The tribe of Brael had worked for the better part of the morning to construct Kar’s pyre in Divinity Square where she had met her end. And all hung their heads as Yana and her warriors carried their fallen sister on their crossed spears before laying her atop the piled timber.
Between the pyre and the crowd, hundreds of members of the Aegis stood at attention in their uniforms, their bond-mates at their backs as they too bid farewell to one of their own.
Volka Gundrsdotter officiated over the proceedings, speaking at length not only of Kar’s courage and sacrifice but also of the love that she had shared with all those around her.
Nameless would forget most of her words.
He was in a fog of grief, exhausted from his ordeal of the previous day, but still he held his head high. He stood with his own bond-mates within the circle alongside the tribe of Brael.
The massive crowd of Amazons gave him many curious looks, the man who had found the last Valkyrie: their Valkyrja-datta. The title had spread quickly. But they kept the whispers to a minimum out of respect for the fallen.
At length Volka drew her sword of golden light and thrust it into the piled wood beneath Kar’s body and golden flames caught on the dry timber.
The divine fire did not consume Kar, but rather wrapped her in a golden radiance that gradually dissipated, her body carried upwards on motes of light that vanished into the clear sky.
After it was over and the crowd began to disperse, Tiana and a few of her sisters approached Nameless and the others, a familiar object in her arms.
“I have discussed it with Yana and my war-sisters, and they agree. Milly, you should have this.”
She held Kar’s spear out to the startled Minotaur.
The weapon was nearly as tall as she was and its bladed tip was forever stained black by Evadne’s blood.
“This was given to her by her mother, before she passed. She wielded it for over a decade, though it betrayed her in the end. She has no daughters to give it to, but she dearly loved training with you, and with Erica. I believe it is what she would want.”
Tiana offered her a small smile as the Minotaur considered the weapon with an unreadable expression.
“I know we haven’t taught you the spear, that you never want to hurt anyone but-”
“I’ll take it.” Milly’s voice was soft but determined; “If Kar taught me anything, it’s that there is nothing wrong with fighting to protect the ones you love. I’ll take it, and I swear I’ll learn how to use it someday.”
Tiana blinked, then held out the weapon and the Minotaur took it without hesitation.
The Amazon opened her mouth to say something, but instead pulled the gentle monster into her embrace. After a few emotional moments she found her words again.
“Perhaps it is fate, she did joke that you would take her spear once, do you remember?”
Milly sniffled and nodded in her arms.
After they had parted Tiana embraced Erica and the others in turn.
“It wasn’t just Kar who enjoyed training with you. Take care of yourselves, dear friends. I fear that dark times lie ahead for us all.”
With that she and her sisters took their leave.
Nameless spent some time in the square afterwards, considering the damage from the battle and the foliage that had sprung up where the Dryads had healed him.
The spot where Kar had died.
“Don’t obsess over it kid, she wouldn’t want that. Grieve, and then move on.”
Miranda’s voice sounded from behind him and he felt her hand settle on his shoulder.
“How?”
He didn’t look away from the ground. He could almost hear Kar’s voice calling out to him, telling him to stay down…
Miranda’s answer was typically direct.
“Go home. Sleep, eat, fuck. Go back to your cottage and live your life kid.”
He sighed as he turned to meet her grey eyes.
“Home.”
He repeated the word as a question.
She gave him another look, sighed and walked away; fortunately he wasn’t alone for long as his girls moved in to flank him on either side while Milly pulled him into her breasts.
“Master, she’s right you know.”
He swallowed, in the last two days he had probably shed more tears than he had shed in his entire life.
Finally he stood up straight and turned to his loves with a weak smile.
“Alright then, let’s go home.”
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Far away from the city of Garland, in a cave shrouded with darkness, a frail man crowed with exultation.
“At last! Eve I have done it! Look at her, isn’t she perfect?”
Jonathan stood from his long crouch and cracked his back as he gestured at the girl prone before him.
“She’s still just a rabbit.” Evadne sniffed with disdain.
“We have to start small, you know that. Lapines are easy to break. And she is only the first.” He smiled at the bunny.
Evadne sniffed again.
“She is food.”
The nude girl stirred and rose to her knees. She drew in a rasping breath, her small breasts heaving as her chest expanded. Her eyes fluttered open.
They were black as pitch.
She turned her gaze to the Empath and stared, waiting.
“Look Eve, she is in control!”
“She is making me hungry.”
Jonathan turned to her with a sigh, his good mood spoiled.
“Years of work have come to fruition; at last we have what we need. And all you can think about… is food?”
Evadne turned her eyes to her ostensible master.
“She is but one, and a weak one at that. I will need far more than this to achieve my goals. You are getting excited over nothing.”
Jonathan was annoyed by her harsh words, and the contempt he could sense from her heartstone did nothing to help.
“I spent ten years in hell for this! For you Evadne! These are our goals. We want the same thing.”
His voice was grating.
Ten years? Try a thousand you little snot.
Evadne snorted and tilted her head to one side as she considered the newborn Tenebrae before them.
“There is one more test.” She announced; “We need to be sure. If she is going to turn on you then we need to know sooner rather than later.”
“What do you suggest?”
Evadne leaned in and whispered in his ear as one hand worked to free his member from his pants.
“Isn’t it obvious?”
Jonathan gasped in sudden discomfort; the black eyes of the bunny girl were far from arousing to look upon.
“No, I’m not in the mood…”
Evadne smiled as she addressed the puffy tailed Lapine.
“And yet it is happening. Well slave, what are you waiting for? Service this little bastard. Show me that you and the others who come after you can do what you’re told.”
The dark-eyed girl’s only response was to shift forwards and take his cock between her lips.
He tilted his head back and squirmed in consternation, not aroused in the least by the bunny’s clumsy efforts and keenly aware of the sharp teeth kept barely off of his vulnerable flesh.
“Soon this won’t be necessary at all. Once we free them all, then we can stop. Right, Eve?”
His gaze flickered to the Chimera, but she wasn’t listening. Instead, she took up a bag of walnuts and began cracking them one at a time, discarding the nut and the shell both.
“Evadne?”
But she did not answer him.
The End
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Other Books By The Lieutenant
The Heartstone Saga
Book 1 - Empath Rising
Book 2 - Legacy of the Valkyrie
Book 3 - ????
And coming soon:
Interlude - Erotic Collection
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