In a lush green valley a shallow river curved around willows in bloom. Wind trailed willow petals as they tapped the water's surface with gentle ripples. From the swaying tall grasses a satyr emerged, aged no more than twenty. Lithe with reddish fur along his forearms, his ram-like horns adorned with a pastel flower each, he stepped down the hill to the stream. His hooves sank into the grass with each step, a white robe left his chest and light musculature exposed, hooked around one shoulder and hung over his goatlike legs.
The satyr made his way to the riverbank and set a basket down next to him.
"Good morning friends," he greeted the wildflowers, gently turning them to face the sun. "I need to bring a few of you with me for a gift for my love. You will? You're all so lovely this morning, thank you."
The satyr plucked white and red flowers, collecting them in his basket. He hummed a song to himself, admiring the petals of each wildflower he chose before placing it with the others, careful as to not fold the petals.
It was a sharp hiss that frightened him, an ugly snort from the waters behind him. He spun to find a large alligator in the river, stalking its way towards the satyr. He felt his heart beating in his ears, found himself unable to breathe as he froze, only able to snap himself out of it by shouting one name.
"Rhoda!"
He cried out, dashing across the shallow stream kicking up water. Flowers fell from his horns as he sprinted, the alligator splashing behind him.
There was a fierce bellow and a hulking shadow burst from the trees atop the hill. It barreled down at an incredible speed for its size and crashed into the waters between the satyr and the alligator.
Rhoda hulked over the scaled beast, over eight feet tall with shorter, chipped horns. The thick muscles of her arms and body were marked by partially healed scars, a great pink branching scar from a lightning strike trailed down her neck and back. Her garments were simple: a set of fur wraps around her hips and chest, with her midriff and abs exposed. The wraps around her hips held with three belts, around her chest a fourth belt fixed to keep her full breasts secure as her chest heaved with each breath. Her bovine eyes stayed fixed on the beast, and she loosed a powerful bellow as the alligator charged at her.
The jaws snapped shut as she pulled its head in one arm, forcing its jaws shut. As the beast flailed she pounded its belly cracking ribs. The alligator rolled, breaking free with the force and sank its jaws into her arm. She stomped on its tail hard enough for its jaws to reopen, twisting out of the way of a second bite as it glanced off her back leaving twin gouges. Pain lit her senses, and her eyes filled with rage with a powerful snort, an emptying of her lungs as her head spun.
It lunged again, this time the minotaur caught its jaws in her hands. As it forced its jaws closed she struggled to hold them apart. The alligator flailed below, twisting back and forth. She snorted back, and with a fierce bellow pulled with all her might, and pulled the beast's jaws apart with a sharp crack.
The carcass hit the water. Rhoda's breaths came shaky and deep, staring at her bloody hands as violence flooded her senses. Her muscles felt too tense, her mind impatient as it demanded more gore from her.
The satyr dashed out in front of the minotaur as she loosed another bellow, stomping in the stream as she tossed her horns.
"Rhoda! Its Kapys! Its me!"
She tossed her head again as he entered her vision. A massive hoof stomped into the riverbed, her wild eyes stayed fixed on him. Then he began to sing.
It was a soft song, a prayer in a storm as his voice filled the air.
"There once was, a prince who, desired so the sea.
The sea who, as he knew, was sweet as could be.
Though storms and crashing waves, and anykind, of weather.
He loved her, adored her, and wish'd to be, together."
As the melody reached her ears her thoughts began to clear, the strain in her muscles receding. The demand for more violence melted, her legs buckled, and she fell back on her ass. The satyr strode forward to the minotaur, unafraid as he climbed into her lap, stroking her bovine snout affectionately.
"The sea who, was untamed, fell for a prince as he.
And now as, she roils, for he calm will be.
Her love is, strong and good, as good and strong as she.
Protect him, she will, and she protected by he."
Her eyes fell on the satyr's face as her thoughts cleared, then she beheld her lover's face. Thick arms wrapped around the satyr as she drew him in for a kiss, blinking away a wetness from her eyes as she treasured him. The two held each other in the stream, willow petals parting around them as they drifted downstream.
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Rhoda's massive form crouched in the stream, hunched over with her chest wraps in her hands. With a clay pestle and bowl Kapys's much smaller form stood at her back, grinding herbs into a mint green paste. He hummed a song as her head stayed bowed, steady, deep breathes issued from her as she focused herself on the running waters around her.
Kapys filled a bucket and tossed it over the minotaur's back. She did not flinch as water cleaned dried blood and the twin gouges on her back, Kapys paused in admiration of his lover's muscles, watching water draw down the thick, bulky muscles of her back. Even as she crouched down she was just as tall as the satyr. Adjusting the flowers in his horns he dipped a hand in the salve, spreading it over wounds as he continued to sing to her.
"Rho, let me see your arm."
As Kapys moved towards her wounded arm the other reached around, pulling him by the waist onto her lap. She squeezes him close with one arm as she gave him the other, sinking his head into her breasts.
With a delicate laugh he attempted to push free with little luck. "Rho! I can't see a thing."
The minotaur rumbled a laugh, and in a deeper, stronger voice spoke, "then you will just have to feel your way."
She dunked her arm in the stream to clean it, presenting it to Kapys again. The smaller satyr held her arm as he stayed pressed to her, then with what little vision he had applied the last of the salve to her wounds. He wrapped one arm around her breast, kissing the side from where he sat. "All done, Rhoda."
She rumbled appreciatively, the satyr slipped from her arms scaling her like a goat up a cliffside to sit atop her broad shelf of a shoulder, more than enough space for his cute butt to find room. She smiled down to her as she reached up to hold his cheek, making him flush.
"I stuff you in my cleavage, nothing. I touch your cheek, red. Is my satyr broken?"
Kapys laughed with a snort, shyly nuzzling her palm. "No, no your satyr is very much not broken because his minotaur is so strong."
She made a bovine snort, ears turning in a kind of blush. "I am.. concerned. When you come so close when I see red. I do not want to-"
"Shhh, you don't-" he put a finger to her lips gently, leaning closer to her face.
"And you won't. As long as my voice and my songs reach you, you won't. Don't worry so much."
With a rumble of apprehensive agreement she nuzzled his thigh with a kiss, one massive hand still supporting his side.
"Come on, let's get moving again." He caressed her head back, drawing small circles with his thumb. With Kapys atop her shoulder Rhoda stood, as if he weighed nothing, and made her way through the willows and back to camp.
A broad stone maul rested against a tree beside a massive bedroll and a pack of supplies two people could comfortably hide inside. Rhoda opened the pack checking for supplies. Something tickled her ear, and with a gruff snort looked up as Kapys set a woven crown of flowers atop her head, adjusting it between her horns.
"And what is this supposed to do."
"Make you soft and good. Make you see pink."
The battle weary minotaur looked at her roughed up arm, then turned a hard look to the soft satyr atop her shoulder with an unconvinced snort.
"It's magic, just like my songs. Have I been wrong about any of my songs?"
Earnestness melting her heart, she nuzzled his thigh with a grunt as she stowed the bedroll and hefted the pack, pulling the maul over her head and fixing it to her back with Kapys's help.