CHAPTER 8

Cade

While Sarah made breakfast the next morning, Jenna had Elliot, Byron, and me upstairs in her bedroom.

After the three of us fucked her on the beach, we relaxed under the stars for a while.But all of us lying naked there together naturally weren’t going to stay relaxed for long.We ended up messing around with Jenna again on the blankets under the lanterns.After Elliot, then Byron, then I made Jenna come and we all creamed inside her again, we rested a little more.Then we packed up the lanterns and poles and blankets and gathered up what we’d been wearing, and took it all back up to the house, where we quietly took it all to Jenna’s bedroom.We knew we had to keep it quiet because we didn’t want to disturb her grandmother, even though Sarah knew what was going on.Jenna didn’t want to “broadcast” it to her Nana, as she put it.So we were just as horny with her, but we all kept our voices low in spite of how good it was and it was good.

In Jenna’s room, what we first learned was that humans didn’t build their beds as big as Scalers did back home.There was no need for it, since they only had their one human body and never stretched out with wings spread, so they never needed the same kind of mattress space as Scalers did.Her smaller bed didn’t lend itself to having three guys in bed taking turns with her.Luckily she had a kind of thing called a “futon” in there where one of us could lie, and what she called a “recliner chair,” which humans also had back on Tellus, where another of us could sit back with his legs (and his dick) up, waiting our turns, while she could be in bed with the third one.It wasn’t what we were used to, but it had one practical benefit.Whoever took his turn in bed with Jenna had her all to himself for a while.

Getting Jenna to blow me, eating her out, and fucking her while Elliot and Cade watched from the futon and the recliner was fun.They had the same fun when they took their own turns.Sometime very late, it ended up with Byron on the futon, me on the recliner, and Elliot curled up with Jenna in bed and that was how we left it when we went to sleep.

The next morning, Sarah was up before the four of us—naturally, since she’d gotten a lot more sleep than we did—and Jenna put on a robe and went downstairs to find her grandmother making a big breakfast.When she came back upstairs, she said Sarah hadn’t acted as if she’d heard anything and the fact of where the three of us were and what had gone on overnight wasn’t mentioned.But Jenna had talked to her Nana before our swim and our time on the beach, and there was a knowing look in Sarah’s eyes.There was only an indirect reference to the last few hours with the older lady asking her if she’d had a good night—not a good sleep, but a good night—and Jenna said yes, she did, and it was good to be home.

She also said her grandmother would be “serving breakfast outside on the deck and would keep it warm for when we were ready.”This surprised us as much as it did Jenna, but we all guessed that by waiting for us outside, Sarah was implying that she was giving us an opportunity.We very quickly decided to grab both the opportunity—and Jenna, who invited us to the master bath in her father’s suite.

With a big breakfast waiting downstairs, we had all banged Jenna in the bath a bit more quickly than we were used to doing.But shower sex was as satisfying as it was fast, and soon we were all at the breakfast table with Sarah.

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Jenna’s grandmother asked us, “So did the four of you have any plans for what to do today?”

The question was a conversation stopper.We all looked at each other, knowing how we’d like to spend the day, but it wasn’t something we wanted to say in front of Sarah.Finally Jenna spoke up.“I had an idea to take the guys for a day trip up to the Canyon and show them where Daddy and I used to go stargazing.You know how pretty it is up there.”

Sarah agreed.“Yes, it’s lovely, but you know how long the ride is to get up there.It’s something you really want to get an earlier start on, or you’ll be riding back from the mountains in the dark.I’ve never liked the idea of you being up there that late.”

”Well, Nana,” Jenna said, “I’ll have three big, strong guys there with me.Nothing will happen and I was always safe with Daddy and Uncle Neal.I’ll be fine with them.”

I liked hearing her say how confident she was in us, and I could guess my buddies felt the same.

“Perhaps so,” said Sarah, “but I’d feel better if you went up to the Canyon tomorrow morning and made an earlier start of it.That way you could start back before sundown.”

Before Jenna could say anything else, there was something I had to ask, something I’d been curious about since before we crossed over from Tellus.“Um…how would we be getting up there, Jenna?Would we get to ride in one of those, you know, ‘internal combustion’ cars that run on volatile fuels from inside the Earth, with the wheels that roll on the road?”

It was a serious question, and I was seriously curious, and from the way they studied Jenna’s reaction; Elliot and Byron were just as fascinated by the idea as I was.The older lady and Jenna traded this amused sort of look and both stifled a snicker.“I’m sorry,” said Jenna, half-chuckling, “I don’t mean to laugh at your expense.Of course the kind of vehicles we’re used to are something you’ve never seen and you’re curious about them.It’s something you want to experience while we’re here because it’s different from the way people get around where you come from.Actually, Daddy’s car, which is something we call an ‘SUV,’ runs partly on gasoline and partly on electricity.We call it a ‘hybrid.’I’ll tell you what.For today we’ll take a ride up the coast in Daddy’s car, which is one of the most beautiful rides in the country, and you’ll get the experience of being in an Earth vehicle.We’ll be back in time for dinner and have another nice evening.”

The meaning of “another nice evening” went unspoken.We could all see that Sarah knew what her granddaughter was politely not saying.

“That sounds good,” I said.

“Very good,” Elliot agreed.

”Definitely,” said Byron.

“And then tomorrow, bright and early, we’ll take that ride up to the Canyon,” said Jenna.You guys will love it up there.You should be able to, um…stretch out a bit.”

”Great!” I said.

“I love it,” Elliot said, a few stray scales breaking out on his arms and forehead, which he politely made disappear for Sarah.

“Absolutely,” said Byron.

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Back upstairs in Jenna’s room, the unmade bed reminded us of what we’d been doing to Jenna there overnight.I felt like grabbing her for an encore, which would have made my buddies want to join in, but we had other plans for the morning—and Byron, surprisingly, had another idea.

”Jenna,” he said thoughtfully, “before we go for our ride, there’s something I’d like to see.”

”If I show you that,” Jenna replied, “we’ll never get out of here, and we’ll have to take care because Nana is awake.”

He chuckled.“No, not that.”He glanced at the bed and rubbed his chin, considering.“I mean, we’d all love that, but I had something else in mind.Remember when you were telling us about the so-called ‘dragons’ you have here on Earth?”He glanced over at the desk in the corner of the room where Jenna’s information-processing device—a ‘computer,’ she called it—sat.“Do you think you could bring up some pictures of them on there?”

”Yeah,” said Elliot.“I’ve been wanting to see what passes for ‘dragons’ in this world too.Just quick, before we go?”

“Oh, right,” said Jenna, turning up one corner of her mouth.“Naturally you’d want to see the nearest things on Earth to what you guys are when you’re not the way you are now.I don’t know, guys; you’ll probably be disappointed.”

But now they’d gotten me curious too.“Just a little look, that’s all.”

Jenna, arching her brows and tilting her head, said, “Okay, guys, just give me a moment.But remember, a ‘dragon’ is a very different kind of beast here.”

She went to the desk and sat down.We stood behind her as she turned on her computer, which was named after an apple—something we’d get her to explain later.She went into what was called “the Internet” here on Earth and called up images of “Komodo Dragons.”

When the pictures came up and she enlarged them for us, and opened up some videos about the subject, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.Byron jerked back his head and made a screwy face.Elliot made sick, gagging noises, and I scratched my head and laughed.“You’re kidding,” I said.“These guys are what you call ‘dragons’?Seriously?They don’t even walk on two legs.Where are the wings?And look at the slobbering!”

Byron said, “These guys aren’t even as evolved as gorillas and chimpanzees.I wouldn’t even call them throwbacks, compared to us.”

”Different world, guys, different natural history,” said Jenna, letting us go on watching the videos of the Komodo Dragons shambling along on their four legs, low down to the ground, and chasing goats and pigs and buffaloes to eat.We all felt like gagging at the sight of them bolting down whole animals and even acting like scavengers, eating dead things that were lying around.We couldn’t see anything we’d have in common, in our other bodies, with these brutes.They made my stomach turn.

Jenna explained, “They’re called ‘dragons’ because they reminded people of mythical animals that should be a little more familiar to you, even though they weren’t supposed to be intelligent, like you are.”

“Can you show us?” Byron asked.

She asked the Internet for pictures of other dragons, not the Komodo type.Onto the screen came all sorts of drawings and paintings, a lot of them looking pretty realistic, of big reptiles, some of them as big as houses or bigger, that reminded us a little more of “us.”They were four-legged, like the Komodos, but they had horns and spines and wings.These imaginary dragons could fly, and another thing surprised us:they could breathe fire!

My buddies and I got a good laugh out of that one.Cackling with disbelief, I said, “Are you kidding me?Breathing fire?Look at ‘em—belching flames, smoke curling out of their noses, burning down forests and villages and shit!People really believed in these things?”

”It’s like I was telling you before,” Jenna replied.“Dragons take up a lot of space in people’s imagination.Every culture in the world has myths and stories about them.They’re one of the ideas we’re most fascinated with.”

Byron said, “Well, people certainly get ‘fascinated’ with all kinds of things, don’t they?”

Jenna did a half-turn in her chair to face us and said, “They sure do, that’s true and some fascinating things are more fascinating than others.”

Quick to change the subject, I said, “And I’m gonna find it ‘fascinating’ to get into that ‘hybrid’ car and ride on wheels on a road.”

She got up, smiling, looking a bit tickled.“You’re really intrigued with that, aren’t you?”

”Well, remember,” I said, “we’re used to flying.”

Chuckling, she turned around and turned off her computer, then motioned to the bedroom door.“Come on then, guys.This will be something new for you.”

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Jenna had a car of her own that her father had given her as a present, but it was a little two-seat jobber that the four of us couldn’t use.That was why she had the idea of using her father’s car.Compared to hers, it was a big, hulking thing with thick wheels made of rubber and steel.At those times when we actually did use a vehicle back home, we were used to gliding over roadways in sleek, Ambience-powered things.This really was going to be different.

But Jenna was able to take the top off of the half-electric “SUV,” which she said was perfect for the ride we would be taking.“Plus which,” she said, grinning, “with the top off and the wind whooshing by, it’ll almost feel like flying.”

Rolling along what she called the Pacific Coast Highway was a totally new thing for us, just like Jenna promised it would be.Elliot took the front passenger seat next to her; Byron and I took the back seats, and Jenna, in the driver’s seat, pulled out of the family garage and in a few minutes got us down her house’s private drive and onto the road.It was strange!Byron and I traded the weirdest looks at what we felt, and Elliot looked back at us with the same expression.Those rubber and metal wheels rolling along in direct contact with the road made a rumbling, grinding, vibrating feeling we could all feel in the pits of our stomachs.Jenna didn’t even notice it; she’d been riding this way all her life before crossing over to our world.But it was the strangest thing, and it made me think Earth should learn how to tap into the Ambience and use it to travel with.That way they’d finally learn how it felt to travel like civilized people.

It started to make us feel a little nauseous, especially Byron, and once or twice we thought we might have to get Jenna to take the car off the road so Byron could climb out and empty his stomach.But luckily the rushing of the breeze against us with the top of the car down made our bellies calmer, and we all had the chance to appreciate the coast of California and the Pacific Ocean rolling and lapping up onto it without having to get sick by the roadside and it was as beautiful a ride as Jenna said it would be.The road twisted and turned between hillsides and rocky beaches.We watched how the Pacific washed up onto the shoreline.Here and there were places that were dotted with more human houses, not as big and grand as the Callaway’s house, but pretty just the same and I thought if someone was going to live on Earth, this was probably one of the nicer places for them to live.

This was Jenna’s home.She belonged here; we only looked like we did.Looking at some of those houses, I wondered what the people who lived in them would think if they knew just who—or what—was riding by them right now.Would they even believe it?And if they did, what would they do?

When visiting some places, I thought, it’s just as good that no one knows who’s passing through.Sometimes you’re just a stranger and it’s best to stay that way.