Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 01:44:39 +0000 From: Dave Arnold Subject: Earth's New Masters Part 44 My New Student Earth's New Masters Part 44 My New Student I hope you are enjoying my work. If you like it let me know at bigstuddog@live.com. It always helps to have some feedback. That's the only payment most of us writers on this site receive. Speaking of payment, if you are able to help support Nifty.org please donate what you can. David "orders" Gofer to be his student... Earth's New Masters Part 44 My New Student Master and I went down to breakfast and there was an air of excitement permeating the kitchen. After the breakfast had been served and everyone had eaten enough to get the edge off of their hunger, the cat was finally let out of the bag. "Daddy we get to be Beta Testers for the new video game that's coming out. Wigmar sent it to Uncle Loki so all of us pups can play it and let him know what we think of it." Arnold exclaimed. "I didn't realize he was so close to finishing it, I didn't think it was anywhere near the Beta Testing phase yet. It's the first new video game that's been made in 30 years. His feral Alex came up with the concept for the game when he was coming down from effects." My Master said. Then I stupidly blurted out, ""Do they call it Beta Testing because it's done by the Beta?" They all burst out laughing. Grimald actually snorted orange juice out of his nose. "Eeewwww!" Prim and proper Brunhild cried out when some of the juice landed on her paw. "What's so funny?" I asked turning bright red. I watched Gofer relishing my discomfort from the kitchen door. "Beta Testing is a test for a computer product prior to commercial release. It's just the last stage of testing. It has nothing to do with Loki being the Beta." My Master said with a snicker. The pups finished up eating and James drove them and Mom to Loki's house. Master stayed here but of course he had a morning full of meetings. There were still plenty of Illuminati secrets to discover and work through. I went to the tying room and tied flies for a while. We were planning on starting the fly fishing school on Monday but that left me with four days to kill before I started my new job. It was hard to consider it a job since for four of the days I would only "work" two hours a day. I called Beau and he said he was helping with the Beta Testing. It seems he'd gotten interested in video games when he was stuck in his room all that time that he and Loki were having their problems. Finally I decided to take a walk around the grounds to kill some time. I got a huge surprise. Gofer was out in the back yard casting a fly rod. Even from where I was I could tell it wasn't one of our Orvis rods. Where did he get a rod and how did he learn to cast? Gofer didn't see me coming as I walked up behind him. I watched him for a few minutes. He wasn't anywhere near as good at casting as my Master or the pups, but he was doing much better than the average human without lessons or lots of experience. Definitely better than a brainless CBH with an IQ of 85 would be able to do. I watched him for a few minutes without him knowing I was there. He was concentrating on what he was doing. Concentrating much more intently than a CBH should have been able to concentrate. "Make sure the line's tight before the power stroke." He muttered to himself as he let the line trail out behind him on the backcast. He looked over his shoulder to see when the line completely straightened out behind him. That's when he saw me. His jaw dropped and he never made his forward cast, the line just fell to the ground behind him. As he stood there with his mouth agape I said, "Not too bad for a beginner." He just stood with a trapped look on his face. "If you like I can give you some pointers on that..." "No Master David, I wouldn't want to impose on a Master..." He said still shaken from being caught. "I'm your Master right?" I said pulling rank. "I know Master." He replied, rankled at being reminded. "Well then I'm sure you're aware that Beau and I are starting a fly fishing school. Well I need practice so I'm ordering you to let me practice by teaching you." I said winking at him. I could see it dawn on him that I was giving him an out. "If Master David orders it of course I'll do it. I can't disobey a Master." He said without the sarcasm that was usually present when he spoke to me. I reached out to take the rod from him. He handed it to me without any fuss. I looked it over. It wasn't nearly the quality of our trout rods, but of course it wasn't nearly as expensive as them either. It would be a serviceable for any local fishing. I put it through a couple of casts to get a feel for it. For an inexpensive outfit it had pretty good balance and it loaded pretty well with the weight forward eight weight floating fly line that it was married to. It only took me a couple of false casts to get the feel of it's natural rhythm. I threw a 60 foot cast under an overhanging hedge all the way back to it's trunk. For maybe the first time Gofer looked at me in awe. "Not too bad huh?" I asked. He just nodded. He wasn't ready to give up his cover yet. It wasn't going to be easy to draw him out of whatever shell he had crawled into. At this point I just wanted to try to get him to trust me a little. Well that and not hate me so much. I handed him back his rod. "You're doing really well for a beginner." I said and paused for a second. Despite his attempts to remain stoic, his face lit up for a moment when I praised his casting. "Go ahead and cast and I'll tell you ways to improve." He started casting and I noticed he was having minor problems with keeping everything in the same plane. "I'm going to get behind you and guide your arm through the proper motion." I told him as I moved behind him. I put my left arm around his waist and my right arm mimicking his right arm. I felt him tense up at my touch, but I just continued on like nothing had happened. I took him through a long series of false casts then removed my right arm from his. "Can you tell how different it feels when you are casting in the right plane." "Yeah you can feel the force vectors all aligning to keep the momentum building in the same direction." He said forgetting who he was talking to. The problem was I had no idea what he was talking about. "What did you say?" I asked. He tried to recover after realizing his slip up. "I'm sorry I should have referred to you as Master." "Look when I'm teaching you you don't have to call me Master. We don't have to be that formal. That's not what I was asking about anyway. What did you just say." "I'm not sure Master, I'm a CBH. Sometimes we say gibberish or repeat random stuff that we hear from our Masters..." He added his eyes down. I knew that that was the deepest fattest steaming pile of buffalo shit that I'd ever heard. And he knew I knew. But I didn't want to press him when I was starting to connect at least a little with him. "I keep forgetting that you're a CBH..." I said pausing for a second then adding. "Lets try it again. This time I'm going to let you do it but I'll keep my arm on your arm so I can feel if you're doing it right." I still had my left arm around his waist and I affectionately rubbed his belly. To my surprise this time he kind of melted into me as he started to cast again. He had picked it up pretty well and after a few false casts I let go of his arm completely. I watched his line sail through the air. He had the basic mechanics of the cast down. He wasn't near perfect yet, but he was picking it up fast. Much faster than a CBH should be able to. Actually faster than an average human would pick it up. "Okay that's enough for today. When you get time practice what I've taught you. Then when you get that down to where it's second nature I'll teach you something else. My guess is that it's just about time for you to get lunch ready, so you better go hide your fishing rod." He nodded. "Where did you get it anyway." He turned and looked at me defiantly, "I bought it with my OWN money. Master Woden said I could spend it on ANYTHING I wanted. I saw that all the male Masters had fly rods and it looked like fun." He said, implying that he was just a CBH aping his Masters. "I never suggested that you shouldn't have it. But I'll tell you what. I'm not going to say anything to Master. If you want him to know you can tell him. But that's up to you..." As I replied to him I noticed that he had a boner, I wondered if it had been from me holding him. I know I'd gotten a chubby while I was holding him. "Thank you Master David." He said quietly. And somehow he conveyed in that short answer that he was thanking me both for teaching him and keeping his secret. He walked away to hide his gear wherever he was hiding it. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why he was hiding it. Master would be thrilled to know that he was much more than Master realized. But I was worried that if I tried to expose him he'd just crawl back into his shell. Maybe I can slowly bring him out of his shell if I take it slowly. I walked back up to the house. My Master was still in his meeting, the pups were over at Loki's playing video games and Mom was probably having coffee and Danish with her sister. So I went up to my Master's room to relax for a while. I stripped out of my clothes and laid down on the bed. I couldn't stop thinking about Gofer and how I was feeling while I was holding him. In the past when I had thought he was a mostly typical CBH the thought of touching him made my skin crawl. Like the time he came in my briefs and I put them on. But now I was convinced that he wasn't so much different than I was. I started to think about how much fun we could have if we were friends. I didn't believe we'd ever become that close of friends, but despite that I started to fantasize about taking his virginity. The thought of being the first one to take him had me boned up in no time flat. I knew he jerked off but I didn't think he had much if any sex with a partner. Which really shouldn't be surprising. I'd never had sex before I surrendered to my Master. I thought about what we could do together. I let my imagination run wild... "Get on the bed." I ordered playfully. "Yes Master David." He replied eagerly. I positioned him on his back with his head hanging down over the edge of the bed. I bent my legs enough that my cock was even with his mouth. I didn't have to order him to open his mouth, he was eager to suck my cock for the first time. I put the head of it in his mouth and he explored my foreskin with his tongue. I could tell he was fascinated by it because he didn't have one. I couldn't imagine how terrible it would be not to have one. But soon I was feeding more and more of my cock into his eager mouth. Since he was so inexperienced I didn't try to shove it down his throat. Yet... I wanted to suck his cock too but it was only right that since I was the Master that I should mark him first as mine. I started working my boner in and out of his mouth. When he seemed comfortable with it I started to work it down his throat. I could see his neck expand where my dick was going down his throat. It was fascinating to watch. I reached down and touched it and I could feel my hand on my dick as it moved in and out of his throat. Knowing I was maybe the first one that he'd ever sucked off had me ready to blow my load right away. I pulled out so I could cum in his mouth the first time. I wanted him to taste me, not just deposit it in his stomach. Well at least for the first time. "I'm ready to cum! You better swallow every drop!" I informed him as I started firing off into his mouth. I fired off a half dozen big jets of spunk into his mouth and he swallowed it all. As I pulled out I made sure I squeezed every drop of my cum into his mouth. "Thank you Master David." He said respectfully. (Hey this is my fantasy, I can think anything I want in it, no matter how far fetched). "That's a good boy." I said as I positioned him on the bed with his head up by the pillow. His cock rock hard and dripping. It looked so strange without a foreskin. I reached into the bed stand and pulled out the Gun Oil and squeezed some out onto my hand. I reached down to lube his cock up but after only a couple of strokes his cock started jerking as he fired cum all over himself. When he finished cumming he looked up at me sheepishly. "I'm sorry Master David. I couldn't help it..." I put my finger to his lips and said, "Shhhh..." Then I crawled between his legs until our dicks were laying against each other and my balls were nestled on his. I was a little bigger in both categories, as a Master should be to his "boy" but there wasn't nearly the difference as there was between Beau and I. I brought my head down to his and kissed him. I don't think he had ever been kissed before because he didn't open his mouth at first when I tried to slip him some tongue. But he quickly caught on and surrendered his mouth to me. As we kissed I started to rub my hardening cock against his. Mine was still slick from his saliva. His was slick with the Gun Oil I had inadvertently jerked him off with and with the cum from his premature release. It was a slick sloppy mess and it felt incredible. Being sixteen year old young men we both were soon erect for round two. We should both be able to last longer this time around. We thrust against each other our dicks and balls sliding over each other with almost no friction. But I wanted more. I wanted his virginity. I pushed my way up to my knees, then put his knees over my shoulders. "The Sheps may think that you aren't capable of consent but I know you're a lot more than you let on to them. And you're gonna willingly give me your virginity. Aren't you?" "Yes Master David." "Tell me you want it!" I ordered. "Please Master, don't make me wait longer. I want to feel you in me." He begged. I grabbed the lube and squirted some on his asshole and then squirted some onto my hand to slick up my cock. I put the tip of the tube into his asshole and squeezed some of it in. Then I used my middle finger to work it all around the inside of his passage, making sure to run my finger over his prostate in the process. I pulled my finger out and positioned the head of my cock at his virginity. I watched as I applied pressure to his sphincter. There was resistance at first, then I watched and felt as the head of my dick popped into him. Just knowing that I was the first one ever in him got my juices really running. He gasped in pain for a second but I kept feeding my cock into him. When the head ran over his prostate he gasped again, but this time with pleasure. Damn did he feel wonderful. I rested on top of him with him bent almost double. I kissed him again and this time he eagerly invited my tongue into his mouth. We tongue wrestled for a while then I started to slowly thrust in and out of his eager body. I broke the kiss and stared into his eyes. For the first time in his life he met my eyes and stared back into them. "I'm gonna fuck you 'til I cum in you. And when I cum in you you're gonna be mine. Do you understand?" "Yes Master." he replied, meaning it for the first time ever. In my mind I picked up the pace as I quickened the stroking on my cock. I was jamming it deep and hard into his eager submissive body. I was going to mark him as mine. I was jostling his prostate as I slammed into him causing him to cum on his belly. When he was almost done cumming I finally went over the edge and shot my load deep in him... In actuality I shot seven or eight ropes of cum onto my chest and belly. I lay on my back exhausted but content from a good fantasy wank. I lay there for three or four minutes. I didn't even hear him come in. I didn't notice him at all until he pounced on me. He held me down and licked all the spooge off of me. When he was finally done licking it all up he savored it for a while like he always did. His eyes lost focus and he sighed contentedly. If anything he was getting worse about it. I just watched him in my amused lassitude. I let him enjoy his high in peace until he finally shook his head to clear it. The glassiness left his eyes and he came back to normal. "Welcome back..." I said with a smirk. "Don't even start. I'm not fucking addicted." "Whatever you say..." I added, rolling my eyes for effect. "I'll show you who's addicted when we go to bed tonight. But there's to much to do now. Get your clothes on and let's go see the puppy." I put my clothes back on and we headed outside. We went to the kennel run to see Flame but he wasn't in it. We searched the yard until we saw Gofer laying on his back in the grass, Flame bouncing around licking his face and biting his hair while Gofer giggled with pleasure. It was a sound I'd never heard coming from him before. I looked up at my Master. He had a pleased smile as he watched. Master cleared his throat as we approached the two. Gofer heard it and got up almost in a panic. "Relax Gofer. We were just coming out to see Flame." Master said. "Gunnar said I should play with him Master. I was just doing what he told me to do." Gofer replied. Master looked at me and it was all the two of us could do to keep from laughing. "Well if he told you to play with him I guess that's alright then." Master said with his bark-like laugh. "Maybe we should all play with him." He said taking the puppy from Gofer. He held it up to his nose and Flame nipped him playfully on the tip of the nose. He yelped in surprise and then turned him on his back and vigorously rubbed his belly. Flame kicked his leg in response. I laughed, remembering the time I did that to my Master when he was asleep. "Don't even go there..." Master barked at me, knowing exactly what I was laughing about. We played with the puppy, but usually when given the choice he ran straight for Gofer. I was glad that Gofer had found something that loved him. I think if he let his guard down with others like he did with the puppy that others might find him a lot more lovable. We played with Flame until he decided he'd had enough and lay exhausted at Gofer's feet. "Master Woden I think he's tired out. Is it alright for me to put him back in his run so he can nap?" Gofer asked. "Sure. Besides it's almost time for you to go "help" Chef with lunch." Master said the emphasis on "help". My Master knew, or at least guessed how much of the cooking was being done by Gofer. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, well at least until we went to bed and Master punished me for laughing about how dogs kick their hind leg when you rub their bellies. God do I love being punished... Right after breakfast the next morning James the Chauffeur drove Mom and the pups back over to Loki's house to continue with the Beta Testing. While Gofer and the other CBHs were cleaning up after breakfast I had a talk with Master and got permission for a fishing trip. When he went to his morning meeting I walked back to the garage. I called Gofer on my cell phone, "Grab your fly rod and meet me in the garage." "Yes Master David." He replied without any questions, but also without his usual sarcasm. I hung up and got my gear off of the shelf in the garage. I grabbed my vest which I inserted the fly box of popping bugs I'd tied last night into one of the pockets. It was warm enough that I didn't need waders. If we needed to wade we could do it in our shorts and athletic shoes. I brought an extra rod for James in case he wanted to fish too. His main job was to make sure we were safe, but that didn't mean he couldn't enjoy himself also. I didn't really know where this pond was at but James did. I had all my stuff gathered up by the time Gofer arrived. He was carrying his rod but it was still in the case, which worked just fine. "I'm here like you told me Master David." He said trying to remain externally emotionless, but you could sense the eagerness right under the surface. "OK. Now I need you to get a cooler and a couple of bags of ice. I know you know where to get that." "Yes Master David." He said and rushed off. This was one of the first times he'd ever seemed eager to do anything for me. He hopped onto his golf cart and drove to the storage building that had the coolers and the freezer filled with bags of ice. He was back in a few minutes. James was just bringing the limo around. He backed it up to where I's assembled all of the gear. He opened the trunk and I put our rods and my vest in it, along with the fish basket to put our catch in. I helped Gofer put the ice chest in. "Well Gofer you're coming fishing with me so I can practice teaching again." I said. "But I can't leave! What if Master Woden or Mistress Freyja need me to get them anything." He said in a panic. "I've already spoken to them. Master knows you're gonna be with me. He said it was OK." I replied. "Get in the limo." I said pointing to the door that James was holding open. He got in the seat that was facing toward the rear and I got in the one directly across from him. He had on his collar like he always did. He really didn't need to wear it at home, but when he was out of the grounds Master definitely wanted him to wear it in case he got lost. But to be honest I didn't remember him being off of the grounds since I'd been living there. That way no one would pick him up as a stray. I didn't have a collar like all the rest of the ferals and CBHs. I had been on TV enough that all of the Sheps knew I was the Alpha's pet. "So how's the puppy doing?" I asked to make small talk. "He's doing fine. He followed me all over the kitchen when I was making breakfast. He's out in the outside run like Gunnar said he should be." Gofer rambled until he caught himself. Despite whatever dislike he had for me, he didn't seem to be quite as guarded with me as with the Sheps. "How did you get him to be quiet overnight?" I asked with a smirk. "I had to take him out of the crate so he wouldn't keep the Masters up all night." He said, his eyes daring me to contradict him. "How considerate. It wouldn't have kept me up after Master pumped me full of 'effects'." I said with a snicker. I immediately regretted it because I could see the hatred in his eyes when I said it. We had an awkward silence for a few minutes. "So have you ever gone fishing before." I asked, mainly to break the silence. "No. Master Woden promised me that he would take me some day. But that was before you came to live here." He said and again the hatred flared. You could almost see the jealousy eating away at his soul. "Well just think. When he gets the time to take you fishing you'll already know how." I said trying to cheer him up. I would have a talk with my Master and suggest he find some time to take Gofer fishing. We pulled up to the lake in less than five minutes. James had to drive half way around the lake to get to a parking area. As we circled the lake Gofer's eyes lit up. They were wide with wonder as he took it all in. It was a classic small lake, maybe about twenty acres. The end near the dam appeared to be pretty deep. But the other end was shallow with beds of cattails and lily pads. There were a couple of springs that fed it in the shallow end. I wouldn't have been surprised if there were some springs coming up from the bottom of the lake given the topography of the surrounding land. I was already reading it to try to figure where to fish first. "Have you ever been to a lake before?" I asked. "No Master." He said distractedly, his nose pressed to the window as we drove around the lake. "I spent my whole life inside the 'Collective School' and inside the grounds at Master's house. The only time I've been out was when Master Woden brought me home. And I didn't look out the windows much that time." I'd never really thought about how sheltered of a life Gofer had led. But there wasn't time to think about that now as James pulled into the parking lot. Gofer was almost shaking with anticipation as we came to a stop. I could see his hand reach for the handle before he realized that James would open the doors for us. James opened the door for us and Gofer eagerly hopped out before I did. Technically that was a violation of protocol, he should have let me out first but I was happier to see him excited. James opened the trunk and we got our stuff out. I handed him the rod I'd brought for him and said, "I brought this rod for you to use while we're here." "Sir I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on you two. I'm on duty." James replied. I felt really uncomfortable being called "Sir" by a Shep. "There's no one else here. I think you can keep an eye on us while you fish. I promise we won't try to run away." I said with a chuckle. "And I feel a bit uncomfortable having you call me Sir." He gave me a bark like laugh like my Master usually did, then said, "I'm the driver slash body guard for Woden's entire family, and I am well aware that Woden considers you part of his family. You're technically one my employers. So the 'Sir' is appropriate. But thanks for letting me fish. It will make the time pass faster." Gofer had grabbed his rod and was putting it together. He was stringing up the rod before I'd even said anything to him. I strung up my rod and then I grabbed a spool of 4X leader material. I pulled about 8 feet of tippet off the spool and tied it onto the end of my fly line. To my surprise Gofer copied what I'd done, even to the point of tying the leader on with a nail knot. I was shocked that he knew how to tie such a complicated knot after seeing me tie it one time. But I wasn't going to question him right now on where he'd learned it. I opened the fly box and showed it to Gofer. "These are the popping bugs I tied last night." I grabbed a black popper with chartreuse hackle and a white tail with rubber legs and handed it to Gofer. He looked it over carefully as I grabbed a yellow popper with a black hackle and rubber legs and a green tail for myself. "Let me show you how to tie it on." I said and then ran him through how to tie a uni knot. I figured I would have to take him step by step through tying the knot on his popper, but he seemed to know exactly what to do. We both grabbed our rods and walked down to the bank. As we neared the bank a big bullfrog jumped off the bank and dove into the water. "THAT WAS A FROG!" Gofer cried out in surprise and excitement. He wasn't expecting it so he lost track of being the simple CBH that he fooled everyone else into believing he was. "Yeah that was a frog. There are tons of them in this lake. Can't you hear them?" I asked. "I don't know what a frog sounds like. I've never heard one before." He said sheepishly. I did my best imitation of a bull frog. "That's what they sound like." "They're all over the place." He said shocked. "Yeah they aren't rare." I said and I waded out into the water. It was refreshing on such a hot day. "Do we have to go into the water." Gofer asked, making me remember that he couldn't swim. "Don't worry I 'm sure that it's shallow in this end of the lake. Besides I can swim well enough to save you if I need to." He looked at me seemingly unsure if I would really save him if he was drowning. "Watch this!" I said as I cast my popper right beside a patch of lily pads. I let it sit on the surface until all the ripples died. Then I twitched it just enough to make the rubber legs move. When it was still again I twitched it one more time and a nice size bluegill savagely attacked it. I jerked the rod and the gillie took off, my hook firmly in his jaw. I quickly subdued him and threw him into the fish basket. "Why don't you try it now?" I asked. "Okay Master." He said and started false casting. He made his final cast and dropped his fly close to the lilies. He paused and twitched it just like I'd shown him and on the third twitch another nice gillie slammed into his bug. He set the hook just like I'd shown him. "I'VE GOT HIM!" He cried out, more excited than I'd ever seen him. I think some of this was just too exciting to keep behind the stupid CBH facade that he'd erected to hide from the world. He reeled it in and before I could warn him about the spines he tried to pick it up. Only to get jabbed by the spines. "OWWW!" He cried out dropping the fish. Fortunately it was still on the hook. I grabbed the line and pulled it in front of me. "If you grab them from the front and slide your hand down there back it locks the spines down so you don't get jabbed. Then you can use your hemostats to take the hook out." I said demonstrating it and then depositing the fish into the basket along with the one I'd caught. He quickly cast again and I watched him intently work the popper. He twitched it about half a dozen times before the next gillie slammed the bug. He set the hook and soon landed his quarry. This time he grabbed it and removed the hook with out getting jabbed and put it into the basket. "Are you having fun?" I asked. I could see him struggling with himself on how to answer. I could see part of him wanting to answer in his typical CBH fashion, "I'm just a CBH, we don't have feelings like having fun." But finally he answered. "Yes Master." I could even sense some gratitude in his voice. I put my arm around his shoulder. "When we're doing things like this alone together you don't have to call me Master. We can pretend like we're just friends..." He looked at me questioningly, but didn't voice the question. But we were soon back to fishing and after about two hours we each had out limit of 50 fish. We still had a couple of hours before we were expected back. Besides James hadn't caught his limit yet. I thought back to how curious Gofer had seemed about the frogs. I heard one calling from a nice patch of pickerel weed and put my finger up to my lips to let Gofer know to be quiet and then crooked my finger in the universal follow me signal. We went toward where the frog was croaking and I finally saw him. Gofer gasped almost silently as I pointed it out to him. I took my popping bug and using the long fly rod I extended the bug out until it was hovering over him. It jumped at the bug and I hooked him through the upper lip and swung him over toward us. I grabbed his hind legs near the waist and took the hook out of him. Then I held him up to Gofer. "Wow. A real frog." He said, any pretense of being a CBH was forgotten at that moment. "Go ahead and touch it." I told him. He cautiously touched it with his finger. "Can we keep it?" He asked with longing. "We'll take it home and set up a terrarium for it." I said. I'd never seen a terrarium or an aquarium but Allen, the man from my tribe that had taught me to fish had told me about them. He had several of each at his Orvis Shop before he had to abandon it. Then I thought about all the other stuff that Gofer hadn't ever been exposed to. So I thought I'd show him some of the stuff. Soon I was showing him the different kinds of nymphs and larvae that were on the bottom of the lake. I showed him caddis fly larvae, mayfly nymphs and dragon fly nymphs. A great blue heron was fishing in the next cove and we crept up on it so we could see it fishing. Then right before it was time to leave we saw something really exciting. A bald eagle was circling overhead and all of a sudden it went into a dive and pulled a small bass out of the water and flew off with it. James knew his job well. He'd stayed far enough away that we had complete privacy, even with how well Sheps could hear. But he was close enough to protect us or make sure we didn't wander off. But now he was walking toward us. "It's about time we start heading back Sir. Woden said he wanted me back in about 4 hours." "Okay James. We've already caught our limit." I said as we put the fish in the cooler and poured the bags of ice over them. We took our muddy shoes and socks off and put them in the trunk of the limo along with all the rest of the gear. I put the frog into one of my socks and tied the end shut. That would keep him cool and moist and contained until we got home. Then James opened the back door for Gofer and I to crawl into. When we were seated and James had closed the door, Gofer said. "Thank you Master." "You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed it." I said. Again I could see the conflict in his face. I was almost expecting the CBH answer to come out, but instead he said, "Yes Master. I've never done anything like that before." I was glad that I'd helped him experience this, but I also felt sad. What a wretched horrible life he'd had. This was the first time he'd really been out of the school or the property we lived on. So many simple things he'd never experienced. I knew some of the hell he'd been through. I'd seen the scars on his back. But the emotional scars and being completely denied any kind of childhood were unfathomable to me. I could see that he wanted to jabber nonstop about what we had seen and done today. But it was obvious that he was holding it in, not willing to completely give up his CBH haven. But it seemed that his hatred toward me had lessened at least for right now. I decided not to press on with words. Instead I hopped over to the seat next to him and put my arm around his shoulder. He tensed a little at first, and then with an exhalation and a sigh all built into one he relaxed and leaned into me. Maybe I was actually making some real headway with him. Soon we were home though and my Master was waiting for us when we got home. When we got out of the limo he asked, "Did you catch anything?" James had opened the trunk and Gofer and I pulled out the ice chest. We opened it showing the hundred and fifty fish the three of us had caught. "We're gonna clean them now and have them for lunch Master. Can James join us since he caught a third of them?" "Of course he can. We should invite him to eat with us more often. Sometimes I feel bad about how boring your job must be. I don't really travel enough to keep a full time chauffeur busy." "I'll teach Gofer how to filet the fish..." "Master David the little Masters already taught me how to clean bluegill when you were on your fishing trip..." He said seeming a bit unsure of himself. "I can go get the table set up to clean them." And without waiting for me to affirm the order he was off to get it set up. We didn't talk a whole lot while we cleaned the fish. Or I guess I should say he didn't talk much, it was more a monolog on my part. I talked a bit telling him about some of my adventures with wildlife in the Firehole. And when I tried to explain where the Firehole was he stopped me and said, "I know where it is. I read a book about Yellowstone when I was with Ansulm. It was my favorite book." I continued telling him about Yellowstone. And even though he didn't reply much you could tell he hung on my every word. When we finally finished cleaning the fish I said, "Maybe once you get more sure of yourself I can get Master to take us there on a vacation." He didn't reply but you could see the longing in his eyes. When we went to bed that evening after the evening movie I decided to have a conversation with my Master. We were in bed snuggling a little before we had our nightly sex. "Master did you promise Gofer that you would take him bluegill fishing?" I asked. He thought about it for a second and then said, "I forgot all about that. Maybe we can all go early next week." "I think it would be better if just the two of you went. I think if you spent some time with him that it would be helpful. I think it hurt his feelings that you forgot. You know how he worships you." I said trying my best to be diplomatic. "I'm not sure how if he has the emotions to feel let down." "Trust me I think he does. He's had a really rough life. Until today he'd never really been out of the Collective School or out of our house and yard. He was fascinated by the lake and all the creatures that I just take for granted. Including the frog we brought home. Maybe if you exposed him to more new stuff you might expand his horizons. He has more innate curiosity than you might think." "Maybe you're right. And that's another thing I love about you. You care about those that can't do anything for you. If more people had been like that mankind might not have fallen so low. Now it's time to show you just how much I love you..." I have been dealing with out-of-control diabetes for the last ten years. I was able to function until I lost my job (and my health insurance) in May of 2020 due to shutdowns due to covid. Between the isolation and lack of medical care, I went into a downward spiral. It was challenging to get out of bed many days, which added to the isolation and depression. In August of 2021, my unemployment ran out. I turned 62 at the end of January and have applied for social security, but I still haven't started receiving payments. I have had no income since I'm seriously behind on my electric bill (I have been receiving extensions on my shut-off notice because of my health issues) and my property taxes. I finally got medical help in October, and things are improving, but I still have a way to go. If I can get some help to get caught up, I should be able to get my life back under control. Any help would be appreciated. https://gofund.me/c02f6290 I have 12 years worth of writing up on SoFurry. I am one of the more popular writers on that site. You can find all of them at https://firefromheaven.sofurry.com/stories. These are my other stories that I have moved or I'm in the process of moving to Nifty. All of them are in their entirety on SoFurry.com: Earth's New Masters https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/earths-new-masters/ In My Wildest Dreams https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/in-my-wildest-dreams/ Wild Horses https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bestiality/wild-horses Runt https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/runt/ Mutt https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/mutt Pittsburghese N'at https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/pittsburgese/ Craigslist Bull https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/craigslist-bull/ The Trophy Wife https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/the-trophy-wife The Initiate https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/the-initiate My Pet Lion https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/my-pet-lion Sasquatch In My Mind https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/sasquatch-in-my-mind Reverse Cowboy https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/reverse-cowboy Of Dogs And Young Men https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bestiality/of-dogs-and-young-men/ The Oracle https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/historical/the-oracle/ Royal Prerogative https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/historical/royal-prerogative Harry Potter and Firenze https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/celebrity/harry-potter-and-firenze The House Mouse https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/military/the-house-mouse The Jungle Book https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/celebrity/the-jungle-book In Gods We Thrust https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/incest/in-gods-we-thrust If you read any of the others please let me know what you think of them.