Elea groaned softly. It was far too early for her to wake up. Far, far too early. Slowly, she rolled over and tugged at her terribly tangled bedsheets, half-curling herself in them until she managed to achieve some modicum of comfort. The first thought that crossed her mind as consciousness and coherence returned to her was that she needed a new mattress. As much as she liked a firm surface to sleep on, this one was beginning to feel like solid rock.
Heck
, Elea thought blearily to herself,
I need new sheets. These ones are getting raggedy
and coarse
. Maybe that would be her first order of business today.
In spite of that, she couldn't claim to have slept
poorly
last night. Her body was utterly relaxed, her bones feeling softer than solid. Not a single one of her muscles felt tense, at least until she began shifting her hips to wriggle deeper into her sleepy little cocoon. A soft moan slipped out of her pretty lips, and it wasn't her body protesting her slow slip into wakefulness.
Elea's hips were
sore
, far sorer than that one time years ago that she and her older sister went sledding
minus
the sleds. She grimaced slightly and shifted again. It wasn't just her hips that were sore, but it took her a few moments to understand where the rest of the soreness was. Her vagina ached, and her butt was home to a dull burning sensation, lacking any real heat to it.
The young adventurer's face creased with sleepy consternation. "Oh," she mumbled to herself as she shifted again with a little wince. "You've got to be kidding me." She released her grip on her coarse blankets and slowly reached down between her thighs, expecting to feel something wet, knowing only one reason why she might wake up with a pain in her privates.
Confusion soon creased her consternation, and she opened her eyes to tiny bluish slits. It was too dark for her to see anything; it must have still been the early hours of the morning. Elea realized that the ache must have woken her, but something was off. She didn't feel blood on her thighs. What was leaking out of her vagina wasn't her monthly flow. It was... too thick. Too viscous. It smeared against her skin as she poked at it. For whatever reason, touching it reminded her of the dream she had last night, a fuzzy mix of scenes and feelings that came back to her out of order.
Pleasure. Looking up to her mentor. Contentment.
Proving herself to her adventuring party. Utter fulfillment. Forbidden love.
Humiliation and shock. Pride at joining the Bloodshrouds. Embarrassment and then joy at becoming a woman, having her vagina filled by a man's penis -- no, at getting fucked by a grinther's cock. With each passing second, Elea's cheeks began to heat up. She felt dirty. She didn't just dream about having sex with a grinther. She dreamed about the
leader
of the boar-men putting his cock in her
butt
, of all places. She dreamed about him making her scream out that his cock was in her asshole. "Oh, gosh," she mumbled to herself, mortified at her perversity. That wasn't what love was supposed to be like. It wasn't proper. Where did she even get the idea...?
Without things clicking into place yet, Elea slid her hand away from the cum trickling out of her pussy and pushed it down on her mattress, starting to push herself up and on to one of her sore hips. Though she winced, she found herself more focused on just how
stiff
her mattress was. It was weird. It really was as solid as rock. And slowly, it dawned upon her it
was
rock. It dawned on Elea that her blankets weren't her clean linens at all, but torn clothes and her traveling cloak. She wasn't back home at Fain, and she wasn't in her bedroom. She didn't dream any of that.
Elea was a member of the Bloodshrouds. That made her smile, even though her eyes widened to the size of small saucers as she stared into the darkness. She was a member of the Bloodshrouds. They were out on an adventure, except she had been separated and then captured by their bogeyman, the leader of the grinthers, the boar-men -- by Chrysus. And he didn't kill her. He had sex with her. "... oh, gosh," she whispered again, staring into the darkness.
She
had sex with
him,
and she couldn't even remember telling him no. And she enjoyed almost every moment of it. Her smile fell away and her expression grew troubled.
The young adventurer had no idea how long she stared into the dark, trying to think and wrap her mind around the reality of the situation. For all her effort, she managed to do very little thinking.
Eventually, something interrupted her. A few feet ahead of her, flint and steel clicked and then her lantern flared with new life, making her gasp in surprise and reflexively squeeze her eyes shut against the sudden change. Her heart began to rapidly thunder away in her chest, nervous and afraid, sure that something terrible was about to befall her, or perhaps that her party had found her and would kick her out of the guild on the spot. Then she heard
his
voice, and found her tensed shoulders starting to relax. Elea's body had already come to a decision, but it was one completely at odds with her mind and the reality of the situation. She quickly tensed up again. "Did you sleep well, little woman?"
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Elea felt so much more comfortable and at home in the cave after he lit a proper fire. A half hour later, she was kneeling across from the Bloodshroud's sitting bogeyman, the low flames burning in their stone circle between them. Her cloak was draped over her shoulders, partially covering her and providing some semblance of modesty. In retrospect, the young adventurer realized it wasn't the most practical cloak for her to wear in the field, barely going past her hips and only loosely clasping around her upper body.
Unfortunately for her, the clasp broke last night. Try as she might to close it around herself, any slight movement caused it to slip open. Each time, she hastily shifted it to cover whichever breast it exposed, flushing redder and redder.
Even with everything that happened last night, Elea was embarrassed over the thought of Chrysus seeing her tits and how stiff her nipples were -- back home, getting caught with telltale peaks poking against your top was a giant scandal. She was just adjusting her cloak again when the grinther finally stopped trying to hold back his laughter and openly chuffed at her. "Throw it here," he said in his low growl. She could recognize the amusement in his voice now. "Allow me to fix the problem for you."
Elea froze, hesitated, then rose to her knees. She wasn't about to throw the cloak at him. What if it fell in the fire? Hugging it close to her body, she stepped around and knelt beside Chrysus, facing him, only then sliding it off her skin and passing it over. Naked again and in proximity to her first lover, she could feel her heartbeat begin to pick up again - and she could feel herself begin to slicken, a realization that had her face turning beet red with shame more than arousal. She squeezed her thighs tight and tried to ignore it, wishing she could just will her body to be reasonable. "You found the clasp?" Despite herself, she couldn't help but feel a bit impressed that he knew how to fix --
Chrysus took the cloak and promptly tore it in two half, then four lopsided squares with another flex of his powerful arms, feeding the smallest one to the fire. "There," he said with a smug satisfaction, setting the rest aside. "The problem is solved. You have no need of a cloak, little woman. If you
must
cover yourself, I will provide something befitting your new position."
Elea's jaw fell open, her sweet lips forming a small 'o' as she stared at the fabric, her bluish-purple eyes widening with disbelief as her stomach sank. That cloak was a gift from her sister. It took her a good moment to find her wits and then another moment to find her voice. "My... my new position?" she all but squeaked out, slowly taking her wide eyes off the burning piece of her cloak to meet her abductor's eyes once more.
"Yes," he rumbled as he turned to face her. "As my wife. As the mother of my young. A great honor," Chrysus told her, without a hint of humour. That was the decision he came to while stalking Elea's party while she slumbered. She was young, nubile, and there was no reason for her to waste her life delving into dungeons, fighting monsters and performing other missions. Though he told her it was a great honor, his words almost immediately had her stammering.