Copyright 2024 by Otto26
They stopped at the edge of the forest. About a hundred yards inside the edge of the forest because of the patrols of hunters and farmers that prowled the cleared fields past the edge of the forest. And it was an edge. Knife sharp. At a certain point the forest simply stopped and twenty yards of charred earth marked the beginning of civilization. Isla found it unsettling, even sinister, and tried to dismiss the feeling as an artifact of the Nimfeach personality. But the slight churning in her stomach wouldn't go away.
'That's just because these over-sexed children are about to chain me up and march me through a town,' she assured herself. Nimfeach didn't like this idea any more than she did. And then Isla began to understand why.
"You have to put your hands behind your back," Cooper stated. His voice had gone flat and emotionless as he tried to get through this with the minimum of embarrassment.
"I'd rather keep them in front," she replied.
"Won't work," Neil said. He was keeping a watch on the edge of the forest and, apparently, listening to what was being said.
"We tried that," Akash said. "We're not... Well, we are, but we tried that. First time. Actually, we tried just the collar and leash the first time and when they wouldn't go for that we tried hands in front but the garda insisted on hands in back -and- the gag."
"And by garda we mean Kent," Cooper mused.
"Your point?" Akash asked.
"I'm not sure, but something is trying to get my attention," Cooper said in a frustrated tone.
Isla turned around and put her hands behind her back. Cooper stepped close and Isla bent one knee, cocking her ass at an angle.
"Shit," she muttered and stood up straight. She had to keep a close watch on Nimfeach.
The manacles had a soft leather interior but the exterior was iron. The iron was a thin layer, but it didn't have to be very thick to prevent escape. They were of a single piece, with openings for each wrist that clicked shut as Cooper closed them. There was a clink and a click which Isla interpreted as a lock.
She had a moment of body trembling panic as she realized she was committed. She couldn't back out now unless she could convince them to release her. Which, she realized, she could. A moment ago she hadn't known but now she'd always known. She could fascinate all of the men and bend them to her will. It would be easy. She'd fucked all of them and she knew every carnal desire they possessed. Neil first, then Akash, and Cooper last.
Nimfeach wanted Gareth. Handsome, strong enough to enslave her, and a generous lover. He'd lay her down and part her legs and shower kisses on her thighs and sex and...
Isla shook the vision off.
"Easy, Isla," Cooper said in what he certainly thought was a calming voice. "We're going to walk to the gate, get past the guards, and move just short of a run to Aidan's tower. Thirty minutes, tops."
Charming them would work, Isla knew. She was wet at the idea and she could smell herself. They'd smell her, too. It was part of the fascination. But that wouldn't last. It couldn't last forever. At some point it would fail and they'd know what she'd done. 'And it won't help us get out of here,' Isla told herself.
"I'm okay," she breathed, as much to herself as to Cooper. "Nimfeach really doesn't like this and I'm with her. Let's get it over with quickly."
The gag was next and not what Isla had expected. A rag, maybe. This was a solid iron bit covered in leather that went between her lips and teeth. There was a ring at each end of it which connected to a strap that went behind her head and... There was the clink and click of another lock. Isla was compelled to swallow and discovered that she couldn't. This nearly caused another moment of panic, but she fought it down.
The collar was almost anticlimactic. It was leather, soft leather, but thick. It resembled a very small belt and the braided leather leash was an integral part of it rather than something that was attached. There was no lock attached to this.
Neil was very carefully guarding them by not looking at Isla. Akash, however, was openly staring hungrily at her. She pivoted slightly on the balls of her feet, turning her body just enough to present herself to his view in profile. The manacles pulled her shoulders back and that lifted her breasts. She flashed him a pleading look and Cooper stepped between them.
"Don't do that, Isla. You don't need to charm anyone. We're already dedicated to saving you and charming us will turn us stupid. You need to not charm us.".
Isla shook her head to clear Nimfeach's instincts from it for a moment, to reassert control. She met Cooper's eyes and saw his sincerity. She took a breath and nodded her understanding.
"She's not Isla, Cooper," Neil called.
"What do you mean?" the blonde asked.
"She's Nympho. We have to call her Nympho or someone's going to notice and get suspicious," Neil amplified.
Cooper nodded. "You're right. And I'm not Cooper, I'm Gareth."
"Shit," the dwarf muttered. "Gareth. Chaakoo. And I'm Magnus."
"Magnus, Gareth, Nympho," Akash said aloud.
"Okay, guys, you know the plan. Walk to the gate at a leisurely pace and then speed walk to Aidan's tower. No side quests, no arguments, no fucking around. Got it?"
The other two nodded. Isla felt a string of drool forming at one corner of her mouth and grunted for them to get on with it.
***
"Back already, then?" the guard at the gate asked.
The walk through the fields in the fading light had been breathtakingly difficult. The road was dirt, sloped with ditches on both sides. The fields looked as though they had just been planted with most of the farmers weeding or cleaning irrigation ditches. They had all risen from their work to stare as the party made their way towards the town. More than a few of them had made hand gestures to ward off evil or spat in her direction.
Isla had tried to shut out the stares at first. But that hadn't worked and tears had formed at the corners of her eyes to join the trails of saliva that leaked from the corners of her mouth and dripped onto her breasts. Nimfeach had come to her 'rescue' in this regard. The nymph gloried in the attention. She deserved this attention. She was the greatest beauty most of these dirty peasants would ever see in their life. They would remember her in their dreams and private moments up to their dying breath and would be disappointed that angels compared poorly to her. She accepted their visual worship as her minimum due.
While Nimfeach dealt with the stares Isla concentrated on dealing with the, well, discomfort. The road felt harsh on her feet and the fields... She understood the fields. Really understood them down to the marrow in her bones. They were stripped and bound as she was. Forced to serve the men and women of the town and offer up their lifeblood to sustain those... Farmers. The word carried a bitterness in her mind more sour than any vinegar she'd ever tasted. And Nimfeach hurt with it. Her digits, fingers and toes both, were green. The green faded as it went further up her hands and feet and became scrolling, flowering vines like green henna or fine tattoos. The vines climbed her calves, thighs, buttocks, and belly to join together and flower at her bare vagina. Those on her arms rose over her shoulder to flower upon her breasts. Isla could not see her arms but the greens on her feet had faded to something closer to a brown and her vines seemed almost to wither. She could see the same thing happening upon her breasts. She was not a happy nymph.
Isla could deal with that, though. She was human. This was just a road. These were just fields. The stark, gray, stone mass ahead of them was just a town. Nothing to be concerned about. And, between them, they fairly strutted to the gate. where the large, human guard with the vaguely porcine cast to his eyes 'greeted' them.
"Finian! Good to see you. Is your mistress keeping well?" Akash asked.