New Eden: Live to Play, Play to Live

After settling things with Jack, Alex started calling other people whom he knew he could trust. Some of them he'd met before; others were just friends online.

However, putting your life at stake with someone backing you up, even if it was in a game, often gave you all the information you needed about someone.

The following eight hours blew past them, and they only realized what time it was when their stomachs started rumbling, and they saw it was dark outside.

"Yikes. I barely saw today pass…" Kary said, looking at the clock.

"Yeah, same. I guess now we know what to expect when shit hits the fan for real. There will be days when we don't have time to stop. This might very well become our everyday lifestyle in the near future…" Alex said, his eyes fazing out of focus.

Kary punched him in the arm.

"That is not the kind of thought we need to be entertaining right now. Let's just go out to eat, and we can relax when we come back home. It'll be the first night in a long time that we don't head into our pods after dinner. Let's enjoy that fact."

Alex nodded, realizing she had a point.

"It'll also be the first night in a long time that we spend just the two of us. Without the chance of someone interrupting us. Maybe we should make it special?" Alex said, smiling warmly at her.

"Oh? What did you have in mind?" she asked, grinning suggestively.

"I thought, maybe grab a bottle of wine, fire up the jacuzzi, and let ourselves marinate slowly until we are all relaxed. And then, we can use our warmed-up muscles for the rest of the night. What do you think?" Alex asked, grabbing her and kissing her neck.

Kary practically purred in his arms before biting his neck sensually.

"How about we order in instead of going out?" she whispered in his ear.

Sliding his tongue up her neck to her earlobe, Alex whispered back, "Sounds like a plan."

He grabbed her and shot her over his shoulder, slowly heading toward the stairs, as Kary started ordering food from a nearby Thai place and a bottle of wine from the liquor store.

Almost everything could be delivered by drone nowadays, and they wouldn't need to get back out of the tub if they wanted to. They could have it delivered directly to them.

Most of the drone delivery systems were run by programs, and had no human supervision, unless an incident report was made, so it was safe to pick up stuff from a drone, buck naked, if you wanted to.

Once the food was ordered, Kary slipped out of her shirt, throwing it over her shoulder and onto Alex's head, who chuckled as he pulled it off and threw it to the ground.

He flipped her forward, grabbing under her ass as he kept walking, and he now had her breasts in his face. He started kissing them gently as Kary moaned and pulled his hair lightly.

"I don't think we'll make it to after the jacuzzi, darling. I think I might take you before we reach the bathroom," she said, scratching his shoulders with her nails.

Alex groaned in pleasure and lowered her a bit.

"That sounds like a tempting offer, my love. How about we only indulge slightly, at least until the food is there? Then, I can eat right off your body before we enjoy that tub for a few hours, and start over again late into the night?"

Kary liked the sound of that, and no complaints were uttered as he brought her to the bedroom and slid her into the bed, taking off her pants slowly as he kissed her thighs and licked her calves.

The drone dropped off the food on the second-floor balcony, directly in front of their room's patio door, and Alex grabbed it only a few minutes later, as he had been busy. But the night was still so young.

***

Out in the cosmos, as the hours since New Eden kicked every non-native out passed, another pair of male and female were also still going at each other.

But the scene was a lot less erotic and significantly bloodier.

Gaius, who had taunted Psyche into attacking him, saying she could never even dream of scratching him, realized he had to take her seriously.

He was covered in minor cuts, as the woman before him had vastly changed since he brought her here. She now had a long set of elk horns on her head, and her eyes had gone from silvery mirrors to golden slits.

"How have you gained this power?! Gods can't change their domains, Psyche! What kind of sinful act did you commit?!" Gaius yelled at her, realizing they were almost evenly matched at the moment.

"I didn't commit anything heretical, Gaius. When you sealed me away, you sealed my essence, as well. And I had to overcome that so that you couldn't find me. I'm no longer Psyche, Goddess of Souls. I am Nemus, Goddess of Life itself! And you have to pay for all the lives you took!"

She lunged at him; her shape morphing into a large elk and her horns gleaming in the light of their power.

Gaius was slower than she was in this form. But her power was still lacking.

Which was why he hadn't fallen yet. Nemus was fighting on borrowed power, and she knew it. This wasn't a power she could call out so easily, either.

Nemus was burning through her life essence just to fight on equal footing with Gaius.

But there was one thing she had misconstrued about him. In her mind, Gaius would never burn his essence to fight.

He was too cocky. Too confident to lower to that level.

But the Gaius before her was not the one from ten millennia ago. He was rabid, and his only goal was to kill her.

Kill the one who had constantly been a thorn in his side. The one that had never thought he was good enough.

And for that, he would do anything.

Reaching him, Nemus thought it strange that Gaius hadn't yet moved away from the attack.

So, she mentally scoffed when he grabbed her horns to stop her, as he had tried a few times already. Novel Fire - novelfire.net

But a cold sensation in her chest followed her scoff, and the feeling of her strength fading away.

Looking down, she saw two more arms, and in their hands, a dagger, with a blue flame engraved in the hilt.

"A god killing weapon… How did you…"

Gaius twisted the blade, cutting her words short, and stared into her eyes as the life slipped away from them.

"The day I imprisoned you, I plotted for your death, were you ever to escape. I have been keeping this dagger with me for millennia. Hoping I would never have to use it. I loved you, Psyche. We were a pair. But you never loved me back. So, today, you finally die…"883 A Night Out Of New Eden

After settling things with Jack, Alex started calling other people whom he knew he could trust. Some of them he'd met before; others were just friends online.

However, putting your life at stake with someone backing you up, even if it was in a game, often gave you all the information you needed about someone.

The following eight hours blew past them, and they only realized what time it was when their stomachs started rumbling, and they saw it was dark outside.

"Yikes. I barely saw today pass…" Kary said, looking at the clock.

"Yeah, same. I guess now we know what to expect when shit hits the fan for real. There will be days when we don't have time to stop. This might very well become our everyday lifestyle in the near future…" Alex said, his eyes fazing out of focus.

Kary punched him in the arm.

"That is not the kind of thought we need to be entertaining right now. Let's just go out to eat, and we can relax when we come back home. It'll be the first night in a long time that we don't head into our pods after dinner. Let's enjoy that fact."

Alex nodded, realizing she had a point.

"It'll also be the first night in a long time that we spend just the two of us. Without the chance of someone interrupting us. Maybe we should make it special?" Alex said, smiling warmly at her.

"Oh? What did you have in mind?" she asked, grinning suggestively.

"I thought, maybe grab a bottle of wine, fire up the jacuzzi, and let ourselves marinate slowly until we are all relaxed. And then, we can use our warmed-up muscles for the rest of the night. What do you think?" Alex asked, grabbing her and kissing her neck.

Kary practically purred in his arms before biting his neck sensually.

"How about we order in instead of going out?" she whispered in his ear.

Sliding his tongue up her neck to her earlobe, Alex whispered back, "Sounds like a plan."

He grabbed her and shot her over his shoulder, slowly heading toward the stairs, as Kary started ordering food from a nearby Thai place and a bottle of wine from the liquor store.

Almost everything could be delivered by drone nowadays, and they wouldn't need to get back out of the tub if they wanted to. They could have it delivered directly to them.

Most of the drone delivery systems were run by programs, and had no human supervision, unless an incident report was made, so it was safe to pick up stuff from a drone, buck naked, if you wanted to.

Once the food was ordered, Kary slipped out of her shirt, throwing it over her shoulder and onto Alex's head, who chuckled as he pulled it off and threw it to the ground.

He flipped her forward, grabbing under her ass as he kept walking, and he now had her breasts in his face. He started kissing them gently as Kary moaned and pulled his hair lightly.

"I don't think we'll make it to after the jacuzzi, darling. I think I might take you before we reach the bathroom," she said, scratching his shoulders with her nails.

Alex groaned in pleasure and lowered her a bit.

"That sounds like a tempting offer, my love. How about we only indulge slightly, at least until the food is there? Then, I can eat right off your body before we enjoy that tub for a few hours, and start over again late into the night?"

Kary liked the sound of that, and no complaints were uttered as he brought her to the bedroom and slid her into the bed, taking off her pants slowly as he kissed her thighs and licked her calves.

The drone dropped off the food on the second-floor balcony, directly in front of their room's patio door, and Alex grabbed it only a few minutes later, as he had been busy. But the night was still so young.

***

Out in the cosmos, as the hours since New Eden kicked every non-native out passed, another pair of male and female were also still going at each other.

But the scene was a lot less erotic and significantly bloodier.

Gaius, who had taunted Psyche into attacking him, saying she could never even dream of scratching him, realized he had to take her seriously.

He was covered in minor cuts, as the woman before him had vastly changed since he brought her here. She now had a long set of elk horns on her head, and her eyes had gone from silvery mirrors to golden slits.

"How have you gained this power?! Gods can't change their domains, Psyche! What kind of sinful act did you commit?!" Gaius yelled at her, realizing they were almost evenly matched at the moment.

"I didn't commit anything heretical, Gaius. When you sealed me away, you sealed my essence, as well. And I had to overcome that so that you couldn't find me. I'm no longer Psyche, Goddess of Souls. I am Nemus, Goddess of Life itself! And you have to pay for all the lives you took!"

She lunged at him; her shape morphing into a large elk and her horns gleaming in the light of their power.

Gaius was slower than she was in this form. But her power was still lacking.

Which was why he hadn't fallen yet. Nemus was fighting on borrowed power, and she knew it. This wasn't a power she could call out so easily, either.

Nemus was burning through her life essence just to fight on equal footing with Gaius.

But there was one thing she had misconstrued about him. In her mind, Gaius would never burn his essence to fight.

He was too cocky. Too confident to lower to that level.

But the Gaius before her was not the one from ten millennia ago. He was rabid, and his only goal was to kill her.

Kill the one who had constantly been a thorn in his side. The one that had never thought he was good enough.

And for that, he would do anything.

Reaching him, Nemus thought it strange that Gaius hadn't yet moved away from the attack.

So, she mentally scoffed when he grabbed her horns to stop her, as he had tried a few times already.

But a cold sensation in her chest followed her scoff, and the feeling of her strength fading away.

Looking down, she saw two more arms, and in their hands, a dagger, with a blue flame engraved in the hilt.

"A god killing weapon… How did you…"

Gaius twisted the blade, cutting her words short, and stared into her eyes as the life slipped away from them.

"The day I imprisoned you, I plotted for your death, were you ever to escape. I have been keeping this dagger with me for millennia. Hoping I would never have to use it. I loved you, Psyche. We were a pair. But you never loved me back. So, today, you finally die…"

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