This is the beginning of a new storyline. It is set in a classical fantasy world, but has strong themes of incest, domination and a few other interesting strands to enjoy.
The story is of course - even more so than usually - a fantasy and should be read as such. If you are looking for kitchen sink realism in the tone and substance of your erotica, this story is obviously not the place to look. But hey, you might like to suspend disbelief and enjoy it anyway.
All characters are over 18 years old and all acts of sexual interaction described or imagined - past, present or future - involve only persons of legal age.
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Flash.
Flash, flash.
"There!"
The small speck of light on the horizon was far away across the dark plains, but in the moonless night, it could not be mistaken.
Flash.
Flash, flash.
Princess Caiya's entire body froze in fear and anticipation, even though she had been sitting in this cold, ancient stone tower in the middle of the night waiting for something like this to happen.
Instinctively, the teenage elf girl slid down from the ruined parapet and tried to hide her tall frame behind the low, uneven stonework. Until she realized there was no possible way whoever was signaling could see her from miles away in the night.
She stood up again, smiling sheepishly to herself. "Stay cool!" the princess reminded herself.
Her smile faded as she started thinking about what the flashing light might mean. It almost certainly meant that her father, the King of Tennaia Forest, had been wrong. "He's always wrong!!" the teenager thougt, feeling the familiar anger towards her father rise. Sword master Genel had tried to warn the Council that there were signs of the Orc clans moving towards the elven lands again. But the King hadn't listened to Genel, just as he never listened to those who spoke uncomfortable truths.
But Cayia believed the Sword master. And not only because he was handsome and made her all tingly when he smiled at her. He was tall too! Not as tall as her, obviously, but tall enough that she didn't have to look down at him, as she had to with most men and women of her clan.
Anyway, having eavesdropped on her father's Council, Caiya had decided to make it her mission to find out if the danger that Genel spoke of was true. Were the orcs getting ready to attack again, after almost twenty years of peace? Was Tennaia Forest on the brink of another disaster, having painstakingly rebuilt the elven lands after the horrors of pillage and rape that the Orc Wars had been?
Caiya knew very well that it really was not her place to do anything but join her sisters in gossiping and finding a good husband. But she didn't care. The King's youngest daughter had always been a little different. The most obvious thing, of course, was her body. She had quickly outgrown her older sisters and most other elves, reaching six feet at her eighteenth birthday this summer. But it wasn't just her height. Unlike her mother's and sisters' thin, slender frames and delicate, elfin features, Caiya's body was a wonder of curves and muscles. Her strong arms, wide hips and prominent behind were impossible to hide in the light, flowing dresses the elven women of Tennaia wore, and the same was true of her breasts, very large for a girl only a few years into womanhood.
In the distant human cities of Wokn or Zedar-zet by the Great Ocean, the roundness of Caiya's features on her tall frame would have been the desire of men and the envy of women. But in the insular elven community of Tennaia Forest, teenage Caiya had come to see her growing, voluptuous body as ugly and freakish. And of course, there was also her secret, that only she and her mother knew about. But her facial features were just as agelessly beautiful as those of her mother and sisters. And Caiya just loved her skin and hair. They were darker and more full than that of most other elven girls, and she knew that even her stunning oldest sister Diara envied Caiya's rich tresses.
Even more unusual than her body, however, was her spirit. Caiya had never really been happy living the comfortable, peaceful life that the elves of Tennaia had successfully built in the last decades. The horrors of the orc invasion had forever turned the elves away from conflict and strife, to the point were even friendly competition and martial exercise was seen as strange and unnecessary. A small warrior caste, a force of armed men was led by Sword master Genel, but these days they were more often than not searching for missing animals or children. The elves were a kind and helpful, but insular people. There was some trade with the human cities to the far south, but Tennaia itself provided most of what was needed, and the elves rarely saw a need for contact with the world outside their forest. Relationships among the elves were formed and maintained, marriages were built on love, but also the consent of parents and the village elders. Children were brought up in peace and harmony, for the most part, encouraged to engage in arts, music and crafts.
This pleasant, slow-moving and quiet life-style had always been difficult for Caiya to fit in to. Even as a small girl, she had been more active, more loud, more adventurous and more difficult to keep up with than the nice little elf girls. Queen Sintra, her mother, had had to work hard to keep Caiya from getting away or getting lost or getting into trouble. When she was a little older Caiya had even gotten into some fights (fights!!!) with other girls. And with boys (boys!!!). And last year she had asked to join in the training of the Sword master's men. This was of course a big source of embarrassment to her father, the King, who had from a very early age, tried to avoid having anything to do with his big, boisterous youngest daughter. In the end, Cayia was allowed to do some light weapons training, as long as it was done in the Sword master's yard where no one would see.
As she grew up, Caiya soon started to resent her father for the way he treated her, but also for the way he treated her well-behaved sisters, which were all precious and a source of joy to him. By contrast, her mother, had always stood up for all of her daughters, and defended Caiya before her father, making sure that he - and Caiya - knew that she had the right to be different.
And her mother kept her secret.
Flash.
Flash, flash.
There it was again! A third time! There could be no doubt now that someone from the orc lands were sending light signals. But what did it mean? Although she had eavesdropped on more than one of her father's Councils, Caiya knew nothing of warfare or military communication. Were the Orc clans perhaps trying to contact each other to gather their forces?
Even though she wasn't at all sure what it meant, Caiya was certain that it was important. She needed to tell someone that the Orcs were doing something and that it probably wasn't good news for her people. Even though she had often felt out of place in Tennaia society, Caiya loved the forest and her family and her kin. Maybe she would even be the one who saved them from another disaster?
But who would she tell? As she started to descend the ruined tower to go back to the village, Caiya pondered who would believe her potentially life-saving message? Not her father, that was certain! The King of Tennaia Forest would never believe such bad news. And certainly not from his strange, troublemaker daughter. He would probably think she had made it all up to get his attention. Or maybe to embarrass him again.
So not her father. And yet it had to be someone with power. Someone who it would matter that she told. Caiya could think of only two possible candidates: Sword master Genel or her queen mother. The Sword master would probably believe her. She knew he liked her spirit, and maybe other things about her too. And her message would fit in well with what he already feared. But would he be able to convince her father to act? She was not at all certain of that.
The other option would be to talk to her mother. Queen Sintra was by far the bravest and wisest woman Caiya knew, a trusted advisor of her father's and in many respects the true ruler of the Tennaia. And yet, whenever the Sword master had brought up the potential threat of the orcs, Sintra had been strangely dismissive, more or less encouraging her cowardly husband's excuses not to act. Caiya had even heard her mother making light of the threat to her husband out of Council, calming his nerves when he had on rare occasions considered the warnings of his Sword master.
Still uncertain what to do with her information, Caiya had almost reached the ground when...
Flash.
Flash, flash.
And then from the top one of the other towers, across the very courtyard from where she was standing:
Flash, flash.
Flash, flash, flash.
By the Goddess!! Someone was signaling back! Someone from Tennaia was signaling back to the orc lands!
Caiya felt herself at once consumed by fear and anger. There was someone in that tower, betraying her people to the orcs! And through the luck of the Goddess, she, Princess Caiya, was here to stop them!
The adrenaline rushed through her body as she prepared to ascend the tower where the traitor was. She knew needed some kind of weapon for this encounter and she looked around in the decrepit, old courtyard for something to use. She quickly found a heavy branch from one of the small trees growing out of the cracked stones of the courtyard.
She felt her muscles flexing as she lifted the branch. It was almost as tall as she and Caiya doubted her sisters would even have been able to lift it. For that matter, she doubted that her father would have been able to lift it.
Caiya couldn't deny that it felt good to hold a weapon in her hands. She had always thought her body might have been made for an elven warrior in some distant fairy tale, rather than the youngest princess of the Tennaia. She was almost shaking with excitement at the thought of meeting this traitor to her people and showing them what she would do to someone who would betray them to the beasts that had raped and plundered her people long ago.
As she started to eagerly climb the narrow stairs up the traitor's tower, her body filled with the adrenaline of an approaching fight, Caiya also felt a sensation that was unfamiliar to her.