After a very eventful morning of bathtub sex between the three of them, Sita surprised both the girls by offering to turn them into vampires so that they could be with her forever. When Alice objected again, citing her sister Chloe Rose's confinement, Sita plotted with Abigail to break her out of Edinar despite Sita's potentially life-threatening sun allergy posing a threat to her leaving the safety of the eternal storm at the top of her mountain. To that Alice then admitted out loud, with finality, that she still held feelings for
Elizabeth Jersey despite her affections for Abigail and Sita, and they supported her in that as she got dressed and got her clothes, armor, and weapons for the journey home that fateful day.
Abigail mulled it over more, but then said, "Well, I'm flattered, but I need to have my own adventures and learn the magic I need to stop the rain of this world"- or rather of her own, very restless heart, which had been abandoned too many times before (even though she understood why Alice loved someone else back home, and was upset that Abigail had run away from the Sajida situation) to not worry that someone else would do it again- "before I can truly be happy. But don't worry, my darling. No matter how far I go, I will find you some day." Then she sucked Sita off to completion and captured her ejaculate in a
vacuum jar- the better to remind herself of their good times and hurry Abigail back to her vampire some day with a swig of her semen every once in a while.
But before Abigail and Alice climbed down the mountain, Alice announced something that she hoped Sita would be able to take as good news to the still very isolated Sajida, now her new neighbor on the mountain. She'd reached a deal with a local, one-armed
waterfoot rancher named
Kalisha Haroun that was signed by Sita just prior to Abigail and Alice's departure. In exchange for her silence on the existence of the two vampires, she got exclusive access once a year to the constantly watered grasslands around the caldera for her animals to graze on and draw water from the ground thereof, after which it would be nearly stripped of vegetation. Then Kalisha would return when the grasses came back one year later.
In return, the vampires got to drain an amount of blood from each of the animals that would not even faze such large creatures, usually while the land molluscs were sleeping standing up at night, and yet would feed both women for a year. They also got to drain a little bit of blood from the neck of her horse,
Gambit, who like Kalisha herself was disabled, and had clockwork and steam parts replacing all of his legs. In one of the few personal anecdotes she'd let slip, Kalisha related how she'd rescued the legless, dying horse from the desert during her days of wandering.
And lastly, both vampires had permission to fatally drain any waterfoot who was dying, reaching the upper limit of their 50-year lifespan, or had been bought to be slaughtered for meat as opposed to their rich, highly sought after milk.
Alice also secretly hoped that, if Kalisha swung that way, she could be a sure companion to Sajida or Sita or both. But Kalisha was all business and politeness on each annual visit, and did not even flirt with flirting despite being able to talk and laugh with Sita for hours, as they always had plenty to catch up on each year, and Kalisha was always fascinated by Sita's history and Sita in turn by Kalisha's wide journeys across thousands of miles, where she met new and wonderful people. Meanwhile, Sajida still preferred to withdraw, hardly seeing either woman outside of the feedings. Despite Sajida being grateful to Sita for saving her life, she refused to say much else when they did see each other alone, leaving Sita to wonder: was Sajida still hurting from the violence inflicted on her? Was she resentful of Sita in some way for cursing her to eternally straddle the line between life and death? Or what else did Sajida need to be Sita's dark queen throughout the eons? The question, her mourning of what could have been with Abigail and Alice, and her smoldering, seemingly unrequited attraction to the strong, clever, sweet, funny rancher in her
sexy straw hat and rough denim jacket nearly drove Sita mad from how much she masturbated some days.
This went on until one especially stormy night- Wednesday, June 14th, 1893. For the first time in seven years, an airship dared approach the mountain.
This time, it was an old, rusty
Imperial light bomber airship that had been severely damaged by Bamban protestors attempting to steal it from the barn it had been stored in. The poor thing was about to be scrapped until a lone, intrepid aspiring pilot named
Chloe Rose Guthrie bought it from the Army with her life savings, for halfsters on the note but at a higher price than the scrappers were willing to cough up, taking into account the resale value of the materials. She then put it back together with rusty dampfsteel squares, homemade rivets, determination and spit, rechristening it
The Leaky Bucket once it was done. Then she'd flown it for a few months giving tours of the beautiful countryside that were much cheaper than any other tour guide due to her savings on buying the vehicle, in order to
earn her way in the world for once. To make her way to the one place in the world she knew she desperately
had to return to, no matter the cost.
But if Alice's mighty, state of the art warship that she'd commandeered to rescue Sajida hadn't fared well in the whipping winds, this tiny ship stood absolutely no chance. Despite her heroic fighting with the wheel and rudder, now said bucket was about to become much more than leaky as it took a hard landing on the roof of Sita's castle. Chloe only just managed to shut off the whale oil engine and deflate the balloon to prevent the entire contraption from being carried off by the storm as Alice's had, or worse exploding and killing her instantly. The dampfsteel body weighed down the muslin canvas, and Chloe's heavy
paragliding coat had absorbed most of the impact of her own rough confrontation with the mighty stonework, as well as kept her from being taken away as well. Still, Chloe's jacket, clothes, even hair were soaked through, so she was now shivering mightily.
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