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Part Eight
Carlton was ahead of them here, for even before the sun rose, three of them were down at the pool and filled up their water casks and were away just before the sun peeped over the horizon. He stayed behind and settled himself down to watch the tree line almost certain that someone would be put on watch. He'd learned patience while in the army and so he sat still and waited and was rewarded by a sighting about half an hour after the sun had come up.
It was only the odd movement of bushes but he noticed it and saw a brief glimpse of a face before it was withdrawn into the shadows. Which one it was, he didn't know but it was definitely one of them. He gave the other watcher another ten minutes just to see if he was going to move again, which he didn't, so Carlton slowly backed away and went to see the others.
Well they've been pretty predictable so far,' he said as he sat down and accepted the palm leaf with some fruit and nuts on it from Judy. Smith had sat down next to him for a council of war, the girls sitting just a little way back but able to hear what he was going to say. We have a watcher in the tree line to the south just east of the ridge. I couldn't clearly see who it is but that doesn't matter. Now with him there, there would have to be at least one left at their shelter, assuming they are using the same place for him to contact. That would put two at large, or all three are there, which is what I am thinking they are doing. Also, if they are all there, they will be making weapons, like us.' He paused to drink some water that Toni passed over to him.
So,' he continued, let's lead them all over the island. Will you,' he'd turned to Smith, `take two of the girls round the crater and come up to the pool from the east. But keep to the north side of the water. Approach the pool with caution, looking about you but do not give any hint even if you do see him. We will be watching from the west and south side of the pool ready to attack if they do. I will place myself as close as I can to where the watcher is to see if he makes any signal to the rear. Have you got that?'
Yes,' Smith said, it sounds good to me. What happens after we've got the water?'
`You return the same way until you're out of sight and can't be tracked before coming back round to here. Now if we are attacked and we beat them off, we will follow the route you came in on. One other point, if, which I hope not and do not expect at this stage, we have someone wounded. That person has got to be carried or dragged away. We do not, and I stress not, leave anyone wounded behind to be captured. Is that clearly understood?' There was a chorus of yes.
`Okay then, pick your three,' to Smith.
`Pearl, Tiki and Stacey. Get your spears and some water melons. Four?' he looked at Carlton.
`Yes, that'll do,' he replied.
`Right. We'll get started and should be round the other side in, let's say about an hour and a half.'
`Okay. We will be in position to cover you,' Carlton said, and with that, those going with Smith picked up their spears and checked that their knives were secure and off they went.
Can I have a cigarette please,' Toni asked. I'm all of a tremble at this and feeling a trifle nervous,' and gave a small laugh that betrayed the fact.
Okay,' he smiled, We've got an hour before we need to move,' and he got the glass and lit one for her as before. He was still sitting down and Judy was now sitting next to Toni and he looked at them both sitting before him. He noted the torn shorts and the one strap bra as Toni puffed nervously on her cigarette and he looked at Judy, getting a lovely tan all over her top half.
`Are you wearing panties?' he asked Toni. She looked taken aback by this question.
`Yes, why?'
`Well those shorts look as if they're only being held up by a few threads. Take them off for they might get torn off in the bushes and if you don't retrieve them, it could give them a lead if they are found,' he said.
`Oh, okay,' and with just a flip of her fingers, the button came undone and she worked her legs out of them.
I might just as well say that you look rather indecent wearing that torn bra too,' he grinned. You're the only one wearing one.'
`You want me to take this off too?' her voice a bit shaky.
`Yes. The whiteness will show up quite clearly against the green bushes. As soon as you get tanned like Judy there, you'll blend in nicely.' She blushed but stuck the cigarette in her mouth and fumbled behind her back.
`Here, let me do it,' Judy said and moved the fumbling fingers aside and undid the one clip hold it together. Toni then shyly pulled the one strap down her arm and revealed her breasts to his gaze.
I assure you that after a day or two you won't be embarrassed,' Judy said to her. I'm not now.'
If I may say so, you do have a lovely pair of breasts,' Carlton said. You should be quite proud of them. I can't understand women having such treasures and keeping them hidden.'
It's part of the allure,' Judy said. Keep the men guessing. It fires their imagination.'
`And causes rape,' he said bitterly, thinking of Carol and he got up, his palm leaf rather pushed forward at seeing Toni now topless, but the sight of them had been driven from his mind at the thought of Carol and he found some saplings and sat back down and began to fashion the cross that had been promised for her grave. It was a crude cross, but it was symbolic more than decorative and when he had finished it, said that it was nearly time for them to move out into position.
He showed her how to hold the spear and said that she was to use it in a stabbing motion. She was to stay within the trees and only come out if a fight did take place and put her on the west side closest to their shelter. He gave her a quick kiss and said that she was a brave girl and went off with Judy to fix her position.
This was on the south west side of the pool and again just inside the trees. He gave her a kiss too and said that she was a brave girl too before moving away. He took his time and slowly worked his way through the trees and bushes to get as close as he could to the other side's watcher.
He was only just in time for almost at once, as he began to settle himself, Smith and his cohort came into view from the east.
It was rather anticlimactic. They approached the pool in a wary attitude, filled the melons and departed without the hidden watcher moving. It was only when they were out of sight did Carlton pick up the movement and knew that he was withdrawing to go off and report. He managed to track him for a short distance on his side of the ridge but stopped when he was sure of where the man was heading.
Carlton was pleased that Judy was still on station when he collected her and Toni too.
`Is that it?' she asked when he said they could now go back to the shelter.
`Yes, we won't see them for the rest of the day,' he said with a laugh putting his arms round the shoulders of the two girls and took them back. Though he had a change of mind and took Toni up the tree line on the western side of the crater.
`Stay here and keep watch for the others and check with Smith that he hasn't been followed.' She said that she would and so he left her there and went back to the shelter.
Judy was under the roof out of the sun and propped herself up on her elbow when he crawled and lay down next to her. The sight of her bare breasts and shining eyes caused his palm leaf to start to rise up with his growing erection.
I wondered if you'd find some way of getting us to be alone,' she said. I think that it's my turn now,' rolling over to him and giving him a kiss, her hand going down to grasp his erection. `I've been looking forward all day for this,' she said as she moved down and took him in her mouth. As she sucked on him, she wriggled out of her panties, not letting go of his prick, squeezing it as she sucked but she didn't want to go too far and so let him go and moved up to kiss him.
`Go down on me now please,' she begged and rolled over onto her back and opened her legs. He raised himself up and kissed her breasts and then her stomach before he moved in between her legs and kissed her inner thighs, his slight beard scratching and tickling her as he moved his kisses up higher until she felt his tongue touch her outer lips.
She gave out a shiver and put her hands down to part them and he could now see between the folds, the entrance to her vagina and the little bud above. He used his tongue to stroke both, sending more shivers up and down her body as he began the serious part of sticking his tongue inside her and moving it about.
Cunnilingus is an art and as he couldn't get low enough to see to her properly, moved his body round so that he was upside down to her. Now he could get his teeth around her clit to gently nibble it with his teeth that made her writhe, her arm banging his thigh which was now alongside. It became hard like a nut and he could give it long strong strokes with his tongue before changing to sticking it inside her vagina.
`Lift your leg over,' she cried out as she squirmed at his ministrations and as he put his leg over her body, she grabbed at his throbbing cock and virtually pulled it into her mouth to suck and chew on as he was doing to her. She rolled her eyes before closing them to relish having her sex tongued and licked as she sucked on his throbbing organ in that famous sixty nine position.
She held the base of his cock with one hand so that he wouldn't go too far and choke her while the other hand played with his heavy balls. She couldn't say that she was about to have her orgasm with her mouth full of his cock so began to buck her hips and yet not too much to miss out of having his tongue and mouth where it was.
She came in a veritable flood to fill his mouth and at the same time, he came to fill hers. Judy nearly choked on the first emission as it spurt out the end and hit her in the back of her throat and somehow managed to swallow it in time for the second load. He drank from her and she took all that he had to give, holding the last lot to run round the head of his cock before she swallowed.
When finished, they kissed and stroked each other and only broke apart when they heard the others coming back to the shelter.
It was a tired crew that trooped back into the camp, somewhat dispirited that nothing had happened after being so keyed up with Carlton's speech before they'd set off. Now three and half hours later felt in a bizarre way that they'd been let down.
Don't be fooled by their lack of response today,' Carlton explained. They are trying to study us, see our weaknesses. They think they are superior having four men against two and a handful of women. It will come, they will strike when they are ready. This can be related to what was known as the phoney war. It's the time spent in between fighting when it's the gathering of intelligence, so I think that tomorrow will be a day of peace. We'll still stand watch of course but I don't think anything of note will happen.' He was right in this.
It was on Tiki's watch that they were seen getting water, apart from that, nothing was seen. They spent the day watching Smith make more spears and short stabbing swords and Carlton cutting cans for the metal. The girls sun bathed and talked amongst themselves. It wasn't until they were getting prepared for their evening meal when one of the girl's said it would be nice if they could get some fish now that they could create fire that got Carlton thinking.
Smith was taking the last watch of the pool relieving Toni's first time on watch. He got her to stay for a while before going back to the shelter and when she did return, said that James was a very smooth talking man.
The day was a washout for King's men as they scoured the eastern half of the island and found nothing. The three henchmen kept silent that night not wanting to upset their leader.
In the western shelter of the ridge, it was now becoming a pattern in their sleeping arrangements, with each woman taking it in turns to sleep alongside both Carlton and Smith. Judy gave up her place to Stacey for her to be with Carlton and Toni, not really having fallen into the pattern properly, found that she was on the outside of the group for Judy to sleep next to Smith.
Secrecy in the fact of the girls having sex with the two men was now going by the board, for in the darkness of the night, Tiki wasn't surprised when Stacey, next to her, had her body covered by Carlton, Pearl on the far side smiled as Stacey was getting what she wanted as well but knew that she was next in line. Toni wasn't sure how to react but kept quiet when she felt Smith's arm touch her as he rolled over on top of Judy. The coming together was now actually taking place in the shelter for the first time. The three women without a man, sighed, but knew that their turn would come if the men could keep up with the demand.
Stacey, with it being her turn with Carlton, had, in the darkness, already removed what was left of her torn panties and as she lay next to him, brought one of his hands up to a breast as they kissed. She slowly broke off the kissing and she pushed his head down for him to kiss and suck on a nipple. With it coming up hard, then pushed the hand on her other breast down and put it between her legs. So as he kissed, sucked and nibbled on one teat, his fingers were making music inside her sex.
It didn't take long for her to be ready and almost pulled him up on top of her to which he was most happy to oblige. He was quickly inside her, his backside going up and down as he fucked her. He wasn't unaware of Tiki's hand on one side stroking a cheek of his bum as he moved on Stacey, nor of Pearl doing the same to the other cheek and smiled inwardly that while he was fucking the girl underneath him he would soon, be fucking the lovely black girl on the other side.
Smith wasn't unoccupied either at the other end of the shelter for his erection was up into Judy and he did like fucking her and getting great pleasure from doing so for he knew that she was sweet on Carlton.
The pool water watch rota had been set for the day and Carlton was taking it easy, watching the girls make ropes with creepers. He was thinking of fish and water. One, that they would or needed to have fish to add to their fruit and nut diet. Second, how to get water without going to the pool. He'd been studying the pool and guessed that it had a constant in flow and one or more out, for the level stayed the same and yet it was constantly fresh, not stagnating at all. The problem he was wrestling with was of how to bring it down to the shelter, have it on tap as it were.
Judy had just washed the bandages that had been used for his head and they were draped over bushes to dry when it clicked. The medicine box. He went and got it out into the open and emptied it out and found what he wanted. A sling! It was folded into a tight square but when opened up was over a foot square of a muslin type of linen. Perfect for a net. Safety pins too which would help to secure it round a bent sapling as the hoop.
He called Smith over, showing him what he had and what he wanted for his fishing net. He understood and went off to find the right type of young tree for the purpose. He wasn't long and within a short time, had a hoop that fitted within the square and they pinned the edges round and they had their net. Next came the handle and within an hour, they were ready to become fishermen. It was decided that they would go fishing the next day and when Carlton took over the last pool watch, he sat there looking at the water and tried to solve the problem of getting the water over the top and down to the camp.
There was no way of breaking through the rim for it was solid rock and besides, if they did they would have a stream and it could possibly upset the equilibrium that the years had set up. No, it had to be siphoned out, but how? For pipe work he could use bamboo of which he'd seen quite a bit growing past the beach at the western end of the island. Though if memory served him right, bamboo was only hollow between what looked like round knots every few feet along its length. One end of each piece could be whittled down to fit into the end of another section but would the blade of the knife last that long considering the whole length would be over sixty yards. The medicine box had yielded a small roll of plaster, but there wasn't enough and besides, it wouldn't last long as a jointing strip.
He mulled this over till the sun had almost gone and knowing that they wouldn't come up at this late hour for water, went back to the shelter.
The others admired the fishing net though Toni complained that a few of the safety pins would have held her bra together nicely.
Believe me Toni, Smith said, `the catching of fish takes preference over a bra, besides, I think you look far better without one.' She blushed again though her smile belied the fact that she hadn't really wanted to repair it.
`I'll go down early with Stacey and Pearl. Stacey and I can take it in turns to fish while the other looks out for sharks in the water and Pearl can look out for the sharks on the land. You'll have to do double shifts on the pool watch and have somebody on standby to come down and fetch us if needed. We'll be at the end of the beach furthest from the ridge.'
So with that settled, night had fallen and as they began to take their places in the shelter, Toni was amazed at the shunting about of the girls with the two men laying down in their usual place, one in from the end.
Pearl was the first in to lay next to Carlton followed by Tiki who lay next to Smith, then the other slotted themselves in leaving Toni to fill the last space. She found it somewhat erotic to see the two men couple with their partner for the night and got a sudden desire inside that she now wanted a man again but knew she would have to wait her turn.
It was another fruitless day for King's camp and it was a disgruntled foursome that tried to sleep that night. John and Liam fidgeting the most from nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
It was only by chance that Drew spotted the three at the far end of the beach fishing as he passed along the ridge the next day, but by the time he'd reported the sighting and they had rushed to the ridge to see, only to find that they had gone.
The western group were now getting into the habit of getting their water before the sun rose and so were safely in the trees when it did rise with one on watch to see if there was any change in the pattern of the others.
As soon as they had eaten, Carlton, Stacey and Pearl, all armed with spears and their knives plus the net, went down to the beach to fish. They planned on three hours maximum and Carlton had the honour of using the net first and succeeded in catching three small fish that could only be described as sardines, but it was fish all the same.
The joke before they left camp had been that they'd better bring back some fish, or stay on the beach if it was tuna. Stacey then did her half hour and being a very good swimmer, went further out among the rocks and came back with two fair sized ones.
Don't go for any bigger,' she said as she waded out with her catch. I don't think the net would hold, see, there's a little tear there already.' This they repaired by the simple means of shifting the safety pin by the tear.
It was close on the three hours when he said that they'd been down there long enough, they having caught four medium sized fish and nine smaller ones plus his two sardines. So quite pleased with their first effort, made their way up the beach and into the trees.
It was when he decided to call it a day that they had been spotted by Drew. Pearl's attention had been distracted by Carlton saying it was time to finish that she didn't see Drew's head come above the ridge. So they went up to their shelter unaware that they had been seen.
The rest were delighted when they saw the catch and many a mouth watered at what would a nice change from fruit and nuts. Now came the discussion as to where and when they cooked the fish with Carlton flatly refusing to have a fire at the shelter.
`Not only could the smoke pin point where we are, the smell of cooking fish would draw them here. No, we cook them somewhere else.'
It was decided to use the crater up at the top. It meant carrying the fuel but they would be out of sight and were hopeful that the smell would go up rather than down, besides there were seven spears to defend it against four if they came looking for the source of the fire or the smell of cooking fish.
Stacey had the honour of carrying the catch while the others carried wood and dried grass and sticks for spitting the fish. It was decided to gut and clean the fish up the top, realising that they should have done it down at the beach and used the innards for bait.
With the glass and dried grass, the fire was alight and burning within a minute. Pearl did the gutting and cleaning with the knife and then as the fire was built up, the fish were spitted on sticks and slowly cooked over the fire.
Though the catch would only really have been sufficient for three people, they made what they had go round so they all had enough to satisfy the hunger that the smell of them cooking had generated. Now the fruit to follow washed down with water made it a wonderful meal.
They lazed away the afternoon in the sun talking and then the girls started to get somewhat smutty in their talk about who was next to share the two men, but when they began to start making comparisons about the size of their tackle was when Carlton called a halt.
Smith said that it would have made for a good picture of them all spread out inside the crater. Him with his torn underpants, Carlton with his palm leaf front covering and five women, wearing only torn panties but displaying their breasts in three different shades of colour. Toni's still white, Judy and Stacey a light golden brown, Tiki's a rich golden brown and Pearl's big black ones. Carlton agreed and he had to concentrate on something completely different to try and not let his body take over which it was threatening to do.
He got them to douse the fire with some of the water and said that the birds could have the fish remains, and they all felt in very good spirits as they went back down to the shelter, taking care to go down and round the opposite side.
There's no need to say what went on in the shelter that night after dark with two lusty men in residence, but we will.
Toni found it somewhat erotic to see another girl being fucked and not herself being the recipient. She watched as Smith got on top of Pearl and their two figures become one in the dark and then to see him start humping her. Pearl was giving out little gasps every time their pubes met and he was at his deepest inside her and him grunting at the effort.
She only had to turn her head to see that Carlton was in the middle of fucking Tiki, her begging him to do it harder. His backside moving up and down as he fucked her. Toni's hand moved down her own body and she began to finger herself as she watched the two shadows move to culminate in little cries of pleasure as they came.
The next was almost the same as the day before, but with Judy going with Smith and Pearl to do the fishing. Their catch was almost the same but this time, they were watched for nearly the whole time from the eastern side of the ridge and again the watchers were not seen by Pearl.
`You say it's the same three that were here yesterday?' King asked of Drew.
`Well I think so. There's only the one nigger woman with them. One man and another white woman, same as yesterday.'
`Alright. Three yesterday, three today, let's hope it's only three again tomorrow,' King said and they stayed and watched to see which way the three left the beach. When they'd gone, he made his plans for the following day.
The fish this time had been cleaned and gutted down on the beach so they didn't look as impressive, but they were edible when cooked. So they made haste up to the crater and cooked and ate the day's catch, not minding now that breakfast and supper was only nuts and fruit. Carlton didn't let the talk degenerate as it did the day before but stressed that they've still got to be on their guard even though the other side didn't seem to be doing anything.
They set up small traps around the shelter to warn them if anyone attempted a night attack. Smith came up with a good one for it had been noted that the other side now went about like them, bare footed. So what he had fixed up was strips of bark that he'd inserted little slivers of his wood chips into them. These were then laid down and with just a slight covering of dirt were invisible in the most likely approaches and all were shown exactly where they were so that they could step over rather than on them. They would only cause small punctures to the foot but in the surprise, a person might cry out or make some noise to alarm them.
It was on the lines of the police speed traps to puncture the tyres of a vehicle they wished to stop, a belt of iron nails spread across the road in the path of the car or van they wanted. Soon they would be planting stakes.
It was just something else to make them feel a bit more secure at night when they were sleeping.