Chapter 2
The Arrival
They led her barefoot to a room full of candles, where there was a gold-colored tub. The water was steaming as the little men helped their queen into it. The many small but strong hands washed away the body fluids, the sweat. Her elegant arms lay relaxed at her sides while the strange men squeezed her breasts, fiddled with her pussy, washed her hair, kissed her lips.
Then two of them brought a dress, or rather a long airy robe made of a translucent white fabric. They rubbed the young woman down with fluffy towels before putting the robe around her shoulders. A golden belt was placed around her narrow waist, a golden collar with the flowing chain around her throat. The little men looked at her with satisfaction and clapped their hands, leading her further down the halls of carved stone.
Where they arrived was a round room, barely five meters in diameter. What laid before them was a mirror. Five of the little men came together, one stepped forward and gave each of them, as well as the queen, silver bracelets that seemed to immediately adjust to the size of their owners' wrists. The girl blinked and opened her lips to speak, unsure, but already her chain was in the little man's hand and she obediently stepped forward.
"Look inside, lovely queen!" she did, see the dark eyes, the outlines of her round breasts, the elegant legs. Felt so light... She felt dizzy and the young woman gasped. Her naked feet now touch rough stone, not tiles. But it's not what makes her gasp softly, it's the bottomless darkness dreading behind her shoulders and neck, the glaring white light that is bathing the wall made of dead mountains that are looming over one side of a valley.
She turned away from the mirror and felt naked and small under the black starless sky and this expanse full of stone and dark dust, that was almost white in the radiant light of the hidden source. The small men looked up at her and smiled smugly, "You never walked the moon before, our beloved queen?"
The young woman shook her head, breathed deeply as the realization touched her. This is the Moon. The red headed little man touched her tush, sending a jolt of unwanted pleasure along the queen's spine, "You never take that lovely bracelet off or you will die, freeze and will be left gasping for air like a fish on land." She brushed the warm metal that strangely seemed to live under her hand. "The man in the moon, he is there," he whispered and pulled at the queen's chain, so she looked up and took a graceful step towards a strange trio approaching.