A story from the Round Table.
Despondency had followed the visit of the Black Knight. The bleak outlook of a visit to the mysterious warrior a year hence for the payment of the forfeit. The only way to conserve his reputation his honour, was to submit to the might of the Black Knight. The challenge for Sir Gwaine was how to survive the onslaught that the Black Knight would unleash, the unendurable pain and terrible injury he himself had so often caused in others and there was no way he could see to prepare for it.
Then, a breakthrough. With the help of his loyal page, Arthur and two members of the Castle Guard, Gwaine had started on a journey of self discovery and research. He understood the world through physical training and the development of skills and strength to meet specific challenges and this would be his way to face the task. He must learn from whatever source was available and focus his training to meet the needs of a mission.
In any contest, the first thing in the mind of a champion should be that there is always someone greater out there. When you're the biggest, most skilful on the training ground, the only way to learn how to be beat those unknown champions who presently stand greater than yourself, is to anticipate them, anticipate what their strategies might be, train to meet those challenges and overcome them.
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For a while Gwaine was unable to reconnect his real world senses. His body seemed to be locked in another dimension, viewed from the outside. Only seconds since the blast of his overwhelming orgasm but it seemed like hours ago in the aftermath. This could go very badly if not carefully controlled with iron discipline. He snapped back to full consciousness.
His hearing gave him the hard breathing of the 3 individuals locked in physical contact. Himself, the two guards, Pistwl and Bardwlff all slowly recovering their respiration following exertion. Then, nearby, the calmer, melancholy of his young servant, Arthur.
The smell of freshly spilled semen, strong male body odour with a background of burning torches.
His tastebuds read slightly sweet, slightly salt and uniquely hormonal rasping in the throat. That, he now knew, was a requirement of this experience, having tasted it for the first time the previous day from the fingers of the Black Knight. He would learn to detect subtle variations as his experience grew.
He couldn't see much beyond the pubic bush and the ginger body hair of Pistwl, slammed up against his face and stuck fast in a tangle of beard, saliva, pubes and cum.
He allowed his butt cheeks to relax, freeing his super-size hands. With a grunt, Bardwlff allowed his rapidly shrinking cock to slither out of the great man's arse and with one big mitt on each of Pistwl's hips, Gwaine carefully separated his face from the soldier's musky groin allowing the sticky member, that had been reaming his tonsils, to slip from his lips in order that he could stand up.
So there were the four men, two naked guards, a nearly naked knight, towering over them with his lower garments at his ankles and finally, the timid, fully clothed page, albeit with a somewhat shameful sticky stain leaking at his groin.
Full of confidence, like a wounded but ultimately victorious combatant, oblivious to the detritus of rough, improvised carnality all around, Gwaine proclaimed, "I will see to it that you two have detachment from your regular guard duties and assignment to my service from today. You will treat this posting seriously as you would any military training" He added "Report to me here each morning after drill parade inspection until further notice."
Then, in a tone that carried a clearly discernible threat, he said, "Regard everything you see, hear and do in my service as top secret, completely confidential and if I find that there has been drunken tittle tattle in the tavern or any such gossiping, I will regard it as treason."
Then, menacingly hefting his now half flaccid monster cock, he said, "The sentence of death will be slow and painful and carried out by myself." He barked, "Do I make myself clear?"
"SAH!" Snapped Bardwlff with a smart, if naked, salute.
"Yes Sir!" Piped Pistwl at attention.
"Right!" Trumpeted their commander, "Get yourselves back in that tub, get cleaned up, I want this mess cleared away."
Then, in a very different tone, more business like than military, he turned to his loyal manservant, cowering in the shadows. "Find me a tub, Arthur and attend me upstairs directly."
Yes, my lord." Bleated the young man, feeling slightly more secure in his familiar duties.
***
One privilege of his rank within the Castle hierarchy was bath water. This great luxury, brought by a serf bearing a heavy wooden yoke, from which hung two leather buckets, up the stone flights from the well in the square far below and laboriously delivered to a small copper tub in Gwaine's upper chamber. It took time. Time enough for Arthur to heat a cauldron on the fire in Gwaine's chamber. Time for Arthur to think about what he had just seen, what had happened to him and ponder the questions which would now be clattering around uncomfortably in his master's mind and which would undoubtedly spill out during bath time, when his master liked to mull over current issues. An important part of any skilled servant's work is to remember their superior's likes and dislikes and if possible anticipate their needs.
Meanwhile, Gwaine had sent for the king's engineer. He had had a series of interconnected ideas. In due course, a messenger arrived offering apologies for the delay but would it please his lordship to see the engineer during the afternoon? The knight returned the messenger to report that it would please his lordship greatly for it was this man who had designed the hanging apparatus in Gwaine's lower chambers.
Gwaine concluded his bathing and whilst his magnificent body was drying near embers of the fire on which Arthur had heated the bathwater, it occurred to him that there were a number of aspects of anatomy, matters of curiosity arising from his recent experiences, which he could not see on his own body and about which he knew little or nothing. He said as much, out loud, once again to himself but more as an opener to this de-briefing session.
He looked at his page, whose own body was, by weight certainly less than half that of his own and reasoned that the principles would be the same. It was time for an anatomy lesson.
He squatted carefully down on a low footstool and beckoned to the page to come forward. Arthur had been blotting at the front of his leggings in an attempt to remove the remains of the embarrassing semen stain there. This had now, more or less, disappeared but standing right in front of the crouched knight, they both knew it was still there and how it had come to be.
Folded over, as he was, Gwaine's nose was at that very level and the youthful pungency of the young man's crotch. His master noted a certain feeling in his own body in response to that scent. However, from an investigative point of view, Gwaine felt familiar enough at present with what happened in this area of a man's body and his intention was to focus on other features that had excited his curiosity during the visit of the Black Knight and again this morning.
Speaking gently to the young man, "I would like to know more about what Private Bardwlff did to me and about why it felt the way it did." Explained the knight." I'm aware that when I grabbed at you earlier it was without your permission to do so." He ventured. "Perhaps other knights would dismiss such things but a man must have his dignity." Continued Gwaine with a concerned look. "You need not fear me, Arthur. Will you trust me to touch you?"
Emboldened by this, Arthur said "Master, my very life is in your hands, how could I refuse you?"