Tosra & The Auction, day 36
Dragons
Sometimes I almost wish I had two heads - the mouth and tongue kind - so I could give two of my women oral sex at the same time. I just like to give it, and especially to Iselin who loves to get it and is so satisfyingly easy to give an orgasm. It's damn good for my self-confidence, and Iselin makes the cutest sounds and facial expressions when she orgasms. I like to see her eyes roll so far back in her skull that they're almost white, and how she moans and doesn't care that she mangles Norse words. If I succeed really well, her orgasms almost comes one after another, and then she doesn't need much work or contact before the next one comes a few minutes later. It's difficult to not feel smug about it when I can give her three in a row as she sits on my face, and alternates between trying to mash my head into her crotch with her hands, or flailing uncontrollably with arms, with matching leg twitches and curled toes, before she becomes lump of jelly.
The experience is hardly made worse by the fact that Ciara happily rides me at the same time and gets her own orgasm while I use my hands on their bodies and breasts.
Ciara is not particularly difficult either, and although she seems to like all types of sex with me much like Iselin, I know that Ciara prefers to calmly ride, do it from the side or lying next to me, and preferably vaginally if it is a safer time of the month. If I can use mouth or hands on her breasts, rings or neck at the same time, it doesn't take long before she loudly declares that everything is good in her life. She hasn't said anything about it, but we still avoid the missionary position or kneeling from behind. That will happen when Ciara wants too.
I like that Ciara no longer is as skinny as she was, and I certainly don't complain that most of the weight after the arms, legs and face have become a little more normal, seems to settle on her chest and hips, although it took a while for me to notice. Ciara needed to buy new bras. But it's only 4 months since she became mine, and 3 months since she became my special concubine. She looks so much healthier and it is so much better, but 5-10kg more would probably be a good idea. If some of that continues accumulate on her chest and hips, I won't complain. Curves are nice. But in the end, her body is her choice, and I'm always a little worried about inadvertently giving her ideas about what I wish for her in appearance or weight, because she will certainly try to fulfill it.
But I'm a happy bastard where I contentedly lie with my two sexy goddesses next to me and we just relax before we have to get up for the day. I suggest we hire a musician who can perform at the wedding feast, and Iselin informs me that Kari also brought it up before they left for Borgarsandr and they've already sent out requests. Obviously a wedding needs music and musicians. Like, duuh. That's her expression, so it seems that Iselin is learning from Jane. We talk about getting someone to learn to play 'Shadows' or sing 'The most beautiful' that has become our song, which Iselin likes. Of course Ciara offers to play, but she doesn't want to sing, and her Norse isn't good. Caecilia has a beautiful singing voice and can play, so it's pretty obvious who it will be.
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The breakfast becomes tense because my Crown has been finished and my sambos present it to me. A smaller but beautiful golden Crown. I'm still a regent, and I need a crown to show my status. I've just ignored that. But it feels so wrong to sit there at the table with a damn golden crown on my head, and know it is not for pretend, but a real one. It feels heavier than it is.
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It will take all morning to unload from the ship, so it's good that I got them to start with the windows, and craftsmen began to install them, and with how much skill they have acquired, it goes quickly. Most of the mansion's important rooms will have double windows, and there are also some greenhouse windows. Enough so, that we can temporarily seal the remaining holes with wooden boards and start using the greenhouse. It's nice that the greenhouse can be a glazed outdoor room during the winter as well, and maybe I will save a small space with a table and some chairs as a small pavilion in the greenery for next winter as well. The large vessels and pots that Iselin has acquired for planting in are not optimal, but better than nothing and allow us to set up shelves against the stone wall and make better use of the height in the greenhouse.
The copper guild has once again done a good job with copper pipes, radiators and copper wire, and it looks like they did a good job with lacquer insulation. Iselin enjoyed their reaction when she immediately ordered 3 km more. They seem incredibly curious about everything, but as soon as Asbjörn visits, they will probably be told what all the copper pipes and radiators have been used for. The copper guild hasn't finished everything, but I appreciate all they have. They have managed to make inside copper-clad barrels as well. It's basically six of smaller standard barrel of about 32l volume, which is clad with a hammered full-coverage copper plate on the inside, and a lid on top. I have absolutely no objection to them thinking it is an unnecessarily expensive way to get something waterproof, because I don't trust the water tightness of the barrel. What I don't trust is the ability of wooden barrels to prevent biological fouling in drinking water.
I intend to try using the barrels for long-term storage of fresh water during ship voyages, so the six barrels will be filled with boiled water, and at the same time six similar new water barrels without copper. Then we will store them in the basement, and open one after two weeks, and then one a month of each to check the water quality and taste. Asta is really looking forward to the responsibility of overseeing this project. A long voyage will require lots of larger barrels, because with say at least 5 liters of water per person and day, a 32l barrel a day is enough for 6 people. For harder physical work in hot climates, more than double the amount of water will be needed, and future barrels will probably be double size. A couple of large vessels will be brought to boil fresh water when it is possible to fill the barrels. Combined with something that provides vitamin C etc like lingonberries, and the last part is food to hopefully keep the crew healthy. Crispbread will of course be included, and we will try to preserve and can food as well. I don't want a third of the crew to die on a long voyage, and using rum or similar with alcohol to have something to drink is not an optimal solution, although barrels of mead will be brought.
Iselin and Kari are showing me a couple of new carpets that have been bought, and there is now a carpet in each guest room, as well as in Iselin, Kari, Ciara and Jane's bedrooms. I would have preferred clean wooden floors everywhere, but well, I'm not much for interior design, and it will be simple and functional. Jane has enjoyed that Kari and Iselin have been trying to pump her for information about interior design, and Jane enjoyed the idea of talking them into Kitsch, but in the end, she also lives here.
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Alith continues to give me small well-meaning remarks, so finally I try on my new chain mail. I admit the chain mail is beautiful and luxurious, and the changed logo looks pretty good, but I don't want to walk around with chain mail here on the island. But it is my head of security and bodyguard who politely tries to point out that it is common sense as well as a status thing, and I need to get used to it. We'll see. It will at least happen when we leave the islands.
Hängselbyxor, Overalls, bib-and-brace overalls, dungarees or Salopette. They have many names in different languages, but the prototypes have been finished, and it is actually a garment idea that Jane agrees with both in fashion and for practicality. Many pockets and some have features such as leather-reinforced knees, mounts and loops for knife, hammer, axe and other tools. I made a couple of designs, including a skirt model which Jane dissed, while she liked that the shoulder straps have several buttonholes to adjust the length, and small elongated pockets to push down the excess shoulder strap in. My sambos ordered for themselves, the guards and staff to try. The guards are in a similar green-brown color as their tabards, but the idea is to be more durable work clothes or similar.
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I would like to show them my steam engine or start testing the gas cylinders and the iron cannon, or just start assembling my fishing rod, but that would have delayed the work we need to do, so we assembled some important door locks and make individual keys and master keys, but also work on the new oil lamps parts, lanterns, monoculars, etc. It's nice to have several people helping me, and especially Ciara like to have some important work to do while sitting beside me.
Jane again tries to persuade me to decorate my maps and now also globes with fantasy figures, monsters and 'Here be dragons' text, but I refuse to let her do it, and apparently she has failed to persuade Iselin, and Jane overacts a "Curses! Foiled again!", which I'm forced to try to translate to Iselin. Jane has sketched several dragons on paper, and some dragons are especially good-looking. Some are more 'realistic' - if that can be said like a dragon - while others are more stylized. But dragons are a thing in this culture, and basically everyone likes them.
I've suggested that Jane should try to have some jewellery made from it, which she evidently took and she brought some sketches and ideas for the jeweler during the trip. I admit I'm curious about seeing the ring of a flying dragon where the wings are bent down and becomes the ring around the finger, and the one where the body is coiled around the finger. Talk about dragons makes us realise that we actually don't know what animals or monsters there may be in this world. The Elves here believe in trolls, giants, näcken, lake monsters, nattmara, nisse, huldra, ghosts and much much more. There is a rich folklore.
"It's kind of funny that we don't know what exists here, and we both know that Dinosaurs have existed. Future trips to Africa, the Americas or places like Australia might become more interesting than we assume. I was somewhat paranoid during the first boat journey here that there might actually be monsters in the deep, orchs or something close to real dragons, just not flying. I wasn't really a fantasy reading nerd, but being a science minded nerd and knowing about Dinosaurs and other stuff was uncomfortable. "
"Oh God! Sea monsters didn't even occur to me! Bugger! Now I will always think about bloody sea monsters when we're sailing. Tosser!" I can see how Jane grimaces and has to hold back from hitting me on the shoulder, before her eyes grow big. "Oh! Australia definitely needs a 'Land at one's own peril!'"
"Still no. Even if it might be a good idea. If Australia exists here, I wonder if it has fewer dangerous animals, or if it's like in the Discworld fantasy novels. After getting buried in an avalanche of books by asking a magic library for books about all the dangerous animals in their version of Australia, the person asks for a book of all animals that aren't dangerous and a single sheet of paper comes gently floating down." Jane snorts. "Some of the sheep." Jane laughs. "I think it's 'Discworld - The last Continent'. I have all the Discworld books on my tablet, and on the bookshelf back home."
"Some of the sheep! I guess I have something new to read. Actually, it would be interesting if there were Dino's somewhere far away - as long as they're grazing and not predators. I've seen a few of the Jurassic Park movies, and I would be the character that's gets eaten. Gruesomely. Out of camera. You just hear me scream and see the blood flow out as the camera pans away."
I have a quick discussion with Jane that most things about medicine are not something she should discuss or mention. Incorrect information can cause a lot of damage and lives. I have already discussed the most important things about hygiene, disinfection and other things with my entourage, and I will write down a lot about medicine and such to be used in the far future, and some to be spread in books. Also a book about everything I know about the body, organs and how it works, which probably will involve an autopsy of someone who has died, but I hope to postpone this for a couple of years, which Jane completely understands. The idea is to work this out with Unn and also develop medical instruments and protective equipment. I must respect their culture as well. But it's important that Jane does not start talking about vaccines, DNA and lots of other things. That is something that need a slow careful approach. It will be written down but it is very likely something for future generations to spend time on and solve.
Things about food and the needs of the body will be written down, and I assume humans and elves are equal enough to be applicable. By looking at the packaging I had with me, I have created a recommended daily intake (RDI) list of minerals and vitamins, but unfortunately I don't know how to identify vitamins, or what they really are, so I can only give some information, like what certain plants contain. It's a kind of an unexpected advantage that I saved files on my cellphone to have a realistic counter and to annoy vegetarians. I will try to do things like pasteurize milk in the future, but to heat it up to 75C for 10 seconds and quickly cool it to refrigerator temperature afterwards is 'complicated'. But the information about pasteurization is already written down somewhere among my 'health' notes. In any case, with mercury I have a good chance to make thermometers, which is the first step.
I know, for example, how secretions from cowpox could give vaccine to smallpox, but I hope that disease doesn't exist here. It's not something I will seek out or try to study here, because I'm not fucking stupid or crazy, and I won't start to work with weakened or killed viruses etc. The risk is simply too great, and I would never consciously introduce such a thing. Any work had to take place by a third or fourth hand elsewhere, preferably an island with strict in and out control, quarantine and the possibility to 'Kill it with fire'. But the principle of how it can be done will be saved for the future. That is important.
I hope to be able to make some form of penicillin over my lifetime here, but doubt I can. Sulfonamide or penicillin aren't easy to make even with specific knowledge and equipment. Which I lack. Knowing the name and a bit of history will just help to start looking in the right place, and I hope to leave the search for the Penicillin bacterium to the future, and definitely to try and produce it for medical use.
I tell Jane how I was so terribly worried about IUDs, and about the Dalkon shield, and what can happen with vaccinations that go wrong etc. Jane understands the seriousness and quickly agrees to keep quiet about it. She seems quite relieved to not have to take responsibility for something like that.
But if Jane has ideas and thoughts regarding medicine or treatments etc, feel free to come to me, because there is an incredible amount I have no idea about in medicine, health, and other things, and together we may be able to do something or contribute something to the future. We both need to gather all the knowledge we have about the body for the future, in as much detail as we can, and even obscure small pieces of information are important knowledge. All to avoid suffering, and even bad ideas in future research.
It sucks to know that I've probably already introduced some. I'm worried about the string on the IUD's. Can it be done in thin copper or silver?