“So, what are you going to spend your winnings on?”
“What winnings?”
Kayel lifted himself up from the Skyan snuggle pile. He was partially trapped underneath Psiksi’s arm and Ksar Teekay’s tail.
“Oh, you weren’t here, Ksarkay!” Psiksi giggled. “Kayel and Nyssi made a silly bet. Kayel won.”
Ksar Teekay blinked, then rolled over a bit so Kayel could get up. Although Ksar Teekay was a lot heavier and more metallic than the other Threanics, he had very quickly been convinced to join in on their silliness. Right now, Ksar Teekay was snuggling with Kayel, Psiksi, Kaytee and Teekay in what was apparently just a spare room the Threanics occasionally used for this sort of thing. “I think I was. Was this when Kayel was having blood donations?” Ksar Teekay quickly turned to Kayel. “Why do some of you do blood donations anyway?”
Kayel tutted. “The blood donations are because Life Goddess blood heals pretty much anything, and me, my team and Elkay, our blood is deadly to Corruption. Doesn’t last long though so we do them a lot. Also we kinda get through it.”
“Huh. That… that’s fucking weird… WHY is your blood deadly to Corruption?”
“It’s a stupid Synaisthyn thing.”
“I still don’t get what that is…” Ksar Teekay admitted.
“I think some people call them Amalgam Mimics?” Psiksi suggested. “Like, we’re all bog-standard Decayons, Elkay can kinda turn into a Life Goddess or a Time Drake or something and has some weird non-Decayon properties. Kayel can’t do the “turn into a Corruption” thing but he has all the other non-Decayon properties so he’s a half-Synaisthyn.”
“Why are you a half one though?”
“Because Arkay deified me at the last minute when he thought he was going to be taken away and tortured forever. He’s a full Synaisthyn and the first one to become a Decay Lord, and it somehow messed us four up. It’s why I have fire, ice and shadow powers.”
“Huh…” Ksar Teekay had more questions. “So, what was the bet you won, and what did you win?”
Kayel rolled his eyes. “I only won twenty Deathvenbucks and I’m still waiting for Nyssi to send them to me. Probably going to spend it on a ton of novelty condoms to give to Teekay just to spite her.”
“Please don’t. We don’t really like them…” Teekay muttered from somewhere underneath Kaytee and Psiksi. “If you’re going to buy me condoms, get some super strong but thin ones or something usable.”
“You don’t like ribbed or dotted ones either?”
“No. We normally use kinda thick condoms anyway since Elkay is a freak of nature – not that way – and I’m not risking getting him pregnant. We want to feel each other.”
“You’re different species though!” Ksar Teekay exclaimed. “You can’t-”
“Rethan-Skyan hybrids are possible,” Kayel interrupted. “Apparently Kuta knows one. But that might have been a my-universe thing, and even then, it was like a 1% chance.”
“1% is still too risky for me. Sure, I want to really feel Elkay but I don’t know my family heritage, and I know from my medical testing as I was growing up that, uh, probably too much info, but my sperm count was a little too healthy…”
“Fair enough…” Kayel shrugged, then fell silent. Ksar Teekay and Kaytee both glanced at Kayel in surprise as he borrowed Nyssi’s telepathy and sent them both a telepathis message, but they quickly got what Kayel wanted. “But yeah, I guess I do have 20 Deathvenbucks to spend. No idea what to spend them on though.”
“Chocolate!” Ksar Teekay immediately exclaimed. “That shit is amazing.”
Teekay eyed his same-named friend. “You didn’t have chocolate in the Alsyr?”
“We had emergency high calorie chocolate-flavoured bars…” Ksar Teekay grunted. “Worst thing ever. Gave me the shits when I had them, when the unit I was with got pinned down in combat.”
“The one time I ate one, I was genuinely ill for an ev with thick piss.”
Ksar Teekay paused for a moment. “I forget you guys don’t have anuses. “Thick piss” is a hilarious way of putting it though.”
“Alright,” Teekay turned back to Ksar Teekay. “I have to ask, can you put things in an anus and have it be pleasurable? I’m going to guess yes, because that’s what Beh’evok do, but I have no idea how to really approach the subject.”
Ksar Teekay nodded. “Yeah, theoretically. Never really tried it myself, if I’m honest.”
“Didn’t help that the Thastarii are a little anti-male-gay,” Psiksi added. “Female-on-female was fine, male-on-male was often frowned upon. It’s why they kept on separating a lot of the non-Thastarii, because the Beh’ens were very pro-LBTQ+ and they didn’t like that.”
“Bloody darkness, sounds like you both got out of a really shitty sect!” Skyan Teekay exclaimed. “I was a fucking uptight, no-fun-allowed prick as a mortal but I still respected other people’s wishes.”
“Phovoula had problems when we were mortal, she gave me shit about me being a prostitute in the past and couldn’t really understand concepts like homosexuality and trans-gender folks, but it turns out turning into a Voidborn and meeting a Life Goddess who isn’t awful turns you into a lesbian!” Kayel added.
Kaytee though only partially agreed. “The Thastarii seem oddly privileged. They were an entire species, male and female, who were uplifted and formed a sect. People like Ksar Teekay and Psiksi, you were foreigners who got sucked in and they only put up with you because you were both useful and had nowhere else to go. The Phantai were stuck up, but they were slightly more accepting because they had to accept those things.”
“But also Soulblade was 100% gay!” Teekay added.
“Who’s Soulblade?” Psiksi asked.
“One of the Great Blades, the Phantai bosses…” Kaytee answered, before changing the subject. “Anyway, Kayel, what even was your bet?”
“That Kuta and Ret would be willing to sleep with Elkay if he asked.”
“And were they?”
Kayel smiled and nodded, as did Teekay.
“Huh. Did they do it?”
Teekay nodded some more. “That was why I came to you lot the other day, saying Elkay was busy. He was having fun being dommed by Kuta and Ret.”
“So he enjoyed it?”
“Definitely.”
Again, Kayel sent a quick telepathic message to the other Teekays.
“Ah, good. Glad…” Kayel trailed off. “Anyway, can I get up now? I need a piss and I’ve been trapped underneath you all for a good hour now.”
“Oh fuck, me too!” Teekay exclaimed as he tried to wriggle free. “Too many snuggles and drinks…”
“No such thing as too many snuggles!” Psiksi laughed as he got up. “This is always fun though. We need more of this. And we should bring in Elkay, Kuta and Ret too.”
“Definitely!”