I said, “Belle, my princess, I love you already. You are very, very beautiful and I’m proud that you’ve chosen me. I could never have imagined being loved by women as beautiful as you and Rani and Aeyli. I still think that I must be in a dream.”
I meant the words, but I mostly hoped that my manner would put the girl at ease. I was in no hurry to make love; Aeyli had teased about being cross, but I knew that she said it just to make me feel at comfortable if I did find myself in the arms of these two new brides.
Belle blushed and I saw her nipples start to swell. I continued, addressing the other girl, “Rani, do you truly choose me as your mate, as Belle has, and Aeyli? I will be overjoyed if you find me a good mate, but I want you to be happy more than anything else that could possibly be.”
Rani cried out, “My prince, I have devoted my body and myself to you already. My milk is in. There’s no question. You tasted it yourself. Don’t ask me about my desires! It’s only because we don’t know anything except what the older women told us as girls. My body screams for me to let it throw itself into your arms and onto your bed… and my mind screams that it doesn’t know how to do it, nor what I would do when I got there!”
Belle cried out just as fervently, “My prince, Aeyli said that you would instruct us! Tell us what to do. What scares us is that we don’t know. If you tell us, we’ll be happy!”
Rani said, almost in tears again, “Yes, that’s what we feel exactly. My body rushes toward you, and stands paralyzed because it doesn’t know the way to you. Tell us and we will be happy!”
I said, “Come here and hold me for a moment.”
I pulled them forward and sat one on each knee. They instinctively snuggled into my chest and neck. This was so different for me. Nothing like Earth. Nothing like anything that I knew. But it felt so right. Part of my mind balked at what was happening, but every other part was happy to just jump in. Two beautiful naked and adoring women from another planet sitting on my lap waiting for me to teach them the ways of love. It was like some kind of erotic wish-fulfillment fantasy novel. But Rani had it right. I could question it all that I wanted to, but the facts in front of me were that these two, and Aeyli, loved me. We had proof. Their bodies had responded to our bonding emotionally on a deep and permanent level. They wanted me and they had no questions about their choices. My biggest problem was remembering not to fall into the trap that all heroes in my situation did in those adventures that I had read so many time: don’t piss off the girl by offending her by trying to apply my foreign customs to her reality.
If I was in one of those stories, I would avert my eyes from their nakedness and tell them that I wanted to wait until we knew each other better and that we should hold off on any sexual activity until she was more ready for an eternal love. On the other hand, if I were a character in a modern sitcom, I’d just meet them in a bar and run back to their place and have sex and the complications would come later. My literary background, and my experience of my own morality told me to act like a shy hero wimp. I really was kind of a shy hero in this circumstance. A lot like the guy in a harem anime cartoon. Yeah, just like that. I’d watched enough of those. The trick here was to find the right level and avoid the common pitfalls. Basically to take my cues from the girls and let them decide how things progressed. My job was just to let them know that I was happy to be the hero that they wanted me to be and not force my inexperience or insecurity onto their story.
The trick was to do everything differently than every story I knew. Be respectful, let them have what they wanted, don’t offend them with my own customs and alien morality, be true to myself, and plan for the long term. That seemed to be a key. Those fictional heroes never planned for the long term. They didn’t take into account that they were in a different reality than they had imagined. The reluctant anime harem hero never thought through where everything was going and how he’d deal with it 30 years from now. Same with the old adventure novels. They thought that it would end any moment and they’d find themselves back in ‘the real world’ and it would have all been a dream.
I had to think about this as being the way that things were, and this was how they were going to stay. I was here on Barsoom. I had three native girls who wanted me to be their mate. I had enough resources to buy a house and live here forever. I was now a citizen of whatever town this was. These girls were bonded to me for life. I didn’t know what we would actually do, but this was a one way trip and I needed to treat it that way. Aeyli had given me plenty of chances to go back. No way I was doing that. I was here and life was simpler, and I was going to act like the hero they wanted me to be.
I said, “See, you’re right, your bodies do know the way. But, there’s something that I don’t know and you need to help me… honestly.”
Belle began to kiss my cheek and said, “What my love, what do you desire?”
I said, “Belle, my love, Rani, my love, there are two of you. I can’t bear to think about being with one and not the other, but being with both of you together… what will you feel about that?”
See, I could do this. Just ask what they thought. Don’t try to work it all out by myself and make big stupid mistakes. Just be honest about what I knew and what I didn’t know and work it out together. Why didn’t we do things more like that on Earth?
The girls sat back and considered.
Rani said, “Belle, do you see what he means? Mates are taken one at a time. A great man may take three…”
Belle interrupted, “According to Aeyli, three is just a beginning.”
Rani continued, “Right. And with so many, well, with us, we come two together. Other men would go before the council and have one mate added to his house after 40 days and then another a month after that, and so on. Our mighty prince took Aeyli in the wilderness, and now has the two of us at once.”
Belle said, “But Rani, as Mark says, to wait will be unbearable for either of us, and afterward, we’ll share a bed anyway, won’t we? And, we’ll make love all together, won’t we? Of course we will. How could it be any different?”
I said, “Then if you’re happy with it, I will teach you both the ways of mating, the three of us together.”
I wasn’t really looking for a threesome. It didn’t arouse me anymore than being with either of them alone. But the reality did seem to be that making love together was what we would end up doing since there was four of us.
Belle said, “Yes! That’s what we need! We are the last of the shrine maidens and we have a vow to each other. Teach us together.”
Rani said, “But we aren’t shrine maidens anymore. We are princesses at last! Teach us!”
I smiled and kissed each of them as they sat on my lap. What had my life become? These girls were every bit as beautiful as Aeyli. Rani just as tall, but fairer skinned, and Belle, about two inches shorter, but with breasts a bit larger. Both at least as sexually responsive as Aeyli and perhaps even less sexually inhibited.
I smiled now, ready to get started and said, “OK, let’s start by having you show me how the older women taught you in the bawdy rhymes about the first night with your prince.”
I stood up and the girls looked at each other and then Rani climbed onto the bed on her knees, with her rear toward me as Aeyli had done a few nights before. Belle gave a look of recognition and took a similar position next to her.
I said, “Oh my, that is very beautiful. Scoot closer together so that your hips and shoulders touch. Now, faces on the furs, right?”
The girls giggled and complied. I came up to the edge of the bed and stood behind them and placed a hand gently on each fabulous rear end. I began stroking their buttocks, and their backs, softly. I spoke to them as I touched them.