His fingers rippled up and down the strings of the guitar, weaving cascading tapstries of sound. Phobe fed me appetisers from the plate with her fingers, piece by piece. I tasted reluctantly the salty feta, juicy black olives, creamy tzatziki. I wasn't feeling hungry. There was something creepy about the intimacy here; the way she was flirting with me in front of her brother's steady gaze.
The trouble was, the more uneasy I felt, the hotter and wetter I grew. She traced my lips in yoghurt and I lapped at her finger. She dripped olive oil on my tongue and I tilted my head back to receive it. Each new transgression forced me to find the courage to accept it, and each act of submission made my pussy burn.
Plot:
Ness is on holiday alone on the Greek island of Mykanos, and
takes a day-trip to its tiny neighbour Delos, a place long sacred to
the ancient gods Apollo and Artemis and turned over now to
archaeologists and ruins. She meets Phoebe, a mysterious and magnetic
woman who insists on showing Ness around the island and takes her to
visit her brother. In a beachside taverna Phoebe and Xander have their
way with Ness. When they're spied on by tourists, Phoebe loses her
temper and wreaks supernatural revenge. Ness rather belatedly realises
she has fallen among gods.Sexual Themes: Brother/sister incest. Threesome. Lesbian sub/dom.
Notes: 'Sun Seeking' was written for this website and ended up being sold to Black Lace's Love on the Dark Side collection. The supernatural content is very low-key until it hits you at the end like a smack in the face.
This story is based on two things: the first a rather prurient line from the Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology:
“Did Apollo wish to safeguard his sister’s honour, or was he motivated by secret jealousy? Certain traditions do, indeed, claim that he had ravished Artemis on his own altar at Delos. But we prefer to believe in the intact purity of the goddess.”
The second is a holiday visit I paid to Delos several years ago. The statue in the museum is described as I remember it. As far as I know there is no beach on the island.
Xander’s song about the apple is actually a poem by Sappho (7th Century BCE) which describes a girl before her marriage thus: “Just as the sweet apple reddens on the highest branch, and the apple-pickers missed it, or rather did not miss it out but could not reach it.” Xander is making a coy lesbian reference.
‘Phoebe’ merely means ‘shining’ and (in the form ‘Phoebus’) used to be applied to Apollo. Artemis, a lunar goddess, here borrows her name as well as her light from the sun; in herself she is a very dark goddess indeed. ‘Xander’ could be roughly translated as ‘yellow’ (i.e. blond), another of Apollo’s epithets.
Artemis ‘lived in London for a few years’: specifically her temple existed on the site now occupied by St Paul’s Cathedral. They were still annually sacrificing her sacred animals (a doe and a buck) on the high altar there until the 16th Century, according to John Stowe's Survey of London (1598).
