-PROLOGUE-
A court of six waited for the moment that the night was the blackest.
Then they began. Beneath a dome of brambles they summoned their prisoner from the sapling that grew between them. They drew forth his soul from the roots of the child-tree so that they could bind his physical form to its trunk.
"Laird Marvon of the Brambleprick Grove-" began the figure in front of him.
"You know," Marvon Brambleprick interrupted with a pleasant smile, "I dreamed of a different world while I was stuck down there with the dirt and the worms. I dreamed that these sorts of things happen in great buildings of stone and glass, where everyone wears their best clothing, where there are twelve of you instead of six of you, and where there is only one of you instead of six of you."
He sighed and fluttered his moonkissed eyelashes. "A different world. A different time."
"Shut up, Marv," grumbled one of the hooded figures.
"Press that minge up against my mouth and I just might, Genria," Marvon said. The hooded figure's hands clenched into fists. Marvon smirked and continued.
"You know, I think there actually was a century we spent with my tongue buried in your fur. Didn't we have to borrow a pry bar from the humans just to loosen your thighs from their grip on my ears?"
"That's it!" A roughspun cloak went flying, revealing a middle-aged fey with fury in her apple-round face. Leafy vines clung to her slender body, leaving free her trimmed sweet spot down below and her small, firm breasts up above. Violet-ebony smoke swirled around her sharp nails, but in an instant one of the other figures was behind her and burying its hand in her mossy hair.
Genria shrieked as her comrade forced her down on her knees.
"I'm sorry," she wailed. "I'm sorry, but he's just so-"
"Shut up."
Trembling, Genria shut her mouth. After a moment, the one behind her released her hair and stepped forward. The cloak became a wisp of midnight fog, revealing a hardbodied fey with a pointed nose and dark, dead eyes, wrapped up in leaves like her inferior.
"Luly," Marvon said with a nod. Lulyanna's gave him a blank, expectant stare.
"You're going to kill me anyway," Marvon said. "Skipping your title won't change that."
"We tested the human's mind," Lulyanna, Queen of Fey and Forest, replied. "You fucked her."
"Yes."
"She's with child now."
Marvon winced. "Ah."
"His birth will threaten us more than anything else in our history-"
"A son?"
"And yet we are sworn to protect him by virtue of his blood. Your blood."
"A son," Marvon said, shaking his head. He smiled. "The Bramblepricks will not die today..."
"No, but you will," the Queen said. Mist coalesced around her bare crotch and a phallus of thorns and holly sprung forth from the folds of her slit.
"That's..." Marvon was at a loss for words. "Quite big. And sharp looking."
One by one the others disrobed and swiftly grew cocks of their own. Genria ran her thumb absentmindedly across one of the spurs protruding from hers, watching Marvon with a sick combination of lust and rage.
"Oh look," Marvon said, "more prickly penises. And all of them are for me. Huzzah..."
The sapling he was bound to started bending backwards. Roots crawled up and out of the ground to wrap themselves around his thighs and haul them back.
"See," Marvon said, "in my dream about a new system of justice, this sort of thing only happened metaphorically. And I was asked questions before the sentencing, so that I could have a chance to present my case to those who would judge me."
"I will ask you one question," the queen said. She stood before the vulnerable prisoner and put her hands on the bottoms of his hauled up thighs. The gentle touch of her sharpened nails made Marvon shiver.
"Of course, my Queen," he said. "What do you wish to know?"
Queen Lulyanna looked at him. Gone was the expressionless void from her eyes. It had been replaced by pure lust, that dangerous level of desire that leads to more mistakes than anything else in this world.
"Was the pussy worth it?" she asked before pressing herself into him.
Marvon's answer was a scream that lasted until he died.
-CHAPTER 1-