{This is my first time participating in Kinktober, and I'm pretty excited! I hope I can keep up! My plan is to make all of the stories around a central character-Quinn-who is a witch. The world is one of fantasy, so magic and the creatures associated with it all exist. The prompts on the list I'm using aren't all very interesting, but I plan to spice them up with the nature of the world I'm writing and make everything a little bit scarier, and a lot more exciting. (No Kink Day, how is that a kinktober prompt? Whatevs)}
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I had been banished only a few days before. Unceremoniously dragged out of my apartment in the early hours of dawn, thrown into a carriage, and driven to the edge of the Endless Wood. No longer was I to be the king's magician. I'd been ousted by a wizard, and now I was to be the Wicked Witch; a title which had been unclaimed for several decades.
I knew better than to lash out in my anger; banishment was easily the nicest retirement I could hope for. So I kept the curses behind my lips and instead grabbed what little my maid had been able to pack for me before I'd been 'escorted' off the premises, and trudged into the wood.
The Endless Wood had taken many lives, and it was forbidden to enter it. Not to say people didn't. And things could always come out of the forest, even if nothing ever went in.
It was still early evening, but that hardly mattered, dark as it was beneath the thick branches overhead. I expected the Witch's Cottage to be further into the darkness of the wood, but I'd only walked a few miles before it revealed itself to me in a clearing, beneath a sky not yet turned dusky.
The thatch had fallen in at one corner of the roof, and it was coated in a fine layer of grime, but all four walls still stood, and there was absolutely no overgrowth obscuring the building.
I couldn't help but sigh and send out a quick suggestion that the inside of the building should be in better condition. Maybe it'd work, since the cottage was a magical entity, too. The door opened rather smoothly, making a pile of the fallen thatch behind it as I pushed.
Inside wasn't too bad, though I couldn't tell if it was my suggestion that did it, or if the previous Witch had known her time was coming and prepared for it. There was a fireplace with a big open hearth to the left. To the right was a large square table, draped in a cloth. There was a bulky form in the center of the space draped in a tarp, I could see table legs, the suggestion of a coat rack, a crate all peaking out from beneath the cover. Above the space to the right was a loft, with a steep narrow staircase framing a narrow door at the back of the house. Out the back door was a large porch sheltered by the overhanging roof, with a big cast iron tub for bathing and washing clothes.
Back inside I unpacked, set up house, and by midnight I had things in order. I counted myself lucky to have been banished in the summer, when I didn't need to worry about lighting a fire in the hearth to avoid freezing in the night. I took the opportunity of the full moon that night to set up a ward to prevent any creature wishing me harm from approaching my new home. Walking the perimeter was good, it gave me a chance to assess the damage I'd need to fix in the morning.
Nothing much was amiss besides the thatch, and that was easy enough to do if I took my time with it.
When I came back to the porch I surveyed the brightly lit wood beyond. Everything awash in the silver light of the full moon made me feel powerful, a thrumming in my fingertips and a flutter in my chest that pulled me to the wilderness. I wanted to perform a powerful work under the light of the moon, clad only in my skin, unafraid of what could harm me. There was nothing that could hurt me on a night like this.
However, this night was not one for exercising my strengths. If I were still in the castle, surely the king would ask me to bring him more successes with the power the moon brought. The thought made me sick and bitter, souring the mood. I knew anything I worked on this night would be tainted with my anger and produce nothing worth the energy.
I kicked off my shoes and stripped out of my dress, my chemise, my stockings. The air cooled my skin in places I hadn't realized I'd been sweating. I stretched, arching my back toward the goddess' pale round face above me, lifting the hair off my neck and enjoying the cool air that rushed in against my nape. I bowed low to the lady moon, folding myself in half, wrapping my arms around my thighs and chanting on the rush of air as it came in and out of my lungs.
When the ritual was done, bringing me peace in my mind and my heart I hadn't felt that morning when the guards had brandished their iron at my face and tore me from my chambers, I straightened and went inside. I brought all the bedding from inside and filled the cast iron tub. I crawled in, curling up and tugging the blanket over my nakedness. I would sleep here, in lieu of a mattress, and bathe in the moon's power as long as I could. I knew that I'd need her strength in the coming months.
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I wasn't sure what had woken me. I was definitely no longer asleep; I could feel the pillow against my face, and the breeze on my toes where they peeked out from the blanket. I lay still, fighting the urge in my body to breath deeply and stretch. The ward I'd cast was buzzing in the back of my mind, letting me know that I wasn't alone on the porch anymore.
The breeze died down a bit and the rustling of the leaves faded away and then I heard it; a snuffling sniffing sort of sound. It was a deep sound, that of something large and nearby. I felt a short burst of exhale on my ear and cracked my eyes open. I could see nothing but the pillows, the edge of the tub, and the forest beyond the porch. But the sniffing feeling was moving to my cheek, followed by a long wet tongue.
I couldn't help but yelp at the shock of the wetness, quickly turning around to face whoever-whatever-was tasting me. It was-of course-a werewolf. His form was not that of a full wolf, but instead he stood upright on hind legs, crouched though he was after I'd startled him.
I'd heard once that only alpha werewolves took this form. He must either be a lone wolf, or I'd stumbled into his territory and he was investigating if I was a threat to his pack. Currently I was leaning towards lone wolf, if his defensive posture was any indication. His fur was dark and his eyes a bright blue, and as we regarded each other he came closer, keeping himself small and low to the ground.
"This is my porch now, so kindly state your business," I finally said, feeling the moon coursing through my blood.
His head tilted, eyes looking very amused. I refused to give an inch as he came closer, claws closing around the edge of the tub, and leaned into my space. I know I must have looked like prey to him; I was afraid to look away from him, despite my own strength, sure that he was stalking me. He had much more practice being predator than I had at being prey, I was positive of that.
His nose brushed my ear again, trailed down my jaw to my neck. The touch was light, and the huffing of his breath made my skin prickle with sensitivity. He spent a lot of time sniffing around the crook of my neck before I felt the tongue again. I gasped and my hands released the sheet I'd been clutching and came up to press against his shoulders. I wasn't sure what I intended to do-push him away, pull him closer-but it didn't matter, I was immediately distracted.
His hair was soft, a delightful revelation never mentioned in any book I'd read, but he took the motion as an invitation and a rough palm came up to cup my elbow. As the palm slid up my arm the tongue began to explore, when his claws brushed the swell of my breast his teeth nipped at my jaw and I felt myself grow hot. I must have let out a sound he recognized as a whine, for he surged up over me, I tumbled back into the pillows, and he pulled the sheet away from me entirely.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment as his eyes roamed over me, his body hovering close, gaze directed down between us. The blue of them burned hotter than a fire and I grew wet all over under his gaze; sweat breaking out over me in a sheen as my pussy convulsed. I felt like I was melting as he caged me into the tub, clawed hands on opposite edges, furry chest pressing down on me. My hands did nothing to push him away, instead curling into the fur, tugging lightly as his teeth found my shoulder.
He was careful, so precise, each touch of teeth just enough to ignite my nerves, but not enough to leave a lasting mark. I writhed and gasped for breath, my heart racing, the moon's magic thrumming in the flesh between my legs. His weight shifted above me, and then suddenly he was impossibly closer.
As his knees came to rest in the tub, he pulled one hand from the edge and reached his palm behind my knee. I inhaled sharply as he lifted my entire lower half with that one hand, and made room for himself in the tub. When he lowered me I was overwhelmed with all the sensations; first was the soft fur of his thighs on the backs of mine, followed quickly by the press of a slick length of skin laying across my folds. I can't be held responsible for the high pitch of the sound I made at the feeling of it all.
I couldn't control the way my body arched up into his at the press of it, I felt him twitch and the answering clench of my pussy drove a moan up out of my chest. He shifted again, his arm moving up to hold himself from the back edge of the tub so he could have the other hand free. This he slipped up my thigh, around the curve of my ass, up my back to encourage me closer, his nose came down to my nipple and he laved it with long strokes of his tongue before moving to the other. My hips rocked against him as the sensations in my nipples raced down to my throbbing center.