After a couple of hours of play, we wound up moving to the bed, where we continued our enjoyment of each other. Afterwards, I tugged my shirt on, and she tucked my teddy bear into her cleavage, and we snuggled up and passed out within minutes.

When I awoke, Gruldia was not in my bed. I sprang up, terrified that she had, for some reason, already portaled back to the Council building.

In a way, it would make some sense. Neither of us wanted today to happen. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had taken a portal back in the middle of the night, just to save us both some pain. I jumped out of bed, intent on finding my Goblin.

I checked the living room, kitchen, and the bathroom, with no sign of her. It wasn’t until I rounded the corner from the kitchen, heading towards my room that I caught sight of her foot in my boys’ room.

I crept up to the door and silently knelt, knowing I shouldn’t listen in, but also so curious as to why she would have gone into their room. I sent a quick message to my rats, instructing them to say nothing about me being right there.

“...I know you can’t say anything back, but I just don’t know what to do. I don’t want to leave him today. I’ve never felt this before. Never felt so seen, so wanted, so loved. He treats me like an equal. No, more than that. He treats me like I’m higher than he is. Can you believe that? Me? A female, for goodness sake. He treats me as if I were more important to him than anything else in this world or any other. I don’t know what I should do. I love being Krathu’s Head Cleric, but I’ve never felt this way before,” she said. I heard her sigh softly. “I kind of wish you two could understand me and talk back.”

I smiled and sent them a message to go ahead and do exactly that, but not with messages, and to not let her know that I was right there.

I heard her gasp a moment later. “What?! How?” A pause. Then, “Oh, I see. Starene didn’t realize you weren’t sapient, and Doc went ahead with the implantation, didn’t they? Interesting.” Another pause, this time longer. I was insanely curious as to how they were communicating with her. “You think he loves me? I don’t know about that. He said he loves all of his friends, so I don’t see how I’m any more special than, say, Mil’Grash or even Starene, or Chandra.” Another pause. “You say he’s in love with me?” She laughed softly and sniffled. “What could possibly give you that idea?” A short pause. “Your nose? I don’t… Oh. You say you can smell it. What? Me? You think I’m in love with him, too? I’m a Goblin. We probably have different smells about it. You can’t… What? What are you doing? Ow! Hey, stop. Why are you pulling me?”

I heard her shuffle, and I stayed right where I was. The door opened, and I was face to face with my Goblin, who gasped and stared at me with wide eyes.

“You…but…I didn’t…” Her breath came quicker as she started to hyperventilate. “How long?” she asked in a quiet, high-pitched, strained voice.

“Long enough, Gruldia. Long enough,” I said with a soft smile on my lips.

“I think they’re right. On both counts,” I said softly.

“Right about what?” she whispered, tears falling from her beautiful violet eyes.

“That I’m falling in love with my Goblin.”

“That you’re…” she trailed off, silently crying.

I opened my arms and she numbly walked into them, allowing me to wrap her up in a hug. She clung to me like a lost soul, wailing into my shoulder. I shifted her into a princess carry, and took her to my recliner, holding her close to my chest. She wept like a lost child cradled in my arms. I rocked us gently, caressing her hair lovingly.

After several minutes of crying, she began to settle down. I looked down at her puffy eyes and smiled sweetly. “Hi there, Gruldia. I love you,” I said.

She sniffled and reached up, caressing my bearded face gently with a shaking hand. “I love you too, Ivor. Please tell me this is real, and I’m not imagining it,” she said. “Please?” she added, her eyes filling with tears once again.

“Gruldia, this is as real as it gets. I’m in love with you. My Goblin. You have found a home within my heart,” I said.

She gently guided my face down to hers, and I kissed her trembling lips softly. “I’ve been waiting nearly four hundred years to hear those words come from somebody. Anybody. And it just so happens that they come from a man, a Human, in a backwater system who got selected by the gods to serve The Council. From a planet nobody's ever heard of, as a member of a species that nobody's ever even thought of. My Human. And I’m in love with him, too,” she said in a trembling voice.

I smiled and squeezed her tightly. I reached down, and pulled the lever to extend the chair, and sat back, savoring the comfort and the contact.

I must have fallen asleep at some point, as I opened my eyes to see her watching me. She was straddling my hips, using her prodigious chest to prop herself up to gaze into my face.

“Hi there, handsome. What were you dreaming about?” she asked.

“How to make this last forever,” I said, stretching.

She reached back and slid my engorged member into her, and began to grind into my hips. I gasped, and wrapped my hands around her soft waist.

“Well, since you put it like that…” I said.

We made love for quite some time, and passed out again, completely spent.

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When we came to, again, I felt my stomach rumble and twist within me.

“I think we need to eat, sweetheart. Something more than just feasting on your sweet milk. Hop up, my love,” I said, patting her thigh.

She giggled, biting her lip as her long ears quivered in excitement. “Say it again,” she said in a small voice.

“I said, you need to get up, my love,” I murmured in her ear.

She moaned in pleasure, her walls tightening around me. I hadn’t realized I was still buried inside her. I felt her orgasm around my cock, which, in turn, spurred my own.

As we both came down, she smiled and kissed me softly. “That’s what I needed. Just one more. I’ll get up, now,” she said.

She arose from her perch excruciatingly slowly, and I felt the cold air on my groin, reminding me that all I wore was a shirt.

“I don’t want to lose this, please set me down?” she asked, rubbing her tummy.

I grinned and picked her up, gently setting her onto the floor. “So what are the odds of you getting pregnant? And do you even want more children?” I asked, standing and stretching.

Gruldia took me in her mouth at that moment, and worked her tongue around my cock, causing me to squirm. “Mm. We taste good together. Almost non-existent, thankfully. Even if Doc altered your fertility, which they are bound to not do unless explicitly asked, Krathu demands that we not have children. As a result, even Goblins are made barren. Which is a benefit, if you ask me. I’ve had nearly three hundred children. I don’t want any more, even if they’re yours. However…” she said, cupping my balls. “If these can’t get the job done, nothing can. I’ve never been filled this much by anyone before. If this is how my milk affects Humans in general, I don’t know if we can ever introduce Goblins to this planet,” she said.

“Perhaps it’s just your milk. You even said you were a cut above other Breeders. Maybe this is why,” I said with a shrug. “Put some in a glass for me, and I’ll try it later. See if that does the same thing.”

She shrugged, and I retrieved a small cup from the cabinet and handed it to her, which she filled in just a couple of seconds.

“Damn. That was fast. Okay. I’ll set this in the refrigerator and once I calm down, we will try it again. Now, however, is food,” I said.

“Yes. Food. What do we have?” she asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

I tore my eyes from her bouncing chest with great difficulty, valiantly trying to remain focused on the task ahead. “Well…uhhh… Um, I think there’s some eggs and bacon, still. No… We ate that the first morning. Huh. I think” -I began opening and closing all the cabinets and the fridge; finding nothing- “I think we’re out of food. Yeah. We’ve eaten everything I had. Welp. Time to order more food. Let’s look at the menu around here,” I said, taking her by the hand and leading her to the computer.

We scoured the local offerings and settled on something for what would wind up being lunch. I placed the order and we sat down on the couch to watch another movie.

Eventually, night descended on us, and we became increasingly aware of what was about to have to happen.

“I don’t want to go, Ivor. I know I have to, but I don’t like it,” she said sadly.

“I know, baby. I don’t want you to go, either. The Multiversal Entity has made the judgment, and we both agreed to it. I don’t want to get on its bad side. Let’s get dressed, okay?” I gently said.

She sighed heavily. “Okay,” she said forlornly.

We went to my room, and I removed the shirt I’d been wearing all day. I sprinkled a few drops of my beard oil concentrate on it, and folded it up neatly. She removed my stuffie from her cleavage and laid him on my bed, on the pillow she’d been using. We both dressed, and I looked at her sad face.

“Look at me.” She looked up, gazing into my eyes. “It’s going to be okay, I promise. I’ll get started on the communications array tomorrow or the next day, and before you know it, we’ll have started a dialogue with the Aarundian homeworld. After we make First Contact, I’ll have Daktu’un find your home, or Mil’Grash’s home world, and we can make things happen. I’m going to be working hard on this, Love. I want to see you every morning when I wake up,” I said, kissing her forehead softly.

“Okay, Ivor. I believe in you,” she whispered, not wanting to trust her words.

“Before we do this, I want pictures of you. Take my bear and hold him over by my bedroom door,” I said, picking up my phone.

Gruldia looked confused and grabbed the bear, snuggling him to her chest as she walked over to my door. She stood and faced me, still looking sad.

“Like this? What are you doing, Ivor?” she asked.

“I’m taking your picture, silly. I want to be able to see you at any time, and this is the best way I can think of. Will you smile for me?” I asked softly.

She managed a slight grin, and I snapped a couple of pictures. Since it was fairly bright in the room, the flash didn’t activate.

“Guess what?” I asked as I switched to video and hit record.

“What?”

“I love you to The Council and back. No distance will ever be too great to keep us apart for long,” I said.

She smiled then, giggling like mad, her long ears wiggling fiercely. She buried her blushing face into my little teddy bear for a moment, then said, “I love you too, Ivor. You’re one in a trillion, you know that?”

“I do now, Gruldia. That should do it,” I said, hitting the stop button. “Now, I’ll always have your smile to enjoy.”

I took her hand, and opened my front door. The waning moon greeted us, along with the hooting of an owl. We stepped outside and I locked my door. We looked both ways on my road, seeing nobody out and about, and hurried across, her steps lagging behind mine. I clicked on the flashlight I had in my pocket, and we climbed the rise on the other side of the road and began the long trek through the woods in silence to the clearing nearly a mile away.

When we arrived, I sat down on the small boulder and she came to me, wrapping her arms around me.

“I’m going to miss you, Ivor,” she whispered.

I squeezed her close. “I’ll miss you too, my love. But, it won’t be too long. You’ll be back before you know it,” I said with a smile. “It’s time.”

She nodded and stood in the center of the clearing, with her arms out at a low angle, palms forward. She began to speak in a language I couldn’t understand, and her body, just like Bel’Chazz did before, began to glow. Unlike his, however, hers was gold in hue, and the soft wind swept through the clearing. She rose a good four feet off the ground, her chanting reaching a crescendo. Without warning, her hands shot forward, and a beam of golden energy shot forth, coalescing in a large oval, big enough for me to walk through unaided. As the spell ended, she fell, only to land in my arms.

“Hello there! Looks like you just fell from the heavens, and I’ve caught me an angel,” I said, kissing her plump lips softly. She returned the kiss with passion and fervor, breaking it a moment later.

Slowly she extricated herself from my arms, and walked toward the portal, sniffling.

“I love you, Gruldia. I’ll see you soon, okay?” I said.

“I love you too, Ivor. Soon,” she said, and stepped through the portal, which closed a moment later.

And just like that, she was gone, and I felt more alone than ever before.