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Tasha sat by his side, behind the glass, and took his hand. Riordan smiled when he noticed the protective gesture his friend made while touching his belly. They were both losing the slimness of their waist in favor of the round shape of their pregnancies. That reminded him of Lewis and his large belly, as well as his swollen asshole. A shiver moved through him. He was so fucked up.
"What it is?" Tasha asked.
"Do you feel like I do? Like the egg is the only thing that matters?"
"All the time. It's funny to see one of them behaving in the same loony way," Tasha replied. "Xer," he added at Riordan's questioning look.
"You know, Xana told me your boyfriend actually ratted on us all that time we were at the landfill."
"I'm not surprised. They do that thing, when they communicate with their brains. Apparently, it works over large distances, too. For all that's worth, I'm sorry."
"Ah, don't sweat it. I dragged you two into it, and your boyfriend even took Kyle out of the garbage for me. I can't ask for more, given their nature. By the way, have you heard them talking between them, like before?"
"Like in my dream that maybe wasn't a dream? No. But it keeps bugging me, you know? I mean, I felt tempted to tell Marn about it, and then, I don't know, I changed my mind. Wait, do you think someone's manipulating my mind?"
Riordan had done nothing to lead Tasha to that kind of conclusion. "I don't know, man. But maybe you should talk to Xer. Something tells me he's the one who might know something about it."
Tasha nodded, absent-mindedly, and then, they both turned their attention to what was happening behind the glass. A human male, a very pretty one, the kind Riordan had noticed to be everywhere as the favorite choice for Xenos, walked in, supported by his owner. He was all naked, but his large belly obscured the sight of his genitals, and he was moving with difficulty.
His owner helped him submerge into a transparent bath filled with a liquid that seemed like water, but it had to be seth. The bearer groaned and hiked up his legs, exposing not only his cock and balls, but also his ass. The snakeman accompanying him whispered something in his ear and then kissed him, while one of his hands moved between the bearer's legs and stroked his cock until he made him squirt.
After that, he put his hand lower and began to finger the entrance. The blond bearer was keeping his head hanging over the edge of the bath tub and was now softly panting.
"So far, so good," Riordan whispered to Tasha. "Why do they say that it hurts?"
Tasha shrugged. "I was warned, too. It might have something to do with how large the egg gets."
The bearer giving birth in front of them had an abnormally large belly, without a doubt. But it couldn't all of it be just the egg, right? He turned his attention to what was happening in front of his eyes. The bearer's body tensed and he spread his legs wider. At the same time, his ass was stretching, and there seemed to be something peeking out, the top of a creamy white shell.
"Wow, it looks like it's starting already," he commented.
"Xer cared to told me, after asking around, that, at first, bearers feel like they have the best sex ever. As the egg begins to move, not so much."
"That boy is really into this pregnancy stuff."
"You have no idea. Marn keeps scolding him to see about his studies, but he's constantly in my room, checking on the egg or fucking me." Tasha shook his head. "His father says that he's getting too attached, and I don't disagree."
"What about you? Are you getting attached, too?"
Tasha didn't reply. Instead, his eyes moved back to the bearer giving birth. Now, the snakeman had wrapped part of his tail around his human's abdomen, and it looked like he was doing that to help push the egg downwards.
The first scream pierced the air, taking them by surprise. Riordan first covered his ears, but quickly looked to understand what was going on. Now, the bearer's ass was stretched to the size of basketball, but still they couldn't see more than just the top of that creamy white shell. "What the hell?" he murmured. "That thing is huge." He watched with growing terror as the Xeno was helping out the human by holding his legs, and using his tail to push the egg down, but it looked like there was only this much stretching that body could do.
The snakeman kissed his bearer and fed him some seth. There were soft murmurs of pleading from the human, followed soon by another piercing scream.
"I think it's coming out," Tasha said and moved closer to the glass.
Riordan followed, just as fascinated by the whole thing as his friend. The pretty doll that must have chosen to become a bearer without realizing what it would mean to him, had his face wet with tears, and the Xeno was dripping seth directly on his tongue from the above. "Fuck, it looks like not even the seth can do it for him anymore. Why aren't they giving us C-sections again?"
"Because they don't want us cut and sewn back in, probably," Tasha replied and he was now glued to the glass wall, watching intently. "Marred prostitutes might not sell well."
"That's true. But what about those doing clerk work? It's not like that matters."
Both he and Tasha started when the bearer's body tensed again, overwhelmed by spasms. The egg appeared to be halfway through, but things didn't look too good for the bearer. The Xeno was kissing him, most probably giving him more seth, but he seemed unresponsive. Then, as if he was electrocuted, he convulsed again, and more of the egg emerged. The Xeno hurried to the side and put his hands into the bathwater. He was holding the egg, but there was still work for the bearer to do, it seemed. Riordan clenched his fists tightly. The warning was good, but wasn't Xana afraid that witnessing a thing like that would make him chicken? Not that he had anything to do even if he got scared. Anyway he looked at things, he was bound to go through the same pains as the bearer he was looking at.
"Poor thing," Tasha murmured. "Just look at him."
Riordan stared, too. He was drawn to that enlarged opening, incapable of tearing his eyes away. The snakeman wrapped his tail tightly around the human again, and this time, the egg finally slid down, right into the Xeno's hands. The human bearer seemed to be gone to the world, and his owner's attention was no longer on him.
He and Tasha watched as the snakeman lifted the egg, which was, indeed, an enormous thing. He looked like a proud father, Riordan thought, but the following moment, he gasped in disbelief as the Xeno dropped the egg from a considerable height, letting it crash against the granite floor. "What the fuck?" he shouted.
His shock was short-lived, because the egg burst open at one end and from it emerged a Xenolite. His father offered his arm and the Xenolite quickly wrapped around it.
"That must be their equivalent for slapping the baby's bottom to hear him cry," Tasha said.
The snakeman moved close to the glass and presented Riordan and Tasha his offspring. It all happened quickly, because the Xeno turned on his heel and left the room. The human bearer was still in the bathtub, looking as gone to the world, with no one around to tend to him.
"I'll be fucking damned," Riordan whispered. "What's going to happen to him?"
"Do you mean, the bearer? He's pretty enough for whoring, I suppose," Tasha said, seemingly just in shock as him.
"Is he never going to even see that baby he carried inside him?"
Tasha covered his eyes for a moment, and Riordan wondered if his friend was about to start crying. But the redhead appeared to have gotten his bearings back because he took Riordan's hand. "Let's get out of here."
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