IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS...
After the long trip which had brought Eluan from the Tower of the Sun, to the city of Hadun and the court of Duchess Sung, the Princess and their escort are enjoying some peaceful days of relaxation in the Palace of the Thousand Flowers, waiting for the Duchess to provide her response to Queen Hailey's letter.
In the meanwhile in the north, in the Palace of Troygrove, the young priestess and exorcist Octavia finds unexpected help during her investigations about the fate of Queen Artemis, after a passionate encounter with one of her soldiers and one of her bed slaves; the secret room within the Queen's apartment could be the place in which the mystery which surrounds Artemis is hidden...
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With her palms flat on the grass and her knees firmly planted on the ground, Princess Eluan arched her back vigorously, stretching it to the utmost like a bow ready to shoot, throwing her head back and trying to touch the back of her head with her toes, almost succeeding, and remaining motionless in that difficult position for over a minute.
Having completed even that strenuous exercise to keep trained the flexibility and elasticity of her body, the Princess rose nimbly to her feet, ready to move on to the final exercise of balance and meditation. Clasping her hands in front of her chest and closing her eyes, she stood on her left leg only, resting the sole of her right foot against the inside of the opposite thigh, breathing deeply and trying to create absolute emptiness within her mind while, with extreme and deliberate slowness, she raised her arms high above her head, her fingertips pointing towards the sky.
It was just one of the many exercises that Hua, Duchess Sung's Head Attendant, had personally taught her the day before, when they had arranged to meet for a session of gymnastics and meditation at dawn in the same garden where she still was, behind the Great Audience Hall, and where Eluan had been welcomed two days earlier, upon her arrival at the Palace of the Thousand Flowers in Hadun, and entrusted by Sung herself to the care of her three young and beautiful attendants.
Hua had proven to be an extremely attentive and capable teacher. For over an hour she had guided Eluan through a series of exercises for the well-being and awakening of both body and mind, thoroughly explaining the details and the benefits, monitoring the proper execution and often intervening to correct the Princess's posture with her small but strong hands.
Eluan already knew quite a few of them, having learned them from her dear friend and court enchantress Praja some time ago, during the course of their usual morning meditation sessions conducted together with Hailey and Darya on the beach in front of the Tower of the Sun, but she had been happy to be able to learn some new ones from the beautiful twenty-four-year-old attendant with the large, almond-shaped dark eyes and tanned skin.
The two young women had exercised completely naked, in the dim light of the atmosphere preceding the rising of the sun, alone, surrounded by a perfect silence interrupted only by the murmur of the waterfall that fed the pond and by the chirping of the morning birds hidden among the branches of the trees in the park, alternating exercises of muscle stretching with those of strengthening, exercises of deep psycho-physical relaxation with others of intense meditation.
Very soon, Eluan had felt her internal energy awakening, and a sensation of pleasant warmth unfolding from the pit of her stomach, to gradually spread through all her limbs, a slow but wonderful wave of well-being and strength that had grown inside her, filling her completely.
And, along with the inner energy, the natural desire of her young body had also awakened.
Hua's expert hands were strong yet gentle, feeling pleasantly caressing, and they seemed to purposely linger on Eluan's bare skin for a moment longer than necessary, every time she touched her to correct a position or to help her with performing a particularly complex exercise. Eluan had not minded that at all, and had completely abandoned herself to the touch of those expert hands, as if she were clay in the hands of a potter, allowing them to guide and shape her as they wished.
The sweet and prolonged massage she had received the night before, along with the intimate conversation with Sung's three attendants, had somehow changed her internally, opening her mind and freeing her from many of her previous inhibitions regarding her desires and sexuality. And therefore, on that morning, she had had no qualms about openly confessing to Hua about her evident state of arousal, induced by the persistent closeness of their naked bodies and her constant, soft touching.
With her always exquisitely humble and calm manner, Hua had welcomed that admission by clasping her palms and bowing her head.
"I am honored and pleased to hear you pronounce such words, Your Highness," she had said. "It is good to see you finally free from all those unnecessary inhibitions that plagued you. Come now, let us conclude the session together with one last, liberating exercise."
Following Hua's lead, they had knelt together on the soft grass of the lawn, facing the rising dawn, side by side, their bodies barely touching each other. Hua had gently took Eluan's hand in her, before guiding it right in the middle of her thighs, where a small bush of black hair grew lush, placing the Princess' fingers on her clit, while Hua's right hand had came to rest in the same exact spot on Eluan's womanhood.
Gently, Hua's fingers had began to move in small, slow, very pleasant circles, while she had guided the Princess's hand to do the same to her. Eluan had found herself extremely pleased to discover the intense wetness between Hua's legs, an unmistakable sign that, for the beautiful black haired attendant too, their session together had not been indifferent and without effects at all.
"The sun is life, strength and warmth," Hua had declared in a calm, deep voice. "Welcome its energy into you, Highness. With each breath, feel its rays of fire entering you through the pit of your stomach, imagining its light filling your body and mind entirely. With each breath, your inner life force grows, becoming stronger and stronger..."