And where was Mother during this time where I was showing off, growing a volcano on her island, and burning the forest to cinders? She was calmly sitting out at the practice field, watching the fireworks and sipping on a cup of tea while everyone else ran around and acted crazy.

Sometimes, I think her “I let my child have the freedom to walk his own path” philosophy might be just a little too lax!

Let me tell you, I learned one very important thing that morning – it’s much easier to start a volcano than it is to stop one!

Making a volcano is as simple as punching a hole into the ground, releasing some heat and pressure, and letting the world do what it does naturally. Stopping one involves trying to seal the pressure – while it’s being released – and to seal it strong enough to contain it. Imagine punching a nail into a propane tank – that’s easy enough to do. Now imagine trying to put a bandage over that hole while the air is leaking out. That’s not quite as easy to do. Now, imagine trying to put a bandage over that hole while the air leaking out is flaming, falling around you, and everything is burning!!

If you can imagine that, then you can imagine the morning I had – all while mother sat and calmly drank tea on the practice field.

By the time I’d sealed the volcano and cooled all the stray magma, I was mana-drained and exhausted. My knees were weak, and if De’Nara wouldn’t have been there for me to lean against, I don’t think I could’ve remained standing – much less stagger back home. De’Nara never said a word the whole way back, and I was too tired to ask what was on her mind. Since my room was still more-or-less destroyed, she led me to her chambers and I passed out on her bed the moment I flopped on it.

I awoke the next morning to the sound of laughter. Looking around, both De’Nara and Le’Nara were in the room and they were comparing their respective gifts. There was a lot of ‘mine’s better’ and ‘nuh uh, mine is’, so I tried to stay asleep for the rest of my life. Unfortunately, women won’t allow something like that to happen.

Le’Nara finally bounced over, hopped half across the bed and kissed me soundly. “Hey Mik! Mik! Mike! Mikey! Mikey-Mik! Yoo Hoo!!” She straddled my chest and started to rub her bottom back and forth against mine while she kissed up and down my cheek and neck. My damn man part betrayed me and stood firmly erect, at which point she giggled lightly and hopped up off the bed.

“Good! You’re awake now!” Le’Nara laughed lightly and even De’Nara chuckled at seeing my flagpole at full mast.

“Yeah. I’m awake.” I tried to act all nonchalant about the whole thing. “Whatcha need Lee?”

“We wanted to know something. Which one of us do you love more? Me or Dee?” Le’Nara giggled lightly, and my heart cringed. What type of question is something like that to ask a guy?!

“Umm…” My mind raced for an acceptable answer and I couldn’t find any. How can someone answer a question like that?

“Uhh… I guess I’ll love whoever sits in my lap first this morning, the most for now.” I tried to make a joke to give me time to think of a better answer, but Le’Nara squealed, leaped upon the bed and straddled me in one swift motion, and then sat down firmly in an instant. My erect member was deep inside her womanhood, and my mind went blank at the sudden feeling that rushed up my groin and through my hips.

“Ha!” She turned and stuck her tongue out at De’Nara, and I moaned feeling her body shift around my member as she twisted. “He loves me more, sis! He might be your champion, but he was my partner first!”

I didn’t know what exactly the two of them were arguing over this early in the morning, and honestly, at the moment, I didn’t care. If Le’Nara was going to wiggle around while sitting on my erection, I wasn’t going to pay a lot of attention to other matters. I may have mother’s magic in me, but I was my father’s son also, and there was that part of my father‘s genes in her right now. With a grunt, I grabbed Le’Nara by the shoulders, pulled her down fully upon me, and then rolled over so I was on top.

She was the second love of my life and was the second woman I ever made love to.

All while De’Nara simply sat in the chair at her dresser and watched!

When Le’Nara and I finished our romp together – and it really didn’t take me long since I was still tired from overusing my magic earlier – I rolled off her and she snuggled up to one arm and laid her head on my chest. Much to my surprise, De’Nara then climbed up into the bed and snuggled to my other side and laid her head on my chest also. I wrapped my arms around them both and wondered about just how damn strange this new world was in some things. I couldn’t imagine two sisters snuggling with the same guy back on Earth! There’d be bloodshed involved!

“Is… Is this really OK?” I asked the both of them.

“Is what OK?” Dee asked while Lee just nodded and made a little “Uh huh” type sound.

“Me. Being here, with both of you. You two aren’t going to ax murder me later or neuter me or something are you?”

De’Nara leaned up and kissed me lightly across the lips before laughing slightly. Le’Nara was simply relaxing and looked like she might be going off to sleep. I wonder how long she’d been here and kept watch over me last night while I slept?

“It’s fine,” De’Nara told me. “Why should I object to you and sis having a moment of passion together? I’m already married if you remember. Can I really object to my lover on the side, having a lover on the side?”

“Umm…” I’ve learned that women can object to anything they feel like objecting to – whether the standards are equal or not. Just because she could have a lover on the side, that didn’t mean a woman would accept her lover having another! At least, not on Earth it didn’t.

Seeing my doubting expression, De’Nara simply laughed and then leaned up and kissed me again. “Perhaps it’s simply a trait of the royal family of Andor, but it truly doesn’t bother me at all. From an early age, I knew that I was likely going to be married off and having children for a man I didn’t care for. My family would find me a husband for political reasons; not love. I would neither love him; nor would he love me. We’d simply do the duties that we were expected to do for the betterment of our nations and families.

“I knew the chances were great that the man I married would have dozens of maids share his bed. Perhaps even several mistresses or concubines. Our land passes rulership down amongst the female bloodline for a reason – males can simply procreate with too many females and muddle the inheritance process – so I’ve always known my ‘mate’ would be unfaithful.

“And, as such, it doesn’t bother me at all to see you with another. The fact that it’s my sister you’re with does nothing to harden my heart. I love you both, and I’m simply glad that you’ve found a partner to share your hearts with. What is there to be jealous over?

“Jealously is for the common classes,” De’Nara told me while nibbling lightly on my ear. “When the fate of a nation could be on the line, one learns not to indulge such feelings. Enjoy my sister as much as you want. In fact, if you want her, I could have her married to you. Or even shackled and made yours as a slave, if you wished. Mother wouldn’t object; it simply being a tie which would draw the House of Andor and the House of Dancing Flames closer together.”

For a few moments, I let myself indulge in the fantasy of Le’Nara being shackled and being my slave to teach and train – and then I shook my head and dismissed the thought. With her aversion to authority, that’d probably be the worst thing possible. If someone were to make Le’Nara their slave, she’d end up being the one to break and train them in the long run, I think!

“I think I’ll pass,” I told her honestly. I wasn’t prepared for marriage, and the idea of Le’Nara even being anyone’s slave was just preposterous. I could imagine falling whoever tried to enslave her falling out a window and then bouncing repeatedly like a rocket-powered basketball. “We’re partners, and you don’t try to shackle your partner.”

De’Nara just nodded slightly as she leaned and nibbled on my chest gently. “And, are you still my Champion?”

“I am,” I told her simply.

“Then there’s no problem. You’re my Champion. Her partner. We both desire the warmth of your embrace, and neither of us was raised or allowed to be singularly possessive. Quit worrying, silly boy, and enjoy while you can.

“Life will see us walking separate roads soon enough.”

She’s right. Life will see us walking separate roads soon. De’Nara and Le’Nara are both going to be traveling to the kingdom of Andor, and my destination is the school in Gondor. Fate will pull us apart soon enough.

But for today, we ended up all entangled together many times…