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Celeste held her head between her hands willing herself to survive the agony. She cursed Bob as she willed the time to pass more quickly. Celeste could feel the hated sun begin to slide below the horizon. Finally it was over. The day was done and the pain in her head and her gut and everywhere else began to subside. This was the last day of her yearly month of fertility, one month down and only two hundred ninety nine to go. How could she be so stupid? Still Celeste gave her word and she always kept her word. The problem was that Celeste wanted revenge.

Celeste had also given her word that she would not harm Bob or anyone close to him. The question was, what constituted harm? Celeste knew she was splitting hairs, but she couldn’t let this mortal have the last word. What was the planet Bob called home? Cocuru! Cocuru was the name of his precious world. Celeste would kill no one. Celeste would physically harm no one. But embarrassment, humiliation, feeling betrayed by those he loved, was that really harm. Celeste would not spill so much as one drop of their blood, except the blood she would drink of course. And since Celeste wasn’t fertile the blood she took would not harm anyone. Bob would learn that there was a price to be paid for manhandling one of the Self Born.

The star courier landed on Cocuru after sunset and Celeste removed her image from the minds of those who saw her. Celeste chose for herself a suitable staff and started her search for Bob and those who were close to him. The night was nearing its end and Celeste found lodging in a hidden subbasement of ‘Tully’s Tavern’ that even Tully had never known about.

It had been built by the father of the previous owner who had died before telling his son about its secret entrance. Celeste had a gift for finding hidden entrances, especially when they led to secret places deep underground. Celeste needed a blood meal so she could sleep the day in comfort. As she opened the hidden door and moved through the room Celeste clouded the minds of those who saw her so she passed through the tavern’s great room unnoticed. Once outside Celeste turned around and walked back in. All the men turned to look at this beautiful young woman entering the room. Blood always tasted better when taken from a man who had seen and sexually desired her. Celeste decided on Tully himself.

Tully had grown children and a wife who loved him. Tully would never cheat on his wife, but god he wanted this beautiful young woman. Tully wanted to take her in his arms, strip her naked, get between her legs and show her how a real man pleasured a woman. Tully would never cheat on his wife and he couldn’t understand how this young woman was able to take him by the hand and lead him into the back room so easily. Tully took the young woman in his arms and grabbed her bottom with both hands as he felt the wonder of her huge breasts pressed against him. Tully barely noticed at all when Celeste buried her fangs deep into his neck.

She only took a mouthful of his blood. The taste was good. Tully was a good solid meat and potatoes kind of guy. The waves of pleasure washed over her as she withdrew her fangs. Celeste had Tully remove all his clothes and lie on his back on the small bed. She played with his penis until it erupted as she filled his mind with images of the incredible sex the two of them had experienced.

Celeste still loved men even though it had been many thousands of years since she had actually had sex with one. She threw a sheet over Tully and left him asleep on the small bed. As the narcotic effect of Tully’s blood began to have its way with her she removed the image of her leaving the tavern from everyone’s mind. Celeste staggered as her servants led her to her rest. Celeste knew she would have wonderful dreams and awake refreshed and strong when the sun went down.

The next night Celeste moved to Bob’s estate. As she walked in the door of the ‘big house’ Celeste took control of the minds of everyone in it. The house was light and airy with a charm and elegance designed to display a masculine touch that Celeste realized she approved of. The house was perfect for a wealthy young bachelor.

The housemaster’s name was Cedric. Celeste touched the back of Cedric’s head. Bob was not home. He was still off planet fighting gloride monsters. Celeste would make Bob’s home her own. Celeste took a small amount of Cedric’s blood. There was a good strong table wine quality to Cedric’s blood not unlike Tully’s blood. The difference was that Cedric’s blood was sweeter.

Celeste had a field hand come over and bend down so she could sample his blood as well. Celeste took an even smaller amount, just a few drops. The field hands blood was just as sweet. Celeste took a small amount of blood from a housemaid, then from another maid, then another field hand, then one of the men working in the kitchen, then one of the gardeners, then a girl working in the kitchen. Each time the blood was just as sweet.

Celeste knew there was a danger in taking the blood from too many individual humans for any one blood meal. Celeste was very close to going into a REVERIE, a mindless euphoria that can claim a vampire’s body and soul. It was just that the blood was so sweet and absolutely wonderful. Celeste was going to release all their minds so they could watch her dance. Celeste stopped and took control of herself.

The blood of these people was so sweet because these people shared a common purpose, a shared destiny. They felt that Bob was an important man, to the people of Cocuru certainly and perhaps to the entire human race. By working for him and making his life easier they were important too. This was unsettling. Until Bob returned Celeste would spend the daylight hours in the deepest of the rooms below the estate’s wine vaults. Celeste would take all her blood meals at ‘Tully’s Tavern’.

◊I was exhausted. Usually I walk into a gloride mine with a hangover that is so horrible that death by gloride monster would be an improvement. I stagger around until the gloride monster attacks me. At this moment The Ride takes over and I become only an observer in my own body. The Ride uses my body to kill whatever is attacking me and then The Ride goes away taking my hangover with it. In control of my body again and hangover free I usually collect some vine clippings from the local grapes, deposit the payment code for my fee, and get on a star transport back to Cocuru.

This time started the same. I had my hangover and I wandered around until I was attacked. Four crocs attacked me simultaneously from four different directions. The Ride took over and managed to have my body avoid all four sets of claws and trip one of the crocs as it went by. The Ride managed to have one of my body’s hands hold on to the crocs head long enough at the proper angle to have the crocs body weight break its own neck. At the same time The Ride used the pull of the crocs head as it fell, combined with every ounce of strength and momentum my body had, concentrated into one knuckle of my body’s fist as it perfectly hit one of the rib bones of a second croc. Before The Ride could have my body deliver the fatal blow by striking one of the shards of shattered rib bone, the other two crocs shoved the injured croc out of the way and dragged him into a side corridor and out of sight.

I couldn’t believe it. Two crocs had rescued an injured croc. Usually when a croc or crocs attack you they continue to attack you until you kill them or you are dead and they are eating you. To have two crocs realize an attack has gone wrong and to retreat taking an injured croc with them just didn’t happen.

The next day when my hangover and I staggered back into the mine, I found the injured croc. The blood coming out of its mouth told me the croc had died of internal bleeding. While being dragged away one of the rib bone shards must have cut a major blood vessel. That meant there were two crocs left and there was no sign of them.

The next day as my hangover and I staggered into the mine I was almost immediately attacked by both crocs simultaneously from opposite sides. The two crocs charged at me but swerved away from me at the last possible moment, never coming close enough for me to touch either one. The Ride had not begun.

They did the same thing several more times that day. The next day was the same and the next day after that. The Ride continued to not take over each time I was attacked. The Ride seemed certain that I was in no danger. I had no such confidence. What if I had somehow used up my ability and The Ride would never come back.

I stopped drinking. What finally drove me into the mine was my need to know if my special gift was over. I realized that my ability to have my body successfully fight anything that attacked me was the basis for my relationship with absolutely everyone I knew.

I believed I knew what the crocs were trying to do. Somehow I found the courage to totally ignore the crocs when they attacked. I managed to ignore the crocs for four attacks. On the fifth attack the crocs didn’t swerve away. At the last possible instant The Ride took over and had my body jump out of the way as it pushed one croc into the croc charging at me from the other side. The two crocs went down together in a tangled mess.

The Ride had my body run to the cave wall and then run as fast as my body could back at the two crocs. A fraction of a second before my body hit the two crocs, The Ride had my body jump off the ground and extend one leg with absolutely all of my body’s strength and momentum concentrated into the heel of that one foot as it perfectly hit the neck of the croc that was on top, cracking its spine and severing the croc’s spinal cord.

The bottom croc threw off the body of the croc that was on top of him and charged me with mindless horrible fury. The Ride had my body avoid its claws and twist out of the way as my body tripped the croc and held onto the croc’s head as he fell. I heard the satisfying crack as the croc’s neck broke. The Ride left and I was in control of my body again.

I didn’t search for grape vines this time. I took my payment code and hired a star courier transport to take me home. I just wanted to get into my own bed in my own bedroom on Cocuru. The courier transport had other business and had to drop me off on the planet Thracsis. From Thracsis I took a commercial shuttle back to Cocuru. I could not wait to get back to Cocuru. It isn’t the buildings that make a home; it’s the people waiting there that make a home. Cocuru was my home in every sense of the word.

Usually when I was dropped off at the commercial spaceport there was someone waiting for me, usually Michael, Mildred, and Cedric. This time there was no one waiting. I called the estate and no one answered. I must have caught them at a very busy time. I was apprehensive, but not worried. Bad news travels fast. I hired a public land transport to take me back to my estate.

I arrived in the twilight just after sunset. As I walked in the door I noticed Tim and Todd standing inside doorway to the great room. Tim and Todd were twins and two of the largest and most powerful field hands working on the estate. They were also two of the kindest, most gentle men I had ever met. It was good to be home. I walked over to them with a huge smile on my face.

“Hello Tim, hello Todd,” I said feeling truly happy to see them.

The expressions on their faces didn’t change as they said back to me in a monotone, “Hello Sir.”

Todd moved around behind me and wrapped his huge arms around me pinning my arms to my sides. Tim bent over and grabbed my ankles and lifted them off the ground. The two men carried me into the great room and Tim put my feet down.

Everyone was in the great room. All the men and women who ran my household, all my field hands, even Michael, Mildred, and Cedric were there.

Fran, one of my housemaids and one of my favorite people in the whole world, undid my belt buckle and pulled everything down to the floor leaving me naked from the waist down. Todd hoisted me off the floor and Fran kicked my clothes away. When Todd put me down, Fran grabbed my balls and sank her fingernails deep into the soft skin around them.

“Don’t cause any trouble Bob,” Fran said emotionlessly, “If you do I will rip your balls out and make you eat them.”

Todd let go of me and Tim and Todd together pulled the rest of my clothes off. Then they handcuffed my wrists behind my back. Todd made a loop in the end of a rope which he put around my neck. Tim threw the other end of the rope across a hook buried in the ceiling. Todd pulled on the rope until I was standing on the balls of my feet, then he tied the rope off. Fran looked up at me with a snarl. “It’s too bad you didn’t cause a problem, I would have enjoyed ripping out your balls.”

One by one, each of the girls working on the estate looked me over like I was something slimy and disgusting that had crawled out from the muck of a swamp. Then Mildred walked up to me and slapped me hard across my face. With each syllable she slapped me again. “You Should Be A-Shamed. How Dare You Touch Some One Who Is So Far A-Bove Your Sta-Tion That You Should Not Ev-En Dare To Look At Her. The Self Born Should On-Ly Be Hon-Ored, Re-Spec-Ted, And O-Beyed!”

Self Born I thought, “Celeste, are you here?”

Celeste sauntered in the room and smiled at me as Mildred went back to stand with the others. “I am so pleased you remember me,” Celeste said as her smile turned into a grin.

“Celeste, you gave your word that you would have nothing to do with me or mine ever again.”

“No, I gave my word that I would do as you ask. You only asked me to never harm you or those close to you.”

“And you don’t consider what you are doing to me harm?”

“No one is bleeding, no one is physically damaged. No, I don’t consider this harm.”

“What are you going to do with me Celeste?” My feet were getting tired and if I let my feet go fully down on the floor the rope would not let me breathe. I didn’t think Celeste would let me die, but it was a chance that I was not yet willing to take.

Tim loosened the rope so I could stand flat on my feet. Celeste looked me over. “You are an attractive man Bob, you should never wear clothes.”

“What are you going to do to me Celeste?” I repeated.

“To you I will do nothing. I am simply going to wake everyone up and let them really take a good look at you. Or perhaps I should just wake up Fran.” Fran slowly closed her eyes and when she opened them her eyes widened as she saw me. Fran fearfully looked around the room. Everyone in the room was looking at us emotionlessly.

Fran looked back at me. “Mr Nesslun, what’s wrong with everyone? What happened to you?” Celeste touched Fran on the shoulder and she jumped and turned around. “Who are you?”

“My name is Celeste and I have had Bob tied up because I want to see you have sex with him. Shall I have someone put him on the floor so you can ride him or would you like to give him a blow job while he stands up?”

Fran moved very close to me and put her hands on my chest. “I’m frightened Mr Nesslun. What should I do?” Fran asked me as she gently ran her fingers through the hair on my chest. Fran’s hands moved around to my back and started to caress my bottom. Then Fran jumped back. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.”

“Yes you did,” Celeste said matter of factly. “You’ve fantasized about having sex with Bob since the first day you were hired. Remember how disappointed you were when he didn’t have you strip naked when he interviewed you. Why don’t you strip naked for him now? If you don’t want to have sex with Bob I can find one of the other girls to do it. I choose you because Bob considers you the sexiest maid he has, but if you don’t want to…”

Fran turned to look at me and the thought of her undressing for me made my penis begin to grow. As Fran started to remove her clothes my penis went to full bloom. Fran had a very pretty face and her hair was always perfectly styled and looked soft and shiny. I was amazed how luscious her naked body was.

When Fran had removed her last item of clothing she grabbed me. Fran was kissing all over my face and my neck and my shoulders and her hands were caressing me everywhere else. She looked at Celeste. “Could you please have someone put Bob on the floor?”

Tim took the rope off my neck. Then Tim and Todd picked me up and laid me on the floor. Fran was feverishly rubbing her vagina. Then with a big smile on her face Fran rubbed some of the moisture that had collected on her fingertips under my nose. Then she began to gently caress my penis until it was again fully engorged. With a look of satisfaction on her face she opened her legs and began to ride me. When I ejaculated, Fran’s face lost all expression as she got off me and went over to stand naked with the other house maids who still had their clothes on.

Todd picked me up so I was back on my feet and put the rope around my neck. Tim tightened the rope so I was again forced to stand on the balls of my feet.

“Fran wasn’t really awake, you made her do that,” I said more to myself than to Celeste.

“No, I slowly removed Fran’s inhibitions, but she was doing what she wanted to do,” Celeste said with mock seriousness.

Celeste’s grin was back. “Now before I wake everyone up I believe I will take my evening blood meal.”

“Celeste you can’t. You said you would harm no one.”

“Bob I’m not fertile. The mouthful of blood I take when I am not fertile harms no one. I believe this woman’s blood would be interesting.” Mildred walked over to Celeste and bent over offering her neck. Celeste extended her fangs.

“Celeste no, please, I’m begging you.”

“You want to protect her even after she spent so much time slapping you?” Celeste said as her fangs retracted. Mildred straightened up and went back to stand with the others.

“I know Mildred was slapping me because you wanted her to, not because she wanted to.”

Celeste’s smile became bigger. “If you don’t want me to use Mildred for my blood meal, whose blood shall I take?”

“Take my blood Celeste.”

“It has been a very long time since I have taken the blood of a human whose mind wasn’t totally under my control or at least clouded. Can you let me take your blood without flinching?” Celeste said as she extended her fangs.

“Just take my blood Celeste, I won’t flinch.” Celeste’s clothes dissolved revealing a woman with the most perfectly formed, most beautiful body I had ever seen. With a mind of its own my penis went back to full bloom as Celeste caressed and squeezed it. Tim took the rope off my head and Celeste pulled my head down so my face was buried in her shiny, fragrant, night black hair. I ejaculated just as I felt Celeste’s fangs burying themselves in my neck. I thought I would die, but I didn’t.

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Celeste carefully removed her fangs from Bob’s neck. Bob didn’t whimper. Celeste liked that. When Celeste had frequently drawn blood from men who weren’t under her control they almost always whimpered.

Celeste took control of Bob’s mind as she had all the other human minds in the household. She took the images of all the things that had happened since Bob came home out of everyone’s mind except Bob’s. Celeste put Bob’s memory behind a hidden door in his mind, a hidden door which would dissolve at first light after the next sunset. Someday Celeste might want to play with Bob again and it would be more fun if he remembered this time.

Celeste had Bob’s handcuffs removed and then had Bob and Fran dress and repair their appearances. Celeste gave everyone appropriate memories and sent them to start the evening over just as the narcotic of Bob’s blood began to have its way with her.

As Celeste’s servants led her to her rest she realized that Bob’s blood was still delicious. It was too bad that she would almost certainly never taste his blood again. Mortals were so short lived. In a hundred years he would be dead and dust. To Celeste a hundred years was an eye blink..Celeste was tired of the table wine blood of the common man. She was off to the galaxy’s heart to sample the fine wine blood of the rich and the powerful and the nobility.

◊I stood in the total darkness just outside the ‘big house’ watching the lights that blazed from every window. This was the most beautiful building in the entire universe because it was home. I couldn’t remember why I had turned down Michael’s invitation to pick me up at the spaceport. I turned to look at the public land transport that had just dropped me off. It was already out of sight. I must have been standing here daydreaming longer than I thought. It didn’t matter. All that mattered was that I was home.

I slept through most of the next day and into the night. I woke up the next morning to my mind filling with the full memories of the night of my arrival. I ran to the maid’s quarters. They were empty. I ran to the kitchen. Cedric noticed me running and followed behind me. I dashed in the kitchen and came to a sudden stop in front of the table where all the maids were having breakfast. All six of them looked up at me, smiled, and said in unison, “Can we help you sir?” The girls looked at each other and started to laugh.

Fran recovered first. “I’m sorry sir. We didn’t mean to do that. Is there something wrong?”

“No I just thought it had been too long since I told you,” I slowly scanned the room and tried to catch every eye,” since I told all of you how happy I am that you are working for me and how grateful I am for your service.”

Everyone sitting stood up and my mind removed Fran’s clothing. I forced my mind to put her clothing back on. “Please sit down and finish your breakfasts. I just wanted to let you know that if there is anything troubling any of you, my door is always open.” Everyone looked at each other as I turned to leave the room. Cedric was standing right behind me with a questioning look on his face.

“Cedric, I am going for a very long run. Don’t expect me back till tonight.” I grabbed a shoulder carrier, filled it with hard bread, a block of cheese, and several bottles of wine. Then without looking back I raced out the door.

As I ran through Mildred’s garden, her dog Pepper saw me and decided to join me on my run. I welcomed the company. I was running with all my might as Pepper just loped along beside me.

I ran until I was totally exhausted. I made it half way up the mountain the stream runs out of that empties into my private lake. It took only a few moments to find an appropriate tree on a bluff overlooking the stream. I sat with my back against its trunk and shared my lunch with Pepper. The big gentle dog let me pet her until something caught her eyes in the bushes and she was gone.

I forced my mind back to what had happened with Celeste. As I had looked in everyone’s eyes at breakfast I only saw what I always saw, respect and maybe love. I realized that none of them remembered Celeste or what she had done to me.

I thought about Fran’s luscious body. Was I being a fool for not taking her to my bed? I thought about how delicious it would be to pull that first orgasm out of her. I wondered how my relationship with Fran would change if we really had sex. I wondered how my relationship would change with all the girls on the estate if I had sex with any of them.

It was so nice to be surrounded by pretty girls and not have there be any sexual tension. Fran was my favorite, but I really liked them all. I would give everyone working on my estate a raise. Cedric told me that I already had the most highly paid workers on any estate on Cocuru. I didn’t care. I had money coming out of my ears. If my workers shared some of the dangers of my life by working for me, they should share some of the wealth my life has brought me.

I thought about Fran’s lovely body. There are a great many lovely bodies in the galaxy. I had handled more than my fair share of them. It was the way that Fran looked at me that was special. That was rare. I didn’t want to take the chance that it would change if we had sex. My decision made, I went home.