"Oh, don't worry about her," Nakuma says. "She just gets a little turned on at the thought of you playing with others."

"What?" I say, my hands pausing around Mai's tail. "Nakuma."

"Yuka likes that you play with other women and often ignore her or are unable to do anything with her," Nakuma says, like that would clear a damn thing up. "Isn't that right, dear. You love that I take you instead of Alzi. The thought of me pinning you down as she breeds others gets you so wet. You love it. No wonder it took you so long to have your first time with Alzi. You didn't want it ever to happen. You loved the thought of Alzi taking it more than actually having her take it."

"Shut up!" Yuki says, blushing something crazy.

"You love that I'm playing with Mai's tail right now?" I ask.

Yuki squints at me, Nakuma deciding to stop whatever it is she was doing. "Yes," Yuki admits.

"You loved the thought of me getting ravaged just under you? You loved that I would get locked up and bred, and there wasn't a single thing you could do. You love that I have two pregnant lovers in this bed who I've brushed their tails," spills out. She really did let me stay in there, not for me to turn into some breeding stub but for sexual pleasure? Did she delude herself into helplessness from the pleasure she got?

"Yes."

"Then what was me fucking you in the ass about?" I ask, returning to Mai's tail. I can't ignore my pregnant wife for Yuki's strange desires. I guess I can take some small comfort in the fact that she didn't plan to build me into some breeding bull for her people.

"I don't think I deserve you, ok. I don't think I deserve love or anything. I'm useless. I spent nearly a century trying to woo a man, and I have nothing to show for it. I have the most fertile man in the world in this bed, and I won't even get pregnant. I can't get pregnant, it would be stupid for your safety. I can't promise my people that you'll have sex with them. I can't do my single fucking mission! My entire purpose I failed. I love how much it hurts to know the one I want is with someone else. I don't know why. I don't like it. I hate it, but it gets me."

"So," I start, daring to scratch Mai behind the ears. Please play along, Mai. "If I brushed everyone's tails but yours. You would get off on that?"

"Please don't," Yuki whispers. "Please, Alzi. It confuses me so much."

"We'll have to see," I say, giving Mai a little kiss for putting up with me. "Mai, do you want your blood now?" I do need to show my gratitude with more than a kiss. I shouldn't be using Mai like that.

"I may be flexible, but I can't have you grooming my tail and drinking your blood," Mai says. "I am pregnant."

"Oh, yeah," I say. "Um, maybe when I get more of your tail done, you and wrap around me? Or just wait till I get to Nakuma."

"I can wait a bit, dear," Mai says. "I believe you were in the middle of punishing Yuki."

"Mai."

"You earned this yourself," Mai says. "Take it. You enjoy it. Be happy you're still in this bed."

"So, you really do get turned on by the thought of me playing with other women?" I ask. "Knowing that every time I step into a temple, I may be out in the divine realm fucking some goddess? My seed is spreading far and wide while you're stuck playing with Nakuma. I'm brushing a long, soft tail that isn't yours—feeling every hair, gently untangling it till it's a masterpiece. My hands are working a bit of oil through it to soften it up. My mana is fixing the hair and helping them grow nice and strong. You love watching my belly grow, knowing it had nothing to do with you, that every night you got a massage from me and nothing more. You couldn't get more. That some random woman would walk in every day and join me in bed, and the best you could do is have me tease you a bit. Is that what got the Kitsune Princess off?"

"Yes Alzi. Yes."

"Maybe I'll take Calli right before bed," I say. "Have her right over you so you can watch her as I fuck her. Maybe I'll be kind and let you lick some of my cum from her pussy."

"Alzi, don't force others into Yuki's fantasy," Mai warns.

"Sorry," I say.

"I know you're used to sex being a forced activity. But that isn't true anymore," Mai says, happy to have a distraction from purring. I need to find a way to get her to relax again. "You have a choice, remember to only take that choice from those that have wronged you sufficiently in the past."

"Everyone else seems to think they can still force me to have sex. Even Yuki's Mother wants to force me to get them pregnant."

"Well, that is the pregnancy rule," Yuki says. "But you should be close to the quota for this year already. Getting a Goddess pregnant, several priestesses, a wife tomorrow, and who knows who you got pregnant at war should be enough. They shouldn't have much to complain about. Most likely, Mother will just ask you to get her eldest pregnant or promise to get me and Nakuma pregnant. Maybe she'll pick Miki so we aren't down a fighter in the upcoming war. Then, after that, anyone who complains can be ignored, I think, until next year. Then we have to figure out what is fair for everyone. But you'll have a lot of power by then to keep them from trampling you. Probably just get one from each queendom pregnant or something and call it a day if you keep getting your wives pregnant. You certainly have enough of them to do that. You could also ask the Goddess of Fertility to let more herms into the world. I would advise against trying to get more men. Fertility doesn't really like them much. Do that, and the world would lose all reason to pressure you into sex. That would solve all the problems for future generations."

"I think herms are rare right now because they look like her," I say.

"Look like her? Who?" Mai asks.

"Fertility. Fertility has both parts," I say. "I guess most of those that have both have some small connection to the Goddess, and maybe some deal limits her ability to create more of them? So I may have to ask the other Goddesses to let Fertility create more herms."

 Mai's tail just goes on and on. If her hair were like Yuki's, I think it would take all day to groom. Well, Yuki does have more length if you add all her tails together. But still, imagine how soft it would be, wrapping around me over and over. I can get Yuki's tail to be like that. Those were fun nights, working her tail till she had a little cloud attached to her back. I could never hug them for long; the Mistress needed her best women to have some sleep.

But tonight I have all the time to get them perfect and enjoy them as long as I get to them before morning. At least tomorrow, I get the enjoyment of seeing the Queen die. Then I have to deal with War and pick who will be around as one of Azula's bitches gets pregnant.

I'm nearing the end of Mai's long tail, and she wraps around to my back and takes a bite. Her sharp fangs gently break my skin and let her lap up my blood. It's a bit weird having her teeth inside, her tongue licking my neck so she can get the blood. I wonder if vampires normally pull their teeth out to feed. Has to be funny when they get a healer and find the wound gone when they go to lick up the blood.

It feels strangely nice. A good distraction from, however, I should think about Yuki's newfound reason for letting me stay in the brothel. Right now a belly ready to bring my kid into the world is pressing against my back, a woman I love holding me tight while I get to take care of her tail. A kind maid slept beside me. Yuki and Nakuma are a bit out of place with my confused feelings towards Yuki, and Nakuma seems more like a friend. But I still have the sensation of being surrounded by those I can call my friends.

Just Yuki, that could break that.

I swing from trusting her to a deep betrayal. The latest piece doesn't help. Just adds another reason to doubt her actions, letting my mood swing even faster. Could she really let someone she cared about suffer? She risked her life to get revenge for me and Mai. She didn't snap when I was mean to her at the end of my pregnancies. Did she really do nothing for me? I'm certain she stopped me from getting sold to anyone besides Princess Elora. But I did get sold, so maybe she really didn't have the same pull Elora had?

Just let her be a friend tonight, Alzi. Being happy is nice, and Yuki has no reason to do anything but help me now. If she fails, I can push to ignore the Kitsunes then. Her Mother would have to offer me a lot to fix it, and I know that women would extract the payment from Yuki. I would just have to imply the Queen can do as she needs around Yuki.

Just use kids to manipulate everyone. Even works for controlling me.

I relax into Mai, careful not to squash the little kitty and our kid. I've felt a contraction run through her body once already. I wonder if another will happen. I only had a few pregnancies where the kids were nice enough to warn Mommy about her impending labor. Maybe they all did, and I was just working too hard to notice. This time I'll get to relax somewhat. I doubt they'll let me out of the capital this time. Not after all the Queen has given me. The injured will have to travel to me. I can see if Space is willing to help them get here. That would be smart.

I can be smart when I get a chance to relax.

"Dear, the tip of my tail doesn't need that much focus," Mai says, done with her snack. "Your blood is so good. Better than I remember. Felt like I was drinking mana sometimes."

"Maybe cause I was letting out mana?"

"Could just be the life mana working with blood so well," Mai says. "Now, go get a kitsune. I'm going to snuggle with the maid. She looks quite soft."

"She is," I say. I turn around on the bed and am surprised by a third Kitsune lying on my bed.

"Hello?" I say. I'm not going to get any sleep tonight, and I'm going to love it.