A cyclops is nothing if not power made manifest. Born from the union of Gaia and Uranus, cousins to the titans and hundred-handed giants, they were earthbound monsters with Olympian blood -- a lineage that could be felt with their every ground-shaking footstep. They towered above everything on the rocky plains they inhabited, giving any humans who dared to share their territory a constant reminder of who
truly
ruled over nature.
And Astera was nothing if not a cyclops. Tall as seven men with the mass of several hundred, she was bigger than the statues those puny Greeks erected for their gods, and far more imposing. Her wide, fertile hips and seductive umber eye belied a strength that could pull up trees like a human would turnips.
Like any true cyclops, she had her own den, a snug cavern hidden deep within the mountains of Aetolia. And like any true cyclops, she had her own slave.
Laodocus, as he was once called, was a struggling playwright who had left the safety of Athens for rustic inspiration. An ill-advised scenic detour led him straight into Astera's giant hands -- and then into the dark, miserable den he'd call home for the rest of his pathetic life. She remembered his screams, so raw, so innocent. He didn't scream like that anymore. He had lost all energy to.
For six moons now he had been victim to her malicious desires. She looked forward to their daily torture sessions, where she'd find some new way to inflict horrendous pain on him -- or better yet, make him inflict horrendous pain on himself. She had grown to prefer the latter option, especially on long days like this where she needed to lie back and enjoy some evening entertainment.
But most importantly, she had made sure never to call him by his "real" name. He was nothing now, not even a toy to her; if she pressed him flat under her putrid soles, his bloody pulp wouldn't even cover them. No, he was simply her slave -- and he knew as much, if thoughts even raced through his defeated mind anymore.
He probably doesn't even
remember
his old name,
Astera thought, smirking. She was almost home now, back at her secluded little crag where no one else knew she wasn't the only resident. If not for her one eye, from a distance one could mistake Astera for a human woman; she wore sandals made from entire cow hides and a sweat-soaked toga that barely covered her breasts (and completely exposed her privates, assuming you were standing right below her), with a sack slung over her back. At her size, she didn't need to conform to human conventions of decency at all, but she liked the way their clothing accentuated her curves. Besides, it made her sweat more, and nothing tortured poor Laodocus quite like her stench.
She heaved her massive figure over the last cliff, seeing the entrance to her cavern -- but with the boulder that usually blocked her slave's escape was rolled to the side. Gods, she had forgotten to close off the entrance! If her slave still had the strength to walk, he surely would have escaped by now.
No matter,
she thought,
I'll find some other poor human. Maybe several.
She smiled at the thought of it. But Laodocus would be hard to replace. After half a year, most humans would have put themselves out of their misery on account of her sheer smell, let alone the physical torture. No, Laodocus was perseverant -- pathetic, but perseverant. It made her a bit sad, actually, knowing she'd never find another slave who'd suffer as much as him.
Yet as she stopped to her knees to wriggle her giant ass into the cave's tight entrance, she spotted light inside the cavern.
Then she spotted
Laodocus
inside the cavern. The human was prodding a fire, apparently readying some sort of stew in the cauldron above.
"SLAVE!", Astera roared, pebbles raining from the cavern's ceiling as she did so. It was more from the shock of seeing him than anything else. How could her slave not have escaped? Surely he must have noticed the boulder was gone.
"Keep your voice down, Tera. You're going to make the whole place cave in," Laodocus said, sighing. "You're late, by the way. I had to rekindle the fire so the stew didn't get cold."
"S-sorry," the cyclops said, making sure to move the boulder back as she squeezed the rest of herself into the cramped lair. "The
agora
was a zoo today. I had to wait hours in line to get your papyrus, and then some lady claimed I stomped on her cart, and then--"
"Hey, hey, you're all good," her slave said, giving her a tiny kiss on the cheek. She smiled. It was one of the many ways he showed complete submission to her. Apparently the taste of her skin alone was enough to make him retch. "I just didn't want you to get hungry. You got me the new Euripedes play, right?"
"Umm, no, they were out of that one. Oh, I got you the new Aristophanes, though! I think it's about birds or something," the cyclops said, pulling a scroll from her sack. "I-I hope that's okay."
Laodocus huffed. "He's overrated, but fine. I'll read it to you later." The human had been teaching her all about the great bards and playwrights for the past few moons. It wasn't as fulfilling as torturing him, but she had been meaning to get cultured so she could converse with the more sophisticated cyclopses she knew. He had a great voice for the job, too, assigning every character some unique accent or inflection. (His deep, booming Odysseus always made her giggle.)
"Where should I put these?," she asked, handing him the blank sheets of papyrus Laodocus had sent her to fetch. For the past two moons, her slave had been hard at work on the revised draft of some comedy about Poseidon he wouldn't let her look at yet.
"In my bed is fine," he replied, adding some chopped herbs into the stew.
"O-oh, okay," Astera said, blushing as she realized what he meant, and she slid the sheets into her massive busom. Every night Laodocus would nestle between her breasts, passing out from the pain almost instantly. The heat was worse than all of Hades, he said, especially when she squeezed her tits together.
"Is this okay?," she asked, wiggling her breasts to prove the papers were secure.
Her slave took a long, hard look at her chest before finally nodding. "Looks good to me." He tasted the stew again before throwing into another handful of sage.
"That smells incredible, slave," Astera said, leaning her massive face right above the cauldron, its savory smells wafting up to her massive face. "I've been waiting to eat all day." A drop of drool fell from her mouth and landed in the pot with a
plip
. She lowered her face more, but a tiny hand nudged it away.
"Don't you want to torture me first?"
"Oh! Right," Astera said, having forgotten to do their daily sessions again. It was nice having a slave who reminded her. "Well, I've been walking a lot today, I was thinking m-maybe I could torture you with my feet tonight." Sitting up, she stuck her man-sized sandal in her slave's face and, taking it off, wriggled five sweaty digits the size of his head.
"Let's see," Laodocus said, closely sniffing each toe to see which had the worst stench. All seemed equally abhorrent, so he chose the largest. "Gods, you smell awful," he said, looking up at her and he massaged her big toe. "I'm already nauseous." He never actually thrown up in the time she had known him, though he once explained that during their sessions she had made his gag reflex snap in two.
"Ooooh, that feels good," Astera sighed, leaning her head back against the cavern wall as her slave ran his small tongue up and down her hot, salty toe. "You like that, little man?"
Her slave simply shook his head no, too busy licking to give a verbal response.
"G-good," she said.
He was done with the filth on the first toe now, and he moved onto the other four, squeezing them as he went. She could feel his tiny erection rise against her sole.
"Slave," she asked, "what's that?"
Laodocus sighed, taking his mouth off her pinky. "How many times do I have to tell you, Tera? I always get hard when I'm afraid. It's just how my body reacts. But don't worry, erections are extremely painful for me, remember?"
"Y-yeah, but why are you afraid right now?"
"Because you smell so bad I could fucking choke," he said, before diving his head between her toes and taking a massive lick. "Fuck, Tera, when was the last time you bathed?"
Asters shrugged, counting in her head. "I dunno. I guess I haven't dipped in the river for... five days now."