"Come on, guys! Untie me!" Hector whined as she trotted awkwardly behind the group, being led by the rope tied to her hands by Lavernica.
"Not until that love potion wears off. The last thing we need is you throwing yourself at another merchant. Or worse, and Inquisitor." Lavernica tugged lightly on the rope to get Hector to speed up.
"Yeah, if Marrrrr kills one more person for touching you, I think it's technically a spree," Morg said.
"I thought love potions were supposed to make people fall in love with the person who took it, not the other way around." Bing-Bong's brow furrowed in confusion.
"Unsurprisingly, Lavernica made the potion wrong," Marrrrr grumbled, keeping his eyes trained ahead of him. "Next time, you really should leave the potions to the alchemist."
"Hector wouldn't make it for me!"
"Because we didn't actually need it!" Hector shouted. "And yet again, your aim sucked, and now I can't keep my hands off of every man we come across."
"Even the potions are gender biased," Lavernica grumbled.
"I don't know why you even thought giving that Drow a love potion would help any way," Zippity-Do said, trying to keep up with the rest of the group, her short legs struggling to match everyone else's long strides.
"I thought maybe if he felt the joy of love he'd stop trying to kill us."
"It would have been a lot easier to just kill him back," snapped Marrrrr.
"You know I'm a pacifist."
"You slit a guy's a throat for grabbing your ass."
"GUYS!" Zippity-Do shouted. "STOP. Now, it's getting dark, and I'm starting to have a hard time keeping up. We should camp for the night."
"Yes! Thank you!" Bing-Bong sighed in relief. "I'm starving."
"Right." Zippity-Do pointed to a tree. "We'd better tie Hector up over there."
Hector gasped in indignation.
Marrrrr laid on the ground, trying to sleep. It wasn't easy when all he could think about was Hector throwing herself at other men. It made his blood boil.
Just as he was finally starting to doze, he felt a weight settle next to him. He opened his eyes to see Hector laying next to him.
"What are you doing?" Marrrrr tried not to panic.
"Don't talk," Hector said, her lips covering his. Marrrrr was frozen in shock for a moment before he kissed her back. Soon, though, he pulled back.
"Hang on, we tied you up. And I thought you're Escape Artist bonus was really low."
Hector shrugged, trailing her hands down Marrrrr's chest. "+3. And Lavernica sucks at tying knots." She tried to kiss him again, but he held her back.
"This is the potion, Hector. You don't really want this."
"Yes, I do. And you do, too. I know you do. You've always wanted it."
"No, I-"
"That's why you beat up or kill any guy who even looks at me."
"Hector-"
"The potion is just letting me act on what I've always felt. Please, Marrrrr."
Marrrrr sunk his hand into Hector's hair as he kissed her, his other hand fumbling inside his pack, searching. Just as Hector deepened the kiss, she felt something close around her wrist. She pulled away and looked down to see one of her wrists encircled by a manacle. She looked back up at Marrrrr, who looked back with an unreadable expression. "I'm not going to let you do something you'll regret." He reached over and closed the other manacle around a tree branch. He then picked up his stuff and walked away, gritting his teeth in frustration.
