Chapter 25

"What wasthe point of this wall?" Aeson stared down the length of it. I followed his gaze, enjoying the way it snaked across the landscape in a beautiful, sinuous pattern. "I've never seen something so long before. It is surprising seeing so many old constructions. On my home planet, our buildings were regularly destroyed, until we had a period of stability long enough to reach space and other planets. There is nothing like this of our more ancient periods."

"This one was to stop invaders from getting into the bulk of the country," I said. "Once upon a time a while ago, the people who grew up on that side of the wall would organize in groups of hundreds or more and come down here to steal from or hurt the other people living on this side of the wall. They built the wall to make that a lot more difficult to do."

Aeson was silent for a moment.

"To have acquired hundreds of mates, your warrior queens must have been immensely impressive," he revealed his thoughts in a hushed tone of awe. "The largest nest ever recorded for my species was several dozens. It did not approach even one hundred."

"Well, those raiding troops weren't usually led by a woman." I rested my hands on my hips. "The idea is cool and all, but the males of our species are the ones that get all crazy and want to kill people most of the time. Females can often egg them on, but it takes a significant amount of trauma for a female of my species to engage in violent behavior."

"Your males fight each other without the guidance of a nest leader?" he asked. "Why?"

"Resources usually," I sighed. "Access to women."

"Yes, fighting to display your prowess so you may be chosen is a good pastime," Aeson added.

I pressed my lips together, wondering if I should break the news to him that those men weren't fighting to display their prowess and more were fighting for opportunity to force their prowess. I kept silent, not really wanting to talk about that.

"It is amazing that your population was so large that it could sustain males forming large scale raiding parties without female leadership," he commented.

"Yup, anyway, does or did your species fight a lot outside of mating displays?" I ask. "Like, steal things from one another?"

"It became an unlikely occurrence after our species gained spaceflight and access to greater resources than our unstable planet could offer," Aeson offered. "But our pre-space era saw many battles between nests, making it essential for a nest to recruit the greatest fighters."

"I wish to race along the top of this wall," he said suddenly. "The curves seem like it would be a great deal of fun."

"What about the people?" I pointed out. "There aren't any near us other than those two creeping around over there taking pictures, but you'd probably scare them whipping by."

"I will not hurt them." He hesitated. "Do you care if I scare them by racing by?"

I grinned.

"I don't actually," I said. "But… I do have a request."

"It is yours," he replied.

"You don't even know what I'm going to ask!" I laughed and lightly slapped his arm. "Seriously you have to stop that."

"Never." He grinned back.

I rolled my eyes at him, but fuck, I enjoyed that.

There was something else I wanted to try, something that had brought a slender thread of heat rising between my legs when I imagined what it would by like.

"I want to ride on your back," I whispered.

"Then get on." He gestured back behind him. "Keep your feet up and hold on to my waist."

I scrambled up onto his back, feeling his muscles shift under my legs as I settled into place, his thick tail pressing in between my legs as I clamped my knees together on his sides, my feet going up behind my but to make sure they stayed up off the ground. I pressed my chest into his lower back as I wrapped my arms around his waist.

"I'm ready." I took a breath with the words.

He took off.

We whipped along the great wall, our passage eliciting gasps and small shrieks from people as we careened past them. The wind was rushing through my hair. Aeson's body was powerful between my legs, stroking me with the movement, and the heat of my arousal started to grow into a supernova. My husband was strong, he was powerful, and I could ride him like a pony.

I started laughing wildly, and the sound of my laughter caused a reduction in the shrieking as we passed. My laughter seemed to be a balm that caught their attention, causing them to pause, to look, to observe instead of immediately falling into a state of instinctual panic at the large snake-like creature rushing past them.

As we continued, despite my fun and laughter, I realized there was a serious problem.

I was getting way too turned on.

Riding him like this, feeling him move between my legs, pressing up against him… I could easily get off from this if it went on for too long, and even though I loved it, I was one hundred percent against forcing people to be involved in my sexual kink by doing it where they could see it.

Even if they couldn't really see anything.

"Aeson, Aeson!" I laughed out. "Stop!"

He slowed to a stop near a crowd of people who all immediately lifted their phones and began taking pictures of us.

"Are you alright?" he asked, twisting slightly to look back at me, the movement causing another glorious rub that had me biting back a moan. "What is the matter?"

His tongue flicked out on the air and his eyes widened, a grin spreading across his face.

I reached up and lifted up so I could whisper. Instead of standing, he lifted the part of the tail I was straddling, causing me to slide a little.

"That looks like fun," a woman in a large group of women said loudly.

"I'd rather go somewhere more private." I gave him a look, where I slightly widened and tensed my eyes and ducked my chin a little to emphasize. "This is too public for me to be riding on your back like this."

"Straight to the moon or do you have another place in mind?" he asked, shifting his body again to roll me slightly on him.

I bit my lip hard.

I would not moan in public.

I saw the flash of a camera out of the corner of my eye. Oh, this was going to be all over the socials in about two seconds flat. First the dicks pics, then the actress wantonly rubbing herself all over the Naga's body.

"Aeson!" I hissed. "Anywhere!"

"Back to the ship!" he crooned.

Instead of letting me down, he took off again back towards where we parked. I let out a squeal and wrapped my arms around his waist, pressing my face against his back to try to block my face from anyone we might pass.

He had made it worse.

He had changed his movement. Instead of optimizing for speed, he was exaggerating the sway of his tail, including slight up and down motion that rolled between my legs, lifting me and sliding me down.

"Aeson!" I moaned, my lips pressing against the firm muscles of his back.

His only response was a chuckle.

I squeezed my legs tighter.

The peak of my enjoyment was just there, just out of reach, and I was riding high ready to reach it when suddenly Aeson went over the edge, carrying me down to the ground on one side of the wall where we had left the ship.

"I have a surprise for you," he rumbled, sending a vibration through his entire body.