Where the Heart Is, Part 36


You meet Rysanial's gaze. "The Lust Queen did try to betray us," you say, acknowledging the hurt that she's feeling. "But... I can understand why. I saw the horrors that the monster inside me inflicted. I saw the horrors that she's trying to protect our home from. I saw the horrors that she was trying to protect you from."

Rysanial looks down and away, her emotions now even more conflicted. After a moment, you continue. "I'm not saying you don't have good reason to be angry. Just... try to remember the position the she's in as well. I'm still holding out hope that we can eventually resolve things with her, after the old king is dead."

The succubus looks up. "Even if the entire Second Circle keeps trying to kill you until then?"

You chuckle roguishly, then confidently spread your arms to indicate all the other heroines surrounding you. Heroines who had at one time or another been your mortal enemies. "Of course! It won't be anything out of the ordinary for us."

The ghost of a smile tugs at Rysanial's lips. But she quickly hides it, turning her expression into a disappointed-yet-playful pout instead. "So... does this mean you're not going to trick her assassin into coming here, and then fuck the bitch into a submissive puddle?"

"Oh, I didn't say that." Understanding and sympathy for the Lust Queen's motives may be all well and good... but that doesn't mean that a bit of sexy reprisal isn't still a valid tactic that's on the table. Especially if it gains you a powerful agent as well. "For now, let's just focus on making sure her lust cult doesn't complete the summoning on their own. We can decide the rest later."

Fortunately, you can tell that your words are enough to give some measure of comfort to Rysanial's conflicted feelings. Though you also note that Mockingbird is looking at you more intently after that last conversation.

The council continues late into the evening, until you're confident that you have a solid grasp on the various approaches you could take. Even so, you adjourn for the night before making your final decision, giving yourself some time to sleep on the matter and to see if any fresh insights strike you.

As the various members of the council all leave, you catch Rysanial's eye and make a small motion with your head. The succubus immediately takes your meaning, and follows you as you head out to search for Kelissa.

It doesn't take you long to find her. She's in the middle of giving some other maids instructions when the two of you converge on her from behind. You slide an arm around Kelissa's hip, while Rysanial winds her arm around the mortal's neck. The maids she was instructing scatter like startled birds... though as they flee, they glance back with their own longing looks.

Kelissa, for her part, melts obediently into your grasp. She's probably just anticipating a repeat of what you and Rysanial did with her that first night in Kovora. Though this time any hesitance has vanished, replaced by eagerness. And what you whisper into her ear only confirms her assumptions. "We want you to attend us in bed tonight."

"Of course," breathes the maid, her voice husky with the raw need that you've already inflamed in her. "Whatever you desire."

You guide her up the stone stairs, climbing ever higher in the fortress, your hand still around her hip. The first signs of confusion arrive when you ascend past the door that would have taken you to your quarters. You offer no explanation, only lead her insistently onward. The closer you get to Lily's chambers, the more it starts to dawn on her what is actually about to happen. Soon, with each step her eyes are growing wider and wider.

The drow guards give your group knowing, suggestive smirks. Then, once you've identified yourselves, they stand aside to allow you through into the chambers of their monarch. As you enter, Lily looks up from the book she had been reading, looking between the three of you. At this point Kelissa is blushing furiously, unable to meet her mistress' eyes. She's caught between her adoring affection for the queen, and her fear that all this is above her station.

Lily blinks, puzzled. But then she realizes what you've come here to do at this hour. Her face takes on a slight blush as well, though not nearly to Kelissa's extent. Then she rises from her desk and—before anything else—walks right over to her maid, raising a gentle, reassuring hand to caress her cheek.

Then she pulls the taller woman into a tight embrace, holding close to the first confidant she found in Kovora. After a few moments, you feel Kelissa start to relax. Only then does the young queen tilt her head to look up, her cheek still resting against the taller woman's chest. "It is getting late..." she says, with just a hint of innocent mischief in her voice. "As my trusted head maid... might I request your assistance in undressing me for the night?"

Kelissa swallows, hard. Then, without trusting herself to speak, she guides the young queen over to stand by her bed. With shaking hands, she undoes the fastenings of her mistress's rich dress, until it slides off of Lily's frame to pool at her ankles. Then she sets to work on the queen's undergarments... though that task isn't even half-completed before she is distracted by the feel of Lily's small breasts in her hands.

"Mmmnnnn... Ah... Oh!" Lily leans back against her maid, as Kelissa molests her charge with ever-increasing passion, showing affection to the younger girl in a way she'd never expected to be able to show it. You and Rysanial, meanwhile, are removing your own clothes. Once you're naked as well, the two of you circle the intimate scene, like sharks with blood in the water.

Eventually you slide in behind Kelissa, while Rysanial approaches both mortals head-on, embracing Lily from the front and pulling her into a sensuous kiss. Lily moans into the succubus, pressed tight in a hot, steamy embrace between the explorations of her beloved maid from behind her, and the voluptuous, sinfully perfect body of the demon in front of her.

Lily gives herself freely to them both, allowing them their own chance to plunder her innocence, just as you did so recently. For a little while you let them have their fun... but then you increase your own molestation of Kelissa, your hands sliding beneath her uniform to knead flesh. Before long the maid is clinging to her queen just for the strength to keep standing, as the two of them are blissfully ravaged. Only then do you guide them over toward the bed, Rysanial matching your movements seamlessly.

The mortals tumble onto the soft bedding, while you follow with more controlled movements. Rysanial slips behind Lily, the girl sitting in her lap. They both watch as you press Kelissa down on her back. The succubus winds her arms and tail like hungry snakes around Lily, her fingers sliding between Lily's legs, her breasts pressing against Lily's back. The young queen bucks and twists under Rysanial's expert touch. But the succubus holds her tight, keeping her focused on the sight in front of her. As they watch, you rip Kelissa's maid outfit asunder, and prepare to fuck her amidst its tatters.

Lily's eyes are wide as she stares transfixed at your erect cock, unable to look away as you slowly position it toward Kelissa's soaking entrance. The maid is panting with need, and both mortals know full well that you're about to wreck Kelissa in the most wonderful of ways. She spreads her legs right in front of her mistress, inviting you in without reservation. Offering up everything that she is.

You start out slow, teasing, rubbing your member along her slit while she looks up at you plaintively. Rysanial fingers Lily, while also nudging them closer and closer, until Lily's knees are touching Kelissa's side. The succubus' cheek is pressed against Lily's, nuzzling her as she murmurs right into her ear. "Watch, my little mistress. Watch closely. Watch as your precious maid experiences true delight. See for yourself the fate to which you have consigned so many brave heroines."

Lily shudders in Rysanial's arms. Her body is trying to thrash about from the waves of pleasure, but the demon's grasp is too tight, holding her in place. She can only watch as you thrust into Kelissa, showing your mistress for the first time what it truly looks like when you claim a mortal.

If it had been Lily herself receiving your attentions, you would have been gentler. But Kelissa is more than accustomed to this by now. So you take the opportunity to show Lily a tiny glimpse of how intense this can truly be. You pin Kelissa beneath you in a mating press, thrusting again and again, drawing screams and cries of passion from her as she does her best to respond. She tightens around you, clinging desperately as you rail her into the mattress. She gasps out barely-coherent promises of devotion, while begging you to go even harder. To ruin her even more.

Rysanial is not idle either, finger-fucking Lily in perfect time with your own thrusts. The sense of unity with her maid sends the young queen careening over the edge, her body wracked by orgasm after orgasm. But even through that, Rysanial holds her tight, still matching your pace. The four of you, together as one.

You. Rysanial. Lily. Kelissa. That was who it started with, all those months ago when you were first summoned. Kelissa was the first mortal you took on this venture, before you won over so many others to your cause. And now, at long last, nothing prevents her from sharing that intimacy with her mistress as well.

With a surge of fervor, you pick up the pace, and soon Kelissa is reduced to gasping sobs of delight. You pound into her with all the intensity and passion that a mortal like her can handle, her hair now disheveled beneath you as you share that perfect communion of flesh. You take her to the very edge of what she can withstand... and then you release into her, finishing her off with a devastating orgasm that causes her entire body to clench and her eyes to roll back in her head. Lily likewise sags in Rysanial's arms after her own climax. You let them rest for a bit, watching as Kelissa's chest rises and falls with shuddering breaths.

Then, with a devious smile, Rysanial reaches down with her dexterous fingers, using them to explore Kelissa's cunt. She gathers a little bit of what she finds there—a mixture of Kelissa's juices and your semen—then brings her fingers back up to Lily's lips.

The girl doesn't hesitate, but rather obediently begins to suck on Rysanial's fingers. The mere taste of your aphrodisiac cum causes another shudder to run through her spent body. Even after she's licked the succubus' fingers clean, Rysanial continues to play with her fingers in the girl's mouth for a bit longer. "Good girl..." she whispers, gently stroking Lily's hair with her other hand. "That's a good girl. We're going to do such things with you..."

For now, though, your lovemaking takes on a more relaxed pace. Rysanial nudges Lily forward some more, until her naked body is lying on top of Kelissa's. The maid looks up at her, trying despite her exhaustion to find the right words to say. But none are needed. Lily leans in and begins to kiss her, and soon the two of them are sharing a tender make-out session.

You leave them too it for a while, until the mortals have recovered some of their strength. Then you run your hand up Lily's leg—pausing to give her rear a possessive squeeze—and up the length of her body. When you reach her shoulders, you flip the two women over, so now Kelissa is on top. Then you prepare to fuck her from behind... this time with Lily pressed beneath her.

Maid and mistress look into each other's eyes, as they realize what is about to happen. Then you thrust into Kelissa once more. This time, however, you're not fucking her into the mattress... but rather into the embrace of her queen. The maid trembles with each thrust, clinging tighter than ever to the younger girl. Lily, for her part, now feels the force of each and every one of your thrusts, through her connection to Kelissa.

You might not be able to fuck her yet. But you can at least give her this.

Picking up the pace, you drive Kelissa toward the edge once again. Not as intensely as last time, out of concern for both Lily's inexperience and for Kelissa's own stamina. But even your more measured fucking soon has them moaning beneath you. Kelissa holds onto Lily like she's clinging to a lifeline, their sweat-slicked bodies rubbing against each other as the maid buries her face into the crook of Lily's neck, kissing up and down it. This, in turn, allows Lily to look up at you, staring right into your eyes, as you impale Kelissa over and over again on your cock.

Neither of you say anything in that moment of debauched intimacy. Nor does anything need to be said. Lily clings tighter to her maid... then slides one of her own hands down Kelissa's body, until she's rubbing her fingers on Kelissa's clit.

Her movements aren't particularly practiced, not yet. But just the realization that her queen is trying to do this for her is enough to drive Kelissa to another wracking orgasm. She slumps once more, even more spent now than the last time. And while you've still barely even scratched your own reserves of stamina, you know that you probably won't be getting much more out of them for a while.

Instead, you slide back in next to the two mortals, wrapping an arm around both their trembling bodies. Rysanial does the same from the opposite side, sandwiching the two of them together as the night of passionate sex turns into a night of more relaxed petting. The four of you luxuriate in each other's warmth, until soon enough the two mortals fall asleep in each other's arms.

This, of course, leaves you free to give more consideration to how you intend to direct your agents while you're off hunting Elianna and Lyra. If you want to clear as many ritual components as possible this time, then your options may be more limited than usual.

In particular, there are certain tasks that are the same in all your plans. Sending Verika to track down Ceilyn before Melca can. Sending Ceriss, Ghazar and his commandos, along with the human foot soldiers that you recruited to go after the Nuati rebels and obtain their relic. Sending the main army and the harpies against a larger Nelin city. Sending Rysanial out to find and seduce the lust cult. Asking Nevati to research modifications to the Shadowgate that will allow you to send your armies through it. Asking the ratfolk to pursue further recruitment among the uncorrupted orcs. As well as asking Mockingbird to accompany you.

Beyond that, one strategy would be to have Rokaviel back up Rysanial, providing the necessary muscle to kill the incubus pursuing the lust cult. You could have Khaytala and the elven rangers guard the fortress, have Fallhazel obtain the phoenix feather, and have the drow forage in the Great Forest.

Alternatively, a slight change to that plan would be to have the drow protect the fortress instead, and the elves forage in their place. While the result would be largely similar, the presence of a cleric among the elves might give them an extra edge against demonic threats, while the drow's training in espionage might give them an extra edge against more subtle dangers.

Finally, you could choose to hold off on getting the phoenix feather for now, instead assigning Fallhazel to back up Rysanial and assigning the elves help Khaytala guard, while Rokaviel gives the drow some training. In exchange for delaying the feather and gathering less food, you would increase both the strength and survivability of your drow royal guard going forward.

Each of the plans have their own strengths and weaknesses. But you'll need to settle on one in order to move forward.