Author's Note: Thanks so much for your patience in how long it's taking to get this story out to you. A lot of other things in my life, as well as my other stories, are sapping a lot of my time and creative energy away from this particular story. I have no plans of ending it soon (quite the opposite in fact, this is going be huge when it's finally done) and I hope you look forward to everything else. For now, please enjoy this bit of character fluff between Annette and Siren.
(Annette POV)
I walk away from the room where I left my mate and new sister after watching precisely how they would lay together. I'm not sure whether I'll actually honor Max's wish for all of us to sleep on his bed together, but I suppose it would be comfortable either way. Siren's been pushing us all to sleep in the same room for some time now, but I'm not sure that I would really be comfortable with that regularly.
I find Siren sitting on my bed when I return to my own room, with her clumsy fingers struggling to turn a page in a book that she barely has the ability to read. I actually admire her for trying so hard to learn to read instead of being okay with merely speaking Max's language. I walk over and help her turn the page so she can continue to read.
"(Do we have a new sister?)" she asks me without even a glance spared towards the page I just helped her reach.
"(We do.)" I answer. "(Just as you predicted.)" She gives me a small smile and nod.
"(She will be good for the nest.)" Siren says. "(Though we may have to keep an eye on Max when he goes near the women of the village near us, or we may soon have too many sisters to house.)"
I laugh at her words and she smiles up at me as I sit down next to her.
"(You know as well as I do that Max is not like that.)" I say to her.
"(I know that now, but I still do not understand it.)" she replies. "(He is an odd male.)"
"(But are we really any less odd?)" I ask her. "(Even before I met Max, I was considered abnormal by my tribe. They believed I should simply enjoy things, instead of questioning them all the time but I like learning. I always have, I just did not have the words to describe it before I met Max.)"
"(I was not considered quite so odd by my flock. I was very useful to everybody, fetching water and watching over eggs whenever asked.)" Siren said.
"(Usefulness is quite a thing with you, sister.)" I said softly. "(Do you have a need to feel helpful, like our mate?)"
"(I...)" she starts, but stops as the thought hits her. She goes silent a moment before continuing. "(I have never thought about it before. I did seem to always ask everyone if they needed something all the time back when I still had my old flock. I never really made time for mating pursuits. I...always thought I would have time.)"
Her mood fell quickly and the book lay atop the bed, completely forgotten. I give her a quick hug that she returns awkwardly before letting her wings fall to her sides once again. She's been falling into her depression far less often lately, but her pain is still very much there. All we can do for her is simply be there and try to give her better days in the future.
"(Could you tell me about how life with your flock was life, Annette? I would like something else to think about now.)" Siren pleads silently to me. I nod and rub her back as I begin.
"(Life was very simple, but boring. Every day I would wake up in the hut with my mother and go out to check on how the hut was doing. I made small repairs if need be until either I was finished or my mother woke up. After that, it was always one of the same things; go forage with Mother, clear grass away from the village, fill pots with water...)" I say to her. A large sigh comes out of my lips before I find it in me to continue, "(I was always bored. No male wanted me as a mate and I thought I was destined simply to have a child by some willing male who would not become my child's father, just as my mother before me.)"
"(You have no father?)" Siren asks me softly as she cocks her head slightly.
"(No. My mother could not find a male she could connect with enough to become mates, so she did as I said. I believe the male is the one who became chief later, but nobody can tell me for certain. I suppose it does not really matter anyway. After all, I have a family now. With you and Max...and now Noir too.)" I say to her. She smiles softly and looks up at me.
"(Yet you had so much trouble telling him that you love him.)" she teased me.
"(Well, I did not think it needed to be said. It is hardly my fault that our mate is dense.)" I reply as I fight off the small wave of embarrassment the memory of seeing him so happy to hear me say it brings forth. I could hardly be blamed for the fact that he could never smell my arousal near him or hear my happy heartbeat with his lesser human senses.
"(All males need reassurance of the obvious now and then, just as my mother and father used to say to me.)" Siren says with a smile that becomes sullen quickly. "(I wish they could have met him. I know that they would like him, even without proper wings to fly.)"
"(He hardly seems to need them though.)" I say to her, which brightens her smile once again. "(The way he jumps, the only difference from real flight is how quickly he must return to the ground.)"
"(That is true.)" she answers me with a small giggle. "(So, how long did you watch them?)"
"(The entire time. I was curious how differently he would act with her compared to us. He seems to treat us all a bit differently when it comes time to satiate our needs.)" I point out.
"(I have noticed. He always likes holding me close against him and going slowly.)" she agrees with a small, lustful look in her eyes as she thinks about it. I have admit, I feel a little tingle between my own legs as well when memories of our sex floods my mind.
"(He certainly does not go slowly with me.)" I say with an inaudible sigh. "(Sometimes I worry that I will not be able to walk properly afterwards. A tiny part of my mind tells me that he could crush me if his power activates in the heat of our mating and...)"
"(You react to that small fear with further arousal.)" she finishes for me with a teasing edge to her voice. "(Birds have good noses too, you know.)"
"(And good tongues.)" I say back, trying to tease her but only eliciting a naughty smile from her instead. She is easily the most sexually adventurous person I've met. I don't count Max of course, since his ideas of sex are all from another world entirely. What seems adventurous to me is just a little naughtier than normal to him, like laying with both Siren and I simultaneously or licking between our legs.
"(Should we go congratulate our new sister then?)" she asks me and I silently thank her in my mind for not taking her teasing of me any further.
"(Max asked us to sleep with them both tonight, actually. I think he has finally begun to feel comfortable with our odd family.)" I say to her as I stand up from the bed and stretch out. I feel her hug me from behind and nuzzle my back before she stands up as well.
"(Let us go to bed then and hope that Max has enough energy to take care of all of us when we wake up together.)" she says, again teasing me. I smile and shake my head, laughing a little at her shamelessness. It is good that her parents would have approved of all this because my mother certainly didn't. Still, I would be lying if I didn't want the same thing she was hoping for.
As odd as my life is, I still love it all. I love my mate, I love my sister, I love books and learning...I'm sure that I'll soon learn to love my new sister just as much. I only hope she's truly ready for everything that being part of our family is going to entail.
rn"
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