A few bushels

Story by Caldraken on SoFurry

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Haar'shad and Nerida had become quite close as the resident Wyrm of the Riven'Cliff Clan made herself home. Now they were tasked with turning a farm to bear harvest for the growing population, and the two had quite some success. Though the stock-takers wonder how the two's manifests are always impeccable.

'Must be the diplomat's maths', they'd always say in agreement.

Little did they know, the were a few bushels short of the whole tree.

Feeling inspired together, Croxxy and I began working in parallel for a small scene we both brainstormed together; She came up with this wonderful artwork you see as the thumbnail (and also view the original here!: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42452534) And I wrote up this short story to fit with the characters and scene ^w^ I originally posted to FA, but felt that it better to start psoting any writing I have to SF since it has better tools for reading stories.

It was a joy to see you bring our characters to life with your amazing art, Mal! The colours are amazing, as is the shading with them enjoying the sunset together <3 <3 <3 It makes me grin like a goof seeing it. I love you so much my sweet Queen and I hope you enjoy my words, I just hope to do them justice XD

Haar'shad the Gryphon © Me

Nerida the Wyrm © Croxxy


Sunlight streamed through the paper blinds at the window, casting an auburn glow that dimly lit the cream-coloured room, within which shelves held a multitude of trinkets and odds and ends; glimmering metal and muted stones catching the morning light sparkling crystals dancing motes of light that turned and scintillated as the morning grew older.

Situated in the middle of the room was a large, almost oversized futon. Looking almost comical for any two-leg to see it, If it were not for the creatures nestled within. In one corner a feathered wing lay over the side ungainly stretched and ruffled, while in the other a sky-blue hind-leg stuck out with a lazy sprawl. Both their bodies were covered with a thick woollen blanket, dyed dark navy so much so it appeared to swallow them up like a roiling sea-storm. In the brightening daylight, two pairs of eyes blearily adjusted to the new day, one bright bronze like polished gold, the other lime green of some far off land. With a shake of his head and a parted beak in a wide yawn, a Gryphon head cleared his throat and peered to the window with disdain.

"Morning already?" He coughed, resisting the urge to wrap the warm down of darkness about him that beckoned like the sirens of scary youngling stories. Instead turning to his nest-mate and carefully nudging a black spike he managed to find in front of him. Careful in the sense of avoiding its sharp tip, he knew that Nerida could take some...'urging' to get out of bed with their new abode.

"Urghfargnmrr...I just want more sleep Haar'. Five minutes please." A lighter voice huffed from near his beak, Haar's black crest feathers flaring as he chuckled, a deep rumble that shook the blanket and the other occupant. He nudged down the base of the spike, towards the neck he knew was buried there, carefully parting his dexterous beak to nibble and nip at her.

"Nuh uh Neri, we need to repair the fence, remember? Gotta get it done before the livestock arrives tomorrow, no sleep-in."

The voice didn't take this well, a mournful grumble coming from it, even though she arched her back to press into his attention.

"But Haaaaaar~...that's tomorrow!"

"Yes hun', and we need to finish for tomorrow. C'mon you're just as excited as I am to get some cows." This stilled the voice somewhat, for it took a moment for some movement to be seen, two lime-green eyes peering out from underneath the covers, while a blue and cream coloured snout poked out.

"I still get to name the chickens and ducks and cows right?" Nerida said with a excited smile that she tried to hide with furrowed brows glaring at him, as if he was the one to dare interrupt her slumber.

This made the Gryphon just chuckle, moving a paw up to rub between her horns and down her back.

"Yes you get to name all of them, as long as you don't get too sad when they go to market."

This back rubs made her sigh contentedly, a large yawn parting her maw wide, wider now than even the larger gryphon's beak could as she stretched her forepaws and haunches. Wriggling on her back, she freed her tail-tip to brush alongside the feathered one of her mate. Leaning in to nuzzle her snout into his chest-plumage he ruffled at her touch.

"Okay. I'll get up." She mouthed into a heady sigh, muffled in his fur and feathers. She pulled back, her smile returning as she looked over the Gryphon, taking a moment to roll onto all fours at his side, she shook the blanket off with a chuckle, leaving Haar'shad to embrace the cosiness of her side of the bed with a happy chirrup and flaring of his crest feathers, each one sparkled with a metallic sheen that caught in the sunlight.

"If I'm getting up you're getting up too!" The land-wyrm called back with a playful growl, heading towards the sliding paper door. With a twitch of her tail wagging behind her, the Gryphon's eyes followed her form, her curvaceous frame accentuated as she reached up to grasp the door handle. Her chubby belly swaying slightly while she brought back the sliding door, which squeaked on a worn frame.

"I'll get up Neri! Can't have you and I do work on an empty stomach." He called after her, chuckling as he heard her pause just in the hall.

"Oooh we still have bacon and those smoked sausages and cheeeese left, I'll put the fire on." She giggled happily, leaving the Gryphon half out of bed with the imagery of her thick tail-tip swaying with glee behind her.

The Gryphon and Wyrm were an odd couple to say the least, if you were an outsider to them or their friends. Even more so with the story of how they'd met that fateful day and their closeness grew over the past year.

A desperate tribal raiding a caravan train. A soft spoken guard-turned-ambassador finding her indulging in her winnings. Her remorse was genuine when he'd spoken to her, and she wished to atone for her sins in a way that would be life-changing for someone that'd normally been cast as an outsider to all other's she'd lived with before. Haar'shad's Gryphon clan prided itself in peace and prosperity with any and all races that would allow them to do so. And so soon Nerida was offered a job, a place in society, a place to live, and a Friend in the Gryphon that had once been her jailer and warden.

Day by day, the sky-blue Wyrm adapted and worked hard as a kitchen chef for the clan. Sure it wasn't the most amazing job, and at first she felt overwhelmed and alone. But Haar'shad was there to guide her, to believe in her even when she did not. He could see that she was a broken soul from her upbringing, mirrored in his own, someone cast aside for she was too different and an outsider, the big Gryphon only wished to bring her the glue so that she could mend herself from the pieces of her fractured history.

They had grown closer as the months rolled by, and soon Neri was garnering praise from her boss and customers of her foods alike. The hungry Wyrm had adjusted her own issued meals, within reason of her stature. But reigned in her indulgence and raiding ways when temptation clouded judgement. Soon she was feeling proud as her cooking was perfected, learning new dishes with ease and speed that surprised her head-chefs and supervisors.

Eventually she was selected to cook for the high-council of the Clan for the Last Harvest Festival. A Festival held in Riven'Cliff Gryphon traditions to hail the end of autumn into a new winter. A great honour, she felt nerves at the prospect of it, but with her new-found friend to confide in with Haar'shad, she didn't feel so alone anymore, she felt welcomed into her new Gryphon clan family, and her confidence grew even if her trepidation lapped at the edge of her calming island.

Soon the eve came, the recipe card was in land-wyrm's black claws, and she had a whole storeroom and kitchen to get her task done. It wasn't the kitchen she was most used to, instead one situated close to the council chambers, traditionally the Gryphons who savoured each meal first in a show of the Clan's bounty.

Nerida felt as though her scales would jump right of her hide at moments, but focusing on her task, she made light work of the new recipe, just another one to add to her growing repertoire of foods she could make to order. It almost looked like she would be able to make all the cakes.

It was then her curiosity at the taste of these interesting, red cakes got the better of her. Swiping a claw-tip through some cake batter that had spattered her once pristine scales , the curious sky-blue maw parted, and Neri took a lick of the cake batter . It was nirvana to her taste buds, and the wall of resistance to her hunger and gluttonous ways crumbled.

Soon enough there wasn't enough to satisfy the Wyrm, the guilt of not finishing her task was overruled by the aching hunger in her belly, more and more cake batter found itself flowing down her gullet and filling out her expansive middle, her body worked in overdrive with the excess sugary calories, the name-band she took pride of wearing to signify her as part of the clan and her role within the kitchens, already looked strained and frayed at her thickening thigh, while her rotundity forced her to pause in her gorging, and instead turn to the icing she'd yet poured onto towering cakes.

It was there that Haar'shad found her, having gone to see if she needed help on missing their meeting time. It was there that Haar'shad almost let out his innermost secret of curvaceous desire he had for as long as he'd remembered, a Gryphon of his stature in the regimented ranks of the Clan guards rarely was able to indulge, and so the desire sank.

The Wyrm and her gluttonous ways woke it within him, the way he'd seen her on the day of her capture, so rotund in indulgence she scarcely thought of anything else other than her desires.

He'd seen in her form over the days and months they'd lived together, seemingly a bottomless pit of food and hungry for yet more. He couldn't let his mind get the better of them in their current situation, and the look of her worry and guilt as he found her at her weakest, looking to him for support and help, he wouldn't let her down.

Together, he brought the swooshing, jiggling, overfed Wyrm back to their home to be cleaned up, already concocting a plan to stop any issues coming up from her eating the deserts of the council.

Once home, the had to clean her scales of the cake-batter she'd spattered herself with. Her embarrassment lessening as her friend helped her out. Nerida was soon asking for the Gryphon's help, the larger male taking a cloth to her sky-blue and white scales to clean the thick, creamy batter from her, he could feel her warmth and suppleness underneath his paws, the roundness of her form underneath and how much she'd thickened up with all the cake batter she'd drank down.

It was a red rag to a bull.

His feathers ruffled up, his fur fluffed at his chest and underbelly. As he massaged and cleaned her belly lower and lower, the dragoness pressed into his touch, sighing in contentment and melted further, asking for him to reach lower and lower, lifting her tail for access to her inner thighs.

The evidence of their enjoyment was soon obvious to the Gryphon, getting closer and closer to her haunches, a massage and a lick, blushing scales and feathers and they were a heated mess of bird and dragon, blushing up a storm as they both admitted their closeness, and want, need for more.

The Gryphon took it slow, and showed Nerida the ways to consummate their love together, that her indulgence was something to be embraced, adored, and that they could be even closer than she had ever thought possible. He took care of the dragoness, focusing on her own enjoyment and pleasure, as she returned to him, showing the larger Gryphon sensitivity and care with her form over every inch of his.

Together they cuddled up in their home having embraced closeness both hadn't yet had before. Their differences were contrasted in their forms and species, but together they enjoyed each other's kindness and care for each other. The land-wyrm's gluttony and greed when it came to food was the final push both needed to admit their feelings.

The mess of the Festival's Cakes was quickly forgotten to them both. And a panicked, squawking Gryphon woke up earlier than the dragoness to spin a tale of missing ingredients and drunken tomfoolery.

Their excuse accepted, the number of cakes Nerida did complete went down a treat with the assembled council, and so they instated Nerida as the head of the kitchen she once worked for. Ecstatic, the Wyrm and Gryphon celebrated with some additional treats of Nerida's choice, some fresh cheeses and breads she had enjoyed but rarely got through her normal meals with their time taken to mature. They embraced their love for indulgence, Nerida's waistline hit a new record as a result.

Soon the Wyrm was busy as the head chef of the kitchen, it was almost too much at first, but Haar'shad's guiding wings and support gave her the drive to show people she could do anything asked of her. Eventually it did come with its own bonus', of being able to order her own stock for her speciality meals to try and experiment with; for willing participants and her self. Sometimes excess stock went amiss, but that wasn't going to be noticed outside of her own eyes. The Gryphon managed to gain a new ambassador supervisor role in the office, so that he was always here for the dragoness should she need it, and together their love blossomed.

As did Nerida's thickness with her extravagant and 'missing' stock. It wasn't unknown for Haar'shad to come back at the end of the week, to find the dragoness in an almost comatose state, having devoured almost her own weight in cheese she had started to take a fancy to. Laying belly up on their now-shared bed, rubbing her roundness and presenting with a curled tail for the Gryphon to come home. Usually with his own treats found at the market to feed to the Wyrm as they enjoyed together.

Each evening it felt as though her waistline swelled further, the internal pressures for both were more pleasurable, and their shared embrace was more heated. There was more than a few mornings they woke up still entwined together, embracing the thickness and her growling belly's hunger in the morning.

So they grew comfortable in their home, their mate-ship known to their close friends, they kept up the appearance of the ordinary at their jobs, while each thought of returning to the other's embrace, the thought of enjoying each other as Nerida's softness increased. Of feeding the gluttonous Wyrm yet more food, and secretly, enjoying the thrill of something as naughty as the night of the cakes.

Their opportunity came one evening in winter, when stock-take was to be done by Nerida. Hearing this, she shared with Haar'shad and their blushing muzzles betrayed their intentions, for if Nerida was to do the stock-take of her kitchen, she could write what was and wasn't as she wished.

Their night was long as it was luxurious, the Gryphon could not resist the thought of stuffing the blue dragoness with as much as she desired, and with her being a hungry, bottomless pit; they made short work of the pantry at her kitchen. Assortments of cheeses, preserves, meats and sweets went down her gullet, along with many many barrels of cream and beers and ales, the shelves growing bare, and pushed to the side to make way for her ever-expanding-belly she rested atop of -stretched tight and bunched up from her pressure at the floor.

Haar'shad's rutting was hard and feral, his instincts unable to be held back by the sight of his mate giving into her hunger and turning into the glutinous Wyrm she and him desired. She got many fillings beside her own, and their blushing muzzles and expressions showed their enjoyment. They both blushed up a storm at the agreement that they'd repeat the night the next time they could.

Together, they hatched a plan to do so at the end of every week, when the kitchen was empty, and the stock would be replenished in the morning, the blue Wyrm could order her kitchen's stock before devouring the excess remaining. And together they'd get peace to enjoy together.

Many weeks they enjoyed, the assortments different every time, some nights Neri had enough cream for the whole Clan, her belly swooshing to Haar's thrusts while she rest atop it like a bed. Others, she made up her own cake batter, having the Gryphon feed it to her from an overflowing barrel. Each time her belly swelled just slightly bigger, and she felt less overstuffed as her capacity grew.

It wasn't the only thing that grew, her thickness increased with each week and month, soon the Wyrm's thighs and tail were thicker than the Gryphon's. While her belly brushed the floor after each stuffing with ease.

Springtime rolled by, and it was soon apparent to all that these repeated gluttonous moments were affecting more than just Nerida's weight. Her overall size, her height and length, were growing with her stomach. The excess calories were put to good use to increase the size of the Wyrm, and it just made her hunger grow with her. Haar'shad wasn't one to complain, however, as her increased size added to her gluttony, their smaller size difference week after week allowing them to indulge in things that at her smaller size had to be taken with patience and care, their mating and closeness only grew with the Wyrm, even when their shared bedchamber was soon a fight for each blanket on the still-frosty mornings.

As Nerida's size increased, her hunger increased, but her resistance to her desires shrank, she struggled at times to not devour the meals she prepared day-by-day, and the stockroom was bare each weekend before the full stock. They knew that if they wished to indulge still, they needed a new plan.

That was when at the height of summer. Haar'shad heard of an abandoned farm, once in control of the humans, it had been found abandoned by their Gryphon patrols , with ample patchwork of fields, small dirt tracks, and an abandoned barn and collapsed house.

Haar'shad jumped at the chance, claiming himself and Nerida would be able to farm the land, with her background with the bovine clans, she knew how to forage and farm crops and they'd be able to contribute to the clan.

The council agreed, seeing the Land-Wyrm's glowing reviews, and unsure how having two creatures the size of Haar'shad in halls not made for them would continue to be a productive environment for them to contribute.

The two for now equal sized mates set out for their new home with elation, and teasing smirks and brushes of wings and paws and tails against one another, as they thought of their new-found freedom to embrace one another, indulge together, and order supplies once again without oversight.

Over the last few weeks, time had both felt to stand still and be a blur to the Gryphon and Dragon. While the farm allowed them ample enough space to accommodate creatures their size. The stipulation from the clan was that they had to bring it up to a productive rate. And so they had many days of renovation, rebuilding and re-tilling the land, each agreeing silently for their breaks of embracing and love together underneath the shining stars and forest canopy, their days ending with hunting to keep themselves and Neri's gluttony fed, snuggled around a camp fire where they told one another of their histories, their stories and embraced the love and desires that brought them together.

Together they'd cleared out the barn, each curious with its rather unique architecture that seemed to have hailed from humans in a far-off island, at least that's what Haar'shad had read in a book before. The eves curled at the edges, the roof tiles were black terracotta and rain rolled down them to collect in barrels, and the doors slid on rollers that let them be opened easily by creatures their size.

They'd found some interesting items used to work the land, some harness' for horses, and many newfangled machinations to fertilise the crops and the chemicals to help support their growth were soon found to be used once the Gryphon and Wyrm had their fields under control.

Together they'd ploughed the fields for their required crops. Some wheat, barley and apples were already growing in the heating summertime sun, and would soon turn roasted bronze for their harvest. Haar had fallen into the role of the crop-tender, while Nerida's excitement to tending to the animals had her preparing a newly constructed barn with a few helpers for their coming livestock. And though Haar' was unsure of using the human chemicals without instructions, Nerida's insistence would soon have them testing it upon the fields to increase their yields.

This week, it had been the repairing and stumping of new fences around all their land. Both useful for their crops and coming live-stock, but to also show them what area they had to work with. It was hot work underneath the beating sun, lugging large logs and digging with their paws, but together they'd completed most of the fence around their home, and were now just about to finish the fence riding along the grassy berm that separated a dirt-road from their lands.

"C'mon Haar, you need keep daydreaming like that you'll be asleep again!" The dragoness giggled, tearing a piece of thick-cut bacon off of an appropriately sized plate for their meal. However her own plate was noticeably piled high compared to the Gryphon's, with a large amount of bread and cheeses she loved to add her cooked meats to. Juices already coated her muzzle, while her curvaceous form pressed at the skins they'd placed around the table.

Ruffling up his feathers, the Gryphon splayed his ears and chirped in surprise at trailing off already.

"Sorry Neri, I was just, thinking about how far we've come in such a short time." He said with a smile, his beak parted, tongue curled slightly.

The thought made the Dragoness' tail twitch and sway behind her, her eyes softening at the snow-white Gryphon beside her, her paw finding his to clutch it gently.

"Awww you're too sweet to a land-Wyrm like me, Haar' I...I couldn't have done it without you, I'd be stuck in the forest, raiding caravans and with no company in my little cave."

"Neither could I without you, I'd be stuck in that stuffy office still, not going out for anything other than work. But together...we have found closeness none others gave us, and a home and a life we'd never imagined," his golden orbs watched the Wyrm from the over side of the table, she could see his plumage ruffling up as he spoke, while warmth kindled great sparks in the depths of his eyes, her maw parted in a warm smile, as her brows softened at the thought of it all.

"We really have come so far, in just one year we've turned our lives around into something we love 'hun..." She breathed, turning her muzzle around the room as if to signify all they'd built together in just one year.

Leaning over the table, the Gryphon nuzzled his black beak at her neck, whispering to her.

"I love you so much, Nerida."

"And I love you so much too, Haar'shad." The Wyrm felt a warmth rise to her thickened cheeks, causing a rosy tint to her creamy scales that the Gryphon could spy from the corner of his eye. He savoured the sight of her beauty at the table, so ravishing in her sky-blue scales and mottled patterns, to her piercing green gaze that had caught his attention that day almost a world ago.

It was then the Wyrm's greedy stomach punctuated their tender moment with a grumble of protest at not being fed, both of them laughing at the sound of it reverberating off the wooden walls of their home, the Gryphon's ears perking towards the sound, while his gaze turned to her middle that rested between her haunches against the ground.

"Well I suppose I better listen to you belly and keep eating since you're always so hungry, I'm a growing girl after all~." She teased to the Gryphon with a flick of her tail, one paw rubbing her curvaceous middle smirking with amusement, melting away embarrassment as she could see Haar's gaze turn back, a sigh coming through his beak as his mind thought about more indulgent results.

"Mmm...yeah, you are Neri, I don't know where you put it all away sometimes without feeling full. You're like a bottomless pit."

This caused the Wyrm to chuckle, patting at the flanks of her roundness beneath her, causing it to jiggle slightly in place."You know it's all in here! My belly just doesn't know when to stop." With that, it gave another grumble, quieter than the last, which made them both burst out into laughter again.

After a moment, the Gryphon nibbled at her neck, pulling back slowly. "I suppose you don't want breakfast to go cold, we'll be busy working today." Haar'shad said after a coughing chirp that was a Gryphon call of admitting thoughts wandering, reluctantly he turned back to his side of the table, carefully nibbling a soft white bun filled with bacon he'd added some cheese too.

The Wyrm returned to her own meal with ferocity that matched the growl her belly had made. In the time Haar finished his bun, she'd swallowed three down her thick neck, her eating just punctuated by her happy grumbles and Haar's own murmurings at the savoury delights they had.

"What are we doing today then hun'? The fence is almost finished!"

"Well we still need to finish it for the animals, but we also need to be clearing the apples before they fall off the trees and rot and give the ravens some drunken nights." Haar replied with a chuckle, the blue paws in front of him finished their buns, plucking up the reminder bacon slices on her black claws as if they were crisps to the Wyrm to eat as a snack.

"Ooh yeah you're right, don't want drunk ravens." The Wyrm purred and giggled to the thought, the idea of making something with the apples ran through her mind, some apple pies or crumbles, or some fruit jam for her buns in the morning.

"Ooh can we save some apples for the farm? I know we need to give some to the Clan, but I'd like to try some fresh ones in cooking." She looked across at the Gryphon in front of her, each time she did there was a thrill running through her spine to find someone so kind and caring to her.

"If you make some apple and cinnamon crumble, we can." He replied with a Gryphon smirk, his beak open and tongue curled slightly out.

"Of course of course I love crumble too!" The Wyrm replied with a happy growl, finishing her meal with ravenous delight at the thought of making some more sweet treats later in the week.

Those are her favourite.

When they'd cleared their two plates, the two large creatures slid open the barn doors on their home, and threw open the window shutters, letting the gentle breeze waft through and keep the wooden home cool in the summery heat.

Outside the trees whispered and the small stream gurgled, beckoning them to get started before the day grew too hot. Together the Wyrm and Gryphon headed to the newly constructed barn the Clan had commissioned for them. It was a more austere affair to the conversion they'd made their home.

With single-plank siding and a tarred roof, it also had a door that ran on metal wheels, but the sidings were painted in cheery red and white the humans said 'was what a barn should look like.'

Inside it held ample space with numerous divided areas set aside for storage, animal care, and equipment. They grabbed many jute bags and a number of wheelbarrows they'd had the Clan commissioned for their larger size. Taking them to the overgrown orchard to the side of their fenced off field.

The orchard had been planted when they'd found the place, all neat rows of small apple trees, their boughs heavy with ripening, rich burgundy apples. The council had mentioned that this would be their first and also most successful harvest, as the apples had handled being abandoned much better than the weed ridden fields.

There was some vines growing between branches, causing some apples to be pulled loose and fall onto the floor, but underneath the canopy of leaves they hadn't yet began to rot and turn to mush.

The hours grew long as Haar'shad and Nerida began their work, Neri found it relatively easy to sit on her hindpaws, balanced with her tail to reach through the branches and grab the rosy apples, dropping them into the burgeoning, brown rough sack between her paws.

Haar'shad wasn't able to balance so well with his thinner, Gryphon tail, instead he used a singular paw to grab at the apples easy to reach. Others, he propped himself up against the trunk, arching his neck and beak to gingerly take apples, plopping them in his own sack as they worked through the orchard.

There was a good 20 or so trees, but with not so much tending and a drier spring and summer there wasn't so many apples weighing the boughs, and the Gryphon and Dragoness made light work of it. Underneath the canopy, they were given respite from the beating sun. And it was only when they saw they'd filled their wheelbarrows did they take a moment to stop. Neri's sky-blue snout peering up and out from the canopy where she gave a growl of surprise.

"Haar it's already late afternoon! We better get that fence done before sundown." She called back to him, picking up the modified wheelbarrow handle to race off into the sunlight. Their wheelbarrows had a new handle at the middle, allowing them to grasp it with one forepaw and use their others for traction if needed. Most of the time the dragoness managed to balance on her hind-legs and walk like the two-legs.

"Don't worry Neri! Sundown is still a few hours away!" The Gryphon ruffled his feathers, preening a feather that had been tucked loose from his plumage. Chuckling as the energetic Wyrm had already found the small gulley where their farmland ended, and their fence was almost complete. He could juse see the bright blue of her snout snaking between the fence and their tools, while her tailtip flicked above the boundry earth.

She's definitely completely come out of her shell. The Gryphon thought with a warm glow filling his chest, she was hardly comparable to the Dragoness he'd captured on the road, having gained her purpose and joy, her green eyes now shone with joy rather than suspicion.

Following Nerida along, the Gryphon helped her hoist stumps off the cart they employed. The Dragoness' forepaws were wider with greater protection with her pads, making her better at digging the ground to sink the stumps in, Haar's sharper talons made small work of the metal wire weave they wound around the planks, while he hammered them home, Nerida thumped the next stump into the ground, using her tail to sift the dirt she'd excavated back around it.

The end post on the corner was only a few paces away. But with the animals set to be delivered tomorrow they wanted to ensure everything was ready for them. The sun was beginning to descend under the craggy teeth of the rising western mountains, already the clouds had taken on a pastel, softened appearance.

"One more Haar and we have the animal field done!" Neri breathed after an hour of strenuous activity; her tongue was hanging out of her maw slightly from the heat, while the furred Gryphon was fairing no better, his beak was widely parted, while his ears where flattened against his ruffled up fur. On his wings, his long, flexible wing-tip feathers where extended, some trailing on the ground.

"And not a moment too soon, I'll be needing a dunk in the pond when we're done." He said through pants, hoisting the last plank plank and bringing it across, the dragoness smirked at his side, giving his neck a tender nuzzle, reaching for one end of the plank and taken it in paw.

"Oh don't worry I'll be joining you Haar', it's a busy day but we've got so much done, we'll have some time to celebrate after dinner, there done~" She teased, reaching for an oversized hammer fit for their paws, carefully hammering her side in while the white Gryphon rumbled in his chest and fluffed up his fur even further in pride. The bare fence was complete in front of them at the top of the berm, Haar'shad pecked at the plank, testing its sturdiness, causing the Dragoness to giggle lightly.

"I look forward to it 'hun, besides I think you've deserved a nice dinner, my treat..." He trailed off as the dragoness' belly seemed to hear his offer, growling loud enough that it silenced some of the twittering birds in nearby trees, Neri answered its call and rubbed her flank with one paw after setting the hammer down.

"Might need to get something sooner rather than later now we're done, that pond dunk might need to wait. I didn't realise how hungry I was." The dragoness huskily breathed, eyes closed as she moaned to the sensitive scales lit aflame with her paw at her flank, her tail swayed slightly, brushing against Haar's own haunch, her muzzle half open with a pant not brought on by the summer temperatures.

"Mmm feeling sensitive again are we dear?" Haar'shad took notice of his mate's shiver and paw rubs at her flanks, his paw finding the opposite side, giving her supple curves rubs in small concentric circles with his paw-pads, stopping to grasp with pinpricks of his talons. Her sharp inhale made his ears twitch, while his beak opened slightly in his smirk as his ears perked.

"U-uh yes~ every day you feed this bottomless pit of a middle it feels like I get more sensitive to our attentions. And hungry for more~." Her scales at her muzzle turned a darker hue in her blush, admitting such things was usually whispered to one another, but with their freedoms now, the thrill of admitting their fantasies made real added to the their desires .

"Your form is just adapting to your sexy curves growing bigger, my hungry Wyrm." The Gryphon replied with a happy chirrup, his ears growing hot as his mind wandered with his eyes, roving down to her swaying, heavy middle.

"Well I can't say I dislike it, I wonder if I'll get so sensitive you can just rub me to sleep." She chuckled and settled down on her front, her curves spreading out against the cool grass, the soft blades tickled a little, but aided her cooling-off with a hearty sigh, for but a moment.

"Ahh the grass pinches between scales!" She shivered for a moment, rolling onto her back, resting her paws at her thicker form.

"Something I have had great pleasure in not experiencing."

"Better than taking all night to get dry." She teased back, nipping his crest feathers as he batted her away.

"I suppose that's a downside to feathers, but at least they hide my blushes when discussing our more risqué thoughts..."

That garnered a huff from the sky-blue dragoness, her white cheeks going a noticeably warmer colour. "No fair!"

She grumbled slightly, gently rubbing her middle as it punctuated their discussion with a growl of hunger. With her paw pads gently rasping against her own scales, Nerida's hide was tingling with delight under her touch. Their repeated fillings and stretching of her belly seemed to increase her sensitivity to touch, even with her middle almost empty, it felt pleasant to run her paws across her form, and was a tantalising taste of just how sensitive she could be when they had indulged in prior evenings.

Seeing his mate engrossed in her own form, the Gryphon fluffed up at the sight of Neri's green gaze focused on her own scales, a sparkling delight in their irises as thoughts of their shared taboos made her tail flick about behind her, and her stomach grumble in growing anger, this time loud enough to silence the birds in the orchard nearby.

"Don't worry my hungry Wyrm, I shall find a snack for you to devour." Haar'shad teased, mantling his wings in a salute to Neri where she layed against the grassy berm, he looked behind himself towards the house, a few snacks were in a cool pantry room they had furnished. But the sun gleamed on one wheelbarrow they'd filled with apples after running out of rough sacks.

Hmmm, I suppose they did only want apples in those pre-sized bags for the Clan... Smirking with his beak open and a glint in his pupils, the Gryphon wheeled the barrow back in front of Neri, who had at first laid back and massaged her abdomen with both forepaws, but sat back up at the sound of him returning so soon, her eyes wide.

"Aren't they for the Clan, Haar?"

"Nope, they're for you sweetie, remember the order request, 'as many standard bags as the orchard bears'...we don't have anymore bags." The penny dropped for her, her muzzle parted in a toothy smirk. While she slapped her middle to make it jiggle and growl for her mate.

"Well, I suppose I don't want the apples to go to waste." Nerida playfully mimed nomming some apples, while she leant back against the grass, sighing at the warming sun's last golden rays hitting both the Gryphon and herself.

With heavy-lidded eyes, she gazed at the golden orbs of the Gryphon beside her, giving a sultry tilt to her head, she opened her maw wide. An expression that made the Gryphon's feathers ruffle up while he also chirruped.

"You always look so adorable like that hun', hungry yet playful." He nibbled at her neck and chin as she batted at his beak, growling and opening her maw further, her jaws almost inline with one another.

In front of the Gryphon lay a yawning chasm of grey flesh, her thick, purple tongue sat nestled between her white fangs. Nerida's ability to open her maw hugely to fit whatever she could in it reminded Haar of some serpents inside a biology book he had picked up from human vendors in the 'Cliffs.

Fits with her ability to fall asleep after such a huge meal to digest it. He chuckled at the thought, and plucked up a few apples speared on his foretalons.

Its rind was rosy green, turning to a burgundy that shone in the sun, from the pinprick of his talon, juice oozed and held a sweet tang that made the Gryphon's nostril's flare almost at the same time as saliva pooled in Neri's open maw.

"Ahhr 'onnt eese ee!" She grumbled as he dangled them above her, the Gryphon gently rubbed her belly for a moment, seeing her shoulders sag and ease from her mock-anger, He gently flicked them off, one-by-one, into her eager mouth, the apples bite-sized to them both, each one thunking against her open mouth, but soon with five sitting in on her tongue there was enough for her to devour. The hungry Wyrm wrapped her dexterous tongue around them, a purple ribbon tying them down as she closed her maw with the audible crunch of a few apples between her fangs.

"Mmm ish good aar'!" She mumbled after chewing, her tail swishing against the grass behind them as Haar laid down beside her, letting his paws be free to continue grasping more apples in one, while another rubbed her middle, his beak open and feathers flared in glee as Nerida eat. The Wyrm swallowed them down with audible gulps, while her natural peristalsis action let the bulges travel down her accommodating throat to begin filling the void that was her middle.

"Hmm you like? Wasn't sure if they'd be ripe enough with the weather being so sunny and not rainy."

"No...they're nice and sweet and juicy, give me more...please!" Nerida gave him a playful growl and smirked with her jaws open partly, her green eyes shining at the Gryphon to beg for more food.

Haar was more than happy to oblige the hungry Wyrm, spearing another bushel of apples in one paw's talons, to then plop into the grey flesh of her waiting mouth. Crunching down happily, Nerida savoured the sweet juices of each fresh apple crushed between her fangs, letting the soft flesh against her tongue make her groan and swish her tail in delight.

Haar'shad took to rubbing his paw-pads on her belly then, making her nostrils flare as she huffed at the pleasurable sensation from her thickened belly being extra sensitive to his touch, it jiggled and shook as she flicked her tail, one of her own paws slapping at it while it growled in mixed satisfaction and hunger for more.

"Not gonna fill itself, is it hun'?" Haar perked his ears, chuckling deep in his chest as a rather bird-like chirrup as he feed her more and more apples.

Each mouthful placated the bottomless pit of her hunger if only a little, each sweet bite made Nerida groan in delight and shiver at the thought of eating more and more of their delicious supply of rosy apples. Her belly began to swell slightly by the fifth pawful, her hands roving its curve excitedly as she shivered and moaned in delight.

"Mmmm stuff me full Haar~!" She cried in a mixture of desire and frustration, she could still feel her body begging for more. "There's more room for that entire barrow there." She gave him a sidelong glance, pointing her muzzle to the metal barrow at her mate's side, the pile of apples had shrank somewhat, but was still stacked neatly just over the rim.

"Alright hun', but you're making dinner to make up for me feeding you." A black paw swatted her belly, making it jiggle and sway in waves like the ocean.

"H-Hey!" She shivered and arched her back, feeling a delightful tingle left in the wake of his paw's travel that made her bite her lower lip.

"Be a good girl and finish your meal, Neri." Haar clicked his beak in mock annoyance, his crest feathers flared about his head and his ears twitching to the sound of Neri's happy sigh. The Gryphon bull took the largest bunch of apples yet into his paw, scooping them close to his chest down feathers, where he cradled them over her waiting outstretched maw, so that Neri could chomp them down.

Ah so this is the game he wants to play? The dragoness' hind paws flexed in delight as her maw was stuffed totally full of the apples. Her belly let loose a loud gurgle of delight at the thought of just what she and Haar were doing now -giving into her hunger to truly stretch and fill her middle, and stuff her completely full.

The sudden surge of apples was a surprise, but it was easy for the Wyrm to close her maw from its unhinged state around them, some bulged her cheeks, but their practice and other indulging had left the Wyrm with a comfortable maw able to take the apples with ease..

Actually, how about I give Haar a nice tease? She turned her green gaze to him, looking him in the eye, her purple tongue twisted and directed the apples to her throat, swallowing down each one whole, she could feel her gullet stretching and bulging with each one, but easily now she could devour them whole. It left her shivering at the thought of each apple filling her more and more. And so she gripped her belly and rubbed it in small circles, feeling it stretch and grow slowly with each swallow.

Haar'shad was her rapt audience the entire time. His feathers flared at his neck and head-crest, wings and wail, the Gryphon rumbling in his chest and cooing to her as she devoured the huge mouthful with care and surprising swiftness . Pressing forward, the Gryphon tenderly nibbled at her neck, marvelling at the apples bulging her.

"Naughty Neri...I guess this wheelbarrow won't be enough huh?" He breathed, his feathers ruffling up more in a gryphon-blush.

"Y...You know me Haar ', there'll be dinner after this too." She breathed with panting breath, though it was tougher than chewing, there was a thrill involved with such large swallows, looking down her front to her swelling belly, it now noticeably rounded in front of her from a few dozen apples.

And so Haar'shad fed her another large mouthful, the same as before. Neri relished the thrill of the hungry look in his eyes roving her growing form, her belly beginning to grumble quieter as it began working on her meal, it's scales growing more sensitive the more it rounded out in front of her, each mouthful was another tantalising increase in pressure at her from within, yet the deeper hunger was not phased; the desire to consume all the apples made her jiggle her belly in excitement, it kept up her ravenous eating. Pausing only to rub her form, and feel a blush at her cheeks as Haar did so too.

The more she eat, the more Nerida relaxed with her mate against the grassy berm, the prickly grass soon forgotten, she closed her eyes and just let her open maw do the talking, as well as her belly still making its displeased, empty for more. Massaging her front made the warmth within her bloom, her chubby form pressing against her with her heavy meal was tantalising in a way that only her Gryphon mate knew all too well.

The filling mawfuls continued for a while longer, each one sounded by an increasingly louder gong of the metal barrow being emptied further and further.

"All done, Neri." Haar'shad said with a inflection brought on by the heat in his own feathers after her final mawful, her jaws snapping shut and her eyes going wide. The dragoness was almost in a trance of hunger and feasting all at once. Blinking blearily, she sat up slightly, marvelling at the round dome that had formed now from all the apples now taking up space in her belly.

"Wow...all that to make it swell only this much?" She huffed in annoyance, lightly gripping her belly to make it shake , and gasping back at the moan that it led her.

"Well, it is only one barrow..."

"Yeah but it was a big barrow!"

"Only when you were smaller!" Haar nipped at her neck spikes, laying down beside her to marvel at her rotundity. He couldn't keep his paws off her, and with her mate lavishing attention at her fullness Nerida was soon purring loudly to him. He smirked with his open beak, tongue curling as he licked at her ear.

"Don't worry, we'll fill you with dinner, and some dessert," He teased, feeling her press into him with a amorous chuckle. The thought brought more colour to her cheeks, as well as the desire for more, for they had both learnt in their time together that Neri's appetite was boundless should she give into it.

"I'd especially like some dessert." She licked her lips playfully, giggling as her stomach churned and audibly agreed its hunger for more to them. The distraction brought her attention to the clouds at the far horizon, the blanket had been pierced by a thin veil of warm, golden light as the sun reached for its night-time cloak.

"Maybe after the sunset." Haar nuzzled her neck, turning to watch with her while the rays swept their way across the land.

Together, the two sat entwined, Neri's tail around Haar's hind-leg, while he let his neck be a fluffy pillow that she may rest against.

The kaleidoscope of colours wowed them as the sun set, a rainbow of purples, reds, blues and even navy cast across the sky and its woven tapestry of fluffy clouds, each one going through a rainbow of colours as day-time ended and night-time began.

Nuzzling her neck and licking her Cheek, Haar'shad gently squeezed and played with her middle, eliciting a loud grumble, louder than even a purr from the dragoness.

"I think it's time for some dessert, hun'..."