Trans Twins
Chapter Twelve
It had been only a little over a full day of the orgy when Tristan began to wear out, he was having it difficult to find new cocks he wanted in him and different assholes to fuck. He was glad that Alex was still wandering around the courtyard willing to lick his ass and suck his cock when ever they ran into each other. The last time Alex had stuck that long tongue out and lapped at his balls the Gratian joined him. Tristan was happy when the Gratian dropped to his knees beside Alex hoping that he would share in worshiping his balls. Unfortunately the Gratian wasn't able to match Alex tongue for tongue, what he did though was to blow warm air on the wet balls cooling them even further as the saliva evaporated.
When he turned to present Alex with his asshole the Gratian didn't move taking each of Tristan's balls in his mouth and giving them a thorough massage with his tongue before slowly pressing his mouth down the full length of Tristan's cock. With a mouth on his ass and sucking his cock Tristan began to wonder if the Griffin orgies were a glimpse of what Heaven would be like. The pair worked him thoroughly, finally the Gratian pulled his mouth off of Tristan's cock and reached under him to slide fingers into his ass while Alex teased him with the strong, long tongue.
The Gratian was about as tall as Tristan but his hands were nearly twice the size. As Tristan felt one finger slide into him he had to reach down and balance himself by placing his hands on the Gratian's smooth head. If only the Gratian would go back to sucking his cock he would be in total bliss. Many of the other attendees at the orgy had stopped what they had been doing and were wandering around the courtyard watching anyone that was still having sex of any kind. Tristan was standing there with his eyes closed so he didn't see who was first, some of those watching the trio would step up and either kiss the tip of his cock or take the head in their mouth and suck it for a few seconds.
Tristan stood quietly enjoying attention he was receiving not caring to open his eyes to see who was giving him the quick waves of pleasure. By the time the Gratian had three of his thick long fingers in Tristan's asshole Alex withdrew his tongue offering his ass to Tristan, he was enjoying the feel of the different mouths and the three fingers so much he didn't answer Alex more than shaking his head. He could tell the next two mouths on his cock were the Canods, not only did they take his cock all the way in but once he was buried in their mouths they licked at his balls. Until the next tongue licked at him he wished he had made more of the attendees into Canods. For a moment or two he had stopped paying attention to the Gratian, his ass was feeling great and he couldn't believe that the Gratian would do anything that would make it feel better.
Suddenly he didn't know what the Gratian was doing. He had been slowly fucking his three fingered hand into Tristan until he bumped his palm against the him, now Tristan could feel the fingers but the palm hadn't bumped him for a few minutes. Then he understood that the rough feeling he had was the Gratian's thumb rubbing against his prostrate. A moment later the Gratian yelled out in joy that his entire hand was now buried in the human. He didn't know what to do, should he pull away?
That was his only regret. The Gratian wouldn't be able to shoot his sperm into him from his fingers. Tristan had heard heavy panting, he wondered who was close by fucking, when he opened his eyes to look they were along in a circle that had moved back at least three feet in all directions. Looking around again he realize that the panting was coming from him, the Gratian was no longer just fucking him with his fingers. When it had happened Tristan wasn't certain but in the past few minutes the Gratian had slid his cock between his fingers and was now forcing it as deep into Tristan as anyone had ever pushed a cock, even Chiron XX. He felt like his ass was huge enough to take one of the Griffin's paws, the thought of their claws frightened him so he hoped that the Major wasn't getting an idea from the Gratian fucking him.
The Gratian was pumping his cock through his hand so hard that the tip was bumping against Tristan's heart. He thought that must be the reason he was panting like a running animal since he had never done that while taking another cock or even when he fucked anyone that liked him to go hard. He hadn't seen it happen but a second Gratian had appeared at the orgy without notice. Stepping in front of Tristan he took two minutes pulling his cock out from the skin covering his torso.
Looking at the Gratian Tristan estimated that the cock in front of him was at least a foot and a half long with a tip that was pointed. The shaft swelled as it went back to the body of the Gratian, Tristan wanted to wrap his hands around the Gratian's cock but when he finally touched it his hands only surrounded the tip end of the cock. Closer to the Gratian's body it took both of his hands to wrap once around the shaft. He didn't expect it but the second Gratian took hold of his ears and pulled his head to the tip of his cock and gently slid into his mouth pushing deep into his throat until his mouth wouldn't stretch any further. Those watching Tristan and the Gratians oohed and aahed as the pair started to work their cocks in and out of him. Tristan wished he could concentrate on the cock in his asshole and the balls slapping against his but the pair had him too confused to separate the feelings they were driving into his body.
He didn't know when it happened but the pair clasped hands, so soon they were not only pushing their cocks into him but pulling the other Gratian deeper. The only thought Tristan had about the cock jammed into his throat was that he hoped he didn't scrape it raw with his teeth as the Gratian had wedged it further open than he thought possible. Tristan could hardly breath, losing strength quickly when the Gratians screamed out that he should accept every drop of sperm they were ready to shoot.
After all the cum the Centaur had shot in his asshole he didn't think he would have any trouble taking every drop the Gratian was going to give him. Swallowing the sperm might be a different story, he had tasted some cum that he immediately spit out so he wouldn't promise the Gratians he would or could swallow theirs. He felt the two cocks begin to throb and sperm travel up the shafts in tandem. It felt like he was having a bottle of liquid poured down his throat and a volcano shooting in his ass, the cum was hot and thick as it filled him from both ends he did his best to accept it.
Only as the Gratian cock in his mouth shrank until only the bone was in him did he get to taste the cum that had been poured down his throat without touching his tongue. Tristan recognized the taste as something other than the cum he had in his mouth from other cocks but it took him a minute to know what it was. Humans had paid fantastic sums of money to get the taste of roe that he was being given for free. Was this the reason humans enjoyed cavier over the centuries? Had royalty and the wealthy had the opportunity to swallow sperm from Gratians visiting Earth? He wanted to ask the pair about that but they disappeared as soon as their cocks were back beneath the skin covering their torsos.
Tristan stumbled back to the table where he and the Major had been conversing, he was so exhausted from the time with the two Gratians that he thought he was going to fall asleep on a pillow. He tried to listen to the Major, the only part of what the Griffin said that registered in his brain was that he had been honored by the Gratians to what was a military ceremony praising only heroes of exploration. The Major handed Tristan a scroll explaining in detail what had been given him and the reasons why, attached was a titanium medal that he could wear around his wrist.
A few hours later he came around to where he was able to coherently speak and hold a conversation While waiting for Tristan to once more be coherent the Major had the cook bringa poultice that would help the man with the pain from the Gratian's hand. Alex had joined the Major and the pair suggested he take a break from the orgy in the small house. Alex promised to take care of whatever he needed not knowing what the human would need. Tristan didn't think he would be able to join in the orgy after the time he had spent with the Gratians so he went with Alex gratefully knowing that the young man would be willing to use his extra long tongue to ease his asshole.
"How is it that you say you are willing to satisfy any of my requests? Have you learned to enjoy everything I have asked of you" Tristan had already plopped himself down on the double sized pillow that covered most of the room he had used for sleeping. Alex had begun to organize the few items the shape-shifter had in the room so there would be no question where he could find the ancient skirt or what he used to clean his teeth.
"Tristan, you have not asked that much of me. Once I forced myself to push my tongue into your ass there was nothing you could have asked that I wouldn't have done for you." Alex bent over and kissed Tristan's gaping asshole.
"You had never done much of what I have asked of you. Were you still a virgin when you left Anki? Or is it that the Enlil only think of sex in one way?" Tristan wasn't thinking too well or he would have remembered that Alex had left home because he preferred sex with other males.
"I never had discussions about sex like I have had with you when I was on my own planet. The few times I had sex it was anally with no suggestion that we do anything other than insert our cocks in each other. It wasn't until the first slave market I visited that I saw anyone taking a cock in their mouth. I have wanted my own slave since then but I do not have the credits necessary to purchase one that I find sufficiently attractive to make my cock stand." Unlike any time they had been together Alex sat beside Tristan and put a hand on his butt pushing his fingers toward the human's asshole.
"Did you enjoy having the Gratian stick his fingers in me alongside your tongue?" Tristan knew that Alex had enjoyed licking his asshole, the young man was willing to do it anytime Tristan mentioned that was what he wanted or needed.
"I didn't know what to think. At first I thought he was trying to take your asshole from me. When I saw that he was pushing more than just one finger into you I sat back to watch, I didn't know what was going to happen? Would you let him do that?" The green man had gone from a faded green to almost his normal Kelly green while talking about sex, Tristan thought he must have absorbed whatever cum he had been filled with that morning during the orgy. He preferred that Alex was the darker green but fucking him was so good that he was willing to see him fade to the pastel.
"What did you think when you saw the statue 'Foreplay'?" Pierre had a finger in my ass for everyone to see."
"When I saw the title I guess I thought that he was simply putting grease into your hole so he could fuck you. That you might be enjoying his finger never came to mind. Do you like having him finger you?" Alex had gotten close enough to Tristan's asshole that he could have touched the rim or easily pressed a finger into him.
"Alex, just like I love having your tongue in my asshole I love having a greasy finger playing in me searching for my prostate. Pierre knows how to switch from his tongue to fingers making me beg him to fuck me. His fingers are much smaller than those of the Gratian, his felt almost like small cocks running in and out of me until he ran his cock through the center of his hand." Just remembering what that had felt like had Tristan pushing his butt in the air ready to grab at Alex's fingers.
"You may put your fingers in me and tease my asshole but please ease my hole with your tongue first, the Gratians put more into me than I have ever had so I am still feeling some pain from it." The pain wasn't that bad since he had been sitting on the cook's poultice for at least fifteen minutes still the thought of having the Enlil with his tongue as far inside him as he could pleased him. He wondered about the man, he knew if he had been telling another human to lick his asshole as much as he had been telling Alex that the man would be feeling degraded or used.
He fell asleep thinking about how much he would like to be fucking the Enlil. When Alex realized that Tristan was no longer responding to his tongue he gradually stopped before sliding down his leg and taking his toes in his mouth to suck. Back home on Anki he had never thought of doing the things that Tristan wanted from him but once he tried anything the man asked he was hooked. He fell asleep with half of Tristan's right foot in his mouth dreaming about the next time the human would give him a drink of piss.
Alex didn't believe he was doing it, but as soon as Tristan woke he asked the man to piss in his mouth. Tristan was glad to give the Enlil what he asked for, he was afraid that he would drown the man but Alex was used to taking all of what Tristan would give him and swallowed his piss and sucked the last few drops out of his cock.
"Alex, you fade to a light green while absorbing sperm, what makes you shine like your skin has been oiled and shined?" Tristan was finishing in the bathroom, he had taken a shower and was using the sonic toothbrush. Alex had walked into the bathroom to dry Tristan's back, Tristan was pleased at how he looked.
"I don't know. I had never seen anyone on Anki shining this bright. It must have something to do with what you are having me to do for you, either licking your ass or drinking your piss. Maybe I am absorbing the piss."
Tristan had never heard of such a thing. He thought about what Alex said, could his piss really be making the man change appearance. Sure his sperm had, but he would need to learn more to believe his piss did, too. The other times Alex had swallowed his piss the only change had been a slight brightening of the pastel green, that morning there must not have been any sperm being absorbed for him to be so shiny.
"Are you ready for the last day of the Major's celebration?" They hadn't discussed the celebration in those terms, only about the different beings that were there and the possible connections they could have.
"What is there to be ready for? Won't it be just another day of the same? His guests will soon be getting tired of having sex so often."
"Haven't you learned? The Griffin seldom tire of sex. They love dominating anyone they meet. You have taught some of them that they also love being fucked so I doubt there will be any of them that leave because they are too tired for more sex."
"I may have to transition back into a Griffin to last through another day of the orgy, humans can't last that long. I think my balls were getting sore from so much sex and my cock was getting rubbed raw.
"I'll have to thank the cook for the poultice he made, my asshole is not sore any longer. Between the poultice and your tongue I am ready to be fucked again."
"Do you want me to tongue you again before we go out into the courtyard? I would even like to fuck you." He knew that Tristan would be surprised at him saying that since in their time together he hadn't been the first to mention fucking.
"Alex, we'll need to talk before you leave. You should have been bought as a sex boy, I have never had anyone that enjoyed my desires so much." Tristan knew he would miss Alex once he went back to Earth even if Pierre was his true love. He wasn't sure if he had been dreaming but the idea of having Alex sucking his toes, licking out his asshole and drinking his piss was enough for him to want to take the man home with him. He was sure Pierre would enjoy having him with them, too.
"Do you know why there aren't any of the Pakabans here?"
"Tristan, haven't you seen their cocks and butts? Their cocks aren't even as long as your thumb, so they wouldn't be able to satisfy anyone here wanting to be fucked or suck a cock. Their butts are so wide that it is almost impossible to hold onto, it would also probably take a cock like the Ganeshus have to reach their assholes."
"From the shape of their heads it seems they should be able to take the hugest cocks anyone here has."
"Perhaps, but I have never heard of them sucking cock."
They didn't say much more as they headed to the courtyard. Alex told Tristan that he wanted to roam around and greet some of his fellow agents from headquarters. Tristan had planned on the same but from the doorway he saw that there were more species present and more of the elite Griffins that looked much like the Major. What attracted his gaze most were two golden Sphinx laying on the raised platform where he and the Major had performed for the guests.
Each of the pair must have been a couple hundred pounds heavier than the largest Griffin he had seen. It was good to see a human face even if it was connected to a massive lionene body. He worked his way toward the pair through the crowd that had grown to at least twice or three times the size it had been when he went to bed. During the few minutes it took him to get close to the Sphinx he had been groped, front and back, had at least five cocks forced into his hands and a mouth, he was unable to determine who it belonged to, latch onto his balls and suck until he forced it away.
The Major was speaking with the Sphinx when Tristan got to the front of the crowd and was finally able to get a full look at their bodies. He wanted to get his hands on he body so that someday he would be able to show other members of Intergalipol what they looked like alive. He was bumped from behind by a Huitzil, how he had missed the bright red cat-like woman forcing her way through the crowd he didn't know. He was glad she had bumped into him he was forced almost onto the Sphinx' soft cock that was hanging off the side of the platform.
Tristan had put his hands out in front of him to keep him from falling to the ground, one of them landed on the platform closely enough above the soft human-like cock that he could feel its heat. He had fortunately put the most weight behind that hand, his other hand landed on the bull-like balls that were resting on the platform. At the touch he hadn't requested the Sphinx turned and growled at Tristan, seeing the start of a problem the Major tried to intercept the Sphinx's front paw as he swiped at Tristan. Moments later the Major was introducing Tristan to the pair, they had names that he thought must have come from ancient Egypt until one of them reading his mind said that their names had been copied by the people of the Nile. Hearing that awoke propriety in Tristan, he went to remove his hand from the ball it was feeling. The owner of the balls looked at Tristan and with a voice nearly too deep to understand told him that he could kiss and lick his balls. He was happy that he hadn't met the Sphinx months earlier when all of his sexual energy and desire was centered on fucking.
Remembering what the Major had said about the Sphinx showing him what his ass was supposed to feel like after being fucked he gently tongued and licked the huge orbs. While he did that the Sphinx's cock was no longer completely soft, it was strong enough that it knocked his other hand from the platform almost leaving Tristan falling face forward on the Sphinx's balls. If he had thought Pierre's scent was the most attractive odor he had ever smelled he was drawn down between the rear legs of the Sphinx believing his nose had found Nirvana. Inhaling deeply his mind could only think of one thing, he wanted the Sphinx to mount him and if possible to leave him with child.
"Lean over Tatuhkep's head." Tristan had wondered how he would manage to hold himself and the Sphinx up once the monstrous beings was on top of him. Being squeezed between the pair was just as questionable but with the way the Major had been talking to them he put his faith in believing they knew what they were doing. The platform had lowered enough to make it easy to climb aboard. The Sphinx that had spoken to him, he thought he had been called by the god Horus's name, had stood to make room for him to pass by and lower his body over the other Sphinx's massive head.
Tristan hadn't known what to expect but it wasn't for the Sphinx to take his cock in his mouth and roll it around on its tongue. When Horus's huge front paws reached over his head to balance on its friend the Sphinx with his cock in its mouth pushed its tongue out further and licked at his balls while nursing his cock. Tristan had done what shifting he had been able to concentrate on while sniffing at Horus' balls. He had a good feeling for how thick the Sphinx's cock was so he had attempted to expand his asshole enough that the cock wouldn't rip him in to pieces while fucking him.
Feeling the head of the Sphinx's cock rubbing against his asshole Tristan bent over further and took Tatuhkep's ear between his teeth to keep him from screaming too loud when entered. The head of the cock was larger than Tristan had thought, his hand had not slid up the shaft far enough to feel it. He was glad the powerful Sphinx had jammed the head through his anal ring without hesitation sliding at least four inches of the shaft in, also. It wasn't intentional but the pain caused by the head of the Sphinx's cock splitting him open made him bite down on the ear in his mouth. Tatuhkep roared loud enough that all of the beings in the courtyard turned to see what had happened on the platform. Those not involved with another rushed the platform to get a better look at the trio. That didn't affect either of the Sphinx, they were used to being watched every move they made.
Horus took two more lunges to force the entire length of his massive cock into Tristan, at that moment he was extremely happy that he had been able to expand his asshole enough to permit the beast to fuck him but not too much that would not allow him to feel his movements. Horus only needed two more lunges to make Tristan give his friend a donation of human sperm. Shortly after feeling the tight asshole squeezing his cock even more Horus erupted with a splattering of cum that Tristan felt washing his heart.
"Stay like this for the next ten minutes. I want you to go home to Earth with one of mine inside you." Tristan had always thought the idea of a man being pregnant or carrying a child was either wishful thinking or mythology, could the Sphinx be telling him that those stories were true and he would soon be showing all of Earth the truth? Wait a minute, he had thought that the Major had scratched him with his barbs with the intention of impregnating him the night before when they fucked? How could he carry both kit from a Griffin and a young Sphinx?
Like an Earth dog the Sphinx dropped behind the man he fucked and licked his asshole until Tristan closed up and no further sperm was able to seep out. He didn't need to think about Horus' instructions, Tatuhkep was not about to give up the cock in his mouth until he was able to suck out a second load of human sperm. But, swallowing the man's cum made him want to fuck him, he was able to get his friend to lay down for the man to rest on and instantly upon feeling the tight hole against his cock tip drove into him. Tristan had known what was coming since Horus had warned him that his friend's cock was larger than his and he was known to fuck harder.
Tristan had just enough time to concentrate on expanding his asshole so when Tatuhkep drove his swollen cock through his anal ring there was not pain just a feeling of fullness like he had not felt since Chiron XX had sunk his cock into him. He groaned loud enough to draw the Major's attention back to the platform. He and Horus spoke while the second Sphinx drove his cock into Tristan relentlessly probing up to his heart. Once Tatuhkep felt the beating heat on the tip of his cock he stopped fucking to hold it against the man's center of life. Tristan could hardly believe that he was feeling a cock that deep inside him but the longer Tatuhkep kept it pressed against the front wall of his heart the more he hoped that the Sphinx were really able to give him young.
Tatuhkep lasted a few seconds longer than Horus then followed his friend in licking the human's asshole until it once more closed tighly enough that no sperm escaped. Tristan was happy to be filled with Sphinx sperm, he didn't move off of Horus' back until the resting Sphinx had him stand in front of him so that he could also suck the human cock, although he had said it was not really long enough for him. That was all Tristan needed to know to spend a few seconds concentrating so that he was able to add more length and girth for the Sphinx to enjoy; it was only the second time that he had added another six inches to his cock, the blood necessary to swell the expanded cock had him light-headed by the time he was spurting his third load of the morning.
He was planning on leaving the platform when the Major spoke to him again, "Tristan, the Sphinx want you to stay with them until they have each fucked you a second time. I know they have been rough but it may be to your planet's advantage for you to do as they desire. They will have a vote in approving Grinix joining Intergalipol, I also have a vote and have secured a third vote approving the idea, that gives us a majoriy. You will not want to displease either of the Sphinx, or me when everyone else has left."
Tristan knew there was no one left on Grinix to appeal for help. He didn't like being a pawn in the political game the Major was playing, still if gaining their vote depended on permitting them to fuck and suck him he would play along. Tatuhkep laid a paw on his shoulder pushing him prone between the two huge bodies, in seconds he felt he was being squashed by their weight. He struggled to breath glad that he had been given the extra strength by the Centaur. Soon he was wondering if either of the beasts would allow him to fuck them, he wasn't sure he would be able to get erect again very soon but the thought had him begin to grow in strength.
"Tristan, are you still alive?" He was happy to hear that the Major was concerned.
"I am although if they push against each other any harder I don't know how long I will be able to breath."
"Human, time has come for you to give me your ass, again. Crawl up on Tatuhkep's back and hold onto one of his wings." Horus eased away enough for Tristan to do as he said, he was leaning over the huge Sphinx when he felt Horus land on his back. He hadn't thought about it the first two times the Sphinx had fucked him but he clenched his asshole at the thought he was once more going to be fucked without any lubricant to ease the way for the cocks that were at least eighteen inches long and nearly as thick as his wrist.
He was paying more attention to the Sphinx's cock this time, Horus seemed able to move his cock around as if it were a hand massaging the space between his balls and asshole before slapping against his butt hard enough to make him want to scream. No other creature he had been with had the ability to move their cock around like the Sphinx, before Horus entered him again he was falling in love with the way it was touching him. Tristan was willing to allow the Sphinx press his cock through his natural asshole although he had extended the tunnel far enough that Horus could rest the tip of his cock against his heart like Tatuhkep had done.
Tristan had loved having Tatuhkep pressing the tip of his cock against his heart, he doubted he would ever have that feeling again. When Horus pressed the tip of his cock against the front wall of his heart and seemed to bounce with the beat of his heart he wished that he too could press that deeply into a being. With the cock bouncing on his heart with each beat Tristan sank into a deep dream of being fucked continually. He had stopped trying to work his ass on the magnificent cock that violated him.
Neither of the Sphinx said much to Tristan, they seemed able to communicate all they needed from him through the touch of their cocks against different parts of his heart. They let him know they wanted him to stop resisting their attempts to impregnate him, they wanted to send a new generation of Sphinx to Earth to rule over mankind the way their ancestors had. He hadn't realized he was resisting their attempt, in fact he had thought he was consciously aware that he wished they would impregnate him. That second time Horus allowed the barbs on his cock head to scratch at Tristan more deeply than the first time either of the great Sphinx had fucked him.
While they let him rest between the two bodies he felt the changes within his body although he wouldn't have been able to explain what was happening. The only changes he would have been able to tell anyone was that his temperature had risen and his insides were roiling in a most enjoyable fashion. Was this the beginning of what the Sphinx were hoping to do to him? Would he need the second Sphinx to fill him with sperm again to finish what the first had begun?
The more his insides roiled the more restless Horus became. Tristan curled into a fetal position that seemed to trigger Horus raising his lengthy wings for the first time since Tristan had climbed onto the platform. It was only moments later that Tatuhkep nudged him to get on Horus' back as if to ride and moments later pressed his entire cock into the man with one powerful lunge that nearly threw the man and the other Sphinx from the platform. The first three times he had been filled by a Sphinx cock it had been as if the beast was giving him a gift with his feelings attached, this time it was as if Tatuhkep was responding to what his friend had done with as much power and anger that he possessed. Tristan couldn't help but scream as the huge cock the powerful beast drove into him felt as if it was splitting him in two. One for each of the friends to possess and use to carry their child.
The Major seemed to understand what was happening. He lay his front paws on the platform and whispered that all would be well. He promised that the cook would make him a new poultice, then he whispered that once they were finished he would allow Tristan to mount him in front of them and the entire crowd. It was the first orgy that Tristan had ever attended so the idea that he was the center of anyone's attention was new. Still the idea that he would mount the Major again renewed his energy, he was erect and dripping pre-cum when Tatuhkep backed away and like his friend scratched at the interior of his body.
Every time he had forced his natural cock into the Griffin he had enjoyed himself as much as he had with any human but this time he couldn't keep his eyes off the two golden lion butts laying to his sides. More than anything he had ever wanted his heart wanted him to fuck the two Sphinx that had just fucked him twice each. The Major seemed to understand that Tristan wasn't attacking his asshole with the same fervor he had before so unlike a Griffin he pressed back hard and tried working his ass as much as he could. Soon the Major was cumming on the platform between Horus and Tatuhkep, Tristan could feel his asshole tightening around his cock. He quickly gave the Major what he thought the Griffin wanted, all of the cum in his balls.
Tristan hadn't noticed the Huitzil on her elbows in front of the Major until they finished and she climbed between the Major's paw and lapped up the cum he had shot on the platform. Moments after she finished the two Sphinx spread their wings and rose from the platform, Horus had waited for his friend. While waiting for the room needed for his wings Horus had his cock touch Tristan on the asshole and said he was happy that the man had accepted his child and that he needed to be careful for the next fifteen Earth months.