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MF(wolfess-anthrowolfess-humanF) rom summer-solstice magic sex nobest

note: Mahika appears as a wolfess, then an anthrowolfess, at the beginning of
the story.  There is no bestiality in this story, just a brief mention that
it happens.  Also, as part of the story, Mahika briefly shifts to her wolf
form, then to her furry form, then back to being human.  Again, the situation
is not sexual in nature.
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Summer Solstice Festival 2007
Lay Lines - A Man and Muse Story
by: Stasya T. Canine
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"You stupid, secretive, concealing..."

Nonplussed, I stared at the furious wolfess as she continued.

"Self-serving, ignorant, idiotic..."  Mahika never stopped glaring at me
while she took a deep breath and continued to vent her fury...  "You NEVER
told *ME* you..."  

She spluttered to a stop.

"Told you what?"

"That you're a dowser, you...   you...   MALE!"

Egad.

"I forgot about it.  Haven't thought about it in years."

"Forgot?!"  Her voice deepened, and changed to a snarl that rumbled through
my bones before she visibly got herself under control.  "He forgot."  She
sighed, stalked over and glared at me some more before giving me one of the
best sneezes of disgust I've ever been given.  "Outside.  Porch.  Now.  It's
past time you *unforgot* and learned some facts of life."

* * *

We settled, sorta.  I was settled, slightly turned and resting against one
arm of the folded hide-a-bed.  Mahika, uncharacteristically, had changed to
her anthro form, grabbed a chair from the kitchen,  faced the back of said
chair in my direction and settled facing me.  I suspected, but wasn't about
to ask, that she had chosen her anthrowolfess form because she knew she could
more effectively glare at me with it.

Whatever.  I'd known I was in deep, deep trouble as soon as she'd sneezed at
me.  I hadn't angered her that much since...  Never mind.  Later.  We'd
sorted that out years ago.  This was now.

"I'm glad you enjoyed your vacation."

I was cautious.  "Thanks, love."

Her sneeze in return was milder, but still more emphatic than I wanted to
hear.

"You looked pretty confident at Stonehenge and Woodhenge.  Not many folks
have the confidence to improvise the way you did.  Shocked me.  I wasn't
expecting you to do that.  Bad enough that you took what the guide said for
granted.  I expected you to be quite a skeptic, even after he used his rods."
I watched her shudder as she fought down her obvious anger.  "You.  Never.
Mentioned."  Her anger took over and she stopped speaking to glare at me.

I stared, thinking furiously.  Something here wasn't making sense.  "I
haven't dowsed in...  Hell, Mahika, I don't know how long it's been.  Twenty
to thirty years maybe?  I don't know.  Last time was at the house, to find a
water line, if I'm remembering correctly.  I suppose I could have done some
quick dowsing a few times since, just to show someone I could do it but it
seems unlikely.  I know too well that most folks think it's nonsense.  Even
for me, it was just another tool I seldom used unless I had to.  I usually
never remembered I could do it.  If I had, there were a few times dowsing
would have made my work a *lot* easier."

She sighed and turned inward.  "A tool.  He thought it was a tool."  She
refocused on me and I could *feel* the banked anger.  Better, but still not
good.  "Right?  A tool?  Nothing special?  You never realized you could do
anything else with the ability?"

I thought about it.  "No...  All I ever thought I could do was dowse water,
or things related to water, such as water pipes.  First time I ever tried was
to dowse for a water pipe, as sort of a 'what the hell, see what happens'
thing.  Took a long time for me to accept it was something I could do
reliably.  Started with bent coat hangers, eventually experimented and found
out I could pretty much use anything as a focus."

I stopped, stunned into silence as I remembered something.  "Oh, shit.  Why
didn't I ever put it all together back then..."  I trailed off, lost in
memories of one of the strangest experiences I'd ever had.

Then, after I'd seen some of the implications of that event, I confronted
Mahika with some questions of my own.  "You've kept an eye on me since about
the sixth grade, right?"

She nodded.  "You've known that a long time."

"Right."  I wasn't going to make an issue of my sometimes spotty memory. "And
you've known about the beam through the bedroom incidents for years, right?
I've spoken of them several times since we became partners."

"Your point?"

"Not sure I have one. Just questions.  'How did you manage to miss all those
dowsing incidents when I was in my teens?' And 'Since it's now obvious
there's a link between being able to feel things like those 'beams' and being
able to dowse'..."  I watched as she stiffened slightly.  "How come you never
made the connection and asked me if I could dowse?"  I held up a hand to stop
her in case she was going to reply immediately.  "I'm curious is all, not
accusing you of being as blind to the obvious as I am."

Her lips twitched slightly in acknowledgement of the oblique hit.

"You're quirky enough as it is.  I know of the link but it never occurred to
me that you wouldn't also know it, and knowing it, mention dowsing to me.  No
mention equaled no ability. "  She shrugged.  "I've never met anyone who was
capable of *forgetting* they could dowse."

I gaped, trying avoid the implications of her statement.  Then I shook my
head and gave her a 'go on' gesture.

"Missing the times you dowsed was easy.  I checked on you rarely, usually
when you were doing something that generated a 'call' that any Muse could
hear and track.  I would check briefly, sometimes longer, maintaining my
watch until I was certain no other Muse had tried to claim you, or if one
*had* tried to claim you..."  She grinned.  "I 'discouraged' them from taking
further interest in you.  They seldom tried twice."

I winced.  I'd met the Greek Muses with Mahika at my side.  That meeting had
been 'prickly', to say the least about the tension between them and Mahika.
If I'd ever doubted that Mahika was far older than they, far more
experienced...  That meeting would have removed those doubts.

"And that's enough wandering around the subject."  She smiled at me and that
smile made me very, very cautious.  "I think I'm as angry with myself as I
was with you.  That doesn't mean I've forgiven you for shocking me as
thoroughly as you did."

Suddenly she grinned and it was the kind of grin, coming from her, that made
me visibly wince.  She laughed.  Deeply.  It was an *evil* laugh, filled with
promises of retribution.

Her eyes narrowed.  She grinned at me...  "I've *never* met a mortal who
could so take a personal miracle for granted that he could *forget* about
being able to do it."

"Ouch."  I acknowledged the hit.  I wasn't going to let her get away without
a counter attack though.  "I believe you mentioned 'quirky'.  You telling me
you don't factor that in when thinking about what I'm capable of?"

She sneezed.  This time it was her 'I'm fond of you but don't push it'
sneeze.  Then she studied me while I studied her.  We both knew she had more
to discuss with me, but I was now content to let her get there without my
getting in the way.  I relaxed.  This wasn't going to be like that other
time.

She must have spotted the change in my attitude because she got up from the
chair and came over to snuggle with me.  "You're not bad for a hack."

"Mmm." I was busy using my hands to relearn her body.

"And you're going to be very busy for the next few weeks if you want to
satisfy me."

"Mmm!"

"Finding a ley line."

"Mm...   HUH?"

My hand had reached her vulva and I was busily teasing her fluids out to
lubricate my fingers.  I was thinking sex, and soon.  She was thinking...
What?

She reached and gently pushed my frozen hand.  "Don't stop, love."

"Oh.  Right."

"Goof.  If I'd known you were a dowser I would have made you find a ley line
years ago.  Oohhh..."   I'd brushed her clit lightly.

"So?"  I paused and thought about it.  "Why?"

She reached down and teased my balls.  "Idiot.  When you stop thinking with
this, you might figure things out.  I'm not complaining.  Just observing a
fact of life.  Ley lines are, for lack of any better description, lines of
energy.  Energy that can be directed, if one knows how.  And..."  She slowly
ran a claw tip along the underside of my penis.  "Sexual energy is one of the
strongest energies known."

My hands drifted, sliding over her fur, pressing and teasing the places I'd
learned gave her pleasure.  "I think I've put it together.  Few weeks.  Ley
lines.  Sex.  You're figuring I can find a local line so we can have our own
private Solstice celebration.  On it."

"Right."  She shifted until she was facing me.  Our eyes met, we once again
reaffirmed our love for each other...

Then she kissed me as hungrily as I kissed her while our arms pulled us
together.

* * *

"Love.  I feel like an idiot out here."

"Keep searching."

"I am.  It only looks like I'm pretending to be..."

I froze and I stared at my 'wand'.   The pressure against the side of my
thumb was unmistakable.  I rotated my hand from side to side slightly.  The
wand remained frozen, pointing in the original direction.  Barely daring to
look up I whispered.  "I found one.  I really, really found one.  Here.
Incredible."

Mahika came over and reached, gently pulling the wand sideways before she let
go.  It swung back and locked, without any side to side drifting.  When she
spoke, there was a soft reverence in her voice along with a wistfulness.
"Incredible, indeed.  You mortals never cease to amaze us.  We are power and
that makes us insensitive to many forms of power.  Yet...  You, standing
outside, are able to do this.  You can find power.  Find power we would never
know is there."

I looked away, embarrassed by the longing I heard in her voice.  I noted some
landmarks so we'd be able to find this place again.  Then, casually,  I did a
little twirling motion that left my wand safely out of the way when I reached
to wrap her in a hug.  "Solstice, my love."

She came out of her mood and hugged me.  "Solstice."

* * *

A few days later I was thinking about things and studying a topo map of the
mountains where I'd found the ley line.  "Mahika?  Got a few?"

"Coming!"

I waited and did some more thinking.  When I felt her hands on my shoulders I
smiled and leaned back.  "I forgot to take a compass with us, love.  but if
I'm remembering things right, that line..."  I  put a ruler on the map, then
pointed at a spot a few miles away from where we'd discovered the ley line.
"Goes through this campground somewhere."

She kept massaging my shoulders while she thought about it.  "Campground.
Means people."

"True."  I touched the map again.  "It also means we can take all the camping
gear and set up the tent for privacy.  Worth checking out, anyway."

She kissed me.  "Point.  I don't want us to be interrupted."

That weekend we went to the campground.  I was glad nobody was there.
Explaining my actions would have been an awkward task.

I smiled when Mahika shifted into her lupine form and stretched luxuriously.
She is a true child of the mountains, just as I am, so I understood her need,
shared it in fact, to get into the wild and relax.

I watched her for a bit then sighed and began my search.

The campground was large for the area and I was starting to feel the need to
go back to the original location for another bearing when my wand twitched. I
paused, backed up, then moved forward again, slowly.  Yes.  Not as strong,
but it was there.  I scuffed the dirt to mark the strongest indication, then
found a large rock and set it.  It was time for the topo map and a compass.

I wasn't surprised when Mahika ambled over to the table and shifted back to
her human form.  "Found something?"

I nodded absentmindedly.  "I think so.  If I can locate the first site
closely enough, I can get a bearing for the section of the line that goes
through the campground.  If I find that, I should be able to locate a second
point here."  I shrugged and looked up.  "At least we'll know which camp
sites are on it."

She looked thoughtful.  "Good.  I'm remembering something the guide at
Stonehenge said."

"Oh?"

"What he said about the couple.  She could sense the lines, he couldn't.  He
couldn't until they linked hands."

"Ah!"

"I walked all around that rock.  Didn't feel a thing.  But...  If it works
for us together, I might be able to feel the strongest spot on the line,
through you."

I gazed at her, then laughed.  "No loss in trying, is there?"

She grinned back.  "No."

To keep it short, that's what we did, and it worked, sorta.  The results,
which surprised me, indicated that the power along the ley line acted like a
standing wave form, with peaks and valleys.   We had several choices for our
campsite and that made me thankful.  I didn't know how active this place
would get but I figured that if we got there a few days early we'd find at
least one of the sites open.  It also helped that the Solstice was not on a
weekend.

* * *

We arrived a day early, and I groaned.  There was a family camped in the
space I really wanted.  The 'second best' site wasn't too far away from them
so I looked at Mahika and smiled lopsidedly.  "We'll have to keep it down to
muffled grunts, love."

She laughed.  "I brought the gags."  Her look was subtly challenging. "Unlike
you I assumed we'd have company, instead of dreaming otherwise."

I winced, then let her see it.  "Touch.  Do us both a favor while we're here?
No shapeshifting."

She giggled.  "Takes fingers for what I have planned."

"Bitch."

"Yep!"

I pulled in the space, parked the van so it would block our tent from view of
the family, then together we started setting up.  Mahika dealt with the tent
and and organizing it for our stay.   I dealt with everything else, including
the stove and ice chest.

By the time we got settled in I had most of lunch cooked and she had the tent
arranged the way she wanted it.  Part of that arrangement made sure our
bedding was centered on the ley line.  I shrugged to myself, then smiled when
she settled at the table.  "Lunch is almost..."

My eyes shifted sideways and down.  A dog.  A bitch from what I could see of
it, was staring raptly at Mahika.  She was also flicking her eyes sideways at
the food on the table.  I looked up slightly and saw four children running
our way, followed by people I assumed to be their parents, who were smiling
and walking more slowly.

All of them were calling the dog, but she industriously ignored them.  "Love,
I was going to tell you that our lunch is ready but I don't think I need to."
I tilted my head towards the bitch.  "She has impeccable timing."

Mahika laughed and looked at the children.  "Hi.  She always greedy?"  She
got a chorus of responses, ranging from embarrassed to giggling agreement.
"May I pet her?"

They gaped, then nodded.  "Sure, go ahead.  She's friendly!"

"She have a name?"

One of the girls giggled.  "We call her 'Wolf' because of the way she eats!"

I laughed.  "Nothing wrong with that.  It's a good name."  I filled a plate
and set it near Mahika.  "Your lunch."  She started eating and the eyes got
more imploring.

I filled my plate and settled to eat.  By then the parents had arrived.
"Normally we wouldn't care, but she's already eaten half of their lunches.
She doesn't need more.  She could eat everything you have and still be
looking for more."

Mahika nodded and smiled.  "I know the type.  And we're not bothered. More...
Amused by her focus."

Their relief was obvious.  "We usually keep her leashed when there are others
around.  Sorry."

I waved my hand that had a fork in it.  "Don't worry about it.  As far as
we're concerned she can roam free as long as we're here.  I'll remember to
secure our food better than I usually do though."  I looked at them directly
and smiled.  "I would anyway but now I *know* there's a thief nearby."

They froze, then relaxed and laughed.  She said it first.  "Thank you being
understanding about it.  Some folks aren't."

"Not a problem.  I used to backpack this area about thirty years ago, usually
with one or both of my dogs.  You might say I've been in your position a few
times."  I looked at Mahika and she nodded slightly.  "Anyway, we're here for
a long stay, to relax. and we brought plenty of food."  I'd noticed the worn,
'minimalist' aspects of their camping gear.  "You folks would be welcome to
share our lunch, or any other meal, with us."  I held up a hand while I
looked at the mother and spoke softly.  Hopefully the kids wouldn't hear me.
I didn't think they would.  Mahika had them wrapped in her spell and they
were ignoring everything else.  "It's no problem.  We've been where you are
and we enjoy sharing.  Leave it at that.  OK?"

She jerked as if stung, then glanced over her shoulder at their camp site
before she looked at her husband.  He shrugged, then turned to me.  "You
won't mind if we contribute to those meals?"

"No.  I have to warn you though.  I'm our cook."

He nodded.  "I don't have a problem with that."  He held out his hand.  "John
and Martha."

I shook it.  "Tom and Mahika."

"That doesn't sound like a common name."

I chuckled.  "It isn't.  It's more of a title.  I can't pronounce her real
name.  Her heritage *is* early American though so after we talked it over she
let me choose something I could pronounce."

Mahika looked up when I gave my explanation, then laughed.  "He's not telling
you everything."  She looked back at the kids.  "Any of you know what my name
means?"  She got head shakes of denial.  She held  her hands next to her
head, using her fingers to make ears.  "It means I'm a member of the Wolf
Clan."  She 'rrred' softly and got an enthusiastic licking from Wolf.  She
winked at them.  "Maybe that's why Wolf likes me so much.  We're spiritual
sisters."

I winced, then caught the expressions on their parents' faces.  It looked
like that casual admission wasn't a mistake after all.  They were as rapt as
the kids.

I went back to finishing my lunch.  Mahika had finished hers and had everyone
spellbound with whatever she was telling them.  Somewhere along the line the
rest of the food had been shared and everyone was eating while she talked
softly.

When I finished eating I quietly cleaned up, then grabbed my hiking stick to
wander off and drift through some memories.  If Mahika noticed my quiet
departure, she gave no sign and I was thankful.  I needed some time to
myself.

* * *

Dinner was over, everything was put away and we were sitting in our portable
chairs before we headed for bed.  I looked over at John and Martha's camp.
"Wasn't that a bit of a risk, telling them that you and Wolf are spiritual
sisters?"

Her hand found mine and we interlaced our fingers.  "No."

I waited.

"You know who I am.  Think about it.  Wolf told me how they feel."

I sighed, then without any energy noted:  "Handy, that.  Wish I'd
remembered."

"Yes."

She stood, then turned and pulled me to my feet.  "Martha agreed to keep
everyone out of our hair if we're in the tent with the door sealed.  We've
things to talk about."  I saw the glint of forest green in her eyes.
"Privately."

* * *

Before I could settle Mahika handed me my hiking stick.  "Pinpoint the line.
It's important."

"OK."  The job was quickly done.  We helped each other undress, then she
settled me on my back with my crotch centered on the line.  My head was
towards the nearest energy 'peak'.

"Good."  I could see her grin in the dim light.  "Martha's a screamer.  The
kids don't know the details about sex but they don't panic at loud moans and
shrieks, either.  From Wolf I got the impression the kids think her shrieks
are funny and a sign of how much she enjoyed making them."  She touched my
chest lightly.  "I think we should be quiet, but not worry about it if we get
a little noisy."

She straddled me, settled herself on my penis,  and bent forward to kiss me
tenderly. Then she pushed herself upright and smiled...  "Let's begin."

She touched my forehead with the fingertips of each hand, then lightly drew
them around my eyes, along my nose, then traced my lips.  "The time for
thinking is over.  It is time to feel.  Taste each breath as you inhale. Feel
the power as it enters you with each breath.  Savor it.  Learn it. Then..."

Her hands started moving again.  They flowed over my chin, then to my neck,
along my throat, and finally they drifted over my heart, where she stopped
and placed her palms against my chest.  "Inhale the power.  Fill it with your
love..  Fill it with your need.  Make it part of you.  Make it *you*.  With
each breath feel the power fill you, then gather it gently, and place it in
your heart."

She went back to my forehead and repeated the stroking.  Her caresses grew
lighter, slower, yet more intense.  Lighter...  Then I *knew*!  She wasn't
stroking me.  It was the power as I guided it.  I could feel it!  My eyes
snapped open in astonishment and I stared at her.  She smiled gently.
"Shhh...  Let it happen.  My time is not yet."

Shaken.   Marvelling.  Almost totally lost in the ecstasy of *knowing*...   I
nodded slightly and went back to feeling the power fill my heart as we
gathered it in.

Her hand was over my heart when I gasped, reached, and stopped her from
moving.  "Enough.  I can't...  I'm full.  Ready to burst..  I see..."  I
paused and gazed into where I felt her eyes must be.  "I see nothing."  I
reached and held my hand near where I *knew* her face was.  "How odd.  I feel
your spirit.  It runs free.  I feel the wind.  I smell the forest as you run
through it."

I felt her hands gather mine in.  "Good.  We have more to do."  She held my
wrist with one hand, then touched my fingertips with hers.  Then they lifted
until only our little fingers were touching.  She traced from there, down my
arm, over the nearest nipple, then continued until her fingertip was at the
base of my penis.  Five times she did this, once for each finger and my
thumb.  "Reach, my love.  Gather the power.  Gather it and let it flow
through you, then hold it here.  Let it mingle with your essence.  Feel it
become part of you.  Take it.  Concentrate it.  Add your needs.  Add your
dreams."

I moaned with each stroke of her fingertips. My nerves were...  I didn't know
what they were.  I could feel 'something' as we drew some sort of raw power
into me.  I wanted to scream at the intensity of it all.  My hips arched,
bucked.  I felt my penis expanding, getting ready to...

She let go of my hand and I fell back.  I gasped, then moaned my frustration
as I was almost ovrewhelmed by a sense of incompletion.  I felt her grab my
other hand.  "Now, my love, we give you balance.  We do it again from the
other side."

"Again?"  I was gasping for breath.  I was sexually supercharged, ready, with
a few driving thrusts, to explode.

"Trust me."

"OK."

We repeated the process and this time, even though I could feel my sexual
need building even further, I felt a balancing, a clarity that let me control
it instead of it controlling me.  When we were done Mahika bent forward and
kissed me.  I felt her sliding along my penis as she moved.  I felt the
little spasms of her muscles as they reacted to the changes in pressure. But,
oddly, I was content to enjoy them.  There wasn't the driven need to orgasm
that they had always triggered in the past.

She leaned back and smiled at me.  "No more words, love.  What we did for
you, we now do for me. Then..."  She laughed softly.  "Why then we put it all
together and see what happens!"

"Umm."  It was all I could manage to get out.

I reached with both hands and touched her forehead.  I traced the path she
had traced for me.  I marveled at the texture of her skin.  I felt the
quivering responses each time my fingers flowed over her.  I felt us become
one.  I knew when it was time to lift my fingers away from her skin.

She moaned, and her moans changed as I traced without touching.  'Had I
reacted like that?'  Her vagina was quivering, milking, spasming.  The
contractions had a frantic feeling to them.  Urgent.  Demanding.  But with
the control I was given, my body refused to respond in the way it was
supposed to.

Finally her eyes snapped open and she grabbed my hand, forcing it to a halt.
I waited.  I was lost in a timeless now that had no sense of anything else.
Her breathing slowed.  It steadied.  Her internal spams slowed. Eventually
they became gentle quivers as she shifted to keep her balance.

She let go of my hand and touched her fingertips to mine.  I steadied her arm
with my other hand and slowly stroked the power into her.  Each stroke
started with a rising moan that changed to gasped 'ahs!' of sexual excitement
as my finger neared her clitoris.  She hadn't said but I figured it was the
best place to stop.  It seemed I was right.

Her frantic grab at my hand stopped me before I could start another stroke.
Focussed, fully into the ritual, I switched hands and repeated the process
with her other hand as the focus.  The frantic preorgasmic muscular
contractions slowed.  Her breathing steadied.  She still moaned with each
stroke but the moans were steadier.  Longer.  Remembering how I had felt, I
knew she was savoring the tension.  Her body was hers again, and it showed in
the way her movements slowly changed from frantic selfishness to a sharing
that started to tease me and remind me of my need for release.

Her eyes slowly opened and we looked at each other.  Our hands found the
other's and our fingers intertwined themselves.  She was the first to speak.
I was too busy savoring the new closeness I felt.  "You ok?"

I took a deep breath and considered the many levels I heard in her question.
Finally, inventory taken, answers considered and rejected, I kept it
simple...  and the truth.  "Yes.  You?"

Her eyes closed and she put on a dreamy, content smile.  The only answer I
got was a drawn out  "Mmm..."  It was enough.

Eventually she came back from wherever she had gone.  "Now we put it
together."  She pulled my right hand to her chest then let go and pressed it
flat.  She let go of my left hand and placed her right hand over my heart and
held it there.  "What our left hands do isn't important.  Although..."  I
heard the giggle she suppressed.  "If you use yours to help hold me steady,
I'd appreciate it."

I smiled and touched her side, shifting until I felt comfortable while
supporting her.  "Now?"

She took a deep breath and let it out slowly.  "Now?  We do what we always
do.  We give what's in our hearts into the other's control.  You stroke from
my heart to my clit.  I stroke from your heart to the base of your penis. The
pacing doesn't matter.  This isn't about timing.  It's about doing what feels
right. Together we bring who we are together, sharing it all, until...  Well,
until whatever happens, happens."

I left my hand where it was and thought about what Mahika meant to me.  I
remembered all the little things we did to show each other our love.  Then,
suddenly I felt the need to move and I slid my hand down her body.  I didn't
go straight for my goal.  My path curved.  It circled randomly before it
resumed.  I detoured to one side, then arrowed straight for her pubes.  When
I reached her hood I stopped, then pressed and rubbed from side to side
gently.  I was rewarded with a moan and frantic internal spasms that wanted
one thing.  I waited.  It wasn't time to make another trip.

Mahika moved.  I felt her fingertips press over my heart, then lightly brush
each of my nipples.  Her path wandered on its way to my groin.  As she neared
her goal I felt a pressure unlike any preorgasmic pressure I'd ever felt.
Something was building.  It was building fast,  so fast my moans changed and
became a sustained grunt that drove my hips upwards.  My purpose was
forgotten.  When her fingers touched  the base of my penis, a barrier broke.
My hands grabbed her waist and jerked while my hips drove my penis into her.
I felt an orgasmic surge that was far more intense, far more *driven* than
the mere release of my semen.

Something touched something.  I felt it happen.  Mahika clenched with an
irresistible power that should have been painful.

My penis, and something else, expanded to meet that force...

And overcame it.  Her clench was brushed aside.  I wasn't to be denied.
Everything I was, aided by the power I'd gathered, surged into her.

Yet, at the same time, she wasn't to be denied either.  Even as her physical
pressure was brushed aside I felt her essence surge along my penis with an
orgasmic fury of its own.  Each time, after each pulse, she surged into me,
firmly establishing her own presence within me.

Then, pressures equalized.  We merged.

I became we.

We felt.

We orgasmed.

We slowly detumesced.

We felt our muscles slowly stop spasming until they contentedly grasped our
never intruding penis.

* * *

Afterglow.

Aftercollapse, really.

Hands wandered, gently.

Bodies shifted.

Tongues lightly touched, then cleaned mingled juices.

Muscles quivered, but were too tired to do more.

Satiated smiles that shared so much, including gentle amusement and a promise
that this would happen again, someday.

Finally, sleep, to remember, dream--and recover.

* * *

Solstice day.

We ate an early breakfast.

I felt refreshed, ready to do almost anything.  I quivered with an inner
eagerness to *do*. 

Mahika touched me lightly.  "Anyone home?"

I laughed. "And he's bouncing off the walls.  Did last night really happen?"

"Yes."

"Damn.  Something happened."  I was awed.  Reverent.  "I can *see* the ley
line.  It's obvious.  Look at the plants along it.  Can you see how eager to
live they are?   Look."  I stepped to one side, until the power that flowed
along the line flowed through my legs.  "It's like standing in a river.  I
can feel its gentleness caressing me."

Mahika looked at where I had pointed, then at me.  Her smile was wistful.
"No.  I can't see it.  I can't see the obvious."

"Oh."  I was crestfallen.  Then a memory surfaced.  "Wait.  Stay where you
are.  Maybe..."

I knelt and reached for the power I could see.  When I stood again I pulled
some of it with me.  I don't know how I did it, I just did it.

I formed it into a sphere that bobbed lightly over my open palm.  "See
anything yet?"

She shook her head.  "I can feel...  Something."

"Umm.  Nothing to lose by trying..."  I tossed the ball of energy at Mahika.
"Now?"  I watched as it slowly floated in her direction.

"No.  Something...   Oh!"  When it got to within a few inches of her face she
gasped in delight and her hands flashed up to capture it.  She looked around,
then unerringly stepped to place herself in the line of power.  To my
amazement she didn't kneel, she simply stretched out a hand and gathered some
of the power to her.  "You're new to this."  She grinned and tossed the ball
of energy to a point halfway between us, where it hovered.

Power, rippling with the colors of the rainbow, flowed from her outstretched
fingers to the sphere.  It rotated, becoming a shimmering rainbow.  "Try it."

It took awhile but eventually we were playing, raptly involved in a game with
no rules that built a shimmering rainbow of shared power.

A female voice broke into our game.  "Why aren't you two exhausted, and
sleeping in?  And...  What sort of shadow game are you playing.  Looks like
it's fun, whatever it is."

I jerked and a bolt of power would have hit Martha if Mahika hadn't drawn it
to herself.  We turned that into a link between us because it felt right to
do so. Mahika grinned at me, then waggled a finger in my direction before
turning to Martha and her husband.  "Good morning.  I hope we didn't wake you
up last night.  Things got..."  She giggled.  "More intense than either of us
expected."

That got a smile in return and Martha reached for her husband's hand.  She
blushed.  "We were awake, and busy.  Your howls were...  Intensely
inspiring."

I glanced at Mahika and she shrugged.  "Howls?  I remember screaming, once."

John spoke up.  "Howls.  One male, one female.  The sense of completion was
unmistakable.  You carried *us* into our orgasms before we expected to have
them."  He grinned.  "It was intense, and we're not complaining."

He gestured to an open area.  "Whatever game you were playing, our kids liked
it so much they invented their own version.  They also..."  He studied them
and shrugged.  "Seem to be as absorbed by it as you were."

I glanced.  Froze.  Started to step in that direction.  Froze again and
looked at Mahika for guidance.

The children were in a line.  That line was along the ley line.  I could see
the energy shift as they played with it.

"Mahika, love.  Do you see what I see?"

"Yes."

"I was afraid you would."

She walked over to John and Martha.  "I think I have some explaining to do.
You deal with that."  

I sighed.  I didn't like it but she did have a point about who should deal
with what.

I sighed again.  This was going to be an interesting experience.

* * *

I studied the kids for awhile.  I didn't want to take their joy away from
them and most importantly I didn't want to scare them.

On the other hand, there were two people available who already knew how to
handle the situation, if they could see what their kids saw.

Hmm.  *If* I had things figured out, the solution was easy.

I walked to the point on the line that was nearest John and Martha. "Mahika?"
She looked at me.  "Bring John and Martha over here, please."

She looked startled, then nodded and talked briefly.  They were puzzled, but
they followed her over to stand in front of me.

I took a deep breath, then let it out slowly, centering myself.  I noticed
their eyes widened, then narrowed before their postures shifted and they held
themselves respectfully.  I chuckled.  "Relax.  I'm no Mystic Master.  I'm
not a Shaman, either.  Nor am I a Druid, Mage, or Priest."

John chuckled but Martha bored in.  "What are you, then?  And what did you do
to our children?"  Her voice had a worried edge to it but there was no
challenge to her words.  There was, to my embarrassment, respect and awe.

I gave her the simple truth.  "I am a writer, and a dowser.  That's it as far
as I know."  I gestured at the kids, then held up my hands, palms forward
with my fingers extended.  "What happened to them was accidental, something
that happened while we were distracted.  Would you like to share what
happened?  If so, touch palms with me."

John answered for both of them as they eagerly reached to place their palms
against mine..  "Of course we would!" 

As I gathered the power, and let it flow through me to contact them, I simply
smiled and said:  "Share in your children's joys."

Their gasps were answer enough that my suspicions were correct.  I could get
others, if they were sensitive enough, to see the energy available.  However,
in this case, I wasn't about to teach them any control.  No, there were far
more *meaningful* teachers available.  Their children.  "Go to them and
share."  I felt the pressure on my palms decrease, then they frantically
grabbed for my hands and held on.  "Relax.  I can maintain the energy link
while you move."  I studied the play some more and then chuckled.  "Your
eldest has the gift, I think, but she doesn't realize it yet.  She could do
the same, if you ask her to.  Now..."  I deliberately pulled my hands away.
"Go.  And do what it is that parents do best."

They did exactly that.

Mahika and I settled in our chairs to watch them.  After awhile I noticed
that Wolf was playing with them, but she had to play her own game.  It was
obvious that she couldn't see the energy everyone was using.  On the other
hand she was still enjoying herself.

"Love?"

Mahika turned to me.  "Yes?"

I gestured.  "Think you could give Wolf the ability to see things, and
explain the situation to her?  I think she'd enjoy it more..."  I trailed off
suggestively and for once, I was the one who quirked my eyebrows up in
question.

She blinked in surprise, then turned to study things.  "Animals are... closer
to the natural things so I suppose she could be given the ability."

I nodded.  "But?"

"There is that. Explaining how to manipulate it is going to be a problem.
She's not pretending, she's playing the game she sees.  I think...   Don't
distract me, ok?"

"OK."

What followed, was, to say the least about it, comical.

Wolf skidded to a stop and shook her head.  Then she got a puzzled look to
her body language.  She shook her head, then shook it again.  Then she tensed
and her head snapped around to look at Mahika.  Then her ears perked and she
eagerly ran over. 

From the way she approached I assumed Mahika had offered to play.

I watched while she created a ball of energy, then held her hand about a foot
away from Wolf's nose.

Then she reached and touched Wolf's forehead.  "Sister.  See what your pack
sees."

Wolf sneezed in obvious surprise and jerked her head back.  Then, cautiously,
she reached forward to sniff the ball of energy.  Something made her flinch
back slightly, but she didn't retreat.

Mahika spared me a glance.  "It tickled.  Create a ball of your own, then let
her see it."

"K."  I created the ball, held my hand out, then...  "Wolf!.  Hey grrl."

Mahika grinned at my pronunciation.  "Old habits?  Never mind.  Now toss it
to her.  Gently."

"Catch!"

Wolf jumped and grabbed, and when her jaws went through it, yipped in
surprise.

"I'm working with her.  I'm trying to get her to imagine catching and holding
a ball.  Get rid of that one and let's try again."

Eventually Wolf figured out how to 'grab and carry' the ball of energy.  By
the time we finished I was laughing so hard my tears were flowing.  Wolf, on
the other hand, was tossing her 'ball' in the air and 'catching' it as she
made it fall towards her.

Watching her run with a ball of energy wrapped around her nose was quite a
sight and I wished we had some way to photograph it.

Mahika came over, wrapped an arm around me, then buried her head on my
shoulder and let go of the mirth she'd been holding in.  "We did it.  Wolf's
ecstatic.  But, it's time I diverted her into a new game."

"Wolf!"  She skidded to a halt.  Mahika gestured towards the kids.  "Go
play!"

I could see the shocked amazement, then the shivering joy when Wolf figured
out what Mahika meant.  'She could play this new game with her family!'

* * *

It wasn't much after noon when John and Martha gave up.  They grabbed a
couple of chairs from their campsite and joined us in the shade.

They watched the kids for a bit then Martha turned to us.  "Thanks.  We
thought that what you did for the kids, then us, were a couple of miracles.
What you did for *Wolf* though..."   Her eyes glistened with tears.  "What do
you call something that makes *miracle*--sound so ordinary?"

I shifted slightly and Mahika caught my movement.  "Shush!"  John laughed and
I settled back.  "Good."  She went on.  "I'm not going to let you spoil this,
for *any* of us.  Not even *yourself*"

I sighed.  "Yes, Dear."

She grinned at me but said nothing more.  Except...  "Share the truth?"

I jerked upright, no longer relaxed.  She was suggesting we add John and
Martha to the select few who knew about our true relationship and who she is.
Thoughts raced through my brain while I considered it.  "Yeah.  Wouldn't be
fair not to, now would it?"  I looked at John and Martha.  "Sorry.  One of
those 'married couple' conversations."  I held out a hand and mimed pouring
something out.  "It's *her* story to tell."

Mahika laughed, then stood, reached for my hand and drew me out of my chair.
"No, Love.  It's definitely *our* story to tell."  She drew me away a few
feet and then turned to John and Martha.  "I could tell our story, true.
There are things in it that will stretch your limits of belief.  Suspend your
disbelief as you, and you alone, *see* who we truly are."  She smiled.  "Your
children, and Wolf, will see what they have always seen.  You, on the other
hand, will see the truth as only a few of our friends know it."

She paused, then went on.  "May we be your friends?"

John was looking at us intently, eyes narrowed.  "The link between you.  It
ripples with power.  And..."  He looked at the ley line then turned back. "As
difficult as it is to see, it still...   It looks different."    He locked
eyes with his wife.  "Dare we?"

She didn't answer him directly.  "What happened here.  Will it last?"

I let Mahika handle this.  "It won't last.  But, you can repeat the
experience without us, if you have a ley line available--and Marie is with
you to establish the link again.  It takes a sensitive.  Even I needed Tom
before I could see and handle the power in the ley line.

"What happened?  You and your family have been allowed to see a different
reality.  A reality that flows within and alongside the reality most humans
call 'normal'.  Let us be your friends and we will show you part of a *third*
reality, the one Tom and I share."  Her eyes grew sad and Martha's gaze
locked on her.  "Unfortunately, it's a reality we must ask you to keep to
yourselves."  

They gazed at each other for minutes.  Mahika, relaxed and calm, eyes filled
with fifty thousand years of wisdom and experience, stood there while Martha
probed intently, obviously searching for something, somewhere.  Finally she
turned to John.   "Yes.  And we *must* keep it secret."

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.  "Love?  Remember my request when
we got here?  It no longer applies."   I gazed off for a minute then
straightened my shoulders.  "I'm ready."

John and Martha's eyes widened when Mahika blurred into her true form.  The
white wolf settled on her haunches at my side and began telling our story. 

* * *

"Fifty thousand years ago, give or take a few thousands, or more, there was a
male who  was more than the rest of his small tribe.

"He dreamed, and he shared those dreams with others.  It was a time before
words, before language as you know it.  He 'spoke' with gestures.  His
gestures were simple, but they were shared...  and they evoked memories.

"He built new things with those memories.  He spoke of times past.  He spoke
of the present.  He dared to speak of a future, and to the dim wonder of
those around him, he asked questions with no answers.

"He thought, wondered--and he made his people do the same.

"He was 'Shaman', perhaps the first one ever.

"Shaman also loved.  But, his love was not that of the people.  He lived with
the wolves.  He also mated with the females of the pack and they loved him,
in their way.

"So it went for many years.  But he wanted more.  He wanted someone he could
fully share with, because he also knew he was more than a wolf.

"He thought.  He dreamed.  He yearned...

"Then, without realizing what he was doing, he called forth in his heart and
created his dream companion in his mind.

"I was born and this is the form he gave me.

"I am a true daughter of your people, but I am both more, and less, than you
are."

Mahika shifted into her anthrowolfess form and stood behind me.  I felt and
saw the power swirl and envelop us.

Then, calmly, Mahika smiled at John and Martha.  "I am an elemental but I am
most comfortable when performing the duties I was called forth to perform.  I
was created to help a mortal create, to be his lifelong companion, his
lover--and more."

She rested her hands on my shoulders in a silent signal I knew well.  I took
over.  "Before there were Greeks, before there were gods and goddesses,
Mahika was.  For convenience, when talking about her to others, I name her
'My Muse'.

"Of course she is more.  She is my companion, my inspiration when I need it.
We are not adversaries.  We are companions, lovers.  We are mates.  As mates,
we love.  With love there is sex.

"I too, like the man who created her, 'walk the way of the wolf'.  My love
ignores shape to see the inner truth.  Human.  Anthrowolfess.  Wolfess.  I
love the Mahika that *is*--and I joyfully mate with all of her forms."

I smiled and chuckled...  "There is more to our story.  Many, many years
more."  I shifted sideways slightly and drew Mahika to my side, then pulled
her into a hug.   "If I sometimes perform miracles, it is because I live with
one and she makes me realize that *everything*, and *everyone* is a living
miracle.  She also, as a Muse, regularly reminds me that we humans can create
miracles of our own."

I gestured towards the kids and Wolf.  "There are some miracles to be
treasured.  As are you."

I gazed at John and Martha with a calmness that had its roots in my sense of
self.  After a time I took a deep breath and sighed.  We had to go back to
the reality most people think is the only one.  "Mahika?  Time to be
'ordinary' again. I'm afraid."

She hugged me, let go, then shifted back to her human form and curtsied.
"Thank you , friends, for letting us share a small part of who we really
are."

John nodded slowly.  "You're welcome."  He turned to his wife.  "Should *we*
tell them?"

Martha laughed and I detected a note of relief in her laughter.  "Oh, it's
nothing like *your* story, I'm afraid."

I chuckled and started getting the stove and food ready.  "Well, we'll be
happy to hear it but I think we'd better listen while cooking a late lunch."

"Oh!"  I'd caught them by surprise.  "I bet the kids are hungry by now.  I
know *I* am!"  That was John.

Martha stood.  "I'll be right back."  She headed off to get some of their
food.

It wasn't long until first Wolf, then the kids joined us.

Martha and John had resettled and I smiled at them when I noticed they had
joined hands.  

John started speaking.  "We're children of flower children."

One of the kids spoke up suddenly.  "Ahhhh, Dad!  You're not going to tell
then *that* old story, are you?"

"Of course I am.  Or don't you want them to know the reasons *you* were able
to play like you did today?"

His eyes got big.  "Oh!"

"Exactly."  He grinned at him.  "Shush!"

"Anyway, that's how we met.  Our parents were really into Wicca, Druidism,
Shamans, totems...  And I tell you, we were sick of it.  By the time we were
in our teens, we wanted to be more in contact with reality.

"So we rebelled.

"Do you have any idea how hard is to rebel when your parents smile and tell
you it's ok, just be the person you think you should be and we love you
anyway?"  He shook his head and laughed, then looked at his wife.  "We got
married as soon as we were old enough.  Then our parents got together and did
their own marriage rituals over us."

He turned and looked at the ley line.  "Funny.  I couldn't put it into words
until just now."  He looked at us.  "Our parents play a shadow game with
power.  Like Wolf did until you opened her eyes.  They *believe* but it's
based on faith.  Not knowledge."  He fell silent and we waited.

"No.  Power is a shadow game to them.  Everything they do is based on their
dreams.  I can see that now."  His eyes grew slightly haunted.  "They have
what they have, and it works for them."  He looked at his wife and her eyes
were stricken and glistening with unshed tears.  "We can't tell them
differently, can we, love?"

She flinched, then nodded in agreement.

John looked at their children.  "Promise me you won't tell them about this."
He focused on his oldest.  "And you, young Lady.  I need more from you.  No
matter how much you want to help them, don't.  Sometimes it isn't right.  Do
you want to take away everything that gives their lives meaning?"

She shook her head rebelliously.  "But..."

"No!  I mean it.  They believe the power is theirs to call and use.  They
already *know* that's true.  We know better.  *You* know better."  He went
over, knelt and hugged her.   "Maybe they do deserve to know the truth.  But
they already have the joy of knowing.  Let's not take that away from them,
OK?  It's not a game to them.  It defines who they are."

She finally nodded slowly.  John kissed her forehead.  "Good.  Growing up can
be painful.  I'm sorry I can't take away the pain."  He smiled at her.
"Grownups are responsible, too.  Can you promise not to tell anyone except me
and your mother when you find a ley line?  It's important we keep them secret
for now.  Don't even tell your brothers and sister."

She looked at him.  "They're babies?  And babies can't keep secrets?"

John simply nodded.

She hugged him.  "OK.  I promise."  She giggled.  "I won't even tell Wolf!"

John laughed and resettled in his chair.

I broke in before he could continue.  "Lunch is ready.  Let's eat."

* * *

The kids and dog were off taking naps and the four of us had resettled to
relax and let lunch digest..

"You don't look like rebels."  I was smiling.

John laughed and Martha giggled.  She went on.  "Oh, we are.  Most ways we're
straight enough to be rulers--to the great despair of our parents, of
course."

She sobered quickly.  "Most of our rebellion consisted of trying to stay
close to nature but without all the 'mumbo-jumbo' our parents seemed to think
was necessary.  We also spent time in the libraries, then on the net,
researching the reality of the faiths they lumped together and used to create
their rituals."

She looked at her husband and smiled.  "We didn't toss everything out, but by
the time we finished we had a pretty solid understanding of what we kept."

John nodded at her and turned to us.  "That was some sort of Solstice ritual
last night, wasn't it?"

I shrugged.  "That and a demanded apology."

Mahika choked a laugh into a subdued snort and I mock glared at her.  "Well,
it was.  You going to deny it?"

She laughed.  "Nope.  And a very good apology it was, too."  She paused then
went on.  "For a down payment!"

I grinned back then turned to John.  "You see?"

"I do.  We're here because we enjoy camping and so do the kids.  Plus, we
just wanted to give them a chance to enjoy nature and while we didn't
emphasize it's Summer Solstice today, we didn't hide it, either.  Nor did we
avoid mentioning that for some people it has a special significance."

He chuckled.  "We didn't know what was going on, but it *was* obvious last
night that for you folks it was something very special and intense."

He waited a couple of beats, then went on slyly.  "We've never heard anyone
howl like wolves when they orgasmed and it intensified our feelings of being
part of nature."

He looked at Mahika.  "We talked it over, after.  We both had the same
vision.  We were in a forest clearing.  A moon was out and there was a sense
of being on four feet.  It felt *right* and I think you know what I mean.
Thank you."

Mahika looked at me and lifted her eyebrows.  I smiled back and nodded.  We
knew what John meant and I also knew Mahika had noticed the same thing I had.
"John.  You're welcome."  She laughed gently.  "I think I know why you saw
what you did.  Look closely and see where the ley line is."  He glanced, then
froze when he realized the line went through their tent.  Mahika laughed
harder.  "The four of us resonated last night and being the stronger of the
two pairs, our vision overwhelmed yours!"

I was chuckling when I stood and reached for Mahika's hand.  "Now, if you
will excuse us, we're going to enjoy the rest of the day in our tent.  What
you do is up to *you*."

I was grinning.  "See you folks for dinner?  A *late* dinner?"

Martha laughed.  "Maybe!"

* * *

I had implied we'd be making passionate love to each other.  Reality was
different.  We cuddled and returned to sharing the afterglow.

At one point a thought struck me and I turned to study Mahika.  I looked at
the lines of power that radiated from her body.  One looked thicker, solider.
It made me wonder if my suspicion was a reality.

There was only one way to find out.  "Love.  Unintended consequences just
caught up with you, I think."

"Oh?"

I reached to point out the line in question.  "There.  That's your link to
Wolf, isn't it?"

She looked, then smiled.  "Yes, it is.  So?"

I hugged her.  "I know you can cut it anytime you wish.  But, I think you
have a problem.  I also don't think Wolf will *let* you cut it."

"What?!"  Won't let me..."  I felt her awareness surge outwards, seeking
Wolf.  There was a long silence...  I felt Mahika stiffen, then she sagged in
shock.  "That bitch!"

I laughed.  "Yep.  She is.  She's her creator's daughter, isn't she?  She's
immortal now, too, I'd bet."

I held Mahika close and cried tears of happiness.  "I'm glad I was here when
you found your true companion, the *one* who will spend the rest of eternity
at your side."

"Happy Summer Solstice...

"Mahika , my love."
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Stasya T. Canine
June 5, 2007
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TANSTAAFL  --Robert Anson Heinlein--

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