He moved slowly, silently, one hand on his sword hilt, the weapon still in its padded scabbard, the other he held out slightly to make sure he was balanced as he crept -- the last thing he wanted was to avoid stepping on a branch only to stumble and alert his prey. Telric had been a bounty hunter twenty years, after a brief and not very successful career as a cooper's apprentice. He'd been partnered with Admart for twelve of those, the most successful twelve as well. In that time they'd tracked debtors, murderers, deserters, errant husbands, equally errant wives, runaway children, a drunk priestess (that was a story he'd tell his grandchildren) and dozens of common thieves, cutpurses and footpads. They'd never tracked an Amazon before and for Admart, Telric was sure it was as much the novelty and challenge which motivated him as the money.
For Telric it was the money, and as Amazons had a reputation as being dangerous, the money was good. Admart was back with the horses half a mile away, a small patch of trees next to the road which had good grazing and a spot under a tree where he could happily read a book whilst he waited for his illiterate partner to return. Perhaps their differing motivations and personalities were why they made a great team, if they seldom met outside their work, within it they fitted like a hand in a perfectly tailored glove. Admart was the smart one, the charmer who could interrogate anyone from a town guard to a local whore so skilfully they didn't know they were giving out clue after and who could then tie the disparate facts into a whole map. It was he who'd tracked the Amazon and her granddaughter this far, taking small clues along the way from innkeepers and foresters who'd glanced at the travelling women. It was him who'd realised that it wasn't a random direction that the Amazon was going and that she was heading to somewhere and that probably also meant someone. In each town he looked for clues, gently probing the locals to get some idea if there was a destination here.
And in the last town, it had been a reclusive Mom and daughter, who lived outside the walls. Telric could never work out how his partner had pulled together the threads of the woman being from elsewhere, not having had a man since her husband died sixteen years together and them vanishing for a period after an orc-raid and both Mom and daughter becoming even more reclusive after that, Β only coming into town rarely to sell potions. But he had and he'd confidently told Telric that the woman was an Amazon and that was where Katarinka and the granddaughter had gone.
This was where Telric skills came in. Experience, and the fact they were still alive, had taught both men you didn't rush in and hope that the target was both there and unprepared to resist, plus there was little more embarrassing than smashing down the door to a farmhouse and discovering it wasn't your target (and Telric had done that several times in his early years). You needed to do your reconnaissance and be careful about not being spotted. If Admart was brains and charm, Telric was sharp-eyed and cunning like a fox; he could creep through the undergrowth as silently as a field mouse and see signs of passing that even a hawk would miss. He moved swiftly and stealthily towards the building.
The rays of from the sun were quickly vanishing leaving the woods gloomy if not yet dark and through the trees he could see the spark of a lamp being lit through a window. The house was occupied at least, but he needed to be sure it was the right one before he went back to his partner. He slowed down, his eyes darting around to find a suitable place to hunker down, his dark cloak around him and all his face masked apart from his eyes, so there be no glint of light on his skin to give him away.
Finding a spot, which allowed him to blend against a tree whilst still offering a perfect view of the door and the yard he settled down. There was a chill in the air, winter might be over, but it was hard to say that spring had yet come. The cloak was chosen for its darkness less its warmth, the bounty hunter pulled it around himself anyway, shivering and thinking that Admart had probably got a fire going. If he was lucky Katarinka would be out to check on the chickens before she retired, if not he'd be here all night and hope she'd come out after breakfast; though he was resigned to the fact she might stay inside for days and eventually he'd have to take more direct action to see if she was in.
The door opened and out came a woman. For a moment, in the darkness, he thought it might be his target -- she was certainly an Amazon, wearing armour which covered her breasts and a metallic skirt over her thighs and holding her sword with an easy casualness, despite its size and weight. But after a second he could tell she was too young, though she had a resemblance to the woman in the picture. Still, it was promising and suggested Admart had been right about the woman who lived here being an Amazon.
The Amazon had a lit taper in her spare hand and used it to light some straw in the braziers around the yard, lighting it up, so that Telric could see her even better and fully confirm she wasn't Katarinka. The woman practised a few swings and Telric, who knew a fair number of things about sword-fighting himself was impressed with the speed and dexterity with which she moved, she wouldn't be easy to take down, he decided.
A few moments later the door opened again and two young women came out, Telric guessed they were eighteen or nineteen, perhaps twenty. Unlike the Amazon they were in normal attire, both of them wearing dresses with low-cut bodices which clung tightly to their slender waists. The Amazon paused to say something to them and they both giggled, before taking hold of each other's hands and wandering over to stand near the gate to the paddock, waiting as the older woman finished lighting up.
Then his patience was rewarded, the door opened for a final time and another woman clad in Amazon armour came out. She was perhaps marginally taller than the first one and he would have guessed her age in her mid to late forties, though he knew he was out over a dozen years as she was sixty past. He had found his target, who was certainly Katarinka, sometimes called the Brewer of Witches or the Dragon Slayer.
The two teens broke from each other, the one with the darker longer hair, moving towards the first woman, whilst her friend, shorter shoulder-length hair and what looked like a lighter brown (perhaps a dark blonde, it was difficult to be sure in the fading light) walked, or more accurately, sashayed towards Katarinka. The two teens and the older women embraced and not in a friendly or familial way, the Amazon's gripping around the teen's slender waists and drawing them close against them as their heads dipped down. Telric was too far away to literally hear, but his imagination made up the sounds of passionate kissing. Of course, he had known that Amazons weren't into men, that and them being fearsome warriors were the facts even the most ignorant peasant knew, but it was still a surprise to see it being enacted in front of him, quiet sexy as well and whilst most of him stayed as still as a statue, one particular part of his anatomy stiffened.
The kiss wasn't just a quick one either, the four women remaining together for what seemed like half the evening, making out passionately, squeezing against each other, hands sliding from waists to ass, gripping the pert teenage bottoms under their dresses as the teen's hands slipped up the naked backs of the women, only stopping when they came to metal bra armour. Katarinka was sliding her leg up between the shorter-haired woman's, the teen seeming to shiver and shudder as the older woman's knee rubbed at her pussy. Her head fell back and Telric was sure he could hear her moans and groans of pleasure, gradually getting louder as Katarinka masturbated her.
The other couple were still making out passionately, the older of the pair undoing the younger's bodice and pulling it down enough that the teen's pert breasts sprang out. Damn, they were a nice pair, thought Telric as they seemed to give a pale glow as the firelight danced a few feet away. He only had a moment or two to admire them before the older Amazon moved her mouth from the teen's and onto the tits. He had to force himself not to give a half-growl as he watched the older woman suckle and lick at them, swallowing them as deep into her mouth as was possible. The teen was giggling and gasping pleasurably, her sounds mixed with her friend's (who he now thought was Aina, the granddaughter who'd been kidnapped, though he didn't think it looked too involuntary to him -- not that it should matter, the money was the same).
He returned to concentrating on Katarinka and Aina, it should be disgusting to watch a grandmother making out with her granddaughter, against all the laws of Gods and the laws that men put in to appease them, but it wasn't. Instead, it was damnably sexy (possibly literally so, depending on whether the Gods were as harsh as some of the Priests said they were); he licked his lips and gave a quick and not very truthful prayer, before continuing to watch as the teen shuddered and shivered, uttering little, delightful, cries. Katarinka was undoing the teen's front as well, her hands slipping under the material to squeeze the teen's bosoms and make her gasp even louder and more passionately. The dress continued to be pushed back and away, off her shoulders and down to her waist. Aina's skin seemed flawless and he had near-perfect eyesight, so that meant it probably was. The teen was groaning loudly as even as Katarinka stopped moving her knee between her legs she was slurping and licking at the young woman's bosoms, giving them the same delightful treatment as the younger Amazon was giving her 'friend' (or daughter perhaps, there was a family resemblance and there seemed to be too big an age gap for sisters). Telric made a mental note to ask Admart, when he returned to his partner, what the Amazons felt about in-family sex, there being little doubt in his mind that Katarinka and Aina were definitely grandmother/granddaughter lovers and that the other pair was almost certainly even more closely related. He couldn't remember if the other man had said anything about it as they rode, to be truth Admart was much more interested in other cultures and their histories, Telric normally concerned himself with more practical subjects, such as how they fought.