Lillian felt cold water rush over her body and she began to convulse rather harshly, screaming curses and writhing on her haphazard straw bedding.
"Wake up time!" A female bandit holding an empty bucket smiled at the naked noble woman.
"How dare you!"
"You may be gone, Lynn," Rycroft said and the female bandit left with a smile on her face.
"Okay, today is the first day of labor, probably your first time ever doing any manual labor." Rycroft clapped his hands with glee.
"NEVER!" Lillian spat, her hair was wet and stuck to her face.
"Well darling, here is the thing, I've got Methuselah Worms."
Lillian's heart sunk, "I thought they were... but a legend."
"Oh no, certainly not, I know you probably know the stories, but I'll reiterate on the off chance that you were never told about the sting of the Methuselah Worm. It is well known that their bite can rob a young person of their youth."
"It isn't true!" Lillian said worriedly.
"Oh, but it is! What are you 25?"
"Twenty-Four."
"Hmmm, I always seem to be a year off when guessing ages. Well anyway a bite from this worm can turn you from a beautiful 24 year old, with every opportunity to meet a dashing young nobleman and live the life of your dreams into an old wretch of eighty-five, with no hope or future.." Rycroft put his hands on his hips and smiled.
"You think you are so clever tricking me like this!"
"This is no trick, let me show you the worm." Rycroft left and returned with a glass jar, In it was a disgusting dark red glowing worm, it seemingly had two mouths, it left a trail of what looked like blood wherever it slithered within the jar."
Lillian looked terrified, she swallowed deeply, "Its...its...its...just like in the legends."
"So what will it be? You clean my lair with some rags, or you lose sixty years of your life?"
Lillian's face went white, her breath became sharper."
"Why it looks like, you are unable to speak at the moment, I'll give you your rag and bucket of soap, I'll unlock you, if you start cleaning I will know what choice you've made." Again Rycroft left, this time trading the Worm filled Jar for a rag, a bucket of soapy water and a key. Lillian was unshackled and handed a rag and a bucket of soapy water.
Looking dejected Lillian stared at her rag. With Lillian's lips quivering she dunked the rag in the soapy water. Then Lillian stood up, her legs quivering, she nearly stumbled as she walked over to the wall of Rycroft's bedroom and started lightly wiping a stain off the wall. Rycroft circled her with his arms crossed.
"Wise choice, young lady. But please for the love of all that is holy, put your back into it!." Rycroft slapped Lillian on her naked ass, causing her to squeal and jump up.
"BASTARD!"
Rycroft swatted Lillian again, "NO! Not bastard, not scoundrel, not scum, I am SIR! Call me Sir, or you will be swiftly reprimanded!" Again Rycroft swatted Lillian on the ass, again making her jump.
"I said put your back into it!" Rycroft said harshly
Lillian was now crying as she rubbed the rag harshly against the cave wall. "Yes, sir," Lillian mumbled.
Rycroft watched as the stain on his wall slowly disappeared, "Good work! Now to introduce you to your other sirs and ma'ams. Lillian resisted somewhat as Rycroft suddenly pushed and prodded Lillian down a cave hallway into a well lit and loud banquet room. The bandits crassly yelled and threw their food at each other like brutes, until Rycroft spoke.
"SILENCE!" The crowd nearly froze as they looked at Rycroft standing next to the terrified and naked Lillian, who was now holding her cleaning rag over her breasts and the bucket over her crotch.
"I would like to introduce your new and hopefully temporary servant." Lillian closed her eyes in deep shame as the entire bandit crew silently gazed at her.
"You may order her around as you wish, as she is your servant, but she is not be touched, all disciplinary matters for this lowly servant shall be handled by myself." With that statement, Rycroft pushed Lillian into the banquet hall and walked away.
There Lillian stood, a noble woman naked as the day she was born, acting as a servant for the lowest brutes in all of the kingdom. She sobbed as the brutes began laughing at her expense. They tossed their meat bones on the ground, crumbs spilled out of their disgusting mouths. Lillian would have to clean it all.
The female bandit that Rycroft referred to as Lynn approached Lillian rudely chewing a haunch of meat with exaggerated chews. Lynn dropped her meat bone at Lillian's feet. "Waste bags are over there." Lillian looked to where Lynn pointed and saw a bin. Lillian still weak from the horror's of her reduced status walked up and looked into the bins, finding a cache of burlap sacks. Taking one Lillian slowly began to pick up individual pieces of food from the mess hall floor. Lillian crouched down trying to expose as little of herself as possible, this did nothing to stop the rampant catcalling.
An hour of raunchy catcalls and several sacks of discarded food later, the mess hall was nearly abandoned. All of the big pieces of food had been cleaned up. Lillian sat on one of the mess hall benches and put her head in her hands to sob.
"What the fuck is this!" A large slovenly bandit approached.
"I cleaned up all the food," Lillian said her voice cracking.
"This place is still a grimy mess." The slovenly bandit harshly tossed aside one of the eating benches.
"Get up!" Lillian stood up and the slovenly guard angrily turned the bench Lillian was sitting on upside down.
"Now you get on your hands and knees and wipe this floor clean, wench!" Lillian was disgusted but frightened, she could see a large bulge form in the slovenly bandit's pants. Not wanting to cross him she did as she was told. Lillian dropped down to all fours and started cleaning the disgusting cave floor.
The slovenly bandit let out a whistle. Bandits started streaming in until they surrounded Lillian, "What a view!" The slovenly guard said as he stared directly at Lillian's ass as she scrubbed the floor.
"Look at those swingin' utters!" Another bandit commented as Lillian's breasts dangled down, her nipples almost touching the rancid banquet room floor. The bandits laughed and made comment after comment.
"Look I can see her asshole!" One guard said.
"Look at her she's swollen down there, I think she likes this!" I do not! Lillian cried out, unable to refrain from defending herself.
"The servant's talking out of turn!" The slovenly guard said, with a certain malignancy in his voice.
Lillian put her head down, her hair touched the grimy floor.
"I'll teach this wench not to talk out of turn." The slovenly guard said as he swiftly approached Lillian from behind. The bandits cheered on. The slovenly guard dropped his pants exposing a large throbbing erection. A crazed look in his eyes came over him. Lillian, seeing her predicament, screamed. The bandits stopped their catcalling and became silent, they knew what the Slovenly guard was up to, but no one seemed to have the courage to stop it.
Rycroft was in his room grooming his mustache when Lynn rushed in, "The servant is about to be touched!"
"Thank you for informing me, Lynn." Rycroft rushed to get his bow and arrows then ran into the banquet hall.
Lillian grimaced as the slovenly guard pried open her anus. "I'll die a happy man, fucking a noble bitch in the ass!" the slovenly guard crudely spoke.
"Please god no!" Lillian cried out as she felt the slovenly guards dirt covered hands touch her ass."
Lillian crawled on all fours away from the bandit, looking over her shoulder at the crazed man continue to approach her. Drool dripped out of his mouth, he was wild and uncontrollable.
"ARRRRRGGGGGG!" The Slovenly bandit stopped in his tracks. The slovenly guard had an arrow in his back, he was stumbling, trying to reach behind his back, he attempted to pull the arrow out. Rycroft approached him.
"You disobeyed me! You disgusting rogue!" Rycroft spoke as he swiftly stabbed the slovenly bandit in the heart with a knife, killing him instantly.
"The servant is done for the day," Rycroft called out dispersing the bandits. The Slovenly guard was lying dead in a pool of his own blood.
"Don't worry I won't make you clean that up," Rycroft said as he led Lillian back to his quarters. Lillian was thankful that Rycroft saved her but terrified of the grizzly scene. She now fully understood that Rycroft was a bold man, who would kill someone at a moments notice.
***
"What? No thank you?" Rycroft spoke to Lillian as he chained her ankle to the foot of his bed.
"Thank you? For what? You're the one who got me into this mess!"
"Show some gratitude!"
"You've turned me into your servant. I AM OF NOBLE BLOOD!"
"Hush!"
"You know I'll have your head for this!"
"I just saved you from being ravaged by a disgusting brute."
"He was your disgusting brute, he worked for you!"
"I can't be picky, I am a bandit. Do you take me for a good person?"
"You are SCUM!"
"Oh! My dear, hush before I cut your tongue out! Swallow your pride, you know full well I saved you and that once your family pays your ransom you will be free to go, you'll never have to talk about this part of your life again."
"What if my family doesn't pay?" Lillian said softly.