Today had been good to Valeth, being one of the Voch'ki that occupied the crimson jungles of the Southlands. He had woken, surrounded by his family and lovers, finding himself already being carefully serviced by the tribe's shamans, her painted eyes watching his reaction amusedly as her long and clawed hand gently stroked away his morning glory. Once he had been sated, and enjoyed a more proactive role in that coupling, he'd had the human slaves get to work for him. These creatures, the few still not exposed to the root that would eventually turn them into thralls and make them more useful to him, had done most of his tasks for the day, as well as helping to reapply the grey warpaint over his scarlet skin (the cause of their human name "Red Elves"), running a comb through his long black hair as they braided it, working down the trail along his spine before finishing at his tail. He had amused himself greatly by flicking them with the end, watching their faces contort in moments of anger as the coarse hair hit them before realising their place. Red Elves might be seen by some as lazy, spindly creatures, but Valeth let his watchers know that his muscles were far denser than theirs, his reactions far faster and his teeth far sharper. Once they had finished (and he had grown bored of playing with them), he spent some of the morning preparing his equipment for a hunt, assembling arrows. Each was almost as tall as a human child, capable of splitting a tree in half with the right draw thanks to the treated crimson vines that formed the string combined with his own strength.
Later, he had amused himself by taking one of the latest batch of thralls for a session. He smiled at feeling their elongated tongue wrap itself around his shaft, their blank eyes, covered in sculpted and marked flesh, staring up at him attentively as he had his way with them, his hands wrapping around the freshly formed horns to pull them against his stomach. They had been human once, like the rest of the thralls that did the hard tasks for the Vo'kari, and Valeth idly tried to imagine what they had been before finding themselves here, lost in the embrace of the Crimson Inferno. Perhaps a farmer or simply a lost whore who ran away from a brothel on the outskirts of the continent... This thrall seemed to be taking a shine to him, hissing at another of their kind that approached before curling up closer to him during one of their breaks, Valeth's thin but strong body wiry yet also soft to their touch. So, Valeth considered it would be rude of him not to reward the thrall's interest as he was taking them from behind, sinking his fangs into their shoulder as he pulled them closer, marking them as his own as he pushed himself deeper, feeling his cock be softly clenched onto by their inner walls. It would probably annoy someone, another lesser Red Elf with ideas above their station who wanted the thrall for themself, but Valeth relished any chance to assert his superiority over a lesser member of the tribe. Besides, having a toy to use as he saw fit was worth the occasional annoyance from an upstart with an imagined slight.
Later, when the sun was at its highest, he'd watched from the tree branch platforms as the Dru'chii (or Dark Elves as the slaves whispered to each other) had come to claim some of his brothers and sisters for service to the Emparachon, the Overlord Above All. It always amused Valeth to think that they were descended from this serious and controlled creatures, that it was only thanks to the Crimson Root and its mutagenic vines that he lived this life of glorious idleness deep in the humid jungle. It was far better than being stuck in their home realm, warring among the noble houses amongst the towering spires before going on a cross-realm raid into somewhere else to pillage and enslave. Valeth had served his Emparachon two summers previously, although his main memory was of having to wear a heavy and scratchy coat just to keep warm while some of the smaller Dru'chii began barking orders at him he was duty-bound to obey. It hadn't been all bad - the long lost cousins of his people pretended to be uptight and respectable outwardly, but Valeth knew them to be as controlled by their passion as they accused his people to be. To amuse himself, he locked eyes with one of the warriors standing guard over the meeting below and slowly ran his long black tongue over his lips, daring the elves below to react. The Dark Elf's face was mostly behind their armour but Valeth could see how quickly their iris expanded, their gaze lowering to sweep up and down his exposed body before frantically looking away. From above, Valeth cackled to himself before heading off in search of something more interesting to do.
Up until this point, it had been a normal day in the land of the Voch'ki. But then, while hunting for deer on the edge of their territory, he'd spotted
her
.
A Nym'dhoine, one of those elves who found themselves unfortunately native to this world, wandering quite alone through the Red Wood. It had been simple for him to track her, her injured and aimless walking generating plenty of cracking and crunching that was easily able to cover his movement through the trees as he stalked her, following the scent of the sea that was deep inside her shredded clothes, as well as the iron tang of droplets of blood from the gashes across her skin. From the branches above, she had seemed quite pathetic, almost a betrayal of her Elven heritage to be so inept at moving quietly. It was too easy to get her on her back and bound and ready to return to the camp with, the deer carcass discarded for the thralls to fetch in favour of this greater prize. Even the act of taking her down had been enjoyable, her screams of surprise and foolish attempts to defend herself making it even more fun. He was quite proud of the way his tail had tripped her, the shriek of confusion especially sweet. There was part of him who wanted to play more with her, get a taste before she was set upon by the rest of the tribe. But, that was not the way. Anything hunted was shared, at least at first.
As he began to sleep, nestled up against the other family members in his group, he couldn't help but think of the pretty girl currently embraced by glowing red vines to the tree a few branches below, her pale skin exposed under the few remaining rags in the moonlight. Just the idea of it was too much for him, her beautiful form filling his mind. He couldn't stop the dreams coming once they started - him walking, slowly, over to her letting her see him in all his glory. He'd gently place his finger in her mouth to let her suckle, seeing her eyes filling with want, pleading with him to reward her, as he smiled down at the foolish Nym'dhoine that had wandered into their territory.
The dreams, raw and unfiltered and burning with desire, drifted up into the darkness of the Red Wood above. And the Red Wood answered...
"Τ±Τ²Τ²ΤΎΤΎΥΦΥΌ...
Yesssss