RAHI & KENDA Rahi was a Greater Lupus, a humanoid lupine creature of a far distant planet. His race had formerly lived in the high mountains, off on the horizon from his small village. A few still did, but not very many. Now the Greater Lupine were plains dwellers. Rahi's race had gradually lost many of the survival instincts that the harsh mountains had bred into them. Now they considered themselves simply lowland dwellers. But Rahi had always been drawn to the mountains, although he wasn't sure quite why. He could remember looking up at them as a child and telling himself that one day he would go up there. He just wasn't sure when... The others in the village told Rahi to forget about the mountains. They were harsh and cold, they said. Rahi would never survive up there. And certainly Kenda wouldn't. Kenda was a female Greater Lupine. As were all females of the species, she was much smaller and slimmer than Rahi, the male. Where Rahi was over nine feet tall, heavily muscled, and covered with a thick coat of dark-grey fur, Kenda was small and slim, with a light silvery pelt that was not much protection against any kind of cold at all. In fact, it was a mystery to Rahi how Greater Lupine females had been able to survive in the mountains at all. Spring had come now to the land of the Greater Lupine, and Rahi felt the longing again, almost like nothing he'd ever felt before. He knew then that he HAD to go up to the mountains, or else he would never have peace. Rahi resolved to start immediately. Rahi bound up some supplies in a pack and headed on out of the village. As he hiked upward, walking toward the mountains on the far horizon, he heard a voice behind him. "You aren't thinking of going somewhere without me, are you?" Rahi turned. "Kenda?" It was Kenda. She was carying a similar bundle of provisions to that which Rahi had put together. "I'm coming with you." "Kenda, I--" He looked down. "You'd never survive in the mountains." "I wouldn't do that well anywhere else if you aren't there," Kenda retorted. "The other males of the village would be on me in an instant. You know you're the only thing keeping them away." She embraced him, and the tips of her breasts brushed against his skin. Rahi felt his resolve weakening. "Very well, I guess you can come," Rahi gave in. She'll turn back when she gets cold and tired anyway, he thought. And so together they trekked onward. They walked for many hours through the forests and plains toward the mountains, and slept, and walked some more. As they began to climb, the weather began to grow more and more chilly, and though Rahi was largely unaffected, Kenda began to have a harder time of it. As they walked, Rahi gazed surreptitiously at Kenda out of the corner of his eye. Her svelt figure often sent chills down his spine. He loved her, and was very possessive of her, it was true. He realized now that he couldn't leave her behind, he didn't want to send her back--but how could she make it in the mountains? It was with something closely akin to pride that Rahi watched Kenda's struggles against the rapidly-increasing cold. At last they stopped for the second night in a small forest clearing. The windblown pines offered some protection from the chill winds, but not much. "What do you say we make some body heat?" Rahi decided. "I'm all for that..." Kenda murmured, throwing her arms around Rahi and lifting herself up to his mouth. She planted a passionate kiss right on his muzzle, that nearly knocked him over. "Are you hungry, lover?" Even though that hadn't been what Rahi'd had in mind, he was more than happy to oblige her. "I think I am..." He let her bear him gently to the ground, where she lay on top of him and held him tight. Rahi reached up and ran his fingers along Kenda's jaw, and then kissed her passionately and deeply. She responded by embracing him tightly and rubbing up against him, emitting little moans of pleasure. Rahi reached down and massaged Kenda's breasts, which began to grow firmer as he continued to kiss her. He had made love to her before, but something seemed different about it this time...more urgent somehow, as if he HAD to make her his. So he was a little rough with her, but Kenda responded just like he'd hoped she would. They made love quickly and almost frantically, with little foreplay. Kenda reached down and grasped Rahi's throbbing cock, guided it into place between her legs, and slid down over it with a soft moan. Rahi kissed her, and nibbled at her neck, her arms, her muzzle...she tasted different somehow, exotic and more exciting. Soon Rahi came to his climax, and pleasure washed over him in waves as his organ shot its load. For her part, Kenda moaned in pleasure as she came to her own climax as her lover discharged deep within her...she looked up into his eyes and held him tightly. At that moment, something happened inside of Rahi that he did not understand. Old instincts came to light, and before he knew what was happening, tendons Rahi hadn't known he'd had stretched out, and his jaws opened wider than he'd ever known them to in his life. Kenda looked up, into Rahi's widely-open mouth, and something changed inside of her, too. She saw Rahi's wide pink tongue, and thought about how good it would feel to have that tongue playing over her breasts, her body...she put her arms around his shoulders and lifted herself up so that her upper chest was level with his mouth, and let him lick them a few times. It felt good...but not good enough...she HAD to feel that tongue pressed tightly up against her body. For his part, Rahi knew he had to have Kenda, to have her forever. To have her inside of him...and so, when she shoved her head up into his mouth, he didn't resist, but accepted it. "Ooooh..." Kenda moaned in pleasure, as that huge wide tongue slurped over her chin and neck. Why hadn't she seen it this wide before? Why hadn't she ever tried this? It felt good...but if she could just get into it a little farther... Rahi held Kenda close to him, and sucked on her head as he moved his mouth forward down over her neck. As her nose approached the back of his throat, he swallowed, letting his throat muscles clamp down on the front of her muzzle. He swallowed again, and opened his mouth wider, so that it would fit down over her upper chest. Kenda felt her breasts coming up into Rahi's mouth, and something warm moving up around her muzzle. The warmth felt good after the chill winds on her body, and she shoved herself forward, wanting more of it. And then both of her breasts came up over the rim of her lover's wide jawline, into contact with that rough yet warm tongue...it was a kind of stimulation that sent thrills of pleasure up and down her spine, and she rubbed herself against that tongue hard, as if she were trying to scrape her skin off on it. "Ooooooh," she moaned. What a wonderful feeling! She had to have more of it. And Rahi enjoyed the taste of Kenda on his tongue. Never before had he tasted so much of her...he'd limited himself to just a kiss or a nibble. But this...this was the whole thing passing over his tongue at once, and it was something he'd never even THOUGHT of doing before. He wondered why. Kenda put her arms down at her sides and wriggled forward now, her head and neck passing into Rahi's throat as her lower chest scraped past his teeth. Rahi was supporting her now with his hands on her hips, and she was bent over at the waist, going into his mouth. He swallowed again, hard, moving her upper chest and shoulders into his throat, distending it considerably. It was becoming a struggle, but one that only made it all the more worthwhile to complete. Rahi growled with the exertion, a sound coming from deep inside his throat whose vibrations Kenda was able to feel through the musculature around her. Kenda felt the hot, tight, moist flesh squeezing in all around her, pressing tightly against her head, neck, and breasts...her moaning intensified as her struggle to get inside aided her lovers struggle to get her there. He swallowed again and again, moving Kenda deeper, inch by inch, into his throat. As Kenda's waist came up over Rahi's jawline, the tip of Rahi's tongue worked at it, probed at her womanhood, tasting the pungent residues of his desires there. Kenda squealed and kicked slightly, and wriggled forward deeper. Rahi growled and swallowed again. Never before had a meal felt like this. Kenda's arms were pinned to her sides as she slid downward through the hot, tight, moist blackness of Rahi's throat. She'd forgotten almost everything but that all-consuming warmth that was a welcome relief from the cold winds outside. She had to get into it now. And Rahi wanted her inside of him--he had to let her. Rahi continued to swallow as Kenda's knees, then her ankles passed into his mouth. Just a little bit more...her head was now beginning to slide out into an open space at the end of her lover's throat...she wriggled forward, wanting to get through and out. "Yes...please..." she murmured. And Rahi was happy to oblige. He swallowed again, and closed his mouth. Now her feet were in his mouth, and with a couple more gulps, they too had disappeared down his throat. Sated and satisfied, Rahi curled up under a tree and went to sleep. Kenda gradually pulled herself out of Rahi's throat and emerged into his stomach. It was quite damp, and as she emerged, it grew damper still. Rahi's digestive fluids filled the area, and Kenda went to sleep inside what felt like a warm, refreshing bath... When Kenda woke up, she didn't know where she was. It was warm and moist and dark all around her...the warmth surrounded her, all over her, and she was curled up inside something that conformed to her very contour. "Mmmph..." she mumbled. And then the memories of what had happened last night returned somewhat foggily. She and Rahi had made love...they'd kissed...and she'd crawled up inside his mouth and... "Oh no!" Kenda murmured. She whimpered and struggled, pushing against the stomach wall. It gave slightly, but remained firm. After a while she stopped struggling and just lay there, whimpering. "I don't want to be digested! I don't want to die!" And then she noticed that, though she had been there for she didn't know how long, and was surrounded by warm fluid, she felt no pain, nor did she seem to be dissolving. "I'm not being digested?" she murmured. "I don't understand..." Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, however, Kenda relaxed. Soon she felt the larger body around her begin to stir, as Rahi woke up. She lay there, feeling Rahi's balance shift as he stood. "What is he thinking?" she wondered. "Does he know where I went?" Rahi looked around. "Where did she go?" he wondered. "Kenda? Kenda!" There was no response. "I guess she decided not to come with me after all and left while I was sleeping." He shrugged. "Oh, well. It doesn't matter." He stood, gathered his things, and began once more to trek up the hill. It was a little harder now--he felt heavier, moved more slowly--but he attributed this to the thinning air as he climbed higher. Meanwhile, Kenda dozed inside his stomach, savoring the warmth and softness all around her. And glands just beneath her skin began to release a special hormone, which reacted with Rahi's digestive fluids to produce a chemical that began to work certain changes to Rahi's metabolism... The journey continued. Along the way, Rahi began to get hungry, very hungry. And somehow, the rations he'd brought just didn't seem...appetizing, anymore. He needed to...to hunt. Yes...that sounded very good... Even though Rahi'd never hunted in the wilds before, before long he discovered that he knew exactly how to do it. Old instincts were beginning to reassert themselves, and it wasn't long before he had killed and hungrily devoured three of the snow rabbits native to these mountains. It was twice what he would normally have eaten, but he felt even hungrier than usual today. Inside of Rahi, Kenda noticed the meat as it slid out of his throat into his stomach. She ate her fill and let the rest dissolve away into the fluids that circulated inside of Rahi's stomach. She drifted off to sleep again, in the warmth and fullness. Some time later, evening began to fall. Up in the mountains the cold of night could be deadly, and Rahi began to look for shelter. It wasn't long before he found a likely-looking spot, a cave whose mouth was sheltered from the wind by the lee of some overhanging rocks. It was the work of a few short minutes to get a fire going. As Rahi lay by the fire, Kenda felt the change in his position and knew he must be lying down. She wanted so much to embrace him, to hold him and kiss him and let him make love to her. But how could she when she was in here? Experimentally, she reached up and pushed against the sphincter leading to Rahi's throat. To her surprise, it gave. Not one to pass up an opportunity, Kenda shouldered her way up through it and began wriggling her way up through Rahi's throat. Rahi, meanwhile, was not oblivious to this. He felt something forcing its way up and gagged as the vomit reflex caused his stomach to thrust upward. Wondering if something he'd eaten earlier was now violently disagreeing with him, he lay on his side, gasping for breath as his throat expanded to allow whatever was coming up to do so. Kenda fought for breath as Rahi's throat musculature squeezed in on her from every side. "This was a lot easier coming in," she thought. At last her nose poked up out of Rahi's throat, into the back of his mouth. Shortly thereafter, more of her muzzle followed, up to her eyes. At this point she stopped for a moment, to catch her breath, and then her tongue reached out and licked Rahi's. Rahi was, to say the least, startled to taste another tongue licking his, from the inside of his mouth. "Whah?" he tried to say, but couldn't quite since his mouth was full. He settled for exploring with his tongue and trying to figure out the shape of whatever was coming out. "When you say you're hungry, lover, you're not kidding," Kenda said. "Kenda?!" Rahi managed. "That's right...Now, if you don't mind, why don't you help me get out of here?" She wriggled forward a little more, gradually getting her head and shoulders up into Rahi's mouth, and pulling her hands out of his throat to brace herself with. As her breasts passed over his tongue, she couldn't resist pausing for just a moment to rest them there, rub them back and forth a little until they hardened, and Rahi felt a part of himself getting hard at the same time from the taste and sensation of his lover so close to him. At last she pulled her legs completely out of Rahi's throat with a wet pop, and got to her feet. She stood before him, glistening wetly in the firelight from the digestive fluids and saliva that still coated her fur. Rahi scrambled to his own feet. "I--I don't understand. What happened, and how could I--how could I--" He trailed off, trying to remember. They'd made love furiously...in the heat of passion...and he'd...he'd... He did have some vague recollections now that he thought about it...his jaws opening wider than he could ever remember...Kenda resting her head on his tongue and... "You were hungry," Kenda replied. "And I can't say that I was all that reluctant myself...or that I'm any the worse for the experience. In fact..." She moved closer to him, placed her arms around him. "...it was kind of fun. After all, not many lovers can get THAT close, now can they?" "But how...why..." Rahi began. "Aren't I digested?" Kenda replied. "I don't know...but I do know that I'm here, alive, and in good condition..." She rubbed up against him. "Why don't we make some more body heat?" Rahi was too taken aback to protest, and soon they were in the throes of passion. Kenda kissed her mate passionately as he stroked her breasts. Their legs intertwined and they were locked together. Rahi shot his seed into Kenda, and at last they parted. This coupling had not been as frantic, as urgent as the last one. Somehow, this time, they had less need to mate and more need to touch each other, simply to feel that the other existed. Rahi was still having difficulty believing what he'd done. His mate, his beloved, the person he least wanted to hurt in all the world...and he'd eaten her. The very idea made him slightly nauseous just thinking about it. Kenda, on the other hand, was glad to be outside of her lover once more, to breathe the fresh air, but she was beginning to feel somewhat cold. After thinking about it, she had come to a conclusion--somehow, she was MEANT to be eaten by Rahi, to be swallowed down into his stomach and stay there except for rare occasions such as this. It had to be a survival instinct of some sort, she reflected. The female was the weak link, but if she was protected--kept inside of the male where it was warm and safe, nothing could get to her, and she could have all the food she needed or desired-- then the Greater Lupine would be able to multiply. Kenda went back around the fire to where Rahi was sitting. "Rahi," she said. "You're going to have to eat me again..." "But--" Rahi said. "I can't do that! Just thinking about it--" "It's something you have to do," Kenda said. "In the cold out there, I can't survive. The only way for me to live with you is to live inside of you." "But to...to EAT you--" Rahi stammered. "I LOVE you." "Come on, please..." Kenda pleaded. "It's the only way I can survive the cold. Besides..." she patted his chest "it's really comfortable in there." She pushed herself up against his chest and pulled down on his jaw, and once again the survival instinct kicked in. Rahi's mouth opened to its normal width, then still wider, and Kenda grinned. "Lift me up, lover. This time I want to go in feet first." Kenda turned around so that she was standing in front of Rahi, facing away from him. When she looked over his shoulder and caught his eye, he had very little choice but to acquiesce. His powerful arms raised Rahi into the air overhead, so that her legs were dangling down in front of his face. Kenda moved the legs so that her feet were in his mouth. "Now just let me down so gravity can do the rest." Kenda slid down into Rahi's throat. Even with his trepidation, Rahi had to admit that Kenda was still one of the best things he'd ever tasted, and it was hard for him to stop from just gulping her down. Kenda sensed his hesitation, however. "C'mon, lover...don't hold back. You know I want it..." Rahi could hold out no longer. He began to swallow rapidly, almost desperately, and the hot, moist flesh moved up around her. Kenda almost purred with pleasure as she felt herself being enveloped...she didn't know why, but it was a kind of ecstasy she'd never felt before--like an orgasm all over her body. The light died away, and she settled back into Korros's stomach once more, safe and warm inside the body of her lover. Korros sighed, and relaxed again by the fire. Guess I'm alone again, he thought. <> Kenda's voice said inside his mind. <> <> Rahi thought in amazement. <> <> Kenda replied. <> She poked at the side of his stomach. <> <> Rahi thought. <> He trailed off. <> As Kenda drifted off, Rahi sat by the fire, his hand on his stomach. Well, at least the question of how the female Greater Lupines survived had been answered. And as he sat there, feeling the gentle movements of his lover inside his stomach, he had to admit that maybe it wasn't all that bad after all. Now that he knew how Kenda would survive, Rahi could continue on to the mountains. The future looked brighter than ever, especially since Kenda would be around to share in it. THE END