CHAPTER 10. THE WILD STAG
Cassana awakens three days later tied to a bed. She struggles to get free, but stops when she notices a young boy doing something across the room. "You boy…Where am I? Who are you?" He looks at her then he looks away. "Boy! Let me out of this and I will make you rich…" He looks at her again and opens his mouth. His tongue had been cut out. "I'm sorry…People are looking for me…Let me go and I will make you rich beyond your dreams…" He shakes his head no and leaves the Cabin. "No wait!"
A few minutes later the boy returns with the Captain and a tray of food, "So you are awake…"
"You! Captain Hartagon…"
"You remember my name…I am touched…" he sits on the bed and strokes her hair.
"Don't touch me!"
He slaps her, "Ya don't give commands…Nawt here and nawt to me…I am the Lord and Captain of everyone on this ship…That includes you…" He grabs her right breast, "Firm and just the right size…"
"Listen to me…I am the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms…I can make you a Lord…"
He laughs as he rubs his hand across her thigh, "Your fleet is smashed…Your allies betrayed you…I have a better offer…See the Tyrells paid me to kill you…But I won't…You can become my woman…All my life I have had to pay women for what is between their legs…And whenever I came into contact with highborn women they turned their noses up at me…Well not this time…I have a high born woman and I intend to fuck her for free…"
"If you touch me I swear on the old and new gods that I'll kill you very painfully…"
"Ha!" He touches her womanhood and starts fondling her.
"Stop it!"
"I have business to attend to…But later you and I will have some fun…" He forces a kiss on her and leaves. "Eat you will need your strength and if you refuse to eat…I will give you to my men when I am done…"
Cassana watches him leave then she turns her attention to the tray of food. Reluctantly she eats, as she is hungry and if she is to escape she will need all her strength. As time passes Cassana tries to convince the Cabin boy to help her, but her words fall on deaf ears. The sun sets and Cassana's heart starts to race. The door opens and in walks Hartagon.
"You'll be happy to know that there are no ships pursuing us…"
"Look let me go and I will give you a castle and a bride…You won't have to be a pirate anymore…"
"Oh I will kiss your ass…But I will do it without bending the knee…" He starts undressing, then he walks over to the bed. Cassana spits in his face. He responds by slapping her several times. "That's enough of that…"
"Get off me!" Cassana struggles to keep her legs closed as he forces himself in between her legs. "You bastard! NO!" As he forces himself inside her Cassana closes her eyes and forces her body to go limp. ("Ours is the Fury…") She says this over and over in her mind as he forcefully takes her virginity.
Tears fall from her closed eyes as he puts his hands on her breasts and manhandles them. She grits her teeth, as she imagines ways to kill Hartagon. Her favorite is cutting off his cock. Soon he stops and lies beside her holding her breast, his hands goes from one breast to the other then he sucks on her nipples.
"I must say you are the best fuck I ever had…And I will be the only fuck you ever have…If you behave yourself…Look at me! I said look at me…" She opens her eyes and wipes the tears from her face. "Now tell me you love me…"
Cassana grits her teeth, "I love you…"
"Tell me again…and this time say my Captain."
"I love you my Captain…"
He nods, "This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship…Respect me and I will give ya the world…" He turns her over and takes her in the ass.
The next morning a tray of food is waiting for Cassana. She eats slowly as she is pain all over her body. In some places Hartagon had bitten her. Cassana thinks about her mistakes. Trusting the Tyrells was a mistake, allowing Ser Davos to hire pirates was another, and not exposing her mother in the beginning was one as well. She thinks on Brienne, Edric, Gendry, Arya, and Ser Davos, his ship was caught in the explosion and though she hoped he was alive she doubted it.
The day went by slowly and once again Hartagon forces himself on Cassana. He is a little more gentle and takes his time. The whole time Cassana mentally recites her House words. ("Ours is the Fury…") The next day Cassana thinks about her skills, the ropes are loose enough for her to feed herself, but tied in a way that she cannot free herself. She is familiar with sailor knots, but this isn't a sailor's knot. Probably some eastern rope trick designed to keep the victim bound.
"I can't fight my way out of these ropes…Think Cassana think…" Then her eyes fall on the water pitcher. Hartagon had been giving her water with her meals. Cassana smiles as a plan forms. When Hartagon enters the Cabin he immediately removes his shirt. "You can at least offer a lady a drink…"
He pauses in the removal of his sword belt, "Let me guess you want to get drunk…Drunk or not I'm still going to enjoy it…"
"Then what is the harm in giving me wine…If you don't have wine Rum then…"
"Rum! Ha! Rum is a man's drink…"
"I've had rum before…" Cassana replies.
"Manny! Bring us a bottle of rum!" A few minutes later the cabin boy shows up with the rum. Hartagon pours a cup. Cassana drinks and pretends to cough. Hartagon laughs, "Told ya!"
"Another it has been awhile…" She pauses before drinking, "Aren't you going to have some?"
"Alright I'll play along…" This time Cassana downs the cup and stares at Hartagon. He downs his cup accepting the challenge. Drink after drink is poured in a test of wills. Cassana starts pretending to be intoxicated. "Dams womyn…anys-one elsesses shuld have past out by now…"
Cassana is sitting up, "Mys fawdger woulds always won drinks contests…"
"Ha! Your fawdger n'ber wents up ons me…"
"Its your turn…"
He takes the cup and downs the rum leaning back and passes out. Cassana sneers, and brings her leg from underneath his now unconscious body. She pauses as he stirs and mumbles. She breathes a sigh of relief as his sword belt is still on. Using her foot Cassana slips the sword from its scabbard and drops it by her hand. She cuts the rope on her left hand and then her right. She slowly slips out of bed and starts to get dressed. Her armor had been in the corner the whole time, along with her sword.
After she is dressed Cassana stands on the bed and pulls Hartagon onto it, then she ties him up and places a rag in his mouth and a cloth across it. She uses smelling salt to awaken him. "High…You're awake…" She whispers then she slaps him as he grunts from behind the gag. "I offered you lordship titles and riches…But we are past that now aren't we…If you are wondering why I am not stone drunk…It's because I can't get drunk…You took something from me and now I am going to take something away from you…" The ropes are tied so that he can't move his arms and she has his legs tied. Cassana cuts away his pants and exposes his cock.
She shows him the dagger and he pleads from beneath his gag, "I bet you are wishing you would have killed me…Or taken my offer…Well here is the fun part Captain…" She removes his cock slowly and blood flies everywhere. "Dam you are a bleeder…Well I have go now…" She pours wine and lamp oil all over the bed. Then she stands over him, "I'm going to set your ship on fire…You and all your men will die a slow painful burning death…Goodbye…"
Cassana climbs up out of the window and up the back of the ship to the deck. There are two men, one is on guard duty and the other is at the wheel. When he turns Cassana climbs over and uses a dagger to slit the man's throat. Then she tip toes up behind the guard and when he turns she buries the dagger in his throat. One by one Cassana silently kills the six men on deck. Then she climbs up to the crow's nest and kills that man as well.
There is a barrel of fresh water on the main deck, so Cassana takes the barrel and loads it into a longboat. Then she sneaks below decks to fetch a barrel of mutton from the galley. Finally Cassana loads the boat with a harpoon a crossbow and fishing lines. She slowly lowers the boat into the water and then she dumps the barrel of oil all over the deck of the ship. Cassana drops the anchor, locks the door to lower decks, and grabs a torch off the main mast; then she heads for the side of the ship. She throws the torch and climbs down as huge fire erupts on the ship.
As the ship goes up in flames Cassana can hear the men screaming. She rows away from the ship as the fire spreads and the people on board die in a blazing fire. She pauses to look up at the starlit sky and from the stars Cassana can tell she is five or six days southeast from Westeros. She looks west, "If I am right the Island of Tarth should be in that direction…" Cassana starts rowing again and she rows until her arms are tired.
She eats some mutton in a bowl she had taken from the guard on duty. She drinks some water and takes a piss in a bucket, then she falls asleep. Cassana awakens many hours later, she starts rowing again. She rows until the sun is too hot, then she eats, drinks some water and covers herself with a tarp. She remains under the tarp until the sun goes down.
Cassana rations her food to two bowls a day and one cup of water. She sleeps during the day and works all night to row the longboat west. It is the third day since her escape and Cassana is fast asleep with the crossbow nearby. Then something bumps her ship, she wakes up and finds a huge war galley flying the sigil of House Baratheon. Staring out over the side is Brienne and Gendry. "Ours is the Fury!" Cassana screams.
"My Queen…" Brienne says when she boards the ship. Everyone drops to one knee, but Cassana grabs Gendry and hugs him. Then she grabs Brienne and hugs her. "Your Grace this is not proper…"
"Shut up!" She says wiping her tears away.
"Brienne refused to believe that you were dead…" Gendry says.
"I need a bath…"
"Captain set sail for Storm's End…" Brienne orders.
Cassana is alone in her cabin scrubbing her body over and over again. She closes her eyes and growls making fists. "Our is the Fury…" She says sitting in the tub.
Later Brienne comes to see her, "What happened?"
Cassana takes a deep breath, "Brienne…" She looks at her, "I am not ready to talk about it…" She grabs her hand, "I need to be alone now…"
"Yes Your Grace…" Brienne stands up, "My Queen…" Cassana looks up, "Before you made me commander of your Queen's guard and asked your father to Knight me…I was and still am your friend…"
Cassana smiles, "I know Brienne…and I cherish your friendship…but now I have to work through the things I have been through alone…" They bring her food, but no one presses Cassana with information or asks her, what happened or how she escaped. Gendry comes to see her everyday and sits with her quietly. Soon they reach Storm's End.