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 133: Aster
A Flower surrounded by flowers. That was what she was to be. She always knew that her mother would use her for political means - and it didn't bother her; she knew her duty - but she didn't know that she would be sent out of the country to live in a seduction whose members were mostly strangers to her. Full, perfect pink lips pulled upward in a smile. A bee was visiting the patch of flowers that she had been staring at (and touching, though she knew she shouldn't). It wriggled into the golden center, which housed a starburst of dozens of pink petals. That starburst was the reason for its name: Aster. It shared her own coloration: golden eyes and pink skin. Perhaps that was why it was to be her new name. Or perhaps it was because of its meaning if it was given to someone as a gift: Daintiness or Delicacy. She had heard herself described as a sweet girl.
The bee continued its work, gathering the nectar in its body, and the pollen on its cute little knees. It caused her thoughts to turn from the far future to the near. That bee was female, of course, but the symbolism of the bee seeding the asters seemed appropriate to her. Soon, she would no longer be a unicorn among succubi: a virgin. Like the bee tending her flowers, a man named Caleldir would tend to her as he did for the rest of the Bouquet Seduction. A thrill went down her spine that caused her exposed nipples to come to hard points and her sex swell and drip with arousal. It was unnatural for her, a succubus, to continue in her virginity; she was eager to rectify the problem. And then she would have a real sisterhood, one that was not her mother's.
Overall, she looked forward to the changes in her life. They did make her feel introspective and nostalgic, though.
A subtle shift in the air caused Ailee- Aster to look up from the flower and the bee. Her mother was here and - her nostrils flared to sample the air - a fey male. She pulled her midnight hair away from her face to better reveal the bright, almost childish smile on her face. It was time.
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The portal opened and Rubella, Caleldir, and Dahlia walked through. Caleldir looked around him. They were in a garden next to a large cottage overlooking a clear lake. The air was slightly brisk and thin despite the small mountains around them, indicating that they were high up into the Clachleom Plateau.
"I am fond of this view of Silverwisp Valley," Rubella sighed. She clapped her hands together. "I would love to introduce you to my daughter, Aster-Aileen, but I think you two should have some time to yourselves."
Dahlia assured Caleldir that she would pick him up tomorrow morning after breakfast, and the two red-skinned succubi walked back through the portal.
Rubbing his forehead, Caleldir looked around the garden. It was quite lovely. At least the parts he could see; the garden was large and parts of it were blocked off from view by hedges.
"I do not like this," he grumbled to himself. "Meeting people in the nude is awkward." He briefly considered activating his rune, but it seemed that Dahlia had not yet turned its functionality back on. So, he was naked.
Stretching, his eyes darted around the garden. He decided to walk towards the house. Rounding a corner, he came face-to-face with a pink-skinned black-haired succubus. His eyes widened, and he took a step back.
"Ah! Good afternoon. I am Caleldir Duskhaven-Hissael," he introduced himself. The succubus was as naked as he expected, but he kept his eyes on her face for now.
"Caleldir," she said with a sweet smile. "That is a nice name. I am Aster, formerly Aileen." She revealed a flower from behind her back. It was, of course, one of the asters that she had been admiring. This one was the exact shade of her skin. She ran a finger across its many soft petals, then handed it to Caleldir with a smile that was meant to be suggestive but ended up looking more sweetly excited.
Aster's sweet nature was incredibly disarming. With a smile on his face, he took the flower. "Both of your names are beautiful. As are you, of course, but I need not remind a succubus of that. It would be shocking if you were otherwise." He looked carefully at the flower, then back at Aster. "The flower suits you," he noted.
"Shocking," Aster agreed with a little smile and a shake of her head at the ridiculous notion of an 'ugly' succubus. That expression softened at Caleldir's next words. "Dahlia thought so as well." She said softly, still staring at the flower with a bit of wonder and excitement. "My new identity."
While he had initially been worried about what a virgin succubus would even be like, and slightly worried about her having the sort of voracious appetite one would expect from one starved, Caleldir was being put completely at ease by Aster's manners. She was, in a word, adorable. Even naked.
Aster shook idle musings from her head and blinked up at Caleldir's eyes. Her bright smile returned. She reached out her hand to take his and began to pull him deeper into the maze of flowers and shrubbery. "Come. My favorite spot in the garden in this way."
He grasped her hand firmly and followed her into the garden. "So, tell me a bit about yourself, Aster," he began as they walked. "I knew your mother way back, but not when she was a mother. What sort of person is she now? What was it like growing up with the Succubus Queen as your mother?"
"Hmm?" she hummed. "I... haven't really thought about it." They passed by the patch of Asters that she had been studying before. They seemed to have distracted her again. "It is nice, I suppose. It means I get to live here and get what I want. She is very busy, especially now. Of course, when she does spend time with me, Mother always makes sure I know that I have a Big Duty as her daughter. That turned out to be just going over to Mistress Dahlia's seduction and having you. That doesn't seem to be too hard; I still get to have what I want, just in another place, with new people." They entered a proper maze, which she thoughtlessly led him through.
Caleldir considered her words. "I suppose that all that is consistent with what I have gathered from her so far. Though I am not completely on board with the whole 'having' me part of that story. So to change the topic slightly, what about your father? I have never met the man, though Rubella was telling me that he used to be, nay, still is, an aristocratic Paladin type. What is he like?"
"Papa?" she asked. She was silent for a bit, considering the question.
The maze opened up into a lovely view of the lake. Against one wall of the shrubbery maze, overlooking the lake, was a cozy-looking patch of grass. Said patch was made even more inviting by the elegant pillows and platter of finger foods that were placed upon it. This was clearly the place that Aster meant, but for that moment she was frozen by the sight of the lake and all the memories it brought with it.
It was a very nice view. Caleldir looked out over the lake for a bit, then back towards his young companion to see her expressions and glean some of her feelings. He was very interested in Malcolm the Paladin Incubus. After all, given his relationship with Dahlia, it was almost guaranteed that he would be incubized one day. Hopefully a long time off, but it was a near inevitability.
"Papa likes his daughters when they are young - especially me and my full sisters," Aster finally answered. "He spoils us with affection and stories and treats." Her usually bright smile had a hint of sadness in it. "From what I understand, he didn't always do this, but with me, he began avoiding me when I reached puberty. I was told that some of my older sisters began loving him as women, not as daughters. I guess that disturbed him greatly enough to hide from his unattached adult daughters." A thought seemed to occur to her which brightened her smile immensely. "He will visit me again, now that I have you."
"His daughters began..." Caleldir shook his head. That was disturbing, but not in the least unexpected. None of the four races had any aversion towards incest of any sort whatsoever. Why would they, when their genetics were such that inbreeding had no downsides for them? Even with that in mind, he felt that there was something very wrong with the perversion of the parental bond in such a way. Not that Althaia would ever understand. The nymph was always trying to get him to agree to a breeding contract between himself and all nymphs ever, especially his daughters.
But that was all besides the point for the moment. "Aster... I do not know if you are aware of this, but even though I belong to 'Mistress' Dahlia and the Bouquet Seduction, my attention is necessarily divided a great many ways," Caleldir continued. "Relying on me as if I was a husband - or even as if I were a full-time incubus - is not a good idea. You are probably the sweetest succubus I know," - and the most sexually restrained by far - "and I would love to spend a great deal of time with you, but I am afraid that too many women have claims on my time. That said, I am happy to hear that your father remained himself even after being turned into an incubus, and I greatly look forward to meeting him. I have a sinking feeling that his fate may end up being mine in time."