And Lily laughs, and relaxes back into the tentacles, and lets the tension in her limbs fade and warmth and satisfaction permeate her body. 

"Wow," she says. "That was..." 

She doesn't know how many times she's come, and frankly she doesn't care. She's still just as ready for sex as before, but the hunger has stilled in her a little, in a way it never has before. She feels... light. 

"... I don't have words. Except maybe thank you."

"I learned something too, I think."

Kamryn pulls Lily into her arms as Talance slowly, slowly reassembles her human guise.

In the rest of the camp: the trapper boy has long-since exhausted himself, and seems to be asleep on Uuloo's back, draped over her like he passed out while still fucking her.

Lygos still has Yosaphen inside him as he prowls the edge of the clearing with an irritated air, murmurs and soft moans passing back and forth inside that helmet like a conversation.

"Lily."

Kamryn has been thinking about this since they finished.

"What do you think would happen, if we tried to enter the city openly?"

"People... Would be scared. They'd think you were monsters, especially if you were nude in public or had sex in public... You could maybe pass, but the rest of the group wouldn't. People back where I came from looked at me like I was something... other... even though I'm mostly human."

"You might have better luck with some people, especially the goblins, they're more open about this kind of thing... but I would expect you to be hassled by the town guards. You'd need... noble protection, to be safe. Is my best guess. I don't know for sure."

"Hm."

They could always try to enter the city not-openly, but first...

"What's 'noble protection'?"

"There are some people who are important because they own a lot of things. Including other people. Those important people, who are called nobles, get to say what happens most of the time, even if it's not good for anyone but them. So... if you could convince a noble that you were important somehow..."

She purses her lips. "Amira might be able to help with that, she says she has a noble sponsor."

The mental image Kamryn puts together can't possibly be right.

Probably 'nobles' are one of those things that don't make sense until seen in action.

"What if we posed as humans?"

Kamryn gestures to her palette-swapped twin, as Talance finishes reconstructing her preferred form. Then at Lygos, who's only really given away by the squelching sounds, not the way he looks.

"Lygos can look like a human in armor when he tries, and Yosaphen can sound human if she tries. They might be able to pass, working together. Talance can look completely human, she just can't talk very clearly. The only one who'd definitely stand out is Uuloo, and we could leave her to watch the camp."

Kamryn hums.

"Having inside help so we don't need to pull that off would be better, though. Would you ask Amira about that for us?"

"Yeah, I'll ask Amira. You said you... had a warning you wanted to share? I think that that would be the kind of thing that might get a noble's attention."

"The Red Queen."

Kamryn frowns at the name.

"It's complicated, but the Red Queen needs to be stopped, or the entire world might end up... worse than enslaved. The tentacle princesses have a plan, but the rest of the world needs to be warned against her machinations too, lest she use them against us."

"Amira is going to want details. Vague warnings... aren't very useful. You might want to talk to the Adventurer's Guild, too, they're more likely to take that kind of thing seriously."

"I've got details, though Lygos and Talance were the ones actually there for some of it."

Kamryn gives Lily a look.

"Do you want the whole story now, or do you want to wait for Amira?"

"I think Amira should hear it from you... and honestly I don't feel like heading back to see her just yet. I'd like to... get to know the rest of you."

She looks over at the boy from town where he's sleeping. "And I'll take the risk that he says something he shouldn't. I can't live my life in fear forever."

No one here, with the possible exception of the trapper boy, is going to do anything besides eagerly engage in any sexual things Lily wants from them. Sex never really entirely stops, among Tentacled. Even as they talk about serious matters in a deep extended satiation phase of the cycle, Talance is idly fondling one of Lily's breasts, and Kamryn's absently fingering Talance's reformed pussy, since, you know, it's right there.

Talance can grow a cock at whim, without otherwise altering her human guise, if Lily wants to have sex like a human, now. She's a little sore from the big shifting she did before but if Lily wants her to she can also totally turn back into tentacles as long as Lily doesn't mind it being a human-sized amount of tentacles.

Uuloo can extricate herself from the sleeping human boy and cuddle Lily against her slick, soft body, and run her slick hands all over Lily's own body, caressing and stroking her as much as she wants.

Lygos can disgorge Yosaphen, who will laugh in her face if Lily tries to get her to role-play, but the Gazer will haughtily encourage Lily to be more horny; maybe if she tries real hard and believes in herself she can be as horny as Yosaphen one day---though also she thinks the odd artificial jointing of Lily's limbs is really neat to look at even if it doesn't feel nearly as good to touch. The ball-joints are just a little bit like eyeballs, aren't they?

And Lygos himself, if Lily is feeling adventurous, can swallow her up and seal Lily into his tight tentacled confines for a thorough all-holes ravishing. He's getting tired of having Yosaphen's inside him all the time, and would be thrilled to engulf someone new.

The sex never really stops, not even when they've got other things to do, and are doing those things. Lily can just, join in, grab any of them, any way she wants, and slake her long-caged lusts however she likes. For as long as she likes.

Lily is willing to sample most of this. Not being sealed in Lygos, not yet, and at first her interactions with Yosaphen don't go so well, but Uuloo and Talance and Kamryn are enough for her to have a very pleasant night. The trapper boy she'll let sleep. 

When she reaches another moment of satiation and she can tell from the stars that it's nearing dawn, she disentangles herself and starts putting her clothes and her cloak back on. 

"I'l go talk to Amira and bring her back tomorrow night. For the day I need to work; I don't want to just drop my responsibilities to Amira without even talking to her. But..."

She stretches langourously. "I'm definitely coming back."

"We'll wait for you. And thanks."

Kamryn sees her off with a hug-grope and a warm smile.

And back she goes to Amira, hidden beneath her cloak. 

Amira is asleep in the bed and breakfast's bed. Technically it's Lily's bed, but...

Lily sits down at the end of the bed, gets out her lap desk, and reads. She still needs to learn more... And she doesn't want to disturb Amira.

Eventually Amira wakes, and sits up in bed. 

"Morning," she says. "You look..." She considers Lily's face a little. "Faraway."

"I spent the night with Kamryn and the rest of them. It was... good. Really, really good."

"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." Amira gets out of bed; she's still dressed, having apparently fallen asleep in her clothes. "Did she say anything more about this Red Queen?"

"She said that it was complicated and hard to explain. I told her she should talk to you directly. Was that okay?"

"It's a sensible approach. I'll think about it while I'm at market today." 

She hands over a slim book. "Here's the transactions for yesterday for you to go over while I'm away."