Chapter Sixty
YAVARA
The first thing I noticed when I awoke, was the familiar warmth of hair atop my head. It was strange, but the most jarring part of being burned half to death was the feeling of cold air against my bald pate. The missing limbs and skin were somehow secondary, and so the recovery of those lost things came as a second realization to me. The third thing I noticed, was that I was in my room in the high tower of Castle Alkandra. The fourth thing I noticed, was that Leveria was hovering over me.
"Wake up, sleepy-head," she crooned softly; her trademarked smirk strewn across her black-sheened lips.
I blinked in the afternoon sunlight. "How?" I croaked.
She took my hand in hers, and examined it carefully, "I found you beneath a pile of dead Zander. Most of you was already gone, so I had to make the rest from scratch." She turned my hand over, scrutinizing every detail, "It was my first foray into healing, so don't judge me too harshly."
I curled the fingers on my regrown hand, marveling at how it felt. "Where were you?" I whispered.
"Zander and I hatched a plan. We couldn't let anyone else know about it, even you."
"I guess it worked then."
"Of course it worked, Yavara. All my plans work."
I smiled weakly at her. "You sure took your time."
"Well, I had to learn how to fucking fly. No small feat."
"I didn't know pigs could fly."
"Ha. Ha. Ha." She flicked my nose, "If I knew you were going to be an ungrateful cunt, I would've left you to rot."
"I am grateful, Leveria."
She raised one of her brows. "How grateful?"
"Not that grateful."
She snorted. "Whatever, bitch. I got a new toy anyway." Leveria turned toward the bedroom door, and called, "You may see her now, Your Highness."
The bedroom door opened, and in walked King Arthur Dreus. He was dressed in his stately military regalia, and flanked on both sides by stout Lowland guardsmen.
"What the fuck...?" I groaned.
"King Dreus and I found common ground." Leveria said.
"He didn't seem much in the mood for negotiation."
"I put him in the mood." Leveria smirked, "Your Highness, would you be so kind as to give us some privacy?"
"My liege..." one of King Dreus's guards began to object, but the king waved them away anyway. When they left the room, he closed the door behind him. Then he got on his hands and knees like a dog, and crawled across the floor. Leveria stretched out her hand, and King Dreus scampered happily beneath it, and growled pleasantly when she ran her fingers through his hair. She tousled his brown locks, then gave me a self-satisfied smirk when she saw my look of shock.
"How?" I croaked.
"Same way I broke Mother and Prestira. Men are much easier." She scratched him behind the ear, and he crawled into a docile ball at her feet.
"The mages will know." I said.
"There aren't many mages left." Leveria stroked her new pet down the spine, "Besides, I didn't use magic to break him. I never needed telepathy to get into someone's head. I just needed some alone time and a little liquid persuasion, and now the Lowlands belong to me." She patted her belly, and winked at me, "For many generations to come."
"It won't work."
"It already has."
"Your child will be a dark-elf. The Lowlands are a human nation."
"Semantics, dear sister." Leveria chuckled, "Nothing a few constitutional changes won't fix. Besides, all the Lowlanders ever really cared about is money, and I'll make sure this marriage is very profitable for the right people in Ardeni."
"Marriage?!"
"The most insidious form of conquest." Leveria giggled, "Oh, the Lowlanders will be
very
used to me by the time my poor husband dies in a mysterious fishing accident, won't they, Sweetie?" Leveria pushed her hand down the back of Arthur's pants, and the Lowland king grinned stupidly up at her as she pushed her fingers into his ass. "Such a good boy," she purred, "you're going to give me everything I want, aren't you?"
He nodded, then nuzzled his face into her lap, and moaned as she played with his prostate.
"Yeah, you like it back here, don't you, Sweetie?" Leveria whispered sardonically, "Just like that faggot brother I tricked Yavara into murdering. I guess being a little twink slut runs in the family. Do you like it when I shove my big fat cock in your little royal asshole?"
Arthur moaned into her lap, and nuzzled the bulge that was forming there.