Blood Ties, Part 42
You and Rysanial follow along as Kelissa takes the young Queen and tenderly puts her to bed. Then the maid turns to you, hopeful anticipation in her eyes. "Do you have need of me tonight?"
"Yes," you reply. "And you, Rysanial. And one more, besides the three of us. Do you know where the Queen is keeping the spy that was captured?"
Kelissa's eyes widen in understanding, and she nods. "You mean Anaka?" she asks. "Yes, I know where she is. Follow me."
She leads you through the twisting passages of the fortress, until finally you arrive at a room guarded by two of your loyal orcs. They stand aside at your approach, allowing you access. The door opens to reveal a small but comfortable room, with a young woman lying on the bed.
Your first impression of her is that she's frail. Granted, her thin body is probably not in as malnourished a state as it used to be when Varthurg had sole custody of her. At this point she's had weeks of decent food, and she's starting to get a bit more meat on her bones. Still, she remains thin and pale.
Nor is that the only mark her captivity has left on her. The left side of her face is marred by the telltale signs of a brutal blow that hasn't healed well. And you don't doubt that there are other, not-so-visible scars beneath her simple shift. She sits up as you enter, regarding you with distrust.
"Varthurg is dead," you say. "And his successor is someone we have firmly under our thumb. I thought you should know. You don't need to fear his vengeance anymore. You're safe."
Her eyes widen slightly, showing surprise. Surprise... but little actual hope. She does not allow herself hope, even when presented with this. You can see the numbness in her gaze. The unfeeling deadness to her own emotions that she as crafted into a shell of protection.
Or at least, as much protection as she could give herself, when no other protection was to be found.
"Oh," she says at length, her emotionless eyes focused on you. "So... what now? Are you here to fuck me into your slave? So you can turn me against my people? Like you're doing to our heroines?"
Kelissa moves over to the girl, sitting down next to her on the bed, placing a hand on the other girl's leg. "It's not like that!" she pleads. "Believe me, Anaka. It's not like being a prisoner. I feel... more free, more alive now than ever before!"
Anaka flinches away from her. But then, after a few seconds, her shoulders just slump in tired dejection. "...whatever. I can't stop you. You don't need to try and trick me. Just go ahead and... and do it."
Now it's Rysanial's turn to slide in on the opposite side of Kelissa. She sensuously traces one hand down the side of the girl's neck, while nibbling her ear on the side closer to her. The former slave tenses, her pupils dilating as her heart starts to beat faster at the playful touch of the succubus' aphrodisiac-laced fingers and tongue.
The girl looks up at you from the bed, wondering what you will do to her. But—for now—you just watch appreciatively, letting the other girls warm her up. Letting them ease her into this. Soon Rysanial's movements grow more intimate, her free hand sliding up the girl's body to her small breasts. Kelissa follows suit, and soon Anaka finds herself delightfully molested by two people at once.
She moans and twists as though trying to escape... but with hardly any force behind it at all. Kelissa takes her chin in one hand, turning her gently but insistently toward her into a loving kiss. Anaka moans even louder... but eventually relaxes into it, Kelissa's tongue playing with hers as the petting only increases in pace.
The two of them start to strip her in tandem. Her simple shift quickly falls away, leaving her defenseless before their touch. She whimpers into Kelissa's kiss, and you can see true fear start to enter her eyes.
Fear that her protective shell of hopelessness might not be as impregnable as she had imagined.
Fear of what she's beginning to feel.
Kelissa and Rysanial only increase the intensity of their love-making, molding their luscious bodies against that of the thinner girl in a sultry press of writhing flesh. Rysanial's hand slides lower, starting to finger the slave's snatch, and she bucks violently in reaction. Kelissa kisses her even harder, more passionately, as the poor girl is lost in a haze of delirious sensation.
Now you make your move, crawling across the bed toward the ongoing threesome. The slave looks up at you as you get closer. Torn between her fear and her anticipation. Knowing that whatever you will do to her... it will upend her world. And even though the world you're upending was a world of misery for her... the realization of your power to destroy everything she knows is still a terrifying one.
You don't hesitate, lowering your tongue to her cleft and beginning to lick. Light at first... but even that is almost more than she can bear. She thrashes, bucking under the inhuman pleasure that wracks her, and eventually you have to hold her down, your hands pressing against her legs to ensure a good position. She's still wracked with spasms of ecstasy. But her slight frame is far less strong than yours, and you're able to hold her in place with barely any effort.
"Ah! Ah! Ahhhh!" She throws her head back, sobbing out with a rapture she can't even understand. She's gripping tight to Kelissa and Rysanial, clinging to them as though the other women were her anchor to sanity. But of course, they themselves are only helping her drown in pleasure, continuing to press themselves tight against her as they service her in their own way. Fondled tenderly from every direction, Anaka can do nothing but lose herself to the moment, as she screams out her first orgasm of the night, before slumping into the reassuring grasp of her three bedmates.
You let her recover... but not for too long, making sure to keep up the momentum. You crawl further forward, until your demonic visage is looming over her. She looks timidly up at you from the bed below, conscious of your gaze in a way she wasn't before.
She tilts her head in shame, angling it so that the damage from Varthurg's beating is hidden from you as best she can. But you gently take her chin, turning her back to look straight at you again. Then you kiss her, a searing, passionate kiss that drives all other thoughts from her mind.
And while she's still lost in the bliss of that moment, you thrust your member into her.
She tries to let out a shriek, but the pleasure steals the very breath from her lungs, leaving her only a silent squeak. You fuck her into the bed, your hands roaming her body, throwing her into a delirium of sensation that drives all other thoughts from her mind. Her words—when she can actually force any out—are gibberish, but the plea in their begging tone is unmistakable.
More. More, more, please, more.
You oblige. Each of your thrusts sends her into another spasm of delight, while Rysanial and Kelissa attend to her from the sides. Tears are running down her cheeks, as she surrenders herself to the moment, surrenders herself to you. The three of you enfold her, not giving her time to fear, to doubt, only to feel the wonder of what you're doing to her.
Soon she's about to come again. And this time, you decide to come with her. You release at just the right moment, your hot seed filling her, sending her over the edge again. She screams to the heavens as she wholeheartedly accepts your cum inside her. Soon the screams fade into ragged, exhausted gasps, her breath shuddering in and out as her mind slowly comes down from the peak of euphoria. Comes down... to find herself nestled tight between the three of you.
You, of course, could easily keep fucking her. But you recognize that her frail frame probably shouldn't be pushed too hard just yet. Instead, you slow things down, spending a long while just cuddling with her, the three of you whispering quiet reassurances in her ear while your hands roam up and down her every inch. She's reciprocating now, doing her fumbling best to respond to your touch, eager to please with a desperation you know she learned from crueler hands.
All you can do is comfort her, telling her that this is what her life can be from now on. That the life she knew before is dead and gone. You spend a long time, just like that, basking in the afterglow while pampering her. Eventually, you spend some time fucking Kelissa and Rysanial as well, showing Anaka a foretaste of the even wilder pleasures that she can look forward to, when she's ready for it.
By the end, the three of you lie in a tangle of limbs. The humans are already asleep, Anaka clinging to both you and Kelissa as though she never wanted to let go of what she's found. Rysanial molds herself against you, idly stroking your cock as you lie back, pondering your next move.
One plan would be to send Rysanial and Verika to take advantage of the opportunity to subvert three of the four leaders of the Drow noble houses. At the same time, you could have Khaytala and your corrupted orcs guard Lily. And you could have Ceriss accompany you, to help you seduce Nevati.
That approach would establish a strong foothold in the Underworld that you could exploit to influence their actions, and weaken them for a more conclusive takeover later on. If you wanted to set yourself up for weakening Melca by targeting her worship, this would be a big step in that direction. And it would keep Kovora particularly well-protected, giving you a very strong advantage against anything that might happen while you're gone.
On the other hand, while you have technically have enough food reserves for that, it would take you right down to the edge going into your subsequent mission, with no buffer. If anything unexpected came up in that respect, you could be in rough shape. An alternative plan would be to have Khaytala guard Lily, while your corrupted orcs secure food from one of the border towns. By fucking them into submission, instead of more lethal violence.
This would give you more breathing room on the food situation in case something happens, and you think you could convince Lily to go along with it. Especially if you left some compensation for the village afterward. Unlike Kovora, the caravans are willing to sell more food to them, after all.
The trade-off, of course, would be that Lily wouldn't have quite as many resources to work with if a more direct problem did arise in Kovora while you were gone.
If, on the other hand, you wanted to go all-in on building your food reserves, you could send Rysanial to seduce Lord Kovar, send the corrupted orcs to the border town, and send Verika to start making more inroads into the elven village. You don't think she'd be able to bring it completely under your sway in a single go... but she could probably get most of their defenders, leaving it ripe for the plucking. And Khaytala could still guard Lily. This could be a serious boost to your food reserves, at the cost of not making any progress on the Underworld.
Alternatively, you could disregard both the immediate food situation and the Underworld, and focus on the elf village. If you sent both Rysanial and Verika there, you're confident they could bring the whole place under their sway. Khaytala and your corrupted orcs could guard Lily, while Ceriss accompanies you to help with Nevati. That would bring the elf village onto your side entirely. They might even be able to contribute some to the food situation eventually, though with how far away they are, setting up the conveyance might take more time before you see the benefits.
If you wanted to balance that more with the immediate food concerns, however, you could follow that same basic plan... except sending the corrupted orcs to one of the villages instead of guarding Kovora. You could even have them try to extort the food by offering the compensation up-front, instead of after fucking the villagers into euphoric acceptance.
That approach might result in the village being more suspicious, and not as fully under your sway. But if higher-ups ever investigated the incident, it might convey a bit less aggressive picture to them of your aims.
Finally, if you find yourself more worried about your own success on this excursion, you could concentrate your allies' efforts on Nevati herself. Have Rysanial seduce the elf village, but have Verika, Ceriss and the corrupted orcs be at your disposal for help in however you end up pursuing the gnome. That would give you many options in your mission, at the cost of making less progress both on the food situation and on the Underworld.
It all comes down to what you most want to focus on.
You know you'll need to act immediately if you want to stop the ritual that Verika discovered during her investigations, preventing Lady Mykra from hollowing out the other two drow nobles, and subverting them yourself instead while they're helpless. Then again, now that you know about her plan, you could just subvert Lady Mykra later on, after she's taken control of the other two.
In an ideal world, you would certainly prefer to conquer through corrupting mortals into ecstasy, rather than them being reduced to empty puppets. Still, your resources are finite. No matter what you do, you won't be able to bring everyone into the Second Circle's embrace. Even if you don't stop Lady Mykra's plan, those two nobles will be far from the only ones to be killed in the Underworld that day. And, given their noble status, probably far from the most undeserving.
Then again... Velaria used to be the same way. And Verika as well.
In the end, it simply comes down to what you can accomplish, and what you think is the most urgent to start working on. Feeding Kovora? Keeping up your defenses? Working toward undermining the heroines' allies? Working toward undermining Melca's power?
There's no way to tell exactly what the future will hold. You'll just have to take your best guess based on what you know.
