02 - Coming In, Coming Out

Story by Sandwalker on SoFurry

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#2 of World of Warcraft

After a good night's sleep, Rhuna and Heyo indulge in some hot loving again, until their intimacy is interrupted by Fistsong's return.


When Rhuna awoke a few hours later, he was immediately conscious of the lack of outside noise. At some point during the night the worst of the storm had passed. Rain still pattered on the dirty windowpanes, but it was gentle now, accompanied by some still stiff breezes. He could feel a light draft blowing across the bed, probably from a crack in the wall, or the window. He wasn't sure.

He lay on his back, looking up at the probably cobweb-strung ceiling, letting his eyes adjust to the gloom. The candles had burned out long ago, but a little light was coming through the windows. It was probably around dawn, he surmised. After a few moments, he became aware that he wasn't alone in the bed. Turning his head, he saw the head of a pandaren lying on the pillow beside his. Her breathing was soft and regular, and he could just make out a smile curving her lips. The events of a few hours ago suddenly rushed back into his mind, and he turned to face his other side. The other tauren was gone, leaving her space vacant. I wonder where she is, Rhuna wondered.

He turned back to face the pandaren - Heyo, he recalled - and raised a large hand to gently stroke a lock of her purple-streaked hair back from her face.

"Mmm? Fistsong?" Heyo opened her eyes, blinking blearily at Rhuna's face. She frowned, then suddenly sat up. "You're not Fistsong!"

"No kidding," Rhuna replied in amusement. "I'm Rhuna. You might remember getting a bit of a stretching last night."

The copper dropped and Heyo turned away, probably blushing under her fur. "Oh... yeah, I do."

Rhuna laughed quietly and levered himself into a sitting position. "When I first got to this inn, I thought I'd be in for a terrible night, but... you showed that even in the middle of nowhere, there's plenty of comfort to be had."

Heyo giggled and smiled, facing the tauren again. "Well, Fistsong and I were... pretty comfortable before you barged in." She leaned in, putting her face closer to Rhuna's. Her breath blew softly across his lips, then, before Rhuna could react, she pressed hers to his in a soft kiss.

The tauren was taken slightly by surprise, but as the pandaren shifted herself closer, he moved to embrace her, slipping his beefy arms around her and holding gently as they kissed. "Mmmm." Their lips parted, and their tongues, one big, one small, slid against each other.

Rhuna wasn't aware that he'd been holding his breath until found that his chest was starting to burn. He pulled away from the pandaren, panting hard. "I've... never kissed like that before," he said when his breathing had returned to normal.

"I've learned a lot from my sister monk." Heyo smiled and licked her lips. "You need to freshen your breath, though."

"Oh, shush." Rhuna teasingly gave Heyo a light tap under the chin. "I don't carry a lot of necessities with me, usually. I'd bet you don't either."

"As long as we have a keg of Fistsong's special brew, we're all set. We don't need much else. Speaking of need...." Heyo trailed off and, while still looking him in the eyes, reached down and grasped his firm member, which had risen up without his noticing during the kiss. "I think this needs some attention."

It was Rhuna's turn to feel embarrassed. "If you'd like to... I'd very much enjoy it."

The pandaren flashed him another bright grin. "You won't be the only one." She gave Rhuna another kiss, lasting just a few seconds, before she shuffled back and lowered her head between his legs. Her breath blew across the wide head of his cock briefly before she slipped her soft lips over it, suckling firmly. She spread her legs and reached between them to gently rub over her vulva.

Rhuna made himself comfortable, leaning his back against the wall as Heyo nursed at his shaft. He rubbed lightly behind her ears, and she murred pleasantly in response.

Heyo's eyes closed, and she moved her free hand to caress the tauren's big, heavy balls as she took another couple inches into her hot, wet mouth, running her tongue along the bottom of it. A moan slipped from her throat as a finger parted her fuzzy folds to rub along her exposed slit.

"You're a sexy little panda," the big tauren murmured, rocking his hips slightly to glide his pulsing cock further between her soft lips, sliding it back and forth over her wiggling tongue. "And sexy little pandas need to be taken care of."

She giggled softly, but didn't answer with her mouth full. Giving Rhuna's balls a firm squeeze, she pushed her head forwards a bit further, gagging slightly as her tight throat opened up around the tauren's glans.

Rhuna grunted as Heyo attempted to deepthroat him, and slid his hands around her head to gently pull it towards him, easing his shaft down into her esophagus. "Ohh, yeah... good panda!"

Heyo choked briefly before she moaned muffledly around Rhuna's cock. vibrating his fat meat. She slowly sank a finger into her pussy, followed by a second, wet squishy sounds coming from between her recently deflowered slit. Massaging his large testicles slowly, she swallowed hard around his big cock, leaning forwards more to try to take him down to the base.

The tauren's cock twitched and spat precum down her gullet as she worked to engulf it all. He reached down to stroke his large fingers over Heyo's neck, feeling the huge bulge of his dick slipping down. "Almost there... just another inch...."

The fluffy pandaren gagged again, jerking her head forwards and wrapping her lips tightly around the root of Rhuna's hard dick, pushing her nose into his groin with a muffled moan.

Rhuna gasped and groaned with pleasure, the wet warmth of her muzzle and throat feeling so good along the length of his shaft. "That's it... swallow my cock," he murmured, scritching her ears before he slowly pulled back after a few seconds, allowing her to get her breath as his glans slid back up into her mouth to spit gobs of thick precum.

Heyo groaned loudly as Rhuna withdrew, opening her jaws wide as he did so, panting as she squished her fuzzy fingers in and out of her wet snatch. "Mmm, want to put another hot, sticky load deep in my womb, stud?" she said, licking her lips.

"I'd love to," Rhuna remarked, stroking his turgid member, smearing the saliva and precum over it, keeping it firm. "I love your hot little panda snatch. I think it'd look better with my dick in it."

After a giggle Heyo nodded. "You seem to be a lot more open now," she said, removing her juice-covered fingers from her sex as she slipped off the bed to stand beside it. "I'd bet you wouldn't have talked like that before."

"You're right," Rhuna admitted, pushing the blankets aside and getting off the bed himself. He moved around to Heyo's side of the bed, causing a loose floorboard to creak alarmingly. She turned to face him, and he raised his arms to lightly stroke her shoulders and down her sides.

"Don't go easy on me," Heyo prompted, sitting on the edge of the bed while flicking a sultry gaze at his face. "I'll bend like reeds in the wind." She leaned back and spread her legs invitingly. "Come on, Rhuna. Claim me like a battlefield prize."

Smiling widely, Rhuna rubbed his cockhead up and down her crack before he nestled it between her juicy labia. "Consider yourself... claimed," he rumbled, pushing forward slowly, easing her soft, silky passage open around his meat.

Heyo gasped and groaned loudly as the tauren pushed deep into her body. "Ohhh, so thick... big, wonderful staff...." She grunted as the bull bucked his hips, hitting her cervix with each stroke, clenching firmly around him.

Rhuna leaned over Heyo and slipped his large three-fingered hands beneath her, gently pulling her up as he leaned back, pulling her up off the bed, and fully onto his cock as her weight forced her downward. He slid his hands down to support her rump, and started to stroll around the room, his steps bouncing her upon his thick shaft.

The pandaren panted and whimpered with each step, feeling his glans trying to penetrate into her womb. "Huh! Huh! Huh!" Her arms wrapped around him, holding tightly as she buried her face in his neck.

Rhuna eventually stopped at the wall beside the bed, using it to brace her while he pumped his cock firmly into her stretched passage, mashing his cockhead against her cervix over and over. "I could probably give you a proper pounding on the bed," he murmured, giving the edge of Heyo's ear a lick.

Soft groans slipped from Heyo's throat as Rhuna thrust heavily into her. "Mmmph! I'm... nothing but your prisoner, you brute," she panted, her words muffled by the tauren's neck. "A prize you defeated on the fields of war and claimed...." She dug her fingers into Rhuna's back, letting out a long, passionate moan as her quivering quim clenched and squeezed around his thrusting cock. "Take me as you please!"

"As you wish." Rhuna turned and laid Heyo down upon the bed again, allowing him to have full leverage. He leaned almost menacingly over her, planting his big hands on either side of her head. Spreading his legs for more support, he began to hammer into her hot, needy cunt, his cock slurping messily in and out of her as her juices and his precum mingled.

The cute little pandaren dug her fingers into Rhuna's back, gasping loudly as he took her harder than ever before, groaning loud enough to raise a Forsaken. "OH, RHUNA! Mmm, so masterful! So dominant! I love that cock of yours, I love you!" She wrapped her chubby legs around Rhuna's hips, nuzzling at his chest, her heavy breaths warm against it.

Rhuna panted roughly as he fucked Heyo, driving hard and fast deeply into her sloppy snatch, aiming to batter through her cervix and unleash a flood of his seed right where it was needed. "So sexy, Heyo... my hot little panda whore, begging for a big tauren to pound her into submission!"

Whimpering loudly, shuddering and gasping as he claimed her, Heyo arched her back, crying out as her already tight cunny clamped down, tugging at his hard prick. "RHUNAAAAA! Aaah, fuck me hard! Fill me with your jizz!"

The tauren tensed up, ramming at full speed in and out of her slippery cunt, pounding rapidly at her cervix until he stiffened and thrust his cock sheath-deep inside her, blasting his warm spunk into her in several strong jets. He pulled back after a few moments to give his seed room to fill up Heyo's passage.

Heyo moaned loudly, pulling Rhuna down on top of herself and biting into his neck, shuddering through her climax, quivering all over as her stretched pussy spasmed erratically, milking Rhuna's cock for his seed.

Rhuna eased his member in and out a few more times, his cock twitching deep inside the pandaren's chubby body as it delivered the last drops of his semen. "Ohhh, Earth Mother preserve me..." he moaned, panting hard from the exertion.

"Mmm, yeah... preserve us both! Such a strong stud..." Heyo murmured, stroking her small, dainty hands over Rhuna's back, running her fingers through the coarse hair. Her breath was ragged, but as the two lovers rode out their orgasmic throes, it gradually slowed and normalised.

Slowly, Rhuna withdrew from the pandaren, his cock slithering out of her with a sticky slurp. leaving her cunt gaping widely and dripping thick, white goo onto the blanket beneath. A smile curving his lips, he carefully climbed up onto the bed and straddled Heyo, moving himself to press the head of his semi-soft dick against her lips.

Heyo moaned weakly as Rhuna presented his softening cock to her, opening her mouth and licking on the tip a few times before lifting her head, suckling on the tip. She shivered, feeling his cum oozing languidly out of her sex.

The tauren managed a couple more spurts of cream before his supply dwindled to nothing more than a few drops seeping out of his glans. "Mmm, that was... very... wonderful," he murmured, pulling back and rolling off to the side to give her room to breathe.

Breathing heavily, Heyo turned her head to smile at Rhuna, rubbing her belly slowly. She slipped a hand down to her gaping pussy and rubbed at her clit, shuddering in another paroxysm of pleasure. "Mmm, you're a wonderful lover, Rhuna. I'm glad you decided to come with Fistsong and me."

Rhuna smiled and leaned his head closer for a kiss, tasting his cum upon her lips. "Adventure is often best shared, as well as cold, lonely nights... don't you think?" He ran a hand down her belly to join hers in fingering her gently.

"I think you're right, handsome." Heyo sighed softly and rubbed at his chest, then gasped when she felt his much larger hand upon her mound. "Ah! You spoil me, stud." She blushed brightly beneath her facial fur, moving her hand over to the tauren's heavy balls. "You know...." The pandaren paused, looking away from Rhuna before she continued. "I was going past an Alliance camp the other day... and I saw... one of their gryphons looking quite... happy. I couldn't help wondering what it would be like taking him in my mouth while you watched."

A shocked expression crossed Rhuna's face, and his mouth opened and closed a few times as he struggled for words. "Well, I, uh...." He trailed off, staring through Heyo's head as his mind took what she had said and ran with it. He imagined her on all fours, taking a gryphon's shiny shaft down her throat, bobbing her head back and forth until the gryphon released his seed with a raucous screech. "I... think I would love to see that, honestly."

Heyo rolled over to snuggle up against Rhuna, nuzzling at his cheek. "I'm such a dirty little girl. Hard to believe I was a virgin until just yesterday."

Rhuna chuckled softly and stroked a large hand over her back. "Mmhmm. And it was a great pleasure to make you a fully fledged woman. My, how you squirmed on my cock...."

"I'd bet I'd squirm more if you stuck it in...." She smiled winsomely, moving her hand to stroke his flaccid cock a few times slowly, giving it a firm squeeze as she leaned her nose close to his ear. "... under my tail. Fistsong says that some girls -- and boys -- like that." She nuzzled and kissed Rhuna's cheek, releasing his member and sinking a finger into her pussy, pumping it in and out a few times before pulling it out and pushing the tip against her anus slowly. "Mmm."

Rhuna blinked, his thoughts a bit scrambled as he watched Heyo being so... open. "You want to try getting my cock up your bottom?" he murmured, starting to get aroused again, despite having just climaxed. "I'm not sure I'll fit... but I'd be happy to give it a try."

"Mmm, I'd like to try it sometime. I'm sure Fistsong would like to see it too." She smiled, squeezing and stroking Rhuna's cock with her free hand, making it twitch in her grasp. As she started to push into her cum-coated tailhole, she gasped and winced. "Mmph! I've never had anything in my bum before."

"Other than the obvious." The tauren smiled widely and tried to shift himself into a position to watch Heyo's finger penetrating her tailhole. "May I help?" He slipped a thick finger into his mouth, getting it as wet as he could, and slid his hand over hers.

"I wouldn't say no." Heyo pumped her finger in as deep as she could, just past the first knuckle, then gently pulled her hand away to let the tauren's hand gain access to her nether hole.

Rhuna pressed his finger against her slightly lubed pucker, twisting it gently as he pushed, slipping in easily up to his own first knuckle. Then he began to gently finger-fuck her, gradually working it deeper into her rump. "Mmm, you're a very tight panda back there...."

"Ohh, that feels big!" Heyo gasped sharply as he eased his index finger into her, biting her lower lip and rocking gently as he thrust his large digit into her virgin anus. "Do... do you want to be the first to... to fuck me there?" she ventured hopefully. "Or... do you want to see me being really naughty with a gryphon, once you've loosened me up a bit?"

"Oh? You want to saunter up to the enemy flight master and ask, 'Could you please let your gryphon fuck my virgin tailhole?'" The tauren pushed more firmly into Heyo's pucker, feeling it starting to relent a little -- or at least get a little slicker with his saliva. "What would you prefer? My cock, or an enemy gryphon?"

"Well, it's a good use for -- ngggh! -- gold, isn't it?" Heyo grunts, arching her back and clenching around his finger, giving Rhuna's firm erection a squeeze. "Mmm, I want to say the gryphon -- make you watch. I'd bet you'd get so hard from that!" She giggles, turning her head to plant a kiss on the tauren's lips. "Mmm... but you're the stud I _really_want going deep in me first."

Rhuna chuckled with his characteristic rumble. "Maybe you can have the gryphon second," he promised, wiggling his finger deeper into Heyo's butt until it was almost completely buried inside her rectum. Despite having climaxed a few minutes ago, his cock was already raring to go for another round. "Even if I have to mug the flight master and force my gold down his throat."

Heyo moaned loudly, clenching her tailhole tightly around the finger wedged inside her, grinning as she felt Rhuna's shaft stiffening again. "I think_someone's_ getting a stiffy at the thought of seeing a little pandaren taking a big gryphon dick in her butt."

"You could say that," the tauren murmured as he pumped his finger. "I'd happily pay to have you mounted by a gryphon, or another beast," he said, pulling his finger out a bit then easing a second in beside the first. "Think you could take my cock now?"

"Ahh! Nnnnooo... but I want it," Heyo almost whimpered as Rhuna's two fingers twisted inside her, causing some discomfort, but feeling them so deep inside a most taboo place seemed to inflame her passions even more.

Rhuna slipped his fingers out and got off the bed to go over to his pack. He rummaged inside it for a while before he managed to extra a small jar of pale pink ointment. "This might help. It helps to relax tense muscles." He unscrewed the jar's lid and dipped a finger into it, scooping out a small amount. As he returned to Heyo, the pandaren lifted her legs to expose her tailhole, allowing him to spread the cold ointment over it.

"Ohh, oh, Rhuna," Heyo groaned, closing her eyes to concentrate on the strange feeling of the chill and Rhuna's gentle touch on the sensitive tissues of her anus. Because of this, and Rhuna's position, neither of them saw the door open to admit Fistsong. So occupied with each other were they that they also didn't hear her hoofsteps upon the hallway's floorboards.

"Well, here I am...." The tough, broad-shouldered tauren cow lazily shrugged, looking over Heyo and Rhuna, her face unreadable. "But if you two are finished now," she burped softly, a fine haze of alcohol appearing in front of her mouth as she started undoing her sturdy leather armour, "maybe both of you can help me with my next batch of brewing, and a name for it."

Rhuna bolted upright when he heard the other tauren speak, and spun around to face her, forgetting for a moment that he was naked, and sporting an erection. "Ahhh! Hi! You're back!" A few seconds later he realised his current state of undress and arousal, and he turned away, blushing furiously under his facial fur.

Heyo groaned softly, having been looking forward to feeling Rhuna's thick shaft of meat entering more unexplored territory, but she knew the deal with her friend, and started to look around for her pants. "I've got a name for you. Interrupting Tauren." Turning to face Rhuna, she wrapped her arms around her fellow Windwalker, giving him a firm hug and a gentle kiss, which he embarrassedly returned, all too conscious of Fistsong's gaze.

"Five minutes?" Rhuna grunted softly. Why couldn't she have been fifteen minutes later? Then again, I guess it should have been her turn next, he thought to himself. "Just so we can get some warm clothing on, instead of our sweat freezing us into statues."

Fistsong nodded, walking over as Rhuna pulled back from their mutual lover to help Heyo find her clothing. "If you want. It's actually not snowing for a change." She swayed slightly on her feet, in a gait similar to a drunken sailor, back on land for the first time in six months, but judging from the few Brewmasters that Rhuna had seen fighting, he suspected she was as solid as a mountain in a fight.

Turning her back on the other two, Fistsong slipped out of her armour, putting it on the armour racks by her bags, pulled off the lightly padded clothing she wore to protect herself from chafing and pulled out some heavy woolen clothing. It would offer far less protection in a battle, but was better suited for Northrend's biting cold.

"Not expecting any fighting?" Heyo smiled despite her disappointment, bouncing off the bed and cleaning her dripping, leaking pussy on a corner of the bedclothes, before going to her own backpack and pulling out her own winter gear. It was thinner than Fistsong's, due to her fluffier, well-padded physique.

As Fistsong finished removing her armour and her lightly padded clothing, Rhuna got a good look at her surprisingly muscular physique. Her body was marked with old and new scars that he hadn't noticed before, indicating that she was no stranger to conflict.

"Quite the... impressive collection you've got there, Fistsong. Doesn't it ever hurt?" He turned towards her, his cock still hard from Heyo's anal teasing, and put a hand on her chest, tracing some of the scars, marvelling at how she could stand in a raging battle, taking blow after blow so that her companions wouldn't have to suffer.

"Mm? Sometimes it does, after the fights. But never during." Looking down at Rhuna's hand on her chest, then into his eyes, Fistsong smiled softly, rolling her shoulders until the joints popped loudly. "Being drunk all the time helps to dull the pain. All the pain." She hesitated a moment, pain flickering in her eyes. "After I lost my husband in the razing of Taurajo, I started down the path of the Brewmasters and never looked back. Every enemy I kill is one less to harm our people."

Heyo stared at Fistsong in shock, her jaw hanging open slightly for a moment before she lowered her head in shame. "You were married, Fist? All this time, and I assumed... I never asked you if you had family. Dear Xu'en, you didn't lose any children, did you?"

The unexpectedness of Heyo's last question chilled Rhuna's blood, as if he'd stepped outside into one of Northrend's raging blizzards in the nude, tensing up slightly. "Earth Mother... Fistsong, I..." Not knowing what to say, tears starting to well up in the corners of his eyes, he did the only thing he could think of, wrapping his large arms around Fistsong in a tight embrace, his arousal forgotten.

"No... no other family. I... I had our son. I wanted to stay and fight, but Raine... my husband.... He told me to take our son and flee." She shuddered, suppressing a sob. "I listened to him, and ran. Like a coward." She shook her head, a dark look crossing her face. "I vowed to myself, never again. Never again would I run. I would plant my feet and stand my ground until my enemies were dead, or...."

Rhuna wrapped his arms firmly around Fistsong, pushing his nose softly into the back of Fistsong's neck, feeling her body shaking against his, like the ground as a herd of kodo walked by. "You're no coward Fist... You're one of the bravest women I've ever met. The Horde is your family."

"Yeah! And you've saved my life more times that I care to talk about! You're brave, strong, beautiful and even a little bit scary when you want to be! Heck, you've even scared off a dragon!" Heyo giggled a little, irrepressible and cheerful again, hugging Fistsong from the front, her head pressing just under the half-naked tauren woman's breasts.

Looking down at her pandaren lover, Fistsong couldn't hide her pain any longer, letting out a loud sob, wrapping her arms around Heyo and picking her up, crushing her in a tight embrace, burying her face into the fluffy shoulder as she let her tears flow freely.

Rhuna looked on, slightly bemused at Heyo's expression as the young pandaren monk flailed, a look of surprised discomfort on her face as she experienced the full rib-cracking force of a tight tauren hug. Despite the gravity of the situation, he gave a soft chuckle, rubbing at Fistsong's back in a comforting manner. "That's it hon. Let it all out, but... you might want to consider hugging a stuffed kodo. They don't need to breathe."

"Huh? Breathe?" Fistsong lifted her head, looking back to Rhuna in confusion, until one of Heyo's flailing hands clipped her ear. "Mmm? Oh!" She quickly lowered Heyo to the ground, looking bashful. "I'm sorry, love. Guess I forgot my own strength for a moment. You okay?"

Gasping and panting a little bit as she tried to catch her breath, Heyo staggered on her paws, before sitting down on the edge of the bed. "Life... flashing in front of my... eyes...." Gasping melodramatically, Heyo flopped onto her back, legs falling apart slowly, a little of Rhuna's sticky seed oozing out of her folds.

"I think she's fine," Rhuna commented after giving Heyo a steady look. "More to the point, are you?" He directed the question to Fistsong. "I didn't mean to open old wounds."

Fistsong nodded slowly, rubbing the tears from her eyes and cheeks. "Yeah, I'll be okay for now." She took a corner of the bed sheet and dabbed away the tears. "I drink to forget, but honestly... I could never forget the man I once loved."

"I wouldn't expect you to." Rhuna placed a hand gently upon Fistsong's breast, where her heart was. "Someone told me once that a loved one will live on in your heart, and your mind. Memories and emotions will keep your mate alive in this world until you can be with him in the next."

Fistsong gazed into Rhuna's eyes, searching for a sign that he was just saying empty words, but the brown eyes peering back seemed to show his earnest belief in what he'd said. Eventually, she nodded slowly and embraced Rhuna, being careful to not crush him. "Thank you," she said simply. She dimly became aware of another set of arms hugging both of them, and the three of them shared a gentle, loving embrace.

They separated after what seemed like hours. Fistsong sniffed once and gave herself a light shake, composing herself again. When she spoke again, she was back to her usual self. "You two should get dressed. A snowstorm's brewing, if I'm not mistaken, so it's gonna get chilly."

"I'll, um, go take a bath first," Heyo murmured, heading towards the door. "Someone made me a bit messy."

"I wonder who that could have been," Firstsong replied, raising her eye ridges at Rhuna.

Feeling suddenly embarrassed again, Rhuna retrieved his clothes from where he'd left them and pulled them on, struggling as he usually did with his leggings, while Fistsong busied herself with packing their bags and straightening up the room.

Heyo returned a few minutes later after a quick wash, and together the trio were ready to vacate. "You know, that goblin had the gall to charge me for a room that you already paid for," Rhuna said as they tramped out into the chilly lobby.

"'Best deals anywhere' comes with a few caveats, I've noticed. Sometimes with a waiver attached." Fistsong smiled. "But you can't fault them for providing service where it's needed."

The innkeeper watched from behind his counter as the two tauren and pandaren trooped out of his establishment. "I, uh, hope you weren't too inconvenienced by the cramped quarters." He cringed slightly when Rhuna stopped and looked at him.

"The arrangement suited us just fine, thank you," Rhuna said thoughtfully. "Perhaps you could market this place as a place to find love? Just a thought." Leaving the innkeeper to ponder that remark, Rhuna joined the others outside. A brisk zephyr had sprung up, bringing with it the unmistakable scent of snow.

"Coming with us?" Heyo asked, looking up at Rhuna.

"I'd love to." He smiled and tousled the pandaren's purple-streaked hair, messing it up. "Where to?"

Fistsong looked up at the sky for a few seconds. Pale grey clouds were drifting over from the south. "Dalaran, I think. We need to stock up on some good supplies; pickings are slim out here."

"And by 'supplies' she means 'stuff to make new beer with.' And food," Heyo added, grinning widely.

Rhuna chuckled and pulled a small bottle out of a pocket. The contents of it seemed to be all colours at once, yet none at all. "If you like, you can ride me," he said, pulling the stopper out of the bottle and downing the contents with a single swallow. As he sealed the bottle again, it seemed to refill, until its contents had completely replenished. He had time enough to put it back in his pocket before he started to transform. Through some kind of ancient magic, the tauren became larger, his features distorting into a weird amorphous shape that shifted and shimmered for a few seconds until it solidified into the form of a grey-and-gold drake, sporting pyrite-like spikes from its wingtips and tail.

"Oh, I'll ride you all right," Heyo said with a laugh. After ensuring sure her pack was firmly on her back, she clambered up onto Rhuna's back, taking a few seconds to make herself comfortable on the leathery, yet still very firm, 'saddle' area. "Ready when you are."

Fistsong called her own mount into existence, a demonic-looking horse with felfire hooves, secured the rest of the baggage to its flanks, and then swung herself up into the saddle. She took hold of its scarlet reins and gave the horse a nudge in the ribs with her hooves. "Up-up!"

Rhuna waited for Fistsong to get a few metres in the air before he launched himself, beating his mighty wings to slowly gain altitude, and causing Heyo to utter a surprised "Hurrk!" as she was suddenly forced downward. He let her recover briefly, before following Fistsong in a slow upwards trajectory, banking languidly to the left to aim in Dalaran's general direction.

As the inn disappeared into the distance behind them, Heyo leaned forward to hug Rhuna's large draconic neck. As she did, a naughty thought flitted through her mind. I wonder how big he is when he's like this....