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Catriona put a hand on her stomach, nauseous to the point of vomiting. Nerves made her hands shake as well as all her insides.
"Cat, don't be so nervous," her friend Sine. "This is an incredible honor! I'm so jealous. I wish I could be The Alyth in this year's Imbolc festival!"
"That's because you're a whore," Catriona told her friend with a laugh.
"There's nothing wrong with a strong man between your thighs," Sine told her best friend with a smile. "You don't have a man in you often enough!"
"Oh bollocks," Cat told her friend. "I fuck plenty. I just don't relish the thought of fucking three men in front of the whole village!"
"Well, you've been picked to be The Alyth of Imbolc and you HAVE to do it to ensure Ballybridge has a good harvest. And it's not like it's going to be a hardship."
"Not for you, mayhap, but I'm not an exhibitionist like you. I swear, Sine, you have no shame."
"What is there to be ashamed of, you little prude? Sex is natural." Sine walked over and put her arms around her friend. "You sacrifice a little time and public fucking and we get an abundant crop this summer. It's a fair trade."
Catriona hugged her friend before she turned and sat on her bed. She thought about the annual festival of Imbolc. It was a fertility festival their village of Ballybridge celebrated every year. One unmarried girl, who was not a virgin, was chosen to stand in for the goddess Alyth, the goddess of Spring. During the festival, three masked men would take her to an earthen altar where they would all fuck her. This was a sexual sacrifice to ensure the fertility of their crops in the coming year. In the last hundred years the village had not had one bad harvest. It was unheard of in the surrounding villages in their rugged, unforgiving region of northern Scotland.
Cat was not opposed to sex, she loved it. She'd had many lovers who had remained her friends. She wasn't even opposed to sex with multiple men at one time. What she had to come to terms with was fucking these men with the whole village as an audience. But tonight was the night, so Catriona needed to come to terms with this quickly.
"Don't worry, Sine, I'll do it. I'll even embrace it. I would never do anything to jeopardize Ballybridge."
"I know, and don't worry. Plenty of people will be busy fucking each other. Many may not even watch."
Catriona knew Sine was just trying to make her feel more at ease, but Catriona knew better. Most eyes would be on her performance tonight. Just talking about her fears had helped, though. "What is Keith going to think of me after this?"
Keith was the Laird's son. He was nearly ten years older than her and she had seen very little of him through her life, usually from a distance. He was often away on clan business and she'd had no opportunity to interact with him. All she knew of him was that he was very tall and well muscled with dark hair. It was, however, a very enviable match.
"Keith? If he really loves Ballybridge he'll understand what you are doing for our village! You know very well there is no stigma attached to being The Alyth."
"I hope so. I'm ready to be married and it will please my family very much."
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As the sun was setting, Sine helped Cat get ready for the Imbolc ceremony. Cat stripped her clothing off and Sine helped her friend rub a special, very expensive cream into her skin. It made Cat's very white, milky skin glow with a golden sheen which brought out the gold in her hazel eyes. Then Sine brushed Cat's waist length burgundy hair until it shone like fire. She very much looked like a pagan goddess.
"Frig, Cat, I am so jealous of your body. I wish I looked like you instead of a beanpole! You really look like a fertility goddess with all with your round hips and giant tits. Bitch," Sine told her with a mock scowl.
"Oh, shut your mouth. You literally have to beat the men off with a stick."
"I know, but you're so soft and womanly."
"Or fat," Cat said with a laugh.