Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:40:27 -0500 From: lokiaga@austin.rr.com Subject: Rue Dauphine 35 Rue Dauphine 35 Lance Kyle Scott awoke the next morning with a sense of being watched. He was indeed. He had the twin slave boys, Romulus and Remus, on either side of him, with Sampson on the far side of Remus, and the twins were both awake and, propping themselves up on elbows, were quietly surveying his body. Scott wriggled awake, startling the boys a little, but when he cupped their tight, rounded bottoms with one hand for each, they broke into grins. "You sure pretty, Masta," said one twin. "Masta McGillicuddy, he nevah let us look much, but we wuz lookin' at you," said the other twin. "That's quite alright," replied Scott, "look and touch as much as you like." Giggling in response, the boys set to work surveying the white body. Of course they had seen white people before, but even with the Marshall, this kind of intimate exploration of skin color, hair texture, facial features had been forbidden to them. Now they set to work eagerly, which of course aroused Sampson. Used to dark chocolate and also cream colored skin and features of all kinds, the mulatto boy nevertheless joined in by examining Remus. Scott likewise touched, kissed, and nuzzled first one dark brown boy and then the other. Although he was also used to their features, he never tired of them. He thought their few, thin, wiry pubic hairs particularly amusing, bespeaking the dawning of hormones and potency inside their tight, coal black, wrinkled ballsacks. Of course all this exploration quickly led to four morning erections, and the surveying of bodies soon turned to kissing, fondling, sucking, and pumping. What better way to explore different fullness of lips than to kiss them, to see different skin colors closely than to lick them? It was not long before four rampant erections: one rosie pink, two midnight dark, one medium brown were thrusting urgently out from bodies. Romulus, lying on top of Scott and rubbing his small but stiff little erection against the white man's own, whispered to him, "Masta, we want you inside us, Remus and me." Remus, moaning as Scott had a finger well up his anus, nodded in agreement. "Are you certain?" asked Scott. The boys nodded. "We done had Masta McGillicuddy, we can take you, Masta. It be our way to show you thanks." Scott nodded yes and the boys immediately rearranged the foursome on the bed so that they lay on their bellies, pillows shoved beneath their pelvises so as to raise their firm rounded bottoms up. Scott, with Sampson's help, lubricated each boy well, and then motioned Sampson to enter one boy while he mounted the other. But Sampson demurred. "They want you, Master Scott, I can wait," he said. Nodding, Scott placed his rampant dick at the anus of Remus and with a push entered him in three easy pushes. Remus gasped and moaned, but thrust his little bottom back and up to receive the white man. Scott covered the dark brown boy entirely, his belly and chest pressed tightly against the slim back, his arms completely around the boy's chest so that his fingers could squeeze the boy's nipples. Scott buried his face in the crisp black wool of the slave boy's hair, nibbling his ear, biting his neck and shoulder as he pumped, pumped, pumped. Inches away, Romulus looked open mouthed at the spectacle of the white man taking his brother. Holding himself back, Scott spent but a few more minutes atop Remus and then reluctantly pulled out and shifted over to Romulus. He saw that Sampson had obligingly been lubricating the boy slave's anus, and so Scott pushed his iron hard rod directly in, Romulus now gasping and moaning but likewise holding his bottom up in offering to the white man. Grasping this brown slave boy tightly, skin tight against skin, Scott resumed the rhythm of frantic pumping that he began with Remus. He had to climax inside one boy or the other, and so when he felt the wave of pleasure began he stayed inside Romulus and squeezing the boy tightly with all his might, his face pressed tightly in the boy's hair, pushed forward with all his might and in one long spasm emptied himself inside the slave boy. He lay there shuddering, recovering breath, when he noticed that Sampson had mounted Remus, just inches away from him, and was just sliding his stiff brown rod into the slave boy. Smaller than Scott, he slid right in, readily accommodated by Remus, and began a furious pounding. It did not take long for the mulatto boy to climax as well, and in a moment he was moaning with a high pitched keening sound as the drained his thirteen year old ballsack into the brown boy beneath him. At a cue from Scott, Sampson and he pulled out of the twin slave boys and turned them over, their hard little dicks pointing straight up in the air. Scott and Sampson each took a rampant rod in his mouth and began sucking mightily, while the twins thrashed on the bed, occasionally curling up their heads to see themselves being sucked, and then at the same time they came, shooting a watery squirt up into the waiting mouths of Scott and Sampson. Exhausted, the four snuggled together on the bed for a while until they were rested up. Then, hand in hand, they went to the shower bath and helped each other to clean up. They were all just getting dressed when a cry split the morning calm. They rushed into the hall to find the other males coming out from the rooms they had slept in to see what was the matter. Then there was another cry, and another. Cleopatra came bursting out of a room and shouted at the men, "The babies are coming! Send for help!" Of course, notice was sent to Mama Désirée immediately, and it did not take long for her to arrive with a troop of midwives. It was true: Niobe, Delilah, all the women were delivering at the same time. The males were tasked with fetching this and that supply, and strangely dressed blacks appeared at the door from time to time to hand mysterious and pungent packages over to the Rue Dauphine household, with instructions to take it to the midwives immediately. Labor lasted throughout the day, and towards dusk they began delivering the babies: first Elsie, then the others in short order. The males crowded around doorways, fear, wonder, and tears alternating on their faces, uproarious applause and prayers of thanks being offered up at the sound of each baby's screams and the pronouncement of the midwife that a girl or a boy had been born. The males tried to see in but were shooed away for now—the women all had more important work to do. Scott and Cloud conferred as to what seemed like the extraordinary circumstances of all the women delivering at once. Cloud stared into the far distance for long moments, using the sixth sense of his people, and finally concluded that some powerful force was at work to make this come about, which they had already suspected from the fact of the pregnancies occurring together. Once James was sent to the cellar wine store actually to fetch up some brandy. He delivered it directly to the midwife and then tugged urgently on Scott's and Cloud's sleeves. "Come!" he said, and went running back to the cellar, the white and the Indian man close behind him. They did not need to ask. Singing filled the tunnel, and the sound of voices was very clear now, but speaking a language, or languages, nobody recognized. Not knowing what else to do, and with duty calling above, the three rushed back upstairs but vowed to return periodically. In whispers they spread the news of the strange occurrences in the tunnel to the other members of the household. The hours wore on into the night and before long the exhausted midwives announced the births of four health babies, two boys and two girls, to Elsie, Mary, Delilah, and Niobe. At last the males were invited to take a tour and visit each mother and child asleep. The men and boys crowded around, searching infant faces for clues as to who the father was, teasing each other with allegations and denials of paternity, but in truth it was impossible to tell. Everyone worked throughout the night, the men pitching in to prepare food in the kitchen and to help with the laundry, which was a fearsome load given all the deliveries. Scott or Cloud slipped down to the cellar from time to time; the singing and voices continued, neither louder nor softer. A few days passed as the infants grew stronger and the mothers recovered. Except for nursing duties, there were so many people in the house willing to help the new mothers and babies, with the males even washing soiled diapers, that there was a great deal more joy and recovery than stress. And then Sampson came running back from an errand to the wine cellar to call Scott down. Scott summoned Cloud to join him and down the stairs they went. The singing and voices were no louder, no softer, but there seemed a strain of meaning in them. Scott and Cloud conferred and agreed, they could just barely make it out, sometimes from intuition more than actual words, but sometimes the words did seem to form: "Bring the children." They returned and called the group together. The mothers were all able to get about, and they hugged their infants tightly on hearing this news...bring the children. Mama Désirée was summoned so as to get her advice. She went quickly down to the cellar, stayed a moment, and came back up. "It is not evil," she said, "but it is time to go. The voices—they mean it this time." And so it was that everyone, the new mothers and babies warmly wrapped and supported on the left, right, and behind, made their way down into the tunnel and turned in the direction of the underground pool where the mysterious figure had been seen before. Now as they advanced, with mingled fear and hope, in that direction they each thought they could hear distinct voices in the singing, in the wind that came toward them, and that they seemed like voices of welcome. Step by step, and the household of Rue Dauphine arrived at the underground pool. The surface seemed to simmer slightly, and in the middle of the pool stood or hovered the hooded figure in black. Sparkles as of the nighttime stars flashed out from its garments. As the household stood there, it seemed to spread its arms and the wind and singing died down to a murmur. Then it spoke in a voice without sex, a voice like a stone flute, a voice both very present but far away. "You are blessed," it said, "with these children." Everybody nodded their agreement. The group felt—well, yes, some fear, but also confusion and wonder. Predictably, it was Mama Désirée who stepped forward. "Ancient one," she said, "what is this place? This pool? And what sort of spirit are you? Why have you summoned us?" The murmur of song and wind seemed to shift into a minor key, voices of sadness joining the chorus. The hooded figure spoke. "This is the end of a long path," it said. "From here the path goes down and down, through the water, under the great river and lake, down into the ocean and across the ocean. The path goes to Africa. Many and many were the lives lost in bringing most of you here," and it seemed to wave an arm in the direction of the household. "The spirits of those lost still walk that path, for they and their descendants have unfinished business in this New World. Debts to pay and to collect, and destinies to be fulfilled." The wind and songs swirled louder, then back down again. And then the figure began gliding toward the group. Many of them recoiled, but they felt deeply within themselves that running away would not do, that something important was about to happen. Within touching distance of the tightly huddled household the figure stopped and seemed to spread arms within its sparkling, flashing black substance. It spoke. "These children will be blessed, and their descendants will be blessed. Soon this land will see a great, great war. Slaves will be freed, but the road to freedom will be long. These children's children, and their children, and down into distant generations will have special, anointed tasks for the next hundred, O! two and three hundred years. Freedom begins here," said the figure, and then one at a time the arms seemed to bless each baby, seemed to drop a shower of stars on each face as the babies slept soundly. "Go now," said the figure, "go back to life. To the struggle. To the war that will be. Let the children and their descendants know of their destiny to lead and inspire. Let them never forget their sanctified destiny." Then tunnel went completely dark and the members of the household called out in confusion, groping for each other, milling around trying to find the walls of the tunnel, anything that could give them their bearings. And then light returned to the tunnel but to everyone's surprise they were standing back at the tunnel entrance to their own house. King wanted to go back to the pool to see what had become of the figure, but Scott, Cloud, and Mama Désirée advised against it, at least for now. That night, and for every night thereafter, the members of that household whispered to the little ones of the blessings they had received and the tasks before them and their descendants. It was a reassurance that would sustain them in the coming hard times and good times as well. The children grew up and multiplied, creating a large clan of people of many hues. Each generation kept its secret, and each generation was a bright light to others around them. Maybe some of you are among them, yes? And long years afterwards, descendants of those children would still return—and they return even now, perhaps you can find the house in New Orleans and see for yourself—to celebrate their secret bonds and to move their shared destinies forward. THE END Please donate to keep the Nifty Archive going; I have! Join me at http://donate.nifty.org/donate.html Comments welcome! lokiaga@austin.rr.com