Part 7 of the entire tale, actually! Let's hope this is actually finished someday. :)
In this chapter: Plot! Exposition! We finally start learning more about the mysterious resistance and what they are up to. It's not just sex folks! Though there's plenty of that, too.
I think that I may need to start numbering these in a different order so I don't confuse my readers. Can everyone keep these straight?
I've been experimenting with certain things and decided to add more voiced dialogue here and there, just to see how it flows. I'd love to hear your comments on whether that works for you or not.
As always, I would like to thank moncrifelle for the excellent editing work.
In any case, here we go again!
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It was a long journey, but Tivin and Daphnia had finally arrived in Asdale. The princess had no idea what to expect from the town, but in turned out that there was nothing to expect—it was just a normal, sleepy country town. That being said, there had to be some reason why the resistance had directed her here. And she had learned that appearances could be deceiving. Look at her—no one would suspect that the curvy, eager elfslut parading herself for the pleasure of others was actually the princess of Erecia.
She and Tivin had fucked for two hours before actually entering the town proper, just so that she could be prepared for whatever awaited her. She thought it prudent to have the edge of her lust taken off so that she could be prepared for whatever awaited her. After about ten orgasms, she was ready, and entered the town as alert as she had ever been.
The boy? She had left him sleeping in a copse of trees just outside the city outskirts. There was only so much sex a man could take, and apparently, he had reached his limit.
She had kissed him gently goodbye and smiled indulgently at his face lost in happy slumber. She couldn't have asked for a better manservant...and he had been put to sleep in perhaps the most pleasurable way known to man.
She had attuned herself astrally the moment she left the forest, and there they were—the same sigils that had led her out of the castle to a manor somewhere in town. It took her some time to get there—avoiding the crowds and finding her way in a new environment took time, but eventually she was at the gates of a large building. Steeling herself, Daphnia raised her hand to knock on the doors. . . and they swung open before her instead.
She stepped into the building and there he was—the hooded figure. At least she thought it was a man. It could just as well be a woman, or several different people altogether. She had no way of knowing.
"Princess. We have been expecting you."
Of course they had. They had been the ones to bring her here. She decided to try a different tack this time—not saying anything. So, she stared steadily into the where the eyes would be on a normal man (woman?), and after a few moments, the figure spoke again.
"Welcome to Asdale, Your Highness. We of the resistance thank you for your patience, and for all the help you have provided us thus far. Rest assured that it has not gone unnoticed. We are regretfully unable to affect a cure for your transformed state at present, but we are working on it. Before we proceed further, there is someone that we think you should meet."
Someone? Daphnia's interest was piqued despite herself. Who could this be? Another slave? Someone she knew? Or maybe. . . could it be. . . that they had finally located one of her family?
She nodded and motioned for the figure to continue. A door to the side of her opened and someone walked in . . . a man both strange and familiar.
Daphnia's mouth fell open in shock.
"Perthias? Is that you?"
It appeared that her brother had been subject to the same spell as she had been, just the male version. He had never been what you might you call burly or swarthy—tending to the petite side, just like her. The Crown Prince of Erecia had always preferred the rapier to the broadsword, the epee to the axe. Some of the unrulier courtiers had sniggered a little when he walked by—a possible result of his dandyish ways and slight figure. But to his credit, her brother had always paid them no heed.
But now a hulking giant of a man stood before her with thighs nearly the size of her head, and rippling muscles that bulged outwards, not unlike her own enhanced endowments. He was almost seven feet tall, and Daphnia also could not help but notice that the flimsy loincloth he wore barely covered his massive organ.
He we not unattractive (far from it!) and she felt elvish desire stir within her, but this time she was able to tamp it down rapidly with the knowledge that this was not just another sex slave but her brother. Her stupid, bumbling, incompetent oaf of a brother, somehow caught in the same web she was.
The sight of him did bring up another memory though. . . that of Briva, the male slave that she had shared many a pleasant interlude with back at the castle. Where was he? She wondered. Still servicing willing females? Did he remember her as fondly as she remembered him? Things had progressed so rapidly that she hadn't thought of him in weeks. The flight to Asdale had occupied all her waking moments. But she did miss him. She missed his passionate lovemaking and arduous attention.
Looking at her kin in front of her, Daphnia's mind reached a sudden insight. If she had been transformed into an elfslut, and her brother had too, who WAS the slave? It seemed too much of a coincidence for him to just be your ordinary, run-of-the-mill sex slave. She knew there were plenty of those in the castle, but he was different somehow. Who could Briva be? Once again, there was no way of knowing. As usual, there were far too many mysteries, and too few answers.
She would have to ask the resistance forces about that. If they truly knew everything, then that mystery should not be too hard for them to penetrate. But knowing the hooded figure's elusive ways, they would either stonewall her or tell her the time was not right. All she could do was focus on the here and now.
Her brother was looking at her with much the same surprise as she displayed. She could tell by the expression on his face that he had reached the same conclusion as her - the over-endowed elfslut in front of him was actually his sister. Though changed by Rampillion's magic, enough of her facial features remained that both siblings could recognize each other.
They fell to talking immediately, stumbling over their words in an effort to exchange as much information as possible in the shortest space of time. Daphnia recounted her transformation and how she managed to escape the castle with the aid of the resistance, and Perthias in turn told his sister about his own imprisonment and subsequent flight. Neither of them explicitly mentioned their sexual escapades. It was obvious that both had had plenty of sex with many partners, and it seemed crass and beside the point to bring it up now.
When their brief conference was over, the siblings paused for a moment to catch their respective breaths and assess the situation. It hadn't quite sunk in yet—how they were both alive and well and out of the clutches of the Crimson Mage. They hadn't yet regained their original forms, but nevertheless it was a start. If only they knew where their mother was . . .
Lost as they were in their recollections and revelations, prince and princess both hadn't noticed the entrance of a third person into the room. Only when she (and it was a she) neared both of them did they look up in surprise. The busty sex slave in front of them looked . . . familiar, somehow. All three of them stared at each other, trying and failing to voice what was foremost in their minds. They knew each other from somewhere, that much was certain. But where and how . . .
The hooded figure appeared once again to shed light on the situation. Without any fanfare at all, it announced the truth that was so close, yet so far to the three transformed.