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   March Hares, and...  Madness!  

   STK9 writing as Lady Chrystal
               ----

   I was staring out the window, watching the hares get involved in their
mating rituals when an image surfaced.  I giggled and Merlin looked up from
his book.

   "Vel?"

   I shook my head, unable to answer him at first.  Instead, I gestured out
the window and let him feel my amusement through our link.

   He sighed, carefully closed his book, and then came over to wrap me in a
hug while he waited for me to sober enough to explain the giggle-fit.

   The tones were mild, but his resignation was clear.  "Do Rabelaisian
Vixens ever grow up?"

   The riposte was easy.  "Have you?"

   He laughed.  "I suppose not." He glanced over his shoulder when the door
to the library opened, and then turned back to the window.  "At one time, I
believed Kay had, but ever since she and Tom got rid of Excalibur, I'm more
and more convinced she tossed away her maturity along with it."

   Kay's comment was calm.  "Hubert, the only way you and maturity will
ever be near each other is if you stand next to a dictionary."

   I'd already sensed her presence, so her mild retort only made me giggle
more.

   He sighed.  "What have I done now?"

   Kay came over to stand on his other side and wrap an arm around him
before she looked up and smiled.  "Nothing, yet."

   I felt him shiver.  "After hundreds of years living with you, I *still*
get nervous when I hear those two words cross your lips."

   My nose had already told me what was going on, so I decided to seemingly
divert the conversation.  "Kay would know better than I would, of course,
but 'Mad as a March Hare' made much more sense when she was a young girl."
I gestured out the window with my muzzle.  "Those cute little furballs are
hardly as intimidating as the ones who inspired the concept."

   Merlin laughed.  "So that was it?  One of Tom's memories surfaced?"

   "Yep." I giggled some more.  "Kay?  You were there..."

   She choked, recovered--and then started laughing.  In between gasps for
air she managed to tell Merlin what he hadn't done yet.  "Get a blanket. 
The picnic basket.  Open the portal to our favorite field.  Just we three."

   He was calm about it.  "Ah.  The madness is contagious."

   I turned and bent my head until I could nip his ear lightly.  "No talk.
Act!"

   He freed his arm from around me, then gestured grandly.  "Oh, my
favorite instruments of seduction...  I command you...  APPEAR!"

   Kay and I looked at each other and mock sighed.  She was the one who
commented.  "He always did have this almost uncontrollable tendency to be
ostentatious.  I rather hoped the current culture would have taught him
moderation by now, but he backslides from time to time."

   I merely perked my ears in her direction.  "Kay?  From someone who has
what can only be called an *obsession* for indulging in the use of plants
with aphrodisiacal properties, that sounds...  inappropriate, at best."

   Her gaze was innocent.  "It is a wise woman's duty to be certain she
knows the qualities of the herbs she uses."

   Merlin groaned and we both looked at him.

   He was grinning.  "Weak excuse.  She just got back from a vacation with
Tom and Mahika.  From her tones, I assume she still hasn't been able to
recreate the plants of her youth."

   Kay glared at him.  "Vel?  Portal?"

   I smiled.  "Behind Merlin, of course."

   "Good."

   Both of us lunged for Merlin at the same time.  The three of us fell
through the portal to land on the tall grass that had been visible through
it.

   All of us were laughing, and our movements were almost frantic with the
suppressed needs we shared.

   I removed my harness and tossed it aside while Kay and Merlin undressed
each other, then we tumbled together as we let lust overtake our
sensibilities.

   Since I'd been able to smell Kay's readiness to mate, I only smiled
indulgently when she and Merlin ignored me to fondle each other.

   Both of their movements were more frantic than usual, and I noticed
Kay's urgency was more driven than I was used to seeing.

   Suddenly, I realized.  She must have spent most of her vacation as a
wolf, and that had given her wolf body time to enter estrus, which, of
course, left her feeling very horny when she returned to her real body...

   I giggled.  "Spent too long as a wolf and the hormones caught up, didn't
they?"

   She straddled Merlin and impaled herself urgently.  "Mmm!"

   My giggles changed to chortles and I settled beside Merlin to begin
stroking my claw tips lightly across his chest.  I could tell my own
hormones were peaking, so I reinvoked my non-fertility spell and then went
back to enhancing Merlin's pleasure while I tried to avoid distracting him
from serving Kay's needs.

   Not, I thought somewhat whimsically, that her jouncing was going to let
him forget who was on his penis.

   Merlin finally managed to regain some awareness and his hands wrapped
around Kay's waist to help her drive herself up and down.  When he did
that, I shifted until I was stretched along side his body.  After that I
left them alone while they drove themselves to their orgasms.

   Merlin's hips suddenly arched off the ground and he grunted sharply, so
I knew he'd orgasmed first.

   He held the pose while Kay continued to post herself on him, then after
a few more seconds he went limp and collapsed on the ground.  As he did so
Kay wailed her frustration and grabbed to keep him inserted when his penis
started to fall free.

   Her body followed his down, and then she kept up her frantic movements
until, uncharacteristically, she tipped her head back and screamed.  She
held that pose while her body shook and then she slumped forward to land on
his chest with enough force to cause him to grunt as his breath was driven
from him.

   I barely managed to keep my voice droll when I commented.  "That was
impressive.  It's a good thing I'm a predator and know how to be patient.
It's going to be awhile before Merlin can take care of *my* needs."

   Merlin chuckled wearily and stroked his hands along Kay's spine.  She
moaned tiredly, then turned her head so she was facing me.  "I was still
mostly wolf--and wolves tend to howl when they feel intense emotions..."

   I giggled, then began lightly stroking them.  "I know from experience
that Tom's a good lover, good enough to leave you passed out when he wants
to.  What happened?"

   She giggled tiredly.  "It was accidental, really.  All three of us went
into estrus at the same time.  He's good, but he's not *that* good.  Last I
saw them, Mahika and Wolf were still randy and he was passed out, which
left *me* with a problem."

   I could smell her frustrated amusement and Merlin must have sensed it
somehow because he beat me to the comment I was going to make.  "You're
hiding something."

   "Umm...  Maybe."

   He snorted and hugged her.

   She giggled again and I noted she was coming back to life--and the scent
of her readiness was still wafting from her body.

   Her hips moved suggestively, caressing him, and he sighed.  "What's got
into you?"

   She kissed him hungrily.  "My vacation."

   "Uh huh.  Right.  What else?"

   She giggled and kept slowly working him with her body.  "Those herbs
I've been trying to recreate?  Tom and Wolf found a solution, of sorts. 
She found a place that had been left alone for all these millennia, then he
went back and transplanted some of those herbs to that location."

   I was beginning to get an idea about what must have happened, but it was
her story.

   She sighed her frustration.  "We place shifted to harvest some, I cooked
a meal for old time's sake, then, when we woke up the next morning we all
went wolf to hunt breakfast.  None of us had paid attention to how long
we've been wolves when we switch and this time, when we went wolf, Mahika,
Wolf and I went into estrus shortly after we changed.  The effects
*reinforced* each other."

   When she sighed again I could hear the weariness in her voice.  "Worse
yet, that reinforcement stays with us when we're human."

   I couldn't stop my lips from peeling back in a huge grin.  "How much
time is left before your wolf forms go out of estrus?"

   Kay glared at me.  "At least a week, and it's NOT funny!"

   I giggled.  "To me it is."

   Merlin just groaned, and I sympathized with him but I didn't let that
distract me from my primary target.  "I'm sure the twins will be happy to
help."

   She glared at me again.  "They already have, but even *they* need some
time to recharge!"

   "Oh!"

   I sobered, slightly, and then lost it again.  It wasn't that I didn't
understand Kay's frustrated urgency.  I'd been dealing with something
similar as part of my life ever since I'd gone through puberty.

   Kay, though, was human, and I was reasonably certain she'd spent most of
her life as a human, except when...

   This time, after I sobered, I spoke carefully, with none of my normal
'Bardic Overtones'.  "Kay?  Didn't you spend almost three hundred years
with them before you had to go your own way?"

   She never looked up from her nuzzling of Merlin's chest.  "About that,
yes.  No way to be certain because we weren't counting."

   I touched them again, this time deliberately stroking Kay to distract
her from her body driven hunger.  It worked, a little, and the look she
gave me was grateful, but she said nothing.

   I nodded slightly.  "I'll keep it simple.  How is it that you weren't
aware of this possibility?"

   She sighed.  "I can think of two reasons I find myself in this
situation. One: I seldom used the herbs in my cooking for us.  We didn't
*need* them,

   once Tom agreed to love me sexually."

   I sneezed my amusement, because I was very familiar with Tom's
'readiness and stamina', especially when he agreed to use his anthro form.
Merlin had it too, but he was restrained, while Tom had a 'wildness' to his
passions that sometimes managed to leave me sated as no one else--except a
Rabelaisian Hare could.  Instead of following those thoughts I refocused.
"Reason two?"

   Kay's eyes gleamed oddly while her scent changed to one of self mockery
when she spoke tartly.  "Vel, you randy, nosy, *manipulative* Vixen!  I'm
about 4,500 years old, and until I was forced to settle with Merlin, I
lived a very active life, but it was one that was relatively chaste, and it
certainly didn't involve me doing much shape shifting into my wolf form.  I
spent most of my shifted time as a domestic bitch, and their sexual lives
aren't as 'driven by hormones' as those of wolves.  It's quite possible
this *had* happened to me...  But I forgot about it!"

   I knew my startlement sent my ears vertical, but I didn't worry about
that.  I let Kay have her victory without comment because *I* was mentally
stunned by the concept of her *forgetting* something as intense as what she
was going through.

   By the time I'd recovered she'd already quit paying attention to me.  I
watched her face Merlin and kiss him hungrily, then her hips shifted in a
way that told me he was erect again, and she wasn't going to ignore that
just so she could deal with a nosy Vixen.

   I settled for smiling fondly, and then moved away slightly to meditate
and let them do what they could to temporarily sate Kay's passions.

   * * *

   Fingers working their way through the fur on my thighs brought me back
to reality.  "Vel?"

   "Mmm..."

   Both of them laughed and I heard the tones of completion mixed with
fatigue in their voices.  "So.  Tired and sated enough to be rational for
awhile?"

   Merlin's chuckle was weary.  "Tired, anyway.  She's worse than you've
ever been."

   I kept my tone droll.  "Merlin, you're a great lover, but you aren't a
Rabelaisian Hare, or Tom.  You've never pushed me over the edge, into that
sort of passion."

   When I looked down to smile at them he was spooned around Kay and both
of them were watching me.

   I touched them both and caressed their faces, then let my gentle smile
change to something I knew was both feral, and hungry for something besides
food, as I let myself remember a bit of my youth for them...

   * * *

   I was edgy, knew the reason for that edginess and yet, in spite of my
skills, couldn't completely suppress my needs.

   Sabrina looked up from the scroll she was studying.  "Stefan?  It's past
time you took her on one of your wanderings, and your fidgeting about the
place has become annoying enough I can't study my spells properly."

   His ears went vertical and then he studied her thoughtfully.  "Sabrina,
love, you would have made an excellent Bard."

   She watched him complacently.  "I'm a Mage and content to be so.  I find
it satisfying to have a Bard around to see to the needs I cannot do for
myself."

   I was fascinated by the byplay and layers they added to even their
simple conversations and hoped that someday I'd find the one who completed
me in the same way.  In the meantime, I appreciated their willingness to
include me in that byplay.

   Sabrina suddenly turned on me and regarded me with all the predatory
focus a forest cat was capable of generating.  Then, she sneezed.  "Lady
Chrystal.  We all have functional noses.  Your hesitation is silly and
impractical.  It is my professional--and personal--opinion, that you should
join Stefan on his journey.  He is a Hare, and it is only a Hare that can
adequately deal with your needs."

   Her demeanor changed and she smiled, then reached to touch me tenderly.
"Besides, you love each other, and that will make what happens between
you...  Special."

   She straightened and pointed at the door imperiously.  "Go!"

   Then she went back to her scroll and returned to seemingly ignoring the
outside world again.

   Stefan and I looked at each other and he twitched his head at the
doorway inquiringly.

   I smiled, stood, went over to link my arm with his, then the two of us
left with grins on our faces.

   Just as he was about to close the door behind us Sabrina spoke tartly.
"At least a jog.  She ululates, and I don't want to be distracted."

   He spoke mildly.  "Yes, Dear.  At least a jog.  Probably two.  There's a
clearing I know of..."

   I heard a low voiced snarl and caught a glimpse of her angrily twitching
tail before he finished closing the door.

   We paused on the porch to call our travel harnesses and packs to us,
then, once we were properly attired, we relinked our arms and strolled into
the surrounding forest.

   After we settled into our journey strides I queried Stefan.  "What's so
special about this clearing you spoke of, and the reason for your emphasis
on the distance?

   He laughed.  "She still doesn't like to be reminded of her loss of
control during her time.  The local villagers got tired of being awakened
by her howls and asked that we 'deal appropriately with the intolerable
situation' since we had created it.  The clearing--and the distance--were
our solution."

   I giggled at the drollness of his tones and then laid my ears back in
embarrassment..  "Stefan?  Are hares as randy as the rumors proclaim them?"

   He laughed, then sobered quickly.  "I've heard some of those rumors. 
We're not indiscriminate, if that's what you're asking.  If we were, we
would die of exhaustion shortly after entering puberty."

   I was watching his ears so I knew he was telling the truth, but not all
of it.  I sighed.  "Enough, Stefan.  If you can, quit being a Bard, and be
my lover.  Tell me what I should know, and answer the questions I don't
know enough to ask."

   His nearest ear twisted to focus on me while the off side one kept up
its restless scanning of the forest.

   "Chrystal, there's not much to explain.  The humans who created us all
must have had odd notions of sexuality, and there's no doubt that many of
the Mages of that time were 'perverted' even by our relaxed standards."

   I nodded thoughtfully.  "I've wondered about that and sometimes, when I
am near the Hall, I search the archives.  So far, I've found nothing to
explain many of our sexual customs and compatibilities."

   His nod was thoughtful.  "Nor have I.  It's as if they wanted us all
sexually compatible, but not interfertile.  Considering we were all created
to be warriors, that compatibility doesn't make sense, based on what I know
of the wars raging at that time."

   He suddenly gestured at a barely visible trail.  "This way."

   We turned in the new direction, then he went on.  "Whoever it was that
'created' my ancestors, they took advantage of our seasonal 'madness' and
refined it in two significant ways."

   "Oh?"

   He chuckled.  "Yes.  Be thankful they did.  Otherwise we'd never be able
to function rationally."

   "Sounds ominous."

   "Only if you're a female in season.  For us, the lack of those
refinements would be deadly.  The first refinement is that we have the
ability to either ignore a female during her time, or let ourselves respond
to her."

   I giggled briefly, then managed to sober slightly.  "It sounds similar
to what Vixens do, as long as we don't let the pressures build too long. 
Once we choose, we are...  'enthusiastic' about mating."

   He laughed.  "It is a characteristic of all females, including human
ones.  In the Mage-built it is much stronger, and more...  unrestrained in
its enthusiasm."

   My ears perked.  "You sound as if you speak from personal experience."

   "I do.  One who wanders learns much that stay at homes do not."

   "Mmm.  I see."

   "I'm sure you do."

   I nodded.  "The second refinement?"

   He sighed.  "Once we choose to respond, there is a metabolic shift and
all we can do is mate with the female we have chosen.  We cannot stop this
from happening.  Species doesn't matter, we cannot stop ourselves.  Only
the lack of scent, or fatigue, will cause us to stop and when we wake, we
will seek her out again if she is nearby and her scent says she is
receptive."

   I winced and turned to hug him fiercely.  "Good, for the female and in
terms of species survival.  Not good for the male involved."

   His ears drooped as he hugged me back.  "We've accepted it.  In a way,
we see it as an appropriate use of our natural inclinations.  Elegant,
really."

   I turned my head and sneezed violently.  "Truth.  Not all of it but I
won't ask for more.  I feel much the same way about what happens when it's
my time.  I become...  'mindless' and I find that distasteful, as well as a
perversion of who I am."

   I sighed and leaned into him wearily.  "Forgive me for what I am about
to become, and what I know I will do to you."

   He laughed and hugged me gently.  "I should be asking you to forgive
me."

   I smiled and touched his face.  "Then we will forgive each other, and
what happens, will be what happens."

   He nodded.  "That is what Sabrina and I do when it is her time.  I
agree."

   * * *

   I paused in my narrative and discovered Merlin and Kay watching me.  Not
surprisingly, they wore expressions of mixed sympathy and horror..  Merlin,
of course, could rummage through my memories and I had felt him settle in
the back of my mind while I'd been talking.

   I lowered my gaze to smile at him tenderly.  "No.  Since then I've
learned more control, and it takes special circumstances to release that
sort of passion.  Forgive me, but perhaps it's best that you are incapable
of triggering such a response in me."

   He nodded.  "As you say, Love."

   I returned to my memories.

   * * *

   "We...  Somehow managed to stagger into the clearing.  Stefan half
carried me because my body had taken over, and I must have been begging him
to take me, to use me, to find a way to answer the passion that was
suffusing me.

   "No.  It wasn't all that.  It was worse.  By the time we reached the
clearing I couldn't keep my hands away from his penis, or any part of his
body that was capable of penetrating me, if I could reach it.

   "I burned inside, and it was a fire that could only be put out by being
penetrated.  I knew it, and he knew it, but no matter how much I pleaded,
he refused...

   "Until we were in the clearing.

   "We cast no spells of concealment because even in out hormone inspired
madness, we knew we'd never be able to maintain them--and it would be
energy taken away from our mating.

   "Instead, he did something that would have terrified me at any other
time, but in my lust, it only served to excite me further.

   "He removed the controls that kept him civilized--and a Bard.

   "What happened next, I remember only in snatches.

   "For five days, we raped each other into exhaustion and physical
collapse.  There was no love, no tender touches.

   "There was none of the usual 'seek to encourage our partner's pleasure'
that binds together lovers and mates.

   "We used each other for our own pleasure, and never cared about anything
else.  If they collapsed, or failed to respond, we didn't care.  If one
location or part wasn't satisfactory we found another part of their body to
pleasure ourselves with, until we collapsed into unconsciousness.

   "It was *normal* to wake and seek the other so we could pleasure
ourselves again.

   "I would use his penis in any way I desired, as long as it responded.

   "He did the same to me.  I would collapse into unconsciousness from my
orgasms and often wake to find him screwing me in whatever hole he'd found
convenient, or using a handy part of my unconscious body to pleasure
himself

   "Food?

   "If we managed to remember we had some in our packs, we ate.  Usually we
did not.  We lived on our body's reserves and when it was over it took both
of us almost two weeks to regain our normal weight and vigor.

   "If we felt the need to relieve ourselves, we did so.

   "Immediately.

   "We were mindless *animals*, unable to think, to remember that we were
rational beings.

   "When it was over, our fur was matted and filthy with our combined
wastes and other body fluids.

   "We stank, and I distinctly remember convulsing in a series of dry
heaves that left me exhausted when I became fully aware of the odors that
surrounded us.

   "We were covered with flies and other small scavengers, and it took a
conscious application of our powers--two days after we recovered and had
the energy to spare--to rid ourselves of the maggots who had started to
infest our self or mutually inflicted wounds, wounds that had quite often
been given simply because the pain had enhanced our own pleasure."

   I drifted in my memories of those five days, and other sequences of days
that had been similar, before I looked outward and smiled unrepentantly.

   "One thing I'll never forget as long as I live: For the first time in my
young life I was *completely* sated, and the agony of recovering from my
exhaustion was a well earned reward--in addition to being an insignificant
price to pay for that satiation."

   This time, when I looked at Kay it was with understanding.  "Kay?  In
those five days, I learned many things about myself that I could have
learned in no other way, and I treasure that time of discovery, because,
now known, those desires civilization forces me to conceal will never be
able to surprise me, and take control of my life again, unless I allow them
to."

   I reached again and touched both of them tenderly, deliberately holding
my own passions at bay while I laughed gently.  "That's one reason I find
the 'March Madness' of your hares so amusing.  It is a pale imitation of
the reality I'm familiar with...

   "Intimately!"

   She and Merlin laughed, then she went back to working herself against
his body.

   This time her motions were less urgent, so I snuggled against them and
fondled either of them whenever and wherever I felt like making contact.

   * * *

   Eventually, as I hoped would happen, Kay managed to lose her sexual
edginess and relax into a cuddle between us.

   Merlin seemed to realize she was ready to enjoy the afterglow, so he
prodded her slightly.  "Vel said 'You were there' when she was talking
about the image of Tom's that surfaced.  For some reason she's chosen to
hide that image from me..."

   Kay laughed.  "Vel?  Thank you for protecting my 'dignity', although I
can't figure out what made you feel the need."

   I giggled.  "It had nothing to do with your dignity.  I wanted Merlin to
get it from you, since you're as central to the tale as Tom, Mahika and
Wolf are."

   "Huh!  It happened *because* of me."

   Merlin laughed.  "Embarrassing?"

   She giggled.  "Extremely so, when you're a wolf."

   He chose to be bland in his reply.  "Do tell."

   * * *

   "This happened a few years after they'd greeted me at Stonehenge and
started teaching me how to handle power.

   "Before I met them, I'd been apprenticed to village wise women, and had
to be around priestesses and priests, so the concept of shape shifting was
one I was comfortable with, even though I'd never experienced it first hand
as a participant or observer.

   "Wolf, based on some understanding of her own, had finally decided I was
ready to try it for myself.

   "I was used to it, of course, because the three of them did it all the
time, and seldom hid it from me.  I'd asked the usual questions, and they'd
answered them as best they could, so I knew the theory.

   "What I'd failed to ask, and they'd carefully never told me, was that
while the shape has the abilities inborn, taking the shape does NOT confer
instant skill in *using* those abilities.

   I laughed and she took time to glare at me, then resumed.

   Her tone was a bit tart.  "I'd say the first times I changed to wolf and
tried to do simple things, such as walk without tripping over my own feet,
were humbling experiences, except that I know bloody well they were
embarrassing and I felt silly."

   She sighed.  "They, of course, made it look easy when they shifted.  But
for me, at least at first, shape shifting was an experience I dreaded. 
Youthful dignity is a fearsome thing to live with and I can only sigh at
what I must have put them through while I suffered from it, because I had
an especially virulent and *arrogant* form of it."

   She suddenly laughed.  "Maybe that was the reason Wolf decided to let me
learn.  It certainly stripped away most of my illusions about my
competence, and did it most quickly, too!"

   Merlin chuckled.  "At least I was old enough to anticipate some of the
problems, but if your frustration at the inability to do the simple things
in life was anything close to what mine was, I do sympathize!"

   They looked at me and I shrugged.  "We're still very close to our animal
heritage, but the ability, if we have it, doesn't arrive until after we've
settled into whatever abilities to handle power we might have.  Then, too,
since our inherent abilities stay with us in any form we take, adapting is
much easier.  Still a struggle though, especially at the beginning, and
sometimes it's possible to forget which form we are wearing.  The result of
that forgetfulness can be...  Many things, but it's seldom a pleasant
experience."

   They laughed, and Kay resumed her narrative.

   "So I'd learned to walk, and run for short distances without tangling my
legs, and even eat and play a little.  I was still unsteady over longer
distances, mostly because the longer runs gave me too much time to think
about what I was doing.

   "I was still very attached to being human, and that attachment never
showed up more than when I was learning to hunt.

   "We'd talked seemingly endlessly about my problem, and eventually we
found a solution, of sorts, that worked.

   "We'd scout our food, I'd settle in a likely ambush spot, and then one
of them would scare the prey into panicking in my direction.  With luck at
first, then later with some hard earned skill, I was able to catch it when
it was within reach.

   "Generally, that worked, so using the technique became a habit, and
we... I hate to say it, but all of us got casual and arrogant about it and
it became a mostly unthinking routine.

   She blushed.  "Tom and I paid for that lapse."

   I started giggling again and she glared at me, again, then laughed. 
"Yes, it's funny *now* but at the time it was weeks before I wanted to
shift again!"

   She pushed herself onto one arm so she could watch Merlin.  "It was
mating season for the hares and we'd found us a nice fat one for dinner
after noticing how indifferent he was to his surroundings.  All that was
left was to frighten him into my jaws.  He was *very* plump and healthy. 
He was also big enough to temporarily sate four very hungry people."

   She sighed.  "I picked my spot, Tom found his position...

   "And he snarled and lunged at it, figuring it would leap away from
him--and towards me.

   "It didn't panic.  All we were able to figure out later is that in its
lusty frenzy, it saw him as a rival for the does and not as a predator. 
It's the only explanation that makes its next actions sensible.

   "Tom wasn't serious about his lunge so he was already sliding to a stop
when it planted its front feet and lashed out with its hind ones, kicking
him squarely on his forehead.

   "Tom was almost unconscious from the blow.  When he staggered and tried
to clear his head, the hare pummeled him unmercifully and finally did knock
him out.

   "By then, I'd recovered from my shock and managed to rush in to try and
deal with this suddenly aggressive hare."

   She blushed and I grinned, even though she couldn't see me.

   "Hubert?  In my panic I reverted to human thinking and instead of using
my jaws...  Well, I slapped at the hare with one of my front feet, as if to
knock him away from Tom.

   "That only served to make him angrier.  He turned, kicked me squarely in
the chest--and I went nose over tail.  Before I could regain my feet he was
trying to do to me what he had already done to Tom.

   "The only thing that saved me was that Wolf and Mahika had heard the
commotion and come rushing in to find out what was going on.

   "I heard two snarls of anger and then *both* of them hit the hare at the
same time from opposite sides.  They weren't content to rip its throat. 
Instead, between them, they *shredded* it"

   She resettled and started laughing.  "They were apologetic, of course,
for dinner that evening being 'hare stew', instead of the 'hare steaks'
we'd originally planned for."

   Her voice went matter of fact, but I knew she must have been exerting
quite a bit of control to leech her emotions out of it.  "Needless to say,
after Tom woke up and we recovered from our headaches, we never made that
mistake again."

   "When I went back to being human, I had some very unusually shaped
bruises on my chest, too.  For years after that experience, if someone
mentioned hunting hares during their mating season, I would flinch and look
down at my chest."

   Merlin got his laughter under control and then looked at Kay
thoughtfully.  "Kay?  Just how big were those hares?"

   She stayed matter of fact.  "About three to four times heavier than
modern European hares."

   "Oh.  Now I understand why the phrases 'Mad as a March Hare' or 'March
Madness' make you turn thoughtful and contemplative."

   "I thought you might."

   He got up so he could look at me.  "Vel?" He took a deep breath and
shivered.  "I'm going to apologize for my inability to completely let go.
I'm too...  Attached to my humanity to be able to completely satisfy you.
I'm sorry, Love."

   I reached over Kay to touch his face gently.  "There are few times when
I need that kind of satiation.  I prefer rationality, not a denial of who I
am.  No need to apologize for what is."

   He nodded into my hand, then held it with one of his.  "Thank you."

   I smiled, then tipped my muzzle slightly.  "My nose tells me Kay is
ready to go again."

   He groaned and let himself fall on his back.  Before he'd fully settled
Kay was on him again, and reaching for his penis hungrily.

   I laughed softly, then settled on my side to watch and enjoy round two
of Kay's...

   "March Madness."
   

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