"Hey Velit. Look who's returned from her mysterious quest."

Velitanar's eyestalks bobble excitedly. After ve puts veir book down, ve levitates and 'swims' through the air, looping around Shae in a circle. Ve puts out a feeling of pressure as ve says something, drifting to a stop in front of Shae as ve extends four of veir phallic tentacles, a pair splurting out of each lobe, to slither around Shae's body and pull her into an embrace.

One phallus curls down along her hip and ducks under her skirt to probe at Shae's vulva.

"Ve wants to know if you're okay and if you're home for good now. And ve wants to know who you've been letting 'weave on you, this is sloppy as fuck," Ese translates.

"I'm home for good."

Shae snuggles into Velit's tentacles, sighing softly at the touch between her legs.

"No one 'weaved on me, though. This is the result of my victory."

Shae spreads her thighs a little, savoring it when Velit's phallus slips inside her. But then she remembers what happened with the Origin Core's Tentacles, and stiffens.

"Actually wait, you can't feed yet. You shouldn't link with me until after. I'm reasonably certain that I'd poison you if drank me right now."

Velitanar can understand Shae just fine. By sharing a resonant link with Ese, Velitanar can understand anything Ese hears and understands.

Velitanar's tentacles go still as ve looks at Shae with all three eyes. One eye swivels toward Ese as Velitanar says something.

"No, I don't know either. Shae here is being mysterious."

Ese meanders over and flops down on a cushion.

"Shae. Exactly how worried should we be?"

"Let's find out, shall we?"

Shae turns and backs towards a lounge chair, pulling Velit with her.

"I need you to try to morphweave a birth trigger onto what's already inside me. It got in via fleshcraft magic, and I have reason to believe it'll be responsive to the reverse."

Velitanar eases Shae down onto the chair and bobbles veir eyestalks in a nod.

Veir phallus slides deeper into her vagina, inch by inch, until it makes contact with her cervix. Velitanar settles in, says something with a bobble of surprise, then dips veir eyestalks in concentration.

"Looks like you were right," Ese translates. "Give vem a few minutes to frustrated morphweaving jargon."

"Just out of curiosity, what was your backup plan if you were wrong?"

"Hike up to the Gyneca Halo with a really sharp knife, cut myself open, then fall through and let the Halo put me back together. I'm glad I didn't have to do that, though. This is much less conspicuous."

"Conspicuous."

"You worry me sometimes, Shae."

A short while later, Velitanar perks up and withdraws veir phallus from Shae's sex, announcing success.

"Get the jars."

Shae can feel the umbra in her womb squirm as the fleshcraft magic infuses her, making penetration of her cervix both safe and painless. She has Velit and Ese hold the jars under her rapidly engorging vagina as she clamps down on her body's reactions.

The shiny black ooze gushes out of her in a viscous torrent.

Getting fucked in reverse by a gelatinous river is just as good as it was going in. Shae tries to hold back, to not cum and possibly poison Velitanar, but before the third jar is full, she has to kick vem off of her, breaking skin contact before an orgasm rips through her flesh.

She doesn't flicker into a flash state, this time. That seems to be an effect of the gleam only.

Eventually the last of the umbra gloops out of Shae's quivering pussy and fills an eighteenth jar.

"Well, that was a new experience."

Ese tightens the lid on the last jar and puts it with the others.

"Are you going to explain what this stuff is? Or what you're going to do with it now that you've gone to such lengths to smuggle it into the city? I have to tell you, I have no idea where this is going. Actually I have way too many ideas about where this might be going."

"It's umbra."

Shae catches her breath and sits up bare-chested, leaving her jacket behind. Sure enough, thanks to the fleshcraft magic, she looks as good as ever, with no visual hint that her womb was so recently and heavily occupied.

"I can finish my plan tonight. After that, there'll be nothing to link the Massage and Show to what's going to happen. Just keep my face off the ad banners and you'll have all the plausible deniability you'll need. They don't know my name and I made sure to leave a false trail. If anyone's even looking yet, I doubt they could've figured out even that I'm a citizen."

Velitanar floats closer and says something.

"Ve wants to know if the umbra is erovore poison on purpose."

"No. That was an unintended side effect. And I'm not sure it's poison in that state. It might only be toxic as gleam."

Shae unbuckles her leggings and pulls them off, leaving her nude except for her shoes.

"I should be safe to link with now, though."

Velitanar only hesitates for a moment before wafting down and coiling veir right-lobe phalluses around Shae's legs. One slithers up and pushes into Shae's vaginal canal, wriggling as it fills her, while the other two spiral up onto her hips and lift her up for better access.

Veir other lobe contracts, splurting wet tentacle cocks out to wrap around Shae's torso. One slithers figure-eight around her breasts. One snakes under her butt and curls up to prod at her second hole. One drapes itself around her neck and settles its phallic tip at her mouth.

Velitanar shifts veir rachi under vem, taking up a position as though Shae is laying cradled in veir lap. Veir digit tentacles play over Shae's limbs, a few of them threading between Shae's fingers.

"I want to know how sure you are that this isn't going to fall on us."

Shae relaxes happily into Velitanar's many limbs, rolling her hips to fuck veir phallus as it thrusts into her cunt. She spreads her legs and grinds her ass onto the other tentacle, shivering as her second hole yields to the hot slippery intrusion.

"Mmm... I'm... sure it won't fall on us soon."

Shae kisses the phallus at her lips, rubbing against it then closing her mouth over the rounded tip to suckle.

"If it... looks like it'll... fall on you... I'll give.... mmm... myself up. Make sure it... only falls on me."

Ese shakes her head and gets up to go up the stairs.

She pauses on the first rung.

"I know you're not afraid of civil service, Shae. But, we'd miss you."