Every once in a very long while, when the planets align just so and the moon is blue, I am overcome by the strange urge to write a sex story that has a dude in it. This started out as a scene in a longer story that I've since shelved, but I really liked it so I figured I'd flesh it out a bit so that it can stand on its own. Or, at the very least, it can stand with a cane. Maybe a pair of crutches.
This was also the result of a writing challenge I made for myself: Write a sex scene without using any words or euphemisms for "penis" or "vagina". The intent was to force myself to find different, more interesting ways to word the action. Did it work? Iunno, you tell me. I did allow myself one single "cock", but I think I made good use of it.
Feolan Makes a Dress*
*And also loses his virginity
-or-
Feolan dujar et hopkjol*
*und okso han førlorar hans svendom
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The measurements almost didn't make sense. Feolan wouldn't have believed that such numbers could have been accurate for any person if he hadn't measured her himself. The unique shape of her body certainly made for an interesting challenge. For ballroom gowns, the current fashion involved long skirts, flowy but not bell-shaped, corsets that hugged the waist and emphasized the curve of the hips, and a strapless bodice which left the shoulders bare.
He hadn't had any trouble with Naala's dress. She was slim but top-heavy: Her hips and thighs had a feminine curve to them, but not enough to give her a truly hourglass figure. Her shoulders were broad and powerful, and her chest would have been generous even on a woman twice her weight. He'd had to reinforce the bust with whalebone, but he was certain that it would still support her even without straps, and she would cut a very striking figure.
Suminara, on the other hand... She had the type of body that Ædde called "pear-shaped"- her hips and behind were wider than her shoulders, and her waist was relatively small in comparison. Feolan had made dresses for many women with similar builds, but never for one with breasts so enormously large and heavy. For her, a strapless bodice was right out. Even with reinforcement it wouldn't be able to support them, and the silhouette would have been odd and out-of-place. No, such a dress might have been possible for a master like Ædde, but it was outside of Feolan's skills to create, at least in a single day.
And besides, Suminara herself had said that she wanted to stand out, and that meant getting creative. He had taken inspiration from the clothing that she had been wearing when she came in, and after putting hours of work into it, it was finished. It had taken until well past sundown, but he was finally able to take a step back and look over his work.
It was, strictly speaking, actually a robe and not a dress: open-fronted, with long, loose sleeves and a hemline that would hang to her calves, but the sash was very broad. When tied tightly, as it was meant to be, it would also tighten the upper part of the garment, supporting and uplifting her breasts while also emphasizing her waist and hips. It had been difficult to make something that would flatter the exaggerated hourglass of her figure, but he was, he decided, proud of how it had turned out. He'd used the finest Shalian silk in the shop- a lovely purple color with floral motifs woven in, with highlights and trim in a deeper shade, near black. It was an expensive fabric, and it would almost certainly stand out at the Herzog's ball.
He hoped that she liked it. Looking at it now, hanging from the dress form in his workroom, he could find no flaws, but he was certain that when he looked at it again in the morning he would spot a thousand little things that he should have done differently, for that was how it always seemed to go. He hoped that he hadn't forgotten anything as a result of his daydreaming. For the entire day, every bit of his mind that hadn't been focused on making the dress had been busy reliving every moment that he'd spent measuring her, from the gleam in her eyes when she giggled to the way that her chest moved when she had wiggled out of her overrobe.
He'd spent a lot of time thinking about the latter, actually. And how she'd pressed them up against his side. He was certain that that had been an accident, but he could still almost feel their soft, yielding weight against his arm. And when she had leaned forward... He'd thought about that part in particular quite a lot.
He was still thinking about her even as he tidied up his workroom, grabbed his lamp, and headed up to his bedchambers. He was halfway up the stairs when there was a knock on the front door of the shop. That was odd. Who would be calling this late at night? Ædde had left while Feolan was working and hadn't come back yet, but she had a key, and Bronhild was already in bed. He went back down and opened the door.
"Sorry, but we're closed. You can come..." He blinked.
"Hello!" said Suminara. "Can I, now?"
It was her! She was all bound up in drab and unbecoming brown and black furs, but underneath her hood her eyes and her smile were luminous in the moonlight. "I- in! In! You can come in! You must be cold!"
"How kind of you! I am, in fact." He felt himself getting red even as he stood aside and shut the door behind her. She turned and gave him a strange look- a wry smile, like she knew something that he didn't.
"So. Um. Why are you here?" Idiot! That was rude! "I mean-! I, uh... What brings you to..." Nobody actually says that! "That is, er, how do you..." His mouth was like an overloaded cart barrelling uncontrollably down the street. He couldn't stop it, and the more he tried the worse he made things.
Suminara laughed. She threw her furred hood back and placed her hands on his shoulders. "Feolan," she said. "Take a deep breath."
He did. She smelled wonderful, like... Something familiar, though he couldn't decide what. It made him feel all warm in the chest. He could feel himself relax a little bit... Until he realized how incredibly close to him she was. They were only a step away from embracing.
"Good," she said, and moved away. He let out his breath. "Would you like to try that again?"
"What... What can I do for you?" he asked.
"I've found myself with a bit of free time on my hands. Naala is preoccupied at the moment, so I thought I'd take a little stroll around the city to look at all the pretty lights. I ended up near your shop, so I asked myself, why not pay Feolan a visit and see how my dress is coming along?" As she spoke she shedded her furs. The robe underneath was well-worn, a little frayed at the edges, and the way she wore it quite a bit of her chest was open to the air. He tried very, very hard not to look too hard at that.
"Oh. Of course. Naala's is done, and yours nearly is. I just need to put some finishing touches on it, then they'll both be ready for fitting."
"Really? That was fast!"
He shrugged, mostly succeeding at maintaining eye contact. "Naala did a great thing for me, all those years ago. I would still be enslaved if not for her. Maybe even dead. You said you needed the dresses quickly- it was the least I could do."
To his great surprise, she reached up and touched his face. "You look exhausted. Your hard work is appreciated, Feolan!"
"Well, um... I. Er..." She was even closer to him now. Her chest brushed up gently against his. She showed no sign of noticing this, but she had to have noticed the way he quivered.
"You know, it's not often that I meet a man who's taller than me. Not here, anyway. You measured my height at seventy-three inches this morning. That must make you, what? Seventy-nine?"
"Eighty."
She whistled. "You would be tall even in Felu Shala!"
"Yeah, I'm, uh... Pretty tall." He said it, and immediately felt like an imbecile. "Uh. You're a priestess, aye?" Why had he asked that? The words were just falling out of him.
"Of a sort. I hung up my robes and left my temple years ago so that I could travel the world with Naala. My mentor, the High Priestess of the temple in Ela Aï, feels that in doing so, I have abandoned the goddess and my duty. She does not understand that I am spreading Vela Sheï's teachings to so many more people than I ever could have ever reached by staying there- most of them folks who had never even heard of her before."