CONTENT WARNING: This story is exceedingly disgusting. It contains filthy stinking bodies, bodily fluids and scat.
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I run. The heavy branch I use as a club slows me down, but without it I am defenseless. The wolves are not far behind me, they fear the club, but know that I cannot outrun them. I probably killed one of them when they first attacked, and now they stay at a respectful distance, but they do not give up. I can maybe run for an hour more, then I have to stop and make my last stand.
I continue to run, delaying the inevitable. Then I see it: buildings behind a wall. For a moment I feel hope, then I realize where I am. It is the temple of Solep-Aksa. Only women are allowed to enter, and only to stay forever. I know that if a man enters the gate, his corpse will be burnt in front of the gate at dawn three days later.
I run towards the temple. I will live three days longer this way!
As I approach the gate, the wolves instinctively sense that their prey may escape, and attack again. I hit one with my club without breaking stride, then I see the gate opening. I do not see the archers, but I hear the bows and the yelps of the wolves as they die. Just before reaching the gate I see a burnt place on the ground, it has been a while since a pyre was burning there, but I guess that will soon change.
I run through the gate and hear it close behind me. Three women with bows are greeting me. I have never seen a sight like this! The youngest is perhaps 18, she is wearing a long white dress that reaches almost down to her ankles. The dress has clearly not been washed recently, it is spotted by food and other things, her bare feet are muddy and her hair looks like it should be washed. The second is two or three years older, her dress was probably also white once, but is now a dirty brown. It is frayed and torn, and a big tear exposes her right breast. She is at least as dirty as the younger woman. The third woman is perhaps in her early thirties, she is completely naked, and incredibly dirty. It looks like she has not only stopped washing her hair a decade ago, but at some point she had stopped combing it, too. None of them looks like they are ashamed, neither of their nakedness or of their lack of basic hygiene.
"That was a narrow escape," the oldest woman says. "But unfortunately men are not allowed here. We will have to put you in a cell for the night, tomorrow the Mother Superior will deside your fate."
Resistance is futile. I dropped my club in the last mad dash to the gate, the three women are armed and look strong, and where would I escape to? Outside the gate, the wolves are still howling. I let them take me to a small, dark cell. There is a bench to sit on, and a bucket with a lid to piss in. A tiny opening lets in the last light of the day. The door closes, and is locked from the outside.
I am a prisoner in the temple of Solep-Aksa!
Maybe I should not have entered the gate. The wolves would be eating me now, but perhaps that is a better fate. Dying just outside her temple would most likely attract Solep-Aksa's attention, but perhaps some of the other gods would still try to claim my soul...
Solep-Aksa, goddess of evil, goddess of chaos. Goddess of famine and infertility. Goddess of death...
You do not worship Solep-Aksa, not even evil people want to attract her attention by doing that. You worship against her, pray to other gods and goddesses to protect you from her. And communities and towns will occasionally make human sacrifices to appease her. Murderers and rapists are taken to one of her six unmanned shrines, where they are chained up and left to die of thirst and hunger. And once in a while a young woman is selected, and given to one of the three temples. She must be eighteen years old, as that is six times three, and those numbers are important for Solep-Aksa. She must not be a virgin, but nor must she ever have been pregnant. It is a terrible fate to be given to the temple: not only must she spend her life there, but when she dies her soul belongs to the goddess.
Maybe I will share fate with the murderers and rapist, doomed to die of thirst in this cell and be burned at dawn in three days, so my soul can go to an undoubtedly horrible afterlife in Aksaheim.
My dark thoughts are interrupted as the door to the cell is open. It is the youngest and the oldest woman from before. The older, naked one is holding a drawn sword in her hand, while the younger one enters my cell with a tray. There is a candle, a jug of water, and a plate with some bread and sausage. They even give me a short knife to cut the sausage, its tip is rounded and it is quite blunt, obviously chosen because it is useless as a weapon. They do not speak to me, and quickly leave the cell.
The bread is good, and plentiful, and the sausage is fat and tasty, not what I expected in a prison. I am famished, but there is enough food to satisfy me. With a full stomach, my mood is somewhat better, and I lie down to get some sleep.
I wake up when the first light is entering through the tiny window. Just as I have finished relieving myself in the bucket, the door opens again. The same two women give me my breakfast, the same bread but this time with cheese. I try to speak to them, but they do not reply.
Perhaps an hour passes, then the door is opened again. This time it is four women, the thirty-year old naked one and the one with the torn and dirty dress. One of the two others is also naked and perhaps in her late twenties. The last is young, in her early twenties, and wearing a dress that looks like it has been washed in shit. It is completely brown, and looks like the lower half has rotted away, exposing her incredibly hairy pussy for all to see. Like the other women, she does not seem to feel any shame.
"The Mother Superior is ready to see you."
I follow the four women to another building, where I am led into what I assume is the office of the Mother Superior. She, too, is around thirty, naked, and disgustingly dirty. She looks sternly at me, and speaks.
"Men are not allowed here in the temple," she says.
"I know. But the wolves were chasing me, had I not entered the temple I would have died."
"That is irrelevant. Not for you, of course, for you it is very relevant that you would have been eaten alive. But for us it is irrelevant, you have entered the temple of Solep-Aksa ..."
"Praised be her name!" the four other women chant in unison.
"... and have forfeited your life. But your timing is good. One slave is allowed in the temple at any time, and the previous just left us. Being slave to so many women is demanding, and he had a weak heart. He is now with Solep-Aksa."
"Praised be her name!"