Lolo pushed the door to his apartment closed with his hips on account of the pile of mail he carried in his arms. The blue shifter had little doubt that most of it was junk, but there was an actual package there, and junk mail didn't typically come in cubic cardboard boxes.

He carried the mail back to his kitchen and spilled it out on the counter, pulling a pair of scissors from a drawer to get into the box first. He wasn't expecting any packages, but it had the right name and address on it, so it had to be for him. With a few deft cuts through the packaging tape, he opened up the flaps on the top of the box and looked inside.

Whatever was in there was thoroughly covered by Styrofoam packing peanuts, but there was a folded letter on top of it. Lolo picked up the paper and unfolded it as his other hand adjusted his glasses before reaching over to dig around inside of the box.

He raised an eyebrow incredulously, and he scanned the words on the paper a second time. "Merry Christmas, from, Secret Santa?" he read aloud. There were numerous problems with this: firstly, it was the middle of July, which was why he was wearing a bright green t-shirt and a pair of jeans. And secondly, Lolo had never entered into any Secret Santa groups, at least not intentionally. And lastly, though his address on the box was correct, there was no return address at all.

His fingers came into contact with something hard and smooth under the packing peanuts. Setting the letter aside, he put both hands to work carefully tugging it out; it was some sort of a glass orb, and a heavy one at that. But as he lifted it out completely, it became obvious that it was actually a snowglobe, depicting a quaint scene on a mountainside, complete with a little waterfall that led into a river. As Lolo turned the globe in his hands delicately, holding onto the heavy base, the way the paint had been done made the light reflect such that it looked as though the water was actually moving.

Next to the river was a humble log cabin, complete with a tiny little wooden chair out on its deck. Curiously, in front of the cabin and sticking out from the ground was a large, blue-green crystal, with eight smoothly-polished sides and a pointed top. It seemed a bit out of place, and Lolo inspected it more closely – it seemed to be glowing softly, a light pulsating within it. Annoyingly enough, it also had a large crack running down one side of it, and Lolo frowned; it was a pity that it had still somehow managed to get damaged in transit.

Lolo emptied out the box and dug around inside, but it held nothing else beyond more Styrofoam pieces. "Weird." he muttered aloud, gently picking up the snowglobe again and giving it a good shake.

The little plastic bits of 'snow' on the bottom of the globe were thrown to the top of the glass orb and began to fall down gently inside. The crack in the crystal aside, it was a very pretty sight, though certainly unexpected.

Movement caught his eye. Was there something near the waterfall? Lolo picked up the snowglobe and looked at it closely. He could have sworn he saw movement close to the waterfall, but try as he might, he couldn't make out anything despite a closer inspection. He pressed the glass sphere up against his face...

...or at least, he tried to, but instead his hands just kept going. He felt weightless, and the weight in his palms disappeared as all the sounds of his apartment became more and more distant, until they were gone entirely. He looked around, but everything was white, except for the scene inside the snowglobe that seemed to be getting bigger and more detailed and a lot more lifelike.

Suddenly, gravity re-exerted its hold on him as the ground suddenly got a lot closer. Lolo was sent sprawling to the ground, but thankfully suffered nothing worse than grass stains on his jeans.

Slowly, he got to his feet. He was unmistakably inside of the snowglobe; the nearby crystal jutting from the ground told him as much, the crack looking much worse up close. It looked like a diagonal lightning bolt, with a thick central break and many smaller cracks shooting off from it. The log cabin nearby and the waterfall off in the distance, exactly where they had been in the snowglobe, served as further confirmation. Most importantly, however, was that he could see a point where the ground seemed to just end abruptly, presumably where the edges of the glass were. It was lightly snowing, to top it off, but thankfully it hadn't started to build up or stick yet, and it was oddly temperate outside.

Lolo glanced upward, trying to gauge the time, but strangely enough there was no sun – just a completely clear sky. More worryingly, there didn't seem to be any particularly obvious way out; he'd hoped there might have been a glowing door or something to let him leave. If there was any such exit, he would have to go exploring for it.

Remembering what he had seen right before getting pulled in, Lolo started to walk towards the waterfall, keeping his eyes out for any more movement. He arrived at the base of the falls without seeing anything out of the ordinary, however, and took a moment to take in the impressive sight and sound of the roaring waterfall before him. He reached into his pocket, but while his clothes seemed to have come along with him for the ride, all his other possessions had been left behind.

Curiosity kept him moving soon enough, and he peeked behind the waterfall. There wasn't anything behind it, much to his dismay, but as he turned around and prepared to head back, he saw a small cave entrance nearby that had been hidden from view by a tall shrub on his way in.  

A smirk crossed his face, and he made his way towards it, carefully navigating through the clinging plants that obstructed his path. As he got close, it became clear that there was something inside the cave of note – something glowing, too, as it wasn't pitch-black inside and he could see an orange, unsteady light on the walls that indicated a flame of some sort.

Lolo tried his best to be quiet as he snuck closer. He hadn't seen any signs of animals so far, just plants, but that didn't mean there couldn't be something fierce hiding inside of the cave. He kept himself pressed against the rough rocky surface as he peeked around the corner, squinting as his eyes adjusted to the relative darkness inside of the cave.

The light was coming from a lantern, but as Lolo peered at it, he couldn't see an actual flame inside of it, just a glowing orb of some kind casting its light on the surroundings. The cave's walls were smooth and slightly damp, no doubt from the waterfall above sending moisture through the ground. On the ground there was a small hand-woven basket that seemed to contain a number of large mushrooms of various types, presumably collected from deeper inside the cave.

The owner of the basket was nearby, and Lolo's eyes went wide as he took in her form. Most of her body was covered with short, chocolate brown skin, with darker patches of thick fur on her arms, shoulders, and lower legs. Long, deep brown hair hung down her back all the way to her hips, with a little bit hanging in front of her shoulders. At the front of her head, a pair of small white horns jutted up from the bangs of her hair, and she had a pair of long, rabbit-like ears hanging down from the sides of her head.

Lolo could also see the short, rabbit-like brown tail at the base of her rump, as she was facing away from him, and completely naked but for a pair of green glasses perched on her snout. In addition, she was squatting with her legs spread out wide, and it was immediately obvious why: he could hear the splashing of liquid on the dirt floor of the cave, and he could see the edges of the puddle growing between her legs.

While he was still processing the sight of this beautiful woman relieving herself in front of him, he barely noticed her tiny tail flick for just a moment. However, he couldn't miss what happened next as she kept in her low squat; from underneath her tail, against the brown of her fur, a little bit of bright, creamy white suddenly came into view. Lolo was astounded as he watched something smooth and firm protrude from her tailhole, sliding out into the open as her muscles pushed it from within her body.

The object fell to the floor, and Lolo let out a confused gasp as he saw what it was: while smaller and rounder than the shape he was used to, it was unmistakably a bar of soap!

The noise he made caught her attention, and she turned her head sharply with a surprised gasp of her own. Lolo saw her looking at him and noticed her eyes were not the same color – the right one was blue, but the left eye was green. Her muzzle looked canine, in contrast to her ears and tail, with a small brown nose.

He finally realized that he ought not to be watching her in such a private moment, and quickly pulled himself back around the corner. "S-Sorry!" he blurted out, loud enough for her to hear him easily. "I didn't mean to interrupt while you were, ah... it was an accident!"

"Wait!" she said suddenly, though she took a moment to follow up. "I'll be out in a moment. But... please don't go anywhere."

Lolo fidgeted outside of the cave as he waited for her. It felt a lot longer than it actually was, with him feeling guilty for having unintentionally peeked on her, but she came out a couple of minutes later, dressed with a simple loincloth and tube top, both made of brown fabric that matched her fur. And now that she was standing upright, he could see that she was a little under an entire foot taller than he was, putting her covered breasts close to his eye level. She had her mushroom basket under one arm, and was holding the soap bar she had just made in her other hand – or at least, Lolo assumed she had made it, and that it wasn't just stuffed up inside of her butt incidentally.

"Please, follow me." she told him. "I've been waiting for someone to join me for a long time."

"How long?" Lolo asked as he walked behind her, trying not to stare at her ass too much – the loincloth didn't hide much of anything from behind.

"Very." she answered cryptically.

It was a short walk back to the cabin. Her cabin, Lolo corrected himself. She opened the door and headed inside confidently, and didn't call out to anyone else when she did so. Lolo followed her in, watching while she set down the basket and the soap before gesturing for him to follow her.

The inside of the cabin was quite cozy. She led him into a living room that featured an unlit fireplace, a sofa with an exposed wooden frame and simple cushions, a coffee table that looked like it was hand-carved, and a few extra chairs. There were some other tables and small decorations nearby, and a big rug that matched the pattern on the sofa, but there was a distinct lack of any bookshelves or books.

The woman took a seat on one chair, and Lolo did the same, facing her. She met his gaze for a moment, but still seemed a little shy about how they had encountered one another, and glanced away after a moment before clearing her throat to speak.

"Let's try this again from the beginning, shall we? My name is C'helpa."

Lolo did his best to relax. "Lolo." He responded. "It's nice to meet you. What is this place? What are you doing here? Why-"

C'helpa held up a hand to politely indicate for him to stop, and he went quiet. "This place is my home, though I do not know how long I have been here. Time doesn't quite pass the same way as it does where you came from."

"I see." Lolo muttered. "...I think."

Undaunted, C'helpa continued, "I am the keeper of the crystal you saw outside. Unfortunately, as you must have noticed, it has been broken. I have been spending my time here fixing it little by little, but as long as it remains in its current state, you are trapped here with me."

Lolo felt uneasy. There were a lot of worse places to be trapped than a quaint log cabin surrounded by pleasant and undisturbed nature, especially with someone so good-looking. But that didn't mean he particularly wanted to leave his whole life behind, especially so suddenly and unexpectedly.

His feelings must have shown on his face, as C'helpa stood up and walked over to him, gently placing a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry." she reassured him. "If it can be fixed, it will serve as a way out of here. And I think you can help me to repair it. If you are willing to assist, I will let you stay here with me."

He turned his gaze upward and looked at her, a blush on his cheeks. "I don't really have much choice," he admitted, "but even if I did, I'd be happy to help."

She smiled and nodded to him. "Thank you. That's good to hear. I can tell that you have some magical ability, and if we work together I think it will go much faster than if I tried to do it by myself."

She led him back outside and over to the crystal, showing him the crack that was running through it. Pointing to different parts of the crystal, she explained that there were originally many cracks just like it, albeit smaller, all over the crystal. It had nearly shattered, and a large piece had broken off entirely – that broken piece was where the last big crack had come from, since it was much greater damage and trying to repair it alone was proving extremely difficult. For a while, they spent their time experimenting to see if C'helpa's theories on how Lolo could help would work, but by the time Lolo noticed it was getting dark outside – even without a sun in the sky – they had made no progress.

He looked dejected as he stood back up, but she gave him a smile. "Cheer up," she told him, "we're not done yet. There's no sense in giving up when there's still so many more things we can try."

And then she stepped forward and hugged him with both arms, squeezing him tightly against her soft, warm body. Lolo carefully hugged back, trying not to make it any more awkward than it already was with his face pressed up against her cleavage, and she released him a moment later.

She made him dinner and set up the sofa in the living room so he could sleep on it, bringing cushions and a blanket for him. The next day, she kept him busy; after breakfast they went back to the crystal, and Lolo was ecstatic when they finally made some progress and he was able to help fix one of the small cracks branching off from the main big one. C'helpa was pleased, but elected to give them both a break at that point to go into the forest that surrounded the river to gather fruits and berries. It was relaxing work, and it gave them a chance to talk. He was able to come back to the crystal with a clear head later, working on it with her until it got dark again.

This seemed to be the beginning of a routine, but now that they were making visible progress, however small, Lolo was more excited. The morning flew past, and C'helpa had to almost drag him away from the crystal so they could have some lunch. They talked a little between bites, but it was only after finishing his meal that Lolo remembered the question he had been wanting to ask her for a while.

"So..." he began, catching her attention but not knowing where to go from there. She gave him a curious look over the cup of tea she was holding, but didn't say anything.

Lolo took a breath. "Could I ask about... what you were doing when we first met?" he inquired. "In the cave? With, uhm... the soap?"

She gave a bashful smile, her cheeks flushing as she looked away from him and at the plates on the table. "My magic is good for more than just repairing crystals." she told him after a moment. "I know how to change things, and the closer they are, the easier it is – while touching something helps a great deal, it's at its easiest when I'm altering something inside of me."

Lolo nodded in understanding. She continued, "In this case, I make something clean and useful out of something normally dirty and wasteful. That's not all, of course – I make my own milk, as well." She squeezed her arms together, pushing them against the sides of her breasts for emphasis.

He found himself staring, and noticed she still looked quite embarrassed. "I think that's really impressive." he told her to reassure her.  "Maybe you can tell me more about it later?"

"If you would like to know, of course." she answered, able to look at him, though still blushing.

"I do. You don't need to be embarrassed about it – I'm really interested." he told her. "Would you feel more comfortable if we took a bath together? I can probably wash my clothes while we're at it."

"That's a good idea." she responded with a nod. "I normally bathe at the base of the waterfall. Shall we go now?"

"Sounds good to me." Lolo replied as he got up from his seat. "We can clean the plates when we get back." 

C'helpa pushed her chair back and rose to her feet, striding out from the house and back into the warm midday air. It was a short and pleasant walk back to the waterfall, with Lolo following along behind her, listening to the rustling of the leaves in the trees as they went past.

The water at the base of the waterfall was moving fairly quickly, though not enough to exert enough force to push someone along. Foaming white bubbles were carried along its surface, and while the pool was quite deep directly under the waterfall, C'helpa stepped into a shallower section closer to the river upon their arrival. The water was pleasantly cool, and she turned around to invite Lolo to join her with a wave of her hand.

But when she saw Lolo, something about him seemed... different. Had something changed about him? She watched him undress as she did the same, though she had far less clothing to deal with. What had changed became obvious as Lolo pulled his t-shirt up and over his head, exposing a pair of blue-skinned breasts that had been underneath, without a bra to cover them. Tilting her head as she tossed her tube top and loincloth onto the stones at the edge of the pool, she watched Lolo lowering his pants and revealing a distinctly feminine slit between his legs.

She had assumed he was male the whole time, and she could have sworn he had a flat chest during the time she had spent with him so far. Had she simply been inattentive? Had Lolo's chest been better concealed? She lifted her gaze to Lolo's breasts and the blue nipples standing out in the middle of them. Lolo noticed her staring, and rubbed the back of his head with one hand in slight embarrassment.

"Did you... always have those?" C'helpa asked after a moment of contemplation, deciding she wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Lolo shook his head as he came closer and piled his clothes up next to the water. "No," he answered, "I shifted on the way over here. I thought you might be more comfortable this way."

C'helpa blinked in confusion, tilting her head. "Shifted?"

Lolo stepped into the water and then turned to face C'helpa. "I can change my form at will – I decide whatever sexual characteristics I want to have." Lolo explained, gesturing down at his female body. Giggling softly, he added, "You're not the only one with a few tricks."

C'helpa smiled back at him, chuckling quietly. "No wonder you've been able to make such good progress fixing the crystal." she mused. "I'm very fortunate that you are here."

Nodding, Lolo sat down in the water, facing towards his companion. It wasn't terribly deep at that part of the pool, so it only came partway up his body, his knees sticking out as he sat with them bent upwards. "That's probably right." he agreed, looking up at C'helpa and enjoying the low-angle view of her body... then glancing away when he realized he was staring.

"Oh, I need a moment to relieve myself." C'helpa told Lolo just as she was about to take a seat of her own. "I had meant to after lunch, but then we came straight here."

"Ah, well... go ahead, don't let me stop you." Lolo told her. "Are you heading back...?"

C'helpa shook her head. "No need, I was just going to stay here." she told him, gesturing to the edge of the spring. "As long as that doesn't bother you."

"Not at all." Lolo responded, hiding a slight blush on his face. His gaze followed C'helpa as the hybrid made her way to the edge of the water, turning her back to the grass – and her front towards Lolo. Trying not to stare but finding his gaze coming back to C'helpa after a few moments, Lolo watched as she squatted down by the edge of the water, her legs spread apart slightly. Lolo could clearly see the slit in C'helpa's brown skin between her legs, and got a clear view of it as she began to pee into the water.

The fluid gushing from her started as a thin jet and then broke up into droplets, but it was easy for Lolo to see that it was as crystal clear as the water she was standing in. Curious, Lolo leaned forward in order to get a better look, without consciously realizing he was doing so. It only confirmed what he thought he had seen, as he watched C'helpa's heavy piss stream – or perhaps it was just a water stream? – spray from her urethra and arc down to splash in the pool. Naturally, since it was clear, it left no visible trail in the flowing water, and no observable cloud, only adding a few small bubbles to the foam from the waterfall as any visual sign of her deed.

C'helpa took a breath and let it out as a sigh as she continued relieving the pressure in her bladder, idly gazing forward. She noticed Lolo looking at her quite intently, even leaning forward to do so, and she felt her cheeks flush – though not just from embarrassment. As she maintained her squatting position, she shifted her hips just a little, making her stream splash slightly from side to side as Lolo watched. She saw her companion's gaze following her motions, and felt a little more flustered and aroused from having someone watching her while she was peeing.

Lolo kept staring in awe even as, a short time later, C'helpa's stream trickled off to a stop, followed by two final squirts as she pushed out the last of her urine into the pool. But she didn't rise from her squatting position, leaving Lolo to wonder what she was doing... right up until she saw a familiarly-shaped bar of cream-colored soap drop onto the grass behind C'helpa.

"I didn't think to bring any soap," she told Lolo softly, "or rather, I did bring some, just not in my hands." She took another breath and exhaled, a second bar falling onto the first a few moments later. C'helpa gave a small sigh of satisfaction as she stood up from her squat, taking one of the bars of soap and holding it out to Lolo.

He was a little stunned at what had just happened, and took it without even thinking. It was quite warm to the touch from having been inside of the hybrid's body, but it otherwise seemed just like a regular, if small, bar of soap: smooth with rounded edges, and a slight hint of lavender to it.

Lolo dipped it into the water and rubbed his fingers on it, finding the soap rubbing off just like normal, despite its unusual method of production. Convinced that it was, ultimately, just like normal soap, he began washing himself with it, working on getting his body clean first – he could wash his clothes afterward.

As he cleaned himself, however, he found he was continually getting distracted by C'helpa's presence. His gaze drifted back over to the hybrid's body, and her smooth brown skin as she soaped it up and washed it off, getting herself clean. After Lolo realized he had stopped washing himself entirely, he reached up and took off his glasses to set them aside before splashing water on his face, trying to focus.

It took a while, but they both managed to get themselves clean in the end, and C'helpa gave Lolo a hand in washing his clothes in the pool, wringing them out afterwards. Lolo realized they would probably get a bit wrinkled, but it was preferable to having them dirty.

As C'helpa was folding them up, she glanced over at Lolo again. "It's still a little odd to see you like that after spending this whole time with you thinking you were male." she remarked.

"Should I change back?"

"If you want. I won't mind. This was a good idea; I'm feeling much more relaxed now than I was earlier."

Lolo nodded and closed her eyes for a moment. A puff of smoke engulfed her, dissipating quickly even in the gentle breeze, and when it cleared C'helpa could see that Lolo had returned to his male form. Of course, since she was still holding onto the folded and damp pile of his clothes, intending to hang them up at the cabin, he was completely naked in the water of the pool; his chest was without any breasts, and between his legs there was no longer a slit. Instead, a pair of balls in a blue sack rested against his inner thighs, with his lighter blue shaft draped over them.

C'helpa stared for a moment in brief surprise. "I didn't realize it was -that- easy for you."

He gave her a bashful smile in response. "Well, it's second nature to me. I've always been able to do it."

She nodded in understanding. "That must be useful. Anyhow, are you ready to head back?"

"In a moment," he told her, "just give me a minute to pee first."

"Hmm..." she hummed as a thought crossed her. "Well, go ahead. You can go on the side of the pool here like I did so I can watch."

Lolo's cheeks flushed. "You want to watch?" he murmured.

"You got to watch me, isn't it fair I get to do the same?" she asked him teasingly in response.

"That's fair, heh." he acknowledged. He walked through the water to the edge of the pool where she had been squatting earlier, though instead he was facing away from the water this time and towards the grass. His right hand grasped his cock and took aim at the ground nearby, and he noticed C'helpa taking a seat on the edge of the pool next to him, where she could get the best possible view of what was to come.

Swallowing and trying to relax, Lolo glanced away and stared forward at the nearest tree, listening to the leaves rustling. He was soon able to relax enough to feel a tingle running through his body moments before a hard jet of his piss shot from the end of his cock, slowly arching downward to hit the grass nearby. There was a dull thumping sound for a moment before it became a splashing noise as his pee turned the dirt to mud, the falling droplets bending blades of grass and making a dandelion wobble back and forth as they struck it.

C'helpa remained seated, staring closely at him. She gave his stream only a momentary glance before returning her gaze to his dick, adjusting her glasses with one finger as she kept her gaze on it. She watched the piss gushing from his tip, and the occasional small twitch or throb of his length within his grasp, listening to him breathing deeply as he relieved himself, and the splashing of his piss on the now-muddy patch of ground he was aiming at.

She didn't say anything as she enjoyed the sight, leaning in slightly for a better view, and shifting back when his stream began to wane a short time later. When it had almost completely trickled off, he clenched his muscles to push out a couple more final squirts of pee to fully empty himself, and then gave his shaft a quick shake to get the final drops off before letting go and allowing his cock to come to rest on his sack.

"Feel better?" C'helpa asked him softly.

"Ah, yes." Lolo answered, cheeks still a little red.

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After dipping his hands in the water one final time, the two of them gathered up their things and headed back to the cabin. As it had been every single day Lolo had spent inside what he assumed was a pocket dimension, it was warm and sunny outside even late into the afternoon, helping dry the two of them off. C'helpa put his clothes on the railing outside the cabin to let them dry, and they returned to the crystal to work on it until it got dark once more, by which time his clothes had dried out.

She made him dinner after that, and after they had eaten and washed the dishes, she went up to her room, bidding him good-night. Lolo was coming to quite enjoy staying here – it was a very comfortable and carefree existence, and it was with good company. He was quite happy.

But the one thing he wasn't, was tired. He stretched out on the sofa with his eyes closed, but no sleep came to him. His thoughts wandered and he thought of his home, and he listened to the sounds outside coming through the open window. He wasn't sure how long it had been when he got up, putting his glasses on, and walked outside.

The air was cool, but not unpleasantly cold, and the night air was still. The soft glow of the crystal nearby lit the ground around it. Lolo stared up, but the sky was devoid of stars, an alien sight to him even after having seen it a couple of times so far.

"Lolo?" he heard from behind him, and he turned around. He saw C'helpa, naked and holding open the front door of the cabin. "I heard the door close. Are you okay?"

He turned to face her and gave her a reassuring smile. "I'm fine," he told her, "I couldn't sleep, that's all. I thought maybe if I walked around just a little bit, it might help."

She opened the door a bit wider. "I think I might be able to help with that." she told him. "Come on up to my room."

Lolo slowly started to walk back. "I hope I didn't wake you." he said apologetically.

She shook her head. "Don't worry about it," she responded, "I was awake anyway."

She slipped back inside, and Lolo followed her in and up the stairs to her room. Much like the rest of the cabin, it was furnished simply but comfortably. It was in the middle of the cabin, so the roof sloped to both sides, with the bed in the middle of the room underneath an open window. Heavy checkered blankets covered most of the bed, folded over on one side where C'helpa had been lying down before she got up to check on him. There was a bedside table with a small lantern on it, the same one he had seen in the cave when he had first met her, casting a soft glow over the room. A chest of drawers was pressed up against one wall, and a mirror was close to the opposite wall. A cabinet in a corner offered more storage space for her.

Lolo closed the door after he entered, and C'helpa sat back down on the bed and slipped her legs back under the covers, keeping her torso upright and patting the empty part of the bed next to her invitingly. "Why don't you get undressed and relax with me?" she told him quietly, and Lolo did just that, quickly removing and folding his clothes to pile them up on top of the chest of drawers.

Stepping around to the other side of the bed, he slipped in under the covers and sat up with her. There was just barely enough room for the both of them, and he had his leg pressed up against hers. Even like this, she was still substantially taller than him, and as he looked to the side and up at her, he felt her arm reaching around behind him and hugging him against her side.

"If you're having trouble sleeping," she told him softly, "perhaps some nice, warm milk will help. Want to try?" Lolo's blush was barely visible in the dim lighting. To make her point clearer, she wiggled her chest softly, and brought her other hand up to her bare breasts, cupping one of them.

"I, ah..." he fumbled, looking down at the smooth brown skin of her breast from beside her. "...yes, I'd like that." he finally responded, squirming a little in his seat on the bed.

Gently but firmly, she tightened her hold on him with her arm, pulling him closer and turning her upper body to make it easier for him to reach. "Then drink up." she crooned to him, placing her other hand on the back of his head. He didn't resist as she guided his head towards the breast closer to him, pressing his face against the soft flesh to bring his lips into contact with the firming brown nipple there.

Lolo reached out and wrapped his arms around her body, holding her as she held him, his glasses getting pressed up his nose a little as her breast filled his vision completely. He gently teased his tongue against her teat before taking it into his mouth and starting to suckle on it, being careful to keep his teeth away from her flesh.

After a few moments of suckling and feeling her hand rubbing the back of his head encouragingly, he felt wetness on his tongue. She had begun to lactate, and he could taste her rich, creamy, and warm milk as it began to leak onto his tongue. A small groan escaped him and was muffled by her breast as he licked at her nipple and suckled slightly harder, coaxing more milk from her breast.

"That's it..." she said softly and encouragingly, leaning forward slightly and smooshing more of his face to her tit. The flow of her milk became steadier as Lolo kept drinking and suckling more from it, swallowing down the creamy fluid only to tease more out from her nipple with his tongue and lips. Her arm kept his body close, supporting him as he drank, a soft sigh slipping past her lips as she relaxed with him.

Lolo's eyes were closed tight as he lost himself in the moment, gulping down each small mouthful of milk. There certainly seemed to be plenty of it, each taste just as delicious as the last. He felt warm inside, peaceful and relaxed, his hands slowly rubbing at her back as he savored the taste and the contentment he was experiencing.

He felt a momentary disappointment when the flow of milk came to a stop, but C'helpa was quick to act, turning her body to bring her other breast within reach and guiding him to that instead. Lolo eagerly latched onto her nipple, licking and suckling to get it to lactate as well, groaning softly into her tit when he was rewarded with the taste of her milk once again, his breaths coming heavily through his nose and fogging his glasses.

The warmth within him grew, but he could tell that her milk was having other effects on him as well. He felt a deep need to pee that hadn't been there at all when he had entered her room, but he wasn't going to let it stop him from drinking her milk, suckling it from her and licking it up. He held onto her warm body, occasionally groaning, feeling the pressure building in his bladder and still drinking more and more as he did. It seemed to be having its intended purpose, too – though he certainly was excited and his cock was standing stiff against the bedsheets, he was beginning to feel tired as well.

By the time she ran out of milk again and she allowed him to move his head away, he had become fully relaxed, but his full bladder and his raging arousal were preventing him from lying down and getting any sleep. "Thank you," he told her between breaths, intending to take care of one problem at a time. "I need to get up... I need to pee really badly now."

But she didn't let go of him completely and instead pushed him down onto the bed, onto his back, his head on the pillows. "Ssh, just relax... let me take care of it." she murmured to him. She didn't seem surprised at all at what he had said, perhaps having expected it – her milk was special, after all, and she had likely made it that way.

So with that in mind, Lolo let her do as she pleased, letting his arms rest at his sides. She shuffled her way down the bed, pushing the covers towards the foot of it as she went, exposing his body. Lolo watched in the dim light as she bent over, bringing her head to his loins to gently kiss the top of his stiff shaft. One, two, three times she gave it a small smooch before she opened her mouth and took his cockhead into it, letting it rest on her tongue.

Closing her lips around his hard flesh, she kept still for him, supporting herself on one elbow as she reached out with her other hand to pat his belly as a signal for him to relax. Lolo did his best – as much as he needed to pee, it wasn't any easier than normal to do it while he was erect. Lying on his back, he stared up at the sloped roof overhead, listening to the ambient sounds coming through the window to clear his mind. He took deep, slow breaths, relaxing his muscles, trying not to think too much about the warmth and moistness around his dick...

After a short time he felt the sensation of his release starting, and did his best not to tense back up as he enjoyed the relief he experienced. His warm fluid gushed into C'helpa's mouth, and she swallowed it with a gulp that he could clearly hear in the near-silence of her room. Breathing a little more heavily, Lolo listened to her as she gave a soft moan, suckling on him just a tiny bit.

C'helpa rubbed at his lower belly in a small circle, letting his urine pool up in her mouth as she swirled it around the tip of his shaft briefly before swallowing. The magic she had used on him through her milk had made his piss taste sweet, without a hint of saltiness, but it still carried with it the warmth of his body as she drank. She avoided teasing him too much, and kept the motions of her tongue small, licking up the underside of his cock where she could feel his urethra swelling outward from the pee traveling through it.

For a full minute and a couple seconds more, Lolo lay on his back as he let his bladder empty out into C'helpa's waiting mouth. Without spilling a single drop of the sweet fluid, she swallowed it all, and even once his stream came to a stop, she suckled and licked at him while he pushed out the last of it with a clench of his muscles. Her tongue collected the last droplet that clung to the opening at the tip of his cock, and then she lifted her head to pull off of him entirely.

Slowly, she returned to her own spot on the bed, lying down on her side and facing towards him. "Feeling better now?" she asked, reaching out and running her fingertips down his chest, starting at the fluff around his collarbone.

Lolo nodded in response, taking a breath. "Yeah, a lot better." he answered. His cock was still throbbing hard and pointed upward, but now it was covered in her saliva. C'helpa's gaze was drawn to it as she waited a moment before rolling onto her back while keeping her head turned toward him.

"I don't think you'll be getting much sleep until you take care of that, will you?" she teased, spreading her legs apart as she beckoned to him. "Let me help you."

Lolo hesitated for only a second, caught off-guard by her offer, but was quick to roll onto his side. From there, he got on top of her carefully, swinging a leg over her, and then brought an arm across. She reached up and helped guide him into position above her, spreading her legs further apart, tugging his hips closer to her own.

"Go on." she breathed softly to him, meeting his gaze as he looked into her eyes. The slick tip of Lolo's shaft met with the folds of her pussy, spreading them apart as he slipped into her. Her tunnels were already damp, and Lolo groaned softly as her slick walls enveloped his sensitive flesh, sliding into her until his hips met hers.

C'helpa hummed softly, bringing one hand to the back of his head and pressing his face in between her breasts. Lolo responded by wrapping his arms around her, holding her upper body close to him as he nuzzled into her cleavage, starting to draw his hips back. He pulled his shaft out from her a little bit before sliding back into her, beginning a gentle humping motion while she held his head between her tits, his breath fogging his glasses once again.

Leaning her head back into the pillow, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the attention he gave her, feeling his hands rubbing at her back as he gave gradually quickening thrusts. "That's good..." she murmured encouragingly, rubbing at the back of his head with one hand, patting his rump with the other. Lolo groaned into her breasts, drawing his hips back a little further on each thrust into her wet tunnels, his tail swishing above his rump as his eyes shut to focus on the pleasure he felt.

After a few more moments of his humping, C'helpa spread her legs out a little further, then rose them up and wrapped them loosely around his body, her heels resting on his lower back near his tail. With both hands she held onto his head and snuggled him close to her soft breasts, stroking down the back of his head as he rubbed his face against them. She could tell he was trying to pace himself to make sure she enjoyed their moment together too, and she basked in the pleasure he gave to her with his thrusts into her wet slit. Her breasts bounced against the sides of his head as he began to shove his hips against hers a little more forcefully, and she groaned aloud.

She had gone far too long with only herself for intimate company, and finally being in the embrace of someone else was electrifying for her. C'helpa breathed more heavily as Lolo's thrusts into her vaginal tunnels continued, his motions becoming more eager as time went on and he drew closer to his peak.

"Yes, just a bit more..." she told him between panting breaths, feeling him trembling against her. Lolo groaned into her cleavage as he approached the cusp of his orgasm, thrusting rapidly and making her head swim from pleasure as he did. Even as he groaned out again, louder this time, and she felt the heat of his cum splattering against the walls of her pussy, he continued to thrust, though his climax made his timing erratic and unsteady.

Still, it was enough to finish her off, and she sucked in a breath as she felt herself going over the edge. "Yes...!" she gasped out, squirming underneath him, her arms and legs shuddering against his body as she kept her hold on him. Squeezing tightly, she pulled his hips up against hers and held him there as they rode out their climaxes together, each locked in the embrace of the other.

Eventually, C'helpa came down from her peak and relaxed her hold on him. Lolo was in no hurry to leave the warmth of her body, but still pulled out from her slowly, reaching up and taking his glasses off before setting them on the bedside table next to her own pair of lenses. Then, reaching down, he grabbed the blankets and pulled them back up over the two of them. Lying down beside her, he snuggled up against her warm body, holding her closely and tenderly. "Thank you." he told her in a quiet and tired voice.

"You're welcome," she responded, putting an arm around him, "and thank you too."

It only took a minute before Lolo was asleep, and C'helpa soon joined him.

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Lolo slept well, and the next day was able to make good progress on fixing the crystal. He wasn't sure how long it was going to take exactly, but it was likely only going to be a few more days of work. Of course, then came the problem of actually getting out, but C'helpa seemed insistent that she could handle that part, so Lolo put it out of his mind.

He had stopped sleeping on her couch entirely, and now spent his nights in her room. She was always so warm to hold, her skin felt so smooth, and the fur on her arms was so soft to the touch, that he couldn't help but quickly fall asleep next to her.

One morning he awoke to an empty bed. It was hard to really gauge the passage of time without any clocks in her room, or a sun in the sky, but he guessed that she had let him sleep in a little bit. Groggily, Lolo got up and stretched, recovering his t-shirt from her dresser where he had left it the previous night and pulling it on. Without donning anything else, he stepped out from the room to head downstairs – after the second night together they had stopped bothering to get fully dressed around the house.

As such, when Lolo entered the kitchen, he found her wearing naught but her sandals as she stood by one of the counters. He heard the scraping sound of her knife as she skinned a piece of fruit, but she had her back to him, so he snuck up behind her and waited until she put the knife down to reach out with both hands for her luscious brown butt.

Her body tensed as the sudden touch, but she glanced back over her shoulder and saw his wide, devious grin, relaxing. "Good morning." she said to him cheerily, her small tail wiggling.

"G'morning." he answered, giving her cheeks a longer, firmer squeeze.

She pushed her rump into his grip, while turning her body and her attention back towards the fruit she was preparing. "My hands are busy," she told him, "but you're free to do whatever you want with the rest of me."

"Gladly," Lolo murmured lustfully as he got down on his knees behind her, squeezing and kneading at the curves of her butt. "I wouldn't mind having an appetizer before breakfast."

He rubbed his hands in a circle over her cheeks before slipping his thumbs in between them and spreading them out, getting a close look. Her anal ring was the same darker brown as her nipples and nose, and he could see the bottom of her pussylips from the angle he was at as well. She pushed her rump out towards him a little bit, and he responded by leaning forward, smooshing his face up against her bare buttcheeks.

He inhaled, eyes widening as he caught a distinctly floral scent from her. Lowering his face a bit, he pressed his face right in underneath her tail and sniffed to confirm; sure enough, it was like having his nose pressed up against a flower, though he couldn't identify one in particular to match it to – maybe lavender if he had to guess.

Pressing his face in harder against her butt, he brought his lips against her tailhole and gave it a firm kiss, humming into it as he did. She chuckled a little above him, and he began peppering her rear hole with smaller, quicker kisses, giving her cheeks another heavy squeeze with his hands as he did. Then, he stuck out his tongue and licked up and over her sphincter, teasing at the flesh of her rim, repeating the motion again after his tongue had passed over her hole.

She responded by wiggling her hips and pushing her ass more firmly against his face, urging him to continue. More than happy to do so, Lolo began to tease his tongue around her ring in a circle, going clockwise a few times before changing direction, going back and forth seemingly at random as he rimmed her hole.

He gave her one more long, slow lick across her anus before he pressed his tongue directly at the center of it. Teasing that orifice and gradually pressing harder, he slowly worked his tongue into her rear, making her groan quietly above him and pause in what she was doing. Bringing his tongue back into his mouth for a moment to get more saliva on it, he found that it didn't surprise him that she tasted vaguely of lavender just the same as her ass smelled like it.

Quickly returning his tongue to where it had been, he pushed it back in through her sphincter, easing the ring of muscle back open with a little less resistance than the first time. Lolo brought his tongue partway back and pushed in again, using his tongue to both loosen her up and get his spit all over her hole in preparation for what he had planned next. He worked his tongue into her as far as it would reach, then brought it back again, moving his head back just a little as he kneaded her butt with both hands.

"While you're down there," she told him before he could stand back up, "would you mind helping me with something? I never took my morning pee before I started to make breakfast..."

She pushed her hips back towards him quite a bit more, and bent over the counter until her upper body was almost horizontal, but otherwise continued her preparations as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Lolo stared for a brief moment at the sight before him, before he shuffled closer, grasping her hips and reaching between her legs with his thumbs. He gently spread her pussylips apart, staring at what he could see of her vaginal tunnels and the much smaller hole just above them, and then leaned in to bring his open mouth as close to her urethra as he could.

As soon as his lips touched against her netherlips, he felt wetness against his tongue as she opened her floodgates and began to pee into his mouth. The warm fluid washing over his tongue had a sweet taste to it, strong enough to be immediately noticeable without being overpowering. Lolo guzzled it down greedily, swallowing mouthful after mouthful and keeping his lips pressed to her slit for more, moving his tongue under the flow of her piss to let the sweet liquid splash across it.

C'helpa nonchalantly continued to cut up fruit as she relieved herself into Lolo's waiting mouth, the hissing sound of her stream muffled by his maw and his heavy breaths and gulps. He kept his hands firmly gripping at her hips, gently teasing her labia with his thumbs, but largely keeping his head still as he drank. The position did mean that her rump was filling up his entire view, and he stared cross-eyed at her sphincter, still glistening with his saliva.

The warmth and sweetness of her piss and the sight before him ensured that Lolo's cock was stiff and throbbing between his legs before long. He teased his tongue across the opening of her urethra, briefly interrupting her stream, and she responded by shoving her rump closer to his face once more. When she finally ran dry, and she had clenched to force the last squirts into his mouth, she stood straight once more, lifting her ass away from Lolo's face.

He panted for a moment as she pulled away, his eyes still fixed on her butt. Getting to his feet, he saw that she was no longer cutting fruit but had taken a spoon to scoop out pieces from a melon. She didn't seem surprised at all as he got close behind her and pressed his chest up against her back, hotdogging his cock between her cheeks, reaching around her and taking hold of her breasts.

"Morning wood?" she teased, wiggling her rump against him, sandwiching his cock between her cheeks and his belly. "You'd better do something about that then, hadn't you?"

Lolo responded by giving her tits a grope, shifting his hips back. He let go of her right breast just long enough to hold his cock to line himself up, nudging his pre-leaking tip to her slicked asshole. Resting his head on the back of her shoulder as he took hold of her tits once again, he pushed his hips forward and began to penetrate, her tailhole stretching around him gradually even with being loosened up earlier.

They groaned out together as he sank into her tight tunnels, each inch slowly sliding into her until Lolo's hips pressed up against her soft butt. He held himself there for a moment, hands rubbing and caressing her breasts, before he began to slide back out. He withdrew most of the way from her before changing direction, bringing his hips back at a moderate pace but thrusting back in hard and fast enough for his hips to slap audibly against her ass.

Lolo gave low grunts as he thrusted into her, and C'helpa let out small pants and gasps for breath, her floppy ears swinging back and forth as Lolo kept up his rhythm. She continued to scoop pieces of melon out into the wooden bowl in front of her regardless, though more slowly and unsteadily than before. Lolo quickened his pace, but it wasn't until he moved his right hand down her front and began to tease at her clit while thrusting into her ass that her composure fully broke. She gave a louder moan and set down the spoon, hands gripping the edge of the counter for support.

Taking advantage of the situation, Lolo kept his rapid pace going while squeezing her left breast with his left hand, dipping his fingers into her pussy for a moment before pulling them back out to continue rubbing the nub of flesh at the top of her slit.

"Ooh... someone's eager...!" she murmured as she leaned back against him, her short tail wiggling against his belly. Lolo panted for breath while keeping his chest pressed to her back, his eyes closed tightly from the pleasure he felt. He slid his cock in and out of her snug rump, periodically moving his fingers from her clit to tease inside of her folds, bringing them back to her sensitive button shortly thereafter. The kitchen was filled with the sound of their breaths and the slapping of Lolo's hips against her butt, interrupted occasionally by Lolo groaning aloud, or C'helpa giving a pleased hum.

"You feel so good... I...!" Lolo moaned out behind her, briefly squeezing her breast and pressing his fingers into the soft flesh.

C'helpa tipped her head back a little and let her eyes close. As his thrusts continued and he panted more heavily, she could tell he was getting close to his peak. "Yes, that's it..." she whispered to him, "Let it out... let it all out for me..."

Shuddering behind her, Lolo suddenly slowed down, instead pulling almost completely out and thrusting back in to the hilt. A few seconds later he groaned out as he pushed his hips forward until they met her ass, and began grinding hard against her as his shaft throbbed against her anal walls and he began firing his cum into her. He held onto her body tightly, keeping his hand rubbing up and down over her clit, teasing at her heavily to try and finish her off.

His efforts bore fruit not long after when he felt her trembling against him and heard her moan louder. The fingers at her slit became wetter as she squirted onto them, but he also felt her ass clench and squeeze around his cock too, intensifying what remained of his climax. He pressed his entire front against her back, his dick pushed into her as deep as it would go, lost in the pleasure of the moment.

They both remained there, breathing deeply in recovery, for over a minute, until C'helpa slowly took the spoon and picked up where she had left off on scooping out the inside of the melon. "Feeling better?" she asked Lolo between breaths.

He gave a happy hum in reply with his face pressed against her back, and she gave a quiet chuckle. "Glad to hear it. Let me finish this, and we can eat on the way to the pool... we'll need to clean ourselves up."

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Lolo felt a tap on his shoulder, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Are you all right?" C'helpa asked him. "It's getting dark, and you've been sitting there staring at the crystal for a while."

He stared off into space for a moment before shaking his head and regaining his bearings. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine, I just zoned out. I'm so close to being done, I wanted to try and finish it."

C'helpa took a brief look at the crystal, and then reached under Lolo's arms to pull him up to his feet. "You need to get some rest," she scolded, "you're not going to finish that tonight. Let's have dinner and take a break for the night, shall we?"

As she gently but firmly guided him to the house, he almost protested but gave in when he realized how hungry he was. She was right; he'd overdone it a little, and needed a break. So with a heavy yawn, he let her take him to the kitchen where she sat him down while she put together dinner for the two of them. When they were done, he got ready for bed and headed up to her room immediately to get some rest, while C'helpa stayed downstairs to read and relax for a while.

But eventually she grew tired as well, and made her way upstairs to her room. When she pushed open the door, it creaked loudly, and she saw Lolo stirring as she entered. "Sorry," she told him in a hushed whisper, "I keep meaning to oil that, but I never remember."

"It's fine." Lolo murmured. C'helpa closed the door behind her, not needing to undress as she was already naked – though as she got closer to Lolo, only able to see by the dim light filtering in from outside, she noticed that he had shifted into his female form again before going to sleep.

"Felt like a little change?" she asked curiously, lying down next to him.

Lolo sat up a little, rubbing his eyes. "What do you mean?"

Reaching out, she cupped one of his breasts lightly and gave it a soft squeeze. He squirmed briefly, looking down at himself, squinting a little since his glasses were resting on the bedside table. "Oh, I... I must have done that before I got into bed."

C'helpa gave a small chuckle, teasing her thumb across his nipple. "It looks good on you." she told him, making him blush.

As she teased him, though, he felt some dampness on her thumb. Slightly surprised, she took her hand away and inspected it closely; there was a tiny amount of milk there. "Hm? I didn't know you could lactate too."

"I can't...?" Lolo muttered, confused. "Or at least not normally..."

"I must be a good influence on you." she teased, getting closer to him and snuggling up closely against his side. "Mind if I have a taste?"

Lolo's blush brightened as he rubbed at the back of his head with one hand. "Sure, go ahead." he replied after a moment.

C'helpa shifted next to him, propping herself up on an elbow as she leaned in closer to Lolo's front. Giving a small lick to the breast she had been teasing not long before, she could just barely pick up the taste of Lolo's milk – with a slight floral aroma to it. Perhaps it was something she was doing to him after all.

She gave that teal nipple a kiss before leaning in closer and pressing her lips against it, surrounding the fleshy teat in the warmth of her mouth. She gently teased her tongue against his areola while reaching around behind him with one hand, gently pulling him closer to her while pressing her snout into the soft blue flesh of his breast. Suckling softly on him, it only took a few moments before she got another taste of his milk as it began to leak from his breast, allowing her to swiftly lick it up.

Lolo let out a quiet groan, leaning forward and wrapping his arms around her shoulders to hold her against him. Her glasses fogged slightly as she breathed through her nose, muzzle pressed firmly into his breastflesh, sucking and licking at the nipple on it, making the flow of his milk gradually increase. C'helpa gave a pleased hum as she swallowed it down, rubbing her hand up and down Lolo's back encouragingly.

As she continued to drink, she heard Lolo's breathing getting heavier as he enjoyed her attention. After a minute she gently lifted her lips off of his nipple and sat up a little more, reaching between his legs and teasing over his pussylips with her middle two fingers – as she expected, they were already damp. "Enjoyed that, did you?" she asked teasingly.

"Ahh, yes..." Lolo groaned out quietly.

C'helpa leaned in and nuzzled underneath his chin, crooning to him, "You should be asleep... so I'll just have to help tire you out, won't I?"

Lolo nodded a little in response, and C'helpa put a hand on his chest just above his breasts, pushing him back down onto the bed so his head was resting on his pillow. Then, she clambered over his body to position her rump over his head while facing away from him, and before he could say anything else, she lowered her hips down until her slit was pressed up against his face, her butt filling his view.

She didn't need to tell him what to do; she immediately felt his tongue at her pussylips, and he gave a muffled groan as she wiggled her hips against his face. Lowering her front, she took only a brief moment to remove her glasses before lowering her head and planting a kiss on Lolo's slit, squishing her breasts against his belly as she got as close as she could to him. He squirmed a little underneath her in response, but she kept at it, teasing her tongue across the top of Lolo's slit and teasing at her clit lightly.

C'helpa pushed her hips down a little further after a moment, pressing Lolo's head into the pillows as she kept him pinned quite securely under her ass. Feeling his hands grasping and squeezing at the curves of her rump, she slid her own hands underneath his thighs, pulling them up and apart to give herself easier access to his pussy as she licked across it. When Lolo pushed his tongue into her folds, C'helpa did the same to him, licking at his inner walls as he groaned into hers while his tongue moved around inside her vaginal tunnels.

She rocked her hips back and forth against his face, all but smothering him with her hindquarters, surrounding most of his head in the warmth of her loins and thighs. His hands stroked in circles over her butt, sliding over her smooth brown skin, thumbs brushing against the base of her small tail. Each time he pushed his tongue back into her wet pussy, she returned the favor, licking firmly at his walls and rubbing her lower lip against his clit as she did.

Each moan she got from Lolo sent vibrations through her body as she kept her slit pressed right up against his face, copiously leaking pussy juices onto his tongue – and the amount of nectar Lolo was leaking from his own pussy also gave a clear indication of how much he was enjoying it. No longer content to just mirror what Lolo did to her, C'helpa began to thrust her tongue into Lolo's snatch, flicking it against his clit on the way in, lapping up what juices of his he could.

She felt his hands roaming her rump, and soon he was pressing a finger under her tail, teasing at her ring. Rocking her hips back to his hand encouragingly, she felt him tease his fingertip through her sphincter, rubbing at her inner walls with it as he pushed in more of that digit. Closing her eyes as she enjoyed the attention to both of her holes, she could feel her pleasure starting to mount, so she lifted her mouth off of Lolo's slit long enough to rub her middle and index fingers across it firmly, covering them in a mix of his juices and her saliva. Then, as she returned her head to his pussy to continue licking, she moved her fingers downward and pressed them underneath Lolo's tail, teasing his back door and gradually pressing her middle finger in.

Lolo tensed underneath her with another groan, squirming heavily; at first C'helpa thought it was simply from the penetration, but when a squirt of his juices hit her tongue, she realized she had pushed him over the edge entirely. She rocked her hips back against his face as she slid her finger into his ass all the way to the knuckle, drawing as big a climax out of him as she could get.

Though he clearly was having trouble focusing, Lolo managed to still give her some attention, pumping his finger in and out of her ass while his tongue lapped around the walls of her snatch, orgasmic moans escaping out of his mouth and into her tunnels. It was enough for her to reach her climax as well, the hybrid taking a sharp breath through her nose before squirming on top of him, pressing her hips down to him even harder for a few moments as she gushed her nectar into Lolo's mouth.

When she came down from her peak, C'helpa panted for breath for several seconds before finally raising her hips and hearing Lolo gasp. Slowly, she rolled off from him, tongues and fingers separating from each other, and she recovered her glasses and set them aside properly before lying down next to him.

Leaning over, she was about to thank him when she noticed he had fallen asleep – or perhaps, passed out from exhaustion. With a smile, she cuddled herself up against his side, head resting on the pillow, ready to drift off as well. 

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Lolo wiped his brow with the back of one hand as he stood up from his hunched position. At last, the crystal was finished! Or at least, he thought it was. But he could see clear through the part he had been working on all this time, and there were no breaks or cracks in it that he could detect.

"C'helpa!" he called out loudly, turning to face the cabin. After several moments, the front door opened and she stepped out, running over with her bare breasts bouncing as she did.

"What is it? Is it done?" she asked him.

He nodded. "I can't see any cracks anywhere, but you should give it a look."

"No need." she told him, reaching out and setting one hand on the surface of the crystal. "If it isn't fixed, then this won't work."

Lolo blinked. "What won't work?" he asked her.

But she had her eyes closed and was chanting under her breath. The glow of the crystal began to glow more brightly, filling Lolo's vision until he had to close his eyes.

"Wait!" he called out to her, "I want to tell you where I live so we can-!"

He felt himself falling, and the remaining words were lost, no sound coming out of his mouth. For a brief time Lolo felt completely weightless...

...and then he suddenly found himself sprawled on the floor of his apartment. He could feel the smooth surface of the snowglobe clutched tightly within his right hand, and he forced his eyes open to look at it. The snow was still falling inside of it, but something was different – the crack in the crystal that had been there before was gone.

Getting to his feet, he looked around. Had any time passed in the real world? He looked at the clock on his microwave, but he couldn't remember what time it had been when he opened the package. He felt sore, though, so he must have been lying on the floor for a while.

But he couldn't see C'helpa. For a moment he was saddened, looking into the snowglobe, but then he straightened up with a determined look on his face.

"No, I'll find her." he muttered as he began walking towards his bedroom. "I know she's out there, I know her name and what she looks like, and she knows me. I'll find-"

"Find who?" said a familiar woman's voice as he turned into his room.

Lolo's eyes widened. Stretched out on his bed and lying on her side, naked but for her glasses, was C'helpa. She reached out and patted the covers on the bed beside her welcomingly, giving him a warm smile.

"I knew we wouldn't be separated on our way out." she told him. "But if you think you've been apart from me for too long, then why don't you come over here and get nice and close...?"
