Maybe one of those mushrooms was more "magical" than expected, because now he suddenly finds that everything is spinning and blurring...

...He finds himself on a forest, a different one. Very tall trees reach towards the twilight-purple sky.

Well, the Blood Moor isn't a forest, it's a moor, so any forest is going to be a change of pace. Also, purple sky? Purple sky.

Ari has no fucking idea what's going on.

He checks for portals. Or a waypoint, a waypoint would be very convenient.

There are no visible portals or waypoints. There is a squirrel the size of a cat peering down from one of the trees. It offers no answers. Just the soulless stare of a squirrel that's evaluating something for their nutty content.

The sky is the same purple-ish shade all over, no sign of a sun nor moon, just the unusually bright stars. He can spot some constructions in the distance, a riot of colorful builds to one side and some old-looking stone buildings in the opposite direction. The second one looks ominous in a way that's hard to quantify.

Well, those certainly are some probably-demonic ruins. Ari will stay away from those, no matter how much lightning he can conjure.

He nods politely to the squirrel before unfurling a scroll of Town Portal and intoning the command word. (Even when you're going barely a mile from camp, you always pack a portal home. One of the many lessons Adria taught him, back before he was a Cain.)

As the command word is spoken aloud the powerful magic energies of the scroll... fail to produce any effect. The squirrel climbs up the tree, leaving Ari to stand there, presumably even more confused.

...Well, that's a problem.

Half-heartedly, he verifies that he can't cast it from his own mana pool either. Conclusion: nope.

Lacking other options, he picks up his basket of mushrooms and starts off toward the colorful, non-ominous buildings.

The colorful buildings remain non-ominous as he approaches. Unless Ari thinks tacky color combinations as ominous, then everything is doomed!

Fairly quickly, Ari stumbles upon a road and soon after he spots a cart pulled by two ten-feet tall horses. There are three passanger, two women and a girl. The women are seven feet tall and five feet tall. The girl spots him and waves.

Tall horses. Tall woman. Weird.

Ari waves back. "Hello! I'm, um, very lost. Do you know where we are?"

The women look back at him, and then the short one (who isn't driving) speaks something. It sounds like a  question but not in a language he knows.

Pantomiming "I'm lost" is surprisingly difficult. Ari settles for looking around in obvious confusion.

After trying variations of inquisitive-sounding phrases the women mime offering a ride.

Ari climbs into their cart happily, thanking them in a language they definitely do not speak.

Good. They go towards town without much conversation (possibly because it would be somewhat rude). The little girl pokes at the mushrooms, but then pretends that she didn't once she is caught.

They get into town proper without much ado. After pondering for a moment, the tall woman stirs the horses to go left and they arrive at a lighthouse-looking building with a tall tower.

There is a tall, muscular, blond guy who was just about to climb the short set of stairs leading to the front door. He turns and after a brief exchange with the women he mimes for Ari to follow him inside.

Ari approves of this transfer of custody. He follows, still holding his mushroom basket in one hand and his scythe in the other.

There is also a tall and lean guy inside the building, he looks up from his book. And after a brief exchange he reaches inside a cupboard for something and throws at Gabe.

Who catches the thing. It's a bracelet, made of blue leather strips and bits of crystals. Gabe pokes the crystal and looks up at Ari. "Hey, is this working? Translator bracelet."

"Yep! You're coming through fine. Incidentally, d'you know where the hell we are?"

"You got kidnapped by a world called Elsewhere, it does that sometimes. But don't worry we can send you back after a brief lecture on the nature of magic."

He is absently fiddling with the bracelet while saying that, then he offers it to Ari.

"Well, that's convenient. I kind of already know how magic works, though." He sets down his mushrooms and flicks his wrist, conjuring a crackling sphere of red lightning, then dismisses it and accepts the bracelet. "It's kind of my thing. Being a witch, and all."

"Cool power! And I am fine with skipping the magic lecture then. I'm Gabe Valentine and that's my cousin Henry Oswald."

"Hi. How come you haven't heard of Elsewhere? Or you just didn't realize you had been taken by it?"

"I'm Ari. Itinerant witch and future Horadrim." He turns to Henry. "Interesting question. I'm not really sure how I hadn't heard of Elsewhere, being that I haven't heard of it. I'm sure you'd say the same if I asked you how you'd never heard of Akarat. Or Khanduras, I guess would be the direct parallel."

"No, I haven't heard of any of those places, which I guess I could explain away. But it would be very weird for you to know magic but not about Elsewhere... And some of the translation is coming off weirdly."

"I don't think we have witches as you know them."

"Akarat's a person. Prophet of the local faith. And... I guess it would make sense that if I'm in a different world, the magic would be different. Back home, witches channel demonic energies, sorcerers channel the elements, necromancers channel the powers of life and death... any of this ringing a bell?"

"I am not sufficiently familiar with any religions to feel confident... But nothing rings a bell, no. And the translation is being weird. Sorcerer is interchangeably used as a term for people that have extra lifeforce or people that practice magic that spends lifeforce. There is no way to channel death as a power source."

"Witch is like, just a term for evil sorcerers who steal lifeforce from other people. It's kind of a prejudiced paranoid superstitious thing, stealing lifeforce from people isn't easy. I guess we still can get you home. It will just be slightly more complicated."

"Well, that's fun. What's your kind of magic like? Can I learn to use it? I'm already a witch and a - "Vizjerei," that's what I'll call our kind of sorcerer, technically it's an ethnic group but who's counting. Maybe I can add to the list!"

Henry approves of this curiosity. "You already must be our kind of sorcerer - I mean, the extra-lifeforce person kind - because that's who Elsewhere snatches. Or I guess something close enough. And everyone can learn our kind of magic, yes. Sorcery magic manifests as gifts, one for each aspect of lifeforce, or rituals which are more complex and varied."

"Look, you two look really hot while magic nerding. But the good host in me thinks you should move the conversation to the living room. Ari, can I get you anything? Water? Snacks? Mine and Henry's bed?"

"Ooh, snacks. I would love a snack. I can contribute mushrooms, if you're cooking." He hefts the mushroom basket. "I'm not sure what you mean by 'lifeforce', Henry - usually when the necromancers talk about that kind of thing they mean blood, is that what you're getting at?"

"Heh, I can come up with something using mushrooms." He accepts the basket and guides them towards the living room. The place isn't small and disorganized, but it's kinda cramped with cardboard boxes duct taped shut. He goes kitchenwards.

Henry takes a seat and motions Ari to seat wherever. "Not blood. Well, not directly, when you spend lifeforce your body will suffer a suitable appropriate change. Like, spending wakefulness will make you sleepy like you have been awake for longer than you actually had. Spending health might have effects on your blood, but it isn't typically that directed."

Ari takes a seat, patting a cardboard box absently as he sits. "Huh. Yeah, with necromancy you literally start bleeding from your pores. Wakefulness? What-all kinds of lifeforce are there?"

Henry makes a face at the mental image of bleeding from your pores. "That could happen if you did something very health intensive. There are five lifeforce aspects, at least in vertebrate animals. In order from weakest to strongest they are breath, stamina, wakefulness, health and youth. People can train to acquire sorcery gifts that are fueled by the aspects, and you can just do it by exerting your will. Or learn rituals, which require doing the various steps and often mix the various aspects."

"Huh. So... what happens if I burn health then take a health potion?"

"...We don't have health potions."

"...I have health potions."

Ari pulls a glass vial from his belt, filled with a red fluid that looks like it could be grenadine. "This will fully heal one sword wound, give or take. There's better ones and worse ones, but in general, if you're stable enough to swallow a health potion, you don't die in the next ten minutes unless somebody stabs you again."

"Okay, there are a dozen tests I want to run. Are these hard to make? Or are they expensive?"

"They're kind of hard to make if you're not a witch. Fortunately, I'm a witch, so I can make them as long as I have a supply of demons to kill. And there are pretty much always demons to kill."

He stands up and motions Ari to follow. "Yeah, you mentioned those. And they are translating as something scary. Are they something scary?"

Henry leads him to a room with no furniture in the middle and several diagrams drawn on the floor.

"Um. Yes. Demons are scary. ...You don't have demons, do you. That's a good thing, actually, but presently inconvenient."

"It's probably not an easy fix to the lifeforce storage problem. But I still want to check things over."

He goes a cupboard and draws a notebook."Hmm... I have a ritual already sketched out that would let us both see each other's lifeforces. It involves drawing some symbols on each other's faces, chest, back of the hands and corresponding areas in the feet. I would need to explain what the components do for it to work. Does that sound okay?"

"Sounds like fun. I'm in."

"Great!"

He picks up the ingredients from the cupboard (one might get the impression he already did this ritual before). "So, an explanation on rituals in a general," he says while picking up pots and checking the contents. "We think they started with someone that developed a youth-based sorcery gift that let them create sorcery schools in a way that let other people create more sorcery schools." He starts mixing a paste. He notices Ari's clothes and figures he probably don't have computers, he should ask about technology at some point. "So, sorcery schools are like a kind of magical language. You do the ritual steps to tell the magic what you want to happen and give your lifeforce to empower the effect. And you need to have at least some understanding of the specific language to actually say something in it, instead of making arbitrary noise-" he then goes on a long explanation of what the paste is supposed to represent in the ritual when draw in this or that symbol. Then he shows how to draw the symbols properly.

Soon enough they get a sense of each other's lifeforces, it's a sort of layered feeling. Ari should be able to make some educated guesses to what each thing is.

Ari... has a lot of lifeforce. Health and stamina, particularly; maybe it's something about those health potions. Whatever it is, he's practically bursting with vitality. His breath and wakefulness are relatively normal, but his youth, too, is strange - it's less like a finite resource, more a self-renewing pool of energy. He could live forever. Maybe he will.

Henry's lifeforce is about three times of a regular human, but it's all balanced out evenly.

Henry stares mouth agape. "Are you immortal? I mean, you look like you're never gonna run out of youth."

He did notice the other peculiarities, but he can't bring himself to comment. Ari might notice it himself if he compares his own lifeforce to Henry's.

Ari blinks.

"Cool!"

"You didn't know? Does this happen often?"

"Uh, not to my knowledge. I've never actually heard of anybody living past a couple centuries, and that much is only for witches. Average person lives to be about eighty, maybe more if they're rich or Uncle Deckard. But apparently I'm going to live... forever?" Ari whistles. "I knew I was special, but damn."

"Special? Here people's natural lifespan can vary between eighty to three hundred years. ...Youth can be transferred to extend that, but then the donor will live less."

Ari looks troubled. "I've always had stronger witchcraft than I was supposed to. My mother was a witch, and my father was... a hero. Supposedly. But Uncle Deckard doesn't like to talk about him, and I'm starting to think he had a good reason for that. Normal people don't live forever."

Henry tentatively reaches to put a hand on Ari's shoulder. "What do you mean? Is there....?" He doesn't know how to finish that question.

"I think..." Ari shakes his head vigorously. "It's all conjecture. I'm going to ask my uncle some very pointed questions about my parentage later. What does this mean, practically speaking? Besides eternal life."

"Sorcery requires youth to create permanent effects. Like magical artifacts. Conversely, it's also good to brute-force break effects, but using like that is kinda wasteful. At least for people that have finite amounts of youth."

"Ooh. Making magic items and breaking things are both things I enjoy!"

Henry snorts. "That's the spirit!"

"So, what's a good starting bit of magic? This is all very exciting."

"Depends how much you wanna get into magic," Henry eyes Ari up and down assessing his enthusiasm, "I am guessing you might be interested in actual ritual development. Which involves knowing the theory behind rituals and coming up with new ones yourself, instead of just following instructions." He pauses for a second. "Is your kind of magic teachable?"

"Uh, let's see. Witchcraft is teachable but you need to have a demon handy, which we don't... necromancy is teachable but you need to do fucked-up shit to your bones first, probably a non-starter... Vizjerei sorcery you'd need a spell tome and I can probably write one of those up in a couple of days if Uncle doesn't have half a dozen of the things lying around. So, yes on at least one count, but not right now."

Shrug. "I am mostly interested in magical theory. At any rate, I can teach you how ritual development works, if you're interested. And gift acquiring. Though I am still just an apprentice."

"I'm interested!"

"That's the spirit! Would rather start with meditation exercising or ritual theory?" Henry says, walking towards a door that leads to an adjacent library. "The former is for gift acquiring and helps you to get a better control whenever you need to manipulate your own lifeforce."

"Meditation sounds fun!"

Henry pulls out a book (heavily bookmarked and with several notes tucked between pages) on the topic of meditation. Henry explains how it works and the mental actions one is trying to achieve. The lifeforce analysis is still on and it's useful to see the effects Ari is supposed to evoke. Part of the exercise will involve Henry transferring bits of breath to Ari to see what it feels like to have extra.

Ari will gamely attempt meditation and accept bits of extra breath!

He makes progress. And Henry likes an interested student.

But eventually, Gabe pokes his head inside. "Hey, there you are. How about a snack-technically-lunch break?"

Ari's eyes snap open.

"Food! Yes."

"Food!" Gabe agrees. "I improvised a mushroom-stuffed pastry thing that will hopefully for everyone's tastes. Now," he adopts an authoritative tone that's does not match his demeanor, "go wash-up. No body-paint at my table."

Henry rolls his eyes, but gets up and shows Ari the washroom and how to work the faucet.

"Cool, magic water! This one of those artifacts you were talking about?"

Henry blinks. "Oh. No, this is non-magical. There are pipes that transport the water to where it's needed, but it's entirely non-magical." Pause. "Actually, I think that the pipes that send the water up, might be magical. And we have magical heaters for our showers. But non-magical versions exist."

"We have a non-magical water pump," Gabe says from the door, "that's run by a magical battery. And the reservoir up in the tower also has cleaning crystals. It's a weird patchwork of magic and technology."

"Huh, somehow less magic just makes it cooler. Maybe we could get something like this back home? It definitely beats fucking around with buckets, as water delivery systems go."

"Man, I feel for you," Gabe says guiding the two to the kitchen. "I bet we have a lot of cool stuff you're gonna want to take home."

There are plates for the mushroom pastries, fried vegetables and various sauces to dip.

"There are tons of stuff we can get for you to take you home. I was meaning to ask. What are the most advanced non-magical things you have around?"

Ari thinks very hard. "This is... a very difficult question to answer, I hope you realize... um... hand crossbows? Hourglasses? They weren't around a hundred years ago, the glass has to be - oh, I know, there was this wandering merchant bloke a couple of years back who had a machine that made books. That's new, we never had that, had to write out the damn things by hand. His thing's still just his thing, but I think it's going to get big. Books are great. Wonder if he can do tomes with it?"

"Wow, that's medieval. Henry, you're not allowed to ignore the food while nerding about science."

Gabe starts to serve the plates.

Henry pats Gabe affectionately and takes a seat. "Okay, Gabe. Well, I assume that was a printing press. I don't know what properties of tomes are relevant here, but there is a bunch of stuff we have invented since the times of the printing press. I don't know where to start... I guess the most relevant might be the machines called computers, which can do math really fast. The thing is that you can convert a lot of things into doing math really fast."

"There are tiny computers that can be used to take pictures, or record and play videos, which are like, moving pictures. Also music. Also, if it's connected to the internet it can help you find hot single guys in your area."

"All of that sounds incredible. I don't have much trouble with the last one, but I welcome any assistance the tiny fast math thing can give me."

Ari takes a bite of mushroom pastry. "Also, this is extremely good. You are good. Thank you."

"Five minutes," Henry mutters under his breath. "All I want is five minutes, where he doesn't sound like a pervert."

"You know you love me," Gabe says to Henry, while sniffing his neck.

"I don't doubt it and thank you. Oooh, games! The tiny math can also do games, where it's like a video, except it isn't a recording. And it's more like... a cartoon, wait you don't have those," he frowns.

"Games... often involve tiny math that does simple pictures. One has a degree of control over the tiny pictures, such that it can simulate something compellingly interactive. Like, controlling a character that fights against enemies. Or a puzzle."

"I fight against enemies and do puzzles all the time. Can the pictures have sex?"

(Author note: Henry is thinking "Oh, no. There are two of them!")

"Of course, internet is for porn! Unless you mean, in the games? There are some games for that, but they are not very good. Luckily, a lot of generous and altruistic people have recorded sex and put it on the internet for everyone to see. We actually don't have the internet here, but I have downloaded some videos if you want a sampler."

"Maybe you can show me later. Unless you want your cousin involved in whatever this is."

"I do want to involve my cousin, but I think we should eat first."

"I am mostly lamenting that he turned a conversation about technology into sex," Henry shakes his head.

"Oh! That kind of cousin. Yes, by all means let's eat first."

"Yeah, that kind."

Gabe takes a bite. And then he pulls Henry into his lap.

"I mean, we are half-cousins," Henry says before shaking his head. "But let's eat and then introduce Ari to the technology of the toothbrush."

The lifeforce analysis is still active. It's not very precise, but Ari can tell some... flow going to certain areas.

"Toothbrush is for... cleaning teeth? I do that with magic. Most people do it with paste and a washcloth. We're not animals, come on."

Henry raises his hands. "Okay, sorry. I just don't want sauce-tasting kisses."

Gabe takes this opportunity to give Henry a sauce-tasting kiss.

Aww.

Ari finishes his pastry, then cleans his mouth with a quick necromantic spell and a drink of water.

"Now, I seem to remember certain agreements being made."

They perform their own version of that spell.

Henry wordlessly stands up and pulls Ari into a minty-flavored kiss.

Gabe walks around and sandwiches Ari between himself and Henry. He removes his own shirt and then takes a turn kissing Ari.

Excellent. (Ari was kind of hoping to see the pornography first, but he is by no means disappointed by this turn of events.)

He kisses back enthusiastically. This is a technology his world has already developed, and Ari is a devoted student of it.

(There was probably some terrible communication misunderstanding. Or maybe, Ari is just that hot. A mystery for the ages.)

The cousins approve of Ari's studies. They pull Ari out of the kitchen.

They might be losing bits of clothes along the way. And helping Ari doing the same.

Ari is wildly appreciative of this assistance, as the cousins can probably determine from the state of the hose under his tunic, which are stretched around a sizable, leaking erection. He moans slightly into Gabe's mouth as he gropes the pair of them in turn.

That doesn't surprise Henry that much. The lifeforce analysis is sufficiently telling. But seeing it is another thing he takes a moment to quietly Gabe's attention to it.

Ooh, best day. Then, with possibly-supernatural luck, they pull off the maneuver of bringing Ari into the hallway, by the stairs while pulling Ari's pants down.

Henry strokes Ari's sizeable penis while the two cousins guide him upstairs.

Ari cooperates with the relocation, graceful despite the silk tights now halfway down his thighs.

He attempts to reduce his compatriots to the same state, but is stymied by their flies. He doesn't appear to have encountered the concept of the button-fly at any point.

Poor medieval boy. They can pause by their bedroom's door to show how it's done. Gabe undoes Henry's and reveals red briefs. Also quite tent around a large erection, thought not as leaking.

Maybe Ari wants to the honors for Gabe?

Ari's a quick study. He undoes Gabe's button and unzips him slowly, savoring the suspense.

Gabe is wearing something in almost neon blue. There is a band around his waist, supporting a pouch and there are two more bands connected to the waistband and going to the back. Gabe's dick is bulging against the flexible pouch, producing a spot of dark blue where the pre-cum is accumulating.

Henry spins Gabe around to show the backside nicely framed by the elastic blands. He then slaps a hairless butt cheek. Which causes Gabe to produce a delighted sound.

Well, that's practically an engraved invitation. Ari parts the cheeks and starts licking at Gabe's hole.

Ari is the best interdimensional arrival ever. Gabe will express this through loud moaning.

And how does the interdimensional arrival reacts when Henry copies his idea?

Positively! Ari gasps and bucks his hips back semi-involuntarily, burying Henry's face in his ass even as he thrusts his tongue further into Gabe's.

The cousins lose their last bits of clothing, except for Gabe's jockstrap. Gabe makes some incoherent noises and starts stroking himself with one hand.

Henry's face emerges from where it was buried. He replaces with a playful finger. "Let's actually get into a bed proper."

He opens the bedroom's door with one hand without breaking contact with Ari with the other.

The bedroom is a fairly two-young-adult-males-bedroom. It contains mysterious mechanisms, but more importantly: It contains a bed.

Ari will reluctantly withdraw his own face, in the interest of a bed.

Once on said bed, he traces a rune in the air with his fingertip, which begins to glow. "This is going to tingle a bit," he tells Gabe. "But you're going to like it."

Gabe is shivering in anticipation.

Ari licks his finger, shivering with delight, and inserts it into Gabe.

It's immediately obvious that electricity is involved with this somehow; the finger buzzes and pops inside him, tingling and giving off sparks of a sensation that's almost-but-not-quite pain. The main effect, though, is that Gabe can feel his muscles relaxing. His defenses fall open around the intruding finger, leaving his ass open and twitching.

Then Ari withdraws his finger and retrieves a vial of white oil from his belt. He smears it over his cock and gives it a few strokes. "Ready?" he whispers.

As the effects course through him, Gabe can't help but think how he is at hands of a complete stranger with unknown magic who he might not be able to defend against.

It's fucking hot. Gabe moans loudly and lets his muscles relax into a flat pile over the bed. He barely manages to perk up his butt invitingly.

"Our guest asked a question, Gabe," Henry says amusedly. He is still playing with Ari's hole but has also reached out for a lube by the nightstand and is applying on himself.

"Yes!" Gabe manages to say.

Ari pushes in.

His cock has the same electrical charge as his finger, if not moreso. The buzzing and the sparks are joined with an intense heat, pulsing and burning inside Gabe's ass. Ari isn't gentle; he sheathes himself to the hilt bare seconds after he goes in, draws back out and rams in again without concern for Gabe's comfort. His heavy balls slap against Gabe's thighs hard enough that it must be painful even for Ari. He doesn't seem to care.

Gabe needs to bite down the pillow to avoid letting out a scream. His vocalizations are a mix of pained moans and pleasured whimpers. He melts into the bed even further, too relaxed to spasm or tense against Ari's uncaring thrusts.

This is what heaven must be like.

Those are not even Henry's kinks and he finds the entire thing extremely hot too.

He grabs his smartphone and sets it to record everything by the nightstand. He then puts his own cock through Ari's hole and pushes in.

(Belatedly, he remembers to ward himself against Ari's magic.)

With the ward up, Ari's hole is only a little hotter than anyone else's. It swallows Henry's cock hungrily.

Ari growls when he's penetrated, arching his back and pounding into Gabe with renewed vigor. Each back-stroke impales him on Henry; each stroke forward slams him into Gabe. 

With a snarl, he bites into Gabe's shoulder, not enough to break the skin but enough to make it very clear that his teeth are sharper than a normal human's. He sucks at the spot hard, the skin hickeying under his mouth within moments.

Well, that's sure a nice feeling around his cock.

Gabe whimpers at the bite and tries to say something, but he can't brain enough to produce a coherent concept.

He'll have plenty of opportunity to try; Ari's marking his territory now, repeating the mark half a dozen times across Gabe's back. Each bite leaves a deep purple stain, ringed by angry red toothmarks. It looks almost gruesome, less a hickey and more a bruise.

He's still growling right into Gabe's ear. He sounds - not like a wild animal, precisely, but like an animal someone thought they had domesticated, and thought wrong.

Gabe shivers at each bite. Being growled at like he put himself into a situation where some kind of dangerous creature will make him bleed finally allows him to string two words together.

"Please, harder."

Ari takes him at his word.

His teeth sink into Gabe's shoulder like a haunch of meat. Hot blood spills into his mouth, driving him into a frenzy. His hips slam forward once, twice, and with a final guttural roar, he comes.

His cum burns like liquid fire in Gabe's ass, even hotter than the firebrand of his cock. It fills him up to the brim, feels like it would spill out if it weren't for the seal of Ari's cock.

For a second, Ari grows. His shoulders swell, his muscles ripple, his cock fattens with even more burning blood than before, stretching Gabe's abused hole even wider - but then it's gone, and he's the same as he ever was. Even the faint red glint in his eye recedes.

Gabe makes an inhuman sound between in an attempt to communicate pain and pleasure. For a moment, Gabe is sure that he is so filled with Ari's cum that some is spilling out through his own dick and is confused by the lack of fire sensation on his skin.

(He does not have the brain power to realize he just had an orgasm, but he is sure enjoying himself.)

In retrospect, they should've had a long conversation about consent and sex before starting all of this. Henry... removes himself from Ari and checks to see if Gabe is alright.

Gabe: is too bliss out to count as present. His insides are burning and he is whimpering and it's great. He snuggles to Henry.

Ari whines when Henry leaves his ass. The haze starts to fade from his eyes, and he takes in the scene.

"...Shit, 's a lot of blood," he mumbles. He takes a healing potion from his belt and puts the mouth of the bottle to Gabe's lips. "Come on, drink," he murmurs, "it's good, it's all good."

Gabe drinks it obediently. His eyes flutter open and he settles his gaze on Ari. "That was amazing," he says breathlessly. He pulls Ari and Henry into a snuggle and starts kissing their necks.

Henry sighs in relief. "He literally... changed."

Ari enjoys both the snuggle and neck-kisses immensely.

He gives Henry a confused look. "I what?"

"You grew in size. Or at least your muscles did."

"His cock got fatter," Gabe giggles. "Oh, and his cum burns. It's great."

"...Well, that's fucked-up," Ari sighs. "And further evidence for the 'I'm secretly a demon' pile."

He ruffles Gabe's hair. "Glad you liked it."

Snuggle. "I sure I did. Are you okay, dude?"

"Yeah. I just... think that my dad may have been Diablo, the Lord of Terror, and that I'm not actually human." He shrugs. "Not a huge deal."

Henry pulls him to stay between himself and Gabe while snuggling. "That sounds like something one could make a big deal out of it, if they wanted to. Or we can just snuggle quietly."

Aw, it's good seeing Henry being nice to someone. "Mhmm," Gabe mumbles in agreement. He is kisses Ari in a way that somehow manages to be lustful while communicating a desire to comfort.

Ari kisses him back and bites his lip, hard enough to draw blood.

"Whoops," he says innocently. "Careful of the fangs."

Happy squirm. "They are lovely."

Henry snorts and reaches out to touch Gabe's lip. "I guess I shouldn't assume you know this. But most people don't enjoy pain."

The lip's wound closes and then Henry pinches it hard enough to make it burst open again.

"Hopefully, Gabe will help you with your sadistic needs."

"Wow, I am learning a lot of weird shit today. Are you sure? Back home I've never had any complaints."

Idly, he flicks a spark of red lightning at Gabe's nipple. It hurts like Hell, and strangely, it sticks to him, growing more and more painful for a few seconds before vanishing in a crackle of energy.

Well, if he is going to be so lovely, Gabe is going to kiss him until they are both out of breath.

Henry waits patiently for Ari to get less distracted. "Yeah. I am getting the sense that our worlds are very weird."

"So, Henry, do you like pain?" Ari asks once the kiss has broken off. "Or are you only interested in pleasure?"

"Pleasure," Henry snorts. "I don't mind causing pain in the right kind of people." He pinches Gabe's still sensitive nipple.

Everyone is being so great to Gabe today. "You?" Gabe manages to say breathlessly.

"It's all good," Ari says. "Pain and pleasure, blood and cum... I don't see much difference. Giving or receiving."

"You're like the perfect man. Henry, can we keep him?" Gabe says kissing Ari's neck again.

"Wait, isn't your fetish be that he keeps you? Or I guess we both keep you?" He shakes his head. "Anyway, that's kinda too soon. Don't scare the poor man with strong unknown powers."

"Aww." Ari kisses the top of Gabe's head. "I'd keep you. If I end up staying in this world I will."

Gabe squirms happily.

"Which reminds me that if we want to send you to your world I am going to need to message the right people."

"I do want to at least let Uncle Deckard know I'm alright. Usually if you disappear for more than a day or so, that means you got eaten by demons, or worse."

Squeeze. "I can request them to hurry, but it's likely going to take a week or so to get you through a portal and then travel time between where the portal landed and your Uncle."

"Well, the spot was only a couple of minutes' walk from the village. But as long as it's less than a month or so before the portal goes through, our caravan won't have moved on from New Tristram, and I can at least correct the assumption that I'm dead."

"That sounds doable then. I will get it out of the way," he pauses a moment to think. Kisses Ari gingerly, avoiding those fangs and stands up.

Between the fact he didn't get to cum and the snuggling he is sporting a hard on.

"Heeeeey," Ari says when he spots Henry's erection. "We're not done here!"

He grabs Henry's cock and pulls him back onto the bed. "Gabe, suck off your cousin," he orders. "Henry, I'm going to fuck you."

"Cum on my back if you have to," Henry warns, but with a smirk. Pause. "No, cum inside Gabe's mouth."

"I like this plan!" Gabe says getting into position.

"Ooh. Agreed."

Ari readies his static charge, licks his finger, and slips it into Henry's ass.

Gabe decides to lay belly up while swallowing Henry's cock. Ironically, he is the only one wearing anything, his cum-drenched jockstraps.

Henry moans as he feels Ari's charged finger, and then louder when Gabe starts licking and sucking.

Ari's cock is still slick from the potion he used before, plus the cum he deposited in Gabe, so once he deems Henry sufficiently loosened up, he slides his cock in slowly.

Even through the ward, he's feverishly, inhumanly hot. Combined with his size and the buzzing of electricity, there's a lot of sensations going into Henry's ass right now.

Oh, yes there is. And while Henry would never call himself a "sub" he would never say he doesn't like to bottom. He thrusts his hips towards Ari.

And Gabe knows how to work on his cousin's dick. Years of practice.

Ari's in better control this time, both because he's thinking about what he's doing and because he just came a few minutes ago. So he's got enough control over himself to ream Henry out agonizingly slowly, luxuriating in the feeling of Henry's ass around his cock. He hilts himself inside and stays that way for a good few seconds before drawing back out and sliding back in.

Henry is sure appreciating it. He half-turns and kisses Ari.

Ari kisses him deeply, switching to a harder, pounding rhythm that drives Henry farther down Gabe's throat with every thrust.

Speaking of Gabe, Ari reaches out and strokes his cock through the jockstrap. Mustn't let him feel neglected.

Ari keeps being such a sweetheart.

Gabe's cock is still quite sticky from previous activity. And it's owner will reach a finger towards Ari's butthole.

Meanwhile, Henry will keep on kissing and grabbing Ari's hair and pulling hard into convenient positions.

Ari's hole will readily accept Gabe's finger, but may prove reluctant to relinquish it. The hand on Gabe's cock moves to massage his balls, just barely hard enough to hurt (for now.)

It turns out that Ari moans like a bitch when his hair is pulled. This is potentially useful information for the future.

Gabe can't tell him to stop with a mouthful like he is right now. He would never do it, but it's great he can't.

What if Gabe inserts a second finger inside Ari's hole? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's great information. Henry sure loves some feedback!

The second finger goes in as readily as the first. Ari's grip on Gabe's balls tightens, by way of reward.

Ari's fucking Henry as hard as he fucked Gabe, now. Sweat drips from his forehead and leaves clean tracks through the spatters of blood lingering on his face. He growls low in Henry's ear, dangerous again, though still controlled.

With exaggerated gentleness, he sucks at Henry's neck, leaving behind a faint red mark. "Okay?" he manages to ask.

"Okay," Henry breaths out. Then more steadily. "Be gentle. I will take my revenge if anything happens," his tone is not dangerous, but it's surprisingly confident.

Gabe squirms at his reward. He pushes his two fingers deeper.

Ari squeezes hard. "Good boy," he whispers to Gabe.

He takes Henry's statement as permission to suck a bit harder, leaving a proper hickey this time. Meanwhile, his thrusts grow faster and less coordinated; he's getting close.

Henry guesses as such. "Remember, to feed your cum to Gabe," he whispers.

And he starts taking more control of the back and forth. Speeding up the rhythm on his own terms. Unlike the other two he hadn't come already and he is being very well stimulated.

Henry breaks away the kiss and grabs one of Ari's hands and takes it to his mouth to kiss it.

Then he gives a final push against Ari and pulls out of Ari's dick, pushing himself against Gabe's throat...

...he comes.

Gabe takes it all, of course.

Henry wobbles a little, but he does have enough presence of mind to look back at Ari, smirk and bite down hard at the hand still in his mouth.

Ari groans, grabs Gabe, and shoves his cock down his throat just in time. His cock pulses as he dumps his load straight into Gabe's stomach, warming him through. He pulls out just enough at the end that he can deposit the last few spurts onto Gabe's tongue, salty and hot enough to almost burn his tongue.

Then he collapses between the two cousins again, sweaty and spent. "Okay," he sighs happily. "Now we're done."

Gabe will happily slurp every drop and snuggle up again.

Henry pats Ari's head. "What a good boy." He kisses Ari's in the cheek. "Now, Gabe. be a nice host while I make some phone calls. And try to not to be too loud."

Henry kisses the two of them a last time and disentangles. He leaves.

"Love you," Ari mumbles.

Gabe already had a goofy grin, but it widens. He squirms and says to Ari's ear. "I love you, too."

Ari, for his part, has had a very big day. He falls asleep, clinging to Gabe like a very large koala bear.

Gabe is covered in cum (his own and of his two favorite people) and blood. There is a half-human with dangerous powers cuddling him.

Best sleep conditions ever. He snuggles up, touches Ari's bracelet to imbue it with wakefulness and sends himself right back into sleep.

Ari will sleep for a perfectly respectable eight hours if left undisturbed.

One of the many benefits of being a sorcerer is that they need to sleep less. The cousins will leave Ari to get his rest.

Ari will find himself alone in the bedroom. The bedsheets are the same but mysteriously clean, while Ari himself is not. Ari's clothes are in a neat pile under a note that reads

Come downstairs when you wake up.  <3 <=3 :) ~~Gabe.

Ari awakens, slightly sad that the bed is empty. Then he reads the note and smiles.

Downstairs he walks, still covered in blood and cum with his rather impressive morning wood leading the way.

He can hear the sound of voices from the kitchen. Gabe and Henry are visible inside.

Alongside two-

-No, three identical brothers. One of them flickers and is now standing close to Ari. Looking concerned. "Dude, are you okay? Do you need healing?"

He is very deliberately not looking down. His brothers look up. One smirks. Both admire.

"Nah, this is all Gabe's. Well, the blood is."

He looks over at the cousins. "I might need help with the mysterious water machine that makes me not covered in various fluids anymore. I took a look at the controls earlier, and I don't really want to trust my instincts on this one, because I don't have any."

Felix turns toward Gabe.

"I will help you, love."

"I swear it isn't as bad as it looks."

"Honestly, don't worry. It explains the weird noises Felix reported when he tried to visit yesterday."

Gabe smiles at the triplet and takes Ari by the hand to the shower.

Ari follows cheerfully, showing off his ass to the triplets as he goes.

(It's a very nice sight.)

Here is the shower. Gabe is not wearing much, just a white-shirt and shorts (and is very obviously going commando). He removes the shirt and kisses Ari. "Did you sleep well?"

"Yes! Remarkably well, considering how filthy I was, but your bed is very comfortable, so that probably explains it."

Ari appreciates the kiss, and Gabe going commando, very, very much. Enough so that a bead of clear fluid wells up at his cockhead, and his hips jut forward just a little bit.

Gabe grins. He rubs his thumb around Ari's head with a lazy finger. While poking the mysterious water machine to produce hot water. "Henry wanted to wake us up for a shower, but we are too cute. He even took a picture. Oh, and he made a video of us fucking. We should show that to you."

Gabe helps Ari get inside the bathtub and under the shower. He then helpfully and with no second intentions starts applying soap all over Ari's body.

"I love yooooou," Ari sighs happily. "You should definitely show me all the videos and the pictures. And I'm still waiting for that pornography you promised me."

Chuckle. "Of course, love. I don't regret how we got side tracked." That statement just happens to be followed by Gabe rubbing Ari's balls. What a completely unrelated happenstance.

Ari hums cheerfully, then turns to kiss Gabe.

Hmmm, kisses. Gabe still rubbings his hands all over Ari's body. For soaping purposes.

Ari will slide down Gabe's pants around his ankles, in case they get wet. Which would be a tragedy.

While he's down here, he swallows Gabe's cock to the root.

"Fuck, I love you."

He grabs Ari's hair with both hands and pulls him even closer.

Ari's natural instinct to moan wars with the reality of the cock in his throat, leaving him gagging and choking and desperately turned on. Tears stream from his eyes as he tries to breathe and fails.

The poor thing, he pulls Ari's head out. "Does this mean you can't take it?" He blatantly challenges.

Ari heaves in a breath. "Put that thing back in my mouth and we'll see who can't take what," he chokes out.

Well, how can Gabe say no. He keeps his hold on Ari's hair and pushes his dick inside that glorious mouth of his.

And Ari takes it all in again, without gagging this time. He breathes calmly through his nose and lets his lips touch the shaved expanse of Gabe's crotch.

One hand goes down to stroke his own, sadly neglected cock. The other goes up to gently cradle Gabe's balls.

Gabe moans. "I fucking love you, dude."

Ari hollows out his cheeks, and his hand squeezes...

There's a knock at the door.

"Come in."

One of the triplets opens the door and blinks at the scene.

Henry is next to him. He was about to protest that of course Fernando shouldn't have just opened the door on Gabe's say so.

But his intuition is telling him that Ari won't give a damn. Or whatever he will give it will be very positive.

Felix flickers into existence again and snorts.

Ari blinks.

The hand jerking himself off waves, then returns to business. The other hand continues to squeeze.

The final triplet show up. "So, I see the two are busy. I guess, Fernando will need to leave his experiments for later."

"We got distracted from showering."

"You live in a constant state of distraction."

(Ari squeezes a little harder and does a thing with his tongue. If Gabe can talk, Ari's not doing his job.)

At least Gabe can still moan.

"Well," Fernando says, "this answers the question if Ari and Gabe are going to be busy for the next while."

"The real question, is if we can get into that action."

Ari makes a happy noise at the back of his throat and gifts Gabe with a second of white-knuckled crushing before going back to background levels of squeeze.

With his other hand, he gestures to his currently unoccupied ass and cock.

"Huh, his cum is very hot. But not super-dangerously hot," then with a shift in tone, "and the two like pain."

"Cool. Good thing I am invulnerable! Now, bros don't be shy." He punches Felix on the arm, or at least he tries to.

Felix almost distractedly catches the punch. Then after a pause.

-Now he is behind Ari, naked. "Can I?" He asks touching where the hip and leg meet and pulling his hand up.

"Mm-hm!"

Felix lifts Ari's hips and applies a lubed finger through his hole. For a moment it almost feels like a spark, but no... the finger is vibrating. And as soon Ari registers that, it's replace by Felix's penis.

The other two triplets are removing their clothes the regular way.

What has become of Henry's life. He is undressing as well.

Fernando helps Henry undress. He also lifts from the floor and kisses the other man.

Ari is in the special Heaven of a man who is being spitroasted and has three other men lining up to take their turn. He sets up a current on his finger and starts fingering Gabe, but still maintains the pressure on his balls.

Gabe responds to this with more moaning and also by tightening his grip on Ari's hair.

Felix takes no time to start pounding Ari.

He tentatively runs his nails through Ari's back.

Henry will just be here... keeping the other two triplets occupied.

Ari responds positively to both hairpulling and nails! He arches his back, as if to say harder, come on.

He wants harder? Okay.

It feels like someone hit him with a thin piece of wood. Not like a slash, but a sudden line of pain.

And then again, and again, and again. Each time with more pressure applied to the slash. This sprays water everywhere, but no one is dressed enough for this to be a problem.

Ari makes a noise around the cock in his throat that's halfway between a moan and a scream and a demand for more.

Gabe will helpfully demonstrate the notion of digging your fingernails on an already existing red line.

Felix snorts and tries that. After a moment he tries that whilst vibrating his hand, which causes his nails to dig deeper.

With his other hand he holds Ari's cock head with a vibrating thumb.

The vibrating thumb is the straw that broke the camel's back. Ari's eyes roll back in his head as he sprays Felix's hand and the bathroom floor with burning-hot cum.

It's a good thing Felix has enhanced reflexes. He blows his hand where the few drops of cum made contact with his hand.

"Oops. Also, ouch."

"You came too strong, bro."

As soon as Ari has recovered, he launches a full-on assault of Gabe's cock from every angle - licking the head, crushing the balls, and sending electricity coursing through his prostate. It is personally offensive that Ari came first. He's going to make sure the interval is as short as possible.

"Fuuck," Gabe gasps taken by surprise. He starts shivering and moaning. It doesn't take long for him to come.

"Unfair," he mumbles while leaning against the bathroom's wall.

Ari swallows, then straightens up, keeping Felix's cock inside him, for a kiss.

He turns to kiss Felix too. "Nice to meet you," he says ironically, clenching his hole.

Felix giggles when the kiss breaks away and offers a hand. "Nice to meet you, I am Felix Vaesteri!"

"Ari," Ari says, shaking as best he can given the awkward positioning. "Ari Cain. Do you want to cum inside me?"

"Well," he thrust his hips forward with more strength than a guy his size should manage," since you're asking so nicely."

He picks up the rhythm with renewed vigor. He keeps a hand supporting himself against the wall and another pulling Ari's hair.

Ari moans loudly. His cock twitches, even though he came seconds ago.

Felix is relentless and if Ari had not worked out by now the super-speed then he is really dense.

Or maybe distracted, that would be reasonable. There are plenty of things to be distracted by, like how Felix comes like someone that has been having sex for hours.

Or maybe Ari will be distracted by all this rope that suddenly binds him and holds him rigidly into place.

One of the triplets is holding the rope. "Hi!"

Ari appreciates all of these things! Especially the cum. But also especially the rope.

He nods to the rope-holding triplet. "Hi! I really want to learn some of these tricks."

"It's a special gift! But I am sure we can have a fun knowledge exchange." He nudges his other triplet. "Hey, it's our turn with the newcomer."

Fernando stops kissing Henry and looks. "I see it is. Henry, if you excuse me."

Fernando floats towards Ari, at a level that's very convenient for dick-sucking.

"Go ahead," Henry snorts, "I will give some love to Gabe."

(Gabe has been looking a bit jealous of the rope trick and is helped out of the shower by Felix.)

Ari will take Fernando up on that sucking! Sucking cock is one of Ari's very favorite things to do. Especially while bound in place.

But first, just to make Gabe feel better, he turns his head and breathes a tongue of red lightning that'll wrap itself around Gabe's cock and shock the living hell out of him before dissipating.

"Fuck! You bastard," Gabe says in tones of usually reserved to the most sincere declarations of love.

Fernando observes this. "Clearly, you're still not secured enough. And since I am planning to use that mouth of yours."

He picks up a piece of cloth hanging around and ties it around Ari's head like a blindfold.

"Good, now back to work."

Ari shivers with delight. "Yes, sir."

Working blind, he takes Fernando's cock into his mouth and starts sucking again. Just from the bonds and the stimulus he's already getting, he's half-hard already.

"Good boy," Fernando says running fingers deep into the scratch marks. Despite the hot water the nails feel as cold as ice.

Whatever is causing the rope to stay tight and rigid allow for Ari's body to be conveniently manipulated into nice positions.

And someone (Ari can only guess while blindfold) starts licking his hole and play with cock and balls.

This is so good. All these boys are so good. Ari has found the dimension of incredibly good boys. Also he is a good boy, which makes something inside him perk up and wag its tail joyously.

Once Thomas is satisfied with his work (He might've gotten distracted by Ari's cock) he pats Ari's ass like someone might pat a pet.

Then he takes hold of Ari's hips and goes in.

Oh that's good. Ari doesn't have much way of expressing that, of course, with his mouth shoved full of cock and his limbs bound. Which is fine.

He wonders if someone's going to pull his hair soon, that's all that's missing.

Well, the flying triplet is experimenting and looking for results. He pinches, slaps and scratches various areas of Ari's body. He gets around to pull Ari's hair when he pulls his cock out of Ari's mouth. "Oh, you like that, don't you?"

"Yes," Ari gasps.

Fernando smirks a smirk that Ari can't see. And tugs the hair hard before shoving his dick back in again.

Everyone is being so nice to Ari today.

Yes, they are all so considerate of him! With all the manhandling and (ab)use of powers.

Ari is still very much blindfolded and the running water might prevent him hearing things like footsteps, kissing and whispered suggestions.

"I like that," Fernando says out loud. "Thomas, Henry here is suggesting to take my place while we double penetrate Ari."

"Fucking Gosh, I will certainly object to that on the basis of being too gay."

This sounds like exactly the right amount of gay to Ari. Not that he can really say so in his current position, but he can hum very approvingly when he so chooses.

"Aww, look how happy he is. He is like a cock-hungry golden retriever."

Snort. "Far from me to be cruel to a bitch."

He pulls his cock out. Slaps Ari's face and then (holding the hair tightly), pushes Ari's mouth on Henry's cock.

Henry for his part, takes hold of Ari's hair.

It's like it's secretly his birthday. He whines when Fernando slaps him, then sucks Henry happily. Henry is an island of comfort in this ocean of delight.

Henry is happily providing comfort. Such a hard comfort.

The two triplets have two figure out some logistics. But between the power of flight and the ability to put Ari into desirable positions they manage something.

And look, Fernando is pulling Ari's hair again.

And a moment later, Thomas puts his dick back in, side-by-side with his brother's own.

Ari is stretched so wide. It feels amazing. He feels more full than he's ever felt. The stretch, the burn, it all feels incredible. He can't concentrate on sucking Henry's cock for a few seconds, it's too intense.

Then he finds himself again, and goes back to sucking. He has a job to do, no matter how good he feels.

Good. Can't ignore poor Henry even if the brothers turn relentless.

The brothers are absolutely relentless.

Ari is just going to be over here thanking Zakarum for rewarding his sinful, sinful life.

Too bad nothing can last forever.

Well, at least some moments can go out with a bang.

Indeed, Fernando comes shortly after his brother.

He takes a moment to bite Ari's shoulder. His teeth feel like knifes made of ice.

Ari isn't going to last long with all this going on. He shudders as his load spatters across the floor for the second time in however many minutes.

For a moment the rope loosen up. "Hey, I am not finished you know."

The ropes tight again. "Let's dry him up and take him to the living room."

Towels: Are applied to Ari's body then.

A dry boy is a happy boy.

(He clenches his hole as much as possible to keep all the loads in. He wants to stay full as long as he can.)

When it's time to actually leave the bathroom, the flying triplet pulls the blindfold down and turns it into a gag.

This allows Ari to see Felix and Gabe in the living room's couch. Felix looks a mix of confused and curious.

There is a tiny spark of fire in one of his fingertips. He brings it down on Gabe's chest.

Gabe squirms happily upon contact. "Thank you, please more," he gasps.

He is tied down with elaborate, almost artistic knots.

Ari whines. He wants to be either inflicting pain or having it inflicted upon him!

"What's up big boy? Do you want something? Henry's cock?"

"My cock and a bit of tough love, I bet."

Henry pulls Ari's hair while saying this. Ari is then placed on the couch.

To the best of his ability, Ari will wag his butt in the air. That may be limited at the moment, but an attempt will be made.

"Hey, Felix, can you do the same thing you did for Gabe?"

"Always glad to help."

And suddenly the rope changes from a taunt spiral around Ari's body into what they are using to bide Gabe. Ari's hands are tied behind his back, but his legs are free.

Henry turns the gag back into a blindfold. And immediately his mouth is around Gabe's cock.

Henry plays with Ari's clenched butt hole, but soon pushes his cock in.

He's pretty loose and sloppy from all the action he's seen today, but he puts up a good effort to keep his muscles tight around Henry, trying to give him the best experience he can get.

Gabe moans when his dick is sucked. "Ari," he gasps, "fire."

Henry is not complaining. "Yeah, go ahead, Felix."

Well, tentatively, a touch of flame makes contact with Ari's back.

Ari... doesn't seem to feel it. It certainly isn't burning him.

There is a moment of silent.

"I guess that isn't surprising," Henry says after a pause, then Ari can feel him shrug and go back to pounding Ari's butt.

Poor Ari, immune to fire, Henry will remedy that with bites and hickeys.

"What isn't- ooh," Ari says as Gabe bites him. His attention is promptly redirected to bites and pounding.

That's the desired reaction, yes.

Well, someone will at least contribute by holding Ari's hair and forcing him down on Gabe harder.

And maybe there will be some ice-cold prodding at some sensitive areas.

Henry appreciates the help...

...and he finally comes.

Ari is so pleased. He'll see if he can get Gabe to cum within a few seconds of his cousin if he tries hard and believes in himself.

It turns out with the power of true love (and being sluts). Ari can in fact achieve that goal! Even Gabe is a bit surprised! He is mostly riding that orgasm.

Ari swallows contentedly. This has been the best 24 hours he's ever experienced.

"I love you, Ari." Gabe could say the same. He squirms a bit. "I want to kiss you."

"Aw, look at them! They are like two lovestruck worms wiggling about," Thomas says as he puts the two into a position better for kissing.

Kiiiiiiss. Ari's mouth is hot and it tastes like cum, surprising no one.

He also appreciates Thomas's comment to a somewhat inappropriate degree. He almost gets a little bit hard again as he squirms against Gabe.

Gabe loves that taste and rest his head on Ari's shoulder.

"Okay, I think we got somehow interrupted."

Fernando, still floating and still very naked. "Yeah, Henry was about to actually explain what Ari is."

"I was talking about breakfast. I am almost sure Ari can't survive on cum alone."

"Don't underestimate me!" Ari says dramatically, wriggling some more. "But yes, food would be nice."

There are some snorts around the room. Henry eyes Ari up and down. "Felix-"

"I would love to cook breakfast, but I should warn that I can't actually superspeed it."

"Thanks. I actually wanted you to grab my cellphone so I could show you a video and a butt-plug for Ari."

"Wait, what? Isn't he done for the moment?" Felix asks then he looks at Ari.

Ari grins beatifically. "I just want to keep it all in me, is all. You noticed!" he adds, to Henry.

Henry ruffles with Ari's hair before sitting next to him. "Of course."

Felix flickers and reappears completely dressed and offering Henry a mysterious thin rectangle and a bag made of glossy shiny material. "I didn't want to ruffle through it before cooking anything."

Henry takes the bag. Felix ruffles Gabe's hair and flickers away.