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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He walked into the room closing the door behind him. She was too young. It was not to know her age. She was fully grown and had not grown grey yet, meaning she could be everything from around fifteen to in her thirties but her posture, stiffen in a coaxing position, made it clear she had no experience of intimacy or so little she had not caught up on what men in general liked. She was so young she was afraid to accidentally move and not be able to look sexy again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He let her be and went to clean himself. Getting undressed and washed gave him the time to think. He did not want her. She was too young. The war went bad but no one else but he could see it. Perhaps Algrim too but then again Algrim was the one who had placed the girl in his bed so how much did he actually know or admit to himself? All Malekith knew was that he had to take her. He could not let her wander off and perhaps tell his men or the slaves that the omnipotent god Malekith was not so potent after all. Or could he? He looked at himself in the mirror. Even without the mask he did not see himself, the elf in the mirror showed calm dignity and superiority not anything reflecting upon the pain and chaos he felt inside./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He turned and walked to the bed feeling surreal amused by finding the girl still cramped up in the exact same position as when he had left. He made sure not to smile the least; he had to get to know her before he dared even smile by a slight twinkle in his eye at her or it could result in the devastation of his image./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She seemed calm and, unless he fooled himself, curious at his approach and he felt a strange sensation he had not for a long time: span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"hope/span./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Sitting on the bed he watched her and still she did not move. He was going to have a serious talk with her and she could not even stop posing as a child who had found her mother's jewellery, makeup, and finest dress. Her pose was far too big and mature for the person who resided in the body – the pumps only half filled and the sleeves twice as long as the arms. He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her closer as he lay down on the bed and she went rigid, her heart pumping so fiercely he was surprised her chest did not burst. When they both were settle, she had stopped posing, laying on her side looking at him with much the attitude of a curious and scared girl watching the undiscovered country from a far and he laid relaxed on his back, staring up in the ceiling clinging on to the hope she could understand and accept a faith worse than death./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He rolled on to his side supporting his head with is hand pondering how to start the conversation./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You are rather young." His fatherly concern flooded his reason and the girl merely looked at him. Her small hand resting on the mattress between them and he had to restrain himself for not taking it to feel if she was alive. He hoped she was not. He hoped her soul had left long ago./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "How old are you?" he tried again coming to accept that the topic was relevant and took up too much of his mind./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She still did not speak./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Are you a mute?" he lightly mocked her knowing there had to be a first to everything and a silent girl at least did not scream or spit foul words at him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Her little mouth moved. Her lips pursing and then straightening, she pulled the thin line crooked and he could see all the words fill up her head and swim around behind her eyes. With a dreadful sensation he realized why she did not speak. It was a memory from when he had been young, he had been careless, he had had everything and not known how to appreciate it. Drunk he had talked with Algrim all night, as they had done so often before the light came. Newlywed he felt it an obligation to go out at least once a while and see his old friends and Algrim was always there. Drunk and stupid he had begun talking about his new life as a husband and hopefully soon a father and he had boyishly complained that although his wife was the fairest and finest woman in all of the realms he wished she would keep her pretty mouth shut and do her job when he bedded her. It had been foolish to complain that his wife talked during sex, something he realized only too late and now missed more than ever, and Algrim apparently would not let him forget. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"His master did not like women who talked in the bed./span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You have been instructed to keep quiet, have you not?" He looked at her thoroughly and after a long silence she carefully nodded. "Please, I want to speak to you."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She shook her head and he knew that her rosy cheeks were caused from not keeping quiet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You have been sent here to please me and to please me I demand you to answer," he sneered. "You are too young."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Please," her voice was filled with tears that she hid well from her face. "Please do not harm me."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "I will not harm you." That part was always left to his men who seemed to care less about their own behaviour as long as their leader appeared strong. "Are you scared of me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She nodded eagerly and then the tears began showing in her eyes. She broke eye contact and shamefully shook her head. Malekith felt how hope was rekindled in him and he touched her face, running his fingers down her cheek, grabbing her chin and forcing her to look at him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You are not scared of me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She blushed and her cheeks burned red as if he had hit her harder than Algrim./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "I thought you were a monster but when I saw you-" she broke off, her voice so frail and shy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" His anger and frustration over the war faded away in the presence of her innocence and he felt endeared that she thought he was no monster./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Who have told you I am a monster?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Her eyes wandered the room behind him and she chewed her lower lip./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "My mother told me men are monsters if you are alone with them."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" And Algrim being alone with her, hitting her repeatedly to get her to obey only proved her mother was right and who knew what other men she had encountered in her short life. The nauseating feeling of negative realization crept in over him – her life so short that it left no room for men./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Have you ever been intimate with a man?" The question was snap and harsh and she responded by looking down at her hand and biting her lips shutting her mouth tight. Everything fell apart within him and with a tiresome sigh he rolled back on his back closing his eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "I am sorry," she whispered terrified./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She was a virgin. If he let her go the first of his men to have her would find out and his image as a god would be brought to doubt. They would lose faith and the only faith they had left was in him. He considered just fingering her till he had taken the hymen and solved the problem or perhaps he could talk her into going to the bath and doing it herself. A delicate request, to ask a woman – girl – to go be alone, while sticking her fingers up herself until she bled, to satisfy him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Is it so wrong?" her tiny voice interrupted his thoughts and he turned his head looking at her with puzzlement. "Is it bad that I haven't-" she trailed off mumbling. "That I am – span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"untouched/span?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Yes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Of course not." He looked back up in the ceiling knowing that in less than a day she would be anything else but untouched as she would be led from his bedchamber and left to the men./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" His soul jolted when she without much grace snuggled close to him, hesitantly putting her arm over his chest, slowly lifting her leg over his. She went still and he knew she was waiting for him. She knew no more of the steps and was waiting for his guidance. He closed his eyes cursing how he always was the one who had to guide others in a hopeless cause./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He turned over and by the way she was laying the movement automatically resulted in her arm to wrap around his torso and his hand to come to a rest on her thigh. Instinctively she bent her leg knowing it was how it was done without knowing what she was doing. He looked down at her. Her forehead rested against his chest and her eyes were closed, she was relaxed though her heart was pounding fiercely and her breath heavy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Carefully he turned her over on her back – the other leg bended and she opened her eyes looking up at him with fear of the unknown. She looked up to him, she counted on him to do the right thing, just like his men did but to the difference of the world out there this was a war he could win. With that thought he began touching her. His hands exploring every curve, his tongue playing at the tip of her breasts, and he felt how he grew harder, how his strength returned./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She knew what fate was awaiting her, she had seen the other woman as she had been led to his room, threats of her ending that way if she did not comply was popular among his men, and yet she looked at him with eyes full of the magical mist of love's first experience./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He kissed her, deeply. Her surprised mouth was easy to invade and her tongue returned his gesture, shyly retrieving when she realized what she had done but unable to control her lust. She began sucking his tongue and he closed his eyes in pleasure sensing to the fullest the soft lips slide up and down his stiffened tongue. He pried one eye open and looked down at her peaceful face. Her eyes were closed and she was carried away by the intimacy of her bold action. Her rosy, little mouth puckered around his tongue, long dolly eyelashes resting lightly under her eyes, and skin as fine and pale as porcelain. She would be dead by the end of the week, so pretty so young. It had never before troubled him since the women brought to him was of the enemy. He had taken pleasure in seeing them suffer in silence or fight against him in vain each one of them would be defeated and he would have his way. They would scream, curse, spit, and bite, call him names and threaten him and he enjoyed when they died in the filth when their screams finally ended after several days of perversion and torture from his worn down men./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He kissed her bringing the sweet sucking to an end since it egged him to see her close her lips around another muscle and nibble sweetly and he could not make himself commit such act against such innocence. She was of the enemy but she was so young and innocent too. Not a harpy who knew where to kick or when to bite. Somewhere out there a mother was crying for her, if she still was alive at all. He dared not to ask because he already knew the answer – no mother would give up her daughter like this without a fight. It was impossible to think she was of the enemy. She was nothing but a bystander to a war she knew nothing of and could not understand – a war that had started long before she was born. She knew of the men going to war and how cities were burned down but she knew nothing of the horror on the battlefield, she knew not how wrong both sides had acted why it had escalated and consumed all the realms into its deadly grip./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She moved. Just changing slightly under him and he focused seeing her confused look. She knew nothing of the battle he fought inside but she could not deny that she knew what fate awaited her tomorrow all she hoped for was one gentle love – nothing more and he could not deny her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He moved down her body, planting one kiss after the other and he stopped at her bellybutton. His hands caressed her thighs as he seated himself between her legs. With a careful hand he parted her hair and closed his lips around her clitoris. Her legs jolted and his hand resting on her stomach sensed how she tried to sit up but yielded when the pleasure spread its poison through her body tainting her pure soul in the sin of desire. He opened up his mouth and closed it around her flesh making her warm and wet. His tongue slipped from the opening to her tip and he continued to lick listening to her breath getting heavier, how it became harder for her to muffle her moans, and eventually he wrapped his arms around her thighs to hold her in place as she rode into release. He held her pelvic down with one hand while squashing her buttock with the other, not letting her fully recover from the bliss before he grabbed his throbbing member and pressed it against her lips. Sliding the head up and down the damp opening, feeling how her lube and his precum made the entrance smooth and silky. The warmth of her body making him growl as she swallowed him, while whimpering in pleasure by the invasion. He slowly thrust, filling her up, letting her body adapt to his size before setting a steadfast rhythm. He leaned in over her, finding her lips, once more pleasantly surprised to feel her tongue attack his mouth with much appetite. He matched her agitation letting go of his inhibitions, no more thinking only feeling. Her moaning filled his mouth only interrupted when she was out of breath and let him go to heave in shrilling gulps of air but he gave her no mercy and kept pounding into her harder and harder until her pleasure was expressed by nothing but half choked screams of delight. He lost himself in her, her purity that he had now spoiled, her innocence that only he had just taken away, so freshly harvested that she still seemed chaste and virtues. He rose and came to rest on his knees, taken her legs bending them up on each side of her, grabbing hold of her hips with both hands and slammed against her ass, eating her pure form with his eyes, her screams ringing in his ears as he came growling like an animal – an animal that knew she was already lost, a victim of war and he could never truly have her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She slept peacefully but he could find no rest. He had spared her only as far as his own vanity needed it – his action would not change the fact that he soon would get out of bed and carry on and when he left, Algrim would remove her from this room and throw her out for anyone to have. He had given her her first lovemaking and her last but what would that mean to her when a ruthless soul took her life away by choking her in his desires./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Wake up," he whispered close to her ear and she groggily replied:/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "What?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Get dressed." He was already out of bed and had found a tunic and a pair of trousers./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" They were far too big for her emphasizing her childishness but he ignored it and dressed too./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "What is happening? I was told to stay here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" Malekith took her hand and went to the door, before leaving he turned to her and pulled her close./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "I am setting you free." He looked at her thoroughly making sure she understood the meaning of his words, the kindness that he showed her and she nodded, looking at him with big frightened eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He pulled her along, dodging guards and warriors, almost running into Algrim who had been alerted by Malekith leaving his bedchamber and who had come to pick up the girl, to take her away so a new woman could fill the bed the next time Malekith returned./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" He brought her to the highest peak of the ship – the lookout. A huge window adorned the room that solely had been created for the purpose of looking out and contemplating. He brought her close to the window still holding her hand. She looked up at him, less frightened, more alert and he could see relief in her eyes, hope – a hope he could only dream of sharing – a hope that his men would kill in no time if he let them have her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "There," he pointed to a shining blue star, much bigger than the others. "That is where I will send you."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She looked up at him and back at the star./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "It is pretty," she smiled for the first time since he had met her and looked at him with eyes shining like the star./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You will be safe there," he promised her. "No one will be able to harm you."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She nodded silently./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "Now turn," he grabbed her shoulders and turned her around. "And look at the star, focus on it, do not look back, do not look at me, because I must focus too."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" She broke loose of his grip, swirled around, and kissed him – a peck of innocence, lips against lips, nothing more and yet everything she had./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "They got you all wrong," she said more self confident than he had ever heard and turned back to look at the twinkling star. "I am ready," she whispered her voice trembling with the tears of suppressed happiness and expectation of going home and the dagger sank into her heart making her smile freeze upon her face as she never knew what truly happened./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" As her blood spilled down his hand he leaned in and whispered into her ear./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" "You are free."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" But she did not hear him. Her soul had already left for the stars./p
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