Touching my lips to her forehead in a gentle kiss, I let part of my consciousness sink into Shannon's mind. With the slightest use of hypnosis, I told her she was dreaming, just dreaming. I coaxed her to open the bond a bit to allow me further into her mind without needing to touch her head.

Like a flower, her thoughts and feelings opened to me. Despite my temptation, I stayed at the surface. Although I caught the odd word or impression, I wasn't actually reading her mind. I wanted her awake and aware when she chose to share those. I didn't want to take them. Instead, I just needed enough contact to keep her asleep and sense her overall mood.

Removing my clothes with a thought, I pulled back the covers and carefully slid in behind Shannon. Moving her hair off her neck, I feathered kisses up and down, licking and blowing air over them. Goosebumps rose on her skin, and she gave a little sigh.

In her mind, she relaxed, her mood shifting.

I whispered in her ear how much I'd missed her, how much I wanted her, and saw her relax further into the dream. The first hints of arousal coloured her mood.

Using my teeth on her neck where I knew she liked to be bitten, Shannon gave a little breathy moan, shifting back into the curve of my body.

Her mind was providing a comfortable, familiar setting, and I saw a flash of our rooms.

After getting rid of her clothes, I trailed my fingers over her inner wrist, circling her pulse. Shannon turned her arm to give me better access. I couldn't help smiling at her response. Up I continued, lightly teasing her soft, supple skin with my fingertips while I continued to seduce her neck.

Shannon pushed back against me a little more insistently, my name a breath on her lips. I shuddered. It seemed like forever since I'd had her in my arms. Norns, but I had missed her.

Trailing over her collarbone, I found the deepening dip that was further evidence of her desperate need for energy. I blocked those negative thoughts from travelling into her dream as I let my fingertips glide to the curve of her breasts.

Decidedly heavier and fuller than when we'd last touched, I enjoyed the difference, feeling her anticipation rising as I teased. I knew what she wanted. I could sense it every time I got near those sensitive nipples that had tightened into taut, proud peaks.

"Do you want me to touch you here?" I murmured into her ear, letting it sink into her dream.

"Please Loki," Shannon begged in an almost inaudible whisper as her chest rose towards my hand.

I plucked one peak, and she shuddered, the delight rippling through her. They were much more sensitive now than previously. I plucked the other, moving back and forth between them, and she moaned.

Checking to ensure she was still well asleep, I reinforced my hypnotic command before lowering my lips to suck one into my mouth, using my hand on the other. Shannon squirmed, starting to pant, and I knew I could make her cum just like this. My goddess was so responsive, and moreso now.

A start, at least. And I set out to bring her over. 

As her skin got more and more flushed with arousal, her pulse pounded, and breath rasped. Damn, I'd missed the gorgeous sight. When she came, shaking in my arms, I rejoiced.

As her orgasm started to wane, I continued to suck, bite, and tug on those responsive nipples that I could never get enough of. Caressing our son for a minute, my love for both of them swamped my senses, and I had to blink back tears. 

Reminded by the frailness of my beautiful consort, I yanked my emotions back on track, and shifted my hand down to the pulse that pounded in her little rigid nub.

Just as her mind told me, it ached for attention. At the lightest brush of a finger, her hips jerked, and I smiled. 

Time to play. 

After rolling her onto her back, I moved down between her legs, widening them to fit my shoulders between. With a light, teasing touch of my fingertips up and down her outer lips, she squirmed.

"Loki," Shannon complained, both in her dream and out loud.

I smiled and spread her, blowing soft, cool wafts over heated flesh.

"Loki!" she complained again as I continued to tease.

Lowering my head, I sucked that aching little button into my mouth, flicking fast and hard with my tongue. Shannon shrieked, exploding in orgasm in seconds, and I continued to play with it even as she tried to push my head away.

I knew it was sensitive, but I wanted to keep her on the knife's edge so I could bring her quickly again, over and over and over. Each time, I checked to be sure she was still staying asleep, despite the pleasure coursing through her body. I kept her orgasming until I felt the heavy, sated sensation in her limbs.

It was time to trigger additional nerves endings and get more firing at the same time. My Shannon was a finely tuned instrument that had an incredible range for pleasure. Exploring ways to play different songs with her body, in different combinations, was always arousing to me. Her moans were music to my ears.

Leaving her clit to recover, I turned to her glistening core. Although I teased her with my tongue, her mind told me what she really wanted as she begged me to fuck her.

With a shift of her body onto her side, I moved behind and lifted her top leg onto mine. Hand tweaking her nipple, as my mouth nibbled her neck, I eased my cock inside. Her dream response had me grinning while she complained loudly that I was going too slow as I rolled my hips. Always so impatient, my goddess. 

Sheer bliss. So hot, wet, and tight. Yggdrasil's roots, I'd missed being inside her. 

I kept my slow rhythm as she moaned. Picking up the speed a bit as I monitored how close she was to orgasm, I drove her over and stifled my own groan as she clenched tight around me. I continued to move as I tugged harder on a nipple, triggering another rolling wave of climax through her body. Still, I continued to move, fighting my own release to give her more. I worried my own climax would roar down the bond and wake her. It was threatening to be a powerful one after this long away from her.

Twice more, I managed to hold on through the orgasmic squeezing and quivering of her hot little quim, wrapped so snug around me. Trying to hold back the pounding strokes that would wake her, I shook with effort. So badly did I want to let loose, especially when I knew how much she enjoyed the sharp pleasure-pain smack of impact when I did. Fuck. We both did. 

Still, I kept my pace moderate, gritting my teeth when I sensed her about to crest again, and knowing this time, I wouldn't be able to hold back my own building release.

As she cried out my name, I let go, jerking uncontrollably as the warm gush filled her.

Panting, I checked her mind and found she'd blended the feeling of my climax with her own, drifting deeper into sleep.

I sighed with conflicted relief as I pulled out and reluctantly removed the evidence of my seed from her body. I didn't want her wondering when she woke. When she was out of danger, then I'd worry about telling her what I'd done.

Sad now that she wasn't in my arms, I put her clothes back on. Her skin had taken on a healthier tone. I'd give her a few hours to descend deeper into sleep before I returned to invade her dreams again. I was going to see to her pleasure and energy resources multiple times tonight if I could keep her asleep long enough.

Which is exactly what I did. Returning to her four times in the twelve hours, I managed to keep her asleep before she woke, well rested, and with a sparkle back in her beautiful hazel eyes. Hidden as I was in the room's corner, invisible, I watched as Healer Moja looked her over, telling her she was doing better today.

With a sigh of satisfaction, I popped back to my room and slept.