Author's Note:
A Drow's Dilemma began as a one-on-one roleplaying project and has been converted into a chapter-by-chapter format for weekly posting with the permission and assistance from my partner. It will contain a considerable amount of sexual themes such as femdom, lesbian, straight, 'reverse' rape, BDSM, group sex, romance, and other themes. The main goal of the story, however, is to tell an epic tale of adventures, gods and goddesses, fae, and nymphomaniacs. This episode and every episode to come will be available for free on Literotica for the foreseeable future. All characters that engage in sexual or suggestive situations are mentally and sexually mature: the human equivalent of 18 for their race.
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Episode 76: Promises
And so, Selene and Caleldir got to the portal to the realm of the Rusalka, she gave him a kiss goodbye, and the servant sent him through (Selene was capable, but unwilling to spend the energy if she didn't have to).
On the other side of the portal, Caleldir was met with the sight of a slightly redecorated cavern. Normally, the rusalka had separate sleeping nooks. They were not nymphs to all sleep in a pile on a single, large bed. They seemed to have made an exception for that day, for a growing pile of their bedding was laid out in the middle of the chamber next to the glowing fungal and rock pillar. It was also next to the stream that ran through the cavern and around the pillar, and the pool of water that led deeper into the caves.
Katia and Mirjana were the only fey in sight and were carrying pillows and blankets over with arms and prehensile hair. They noticed Caleldir almost immediately. Mirjana gave him a toothy smile of excitement, threw down what she was carrying and leaped into the pool with the utmost grace. Katia just gave him a dirty look and continued her work.
"Good morning," he said, unsure of how to proceed.
Even knowing everything he did, Katia's obvious hostility grieved him a bit. He sort of felt that he should be on good terms with a woman who was almost certainly going to be carrying a child sprung from his loins. Not for the first time, he considered regrowing her hair. He knew the right spell, and if Rostimira was not here to stop him... "Katia! I have something I would like to talk to you about before the others get here!" He said in a loud whisper across the cavern to her.
Upon hearing the loud whisper from across the caverns, Katia paused in her work and looked back up at the whisperer. Very slowly and cautiously, she put down her latest load of pillows in her arms. She stared at one that had gotten too close to the water and... blinked at it and gave it a teary, pouting frown. That same look turned back to Caleldir. But he had called her over, and she was at least a little bit curious about what he could possibly want. So she padded over to him quickly - no strutting around like she owned the place for Katia, not anymore. The shorn fey could not keep her walk completely devoid of sensuality, however. Her hips still rolled and her generous but perky breasts jiggled softly with each step she took. With her chestnut hair not flowing around her, she could easily be mistaken for an angry nymph.
She didn't speak until she stood directly in front of him with her arms crossed below her bosom. "What do you want," she asked in an unfriendly tone, her northern accent far less rolling and sensual than the rusalka used normally. It made her sound even more abrupt and angry than she actually was. But not by much. "Speak; Rosti and my sisters swim very well."
In the background, the white-haired rusalka poked her head out of one of the dozens of alcoves carved into the cavern walls. Her head quickly disappeared back where it came from. A moment passed, and she reemerged carrying a tray of food and drink. She brought it over to the makeshift bed in the middle and set it and herself nearby - watching, waiting for the rest to slide out of the water. She ignored Katia and Caleldir, her back to them. They weren't touching, so nothing interesting could be happening. It was only Katia, after all. She barely mattered anymore.
Caleldir ignored the other Rusalka. And tried to ignore his growing arousal that he couldn't suppress after watching the nude Katia walk over to him. "I wanted to regrow your hair. Rostimira was going on about 'teaching you a lesson' or something, and I cannot forget that you were shorn because of what you tried to do to my mate and unborn daughter, but still, I think that it is better if we put our differences behind us. I know that you resent me, and I am not the fondest of you, but I would rather you not become so resentful of me you have reason to turn on me."
Katia listened to Caleldir's words in sullen silence, but she was listening. Her sullenness turned to wariness as he went on, and then to cautious optimism.
He held out his hand, his palm slightly glowing. "Take my hand, Katia, and I will put a Regeneration spell on you. Your hair will be back to the way it was, and you can go back to the way you were before. All that I ask from you is insurance that you will no longer allow your anger to put our alliance at risk."
"You would do this?" she asked softly as she quickly glanced around the underground space for anyone who might be watching or listening. No one was near enough nor attentive enough to notice yet. "Rosti will not like this," Katia informed him with a toothy grin. Her teeth came to slight points, suddenly leaving no question of the type of creature she was.
"Well, if you can handle Rostimira, I can. I am not her subordinate," Caleldir replied. He was a bit blind when it came to pretty fae women in distress. Though some part of him knew this was a bad idea, he ignored that part. She had had such beautiful hair, it seemed a shame not to restore it. And what could Rostimira really do about it? Rape him harder? She could abuse him, but he was too valuable to her for her to kill him or keep him prisoner, or something.
Then she took his hand in her slightly too-firm grip as if she was afraid he would retract it at the last moment. Her haphazardly broken hair trembled, and then slowly began to grow around her like liquid pooling around her head. It seemed to be an orgasmic experience for Katia, judging by the look on her face.
About that time, Mirjana reemerged from the water, as well as the light-haired Nemanja and the other unnamed rusalka. They looked as if they were about to start their typical stalk over to Caleldir. But then they saw Katia's rejuvenation and stopped with dumbfounded looks on their faces. That was just about the last thing they expected to see.
"What did you do?" came Rostimira's hissing voice from behind Caleldir. Apparently, she had been in one of the alcoves all along. She approached them at a quick pace that still somehow managed to portray a much better stalking sensuality than Katia had been able to accomplish in her angry gait. "I told you to leave her be! Why do you not listen?"
He twisted around. Damn. Rostimira was scary sexy as always. "I felt that it was almost tragic to see her in such a state. She had had such lovely hair; it was like seeing a damaged piece of art. My aesthetic sense could not take it," he grinned sheepishly. "I can dispel the regeneration if she creates problems..."
"You speak as if hair does not grow back, pretty boy," Rostimira responded through clenched teeth. "And as if you know our ways and what is best for us." As she spoke, her hand slid up his chest until it could clasp around his neck hard enough that her clawed fingers broke past his resistances and lightly punctured the skin. Had he been a more average person, blood would likely pour. Her dark eyes were aflame with anger. "You are a fool," came her parting words as she practically threw him out of her grip, sending him stumbling to the side and almost causing him to lose his footing.
"Take him, girls," Nemanja ordered in the absence of their leader. She still stood back at the bedding, but the rest of them advanced forward on command.
Katia was already with him, so she took the first opportunity to embrace him from behind. Her hand also went to his neck, and the other slid down into his trousers. Her lips went to his ear and brushed against it lightly when she whispered, "Cum in me again, and I will make you regret everything... But if you do not, I think we can be friends, yes?" The hand down his trousers cupped and fondled his balls much more gently than she handled his neck.
Caleldir was already regretting his decision to restore that hair.
"I have no intention of cumming in you, so as long as you do not insist on taking my manhood inside you and riding me to orgasm, that is a problem you will not have to deal with," he said sardonically. If Katia really was as bad as the other rusalka seemed to think by their reactions, then he was not inclined to try to get her pregnant anyway. Even less than with the other rusalka. Mirjana, for instance, was probably the least evil of the lot (nice, though not so much that she could be called 'neutral' even by charitable people) and so would likely make a better mother anyway.
Still, his feelings towards Katia notwithstanding, he shivered when he felt her surprisingly tender hand at his groin. "I hope to be friends, certainly," he finished. "At least do not let Rostimira beat me up too much for restoring you."