"Are you insane!?" yelled Matterhorn.
"Not even a little," I said, but I wasn't entirely convinced.
Matterhorn crossed his arms, jaw tight, shoulders squared like he was bracing for an impact that wasn't coming. "You're asking me to kill you. In cold blood. Right after you finally convinced me you might not be a complete liability."
"I'm asking you to hit me," I said. "Hard."
"That's the same thing."
"It's really not."
"He's right," Bridgid said, arms folded, voice flat. "You're being foolish."
I exhaled through my nose. "No, think about it. If I get hit hard enough to knock me fully out of Sugar Rush, I won't be able to snap back without an orgasm."
Matterhorn stared at me like I'd just suggested juggling live grenades.
"It feels like a dumb idea when this is supposed to just be temporary. This is just a temporary thing, right?"
"Undetermined," Princess chimed in. "And we don't have the necessary tools to determine it."
"Are you so sure I'll die?" I asked.
Bridgid tilted her head, evaluating me the way a medic sizes up a patient they don't like but still intend to save. "A direct hit? Hard to say. His Caramelization neutralizes a lot of advantages. Especially with his Sugar Babies reinforcing him."
"I thought you'd be more confident!" I shot back.
She scoffed. "Don't look at me like that. You don't know how to work with your Sugar at all. You're improvising with explosives. And what happened to going to Dr. Ryebald's office?"
"I've been almost killed a few times over and I've only made it one floor. I don't think I could make it to Dr. Ryebald's office if I tried. Who knows what else I'll run into? And do we really think he'll have something in his little office that could help with a problem like this?"
"I got us into this mess," I said. "What's one more risk if it means a guarantee I can fix it?"
"I think you're being stupid," Bridgid said.
"But it's my decision, isn't it?"
"And mine," Matterhorn said. "I don't have to do nothing, after all."
"It could achieve your goal," I said. "Fast."
"I don't need you dead for that."
"No," Bridgid said slowly, eyes narrowing in thought. "But if we're going to try something reckless, we don't half-ass it."
Matterhorn looked at her. "You're not taking him seriously?"
"If he was bestowed a significant healing rate boon, would it interfere with your Caramelization ability?"
"The initial impact that would knock him out of Sugar Rush would take less than a second. The healing rate would bounce back, but if no part of Teddy was left in this heightened Sugar Rush state, that would probably normalize."
"I have a boon that should work."
Silence stretched, then Matterhorn nodded. "Alright. We'll check out for a few with my Escape Artist ability. Take all the time you need."
Just like that, he disappeared as quickly as his Sugar Babies had appeared. And now that I thought about it, I couldn't see the Sugar Babies, either.
Bridgid looked at me and smiled. "Are you ready?"
"I don't know," I admitted. "Last time...."
"Yes," she said dryly. "You, a possessor of a dragon's hoard of Sugar in your body, activated Sugar Rush at the same moment you orgasmed. Bad combination."
"I remember."
"You're already in Sugar Rush," she continued as if she was bringing up something that should be obvious. "You won't be able to trigger Sugar Rush again."
"Could an orgasm still amplify it?"
Bridgid shook her head. "Like your cock between orgasms, there needs to be some time in between. You're still in the afterglow of the first time."
"Okay, then."
"Okay."
"One more thing."
Her lips twitched, just slightly. "You're nervous."
"I'm a virgin," I said, the words tumbling out before I could reconsider. "And I haven't even hooked up with my first Sugar Baby yet. Shouldn't I, like, save myself, or something?"
She blinked.
"Save yourself for your future harem?"
I felt heat crawl up my neck. "When you say it like that, it sounds stupid."
"It's not," she said. "There is magical potency in virginity. The legends about sacrificing virgins to dragons do have some merit."
I swallowed.
"But," she continued, moving closer, voice lowering, tits grazing my chest, "your Sugar reserves dwarf any relevance your virginity would ever have. So, if you're willing... may I have this cock?"
I met her eyes. "You may."
She leaned in, her body warm. Her lips brushed my ear.
"You're going to enjoy this."
She kissed me on the lips and suddenly I wasn't laying down in a dirty motel room on Floor 6 of the Kiss Kiss Hotel.
I lay on a wide rug beneath an open sky. Blue stretched endlessly overhead. Waves rolled in nearby, steady and calm. A cliff rose behind me.
Bridgid emerged from the water.
She was fully human, fully naked. No shifting ink, just her petite, perky breasted body. She still wore a silver belly ring.
I looked down at myself. I was already completely naked. My cock, thick and girthy, stood proudly like a tower. I could see her eye it as she approached. She was shining with water like the first time I had see her.
"This is where I'm from," she said as she came by and kneeled down next to me. "I am often far from home, so I have made it part of my domain. It is magically the same as a Sugar Baby domain, although mine isn't sourced the same way yours will be. The amount of Sugar you endow your Sugar Babies with will determine the lavishness of their domains."
"Do you ever stop teaching?" I asked.
She smiled as she grabbed my cock, stroking it gently. I wasn't as afraid as finishing on her this time.
"This is what we call a handjob."
"Oh, that's what we call what caused all this? They're very dangerous."
"Not as dangerous as what I'm about to do next."
She pushed her hair aside and then started sucking my cock at the tip. I moaned.
The first time a woman's mouth has been on my cock.
It was warm and smooth. Her tongue found the right places to lick, like the underside of my cock near the top.
She combined this with masterful strokes of her hand. When she began to spend some time on my balls, I knew I wasn't going to be able to contain myself any longer.
I came, my cock pulsing loads of cum in her mouth which she took in and swallowed. I could feel the last pulses of my throbbing cock against her tongue and the inside of her cheeks.
"That," she said, licking her lips, "was step one."