The Key to Eve
a fantasy
13
The Key to Eve
PERI’S DREAMS, as they had been the night before, were filled with visions of the black-haired woman cuddled beside him, placing kisses on his face and chest. It was the most peaceful, restful, and inspiring night of his life.
Sun streamed through the chamber window, letting Peri know he had slept long in the witch’s comfortable bed. He lay relaxed, enjoying the comfortable presence of the woman next to him.
A woman where a cat had been. It was like the dream he had had came true. He kissed her raven hair and petted it.
He could still feel her purring against his side.
She was, as he was, delightfully naked. He felt her stir in his arms and she slowly opened her eyes, smiling at him. On a ribbon around her neck hung a key. He touched it gingerly and looked into her flashing green and gold eyes.
“Are you… my Eve?” he asked haltingly.
“My name is Eve. How did you know?”
“I would always be empty until I found the key to my Eve’s heart,” he mused. “And now my heart feels so full.”
“You have the key to my heart, my home, my body, my soul. Welcome home, my hero.”
“But how did it come to be? I have wandered all my life looking for… for you.”
“And now you have found me.”
Peri leaned forward to kiss her and then halted just as their lips touched.
“Are you a woman or a cat?”
“Oh, very much a woman. I am a witch, however, and can change my form to that of a cat. But I am all woman,” she giggled, bringing his hand to her breast. She sighed. “All woman.”
Peri let his lips complete the hairsbreadth between them and they kissed. It was soft and exploring at first and then deepened as they touched their tongues together and let their mouths become one. Peri squeezed the breast she had placed his hand upon and she moaned into his mouth.
“You are far more than all the women in the world,” he sighed as they continued to play with their lips touching each other. “You are my Eve. The one I have searched for.”
“And here I was all along.” She ran her hand through his hair and down his rugged jawline. “Kiss me some more, my Peregrine.”
“All through the day yesterday, I never found out your name,” he said.
“I admit, I turned that question away from your lips more than once. You are now only the second person on earth to have heard it from me. The first was when I told Aunt Lilith what my name would be. And now you. You have my name from my lips.”
“Tell it to me with your lips again,” he said. They kissed some more.
He pulled away from her and turned slightly.
“I am not fit for you,” he cried. “I am a wanderer. I have been held by many women, not knowing what I was looking for. You are pure and beautiful and everything I dreamed of.”
“Name one woman you have been with,” she demanded.
“There was… No, she was… Once… The memory of all flees before your smile. I only remember feeling empty inside and desperate to find the key to my Eve’s heart.”
“Then there have been none,” she said. “But perhaps your body will remember what to do when I lie in your arms like this.”
“Do you truly want me, Eve? I have never felt like this before.”
“That is why I want you, Peregrine. Love me and make love to me. Make us one.”
Peri’s body did, indeed, know what to do, though his mind was slower to catch on. The two young lovers explored each other with their lips and their hands, leaving no part untouched. When his hand came to rest upon the thick thatch of her pudenda she snatched in her breath and reflexively thrust her hips up at his questing fingers. They soon parted the hair to find the hot wet center of her being.
Nor was she less than active in their discoveries. Her hand found his rigid shaft and stroked it, smearing his lubricant around the head as he moaned and thrust his fingers into her.
She pulled him toward her and opened her legs to receive him between them. Then she gently guided him to the core of her womanhood.
“Be in me, my love, my hero, my Peregrine,” she sighed as he sank into her depths. Both paused as his hardness met her damp heat. They gazed into each other’s eyes. “I have dreamed of this moment for years.”
“For years I did not know who I was dreaming of. But still I have found you.”
“Oh, I knew. I knew from the first moment I saw you.”
“That was only a few days ago, wasn’t it?” Peri shifted and slid out and back into her welcoming body.
“Years ago. You were a naughty boy who stole an apple from Auntie’s favorite tree.”
“The apple. She cursed me and said I would wander and not rest easily until I found the key to the heart of my Eve. Until then my heart has been as empty as my belly. I could not rest until I found the key to her… your heart. Your aunt must have been very angry with me.”
“I believe she was frightened. You see, I was ready to leap the wall into your arms that very day, but she said we were too young. We needed to find out what the world was made of and to test our strength against common foes. Only then would we be able to meet as equals and freely give our love.”
“Not a curse, then, but a blessing,” Peri said as he began to pick up the pace of his thrusts. Eve joined him, pushing back at him as he pushed into her. Their breathing became labored as they approached their peaks.
“I am so blessed that you found your way back to me,” she said, snatching her breath and holding it as she arched her body toward him. He pushed to his full depth and felt his very soul pour into her body.
“Eve, my Eve. Let us never be parted again.”
“Stay with me and cease your wandering, my love. Teach me your way of talking to animals. In all my magic, I have failed to learn this.”
“The magic you share with me at this moment is greater than that found in any book or lore. I find… Yes, I know. I am in love with you. Is this a spell you have cast over me that makes me want to continue our coupling and reach that height again?”
“The spell was cast by the two of us when we became lovers. Yes. Move in me some more. Plunder my depths with your rod and know every bit of me. I would be one with you again.”
And so, the lovers continued in their rutting. Soon Eve rolled atop Peri, her breasts touching his lips as she continued to pound back against him. They were one and swore their eternal love to each other.
When they had rested and held each other, the two dressed. Peri found his clothes were like new. They had slept in Eve’s own bedroom. It was difficult for her to dress as he continued to touch her and kiss whatever flesh was exposed. She welcomed his caresses and swore they would return to bed soon. When they were finally dressed, they went to the kitchen in the mansion where Aunt Lilith was cooking bacon and eggs.
“The chickens in the village have started laying again,” she announced to the couple. “People all credit your arrival, Peregrine.”
“I am happy to have brought peace to the town,” he said. “I pray we may never need to defend it again.”
“Oh, I’m sure there will be times,” Lilith said. “Such is life. And you have not only a town to defend, but a wife as well.”
“Aunt Lilith,” Peri said. “I owe you a debt of gratitude. You awakened in me a deep desire to find and love my true mate. Until that desire was recognized and fulfilled, my life was empty.”
“And so, curses may turn to blessings for those with the strength to endure. And now I give you both my blessing as well.” She set the eggs and bacon before them and broke a loaf of freshly baked bread to hand them. “May your lives be filled with the love and joy denied to so many because of their focus on themselves. May you have the pleasure of each other’s bodies as well as the pleasure of your minds. When in the fullness of time, you decide to have children, may you be blessed with children you love and defend together as one family. Eat, my children. Today is the first day of your lives together.”
Peri and Eve fell to the breakfast set before them and thanked Lilith for her kindness to them. They laughed and talked of life, magic, and love.
“How did you come to live in such a splendid mansion?” Peri asked.
“In ancient times, this passed for a castle. The king, shall we call him, was little more than a petty tyrant who had few subjects,” Lilith said. “He, too, offered his daughter to the best and bravest of men, but he was so little known that both he and his daughter perished before any suitor showed up. The castle fell into disrepair and abandonment. When I came to Tumwater, I found a town that accepted witchcraft as a way of life and welcomed me. It was rumored the mansion here was haunted, but no one objected when I decided to move in.”
“How remarkable. There is a stone near the river, marking the grave of the princess,” Peri said. “She helped me and defended me from the vampire. When we are settled, I would like to shore up her monument in thanks for both her friendship and her home.”
“I hadn’t known where the gryphon came from, but she has always been a defender of the castle,” Eve said.
“Now,” said Lilith, “I shall not always cook and clean for you, but today you should spend the day deepening your relationship and sharing your joy. Go, my children.”
“Thank you, Aunt Lilith,” the couple said together.
They left the kitchen and looked into each other’s eyes. Both began to smile broadly as they read the love written there.
“We’ll walk in the garden and visit the village,” Eve said. “But first, let’s go back to bed, my love.”
Lilith was quietly amused. She finished cleaning the kitchen, then made her rounds of the garden, pulling weeds, harvesting vegetables, and refreshing the spells on the wall.
“My work here is done,” she sighed. “I’ve a sudden urge to see the world.” She looked up at Eve’s window. “Don’t worry, my children. I will come back to visit my grandchildren, but this is now your world—your home.”
She quietly slipped through the garden wall and few have seen her in Tumwater since.
The End
