Narlissa Quickhands, half-elf and master thief, awoke to find morning breaking in the sky above her. She was still in the glade where Piper lived.
The hedonistic satyr was cooking. Again. She wondered how he maintained such an amazing figure when all he seemed to do was cook, eat and sleep. Well, she supposed there was all the dancing. He liked dancing.
Also fucking.
He grinned as he glanced over at her, bringing her a bowl of delicious-smelling cooked fruits and a mug of steaming herbal tea.
"We really should get going," Narlissa said, sitting upright. "We're already late."
"Then being a little later won't make any difference, will it?" Piper chuckled.
Narlissa could not argue with him, nor could she deny that she was hungry. And as she watched the handsome satyr sit opposite her completely naked, she could not deny she was horny either as was always the case when she woke up.
The food was delicious and soon they had finished. Piper stood up, moving to play his harp.
"No," Narlissa said, gathering her things. "We need to leave. Now."
"One song?"
"No!" she commanded, because she knew full well what that meant. One song would mean a second song. And then they would be dancing. And then she would be dancing FOR him. And then she would be on her knees with her lips around his cock... and then... and then...
She realised he had collected his harp and begun playing. She growled to herself and shook her head, breaking her reverie. Gods above, she wanted to fuck him. But if she wanted to get back to the village today, she couldn't do so.
"Get your things, Piper. We're leaving!"
He pouted, then gathered his belongings. With a little more cajoling she had him ready to leave, though not without some more extreme willpower to deny his constant attempts to draw her into doing more fun activities.
Soon she was mounted on Faeht and they were heading back through the woods. Piper had his own steed, a large, stocky goat. It looked faintly ridiculous, especially given his own goat-like legs and horns, but Narlissa said nothing.
In fact, she barely spoke to Piper at all. To do so would be to let herself get distracted, which would be all too easy to do given how horny she was. Her magic cunted demanded that she have sex and it was taking all her willpower not to rein Faeht in and drag Piper off his ridiculous goat and have him fuck her right there and then.
The journey back was much quicker than the journey there as Narlissa now knew the route. Yet it was still tortuous, her horniness threatening to boil over at any point.
She was barely in control of herself when she reached the edges of the village and rode in, Piper behind her. She found Lohr and some of the elders standing by the stone circle in the village centre.
"Ah, you return," Lohr smiled at Narlissa, then scowled at Piper. "And he finally shows himself."
"I am not one of your elves to command," Piper smiled at Lohr, climbing from his goat with a flourish and a wink.
"I think we're all thankful for that," the Tree Mother responded with a sigh and wry shake of her head.
Narlissa watched as Tathal approached with the elders. She could tell he was nervous, and suddenly she was nervous too. Her horniness was pushed aside at least partially.
The mage was about to have his soul made whole again, after all. A fragment of his essence was stored in a magical dagger, meaning that anyone who owned the dagger owned him and could compel him to do what they wanted. The elves were ready to perform a ritual that would draw that soul fragment out of the dagger and allow it to fuse with him again, letting him finally be free.
Well, it was time to get started.
Tathal was led to the stone circle where he gently lay down on top of the bed of leaves and shot Narlissa a nervous smile. She gave him a reassuring smile back then stepped away. The clan elders made a circle around him, the most powerful spellcaster at the head. Piper collected his pack and joined them and sprinkled a powder onto Tathal, his shamanistic magic needed for the ritual to be a success. At least he was taking it seriously now he had arrived.
Watching Tathal and Piper together made Narlissa's horniness come flooding back, and she squirmed, trying to suppress it. Now was not the time.
The villagers watched on with rapt interest as the elders began to chant. The air crackled with power and Tathal's eyes shut. He breathed slowly as if in a deep sleep.
Narlissa watched on in awe as the elders raised their hands and a ghostly mist rose up from Tathal's body. His soul! She had never seen a soul before. She had not expected it to look like a silvery fog. As the soul hovered above them, she noticed his body was still breathing.
Then the elders turned to the dagger. With another word of power it too floated into the air.
"This is it," Lohr said quietly from next to her. "Now they draw out the fragment."
The chief spellcaster raised his arm, then flicked his wrist. The soul fragment started to emerge from the dagger.
Then something went terribly wrong.
A loud explosion sounded through the village, throwing the elders back. Tathal's body jerked, his back arching, and a long ragged scream of pain was torn from his lungs. The fragment of his soul quickly slipped back into the dagger.
Then a loud, sinister laugh echoed through the clearing, and with a sound like tearing fabric a portal ripped open above the dagger, jet black but with its edges burning with bright red fire. Narlissa watched on in horror as Tathal's soul started flowing quickly into that portal.
"A demon! There was a demon in the dagger!" one of the elders shrieked. "Get everyone away!"
Lohr was already a whirl of motion, shouting orders, getting the elves to the safety of their homes. Not that they needed telling - most had already fled.
The elders too were not still, they focused harder, chanting louder. Tathal's soul stopped pouring into the portal, the scene seeming to pause as if frozen in time.
Suddenly Narlissa realised that Piper was shouting at her. He was standing with Lohr, and waving her over.
Her horniness suddenly forgotten, Narlissa rushed to join them. They were in frantic conversation with one of the elders.
"What happened?" Narlissa cried as she got there.
"We did not know there was a demon inside!" the elder said in a panicked voice. "It had hidden itself completely."
"But what is happening to Tathal's soul?"