary medicine program on Velran.

     The night before departure, Jamerin started to question his decision to leave his home and family.  He was born on Oltarin and spent all but two years of this life there. He was loved here and everything was familiar and comfortable. It would be so much better if Lara and Calan could come too. 

     Jamerin had always been closest to Lara, perhaps because they were closes in age. But they both doted on their young brother from the time he was born.  Staying would have been easy.  Parei probably would have agreed at least to try it for a couple years---until the Sential Trader came around the next time. But Jamerin felt that was not his destiny.  He felt there was more out there somewhere among the stars.  He had dreamed of leaving ever since his journey to Velran.  Staying would only delay the inevitable.

     It made it even harder to leave the next morning when Lara hugged him tearfully.  “I miss you already, Jamie. It’s not going to be the same here without you.”  I don’t want you to go!

     “I love you too,” Jamerin murmured huskily. “It’s not your time to leave.  I’ll see you in a couple years when we come back this way.  Probably just in time to take you to Velran.”

     “Then I will have to say goodbye to you again,” she sniffed.

     “After a six-month journey.  That will give us plenty of time to catch up.”  He grinned down at her and kissed her forehead.  He set her away from him and went on to hug the rest of his family in turn.  He hated the wistful sadness that he felt from them about his impending departure.  It made him feel guilty for leaving them.  Didn’t they know they would always be part of him? That he would always love them.

     His mother hugged him tightly, and he could feel her willing herself not to cry. Chelle felt certain he was in good hands with Otian.  She just wasn’t ready to let him go even though her baby boy was taller than both her and his father.

     Lastly he hugged his father.  Hankura held him tightly and patted his back.  I am so proud of you, son.  I hate to see you leave, but I know there is much for you to see and do before you meet your destiny.

     As the promised one?

     Perhaps.  You will know when the time comes. Mesgar believes you are.

I’m keeping an open mind. I hope to see him again before the time comes. Maybe when I take Lara to Velran “Meanwhile, I will see you all in two years.”

     I love you, son.  Hankura grinned at his son as he stepped back from their embrace. Though not happy to see him go, he understood his son’s wanderlust. After all, he had gone to Earth to find Chelle despite all the reasons he shouldn’t go. Of course he was glad he had or he wouldn’t now be standing beside her to say goodbye to their firstborn before he headed out to space.

     Hankura, Chelle, and his other two children watched as Jamerin climbed into the waiting hovercraft for Orin Hart to pilot him to the Mari-Sanna Starport.