Word of the sex toys spread like wildfire once we got to the village. I ended up promising them each a simple vibe in exchange for letting me run the scan. They still would have helped, but this was such a small favor that I didn't mind spreading a little joy.

I had to pace myself because of my body's condition, and was basically eating the whole time that 'Elle' dealt with the villagers. She got very good at dodging roaming hands, and Amelia got a kick out of watching her blush and go all embarrassed anytime she was propsitioned.

It's mid-afternoon, and there's only a dozen or so women left to scan when the emergency alert on Kacey's bracelet goes off. "Kacey's in trouble." I shout before throwing myself into the sky, dropping my Avatar and pushing everything I have into speed. I reach Newlake before the women in the village even have time to react to my departure.

Wrenching myself to a stop before I slam into the ground, I instantly spot Kacey curled up in a ball on the outskirts of town while two teenage boys pound on her protective shield.

"Come on out Kacey, we just want to play." The scum on the left says with an evil smirk. "You know you want to play too, otherwise you wouldn't have come back to town."

She just wails for them to leave her alone, and it takes every fiber of my being not to just incinerate the bastards on the spot.

"Hey, boys." I call out in a sing-song voice. "Why don't you play with me? Oh, that's right!" I snap my fingers and two blobs of Sap shoot down their throats. "You won't be able to 'play' with anyone ever again." I knock them out before they can realize what's happened to them.

Calling Elle back out, I drag the attempted rapists away before sending her in to comfort the girl.

"Shh, they can't hurt you now." Elle gets close, but doesn't touch her for fear of panicking the girl. "You're safe now." Her voice seems to be getting through to Kacey when a furious roar fills the air. ""Oh, for fucks sake Gwynne."" I curse with both mouths.

Surprisingly this seems to help Kacey snap out of it, and she clings to Elle while I fly up to face a pissed off dragon, again. I'm not taking any chances this time, so while she's still a kilometer away. I set off a magical flash-bang in her face right before hitting her with a giant boulder.

"Calm the fuck down Gwynne!" I amplify my voice so that it sounds like I'm shouting right into her ear. "She's safe! So, chill the fuck out!" I hit her with liquid nitrogen, and this finally seems to snap her out of her rage.

"Holy fuck! That is cold." She says after shifting back into a shivering human less than a hundred meters away.

"You really need to get that shit under control." I take out some of my nerves on the dragoness. "I do not want to be the one that has to kill you."

"S-sorry." She ducks her eyes and blushes.

'Oh great, this again.' I do everything I can not to groan, at her messed up instincts. "Whatever. Let's just go take care of Kacey."

We land and Gwynne rushes over to the girl. "I'm alright." Kacey says as the dragon pulls her into a hug. "She... He... They saved me." Guess she is a little confused about Elle, after all. "A big bubble kept the boys away when they tried to rip the bracelet off. Fucking bastards used to be my friends." She sniffs and buries her head into Gwynne's shoulder.

"You didn't say the enchantments had built in protection." Gwynne looks at me.

"Did you even read the diagram?" I laugh and shake my head when a chagrined look crosses her face. "Everything was even labeled clearly incase you didn't understand."

Kacey starts shaking and I think she's started crying again, right up until a bunch of giggles escapes from her lips. Unfortunately her laughter only lasts until she spots the scum that tried to rape her laying on the ground on the other end of the street.

"Are they..." She trails off.

"Don't make me douse you again." I warn Gwynne when she starts growling. "They live, but their manhood will never work again, they won't even be able to feel anything from it."

"I would've just eaten them, but I suppose that works." The dragon snorts. "Now, let's get you back home girl." She lifts Kacey into her arms with a squeak and flies off for the village.

I just roll my eyes and have Elle hop into mine before following them. But, not until after I leave a little message for the scum to find. 'Death by dragon is too good for you, pay for your crimes with your manhood.' Is what's now written in the air above their waists, the spell should only run out of juice in about a month or so.

Swiftly catching up to Gwynne and her passenger, I notice that she's kinda slow in her human form. "Do you need me to carry her for you?" Elle flies out of my arms and taunts the dragon.

"Shut up." She huffs making us laugh. "I'm not used to flying without wings." At the pace she's going, we might as well just land and walk.

I'm impatient though, so Elle scoops Kacey into her arms, and I do the same for Gwynne. This time she's the one to squeel. Two minutes later and I deposit a pair of blushing girls back in the hidden village.

Amelia definitely notices their state, but her initial flare of jealousy is quickly replaced by a flash of heat and a wicked grin as Apricot whispers something into her ear.

Kacey is soon surrounded by concerned women, they don't ask her anything, just support her and let her know that she's home. Amelia and Apricot pull me into a hug as soon as I get close enough. They do ask questions, and hug me tighter when I give the answers.

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We took a small break from the scans after that and, at Amelia's prompting, I sent Elle over with enough chocolates for everyone. Nobody even tried to grope her when she handed them out, such was their mood. After her task was done she withdrew, leaving the women to their shared pain.

Gwynne followed after her, and sat down across from us. "I fucking hate this." She lets out a defeated sigh. "They always sneak off, never more than once, but they all do it, and it's always like this afterwards. Not Kacey though, she always listened to everyone's warnings and never wandered from the village." Tears stream down her face. "I thought that with your Runes she'd be okay, but now I don't think even curing them will be enough. Their existence is an open secret in and around Newlake, and..." She trails off there, afraid to voice her fears.

"I can't make scum not be scum." I say in a tightly controlled voice. "But, I can give you, and all of them a new start in Arcadia." I project a map of the grasslands. "Pick anywhere you like, and I will make you a new town along with anything and everything you might need."

"Sorrel." Amelia wipes away the tear that leaks down my cheek, but doesn't say anything more.

"I don't know how else to help." I tell her while kissing the tear from her finger. "I'll do everything I can to fix them, but Kacey wasn't home for an entire day before this happened, and the rest didn't even stay that long because they couldn't stand the looks."

Gwynne wipes away her tears and nods to me. "That may be for the best, let me go talk to them about it." The idea meets with general approval; these women are mostly decades, or even centuries older than their youthful appearance would lead one to believe. They generally cut off contact once they notice that they've stopped aging, and their loved one's haven't.

There is some argument, but it's mostly about what might happen to other girls like Denna in the future. Gwynne says they can leave some bracelets with Cynda, and she'll fly up regularly. They don't seem very convinced, so I send Elle over to explain about phones, and how they'll be able to talk to the townsfolk whenever they want.

That seems to have decided the last of them, and the talk shifts to where they should settle. They gather around the projected map, and start grumbling about grasslands which just makes me and the girls laugh.

"Ladies." Amelia talks over them. "My husband named Arcadia after a far away province that was so famed for it's beauty that the very word became synonymous with paradise. He wishes to put that Arcadia to shame, and I fully believe that he will. But, don't take my word for it, just have a look at some of his ideas." She nods to me and I take over.

"Arcadia is my garden, I invite you to help me shape it." I start projecting image after image of my ideas and plans for Arcadia. "I quite literally have too many ideas to choose from, mostly because I wish to incorporate them all in one way or another."

They seem a bit overwhelmed by it all, so I fade the images away and replace them with a hologram of this village and its surrounding woods. "But, there is something to be said for what's familiar. Why don't I start by recreaing your woods? I can then upgrade your village and homes however you like."

""When can we go?"" A couple of them ask in sync before laughing.

"As soon as you all agree on where you want to live." Gwynne answers for me. "My vote is for somewhere near the sea, but I can always fly off when I want a dip. Now that you're able to be around men again, you should probably pick something near Riverton or the dungeon, so you can slowly get re-acclimated to them."

I know it won't help them narrow down their choices, but I have to add. "I can also offer high speed vehicles for you to use. So, wherever you choose to settle, it won't take you much longer to reach civilization than it would to walk to town from here." I pause for a moment before offering one more option. "And, I have been wanting to build a flying island, so you could move your village around wherever you wanted."

"Hah!" Gwynne laughs at their dumbstruck looks. "I think you're going to have trouble getting anyone without wings to pick that option."

"Maybe you can put out word that you're looking for Birdkin to join Arcadia." Amelia says to my frustrated look.

"Mhm." I shrug non-commitally before addressing the crowd. "Alright, let's get the last of the scans done while you all decide, and then maybe you can work with some of the more artistically minded to come up with some ideas for the new village while I glean what I can from Gwynne."

"My body is yours." She says with a purr before blushing crimson when the women all start giggling. "Stupid draconic side." She says before stomping off into the woods.

"I told you that thinking of it as separate from yourself is what's causing your issues." I call after Gwynne while Elle starts scanning the women.

Meanwhile Apricot is talking softly to Amelia. "I know you just want me to be happy, but I'm not going to be happy if you push yourself into doing something that you don't want to."

"..." Amelia doesn't answer, just stares at the back of the retreating dragon.

"You want her, yes? Even if just for a good hate-fuck?" I say while wrapping my vines around my wife. "But, you don't want her to have me, right? So, don't let her have me, just take her for yourself." I can feel her stiffen under me as I speak.

"I can't." She takes in a shuddering breath. "How could I do that to you?"

"Oh, baby." I just hug her and stroke her hair. "If it makes you feel better, I really do want to watch." I chuckle when she swats me weakly on my good arm. "Just imagine how frustrated she'll get, knowing that I'm right there, but she's not allowed even a touch." A different kind of shudder runs through her when I whisper that into her ear. "But, like Apricot said, we don't have to do anything you don't want to."

"You'd really be okay with just watching?" She can't bring herself to look me in the eyes while asking that.

"Look, this is a big change to our relationship." I tell her seriously. "So, I can't say what my exact reaction will be until I actually see another person in your arms. But, I think as long as it's just sex, I'll be okay with it. And hey, I can always just play with myself while you turn that dragon out." I glance over at Elle who winks at Amelia when she looks up.

"Snerk." She tries holding back a laugh, only for it to erupt out her nose. "Okay. We can try this." She blushes. "But, you really need to quit pushing those draconic buttons of hers."

"That may be a little difficult." I hedge. "I'm probably going to have to push them all, and then some, in order to make her accept that side of herself. But, hopefully they won't be an issue afterwards."

"Nnh, fine." She sighs. "If you can watch me fuck her, I can watch you tease her."

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