Completed Sodrel's Massage (Jynx & Sodrel)

[Jynx]

The 9th of Fall 512 Jynx's cabin in Avanthal OOC : Continued from Jynx's Magic Fingers. Jynx was an early riser by habit. He tried to do a set of exercises each morning, and this morning was no exception. He had worked up a sweat and was in the middle of a set of push-ups when the knock came at his door. He didn't mind being nude in the presence of others, but he knew that others sometimes minded, so he slipped on a pair of light blue cotton pants and a white cotton shirt. He opened the door and found himself staring again at Sodrel Frostfawn. He gapped at her for a moment and then snapped his mouth shut. “You have come for a massage, have you not?” he asked with almost childlike glee. “Come in. Let me set up my massage bench and get out my oils.” The folding bench leaned against one wall. He unfolded it and set it in the middle of the room. Then he produced his massage kit and dug around for the items he would need. “You are my first customer since coming to Avanthal. But of course you will get your massage free of charge.” He threw a sheet over the padded bench. He gave her an uncertain look. “Uhm, you will have to disrobe. It is best if you are wearing nothing, but you can keep under pants on if you wish. It is up to you. If you feel embarrassed to let me see you naked, I will cover you with a second sheet and ensure that no intimate features are visible to me at any time during the massage. I want you to feel safe and comfortable.” He handed her a second sheet. “You can disrobe in the bathroom over here.” He pointed to the small room off the main living area.

[Sodrel Frostfawn]

Sodrel stared at the sheet in her hand. Comfortable with nudity? She was as comfortable as anyone could get since she shared a Hold with all the other Frostfawns. There was no such thing as privacy. Even having been in her own Arvinta since she was thirteen, a bell barely passed that left her on her own. But being comfortable being naked and getting naked with Jynx in the room were apparently two different things, at least according to the butterflies in her stomach. She did her best to smile, but it was a crooked mess of a thing and she hoped he couldn't hear her pulse hammering away in her neck as she swallowed. The sheet looked really thin. Clutching it tightly, she headed for the bathroom. Only once she was safely on the other side of the door did she kick out of her pants and pull her shirt over her head. The cabin was surprisingly warm, so the cold didn't bother her as much as being naked seemed to. She took a deep breath to calm her nerves. She was doing a lot of deep breathing that morning. And none of it helped. She'd never been naked for a man's inspection before and she was quickly finding out that it felt a lot different than trying to bathe with one of her Hold sisters bursting in on her. She pulled the sheet tightly around her chest, but her legs were too long for her body and the flimsy sheet didn't cover nearly as much as she wished it would have. Sighing, she stared down at her bare toes for a few chimes. Standing there over-thinking things was only making things worse. It's only a petching massage. She tried to remind herself. Eventually, she gave up trying to calm herself and went back out to meet Jynx, but she couldn't quite meet his eyes. “I’m ready.”

[Jynx]

She was obviously embarrassed. Jynx was embarrassed at having embarrassed her. He would have to do something to make her more comfortable or the massage would provide little benefit. He was not unaffected by her near-naked body. He thought she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen, with the possible exception of his former mistress. But his overriding concern was to help her be comfortable enough to enjoy her massage. “You want to remain covered then,” he said. “Some people like it better that way. I want you to feel comfortable.” He turned his back to her and the massage bench and said, “Please lie down on the bench face down, if you would.” A small pillow rested at one end of the bench. “Cover yourself with the sheet please.” He heard her rustling around for a few moments. When she said, “I'm ready,” he turned around. He arranged the sheet a bit here and there to make sure it wouldn't slide off. “I will begin with a stillness polarity hold,” he said. Leaving her back covered, he placed his left hand lightly on her lower back and his right hand on her upper back, applying just a little pressure. “Breath slowly and evenly,” he said. “Feel the tension flow out of your body.” He normally held this position for half a chime but because her breathing was still fast and shallow he held it for a full chime, letting himself relax and matching his breathing rhythm to hers. When he took his hands away they were warm and tingling, as he suspected were the two touch points on Sodrel's back. She was not completely relaxed yet, but at least her breathing had slowed down. Normally he would move on from here but she was still too tense. He decided to use two variations on the stillness polarity hold. He placed one hand at the top of her head and the other hand at the base of her neck and held it for half a chime, again matching his breathing to hers. As he slowed his breathing, hers slowed with him. He moved to her feet and carefully uncovered her right leg up to mid-thigh, keeping the left leg covered. He placed one hand on the heel of her foot and the other on the back of her knee joint. He held this position for half a chime. He covered her right leg up again and repeated the hold on her left leg. “Now,” he said. “I will work your back muscles. I need to uncover you down to your waste. Is that alright?”

[Sodrel Frostfawn]

Petch. Was there a spot he was going to touch that wouldn’t feel that good? He hadn’t found one yet. She’d been a little nervous when she came out of the bathroom, but that all melted away the second his rough fingers went to work against her skin. Jynx seemed to be tracing the aches in her body. As soon as he found one and soothed it, he was on to the next. She could stay on that table all day. As good as it was, a part of her brain still nagged her. What was she doing here? She hadn’t forgotten that yesterday he’d looked pretty dangerous in the middle of that fight. Now today she was naked on a table with his hands all over her. But, they weren’t really all over her, were they? Just here and there. He was actually being respectful of the boundaries she’d set with the sheet, never once trying to move it in a way that might let him see more than she wanted him to. She closed her eyes and tried to let go even more. He obviously had some practice with where he was putting his hands. Then he’d pause with them touching her in just the right place and she found herself afraid that he'd stop. There was a lot of power in the way he moved his hands, then stopped and waited for her to relax. A few times she heard his breaths slowing down to match hers and with her eyes closed, it was even easier to get lost in the relaxing ripples he started under her skin. “Now I will work your back muscles. I need to uncover you down to your waist. Is that alright?” Even his voice was soothing. She couldn’t have said no if she wanted to and right then, she definitely didn’t want to. She nodded. “You can lower it if you need to.”

[Jynx]

He folded the sheet back so that it exposed her back. “Now I will work your back muscles.” He positioned himself at her head and applied a generous amount of massage oil to her back in long sure strokes. He placed his palms on her upper back with fingertips pointing toward the lower back. He leaned into his palms, putting some weight on them, and slowly glided them down her back to just above her buttocks in one long stroke. He let his palms slide down both sides of her lower back to the table top and then firmly stroked up the sides of her ribcage to the base of her neck. He repeated this five more times. Firmly down the back, firmly back up along the ribcage in long, slow strokes. He explained: “The muscles in your back are always working to keep you upright. This technique gives them permission to let go and relax for a while.” Sodrel's body was beginning to relax and her breathing had slowed. Jynx was pleased. Standing beside her, he placed one hand on her right shoulder blade and put his other hand on top of the first hand. He leaned into his hand to apply pressure and circled his palms around the shoulder blade slowly. Detecting no knots, he increased the pressure and made the circles more vigorously. He switched sides to repeat it on the other shoulder blade, but this time he discovered a lump of dense muscle tissue. He placed his fingertips on the knot and pressed down firmly. “Hurts, does it not? I will work that out for you.” He placed his fingertips on the knot, pressed down firmly and slid them back and forth firmly across the lump until it broke loose. Then he continued with the palm circles as before. “Now I am going to work your buttocks.” He pulled the sheet back up over her back and positioned himself at her side. Leaving her covered, he placed both hands together on her hip and used a broad, circular stroke from the hip joint to the upper buttock. Then he did the same for the lower buttock. He repeated this ten times. This was followed by a series of vigorous, short, straight strokes from the hip joint to the upper buttock, and then repeated with strokes from the hip joint to the lower buttock. “You should be getting a nice butt buzz about now,” he said, chuckling at his little joke. He began to whistle a tune as he continued. “I am going to work on the back of your legs now,” he said. He uncovered one leg and wrapped that part of the sheet around her upper thigh and then pulled it up tightly against her buttocks. This gave him complete access to her leg without exposing anything intimate. Using plenty of massage oil, he placed both hands on her ankle and firmly slid both palms from the lower calf to the upper thigh, releasing pressure as he passed over the knee. He repeated this five times and then did the same for the other leg. “I am going to have you turn over on to your back now.” He was standing beside her. He reached over and took hold of the sheet on the other side of her and pulled it up so that she was no longer covered but effectively had the sheet serving as a privacy curtain between her and Jynx. As he waited for her to turn herself over so he could place the sheet over her again, he asked some questions. “How are you enjoying your massage so far? Are you comfortable? Is there anything you need?”

[Sodrel Frostfawn]

The massage was going so well, she was starting to feel a little guilty about having slipped away from her Hold before work. She had no idea what bell it was, but didn’t doubt it was getting late. Sodrel was about to tell him that, when his hands stopped moving on her body. She pried her eyes open and looked up to see him standing next to her. Her face heated as she realized he was about to grab the sheet. In her relaxed state, he was faster than she was and she hardly registered that the sheet was about to leave her body, before it was already gone. The flush on her face spread across her body and she moved quickly to cover herself--when she realized he couldn’t see anything. He was holding the sheet up so she could roll over. Oops. She did her best to pretend nothing had happened and rolled over like he asked her to. “How are you enjoying your massage so far?” A little too much. “It's been really relaxing.” Which she guessed was the point. He followed up with, “Are you comfortable?” If she was any more comfortable she’d melt into the table. “You’ve done a really good job of putting me at ease. I guess you could tell I was a little nervous when we started.” Just a little bit... Then, he wanted to know if there was anything else she needed. Putting the sheet back around her was a good place to start, but she felt stupid saying that. “Actually, there’s a spot on my back that has a kink I can’t seem to get out.” She did her best to show him the spot just under her right shoulder where it always seemed to hurt, but she was in an awkward position and it was hard to show him exactly where, so she gave up trying. “Your hands are like magic, I can’t believe how good I already feel. Have you been doing this long? Is giving massages what brought you to Avanthal?” It seemed like a strange way to make a living to her, but not so much when she was on the receiving end of it. She imagined he’d get plenty of business when word got out how good he was. Avanthal was a city full of hard-working people.

[Jynx]

“On your back,” he repeated after her. “I … I wonder how I missed that.” His intent was to please and he had failed. But only a small failure and easily fixed. “Over on your tummy again,” he said. “I'll find that kink and kill it.” There was a hint of a hard edge to the way he emphasized “kill”, a discordant note in an otherwise gentle melody. Jynx was unaware of it and Sodrel probably registered it only on a unconscious level. The predator side of the Kelvic was never far from the surface. With Sodrel face down again, he pulled the sheet down far enough to expose the upper half of her back. With the fingers of both hands, he pressed gently on a spot on her shoulder blade. Then he move his fingers a tiny bit and pressed down again. He kept doing this until his probing fingers were exploring under her arm almost to her breasts, which he was careful not to touch. He finally found a spot that made her jump. “Ah ha!” he said. “I have found it. I will need you to turn over on to your back again. It is easier to get at it from the other side.” Again he held up the sheet to let her turn over and then covered her again. He gently took her right arm out from under the sheet and placed it on top. Then he probe again around her arm put until he found a tight little knot of muscle. “Gotcha,” he said. If Sodrel was watching she would see him smile with satisfaction. “I am going to apply pressure to the bundle of nerves hiding in that knot of muscle. I will have to apply quite a bit of pressure and it will hurt. Please tell me if it is hurting too much and I will ease off.” He put both thumbs on a spot just below her arm pit and pressed down firmly. Then he twisted his thumbs back and forth a bit and dug deeper. Then he held it for half a chime. He released the pressure point and rubbed the area vigorously with his fingers. Then he felt around gently again. “It's trying to run away,” he said. He was like a child playing with a new toy. He again applied thumb pressure to a point very near the previous point and held it for half a chime. He released the pressure and rubbed the area vigorously. “Now,” he said. “Back over on your tummy.” With her back once more under his gently rough hands, he pressed fairly hard on her right shoulder blade and did the same circular motion he had done earlier. He moved slowly and firmly. Then he explored the painful area again. “I do not feel anything now,” he said. “I think maybe I got it. What do you think? It might still be a little sore for a while but it should clear up completely in a day or two. “Oh, wait. You asked me a question. How long have I been doing this? A few years. My mistress made sure I learned a marketable skill so that I'd always have something to fall back on if anything should happen … “ He stopped, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. When he spoke again his voice was soft and somber. “Anyway, she made sure I had a skill I could use so I could take care of myself.” He paused again, then pulled up the sheet like a curtain and said, “Back over on your back now. I have more wonderful things I want to do to your body.” Had she been able to see the sappy grin on his face she would have realized that he was totally oblivious to the unintended double entendre.

[Sodrel Frostfawn]

“I think you must have done some kind of magic on my back. It feels so much better.” The kink was completely gone. “Thank you.” She smiled and wanted to look up into his strange eyes. He seemed so distant when he paused before he talked about his mistress. And the deep breath that followed made her heart sink. There was something big there. She could tell by the way he spoke following it. The way he pushed forward right after he'd said it, made it seem like it might be the kind of thing he didn't want to talk about at all. Before she could think of the right words to use he asked her to roll over again. Jinx’s mind seemed to work much faster than hers did. He was always a step ahead and he wanted her to turn from back to tummy a lot. That part was probably her fault. If she hadn't asked him to get that kink out of her back... Sodrel didn't know why she found that to be funny, but when he wanted her to flip over for who knew what time, a laugh escaped her lips. She was starting to get dizzy, but she did what he asked. The timing of the laugh couldn’t have been more off, but Jynx was being so serious. The intense way he focused on her made her feel good, but it stirred another emotion in her that was darker. It was too much. She had the sudden urge to do something silly, to break him up a little. Had she really heard him laugh yet? It was hard to bite back the urge to throw him off guard, but he was still the one with all the power, hovering over her with that sheet in his hands. He could snatch that thin material away anytime he wanted to and what would she do?

[Jynx]

She giggled as he put the sheet back over her body. It could have been a nervous giggle but he didn't think so. He took it to mean she was getting comfortable with him. He smile and a twinkle probably appeared in his eye. “I am going to massage the top side of your legs now.” He again exposed her left leg and, after applying oil, placed his palms on the sides of the ankle, the fingers of one hand overlapping the fingers of the other on top of her ankle. Leaning into his hands, he slide his palms slowly up her leg from ankle to hip. He was careful not to touch her intimate parts. Upon reaching the hip, he released the pressure and lightly stroked the leg from hip to angle. He repeated this three times and then did the same for her other leg. “Now I am going to massage your feet. Some people find this the most enjoyable part of the massage.” He applied oil to one of her feet and gripped it firmly with fingers on top and thumbs on the foot pad. He firmly slide from the pad to the back of the heel. He repeated this several times. Next he grasped her ankle with one hand and rotated her foot with the other. Next he massaged around the ankle in circles. Next he gently squeezed and pulled on each toe. Finally he lightly stroked between the bones on the top of her foot. He repeated this sequence with her other foot. “Should be nice and tingly now,” he said. “Let me see what I can do with your arms now.” He pulled her arm out from under the sheet and laid it on top, palm up. He placed both of his palms on her wrist, one palm on top of the other, and slide his palm up the upward-facing arm to the shoulder. Gliding around the shoulder, he slid his palms down the back of the arm to the wrist. He repeated this several times and then did the same for the other arm. “I will now make your hands happy,” He announced. He was whistling to himself again as he grasped one of her hands with both of his and used his thumbs to gently massage between the bones on the back of her hand, from the base of the fingers to the wrist. He turned her hand over and drew circles on her palm with his thumbs for several seconds. Then he gently tugged on each finger one at a time. He placed a pillow under her knees and said, “I am going to give you a belly massage now. I will try not to tickle.” If she was watching she would see that he was still smiling, obviously enjoying his work. He placed both hands on her belly and held them there without moving for several seconds. Then he glided his open palms in a light clockwise circular motion. “This will help you digest food,” he said. He gradually increased the radius of the circles until he was massaging from just above her pelvic bones to just below her rib cage. He was careful not to touch her intimate parts, but he knew from his experience with this former mistress that this was likely to cause some arousal. He continued this for a full chime. He paused and made eye contact with her. When he spoke it was almost as if he was talking about someone else. “I am Kelvic. I was born to serve. I served one mistress most of my life. That was in Novallas. She … died. I couldn't stay there anymore so I came here. To find a new mistress.” Another pause, still maintaining eye contact. “You have always lived in Avanthal?” he asked, his head tilting first to one side and then to the other in time with each question. “What do you do? Where do you live? Do you have a family? Do you have a mate?”

[Sodrel Frostfawn]

His confidences took her by surprise. Earlier, it didn’t seem like his mistress was something he was comfortable talking about. Sodrel wasn’t overly fond of the idea of being born to serve. If that’s what he was telling her he was meant for, she’d have to take him at his word, but she couldn’t imagine Amaya serving her any more than a kelvic. Jynx was alien to Sodrel in a lot of ways, maybe not all of them bad. Her chest tightened when he confessed that his mistress had died. No wonder he didn't want to talk about it. Whatever he was feeling, his eyes never left hers. There was that sense of strength again. It changed what she saw when she looked at him. “I’m not sure if you’ll find a new mistress here or not, but Avanthal is as good a place as any to find one.” His pauses were killing her. “You have always lived in Avanthal?” he asked her. He was looking at her in that intense way again, like what she was about to say mattered, even though it was something trivial. “Lived in Avanthal all my life. The Frostfawn Hold actually.” She smiled again, thinking back over all the good times she had in the snowy city. “I’d recommend it to anyone.” More questions, all aimed at her, moving them ahead again when she was content to linger. “My parents live in the same Hold as I do.” She gulped. “No, uh, mate though. But that’s okay. I’ve got a little while until I turn into an Icemaiden.” Actually, she only had a year left, but who was counting? Sodrel turned her head away from the rest of that line of questioning and decided to ask him a couple questions of her own. “How long are you going to stay in the city? And what did you lace the oil with, because I keep forgetting I’m naked.” Another laugh escaped. This time she didn’t try to hold it back.