All characters in sexual situations are 18 or older. Thanks for reading!
Like most things, the echo of hooves died quickly out on the Hawk's Road. Engineers had somehow suspended the cobbled path along the ridge. On one side, a declivity fell hundreds of feet down to the sea. On the other, rested a barren chasm, dark with volcanic glass. King Vel Tullius smiled down at the sea from the window of his carriage. He had been crowned king a month ago in Ostia Novus. This was his first return to the palace since he and his party had toppled the wicked tower. He looked up to see Accipiter Cubitum's remaining spires twisting and towering above him. The damaged palace seemed to perch on the cliff like a hawk's nest. He could see workmen repairing the building where the fallen stones had plummeted. Vel shivered. It was not the sight of the palace that made his body shudder, but his mother's work on his cock with her tongue. He held her head firmly as the queen slurped and gurgled. "Does it frighten you, Naevia? Returning to the palace, I mean."
"No, it does not,
Your Majesty
." Princess Naevia laced the last two words with sarcasm. She wasn't used to her brother's ascending titles. But then, it was quite surreal being a princess. "This was the place where we saved the Surround. Where you tamed evil." She regarded the company on the cushioned bench across from her. Her mother sat next to Vel, leaning over to suck his cock. Valeria sat on the floor between his legs, lovingly sucking on his balls. It looked a bit awkward for both women to manage their positions with their burgeoning bellies. But they seemed to manage. "What do you think, Mother? Do you fear returning to the place that almost killed you?"
"Mmmmppppphhhhhhh," Cassia said.
"I don't know why we couldn't just magic ourselves to the palace." Dellia leaned against the carriage's window next to Naevia, her chin resting on her hand. She looked quite bored. "This is taking forever."
"My Imperator ... ugh ... craves adventure." Vel smiled and leaned his head back on the cushion behind him. He could feel the rattle of the wheels, but he didn't care. "But sometimes ... we ... ugh ... have to take things slowly. Give the people ... what they expect." He was getting close to his release, which was good. He didn't want to arrive at the palace with his queen and his servant servicing him. People guessed at his relationship with his mother and sister. But it was best not to make it explicit. Similarly, Valeria's metamorphosis into servility had shown the people his strength, but Vel did not think it polite to have her slurp his balls in public.
"You better cum, Vel. We're getting close." Naevia winked at him from across the carriage, her smile wide. She loved watching him with his women.
"My ... uuuggghhhhhh ... thoughts ... exactly ... aaaaaahhhhhhhh." He held his mother's head tight and unloaded into her mouth. She drank everything he offered.
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The months passed quickly at the beginning of the Tullius reign. Not all the generals bowed immediately to the copper crowns now worn by Vel, Naevia, and Cassia. But when Vel traveled with Valeria to the Sparrow Islands, Antibynum, or the Gates of Xellas, he was mostly able to bring them in line without bloodshed. They had only to see their old queen groveling before him, serving him, and singing his praises. Once seen in the flesh, it was clear that the older order had passed.
Circe came in and out of her father's life like a flickering shadow. She refused land and title, but she was happy to run difficult errands for Vel when she was not helping her mother or learning more of the world.
Back in Ostia Novus, Gallio accepted his old ducal role. He offered Cassia her familiar seat by his side, but she declined. Even though she understood that he had been bewitched by Brynhild, she did not return to her marriage.
With Lady Norbana's husband now detained by the state, Vel did offer her hand to his father in Cassia's stead. And Gallio took it. Norbana may have been a coward, but she possessed Hekate's azure light, and was thus quite valuable to Gallio. Nicias and Norbana were made Lord and Lady and given a small estate in Ostia Novus. Not long after, a baby was born to them. Nicias swore to bring it up as his own, and would let no ill be spoken of the child. There were rumblings in the city, however, that the baby had an unusual deformity and barely cried.
Over time, other pregnancies moved to term. Naevia was the first of Vel's women to birth him a child, not counting the goddess Hekate. They brought into the world a healthy girl. Not a week later, Dellia also birthed a daughter. It was the first time an Imperator had given birth. Mostly because the title had been held by men until the wicked tower fell. Cassia was next with another healthy girl. Vel received word from his father that Norbana had also delivered a girl.
This put some pressure on Vel to find himself a wife to take his mother's place as queen. Rumors that he had fathered the children were omnipresent throughout the Surround. Vel, however, resisted.
Valeria was the last to bear Vel a child that year. Vel could see the love in her face when she carried the crying babe about the palace. It seemed whatever the satyr had done to Valeria had been undone. She was a woman both diminished and enhanced. She almost always wore her maple circlet, her cherished gift from the dryads. She believed it to be a humble symbol of her renascence. But, of course, it was much more.
A special nursery was furnished near the royal chambers. Cassia and Naevia officially had their own private rooms across a long hall from Vel. But they spent most of their nights and evenings either in the nursery, or with Vel. Cassia, not having the stamina of her daughter, often slept next to Vel and Naevia as the mattress bounced under her. Brother and sister could never get enough of each other. It wasn't very long after Naevia had born him their child that they got started on another.
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Rather than use the Vulpes, Vel disbanded the service. They would have need of spies, but not those that had sought to murder and undermine what he loved. He thought on how to form a new service, when Princess Naevia came to him with a solution.
"Have you heard,
Your Majesty
, that magic has returned across the Surround? New witches, mages, sorcerers, and sorceresses have sprung up as weeds in a fertile garden." Naevia spoke softly so as not to wake her sleeping mother. She climbed into bed, her heavy breasts hanging below her.
"I have." Vel gazed at her copper curls and sweet face in the light of a single lamp. It was quite late and she was just returning from the nursery. "Did the babe drink her fill, my princess?"
"She did." Naevia laughed. She knew where this was going, and she enjoyed these affections from her brother immensely.
"Did she drain you, or is there still more for me?" Vel let her climb his naked body and they kissed for a while.
Eventually, Naevia withdrew her lips from his. "There is always more for you, Vel." She climbed a little further and eased her nipple into his mouth. "Aaaahhhhh, that feels sublime."
