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This chapter contain scenes of violence, blood and gore. The sex scenes offer the following fetishes, not necessarily in this order; Straight sex, Gay sex (men on men), Anal, Unconsciousness, Masturbation, Blowjob, Tail.
Tablet Master
Chapter 3: Wording matters
"What did your accomplice do to Master Aven?" Mia said.
"He used sleeping poison to make sure Aven wouldn't wake up," Valsheen said. "It usually lasts a whole day. Now let me down before I burst into flames, please!"
"If what mister Valsheen says is true, Master Aven will not wake up before nightfall," Mia said. "Mia will not last this long and mister Valsheen will fall. Does mister Valsheen have an antidote?"
"Yes I do, right here in my pocket!" Valsheen pulled a flask out and dangled it from his fingertips. "Let me down and I'll give it to you, or else I may drop it and it will be lost."
Mia laughed and floated the flask to her hand. "Mia can manipulate many things at the same time!" The action did draw more energy from her reserves, reducing the amount of time she had left but it was worth the effort. She opened the flask and sniffed it. Her sensitive nose didn't pick up anything she would recognise as poison, but she wasn't convinced. She poured a few drops on her tongue and waited for a moment. It didn't taste particularly bad and she felt nothing out of the ordinary. She used her mind to levitate the flask to Aven and poured its content into his mouth. "Wake up Master Aven!"
Aven moaned and turned but he didn't wake up. Desperate, Mia used her mind to shove him off the bed, sacrificing almost all the energy she had left, leaving her with barely enough to hold Valsheen up for two more minutes.
Aven stood up and looked around. "What is going on Mia?"
"Mister Valsheen tried to steal the Tablet from Master Aven," Mia said. "Mia held mister Valsheen up in the sky all night."
Aven hurried to the window and looked up. "How high is he?"
"Almost thirty times Mia's height," Mia said. "Mia must bring him down now, else mister Valsheen will fall. Mia cannot hold much longer."
"All right, bring him to me," Aven said as he backed away from the window.
Mia released Valsheen from her telekinetic grip. The man fell, screaming his lungs out. She caught him back at her level and heaved him into the room. Valsheen crashed on the floor, screaming and trembling.
Aven snatched the Tablet from his hand and backed away. "Explain yourself and be quick about it," he said.
"I didn't mean to steal it from you. I just needed to use Mia," Valsheen said. "This is all just a big misunderstanding. I need Mia to kill your father for what he did to me. I had a feeling you'd be against the idea so I thought you would prefer not to know. I can only imagine Mia would have done it happily, seeing the way she killed Lord Kasrud this evening."
Aven looked at Mia in shock. "You killed Kasrud?"
Mia looked down, flattening her ears. "Mister Kasrud tortured Mia four times and Mia could never strike back. Mia did not contain all the anger and killed mister Kasrud."
"I saved her from the guards," Valsheen said. "They would have taken her to the magistrate and she would have had her head cut off for killing a nobleman. I vouched for her."
"That was very thoughtful of you," Aven said, "but it doesn't give you the right to steal from me. What do you know about the Tablet?"
"I know it controls Mia," Valsheen said. "Salks was bragging about it so much everyone in the area knows about it. He sold the opportunity to torture her once per ten days, so I assumed the magic in it could only be activated as such. He was careful not to mention what the magical item was, but there were some rumors about it being a Tablet. I hired a kid to steal it from you while I distracted Mia downstairs. I don't know how it works exactly and I just assumed Mia would obey anyone holding it in their hands."
Aven laughed. "I guess you thought wrong... and so did I." He looked at Mia. "You'll have to tell me later how this works."
Mia nodded.
Aven paced before Valsheen for a moment. "What should I do with you?"
"You should let me go and we'll put this misunderstanding behind us," Valsheen said.
"Why do you want to kill my father so much?"
"Because he killed my son!"
Aven froze for a moment.
"Yeah, your father killed Phlyx. You remember him don't you?"
"I remember playing with him," Aven said, nodding his head. "You used to come to the manor and gamble with my father. Phlyx was the same age as me. We used to play hide and seek with Fanzia..." Aven trailed off. "Fanzia was two years older and she was Korhen's daughter. I remember playing with them since I was born until I was ten." Aven smiled. "Why did you and Korhen stop coming to the manor?"
"Fanzia was raped when she was twelve," Valsheen said. "She never said who did, but Korhen suspected it was your father and stopped playing so our gambling nights ended. Phlyx had a tantrum every time I wanted to bring him along to Salk's manor and I always assumed it was because Fanzia wouldn't be there, but it turned out he was there when Salks raped both of them and had him do things he could never forget. He never said a word until Fanzia killed herself two years ago. The poor girl was to be wedded to Lord Jharril's son and she obviously didn't want to. They kept it a secret this entire time because your father threatened to kill them both if they talked. I confronted Salks about it and Phlyx was killed two days later. The Magistrate said it was a mugging gone wrong, but I know it was Salks although I can't prove it."
Aven stared blankly, his mouth open and his nose curled up slightly.
Mia's hatred of Salks grew tenfold and she wished she hadn't stop Valsheen. The cracking sound of wood attracted her attention. She looked down and realised she was digging into the wooden floor with her claws. In fact she was about to rip off the entire board. Gathering herself, she tugged her claws out and moved to Aven's feet. "Mia is sorry," she said.
"Don't be sorry Mia," Aven said, snapping out of his trance. "We still don't know if he's telling the truth." Aven raised one finger as Valsheen opened his mouth. "Although... knowing what I know now about my father, I'm inclined to believe you."