Duality

"Awake?" Lyra looked down at her daughter as she sank her teeth into her breast. Merla looked up at her, smiled, and pulled her areola into her mouth.

A female orc breast wasn't just different internally, but externally. While lactating, their areola bulged as it filled with the thick liquid, and Merla pulled that into her mouth to firmly bite it to get her breastfast.(pun) Her small fangs sank into the surface, but never went through the thick flesh to the inside.

Lyra hugged her to her belly while they stayed in bed. Taen had already left to watch the gate, and soon, Tazaa and Laenda appeared.

"Her manna veins are full, Lyra. How do you manage to help her purge them?" Laenda asked.

"The shower is one thing she can do to use some manna. Which also reminds me that we need to go over and make the Mother Queen a shower, Merla." Lyra said. Merla released her nipple.

"Ah. Good." She smacked her lips. "Get post, and beast core. Make Big Momma shower. Take to Lix." Lyra looked a little startled.  Beast cores were powerful sources of manna, but she had never heard of one being used to make an artifact.  Orcs used them to augment their manna storage when it was needed for a battle, but that was it.

"A beast core? And you can make it so that it can be moved?" Merla nodded. "Why the beast core?" Merla tilted her head.

"Core manna container." Merla said, and returned to draining her breasts. Lyra sat up with Merla held to her belly.

"Well, I guess she knows what she's doing." Laenda said. Tazaa nodded.

"She can do amazing things with manna, and she's still a baby. So when is her birthing ceremony?" Tazaa asked.

"In two days. We'll have to invite some of the lost ones over as well. To make sure that Merla has some her own age at her party." Lyra sighed and hugged Merla to her chest. "How tall should the post be, baby?" Merla pursed her lips.

"Twice tall Big Momma." She turned her head towards Tazaa, then turned back to Lyra and sucked her other nipple into her mouth.

"I'll handle it this morning, Merla." Tazaa said. "I'll go ask Mother Queen if there are any beast cores that can be used from those five elder boars, and get a proper piece of wood that can be used in Mother Queen's tree." Merla grinned. Tazaa blinked.

'Good wood. Mother Queen important. No tell mind whisper.'

"Oh, I'll make sure it's a nice hardwood appropriate for the Mother Queen, Merla." Tazaa said, and watched as Merla closed her eyes. Laenda tilted her head.

"She didn't say anything, Taz." Laenda said.

"She doesn't have to. Our baby, Lix is married to her, and is the High Priestess to Duality. She is not just a consort, but The Consort, the Slave Wife of our Mother Queen. If I didn't find the right wood, mother would wonder if my mind is still muddled." Tazaa said. Lyra's eyes narrowed, but she remained quiet.

"Don't think I've forgotten about you, Lyra." Tazaa said firmly. "Tonight, Meena will have to watch over Merla while you make amends." Merla's eyes opened.

'It is necessary, Merla. It is our way. Taen and I will fuck her to punish her. It reminds her to be submissive to her wife, and not put herself in danger.' Tazaa watched as Merla's eyes closed.

'Understand. Momma injured. Momma not know. How not know momma hurt?' Merla asked.

'Sadness is a powerful emotion, Merla. It makes one numb to everything, and everyone. She missed you horribly. She didn't know Taen was injured because her own spirit was injured.' Tazaa said.

'Grammie bring grammie close later. Fix grammie for you.' Merla said. Tazaa smiled gently.

'Thank you, Merla. My darling granddaughter.'

* * *

"Momma, where are you going?" Taen asked as she slid down a post the guards used to move from the top to the base.

"To get Merla a twenty foot post, good quality. I'll also need to go to Mother Queen and see if I can get one of those elder boar cores. Merla is going to make her a shower." Tazaa looked down at her daughter. "Have you shrunk, Taen?"

"You know, you're not the first person to say that." Taen said. She frowned. "I don't think I did." Tazaa looked around.

"Who's the thrull?" Tazaa called out.

"That would be me, Tazaa." Yeshra appeared.

"Send Taen home to see her daughter. I think something's wrong with her if two people said she looks shorter." Tazaa said. Yeshra frowned, and examined Taen carefully.

"Not shorter. Smaller. How odd. She has less muscle than before, less bulk. Ninn Taen. Report to Lady Lixiss, then head home." Yeshra said. "Lady Lixiss said that if anything happens to Taen, it must be reported immediately, no matter how small the detail."

"Alright, I'll head out." Taen looked at her mother carefully, but obeyed. Tazaa pursed her lips.

"Send a messenger to her tree. Let Lyra know as well. Just in case Taen decides to conceal it. My daughter has concealed the damage done to her manna veins and core, and endured far too much over the last two and a half cycles. I won't let that continue." Tazaa jumped over the broad pit, and ran through the woods.

"Damn. She did that so much easier than we do. What have they fed her lately?"

* * *

Taen walked up the stairs slowly and looked at her mother and Lyra. She saw their faces and groaned.

"Momma." Merla slowly walked over to her, and stumbled a little on her feet. Taen quickly reached for her, and felt her hands on her tusks.

"Baby, I..." Taen tried to talk, but felt Merla's manna start to flow into her body. What started as gentle began to flow into a torrent. Taen grimaced as the pain started to increase.

Taen had a naturally higher threshold of pain due to the amount she's suffered over the years. She groaned as the pain put her on her knees. Lyra began to tremble as she heard popping, breaking, and what sounded like branches being twisted so the wood's fibers broke from the stress.

She had fewer manna eruptions from her skin, but the results could still be seen. Murky fluid was discharged from those eruptions, but not as dark as Tazaa's. Soon, the eruptions slowed much faster than Tazaa's as well.

After they stopped, Taen slowly opened her eyes, but Merla didn't let go of her tusks. She stood up and pressed Merla to her belly.

"Baby, what did you do?" Taen asked her gently.

"Fix. Not complete. First fix manna. Now fix muscle." Merla said softly and released her tusks. "Not done yet." She snuggled in to her belly. "Pain much."

"You can't do it all at once because it would cause too much pain?" Taen asked. Merla nodded.

"Almost half fix momma. Full fix? Ask grammie. Half fix grammie last night." Merla said.

"You took two times to fix me to the half way point, but did it all at once with my mother?" Taen asked. Merla frowned and pouted.

"Grammie mad at Meena! Meena belong Merla. Now grammie belong Merla." Merla said. Taen smiled a little.

"What about us?" Taen asked.

"Merla momma. Merla belong momma. Can't mark." She pouted. "Momma belong momma. Not mark. Not fair." Taen smiled a little, and hugged her tightly.

From her words, she claimed Tazaa as her own, but couldn't do the same with Taen because she was her mother. She belonged to Taen, not the other way around.

"I wonder what you mean by 'mark'."