After eating, Hanae felt the familiar sensations of needing to attend to her bodily functions. She tugged gently on the cuff, got Jonathon's attention, and used sign language, indicating her need.
Jonathon helped her to her feet, took her out behind his tents. He led behind a row of bushes, and she saw the latrine, basically, a hole dug in the ground. He pointed to that and led Hanae over. He turned his back to allow her a modicum of privacy, standing on the other side of the bushes. With the cords still keeping their cuffs attached, she would not be escaping that way.
He handed her a package of something she had never seen before. It was small squares of paper, soft, and she realized that this was to be used for cleaning afterward. This was a revelation, before, she had always used whatever was handy, usually leaves or grass, to wipe herself after. The white men had some very interesting things with them.
She took the familiar position, and let out soft sounds of relief as she voided her bladder and bowels. The paper was much softer than grass and leaves, and they were discarded down into the pit.
Hanae quickly came around the side of the bushes to stand next to Jonathon. He looked at her and said, "Feel better?" until he remembered she couldn't speak the language. She may not have known what he was saying, but she caught the temperament of the words and nodded.
He led her back inside, she saw the cage but steeled herself. The remembered talk of allowing her out of the cage if she accepted her place and behaved herself stayed firmly in her mind, she actually walked ahead of him, stepping in, and being docile as he removed the cuff, and closed the door.
Hanae lay down, with all that had happened today, she was tired, and when she closed her eyes, she was asleep in a minute, wrung out by all that had occurred to her.
Jonathon watched her sleep a few moments, then crept quietly outside. He stood, surveying the land, and reflecting on all that had happened.
***
It had been a hectic time in the royal court, the King was desperate to produce a male heir, but his age and his lack of sexual prowess were not getting the Queen pregnant. The King sent for Jonathon, his closest personal advisor, and told him point-blank that he wanted him to have sexual relations with the Queen, get her pregnant, and hopefully, he would get that male heir. The King would be out on a "scouting trip" that would be the cover story for a 3-day absence, and Jonathon would have sex with her as many times as possible. So long as he made no personal claims as to the child they might produce, he was given the go-ahead.
Jonathon was nervous, being tasked with such a responsibility, but when he entered the Queen's private bedroom, he saw the welcoming smile, she was wearing only a simple bodice, stiffened with whalebone. There was a rigid element, called a busk, also made of whalebone at the center front of the garment, to keep the bodice straight and upright. The bodice was laced in the back, this was a garment he had never seen before, at that time, it was a garment reserved for the aristocracy.
She beckoned him closer, and softly said, "Jonathon, please unlace me, so you can see all of me."
"Yes, your majesty."
"No royal titles in the room, my real name is Anne. please use my real name."
Yes, Anne, I will."
Being able to call her majesty by her real name was a heady experience, and when the bodice was unlaced, she slipped it off and turned to face him. Jonathon started, she was like a fine work of art. She had been a Norwegian princess, and like the King, Jonathon was awed by her beauty. The classical light blonde hair and deep blue eyes, a finely shaped Nordic face, a bosomy pleasing fullness, and wide, childbearing hips, a shaped tuft of light blonde hair covering her womanly entrance, she was obviously a perfect wife for breeding, and he would be the one to plant that seed.
 
                             
                         
                         
                         
                         
                         
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                