[21:38] Mistress Rae: Mmn, my goodness, Ruby's such a treat already! She'd be a perfect broodmare
[21:38] Ruby Valor giggles and nods her head in agreement, the vixen patting against her belly with a few light grunts.. cum dribbling from between her legs, "Mmh, already had a few loads myself today too." ~
[21:39] Mistress Rae whistled and put a hand out to feel Ruby's chubby stomach, pushing on it lightly as she smelt all that seed. "What kinda spunk is all that, swimming inside your womb?"
[21:41] Ruby Valor grunts a little at the squish of those fingers against the vixen's stomach, the cum splattering out in slow globs as the fluid seemed even thicker than pudding. "Mmhh.. a little equine and a log of dog cum. He was so thick and virile too.." she moaned out hotly, panting a bit as the vixen's own juices began to join in the mess dripping from her thighs, reaching forward with one paw to brush lightly against the demoness' own crotch.
[21:45] Mistress Rae murred loudly as her fat demon pole was touched, the swinging length two feet long and flaccid but it was rapidly stiffening from the sights, smells, and touches before her- her piercings glistening in the light. "Gosh, I bet most of that cock cement is still stuck up in there!" She hmmed, a hand sliding up to pump one of Ruby's nipples. "If I had a fun way for you to get it out, do you think you'd have any eggs left to breed in there? Or did those boys already get em?"
[21:49] Ruby Valor moaned hotly as the vixen took in a deep breath of the demoness' own thick scent, stroking slowly against that twitching and hardening cock as the vixen toyed with each piercing and gently tugged at it to further stimulate that cock. The pinch against her fat nipple had the vixen moaning even louder, thick cream dribbling and squirting from that wide nub as her breast sloshed a bit with the movement, further filling the air with her own thick heated scent.. despite how pregnant she must have already been. "Mmhh.. plenty of eggs, I am always making more when I'm in heat." she said with a few heavy breaths, her belly giving a lewd gurgle as her womb churned that hot spent seed about within her.
[21:55] Mistress Rae breathed heavily, her rod red hot to the touch and becoming more virile by the moment. Each pull on her piercing elicited a gasp, as she neared her three and a half foot full length rapidly. She planted her lips to one of Ruby's nipples, suckling at the cream that spurted out greedily. Suddenly she felt her own pussy swell up, bloating and starting to become soaked with juices. She blushed. "Nnn! M-my..." She gulped. "In heat?" Something about the thick scent of sex, milk, heat, and cum in the air was driving her wild. She stepped back and waved her hand in the air, her eyes glowing as a device apparated in front of her. It was several feet long, like a double dildo with an opening on each end. She got onto all fours, and presented her rump. "Don't take this as a sign of submission, but... My snatch is leaving me distracted." She bit her lip. "If you could spare some of that cream inside you, I could replace it in spades..."
[22:01] Ruby Valor breathed in and out heavily as she helped to coax that huge slab of meat into its full size, practically drooling as the vixen's belly gave another gurgle.. though after a moment trickles of moisture did fall from the corners of her mouth. The demoness got more than just a little cream from that fat nipple, a good mouthful or two flooding into her waiting mouth and pouring down along her throat as the vixen's heated hormone filled cream coursed through her body. She whimpered slightly when the demoness stepped away, but grinned at what she had produced, nodding eagerly as the vixen took that large toy into her paws and slipped it between her thighs. She smeared that entire length with her mixture of slick fluids before stepping forward, huffing hotly as she smacked that sloppy cocktip down against the demoness' tunnel, easing it in with a wet pop while she guided the other end toward her own juicy folds. easing herself forward as a good foot of that cock popped into either of their sloppy holes. She leaned forward with a grunt as she continued to push, inches further slurping in from both ends before those pairs of fat juicy cuntlips slapped against one another, the vixen groaning and clenching against her belly as that womb churned about, cum trying to escape from the increasing pressure within by flowing down that thick tube in the middle of the toy.
[22:10] Mistress Rae waited for what seemed like an eternity with a mind poisoned by hormone laced cream, her thoughts increasingly turning to her empty womb and puffy pussy lips. Her balls engorged as well, becoming red and fat with seed that seemed to be pooling up inside, forming a reserve of the gooey liquid. Her eyes watered as she waited, listening to the sound of the toy sloshing around Ruby's legs, until she finally felt the tip against her entrance. She breathed in suddenly, then exhaled in a moan as it began to plunge into her newly heated fucktunnel. She swayed her hips as she shoved back, her snatch accepting more and more plastic until she felt her lips grinding against Ruby's pleasurably. She lolled her tongue out and bounced, her fat ass jiggling as she thrusted against the toy eagerly. "Nnnghhh, t-that's right, keep squeezing... P-push those loads through...." She felt like she was going to cum the moment some of that spent, hours old seed started to force through the tube and into her own snatch. What was wrong with her? And why did it feel so good?
[22:16] Ruby Valor moaned out hotly and licked her lips as she continued to breathe in the tainted scents flowing through the air around them, one of her paws even reaching forward to brush and stroke along the demoness' huge churning balls, squeezing gently before bringing her paw back to her face.. licking that thick musky scent clean as her hips bucked and jerked forward lustfully. "Mmhh.. mostly that dog left in here.. hnghh.. I can still feel them wiggling around.." she huffed out with another growl of pleasure, her tunnel clenching down against the toy as her womb bushed harder, causing it to grow even thicker before a huge pent up stream erupted out from the other end, hosing down the demoness' womb in that thick spent cum.. hours old but still so hot and active that she could feel it wiggling around inside of her own heated chamber, splattering against her walls and sticking to them with a warm buzz. As the vixen clenched and pushed harder her own juices mixed with the seed and frothed about inside of the toy, a thinned mixture of that overly potent cum mixed with her slick fluids gushing from the toy and causing the demoness' belly to bulge with the volume being drained from that vixen.
[22:23] Mistress Rae rolled her eyes back into her head for a moment as her balls were squeezed, the pressure forcing a torrent of jelly-like, clear pre slime to bust from her tip and lube up the floor below her. Her breasts bobbed and swung beneath her, two pendulous knockers that were puffing up as they anticipated pregnancy. "G-geez, I'd like to meet the dog who could pull that o-ooohhh!" Her pussy suddenly clenched and squeezed, convulsing around the toy as she felt the dam break and rushes of the stale but fertile seed fire off deep inside, the pressure enough to push the blasts right through to gunk up her womb directly. She could feel the load writhing inside her, swimming around and hunting for her eggs. "O-ohhh god, they're in me, t-they're... Hnnngh!" She kept cumming, her pussy on fire as her induced heat tried to be quenched. She could feel her ovaries invaded, hungrily giving up eggs into the slop within. Her belly swelled up visibly, growing and growing from the mixture of hot seed and vixen honey. With how chubby the femme was, it was unclear how much jizz resided within. Even though she was cumming, her balls didn't burst- but they did seem to grow every time she shook, inflating with dense demon cum. Before long, individual tadpole size sperm could be seen pushing on the walls of her cum tanks.
[22:31] Ruby Valor rocked her hips slowly as just a bit of that thick toy managed to squelch in and out of their tunnels with the movement, her insides squeezing down rhythmically to milk those loads of gooey cum from her womb and push it out from the other end of that huge toy.. her own fluids helping to wash it out as gallon after gallon wound up pumping into the demoness' womb, along with a few gallons of what had to be her own juices.. even the vixen's fresh tiny eggs pumped down along that cock, splashing into the demoness' fertile chamber to mix with her own. "Mmhh.. that can be arranged.." she said with a little giggle before slowly rolling back from the demoness.. a loud wet *SLURP* echoing out into the air as that fat cock popped from the demoness' folds first, another sound as it fell from her own gaping dripping cunt. "Mm, his weren't this big though.." she said with a hungry growl, fingers trailing along those thick bugles pushing out the demoness' huge heavy balls, another paw patting against her own bulging cum-flooded belly now. "Fuck.. I need cum in me again dear, give this all to my womb.. please? Fuck me, breed me.." she huffed out hotly, the vixen slowly settling down on to her own paws and knees with that thick tail flicking through the air, that bushy furred appendage tickling along the demoness' belly as it tickled and teased them.. her juicy well-stretched cuntlips drooling across the ground as they still gaped slightly from that toy, while the demoness' were plugged shut with a thick gooey glob of cum that almost refused to leave her.
[22:42] Mistress Rae was still bouncing along the toy as gallon after gallon bloated out her form, her greedy womb taking every drop it could. She was becoming pregnant with who knew how many puppies, with how many eggs were shooting from her ovaries... along with the fertilized eggs of the vixen, who had wound up with a surrogate mama for her own children unwittingly. Her cunt spasmed at the mention of the possibility of her meeting her baby daddy, but her mind was beginning to clear as her feminine heat was put out by burst after burst of dog jizz. She felt regretful for a moment when the toy popped from her snatch, but then her mind turned to other things as soon as her balls were traced and the massive tadpoles inside were teased. She yowled, the speed of their swimming increasing from the tease. "Uuuuugh! G-gotta get em out..." She panted, her eyes fogged over with lust as she plopped to her knees, belly jiggling as she did so. She sloshed across the floor in the direction of Ruby, her powerful muscles wobbling her along even as full as she was. Her balls ground into the floor as she moved, causing her to whine and splutter gushes of pre from her tip. "Oh gods, you're gonna get every drop, you thick titted whore." She pressed her hands suddenly to Ruby's breasts, using her nipples as handles as she pushed the femme back. Once she was knocked over, the demon gripped her cum-slicked thighs and spread them apart, licking her lips at the sight of the gaping and heated pussy lurking within. "G-gonna fuckin' gush for days..." She drooled, her body a dripping mess of pure impulse. She mounted up as best as she could, putting her throbbing, pierced dickhead to the mound she revealed and clumsily thrusting forward. She slid towards the top before popping out, causing her to hiss. She realigned and held onto Ruby's hips with both hands as she lunged forward successfully, cramming foot after foot of her meat into that well lubed hole with one buttery stroke.
[22:44] Mistress Rae: (Geez, people don't usually coax para out of me)
[22:44] Ruby Valor: [Hehe~]
[22:52] Ruby Valor hungrily licked her lips as those motions inside of the demoness' balls only increased, the vixen panting hotly and licking her lips greedily for what was in store, countless wiggling sperm even more potent than she had been fed today previously! The vixen's tail waved around slowly until she was hefted over on to her side with a grunt, continuing to be shifted about as her thick chubby frame jiggled and bounced until she was on her back, legs spreading to the sides as she grunted under the weight of that huge cock slapping down against her sensitive heated belly. "Hnngggghhh yes baby, give it all to me.. fuck my womb fulllll!" she growled out just as that huge cock found its mark and slammed into her tunnel, the vixen's legs bucking and jerking before raising up to curl around the demoness' waist, feet brushing along her lower back before pressing inward to shove herself right into the demoness' attentions. That huge cock slurped and popped along her tunnel as it widened and stretched eagerly for the demoness, rippling lightly as it massaged inward with powerful contractions, practically suckling on her cock with those sloppy motions. "Mmrrrr I need it all.." she huffed out hotly, the vixen's feet sliding down slowly as they brushed across the demoness' huge swaying balls, squishing her toes against them lewdly while her tunnel clamped down even tighter in musk-driven orgasm. She gave the demoness' cock the same treatment that toy had gotten, but this time it was her drooling cumtube that was pushed against by the vixen's slick wet fluids, swirling around as her cock bulged outward with the influx of fluids, throbbing slightly as their slick arousal mixed together and bulged down her cock, even flooding back into her already immensely heavy and full cum factories.
[23:01] Mistress Rae practically screamed as she felt that wondrously puffy, gooey hole surrounding her veiny rod and lighting it up from all sides. Pleasure shot through her piercings and sensitive head, rocketing up her back and causing her to cry out in ecstacy. It felt like her dick was a tube of toothpaste being rolled up from the bottom, each pull eliciting a burst of gooey pre that shot deep into Ruby's body. "Y-you're gonna be my slutty vixen broodmare... M-my fucking cumdump!" She snarled, before she clamped her mouth to one of the furre's hormone laced tits and began rolling her tongue over the huge nipple, drinking whatever shot out in bursts. Her hips began to bounce up and down even with the vixen's feet on her back, about a foot of her rod managing to slide out before being crammed back down in a motion that was producing sounds like churning butter. It was becoming harder to thrust as the hole tightened, but she managed, relying on her muscular frame to carry her down even as her womb jiggled and jostled, the thrusting knocking loose more eggs that flowed into her dog-seeded belly. She screamed as her urethra was forced open by the pressure, the same pre she had pumped out starting to rush back down her cock. Her sperm was so dense that the new fluid pushing into her balls sat on top, pushing the heavier stuff down and creating a light, sloshy reservoir on top. As Ruby's toes prodded those bloating tanks, they'd be able to feel the watery top layer and the potent, swimmer filled one below, as well as detect any other textures that might push inside from what was in the vixen's belly.
[23:09] Ruby Valor lewdly rolled her hips to help further the sensations squeezing along that cock being stuffed into her body, the vixen nodding along with those exclamations as she groaned and rocked her head back in pleasure, letting out a lewd moan as yet another orgasm washed over her body, juices squirting out from around the seal of that cock even as more pushed down its length, causing that lewd mixture to froth about in the demoness' cock and stretch that cumtube wider. "Mmhhh yes, breed your broodmare full! Give me all of that seed, I need every last sperm.." she huffed out with a whip of her tail against the ground, splattering in a mixture of their fluids pooling out across the ground. Constant orgasms and stimulation had caused the vixen's breasts to grow tighter and heavier with cream, bursting into the demoness' mouth when pressure was applied and squirting out so forcefully it poured down along the back of her throat. Heat coursed through her body as that warm milk was broken down, her own juicy cuntlips drooling from behind as her balls churned and gurgled, mixing up the seed within as those layers began to fold together and churn about in her balls.. pushing outward as not only more of her own fluids pushed in but the demoness' fat cum factories were thrown into full production. Her teeth clenched suddenly as the vixen howled out in lust, "Mmhhh FUCKKK, biggg..." she panted out, the demoness' cock receiving a bit of treatment from her hormone filled cream as well, more blood pumping into that length as it stretched the vixen's tunnel out slowly wider, reaching deeper into her body as she felt the tip bumping and ramming against the back of her womb.
[23:20] Mistress Rae almost bit and chewed on Ruby's nipple as she drank like a hungry child, her stomach flooded with the creamy gunk that sprayed out sideways from her sloppiness. Her chest was coated in it, and what a chest- it was swelling up visibly and rapidly, her own nipples starting to burst out with milk. The hormones inside her were causing her chest to bloat with milk, her ovaries to shotgun out eggs, and all manner of peculiar changes in her body chemistry. She howled as her cock lengthened and thickened, the vixen's pussy seeming tighter as its walls gave out and expanded. She felt herself easily smash through the woman's cervix, and before long each potent thrust was sending her slamming into the very farthest wall of the baby box. "I-I'm in your womb, slut! I-I'm gonna paint your fuckin walls directly!" Her balls were a mess, inflated beach balls of fluid both foreign and native to her body. Her tadpole sized sperm were joined as her innermost nooks and crannies pushed out little seed, big seed, and even bigger jumbo sized sperm that flopped and jiggled inside her nuts. They were pushing out everything they could to meet the demands of the snatch she was embedded in. She began jackhammering, her teeth bared as she no longer drank any milk. Her hips seemed to rise further each stroke, more and more of the length bobbing out. Her muscles flexed. Suddenly, the pussy stopped being able to overpower her cock- pre began to flow out, as the dam prepared to burst. "Fuck fuck fuck! Breed breeeeeed! CUNT!" She screamed, clearly about to burst one of the messiest orgasms she'd ever had.
[23:22] Ruby Valor: [What would you think about that very canine we were talking about before showing up and making sure Rae was bred thoroughly as well? ^^]
[23:22] Mistress Rae: (Oh gods <3)
[23:22] Mistress Rae: (Got a ref?)
[23:23] Ruby Valor: https://static.f-list.net/images/charimage/884212.jpg
[23:23] Mistress Rae: (Would've been even hotter as a surprise, but yeah, let's do it~)
[23:31] Ruby Valor howled out in pleasure and huffed hotly as her nipple continued to leak even once the demoness' lips had pulled away from them, though the vixen grinned at the effects it was having on her body above.. swaying and sloshing with ever mounting fertility as creamy hot milk trickled down onto the vixen's curvy body. Her ears flicked a bit at the air as she heard a sound from nearby, but didn't pay much attention due to the overwhelming sensations flooding her from the rutting demoness above. "Hnngghh yes, pump those ovaries full dear, flood me... I need it all, stuff me full until you can't pump any more.." she huffed out, no doubt it would be messy.. but her womb was so ravenous that it might just manage to drink up every thick gooey load offered to her! A large pair of paws came down to rest against the demoness' rear from behind as her hips slowed their thrusting and she prepared to unload, a gravely voice speaking out from behind her along with a light chuckle, "Mmhh, smells like you wound up with my seed in that cunt dear, time to finish the job I think and make sure you're as full as she is." the male rumbled out, the tip of his own drooling canine cock suddenly shoved into the demoness' drooling cuntlips with a loud wet *SHLURP*, barreling down her sloppy tunnel before his knot rammed against those folds, not stopping even then as her cunt was stretched wide apart around that plug and the male sank his entire length into her tunnel, his own huge furred balls squishing down against hers from above so she could feel the movement in them as well.. virile cum factories bouncing off one another as he locked that huge slab of cock within her juicy overheated tunnel.
[23:35] Mistress Rae: (Sorry one sec, I'm late on some meds)
[23:42] Ruby Valor: [Mhm~]
[23:52] Mistress Rae was a mess of bucks and thrusts, her face in a dominant grin as she felt she had finally gained the upper hand over the body of the incredible breeder she had pinned below her muscular frame and seemingly invincible spunk factories. She screamed out in ecstacy as she prepared to blow, but her breath was caught in her throat as she heard a mumbling from behind, followed by a massive canine shaft barrelling down her plugged up snatch and spearing open her heavily impregnated womb, the knot ripping her lips open wide. She gurgled and her eyes went glassy as she wordlessly collapsed. But her body was more than active. Her cunt clamped down, the inflamed pair of lips gobbling and practically /chewing/ on the knot that was prying them open, her womb shivering in anticipation of a fresh hot load of baby batter, knowing just how potent even the stale stuff was. Her balls constricted like they were in a vise, her orbs squeezing in on themselves and beginning to fire in rapid succession bursts of the mixture of fluid and seed through her engorged shaft and into the waiting oven at the end of her tip. The first floods were almost soupy, the heaviest parts of the mixture taking longer to work their way through her cumtube. The spluttering, thin fluid washed over the woman's walls and painted them a nice light layer of white before the truly enormous reserves of dicksnot started to burst out in balls and ropes, forming cobwebs inside of that womb before the distinct shapes were battered apart by the blast, forming a swirling typhoon of creamy nut inside. The individual swimmers hunted ravenously, some of them the size of fat tadpoles that would practically consume eggs, worming their way through every tube and cranny they could find. She squeezed and panted and came and cried, a practically unconscious living breeding machine.
[00:03] Ruby Valor panted hotly and moaned out in blissful pleasure as that cock jerked against her insides, feeling it starting to bloat with cum even before the male had hilted himself into that demoness from behind. She yelped out and clenched her teeth as the first huge bubbling load of cum made its way into the vixen's body, grunting with every impact that only seemed to grow more forceful as the seed grew thicker and stickier, plastering along her walls and flooding every inch of space with that hot fluid.. starting to bulge out her belly with the sheer flow as so much more followed behind. The male behind them let out a growl of pleasure in the middle of that demoness' eruption, his own cock jerking around as that knot began to swell even wider, plugging off her folds tightly as even her own leaking juices were hardly able to escape, the dog's balls rumbling as his entire cock suddenly jerked wider inside of that sloppy hot tunnel. An immense burst of seed billowed out into her womb, nothing thin or slippery to start with.. his balls had been packed full of the thickest and densest seed that belched into the demoness' womb like wads of thick tar, gallons of the hot goo flooding into her womb with that first long eruption alone. While his seed wasn't as large as the demoness' it was just as active, wiggling around inside of her body as it began to swim up along her tubes and flood deeper all the way up into her bloated egg-filled ovaries. That first huge stream slowed as the next one started, his paws sliding to her bulging belly and squeezing against the sides as another massive eruption stuffed into her body, belly pushing out inch after inch as her breasts fattened with thick rich cream all the while. Below, the vixen was squirming in pleasure as her own body was invaded with the demoness' buzzing seed, feeling them swimming up deeper as well and practically pushing into her ovaries as they gurgled against her sides, forced to release more and more eggs as her tongue lolled out with the pleasure of being knocked up dozens of times over again and again.
[00:15] Mistress Rae drooled and gurgled in whines and starts, her body seemingly overloaded with pleasure and sensory input. If her womb had been assaulted by the hours old canine cum, this fresh stuff was completely violating her. It seemed to be hot as lava, piercing through its weaker and older brethren to gunk up her ovaries and force even more eggs out of them, which were immediately devoured by the living swimmers. Her cunt felt like it was going to break from the size of the knot, but she held firm, her lips no longer able to suck but just fit like a glove around the hearty knob of flesh. She subconsciously wrapped her own tail around her balls, squeezing them firmly in an effort to wring them dry. After a considerable period of time, the rush of infernal cum started to thicken and become chunkier. Sperm the size of small fish shot in alongside writhing clumps of stuck together swimmers, and her seed rivaled the density of the cement that was pouring into her own womb. It was so clingy that the main mass of seed shooting from inside was like one unbroken rope, a huge snake of jizz that slithered into that womb- the tip hunting for Ruby's fallopian tubes, the body firing out of her cockhead, the base deep in her balls, uncoiling out as more and more of the mass worked through her distended rod to conquer the vixen's womb and take every egg hiding within. The thick mass snaked its way through to wrap like a tentacle around the slut's ovaries, pumping and milking them, taking eggs into itself like it had a mind of its own.
[00:23] Ruby Valor whimpered hotly and shifted about as that dense cum splattered into her body and moved about despite the density, those sperm wiggling around and making her belly shift with the motions of those increasingly large and virile seeds. She didn't know exactly what was going on inside of her womb, but she could certainly feel a tickling sensation tugging at those ovaries, grunting at the pleasure it caused while her paws reached down and pressed against the sides of her churning womb, panting hotly as the vixen howled in renewed orgasm, a flood of those eggs pumping down those tentacles and pushing into the cock that they came from.. the male behind them even able to feel as the demoness' balls churned heavier from the sudden influx. "Mmhhhh, getting so fat and full aren't you?" he asked to the demoness, though he could have been addressing both of them at this point.. wads of cum belching like jello into the demoness' womb as her belly bulged out to the sides, his paws squeezing against the growing dome that made her look bloated with a massive litter, but it was those dozens of gallons of cum that could hardly slosh around with how thick it had set inside of her. Those fat milk bloated breasts resting atop of her bloated dome struggled to keep up with its size, but they certainly tried.. nipples fattening as her body was flooded with hormones from not only the male's invasive seed, but that creamy milk still sloshing around in her stomach from the earlier meal.
[00:31] Mistress Rae: (Golly, I'm not sure where to go from here ^^; )
[00:31] Ruby Valor: [Hehe.. maybe her womb and balls both reaching capacity before the demoness slumps over spent? ~]
[00:32] Mistress Rae: (Awww, gonna not let those freshly fertilized eggs stay inside Ruby? ;P )
[00:33] Ruby Valor: [Oh of course they can!
[00:33] Ruby Valor: [She's just giving up the ones her ovaries are pumping out. ~]
[00:39] Ruby Valor: Done for the night dear? ~
[00:39] Mistress Rae: (I'm running a bit out of steam, I don't want to leave you hanging though)
[00:40] Ruby Valor: [Hehe, okay dear just one more then and we can call it for now? <3]
[00:41] Mistress Rae: (Sounds good <3)
[00:47] Mistress Rae felt like a balloon made out of jizz as she felt her insides gurgle, her stomach looking like a bean bag chair as it was held against Ruby's similarly sized torso. Her tits were gushing milk all over the femme and the room smelt of bodily fluids in every nook and cranny. The heavy snake of ultra thick semen began to be pushed back into her balls from the womb's pressure, the freshly fertilized eggs resting inside of those factories for a moment or two. But her body lunged forward, her hips suddenly rocking as she tried to milk the male dry while emptying her own balls. She screamed and tugged on her nuts with her tail until they turned red, the snake spiraling back up into Ruby's womb until it was all out, forming a dense ball of cement. What followed was just splatters and gushes of premature, rushed out sperm that were hurried along by her overproducing balls. Ruby was cartoonishly filled, her stomach visibly engorged and inflated with Rae's demonic nut butter just as her own stomach was against it. The herm collapsed, her head resting on one of Ruby's jugs, her balls sputtering, her pussy clenching, and her body becoming impossibly pregnant just as she had put another into the same state.