51 Missing piece

"Haaa... Haaa... Haaa..." Fay's breath caressed the skin of my chest. I could feel every single movement of her body, every last twitch of her muscles dancing under her delicate skin. Her heartbeat was slow and steady, shaken only by the occasional aftershocks of the pleasure moving up Fay's spine. Those two outbursts of passion exhausted all of my strength. I couldn't even sway my upper body to remove the sharp stones that painfully prickled my back. Or maybe it was because I had a damned fox-girl beauty peacefully resting on top of my chest?

"Bliss..." Fay breathed out, a smile of perfect satisfaction resting on her red, full lips. Breathing out, I released some of the pressure that started to build up in my chest. This was truly a blissful moment. But we were still out in the open of the forest's edge, with nothing to shield our naked and sweaty bodies from the chill of the colder winds. And as pleasant as just resting with Fay on my chest could be, I couldn't afford to enjoy it if it came at the risk of a cold!

"We should get ourselves fixed up," I whispered, moving my hand to gently brush it through Fay's long, straight hair. The sense of fluffiness was out of the world, making me wonder who was actually caressing who as I carefully threaded my fingers through the white storm of Fay's long hair. "Mhmmm..." Fay couldn't be bothered to utter more than just a simple something between exhausted moan and tired groan. "Staying like that is like asking for a cold!" I tried to reason with the girl... even though I could damn well feel the lack of any intent whatsoever in Fay's relaxed body. She was hugging me like a pillow as she dozed off, melting in the lasting aftershocks of peaking. With no other choice, I gathered all my strength... and moved to the side. But rather than removing the stones from below me, I pulled the two of us a bit before my fingers hooked at Fay's discarded haori. 'There it is,' I thought to myself, pulling the cloth and quickly moving it to cover Fay's sweaty back with it. Despite how relatively skimpy the outfit was when worn properly, now that it was all disheveled and unkempt, it could pretty well serve the role of a blanket. 'There's no way she will be able to move for some time,' I had no other option but to accept this realization. How could I forcefully move Fay now that she was still reliving the last echoes of the pleasure we shared?

"Hey, I think we both would like nothing more but to lay down and relax," I spoke softly while gently shaking Fay's body to bring her back from the world of her lazy dreams. "But I believe we should start getting back."

It was stupid to remain out in the open while covered with a lot of sweat and just a single piece of cloth, barely protected from the colder winds that liked to course from between the trees. As we happened to lay down right at the edge of the forest, our bodies also served as the windbreaker for all the currents that came storming from the clearing and crashed with all their might into the wall of trees.

But in all honesty, this wasn't even my greatest consideration, the worry of getting Fay sick. No. The fight from just before proved that I still underestimated just how dangerous this world was. And just by recalling the time when I saw Fay nearly get impaled by some bastard's blade...

My body tensed up, determination fanning the flames of my inner engines, allowing me to break free from the shackles of comfort, grab Fay by her waist secure her on my chest, and then raise up with the girl in my arms. 'I still don't know anywhere near enough about this world,' I thought, hugging Fay close while continuing to lightly shake her, hoping to slowly pull her out of her relaxed daze. 'And for me to learn more about it...' I thought, my eyes drawn to where I expected Fay's mom to be.