The boy slaps your chest with his open palm, then presses it there. You can feel yourself shrinking again and as you do you can feel your mind becoming a bit clearer. Still perverse and depraved and horny sure, but it begins to slide together again. The boy seems to be giving you a mercy this time around. It was an interesting change of pace, you weren't expecting it. You can feel yourself becoming moderately more realistic in size... at last semi-realistic. Eight feet tall wouldn't be normally considered realistic. However you also appear more human again... normal human legs and arms... although you have claws on your hands. You also still have rather feral teeth, but you have a normal face... sort of. You have a ton of new piercings... and your pretty sure your ears are pointed. You still have horns and rather gnarly ram horns as well... but you feel like it is better than the crown of horns you had before. You growl as you graze your hand over your body, you have a lot of body hair; but then you had that before. The interesting thing is you don't have cock nipples; although you feel you could grow them if you wanted too. You don't seem to have a cock tongue either although once again you sense you have the ability to grow it if you choose. You still have a massive horse dick though which is a little different... at least three feet long and thicker than a 2-liter bottle ... and your nuts are the size of melons. You sense you could still have dick tentacles too if you wanted... although you sense you have a great deal more power than just that. You flex some of this new power manipulating the shadows around you. You feel like you could be pretty durable as well, maybe even regenerate as well if you get harmed. There was the power from the scarlet puzzle as well and more. You can feel it all inside you, all the power gained from the bondage arts.
In that moment you break through some of the enchantment... the conditioning of before as you begin remembering the bondage arts of before again. You sigh as you glance down at Aether ... yes Aether, you remember the name... learning the name. Earning the name had meant something, you blink. "So you have a thing for incest?" Aether blinks up at you, he begins to blush and buries his face in your chest.
"Um... it's ... a thing?"
"A Daddy complex?"
"Maybe..."
"Why am I even surprised?" You have a chuckle, as you flex some more of that power summoning a fire to your hand. "Apparently these bondage arts are a bit more than just kinky stuff... apparently I'm ... am I even human anymore?"
"Uh... debatable?"
"I see..."
"Well there is still more!"
"Right... wait stop." You grab the boy's wrists looking into his eyes. "You just keep doing this... putting me through these bondage arts, but what is the actual point? Yeah you got fucked... a lot. Yet now I have all these powers... and I'm something ... more than human. What is the actual point? Because it isn't about sex... not really... is it?"
Aether blinks and just stares back, he seems to be thinking long and hard about answering. It takes a good few minutes before he does seem to land on something. "Alright... no ... it isn't, but telling you what it is about would be giving the game away."
"I don't like games Boy," you growl in response.
The boy seems to blush again, "well I mean maybe it is about finding a mate or something... maybe it is about making people better secretly in a weird way... maybe I mean I don't know... maybe there are a lot of reasons."
You glare at him, you seem to see through the facade of the smart ass know it all and you can sense that there is a storm of emotions behind that answer. He wasn't being completely honest, but whatever was behind it hurt like a jagged piece of glass straight to the brain. You feel an urge to comfort him... of course he was also still wearing that ring. You don't connect the dots on that right away, although you vaguely remember it. You wrap him up in your arms and begin to stroke the back of his head. "There there... there there... you haven't slept in days... and neither have I ... we should rest." You speak softly as you pick him up in your arms and take him upstairs to bed. With everything that was happening you forget that technically this is only the second night you have been together in bed... was it? Perhaps the third... although you remembering some that didn't mean you weren't still foggy.