Anduin Wrynn's Adventures: Ch. 4 - Comfort during Cataclysm

Story by Et2bruttus on SoFurry

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#5 of Anduin Wrynn's Adventures

Chapter 4 Summary: After an unprecedented earthquake unfolds, Prince Anduin Wrynn gets cozy and warm with a lovely refugee in the storm-stricken town of Kharanos...


Anduin tugged back the reins of his ram, causing it to stamp its hooves and screech to a halt. Behind him, his dwarven bodyguard Aerin had her strong arms wrapped about his torso as they had hastily been trudging their way through the snow. Ahead of them was their destination: the town of Kharanos, which evidently had seen better days.

The day before, Anduin had parted ways with his new friend, the friendly gnome engineer Elyna Sparkbolt, before spending the better part of the day at the Ironforge library with Aerin and Advisor Belgrum of the Explorers League. During that time, when the three had been attempting to translate a series of ancient earthen tablets, they had been interrupted by an earthquake of drastic proportions rumbling its way through Ironforge, Dun Morogh, and light knows where else.

Although the cataclysmic quake had not severely damaged Ironforge (due to its mountainous location) nor wounded many of its citizens, many of the other towns across Dun Morogh had sustained a great deal of damage, including the central dwarven town of Kharanos. And now, as both Anduin and Aerin surveyed the aftermath from a distance, they could see that the small town had taken the blunt of the destruction in Dun Morogh.

Anduin and Aerin dismounted their ram as they stared grimly at the chaos that had once been a calm town. Many of the buildings including the inn and the armory had large chunks of stone missing from their exterior; many of those collapsed structures now littered the cobblestone road. In all directions, within the town and around it, the town's dwarven and gnomish denizens as well as other visitors of various races were scrambling about in a panic, struggling to recover from the unprecedented disaster that had been the earthquake.

Straight ahead of them, along the outskirts of town were High Priest Rohan and several other dwarf priests attending to various victims of the catastrophe. Amongst those being aided by the priests were a gnome mother and her two young children, several elderly dwarves, and a burly dwarf male being (unwillingly) attended to by a visiting female night elf priestess.

Anduin ran forward to the ensemble of injured and the healers working to patch them up with what little energy and resources they had. He was eager to lend his hand to the efforts, just as he had with Elyna the day before the unexpected earthquake ripped through the peaks. Although he was only a healer in training, capable in merely basic first aid, he knew that Rohan needed all the help he could get during this dire situation. He may not be able to wield the light like a full-fledged priest could, but he could certainly assuage minor injuries and help distribute necessary supplies to the villagers.

Aerin moved forward into town to assist the mountaineers and the other able-bodied citizens working to clear the rubble while Anduin stayed to help Rohan with the injured. The Thunderbrew Inn and Distillery had been devastated by the earthquake more than any other building of town. Mounds of snow had poured forth onto the building, burying much of the entrance and making it difficult for the citizens who had been sheltered within to get out. Luckily, Aerin and the other burly mountaineers were working to clear the entrance and get those trapped within the inn out.

Anduin meanwhile provided what assistance he could to the wounded and injured under the care of Rohan and the priests. He used his limited, rudimentary skill in healing to bandage and provide healing elixirs to the patients with the most superficial injuries, tending to their injuries as he had done with Elyna the day before. His efforts were undoubtedly necessary though, for Rohan and the priests could focus their efforts toward the worst-case scenarios among the wounded.

Amid the already chaotic circumstances, disaster once again stuck in the form of another unexpected aftershock. Anduin himself was thrown to the ground along with the other wounded and terrified Kharanos denizens. As the earth shook and rumbled with the intense instability of the earthquake itself, Anduin and the other townsfolk were reduced to debilitated, terrified wrecks lying prone on the ground, each of them not knowing what to do in the midst of such pandemonium. Luckily Rohan was able to lift their spirits through the chaos, at least enough that they weren't completely stricken with fear.

The worst occurrence with the aftershock however, was the fact that inn had been utterly buried by a mountain of snow and rubble. Anduin, Rohan and many other ceased their efforts with the minor wounded and turned their attention to the buried Thunderbrew Distillery, and the people trapped within it by even more obstacles.

Many people lent their hands to the recovery efforts and getting the trapped and wounded in the inn to safety, with the fourteen-year-old Stormwind prince at the forefront. Unwounded dwarves and gnomes cleared away the rubble gradually in unison as the sounds of faint tapping and muffled voices from within the buried inn spurred them on. The initial problem came with clearing what seemed like an insurmountable amount of snow. A gnome mage attempted to use her magic to melt the snow before Anduin stopped her.

Thankfully, the gnome ceased her conjuring of fire to melt the snow as per the young prince's insistence. Luckily, another solution came in the form of an idea presented by another visitor.

"Wind," another visitor said. This time, it was a blue-skinned draenei woman adorned in the garb of a shaman. Anduin nodded and voiced his agreement as the ability of using the elements to clear the snow seemed like a good idea.

This draenei had the exotic features common in most of her race; bluish skin tone, radiant glowing eyes, blue-black hair, a tail, hooves, curved pointy ears, and a head of exotic blue tendrils to go along with her hair. This particular draenei too had curvaceous hips beneath her runed chainmail shaman skirt, and a pleasing posterior set of generous, concealed breasts that would make any male forget about any inhibitions concerning her alien appearance.

Even after several years of draenei being part of the Alliance, there were still a number of humans and other alliance races that found them rather strange, both customs and appearance wise. But as Anduin looked at her now, he didn't find anything disconcerting about her appearance. In fact, he found her graceful, exotic form to be quite a lovely sight; the tail and tendrils strangely appealing and complimentary to her sleek, sexy figure.

As the draenei female cast her spell, Anduin couldn't help but let his eyes travel over her form and be enraptured by her beauty. He stared captivatingly at her breasts cloaked by a chestpiece that did little to hide them, as well as the slender hips that gave way to her concealed treasures. Anduin bit his lip and blushed, looking away in embarrassment as he simultaneously wished that he would have the wonderful privilege of exploring the intrinsic secrets of female draenei anatomy in thorough detail. He knew though that given the present circumstances, this was neither the time nor the place to be thinking of such things, even if deep down he did desire them.

The draenei shut her eyes in concentration and twiddled her fingers as she cast a spell. After a few moments, a totem appeared which summoned a small wind elemental to do her bidding and sweep away the mounds of snow separating the group from the inn beneath it. To her dismay however, the elemental would not heed her commands at first. Finally though, after some insistence, she finally urged the elemental to clear the snow in a flurry of spinning wind.

The relief of getting the obstacles cleared from the distillery was short lived as soon after Aerin and several other dwarves and gnomes volunteered to clear out the remaining survivors, a third and final quake ripped its way into Kharanos again. This time, the only thing left after the round of screaming from the townsfolk and the rumbling of earth, the only thing left of the Thunderbrew Distillery was a massive sinkhole and mounds upon mounds of rubble. And, buried within those ruins, were the remaining denizens of the inn including Anduin's female dwarven bodyguard, Aerin.

Everyone else around the inn was shellshocked from the entire ordeal and scene of watching their beloved inn and many of their fellow friends become lost beneath the quake. Anduin however, in desperation at seeing that Aerin and the others had been buried in the rubble, scrambled over and made a futile attempt to clear the rubble away of his own accord, crying and weeping over Aerin as he did. Rohan came to his side and tried to reason with him in the midst of his frenzied struggle.

"There's no tapping," Rohan grimly said. "It's...over. No one could have survived that. Come away lad."

Anduin struggled against him for another few minutes before, after a while of digging in his grief, finally gave up his attempts.

"Aerin," he whispered, "Aerin...I'm sorry...I'm so so sorry..."

Soon after, Anduin collapsed to the ground in his despair before Rohan and several others gathered him up into their arms as his vision went black. Faintly before he lost consciousness, he looked up above him with dazed eyes and saw that one of the people carrying him away from the destroyed distillery was the gorgeous blue-skinned draenei. Her eyes twinkled down at him and her soft lips gave him a sorrowful yet reassuring smile that at least superficially eased his grief before he lost consciousness, his thoughts dwelling on poor Aerin.

When Anduin came back to reality, he was no longer center of town nor near the rubble of the Thunderbrew Distillery. As his vision cleared and his sense came back to him, he looked down and found that he was bundled in a warm blanket as he faintly heard whispers and other idle talk around him. He immediately realized that he was indoors as judging by the darkness, the feel of the concrete floor and the faint echo heard throughout the room.

He took a few moments to examine his surroundings. He soon realized that there were many other people in the room that he was in, most of them crowded and huddled into blankets just as he was. Immediately he began to recognize most of the people lining the walls of the circular room as the Kharanos townsfolk that he had seen amid the quakes, some of which were ones that he had helped to heal. Along the wall to his right was the gnome mother cradling her two children beneath her blanket and further down was the night elf priestess he'd seen earlier.

In the center of the circular room was a hearth that partially lit the room and provided warmth to the cold room and its sheltered denizens. There were more people huddled closer to the hearth who didn't have blankets, trying to make up for the lack of sheets by soaking up as much warmth from the fire as they could. As Anduin looked around more closely, seeing some of the armaments hanging upon the wall, he realized that he was currently within the Kharanos armory, the other primary building in town besides the distillery.

He rubbed his head and stretched out his weary muscles for a moment. The physical labor of clearing the rubble and aiding the wounded at the distillery hours before had left him physically strained. He felt the emotional strain too and his heart once again wept as his thoughts went back to Aerin.

He hugged his knees to his chest and stared down at the floor as he thought about Aerin, not believing that she was really gone. He thought about her happy smile that she always gave him when they sparred together in the military ward, her boisterous laugh, and her all-around good-natured personality that she had possessed, as if nothing could ever discourage her. He knew in his heart that Ironforge would be a much emptier city without this dwarf.

Despite his despair, another troubling thought suddenly occurred to him: Rohan. His head perked up and he looked around the circular room quickly as his eyes scanned for the high priest. On both sides of the room were a couple priests handing out mugs of tea to some of the bundled-up, huddling survivors, but neither of them appeared to be Rohan.

"Your friend, the high priest, isn't here, child," a serene, gentle voice spoke from his left side.

Anduin spun himself around to the source of the voice. He then realized that the one sitting beside him, the one who has spoken to him now, was the draenei shaman that he'd met earlier when they were clearing the snow from the inn. She now sat beside him cross-legged with a blanket draped around her torso as she gave him a gentle smile.

Anduin cleared his throat, infatuated by her beauty again for a moment.

"Wh-, where is he?" he asked the draenei.

The draenei, whose slender fingers had been drifting in the air as she muttered a soft spell to herself, paused for a moment to answer his question.

"There was a blizzard soon after the last aftershock. The high priest had the townspeople take cover in here while he and the other mountaineers went back to Ironforge for supplies. Most of the food and drinks had been lost along with the inn," she calmly explained.

She closed her eyes again and returned to her spell while Anduin contemplated this. He suddenly grew worried for Rohan because of the fact that he had gone out into the blizzard, as well as being faced with the possibility of there being another quake.

"You needn't worry for him, young prince of Stormwind. The dwarves are a burly people, accustomed to harsh weather in these peaks. He and the mountaineers will get to Ironforge safely, I assure you," she assured him with a serene smile upon her blue lips, her eyes twinkling at him.

Anduin blushed again merely from the beautiful female's eyes being upon him and the charming smile she gave him. He was then surprised as he realized that she seemed to know who he was.

"I...never said I was a prince," he replied nonchalantly, scratching his head of blond hair.

She gave a tranquil smile as she looked him up and down. "You just have that...aura about you. I knew it was you when I first saw you earlier," she said.

He grinned sheepishly at that whilst tucking himself in to the blanket more. "And, you are? I-, if you don't mind me asking."

She ceased her experimentation with the spell she'd been repeatedly casting and extended out her delicate blue hand from beneath her blanket to him.

"Araanii," she replied simply with a smile.

Anduin reached his hand out and his pale hand clasped her blue one.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance, Araanii," he said kindly.

Without thinking about backing out, he decided to push the envelope with this greeting and just do what he wanted to do.

Still cupping her smooth, delicate blue hand, he brought his lips down and planted a gentle kiss onto her hand, delighting in the feel of her silky smooth skin upon his lips.

He thought that she'd be somewhat incredulous or even repulsed at a young man such as him (and another race at that) kissing at her hand. Instead, he was surprised to find that the mere gesture sent a joyful chill running through her. In fact, he could have sworn he heard a relaxed sigh escape her lips as she felt his fourteen-year old lips nip the skin of her hand.

When he pulled back to look at her and he released her hand, he saw that a deep azure shade was upon her cheeks as she blushed at him. She smiled and brushed aside her hair and tendrils.

"That was the friendliest greeting a human's ever given me," she happily said to him.

He smiled modestly, straightening out his blanket to conceal the activity taking place beneath it betwixt his legs.

"A friend of the Alliance is a friend of mine," he replied with a cheeky shrug.

She smiled at him for a moment, hugging her blanket against herself tighter as she let the awkwardness dissipate. At the mention of "friend" she frowned all of a sudden, looking back at the young human prince with sympathy in her deep glowing eyes.

"I...I'm sorry about your friend...the dwarf woman. She was very brave for sacrificing herself to save those people trapped in the inn. And you were very brave for trying to save her. Her misfortune was not your fault," she said as gently as she could so as not to offend or sadden him.

Anduin frowned and looked back down at the stone floor as he thought again of Aerin. He cleared a lump from his throat as he tried to push the thought of her being buried alive and him being helpless to save her from his mind. Still, he was thankful for the draenei's condolences regardless.

"Thank you," he whispered softly.

She smiled, reaching over and cupping hold of his hand, rubbing it slightly with her thumb empathetically. Anduin bit his lip and looked around the room, pretending to look busy so as not to make the lovely draenei holding his hand uncomfortable. Around him, many of the Kharanos denizens were sleeping upon their blankets or keeping to themselves near the fire, sipping their mug of tea idly as some of them were still overcome with the grief of having lost friends in the inn.

Anduin turned back toward Araanii to see that she was still looking at him intently.

"So...before, when you cleared the snow with...wind," he began, changing the subject. "What happened exactly? You looked distraught about something."

Araanii nodded at him, giving a grim frown. "You noticed, did you? Yes, what happened there was...most troubling," she replied.

Anduin wrinkled his nose. "But, you cleared the snow didn't you? What was the problem?"

"We shamans are always in touch with the elements of Azeroth. We heed their call and they heed ours; it's a mutualistic relationship. But...when I summoned that wind elemental to clear away the snow, it...didn't listen to my words at first. In fact, for a moment there it almost looked...rebellious," she explained. "That has never happened in all my years as a shaman."

Anduin nodded, his frown matching hers as he understood. "The elements are unstable right now."

She nodded. "Yes...very unstable. It is most unsettling to say the least. We shamans are used to communing with the elements in friendly, beneficial partnerships. But now, it is as if the elements are turning against us."

"Do you think this has something to do with the earthquakes?" Anduin asked.

Araanii thought to herself for a moment, looking at Anduin as her eyes glowed as she pondered. "Yes...there is undoubtedly a connection. All I know is that Azeroth is in pain for some reason. Great, terrible pain," she sorrowfully said.

As the discussion was ominously left off at that, a gust of cold wind blew into the circular armory. A little bit further down, past Araanii, two gnomes who were sharing a frayed, tattered blanket were struggling to stay warm; however, even despite being accustomed to a cold climate in Dun Morogh, they could not contain their intense shivering. Araanii's own situation with the cold was forgotten as she turned her attention toward those two gnomes lacking blankets and a place near the hearth.

The draenei picked herself up, unfurling the blanket from her torso even as the wind picked up and blew a flurry of snow into the armory. She walked over to the two gnomes further down, sidestepping her way past the dwarves and gnomes littering the floor in their blankets as she did.

Anduin looked at her with surprise and admiration as she went about sacrificing her own blanket to help the gnomes in need. As the young man watched her though, this quickly turned to admiration of a different sort. He gulped as his eyes remained transfixed on her fabulous butt swaying back and forth beneath her skirt as she walked. This gave way to a pair of slender yet toned blue legs which led down to her two hooves; a sight that was interesting and strangely arousing in its own way due to their alien nature.

Anduin was able to deter his arousal at least for the time being as he watched Araanii hand her blanket over to one of the two gnomes sharing the tattered blanket. They both shivered but looked up at her with surprise and intense gratitude.

"Oh...l, l...light I couldn't miss...what will you cover yourself with?" the male gnome argued with her as his teeth chattered.

"Please, I insist. I'll find another way to keep warm," she said with a kind smile, still offering out the blanket to him.

Reluctantly, the gnome reached his small hand out and accepted the silken blanket, wrapping first the frayed blanket around himself as his wife, before covering the upper parts of their bodies with the thicker blanket that the draenei had given them.

"Light bless you, draenei," the female gnome happily said to her. "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Araanii replied with her kind, majestic voice, smiling as she watched the two gnomes snuggle into each other and their shivering lessened due to the added blanket. She walked back over to her spot between Anduin and a sleeping dwarf and sat back down. Anduin gave her a nod and appreciative smile due to her minor yet generous good deed.

"That's a nice thing that you did," complimented Anduin.

She gave a smile to him even as she tucked her arms in to her chest due to the cold.

"These people have all lost and sacrificed something today. The least I can do for them is give up my blanket," she replied.

He looked at her with concern. "Araanii, how are you going to keep warm?"

She was quickly getting colder as evidenced by a darker hue of blue surfacing on her skin. She looked back and forth between the human prince and the blazing hearth in the center of the room.

"Why not take a spot by the hearth? That should keep you warm enough," Anduin suggested.

Anduin met her gaze but soon realized that the hearth seemed to be completely occupied. Most of the gnomes and dwarves circling the hearth were dozing off out of weariness both physical and emotional. Araanii nodded her head in solemn acceptance despite that she was becoming significantly colder by the second.

"There's no room for me there," she replied. "I'll let them have it. They need the heat more than me anyway," she sighed.

Anduin frowned, feeling stark pity and guilt that this beautiful woman lacked a spot by the fire and a blanket. He unraveled the blanket from his slim body and held it out to her.

"Araanii, please take it. You need to get warm," he urged her softly.

She immediately shook her head. "After what you've been through today, you're the last person I'd consider taking a blanket from. K....keep it, young prince," she whispered through chattering teeth and cold lips.

He grimaced, still holding the blanket in his hands. He really wanted to help her, even if it meant just giving her the simple solace of warmth for the night. After her part in clearing the inn, carrying away his unconscious body back from the inn and now giving away her own blanket to complete strangers, she definitely deserved to be warm and more.

More than that, as he'd been dwelling on this for the past few hours, he couldn't deny how gorgeous she was. As he looked upon her now, he found himself curious, infatuated and utterly aroused by her curvaceous blue form; her beautiful blushing face, her slender legs, the covered globes hiding beneath her chestpiece, the exotic and rather cute tail swaying back and forth behind her. What kind of man or future king would he be if he didn't do what he could to help this beautiful member of the Alliance?

Araanii turned back toward him and caught him looking up and down her body. Anduin quickly averted his gaze as soon as he felt her glowing eyes upon him. Out of the corner of his eye, he could have sworn that he saw her smile and brush aside locks of her blue-black hair like a shy schoolgirl. This gesture only made the blue woman look even more cute and sexy, especially to a hormonally-unstable fourteen-year-old boy that just so happened to be in her vicinity.

An idea both practical and somewhat immoral came into his mind. The side of reason within him considered dismissing it right away; however, his raging hormonal side supported it completely. Not to mention of course, that this idea of his could be mutually beneficial to both of them and their desperate need for warmth in the midst of this blizzard.

He took a deep breath, readying himself for the possible counterattack that may come if she was disgusted with this notion. After another moment though, he just went for it.

"Araanii," he softly said to her.

The draenei, now the darkest shade of blue possible and shivering almost spastically, turned toward him, looking at him questioningly. Anduin wrapped part of the blanket around his left shoulder, bringing it around his back and leaving the other half open welcomingly for her.

"You can...share my blanket...if you want," he stuttered nervously, blushing and biting his tongue.

Araanii's eyebrows perked up and she opened her mouth to say something but no words came out. She continued to simply stare at him for a few moments, biting her bottom lip as she contemplated something. He realized that she was acting rather strange; she wouldn't look him in the eye now and she appeared to be rubbing her arm while staring at him. As if it couldn't become any more awkward for him, she saw her eyes drift over his form, falling upon his legs and the slight bulge within his pants that had subsiding somewhat but was nonetheless present.

Finally, she looked back up at him and gave him that same serene smile that she had always done.

"You would let me do that?" she asked with a hopeful tone as she shivered.

Let her do that?! Light, he would beg her to do that! What hormonally-charged teenaged boy wouldn't want a beautiful woman snuggled up against him?!

Anduin nodded but looked around the room. Beside him, a dwarf had drunk a mug of ale and seemed to be passed out good. On the other side of them, next to Araanii, another dwarf was in a deep sleep and didn't seem to be in any hurry to wake up.

"Well I mean, if you aren't uncomfortable with that. B-, but if you're afraid of someone seeing you sharing my blanket and..." he said.

She shook her head. "N, no, of course not. I don't think anyone here would really mind anyway. There are other people sharing blankets and most of them are asleep anyway. I'll do what I can to stay warm at this point," she replied with a gentle grin. "Besides, this way we can share body heat and stay warmer," she added.

Anduin felt himself get a bit harder in his lower regions just from hearing her say that last part. He gulped but nodded his head to her with as much casual confidence as he could attain in this precarious situation.

Araanii nodded one last time with a smile before she shuffled toward him on her hands and knees. Anduin opened up the blanket again, doing his best to contain his nervousness as she approached him. The draenei gave him a happy nod before she took hold of the edge of the wool blanket, wrapping it about her own shoulder as she snuggled into his side.

By the Light, she even smelled good! Anduin couldn't put words into what she smelled like but as her scent gently drifted over to his side of the cocoon blanket housing both of them, he realized that she smelled so crisp and pure.

After a few moments of them being pressed against each other with the blanket encasing the warmth between them, her shivering began to lessen and her skin pigment began to return to normal.

"Ah...this is much better. This was a very good idea," the lovely draenei whispered into the boy's ear, feeling the heat radiate between them in their "nest."

Good? This idea was downright marvelous! Anduin thought to himself.

As Anduin struggled with his growing arousal at being cocooned in a bundle of beautiful female draenei, Araanii suddenly did something that made him almost gasp. As she and the human boy were still pressed against each other, she leaned down and rested her head upon his shoulder, sighing softly in relief as she relished in his natural body heat.

"Mmm, humans are so warm. I like it," she cooed into his shoulder.

Anduin could only clear his throat as he was completely at a loss for words. He then suddenly jolted in surprise as he felt something snake around his right side to wrap itself about his waist. He then realized that it was her tail.

Araanii lifted her head from his shoulder momentarily as she noticed his quick movement in response to contact with her tail.

"Oh...I'm sorry, prince; I forget sometimes that most are not accustomed to our tails," she said, trying to scoot the appendage away from him.

It was her turn for a surprise as the young man brazenly scooped up the retreating blue appendage of her tail and wrapped it back about his hip.

"It's alright, it just startled me at first. But...I actually like it," he said with a smile, hoping that she wouldn't think him too forward.

Araanii blushed and grinned at him. She leaned over, quickly closing the short distance between them within their blanket, and planted a gentle, blue-lipped kiss onto his cheek. Anduin's heart soared in that instant and he felt a certain part of himself become fully erect and hard as steel.

"You're such a kind young man. I like you, Prince Anduin," she whispered to him, snuggling her head into the warmth of his shoulder.

He shivered, not from the cold, but rather the feeling of some of her tendrils gently snuggling themselves into his neck. He unconsciously snaked his arm around her, pulling her gently in toward him so that they had closer contact and thus closer heat exchange. She didn't seem to mind; in fact, she let out a delicate sigh as she felt his arm draw her in to the young human teenager's welcoming embrace.

After a few moments, she squirmed slightly as if she was uncomfortable. Anduin noticed this and pulled himself away from her slightly, thinking all of a sudden that she was growing awkward from pressing herself against a human teenaged boy.

"I'm sorry Araanii, you don't have to do this anymore if you don't want to," he offered with a hint of rejection present in his voice.

She turned to him, surprised as her glowing eyes blinked at him a couple times. "Oh...no, this is perfectly fine, Prince Anduin. I'm just...a bit uncomfortable sitting on this stone floor in this position," she replied.

"Oh," he replied with a puzzled expression, although he was glad that she wasn't shifting around because she was uncomfortable with him.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" he asked, though he didn't see any alternative to sitting upon the hard stone ground.

She looked away from him, hugging her half of the large wool blanket against her torso as she pondered to herself in deep thought. She turned back to the blond-haired human as she bit her lip, hesitant to say what she was meaning to.

"There is...something you can do for me...but, oh by the Naaru, I could never ask you to do such a thing. Forget I mentioned it," she sighed with a hint of embarrassment. Upon Anduin's hip, her tail twitched slightly with her embarrassment.

He looked up at her with curiosity crossing his features. "What? Tell me what you need to get comfortable here," he said.

She took a deep breath, looking into his face. "Well...I was hoping maybe...if you aren't uncomfortable with it...that I could sit on your lap for a while?" she softly asked; embarrassment and a twinge of hope dotting her rich, elegant voice.

"That...that way, we can wrap the blanket tighter around both of us, instead of each of us only having half of the blanket," she added, biting her azure lips.

Anduin was in such shock that he momentarily forgot where he was. Light, what had he done to deserve this privilege? This incredibly sexy draenei was practically handing him what he wanted on a silver platter and she was asking him if he'd be uncomfortable with it?!

There was a bit of a problem with this otherwise fantastic arrangement however. His adolescent erection was now as hard as steel within his breeches and she would undoubtedly feel it poking into her rear if she shifted her weight onto his lap in a certain way. Still though, this was a golden opportunity that he wasn't about to pass up. After all, she was the one who wanted to do it in the first place. And who knows, maybe she wouldn't take notice or care about his...growth.

Anduin slowly nodded to her, curling his legs together to form a makeshift seat for her. Araanii smiled at him, letting go of her half of the large blanket momentarily as she scooted herself over toward him, raising her bum off the ground to sit herself down upon his lap. Here, Anduin was given a god's eye view of her perfectly sculpted rear end, although the runed skirt that she wore concealed all of its physical glory from him.

He looked around on either side of them to see if anyone else in the armory was looking at them. Luckily, everyone else was either sleeping keeping to themselves in the midst of the chilling blizzard to take notice of them. Even if anyone did see them, they probably wouldn't think much of it since the sheltered people of Kharanos were used to taking drastic measures to keep warm.

Anduin let out a quiet sigh as he felt her shapely posterior settle in to his lap. She was a little more vocal in expressing her satisfaction, which surprised him. As she sat herself down onto him, she let out a sigh of relief, laying her head back onto his shoulder as her blue tendrils draped over the back of her neck. Her thick tail too settled in to the welcoming comfort of the young man's lap, draping itself over his knee and leg.

Anduin wrapped the blanket around both of them, making their close proximity to each other and the blanket cocooning both of them give off more necessary heat than before. Araanii kept the blanket folding about them, reclining her toned blue legs and hooves out in front of her as she smiled and snuggled into his warmth.

"Ah...nice," she cooed with a serene smile, wiggling her hips upon his lap slightly.

Anduin groaned as her delectable rear wiggled upon his lap precariously close to his entrapped erection which, at the moment, was pulsing in its hard glory rather uncomfortably within his pants. Deep down, he wanted nothing more in that moment than to slip his cock out of his breeches, pull her skirt off to the side and slide into a snug blue draenei orifice. He knew that this would never happen though, and that if he attempted anything so debauched, it would end his brief friendship with that lovely draenei then and there.

The two sat there in blissful silence for a few minutes, both of them basking in the radiant warmth being soaked between both of them. At one point, one of Rohan's female dwarf priests passed by them, giving a quick glance at the draenei snuggling with the prince of Stormwind. Anduin blushed and thought that he'd been caught red-handed; however, the priest merely gave a kind smile, nodding at him before continuing on. Maybe she thought that this was merely an innocent attempt to get warm, Anduin thought. That...was what this was, wasn't it?

After a few more moments though, the young boy had a real predicament on his hands. The erect and hard manhood within his pants that he'd gone to great lengths to keep concealed from the sexy woman upon his lap finally made contact with her gorgeous ass, or rather, the other way around. She shifted her rear around, sliding herself further back onto his lap and, in the process, caused his trapped cock to lock into place in the crevice of her bum beneath her skirt. He gasped, looking down as he realized that his covered cock was surrounded by two glorious blue cheeks.

Anduin couldn't contain a soft moan this time as he felt himself snugly between the cheeks of her ass. The draenei too jolted in initial surprise, clearly having felt something hard poking into her posterior.

This was it; Anduin thought. This was when this draenei whom he'd had the pleasure of making acquaintances with and even having her sitting on his lap, would reprimand him for his inability to control his teenaged arousal. To his surprise though, she didn't go bolting up from his lap, running away from him as he'd anticipated. Instead, his heart pounded in his chest as the lovely draenei suddenly grinded her shapely rear against his cock. Just the touch upon his erect member between two layers of clothing by this draenei was nearly enough to make him cum right then. He was able to control himself though, making use of the skills of self-restraint that lovely Jaina Proudmoore had been kind and wise enough to instill in him.

Araanii looked over her shoulder at him, and to his utter shock, winked. The fourteen-year-old looked at her blinking a few times with his mouth agape. This immobility was short lived as the draenei let out a little whimper as she proceeded to grind her ass and groin along his, causing his cloaked cock to make glides and retreats between her crevice of her ass.

By the light; he, a mere young man, was dry-humping a sexy draenei's luscious ass and she was enjoying it! No, more than that, SHE was the one controlling the pace. But, what did that mean? How could an innocent survival tactic to keep warm have escalated into one step short of sex so quickly?

These thoughts were put out of his mind all of a sudden as he suddenly felt the covered bulbous head of his cock slide along a thin membrane of clothing. Thin, silky and...wet, he suddenly realized. His covered cock had slipped a little farther along her groin and the covered head of his cock was now pressing against her silken panties and the blue pussy slit that resided behind it. Two thin layers of clothing was the only separation from a draenei/human coupling.

Araanii groaned softly in that usual silky, melodic voice as soon as she felt the head of his young cock pressing against her panties. She wiggled her hips in a circular motion this time, feeling his cock press against her slit and even nudge her clit on a couple occasions, causing her to grit her teeth to stifle a moan.

Anduin was amazed at the fact that the thin layer of her panties was wet. He was both infatuated and curious as to this fact even as he felt a thin leakage of her feminine juices soak the covered cock in his pants. She was aroused; by the light, this gorgeous female creature who was older than he was was aroused by him! Did that mean she had been planning this? Was it more than mere coincidence that she just happened to settle in to his lap and begin inconspicuously grinding herself along his adolescent manhood?

Araanii stopped all of a sudden, raising her hips off of his lap slightly as a light trail of clear juices leaked from her panties beneath her skirt. Without another word, she reached her delicate fingers back behind her beneath the blanket and her hands worked to pulled the hem of his pants down his legs.

The young prince groaned, trying to keep his voice down as best as he could as her felt his pants gradually retreat down his legs until they were pulled to his knees.

"A-, Araanii," he whispered to her.

She spun herself around slightly, keeping the blanket cloaking the two of them so as to shield her activities from any possible onlookers.

"Shhhh," she whispered back, before giving him a gentle peck on his lips. His heart leapt from the touch of her plush blue lips upon his.

"Keep quiet so nobody hears us. We have to keep ourselves warm here. I'm still so cold," she lustfully whispered to him with a smile, her blue cheeks blushing.

Anduin looked surprised for a moment before he kicked his confident side into gear. He smiled back at her and reached his head down, gently nipping at her delicate skin of her neck even as his eyes scanned the circumference of the room. He felt a shudder run through her and a soft gasp escape her lips even as her soft, slightly cold hands reached down into his pulled-down pants and fished out his cock. He nearly yelped in pleasure as he felt her hands grasp at his steel hard cock, her fingers delicately tracing the length of it and dabbing at the head as she let out a cute little whimper to coincide with her gentle exploration.

Too soon into this though, she pulled her hands back, causing Anduin to look at her questioningly. He then lightly groaned as he felt an appendage wrap about his member in coils. He looked down in the haze of semi-darkness and saw that the draenei's exotic blue tail had wrapped about his hard young member as the length of it squeezed and massaged his cock of its own accord. This was an experience he could probably never have with any other race and it was driving him wild with arousal.

"It's so hard. And it feels so good with my tail wrapped around it," she whispered back to him. "Do all young men your age get this hard?"

Anduin smiled and brazenly reached a couple fingers down to trace the length of her moistened pussy through her panties. She shuddered in surprise while continued to grin as her tail continuously milked his cock.

"Only young men with such a wonderful female sitting on their lap," he replied with bravado.

Araanii let out a soft chuckle that drifted in the air. She retracted her tail, unfurling it from his cock before reaching her soft hands back and grasping it again with lust.

"I can't help but notice that it's a bit cold. What are we going to do about this?" she cheekily asked.

She pulled her hands away and hiked up her shaman skirt so that it was further up her waist. She then unceremoniously used two of her slender fingers to pluck apart the band of her wet panties, pushing it off to the side without the need to even remove them completely.

Araanii lent forward slightly within the blanket so that her ass was raised up and there, further down, was a glistening blue pussy slit; swollen, wet and ready to be filled by the young cock of a fortunate human prince. Anduin gasped, admiring its beauty even as he reached his pointer finger down to trace along its slick, swollen beauty. The draenei wiggled her hips as his finger brushed across her slit and stroked the blue, hardened nub of her clit. This gesture, knowing that it came from a boy so young and that he was able to find her pleasure button almost instantly, was enough to get her even more wet, if that was even possible.

Without further ado, she reached back and took a hold of his cock again, feeling a collection of precum surfacing at its head. She knew that there was certainly enough lubrication to go around for this romp.

"It is certainly cold," she repeated, "I think we need to put it somewhere nice and warm," the sexy draenei hissed back to him.

Anduin smiled in anticipation and gentle grasped the firm globes of her blue ass, aiding her in shifting herself back onto the center of his lap again. With his pants pulled down and her sodden panties pulled off to the side of her pussy, they were now only one thrust away from his hard cock slipping its way into a blue pussy. They both made sure to keep the blanket wrapped tightly around both of them so that others lining the room would be unaware of the frenzy of pleasurable activity taking place in their snug cocoon.

Araanii lowered her hips downward, gradually sinking herself down upon his groin. Anduin, whose finger was wet from tracing her pussy, made masterful use of foreplay in their coupling by fingering the tiny blue star of her puckered anus. Jaina had nearly orgasmed on the spot when he'd done this to her, and this sexy draenei was no different as he fingered her tailhole. The draenei clenched her teeth at this unexpected pleasure, realizing now that she'd not made the wrong decision by deciding to couple with the young prince of Stormwind. Taboos of race and age be damned; this boy knew what he was doing and she was going to take full advantage of the skill he'd already attained.

She lowered herself down further until her wet, swollen azure nether lips pressed themselves down upon a flushed pink cock. They both sighed in pleasure, holding their present position even as her wonderful pussy trickled juice down his shaft. He realized that out of the few encounters he'd been graced with so far, he could already tell that this draenei undoubtedly had the wettest, juiciest pussy of the lot. She'd been intent on skipping oral foreplay due to the fact that the position wouldn't likely go unseen by the nearby townsfolk. This wasn't an issue though he was summoning a great deal of precum for penetration just as her pussy had an endless abundance of feminine juice.

With the combined efforts of an upward thrust on his part and a downward drop on her part, the young human's cock skewered her wet depths, sinking its way up inside her wet, delicious blue pussy. All the while both Araanii and Anduin let out soft moans that they'd forgotten to contain. The dwarf sleeping beside them groaned in his sleep and looked like he was about to wake up, before he crashed out again.

The two of them gave a sigh of relief that they'd been off the hook. They were both actually rather excited though; the debauched thought of public sex amongst the other sleeping denizens gave them both a huge jolt of arousal.

With everything in place and his hard human cock slipping inch after inch up inside of her until he bottomed out, the draenei couldn't wait anymore and began her ascent. Anduin sighed, gripping both of her lovely asscheeks as she raised herself up off his cock. As she went, her silky blue passage hugged and milked upon his length like a pump while applying more natural lubricant to the slide.

With only the head resting inside her delicious cunt, the draenei braced herself before sinking her snug chasm back down his hard adolescent shaft again, whimpering in pleasure as she did so. Anduin again met her thrust with an upward one of his own, sheathing himself inside her and feeling that soft, wet clasping stimulating every part of his glistening member. He sighed, reaching around her torso within their blanket and squeezing her breasts beneath her chestpiece, causing the draenei woman to wiggle her hips against him, slipping his cock in and out.

Test runs were over, and now the human and draenei were about ready for passionate, unbridled sex. As if both of them knew this, Anduin slipped his steel hard cock out of her slit and she raised her hips up. Araanii leaned back and gave him a kiss on the lips before they truly began to fuck. He drove himself hard into her above him, nudging her clit as his cock plundered her tight pussy as she dropped herself down with equal enthusiasm. As quickly as they'd come together, fusing their sex organs in a hot, wet connection, they quickly pulled back before making another giant thrust against each other.

Now, preliminary experimentation and growing accustomed to each other's anatomy was gone and replacing it was a luscious blue woman bouncing up and down on the lap of a fourteen-year-old human male, groaning as he slid in and out of her love tunnel.

Although she appeared to be in ecstasy from the coupling, his cock being quite enough to sate her pleasure, it was not enough for Anduin. Since he'd essentially become a man in his time with Jaina, he'd now prided himself on bringing women to delicious orgasms. He wanted to prove here and now that size and age were not everything. He wanted to prove that with expert handiwork, he could make up for any inadequacies that he supposedly had as a young man.

As they began to hump against each other furiously, his slickened cock plundering in and out of her blue chasm, Anduin decided to add more to the mix. Adding both of his hands to the equation, he used one hand to seek out her sacred blue nub while his other hand traced the length of her sexy tail. Then, she stifled an incredible moan as the young man stroked away at her clit with one hand while two fingers of the other once again parted her puckered tailhole and slipped inside her backdoor.

Her orgasm was already coming upon her. Somehow, after only a couple minutes of this lad's cock driving in and out of her while he worked her clit and asshole simultaneously, she was going to cum, and cum hard. She picked up her pace, bouncing up and down on his lap and sinking his cock in and out of her tingling blue nether regions without a care for the potential danger of being seen fucking the prince of Stormwind.

Anduin too doubled his efforts as he could tell by her frenzied bounces that he was going to make her cum. His hips undulated and slapped hers while his juice-coated shaft was sucked in and out of her hungry draenei pussy. Her womanly orifice wanted a load of white hot teenaged cum inside of it, and it was going to get it even if it had to squeeze the life out of his member.

With a rippling shudder that ran throughout her entire body, Araanii bit her own thumb to stifle a squeal as her pussy practically explode juices all over the hard human cock slipping in and out. Anduin, knowing that she was having an intense orgasm, helped her to ride it out by driving two fingers easily in and out of her quivering tailhole while he stroked her clit furiously. The draenei's orgasm seemed to last virtually forever even as she still instinctively rode the boy beneath her.

In the midst of her orgasm, Araanii's pussy tightly squeezed Anduin's cock, milking, massaging and rippling along its length. This was all that he was going to take. He'd attained the goal of bringing her to a wonderful orgasm, but he was about ready to sink himself inside her blue pussy and paint its walls with white hot boy goo.

He gave one last giant thrust inside her, sheathing himself within her fully as his testicles readied a massive payload of cum to be delivered into this orifice. His balls pulsed as her groaned and held himself within her before the sticky hot load of manmilk rushed up his shaft and spurted into her, painting her silky blue inner walls with a load of creamy white. He nestled his head against her back even as pulse after pulse in his cock released spurt after spurt of his seed into her.

Finally, when he'd flooded the draenei with all he'd had to give her, he crashed back onto the stone floor, slipping his body out of the blanket just as his semi-flaccid cock slipped out of her drooling, satisfied pussy. His vision was hazy even as he stared at the blurry ceiling above him. Whether or not someone had seen their romp was irrelevant to him now, for the experience that he'd been fantasizing about since he'd met this draenei shaman was well worth the risk.

He came back to reality as Araanii laid down beside him and laid her head down upon his chest with a smile, covering both of them with the blanket before anyone caught a glimpse of her exposed pussy drooling out globs of white human seed. Beneath the blanket she narrowed in on his head and planted a massive, gracious kiss onto his lips which he met with enthusiasm. After their tongues danced for a few moments, she pulled herself back as they both smiled at each other, panting.

"I don't...know how you pulled that off...but that was the best I've ever had," she whispered to him. "How did you do it? You're only fourteen!" she gasped.

Anduin smiled, caressing her breasts and stroking a hand along her tail.

"I had a marvelous teacher," he said, smiling as he thought about Jaina and his "lesson."

Araanii grinned and gave him another peck on the cheek.

"I was a bit hesitant at first, but I'm very glad that I made this decision," she grinned.

He raised his eyebrows at her even as a finger traced beneath their blanket, caressing her tender lips gently.

"What decision? Did you...seduce me? How long were you planning this?" he asked, not with angst of course but with curiosity.

She chuckled, snuggling her head into his chest before replying, "You see, before I came to Kharanos, I paid a visit to Steelgrill's Depot. I met the most curious gnome engineer there who couldn't stop babbling on about a certain...human prince. And when I saw you here in Kharanos, and when I saw the way you risked your life to help the injured and save your friend, I just knew that I had to do something special for you. And the gnome certainly wasn't lying; it was well worth it. The Naaru have certainly blessed you, Prince Anduin," she chuckled.

Anduin smiled and wrapped an arm protectively around her, keeping their warm and sexually satisfied bodies pressed against each other under the blanket. Her tail gently coiled around his leg lovingly, even as they basked in the bliss and warmth that they'd shared with each other.

"You're welcome to come to Stormwind at any time. I'd be happy to accommodate you anytime," he said to her, kissing her nose. "After this business with the earthquake is settled of course."

She nodded, frowning slightly. "Yes...that is a matter that involves my attention as well. I must see the Earthen Ring at once. Perhaps they will have answers as to what has caused this disaster," she said.

Anduin grimly frowned too, thinking again of having lost Aerin and the others in the inn incident. Still, if this was taking place elsewhere as well, then there no telling what disastrous effects could unfold as a result.

To lift his spirits back up though, she smiled and stroked his cheek. "But...some day, I may just have to pay a visit to the future king of Stormwind so that he can...accommodate me again," she serenely giggled.

Anduin smiled too, wrapping his arm around the wonderful draenei who, despite the calamity that had unfolded, had done a wonderful job at easing his sorrows. As he dwelled on the uncertain future that lay ahead, the prince of Stormwind pulled the draenei lover tightly against him, and let the solace of sleep overcome him.

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