“You can feel what they feel, with the same Will that you use with telepathy and telekinetics. Use your emotion. Take that intention and focus on their intention. It isn’t words that they convey. It is feelings and emotions. You will have to learn to read them and each species has a different way of conveying their emotions. So, it won’t be easy. But… I can teach you. I am sure it will difficult on your planet, since no Farian has ever tried to communicate with your animals. Most of all, you have to open yourself up to this being possible, okay?” She squeezed my hand and made me look at her. Her eyes were serious. “This is important to me. You have to know it is possible to let it be possible.”
I nodded, but I was still unsure in my heart. I had heard Serpuls could communicate with animals, and it sure seemed like she was talking to them, but… it was not anything I had ever been interested in.
I took a deep breath and looked into the firefin's eyes. I opened myself up to the telepathic communication around us and tried to pulse some of my emotion and feeling toward the firefin. I tried to believe it could talk to me, that I could feel a connection from it, to it, with it…
This is such bullshit… Talking to a stupid fish…
No. I can do this.
Okay…
Arguing with myself is not going to let it happen.
The firefin looked from me to Ceritha and I realized that it might be reading my mind, but I wasn’t able to access it. I looked at Ceritha quickly and she was frowning, that cute little pout of a frown... Maybe the firefin had just told her what I had thought!
Ceritha laid her hand on mine, and her other hand on the other firefin. A pulse of energy rippled through my palm. Ceritha’s Will.
Suddenly, an image of the firefin’s home, a coral reef not too far away, but one I hadn’t seen yet, with glorious sea fans, with yellows, purples, pinks, reds, and oranges. With brightly colored fish and anemones. The firefins protected this reef. There were twenty of them in the tribe. Then a rush of happiness and warmth entered me. The firefins were welcoming me.
I turned to look at Ceritha, stunned. The firefins chittered to each other and pulled back from the boat, flicking away in a fury of reds and oranges, flashing water droplets onto our faces.
I laughed and stood up, pumping my fist into the air. I pulled Ceritha up with me. The dinghy swayed a little beneath our feet.
“Holy shit! That was amazing!” I grabbed her and twirled her up in the air. “Thank you! Thank you for letting me feel that!”
Ceritha laughed and grabbed onto my shoulders. I looked up at her as I raised her above me, the gentle stars starting to wink into being behind her head, the sunset fading in the sky to our left.
“I want more! I want to talk to them more! That was absolutely magical!”
“It is magical, Commander,” she said. “Now put me down.” She laughed and pulled at my hair. As she pulled at my hair, a rapid flicker of desire pulsed through my entire body. I dropped her down in my arms, letting her still slightly wet body slide down my bare chest, her small hands gripping at my skin. I caught her just as her face was next to mine. She looked from my eyes to my lips, my eyes to my lips.
“It’s gotten so late,” she said, starting to push off me, but she was still held in the air, a foot off the floor of the boat.
“Princess…”
“Commander, I think…”
I saw a flash of firefin behind the boat and then it rocked and I tumbled backward, Ceritha in my arms, holding her tight as we fell to the boat’s floor. She gripped to me tightly, both of us laughing. She pushed off my chest to look at me thoughtfully as I kept my hands on the small of her back. She brushed at my hair, then traced the lines of the firefins on my chest.
“These are a gorgeous representation of the firefins.” Her fingers were like little points of fire igniting burning desire within me. I caught my breath with each gentle tap she made on my skin. Could she not feel this power? This pulsing between us? Surely, she had to feel this… “They weren’t really laughing at you…” She kept tracing the lines, oblivious to what she was doing to me, but I was getting so hard, and she was so gorgeous, her alabaster skin in the fading sunset just enough to make her blue eyes glow. “They were more—”
“Ceritha.”
She stopped talking as I breathed out her name.
“Kiss me.”
I put my hand on her cheek and she nuzzled into me before she could stop herself. Her eyes were wide as she bent down to kiss me, the dinghy rocking gently, starlight glowing down at us.
Our lips brushed and electricity rocketed through my entire body. I brushed my hand through her tangled, slightly damp hair, letting her guide the pressure of our kiss, excited by the tentative nature, by the mental hold our telepathy had, as she answered me…
“Axis… I think that we should…”
“Ceritha, just kiss me…”
She moved on top of me and slowly moved against me, her hands finding mine and gripping them as she gyrated against my hard dick. Her eyes were wide as she pulled back from the kiss for air. I licked my lips and looked at her in amazement. She took a deep breath and looked to the setting sun as its last little blip evaporated with the green flash. I reached up to pull her back to me and she leaned forward, but her hand landed on a little medical kit and she stopped.
“No!” She stood up immediately, pulling the medical kit
