Sniffings in the Night
by tannim
June 12, 2013

	"Night sure is interesting." Jake sat up in bed. "Sure wish it wasn't so boring.  Sure wish I could sleep, too.  Cornelius?"

	The old elephant didn't hear him.  It was just as well.  He'd have just said go to sleep anyway.

	Jake took a deep sniff at the air.  Night really was kind of funny.  So many fun scents in the air that weren't there in the daytime.  A lot of flowers and animals only came out at night.  He giggled, a lot of animals let things out at night more too.  Like Cornelius's funny toot that made him think of it.

	The young fox slipped out of bed and padded over to take a closer sniff.  It was fun sniffing stinky things, even if they didn't really stink so much as smelled fun.  He jumped back when Cornelius rolled over and darted back to his bed.  People could get so touchy about being sniffed.

	"I'm going to go get a glass of water." With no reply, he hurried out of the room, happy to have not gotten caught. "Gee, I wonder what Badou would say if he'd seen me.  Hehe, probably that I shouldn't do it because it's not proper." The fox sniffed as he passed a guard sleeping at its post. "Oh well.  Nothing I do is proper anyway.  It's not like anybody taught me."

	Jake paused when he noticed the guard really was asleep.  Why not?  It was a simply matter to sneak around behind the big elephant and even simpler to lean over until his nose was right against the red fabric covered ass for a deep sniff.

	The fox laughed quietly and took a longer whiff.  It really was fun sniffing people in their sleep.  None of their waving him away or giving him funny looks when he wanted to get their scent.

	He left the slumbering guard and crossed his arms.  Cornelius smelled a lot different, maybe it was because he was more important.  Did important people smell different?  The next guard smelled rather similar to the first and was just about as far gone into bored sleep, too.

	"I wonder what Bou smells like.  Maybe royalty smells even better than almost royalty.  I mean, he smells good when I'm with him, but he never lets me get a real good sniff down... um... there." Jake looked up to find himself in front of Badou's room. "Well, it won't really HURT anything.  He doesn't lose his scent if I sort of enjoy it..."

	After a deep breath, Jake pushed the prince's door open.  Going slow made it open silently.  The only thing he heard was his own breathing, and Badou's.  He could see his friend just across the room, peaceful and still.  The young elephant was laying on his side, too!  It was so perfect.

	Jake hunched over in what he decided had to be a sneaky posture and crept in just as he would stalking some random toy for fun when alone and playing hunter.  His bare feet made no noise and soon stood right next to his friend's bed without disturbing any of the toys they'd both left their earlier that afternoon.  Badou's butt was right in front of him, covered only by a thin layer of silk from his pajamas.

	He took a sniff first, from several inches away.  There was definitely a pleasant scent.  Clean and scrubbed as always.  Bou always smelled exciting during the day because he was always doing exciting things.  At night he smelled, calm.  It made the fox feel good.

	Jake leaned closer until his nose was pressed right into the crease under Badou's tail for another much more intimate sniff.  He took an almost four second long deep breath through his nose and smiled drunkenly.  That was a LOT different than the last one.  There were a lot more interesting notes to it.

	Badou smelled better than the guards, though not too much different from Cornelius.  He could tell some of what the other boy had eaten and even a few places they'd been the day before.  Sweat and other things came through and made up the handsome pattern of scents that made up his friend Bou.

	The fox didn't like the soapy scent from the pajamas, though.  That kind of messed up the scent in a kind of annoying way.  Soap was too strong, it blocked out all the fun stinky things in life.  Maybe... maybe if he tugged the Pjs down just a little he could get a clean sniff or two.  Badou looked to be sleeping deep enough.  He'd seen them slip down before anyway, so it wouldn't even be unusual.

	A careful tug on just the fabric slipped the hem down halfway.  Jake sighed happily at how easily they'd come down, then pressed his nose into his friend's crevice.  Another long deep sniff had him feeling oddly tight in his pants.  Badou smelled a lot better without the pajamas in the way.  Some of that scent stayed with him as he hurried out of Bou's room and back to his own.

	Jake lay in bed, one hand slipping down to touch his erection, the other cupping over his nose to hold his friend's scent in as long as he could.  Not being able to sleep did have its advantages.
