After allowing Balter to dress himself Tannah led him to the room where she had confronted the monstrous girls. She retrieved the statuette, lifting the weighty thing off the floor and hugging it close to her body. She handed him the torch and together they went back toward the entrance to the ruined temple.
While they were going through the big room where Tannah had encountered the first plant creature she began thinking about the heavy growth covering that third unexplored hallway. When Balter walked near it with the torch Tannah could see the vines writhe and tighten around the arch.
These plants seemed to share their awareness with the luminescent girls. Looking down at the severed lifeless head of the creature that briefly had its way with her Tannah recalled how the stalks connecting them to the plant seemed to be their true source of life.
"Of course," she thought to herself. "They aren't many that are linked, they are one."
"We need to finish this," she said, glancing at Balter then moving briskly toward the overgrown archway. Tannah swiped at the thick vegetation and watched strands of plantlife snap away as they were cut, exposing the passageway beyond. They stepped cautiously into it and together descended down worn steps, the torch flame flickering as they moved.
After two short landings and two more stairwells they finally arrived at a big room where the walls and ceiling seemed to twist and undulate with living growth. The roots of that massive plant all seemed to spread from a single pulsating source at the rooms center. Vines extended upward, coiling together like a huge tree stalk before fanning out and penetrating the roof.
Tannah glanced at Balter and, knowing what to do already, he walked up to the base of the thing and set it alight with the torch flame. The room shuddered and stones shifted as the fire crawled up and enveloped the giant plant.
Balter stepped backward, slowly at first and then quicker as vines began to curl up like snakes from the floor and slam violently down, cracking stones. A tendril pulled itself from the wall and flew like a lash at the two of them. Tannah heard Balter grunt as it struck him in the side, knocking him to the floor. She rushed forward and as the thing took another swipe she brought her blade down slicing cleanly through it and ducking low sending the severed length sailing over her shoulder.
She grabbed Balter by his coat and yanked him to his feet and they both ran while murderous tentacles thrashed blindly. They could hear the thing hiss, screaming through some orifice they hadn't yet seen as they hustled up the stairs, smoke billowing along the ceiling above them.
They returned to the large room with the still luminescent corpse of the creature Tannah had beheaded. She could hear Balter panting noisily from sprinting up the steps.
Tannah looked at him. His shoulders heaved as he took in large gasps of air and his forehead glistened with moisture. His appearance reminded her of that first time she had spread her legs for him and she felt her cunt lubricate itself just from thinking about it.
"I'm really horny," she thought, feeling her juices soak into the crotch of her panties.
Tannah had been fucked six times over the course of the day, which, to her, was an average day of whoring. Sometimes, when working, the sex got her truly aroused and other times it was strictly professional, but for those rare moments when she was bothered enough Tannah would later retire to her room, close the curtains and reach a sweaty conclusion.
Though she had been tempted a few times that day, she'd not had an opportunity to relax and be alone with her thoughts.
"Hey," Tannah said, turning toward Balter. "I need you to help me concentrate." Balter frowned, glancing at Tannah's breasts and bare thighs, then back at her expressionless face.
"What do you mean?" he asked. Tannah set the idol and her blade down on the ground and slipped her thumbs beneath the waist strap of her underwear. She slid her panties down her legs, revealing her shaved cunt, feeling the cool cavern air against her wet labia.
"On your knees, it'll only take a couple minutes," she demanded. Balter looked at her and scoffed.
"You let me get used by that ... that hag, and now you expect me to do you a favor?!" he said scornfully.
"I could have left you to be her plaything forever," she responded, placing a hand on her breast, toying with her nipple while her other hand went down between her thighs. "Those men sent you down here to die Balter," she said as her finger touched her clitoris and slid between her minora, gathering the warm slime that flowed from within her, spreading it along the opening of her womanhood.
"They intended to feed you to that demon," she explained, her chest expanding as she took deep breaths and stroked her wet sex. "Hhh ... and they are still out there waiting to kill you, maybe even both of us, should we emerge."
Balter's gaze fell to the floor. His eyes flitted left and right, his expression showed uncertainty mixed with anger.
"I plan on protecting you," Tannah sighed, "but right now all I can think about is sex. So get on your knees." Slowly he knelt before her, staring at her bare cunt as she curled two fingers into it then drew the, back spreading her labia apart. With a distasteful look on his face Balter leaned in and pressed his mouth to Tannah's womanhood.
"Ohh yes, that's it," she moaned as he tongued her opening and sucked her stiffened clitoris. Tannah took a handful of Balter's hair and held his head in place, riding his face and gasping. "Ohh Balter, yess!" she cried out, her legs starting to wobble and her toes curling against the stone floor as she rocked her hips.
Balter reached up between Tannah's thighs and she shuddered as his rough fingertips touched her pussy. Two thick digits slid up her vagina while he licked the tender flesh between her labia.
"Ahh!" Tannah squealed, clinging fast to his scalp, feeling chills down her spine as he sucked her clitoral hood and drove his fingers up her cunt, his knuckle already slick with her juices. She put a hand on his shoulder for balance as her body shook. The pleasurable sensations that shot up from her groin grew rapidly more and more intense with each thrust.
"Ahhh ahhhh ohhh by the gods, I'm almost there," Tannah shuddered, her clitoris throbbing against Balter's tongue and her pussy parted around his wet digits, his pinky lightly caressing her asshole as he fingered her deeply. Her climax hit her like a bucket of water from a cold stream, taking her breath away completely.
She squirmed on her feet, her fingernails digging ruthlessly into Balter's back, her face and chest burning hot and her vision narrowing.
"Hhh ... hhhhhahh," she gasped weakly, thrusting her pelvis forward while Balter satisfied her. "I told you it would be quick," she said tremulously, her joints quivering as her orgasm coursed through her.
"Ohhh, damn," she swore, holding a hand in the torchlight and seeing it shake from the aftermath. She stepped away from Balter, releasing him from her grasp and reaching down to pull her panties up, feeling them hug her wet cunt.
"You did well," Tannah complimented as Balter stood up, "I suggest you take up whoring when this is over. It suits you better than treasure hunting I think," she said with a wink and a smile. His eyes narrowed and he spat in the dirt, then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
For a moment Tannah thought he might take a swing at her. She watched him, hoping he would do it. She wanted so badly to put him in his place after leaving her at the camp before. Tannah's amused grin widened as he stood there quietly gritting his teeth in rage.
She knelt to retrieve her blade and as she grasped it's handle Tannah saw the severed head of the plant girl again. Suddenly a thought occurred. She walked over to it, bent over and lifted it off the ground by its leafy hair.
"A trophy?" Balter asked as she held it in the light to examine its features, it's mouth lolling, its gaze empty.
"Something like that," she said with a callous smirk on her face. She looked at the idol and then back at Balter with his leather coat and loosely fitting pants. "Hide the statue and follow me," she said, gesturing to the metallic figurine, "and don't try running or you'll end up like her," she told him, raising up the severed head so he could see its grim visage clearly.
Balter winced and looked down at the floor, then began doing as she asked, stuffing it inside his coat before following her up the passageway.
Tannah emerged first into the open air, seeing their two guides sitting on either side of the campfire in just their pants, the moon and flame highlighting their features pale blue and orange.
They each turned to look at Tannah and Balter. At first they seemed spooked seeing something come out of the cave, and with movements that emphasized their regret they each drew their long brush swords.
"I will offer you one last chance whore," the old man said as he and the younger man approached Tannah and Balter together. "Cut the idiot's throat now, or your blood will seep into the earth beside his."
"To what end?" Tannah responded, her gaze following the stout older man with rolls of fat concealing a well-muscled body. "Your demon is dead," she told him, tossing the girl's head at them.
Their eyes followed it as it bounced and rolled down the short decline separating them, coming to a stop at their feet. The younger guide shuddered in horror and jumped back, dropping his sword into the dirt as he recoiled, shaking visibly.
The older man stared at it's dead face for just a moment and then looked up at Tannah again, not seeming to believe.
