THE WOMAN IN THE VILLAGE
Viran was in ecstasy as was the woman to whom he was making love with. She was excellent in terms of adjusting herself to his large male organ. So when she insisted on him going deeper inside her, he did exactly that.
At first, the woman thought she had made a terrible mistake, for the pain that followed the huge ape-like man's intrusion inside her, was like nothing she'd experienced before. Still she maintained the rhythm as she felt the stranger pump into her from behind, taking whatever he could from her. Then she felt him relax as he emptied his seed inside her. His grunts abated and his movements inside her slowed down as he hugged her taking solace from her. Then he let go of her and leaned back on the walls of the bath.
The woman sighed in pleasure and turned to face him, sloshing water out as she did so. She saw him smile at her and rise out of the water, revealing an excellent, well-toned, muscular body. He was muscular in all parts and his skin glistened in the pale light of the sun. The woman rested her head on her chin on the concrete platform of the crude bath and looked at him as he began to dress.
"You're leaving? What a shame. We could've done so much more." she said attempting to make him stay.
"I can't. I haven't been brought up that way and besides won't the people here say anything about us, if I do stay here with you?"
"I don't mind them. In fact I make a living out of this occasionally. Only with you I've had a deeper satisfaction. But go, if you must. I won't stop you."
"But what about the baby, the child I may have put in you?"
"Oh, that. Don't worry, I'll take care of it, along with my other one. At least there will be something to remember you by." She said smiling at him. Viran came close and captured her lips, as he was taught to, by swallowing her whole lips and feeding off them, in a hungry manner. As he was about to leave she asked concerned,
"Don't you want something to eat or to at least take for the rest of wherever you're going? How will it look like on my part to leave a guest go hungry?"
"I've had my fill. Thanks to you. As to where I'm going.... By Lord Pashupatha! I haven't quite decided on that yet." Saying so he went out. The woman in the bath fell asleep, smiling to herself and thinking of the wonderful experience she just had.
Outside, the village people were still in discussion. When they saw Viran, they all gathered in a distance and sent away a small boy to him. The boy came near and told him of a bounty money that was kept for anyone that killed the monster. It would be handed over to the person directly by the village headman, he was told.
So Viran followed them all, ignoring all their looks and remarks at his body and reached the house of the headman, which was obviously more affluent than the rest of the houses. The headman came out and surveyed him. He was middle-aged and wore only a loose cloth below his waist, like the rest of the people except that his looked more polished and clean. Then he went in and came out with a turban over his head, hand with a small bag of coins.
"Is it he who brought down the beast?" he addressed the crowd in general.
"Yes. Yes. We saw it. All of us. He is the one." All of them chorused, more excitedly than Viran himself.
"Then come near, O stranger and accept this bounty that we so graciously give for your service to this village."
"Thank you. It really was not . . ."
"Ah . . . but we're not finished yet are we? We also offer or at least I do, this young kanya who we think will serve you well." He said to him and beckoned to someone from inside. A small dark skinned girl came out, dressed like every other woman in the village with a topless attire, with a loose cloth that barely covered her lower body. She looked around, a little terrified and when she saw Viran, her eyes widened.
"What is this? Who is this girl?" Viran asked, a little disgusted at the proposal.
"She is from a native tribe that lives deep in the forests, that if you are in the way of travelling to, will find. She has sought refuge here, under me and put a curse on us. We believe she must be returned and for her own good too, for I don't trust any male here to do the job without any lustful intent."
"Fine. I'll take her too. Show me the way out of here."
"Straight away from here. Follow the main paved path, till you reach an archway. Beyond it lies the forest and the way to the next town."
Viran gently took the little girl's hand in his and moved fast towards the forest.
The girl reached only up to the height of his thighs, but she was no longer a small girl. Her daily servicing of the headman through her body, kept him from driving her out and providing her with the benefits of a civilized life, for which she'd abandoned her tribe to look for wealth and decent living.
But when the village people learnt of her presence and threatened to kill him, he decided to place her as a bounty for anyone who would succeed in killing the monster that terrorized their town, not expecting to find anyone worthy to complete the task.
But here she was being dragged to her home in the forest, back to her tribe by a foreigner who looked more frightening than the man who'd raped her over and over for nearly a month. She didn't resist though, instead wondering how different and strange he looked from the others.
Viran looked around to spot any dwelling of the tribes but found none. He decided to move inside the forest to investigate, so he lifted the girl on his shoulders and moved inside. After a while they came upon a clearing with huts made of dried grass and remains of a bonfire. Immediately they were surrounded by thin, scrawny natives with long spears.
Viran didn't flinch and held his ground. From somewhere a cry came out. An elderly man who looked just like the spear wielders, stepped out, followed by a woman. Both were stark naked, except for their traditional tribal jewelry and they snatched the little girl from his shoulder and embraced her. Then they said something to the soldiers, who violently took Viran to their main camp, deeper in the jungle.
At first he believed they were going to kill him, for the girl he'd escorted appeared to be the daughter of the Chief of the tribe and the tribes mostly considered their daughters sacred. This he learnt from a friendly villager named Ruka who'd settled among the tribes, when he was being held temporarily before the others came to a conclusion as to what to be done with him.
If she or any girl in their tribe were touched by an outsider without the knowledge of the elderly, her purity would be questionable and the person to touch her would be sacrificed, in a brutal manner.
But instead of placing him on an altar, he was seated in front of a council where he had to explain how he met the girl in the first place.
"Did you really kill a monster with your bare hands?" the first elder among the four asked.
Among them were the two man and woman who'd rushed to get the child away from him. He guessed they too were leaders of the tribe.
"No, that's a fallacy. All I did was kill a wild boar."
"With no weapons?"