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Daughter Of The Sun Ch 11

Daughter Of The Sun Ch 11

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IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

After having left Darya by the gates of the city of Vinevris, Princess Eluan and the knights of the Sun's Guard accompanying her have resumed their long trip westward toward the distant city of Hadun, located on the remote Isle of the Lotus. Their mission is to deliver to Duchess Sung the letter of Queen Hailey, to inform her about the incoming threat represented by the Nightlord.

Both the Queen and her younger sister are unaware of how Hadun is already a target for the Nightlord's forces. Following the orders of Queen Artemis, enslaved to the power of the Darkness, Admiral Nyphoros is starting to recruit a pirate fleet in order to put siege to the Duchal city and its territory...

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The immense avenues of the ducal city of Hadun were ample and well shaded, flanked as they were on both sides by long rows of tall, broad-leaved trees, which filtered the vivid light of the afternoon creating an enchantingly golden, almost intimate, atmosphere.

Eluan adored the city since the first moment she had laid her eyes on it, while disembarking from the barge. The general sense of tranquility, order and cleanliness that emanated from those wide streets made of rammed earth, from the low, distanced and well-kept painted wooden buildings, made it a very different city from Syfall, which with its narrow alleys and its houses of stone almost piled one on top of the other on the slopes of the hill, it sometimes appeared to her as almost suffocating, oppressive.

With enraptured curiosity, the young Princess looked all around her, observing the massive comings and goings of the busy inhabitants, while her small group led their horses at a slow pace along a wide, crowded avenue, progressively moving away from the harbor and heading towards the innermost area of ​​the city.

The men, engaged in the most diverse business activities, wore simple leather vests over their bare chests, trousers cut short to the knee and straw sandals. Only a very few of them were strolling around armed, carrying with them only daggers or short swords tied to their rope belts, another feature of this city which Eluan greatly appreciated.

The women, who were walking in pairs or in small groups along the streets, were absolutely enchanting in their long, colorful kimonos that reached down to the ground, accentuating their slender and tapered shapes, and many of them were shading themselves from the beating rays of the sun by using some small, colored paper umbrellas. Eluan found all of them to be so very cute and lovely.

The Princess did not fail to observe the different buildings on both the sides of the road, marveling at the level of caring which seemed to have been put with almost obsessive precision into every minimum detail. Every single house had its own little garden, and the inhabitants of Hadun seemed to have competed with each other to make theirs even more wonderful than those of their neighbors, exquisitely adorning them with bushes, flowers, shrubs and small statues of stone.

There was also no shortage of shops along that busy commercial street, artisans of various types, pottery makers, tinsmiths, fruit sellers, blacksmiths, candle makers and many, many more. Almost all the shops were full of customers, and the lively chatter of bargaining enlivened the atmosphere all around.

A small herbalist's shop caught in particular her attention. Through the open door, Eluan could see the shelves full of small vials, jars and stills full of ointments, oils and other more mysterious potions, while a pungent aroma of herbs, spices and medicinal plants pleasantly reached to her nostrils. The city of Hadun was very well known in the continent of Mur for the skills of its apothecaries and healers, and Eluan would have loved so much to be enjoy the opportunity to stop for a while in one of those shops, to delve deeper and explore that world that was so fascinating and unknown to her.

Continuing further down the road, Eluan's eyes fixated with curiosity on a large, elegant, two-story edifice, one of the biggest in that neighborhood, which clearly stood out from all the other smaller buildings, and whose wooden planks were entirely lacquered in polished black. Above the massive double front door, a huge flower was drawn, painted a bright, vibrant red.

Riding at her side, Nicole Silvermoth, the youngest of the three female members of the Sun's Guard escort accompanying her, a native of those lands, noticed what she was looking at.

"I sincerely hope you are not thinking to step into that building, Princess," she said with a giggle. "This is the House of the Red Tulip, one of the most famous brothels of Hadun. It wouldn't be appropriate for a person of your noble rank to step inside; thus, I have to admit, some of the girls who work there are quite noticeable and definitely worthy to stay even in the court of a Queen."

"No titles," Anja, who was riding nearby, leading the group as her usual, admonished her with a firm voice. "Remember where we are."

Nicole assumed a guilty and embarrassed expression for a moment, before looking back at Eluan and smiling at her, accompanying the gesture with a knowing wink while sticking out her tongue.

The Princess giggled, amused by that scene and by the funny expression of the young knight of the Guard with the curly head and the lively, almond-shaped eyes. Overall, she was finding great enjoyment in her company; along the way, Nicole had turned out to be a cheerful and playful girl, with a strong sense of humor and an always ready joke, and to Eluan it had been a true pleasure to have her by her side throughout their long journey.

She was about to drop the subject, however the last part of Nicole's sentence had attracted a no small amount of her morbid curiosity.

"Then, since you seem to know this place so well, I have to deduct that you have been there personally?" Eluan asked, as they continued to move along the avenue, away from the building with the black lacquered walls.

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"Only once, on a very special occasion, a couple of years ago," Nicole admitted, apparently not ashamed at all by such confession. "But it was a quite memorable experience, I have to say; for a whole hour I was able to enjoy the company of no less than four amazing ladies completely at my service, in a luxurious room with a four-poster bed and a marble bathtub with hot, scented water. How could I possibly forget that? Of course, I also clearly remember how all of this cost me quite a bit of money at the time."

She laughed again, shaking her head and swaying her thick, dark curls in the air.

"But, after all, who cares?" she added. "Sometimes a young girl should have the right to evade her life and enjoy a little bit of fun, isn't that?"

Only the Goddesses knew how much Eluan agreed with that thought. After what had happened that night on that secluded little beach near the Sea Lion Inn where, unseen, she had caught the three women of her Guard bathing naked in the sea and enjoying a shared, mutual pleasure in the waves, Eluan had remained in a state of almost constant, spasmodic arousal.

The beautiful image of their three entwined bodies, the sound of Lydia's sweet sighs as she came in ecstasy, firmly held between her two loving friends, had reappeared in her dreams practically every night, causing her to wake up every morning suffering of almost painful sense of excitement in her body. Witnessing to their threesome from a distance had only served to remind her how alone she felt, and how much in desperate need of love and physical pleasure she was.

Since then, she had promised to herself that she would have not denied to herself any opportunity for escape and for pleasure that her long trip could have offered her and, above all, that she would have no longer recurred to solitary solutions to alleviate her physical needs.

A promise, however, that she was having a terrible time keeping.

Everywhere she went, it seemed to her to spot beautiful women in every place, whether it was passing through the streets of some village, in the inns where they stopped by for the night, in the open fields near the isolated farms in the countryside. Every glance of them, every smile, every nod seemed to her to conceal a wink, a provocation, an invitation.

In a crowded inn in the port city of Nanlin, the night before they boarded the boat that would have taken them from the mainland to the Isle of the Lotus, she had been able to assist, for the first time in her life, to a sensual dance of the shadows. Seven wonderful maidens had danced without veils behind a fragile, thin paper screen tenuously lit by the warm light of the lanterns, delighting the eyes of an enchanted audience with their sensuous and graceful movements.

It was a traditional dance of those lands, which represented on stage myths and legends from the distant past, without necessarily wanting to be explicitly provocative. However, the sight of those supple and light feminine bodies, moving sinuously in perfect timing with that mesmerizing music of the flutes, had powerfully ignited her desire. That night it had been extremely difficult for her to resist the urge to relief herself under the sheets, in the bed of the room they had rented in that inn.

And then, there was Anja.

Throughout the course of their trip, Eluan had fervently hoped to find an opportunity to remain alone for a while with the stunning daughter of the Count of Summerstone but, despite all of her best efforts and intentions, the perfect moment for the two of them had never materialized.

Moreover, after their stop by the creek occurred a few days earlier, the statuesque blonde of superb beauty and sapphire eyes had not shown her any further sensible, open signals of interest, leaving the Princess uttermost confused about this, wondering if by chance those signals she had thought to have spotted in Anja had been rather merely a figment of her excited imagination and of her latent desire.

In short, it seemed that a mocking fate was sadistically enjoying by teasing and provoking her in every possible way, at every given opportunity, risking to lead her, quickly and literally, to the brink of explosion.

She was still mulling over these thoughts when eventually their steps led them to the coveted destination of their long journey. It had taken them more than a week from the Tower of the Sun to get there but, finally, the Palace of the Thousand Flowers of Hadun, the official residence of Duchess Sung and her court, was standing ahead of them.

The imposing entrance gate, carved into an high palisade made of wooden logs that surrounded the entire area of the Ducal Palace, was guarded by a few men cladded in black armor, armed with long, pointed halberds. Despite the intense heat of the day, none of them seemed to show any signs of discomfort as they stood guarding, standing motionless under those iron helmets and those heavy cuirasses.

Eluan approached the one who appeared to be their commander, a short, stocky man with a thin black moustache, and showed him the envelope with the royal seal of the letter written by her sister, briefly introducing herself and explaining the reasons for her sudden arrival at the Palace.

The man observed the seal for a few seconds, before turning to one of his comrades and addressing him a few, rough words, accompanied by a hand gesture. The soldier replied with a military salute and quickly turned, before disappearing beyond the wooden portal.

"Wait here," said the man, returning the letter to the Princess. "I hope it won't take long."

The small group of riders dismounted from their horses to stretch their legs and, for a long while, they stood there waiting, idly strolling back and forth along the street in front of the portal, waiting for someone to finally appear to greet them.

Nobody of them had noticed the man who, hidden among the crowd in the street, dressed with a rough tunic and from underneath a large straw hat, had been quietly observing and following them since the first moment they had landed at the harbor.

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They were forced to wait for more than an hour outside the Palace gates, while the brilliant sun of the afternoon began to beat down more and more oppressively overhead, threatening to stun them with the force of its heat.

The elderly and gruff Sir Gerrard Butler, who had never exactly been a model of a patient man, began very soon to lose his temper, and he started to mutter complaints and insults for such an unworthy treatment they were receiving, walking incessantly back and forth, and kicking sometimes with irritation one of the small pebbles he found along the street, while sweat dripped profusely over his bald head.

Eluan and the other girls found a minimal shelter under the green branches of a large willow tree which protruded from the Ducal garden beyond the wooden fence, while the young Willard Waynard simply decided to wait alone in silence, leaning his back against the wall of a nearby building and observing with curiosity the passing of people in front of the Palace gates.

Finally, a young and pretty girl with straight, shoulder-length black hair, who was wearing a rich blue kimono decorated with images of golden flowers and tied at the waist with a violet silk sash made her appearance emerging from the portal. She had the breathless look of a person who had walked in a hurry for a considerable distance.

"My deepest apologies, my Princess," she said, introducing herself with a deep bow and a mortified look. "My name is Yuki, and I am the Head Stewardess of the Palace of the Thousand Flowers. I'm really sorry to have made you wait for so long, but the news of your arrival took quite a long time to reach me."

"I rather imagine it's me the one who should apologize, for showing up in this way at the gates of the Ducal Palace, without any forewarning," Eluan replied politely, bowing in turn with a friendly smile.

"Not at all, your Highness," the girl quickly reassured her, still clearly anxious for having made such a high-ranking guest wait so long. "Her Grace, the Duchess, has been informed about your arrival, and upon hearing such pleasant news she had immediately placed herself at your complete disposal. She is now ready to receive you and to welcome you in the Great Audience Hall, together with the rest of the court. Please, follow me."

Following Yuki's indications, they left their horses in the care of the soldiers at the entrance and, once they had passed the gates, they found themselves inside an immense tree-lined park, which seemed to expand in every direction as far as the eye could see.

Walking down the avenue paved in stone which departed from the entrance portal, Eluan immediately understood the reason for their prolonged wait at the gates. The entire area of ​​the Ducal Palace was absolutely immense, extending over hectares and hectares of land which included large flower meadows, woods, orchards, ponds and small clear water lakes, all taken care of with the same methodical attention that she had already appreciated outside, in the city. The guard at the entrance should have covered a considerable distance in order to reach to Yuki.

As she discovered while walking, following the young Head Stewardess, the Palace of a Thousand Flowers itself did not consist of a single building, but it was rather a series of multiple, large pavilions and structures scattered throughout the whole area of ​​the huge park, which housed the private apartments of Duchess Sung and of the members of her court, soldiers' barracks and training camps, the temple of Bhana, baths, servants' quarters and much more.

A young girl, dressed in a bright green kimono, was kneeling in the grass next to the avenue they were walking on, taking care with attention of a wonderful flowerbed of a thousand colors. As they passed, she raised her gaze from her work for a moment, and her innocently looking eyes drooped again in the moment they met Sir Willard's, a faint blush coloring her cheeks.

"Interesting," Willard said, stroking his thin mustache with evident satisfaction. "She is not the first girl I have seen behaving like this since we landed, when they meet my gaze. I wonder if all the young women of Hadun are so naturally inclined towards submission to men."

"Submission to men?" feeling called directly into question due to her origins, Nicole responded with a disgusted sound. "They're probably just giggling because of those ridiculous hairs growing under your nose. I doubt your appearance could inspire in any girl anything remotely close to a desire to submit to your manhood."

"If you are so absolutely sure of that, Lady Nicole Silvermoth," the young knight retorted with a mischievous smile, "I challenge you to drop by my quarters one of these nights. You may wake up the next morning with a radically different idea about me, and about your general way of relating with men."

"I relate with men however I like the most," replied the curly-haired girl, irritated. "And, at most, I would go to bed with a real man, an adult and mature one, certainly not with a little kid like you are. So, don't even try with me."

Anja whirled around, glaring at them both with an icy gaze and immediately putting an end in this way to that extremely inappropriate and embarrassing spat between the two youngest members of the Princess' escort.

It took them almost twenty minutes to them to reach their destination, a large acacia wood pavilion that stood out in the center of a vast lawn. At the doorway, two stolid-looking young women were mounting the guard, clad in heavy armor lacquered in bright red, the hilts of their curved swords sheathed on their backs peeking out from behind their shoulders.

Eluan immediately recognized on them the distinctive armor of the Red Flowers, the elite corps of warriors of the Duchy of Hadun, personal guards of Duchess Sung and spearhead of her army. Their devotion to their Lady, their courage and their valor in battle were famous through the whole Kingdom, and they could certainly rival those of the best knights of the Sun's Guard.

Before entering the building, Yuki took off her sandals from her feet, leaving them next to the double sliding doors, inviting her guests to do the same with their dusty travel boots and to lay down their weapons. It was customary and it was considered a matter of good manners in the Duchy of Hadun to step inside buildings, temples, and private homes barefoot, a practice which seemed to cause some embarrassment to the two male members of the escort, Sir Gerrard and Sir Willard.

"Allow me to announce you, my noble guests," Yuki eventually said with a last polite bow once they were all ready, before leading them inside the pavilion.

***

Lady Sung of the Kao family, Duchess of Hadun and ruler of the Isle of the Lotus, was sitting on her heels, on a wide rug which was spread across the floorboards and which covered almost the entire surface of the broad room, flanked on both sides by two rows of courtesans sitting neatly in the exact same way, motionless and in perfect silence, as if they were many wax statues.

Eluan counted approximately twenty of them, all of them wearing elegant and colorful kimonos, each one richly decorated with nicely drawn pictures representing a variety of images, from brightly colored blossoming flowers to twisted, roaring dragons with sharp claws and fangs, birds in flight with long, flamboyant wings, or intricate geometric patterns capable of confusing the sight.

Eluan was amazed at how young they all looked. None of them seemed like they had reached thirty years of age yet, and a good portion of them appeared to be even younger than the Princess herself. With the sole exception of the Duchess herself and a few others ladies, all of them kept their long raven hair tied in a knot on the top of their heads, a hairstyle which was traditionally very common in those lands.

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