I decide that staying in this town is not a good idea. So I head off down the road. Looking around I have noted this is the opposite side than I entered, so that is ok and the Goddess does not say anything concerning that.
Toward night fall I start to look for a place to set up camp and find a burned out farm. From the looks of the place the fire was some time ago. But the fields lay fallow and there is no sign anyone has been here in years. The one selling feature for me is the outhouse is in good repair. Likely it was new at the time of the fire but now while it's weathered it still in working order and I for one need to pee.
That taken care of I pull up the Bracelet of Wonder and with a little help from the goddess manage to find the control menu, allowing me to actually pick out the item I want instead of getting a random version of whatever I picked.
I look through a lot of possible ones. Many furnished but none have the One feature I really want till I come across one and really it's almost the same as the first one I had except this is the Deluxe model and comes with certain furnishings. Like a furnace / cook stove and the beds are all 'queen sized and have mattresses. I even find one with 'slave care' items. not sure what that Means exactly as there are no pictures with it but what the hell. I pick it double lock it in place to make Sure I get it. Then activate it.
I get a large pack. Larger than the old one, but with the same features (and warnings) as the original. I set it in place, activate the timer and back off.
And there it is. My A frame wood and canvas home on the road.
I mutter to myself, "I love magic." Then I go inside and see what new goodies came with this one.
The first thing I notice is its Larger inside than outside, Like my storage locker. Stable to as I am able to bring my magic bag inside. Which is a major plus. It has the queen sized beds alright, in Bunk bed format along one wall while the other has the 'kitchen' area and heater (wood stove from the look of it, explains the wood storage hutch outside the door). Small 'portable' butchers block / work table and a rustic looking china cabinet. I look inside and find it's empty but a note in the back list it as a 'stable storage place' so I know I can put items in it and they won't get crushed by the folding (like pic but door is wood on bottom canvas on top - no chair). The bunk beds (8) come with shelf areas to the side and Magic Lamps. No sheets or pillows though. There is 1 chair to. And oddly there is a door at the back of the tent. That is new.
I open the door and see stairs going down. I follow them and step in to a most interesting area. The term 'slave care' is now clear as is the need for the extra space. It’s a BDSM wonderland. I slowly grin as I look around at all the fun toys and ways to make delight with my new toys.
I pass through another door and find even more fun things
These rooms are furnished, with all kinds of costumes and toys. I am Loving this place and can't wait to use it. Well I can wait, got some training to do first, but soon I will have these lovelies all tied up and begging for me to abuse them.
I shake my head, "Well now I know what they meant when they listed it as a special playroom and adults only area. This is new to me. My old tent was not as fancy as this one." I don't know who I am talking to as I have not taken a doll out yet.
I take a deep breath and then walk out to the other room.
I get out my storage door (5ft tall, 2 1/2ft wide) and prop it against the end of a bunk bed. Then I open it and find the back of the bed … ok that is not so good.
I close it and take it outside of the tent, then open it and it shimmers for a minute then comes in to focus. So the magic of the tent interferes with the 'gate' function of the door. Good to know. Scary to.
I go back inside and look for the 'owners-manual' or instructions. It's not pinned to the wall so I search the drawers in the cabinet and under the beds. Not there. I look all over the main room. Then a hunch hits me, I open the dust drawer for the wood stove and there it is. Big book, several hundred pages long (3 languages I note) of care, operations and notes on the Portable Camping and pleasure Palace. Stupid place to put it. Could have gotten damaged or destroyed before anyone found it in there.
I sit down under one of the reading lamps on a bed and read through it. I note the differences and learn that the warning I saw on the barebones model was put there to the level listed as some people left pets or food in their portable tents which died or went bad or both. I also learn how to set it up so it does not interfere with magic bags and other portable gates. I have to go play with the controls, and I move my stuff outside while I do this as this is a tricky and dangerous thing to do as I could lose the connected rooms if I do it wrong. Did not want to chance it and lose my stuff to. It's slow going to do it right and well I think I got something wrong at one point but when I test it both my bag and door work. So I lock in the changes for that for now.
It is only a few minutes later I learn the door is in the floor (with a panel to pull over and hide it) there are more rooms down there. The first two are the same ones as before but a little more floor space. The next one is a more interesting 'master Bedroom' while the last one (across a hall from the 2cd Master Bed) is cages. From the standard prison cage (sliding door with a single bed and a commode chair (chamber pot underneath) [6 of these 'rooms'], to 4 Ball cages (doors slide open on a side and can be locked with a padlock), and some hanging cages as well as 'pet cages'. I don't see a way short of shrinking them to get any of the more portable cages out.
The last 'cages' just looked like tables with drawers and padded tops. Like the kind toys could be stored in. It was not till I opened one and saw it was designed to chain a person up inside that I figured them out.
Took me a bit to work it out, as there are runners in the ceiling going from here to other rooms I learn some of the walls can slide open, allowing movement of the moveable items, cages and such. This place is a vampires dream. Food and play storage.
I am about to cream myself in excitement when Tyche pings me that the time is running out on the doll spell.
I race up stairs and set all the lovely dolls in a row, just far enough apart so they won't hurt themselves as they return to life size.
In the order I took them they slowly 'grow and come to life'. It's pretty erotic to watch.
A ping in my head has me getting the staff I took from the mage out (it has paralyzation magics after all) and I may need it.
The girls all moan and several hold their heads as they look around. Tall yummy red head, "How did we get here ?"
Priestess, "By the will of the Lady!" she is looking at me and my headdress.
Red head, "Samarra will you stop with that mystical stuff."
I answer, "No she is right. The lady sent me for you all."
That got me their undivided attention and the blond (same one I felt up earlier in fact) looks at me, "You. You’re the girl who grabbed my breast and then complained on yours being too small."
I grin and nod. Pretty black girl, "Who are you ?"
I bow slightly, "Ah, I am Robina, Paladin of the Lady of Fortune and Favor."
Samarra claps a little then glances at the others, "We are Saved."
I grin wider, "Maybe maybe not. Depends on your version of Saved."
Samarra looks at Red, "Anne ? What does that mean ?"
Anne shrugs, "We are still slaves and she is not one of those Nice Paladins but likely one of those Bad paladins."
I have not lost my smile.
Cute girl looking things over, "We are in a large tent. There are 9 of us and one of her and while she is armed we out number her. What can she do to stop us from leaving ?"
I activate the staff and she falls over, in a blue light cocoon. "Well that for one." I happily point out.
Busty brunet, "Great another over sexed type. Look we all are the same, pretty, busty and naked. She has us here cause she is one of those who likes girls for sex."
The girl next to her (who smells like a virgin, I don't know How I know what a virgin smells like but she does), in hopeful tones, "You really think so ?" I think I like her.
Very Very Busty brunet, "Someone has been listening to my prayers after all." she sighs.
Black girl, in an accent I don't know, "You prayed to be taken by a woman for sex ?"
The Busty one shrugs, "I prefer women to me in bed. I have had both and have yet to find a man who can satisfy me while I have been with women who Know how to satisfy me. Just tie me up and beat me, eat me and I am all yours." I smile at her, "Love that attitude, hope I can satisfy you, or more." she grins.
Anne shakes her head, "Gonna take more than a magic staff to make me stay here."
Most the rest agree with that (not all). I shrug and zap them all. I then cart them down stairs and tie them to interesting things. Putting Red and Samarra in separate cells and the small breasted cutie in to a ball cage.
The Bustier ones I tie ropes around their large melons and make sure they are nice and tight. The virgin I tie to a table in such a way that her ass is in the air while her nice chest hangs down, I put clamps on her nipples and spread her legs and ass so I can access her fun zone easier.
The black beauty I strap to the first master bed, head and arms through the stocks, her legs pushed up and forcibly held apart, so like the virgin I can get to her fun zone easier. Then I shove a nice sized butt plug shaped like a horse tail up in to her fine tight ass and leave her to contemplate her fate. I return to the virgin and put a trainer plug in her butt and then blind fold her followed by a special gag that forces her mouth open wide. I plan on riding her face soon and she needs to be ready for that.
The mouthy one I put in a cage in the 2st master bedroom and the quiet one I hang up from the ceiling, placing another leg spreader on her and then clamps on her little yummy nipples. I put another horse plug in her ass and sigh pleased. The hard part is choosing who to start with.
I head back to the jail and arrive just as the hold spells wear off.
Samarra sighs, "Back in the cells again. Anne remind me why I followed you on this stupid idea ?"
Anne shrugs, "Cause you wanted an adventure."
Samarra nods, "Oh right. Stupid of me to think you, who always has such terrible luck would be a good traveling companion."
I lean on Samarra's door, "Well the Goddess has told me hands off you."
Anne, "The goddess speaks to her, great another crazy."
Samarra sighs, "She does not understand." I nod.
Anne, being an ass, "So what kind of Paladin are you anyway ?"
I grin at her, "Bringer of Bad Luck. I am the Last person you want showing up pretty much anywhere if you want to have a nice day. She sends me out to Punish people, sometimes even kill them. I am good at killing people. I usually enjoy it to. Love to listen to people scream and beg and such. Which is why I got the magic tent with the attached torture chambers."
Girl in the ball, "So we are all here for you to practice slow torture on ?"
I shrug, "Well that and sex. Your slaves, MY slaves. Play nice and I might let you outside for a time. Upset me and well, I am not nice people to start with. Not Evil, but very Neutral. I maintain the balance by doing bad things to deserving people. "
Anne sighs, "She is neutral, like a rabid dog."
I think about it, "Not rabid, predatory yes. Rabid implies diseased. I can't get diseased."
Samarra nods, "Perk of being a Paladin they never get sick."
I shrug, "Well that and I am a supernatural being. I just look human so as to not scare people until I need to."
I turn as if to leave, the girl in cage ask, "What about food ?"
I stop and look at her, "Food ? Or right you humans need to eat every day. Meh maybe I will find you something. How do you feel about rats ?" I grin and turn off the light on my way out. I hear the girl whimper and Anne sigh, "Oh yeah she is evil and we are all so freaking Doomed."
As I head to the next room I consider. Who is this day and age uses the word 'freaking'. Freak sure but the other is a slang phrase. Though this is an alternate world, so I don't know if all the rules apply or what.
I head upstairs and then in to my storage room. I got all kinds of preserved foods in there including allot of mead. Loved mead the last time, now it's just a way for me to feed them my blood as I turn them in to my blood slaves. Make them mine, train them in the ways of sex and perversion and servitude to me. Some I think will take to it easier than others but with a little Luck they will all come to love me and all the naughty nasty things I will do to them.
I have the mead in front of me, the girls all set up and waiting, but instead I find myself staring at it just sitting there and staring and it slowly comes to me. While this is 'fun' at the moment it's not really ME. Sure I am a Monster now, I eat people. People who are either in the wrong place and time as my hunger or who are just evil pricks that need to be dead. Like those slavers. But here I am acting just like those pricks cause it is fun 'For Me'. SO not what I want. Not really. I want companions sure. But ones who want to be here, who enjoy the same kind of perverse life as me. Not forced on them. I ARG! and get up.
Muttering to myself, "You were hoping for this revelation weren't you Lady ?"
I hear the whisper, "No I want you to be a complete unthinking, unfeeling monster who follows orders and has no free will." she says in a syrupy sweet and complete fake tone. Then in a real way, "I knew you needed a trigger to find yourself and snap yourself out of your 'dream monster' and in to what you are. I was really hoping that if I stuck you with so many you would get how much of a hypocrite you were becoming. Thankfully you got it before I had to smack you around in your dreams."
I go down stairs and starting in the back, release or untie everyone. Looking a bit dejected, well I was till I got to the virgin. I took off her gag first and she did all the normal things a person does trying to get their mouth working after such an ordeal, then the blindfold, but when I started to release the restraints she whined, "Wait, did I do something wrong, why are you untying me ?"
As I have not said word one to anyone beyond 'out' to those in the cages I have some confused people following me. "Because it hit me I am being a hypocritical asinine monster of a person and this is so Not me. I don't go around just enslaving people and forcing them to do things cause I want to. Not like the people I killed today who were doing that to you and many others." I can see my 'big words' confused several of them while others, while they may or may not know the words they understand what I am saying. I get her free and was reaching for the tail when she rolls away and sits on it, jamming it further up her anus. She sighs and then rubs her butt, rolling it inside of her.
ooo kay. I finally let the one in the cage beneath her out. That one looks at the virgin then me, "She has always been like this. I have known her about a year. She Likes being tied up, beaten, having strange things up her butt. She has freaked out every master we have had. They think she is mad, so they leave her alone. Me I get raped, allot, usually by old ugly fat men. Once in a while I will get someone decent looking but not often."
I look from one to the other then shrug, "From her performance she would enjoy being raped, which is why those who rape won't do her. Rape is designed to dominate and terrorize, not be enjoyable to the one getting raped." then to the interesting girl, "So what are your names anyway ?"
Happily playing with the horse hair from the plug, "I am Gwen, the pouty one is Bethany. I keep telling her how lucky she is to be getting used so much but she says I am crazy."
I nod when someone hits me with something hard from behind and the next thing I know I am being stuffed in to the cage below the table.
I don't fight back, I just wait.
Bethany states, "What the hell did you do that for ?" its Anne and the black girl, Anne states, "So we can escape, why else ?"
Bethany and a couple others shake their heads, "She was letting us go you idiot." states Samarra even as she tries and fails to get to the door so she can let me out.
"No she is playing with our heads. I have seen this sort of thing before. There will be someone up there waiting for us so they can stuff us in to a different hole, you will see."
They leave, well Anne, the nice black girl, Samarra and 2 others leave. Bethany, Gwen, Huge Boobs and the quiet one stayed. The big girl (she is taller than me with a pretty face and Nice rack) holds out her hand to the quiet one and the other girls, "Hello, I am Edwina. I for one was enjoying this till now. Not sure what to do now."
The quiet girl smirks, "I sold myself in to slavery not really knowing what would become of me. Figure it is better than living on the streets, you know ? As such I am not going to just leave cause I got a slightly crazy mistress. OH I am Emily."
They look at Bethany she shrugs, "I got no place to go, no money to go with and I can deal with her." nods at me.
I grin, "You may change your mind on that."
Bethany shrugs, "Not likely HOLY SHIT!" they back away from the cage, all but Gwen that is, who has rolled over to look at me and just watches as I turn to mist, slide out of the cage and reform. That was a strange sensation. I could 'see' but it was more like an out of body type thing. Insta-ghost I snerk to myself as I reform , "Never done that before, was interesting."
We can hear them ransacking things up stairs, I sigh and head up.
Sure enough Anne and the black girl are tossing the place, having missed my bag (thankfully) and not knowing to look in the door leaning on the side of a bed.
"What the Hell are you two doing ?"
They jump and turn black girl in a voice that makes me wet just hearing it, "How did you get free ?"
Edwina, coming up the stairs behind me, "She turned to smoke and slid right out then became human again." said in wonder.
I Am standing there, hands on hips looking at the two. Samarra is sitting on a bed, her legs in front of my pack, watching.
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Anne turns on me, holding a large paddle like a club, "You will give us your money or" I Zip forward and smack her hard enough she bounces off the cabinet. I flinch when she hits. I hope I did not damage that cabinet.
I pick up the paddle and growl, "Ok I will make one point clear. This place is New. First time I have Ever used it. Hell I just got it today. Second point, I wear and use a Shit load of magical items and I was going to let you go Before you decided to go all Thug on me and beat me up and just take things. Now, well you two (pointing at Anne and sexy black girl) blew that chance. You just proved to me that you Need to be locked up so other people can be safe." Samarra is just sitting there, nodding her head. She tells me, "The black woman with the voice of melting honey is called Cinnamon. She and Anne decided they did not want to be your play things and hatched this foolish plan. I told them it would only anger you."
Cinnamon looks at her, "You did not tell us she is magic or uses magic, only that it would go badly for us."
I nod, "That is one way to put it. I have training in several fields, including Magic and War. I am not a nice being, can't be and do my job right. But I try not to be a hypocrite."
Samarra interrupts, "They don't know what that means."
I sigh, "hypocrite ?" she nods, "Someone who does or says things contrary to one another. Like killing slavers for forcing people in to slavery then turning around and doing it themselves. That would be a hypocrite. As an example."
Both ladies (and I suspect the ones behind me) nod in understanding. Anne is rubbing her back. I pulled that punch but she is still sore. She ask, "How did you do that ?"
I grunt, "Like I will tell a proven thief how my tricks work. nope, you and miss Cinnamon here are going back in the cells." Cinnamon growls and leaps at me, I step to one side and 'karate chop' her behind the neck. Not enough force to kill her but enough to knock her out.
To my surprise Edwina picks her up and heads down stairs. Emily actually shows her where the cells are. Anne tries to run out the door, but it's locked (I am not dumb enough to leave the room with the door unlocked and everyone down stairs). She does not know how to unlock it, so as she fights the surprisingly strong door I come over and lightly hit the nerve on her neck and send her to headache land.
I grab her by the hair and drag her toward the stairs, but stop and point to the stairs, "After you Samarra." she shrugs and leads the way.
Down in the dungeon I stick Anna in one cell and Cinnamon in another. with 3 cells between them. Then take the keys with me. Looking at them, the cells are not marked and neither are the keys. This is going to get confusing fast. I need a way to mark both so I will know which key goes to which lock. There are Lots of locks down here.
Sighing I sit on one of the padded storage lockers (for locking People inside) across from the cells.
I wait for them to come to, the other girls mill around, some talking to each other, the followers, like Samarra had been sitting on the 'magic beds' and pretty much just enjoying the luxury of the upper level during the encounter. Them I was not mad at and right now I think everyone is happy about that.
I wave Edwina over, "Why did you help take Cinnamon down here ?"
She shrugs, "Her people are cannibals. If she got free it is only a matter of time before she would kill and eat someone." I raise an eyebrow at her, "So eating people is a bad thing ?" I ask in a partly joking tone. "Well yes, normally. She likes to tell all these recipes for cooking people."
I make a face, "Wait you Cook them first ?"
Cinnamon was awake but faking it as we talked of this but that line got her sitting up, then holding her head to keep it attached, "How else would you eat someone ?" she ask me.
"Well alive is fun, or just tear them open and rip out the nice organs while they are still warm and eat them that way." I hum happily to myself.
EVERYONE else is giving me a strange look (though Gwen and Emily that look is, hm, wonder what it is like to be eaten and still alive) Those two bare watching, and fucking if things work out.
Cinnamon ask, "Ever tried that, eating a person ?" I nod, "Yes I have. Tasty tasty. Nice and fresh " and that did it I lose control of myself, my fangs drop and my eyes glow with that inner light, my nail claws extend and I drool a little. I sigh happily till I notice that with the exception of the two 'victims' and those in the cages, everyone else is now on the far side of the room.
I look around, "What ?"
Emily moving closer, "You got long sharp teeth, and your eyes are glowing and your nails turned in to claws and somehow your even More attractive than you were before."
Anne, from her cage, "Shit, she is a vampire. That is how she moves so fast."
Anne has to explain Vampires to some of them. Gwen actually came over and checked me for a heartbeat by putting her ear against my chest. I grin down at her, "You know that is not the safest place for your head right ?" She shrugs, "I don't think we could escape, so may as well, besides I like your chest. No heartbeat though."
I nod, "Well, being undead means no life signs like beating heart or need to breath except to talk."
Cinnamon is actually closer to her cell door, "You really eat people alive ?" she sounds almost worshipful. I nod, "Yes. Mostly vampires drink blood, but some of us can eat and do. I just enjoy ripping out and eating the nummy blood filled organs when I kill and I have the time. I Don't have to eat those though. It's just a perk of being me."
Samarra is rubbing her holy symbol tat, "How is it you can wear the Goddesses Symbol ?"
"She gave it to me when I awoke like this. I served her in life and she decided I could serve her this way to. She sends me after enemies she wants Dead, including rival churches and such. She also has me do other things. Like gather all of you. Though I am not sure why in some cases. But you Samarra she told me no touchy, no eating, etc. So I put you in a cage, where you are safe from me." I open my eyes wide when I say that.
Gwen ask, "You still hungry ?"
I nod, "Yes. I am. Probably will be for a while if I recall my lore right. I am actually doing pretty well considering I only woke up like this this morning. Then had fun killing the Death Priest around here. They had found my body where it had been hidden for my transformation and then sealed me in a crypt. So happy I still had my spells. I was able to get out using magic. Then I ate the guards and the priest and later a few slavers." I sigh happily, "I love being me."
Cinnamon is giggling at that while Gwen has her head in my lap, "You can eat me if you want."
I pet her long hair, "What, I thought you wanted to not be a virgin anymore." she considers, "Ok first you fuck me then you eat me, unless you can do both at the same time." I laugh "You are going to be a fun play thing." she smiles brilliantly.
Emily comes over, "I am not a virgin, but otherwise I am willing to serve you that way to. Not that I want to die but better me than the others."
I grin, "Being a vampire means I don't normally have to kill to live. I just need blood. Problem is when a vampire first awakens all they feel for the first few days is lust. Blood, sex it all blends together. Or at least for my kind it does. Allot is happening to me today. Wake up dead. Learn to kill and that I enjoy it now.
Then The Lady turns me in to her Bad Luck Paladin. Then she gives me the spells to collect all of you. Yeah I stole you from the Kings men before they could add any or all of you to his collection. But only as the Goddess lead me to you."
Samarra nods, "Ok I see what she is doing now. Keeping you happy so you can be her weapon against her enemies. Not the first time she has used an inherently evil being in such a way."
I nod, "Well as I said, I served her when alive to. I have no problem serving her now. Though I was never human. Would have lived a long time had not someone shoved a parasite in to my spine. Parasite killed me. Gods brought me back as I am so I could continue to serve them. I just chose to willingly serve the Lady as she has always treated me nice and been pretty up front in why she wants me to do things for her. I figured out why on you Samarra, seeing as you belong to her she wanted you out of harm's way." I reach up a hand and pet Emily to and sigh I got a couple of winners here. Time will tell on the rest. "Ok before the attempted murder and robbery of me I was gathering you for something simple. Food and clothing. I have several outfits and food for everyone though most of it is preserved rations and canned foods as I travel allot."
I go to stand but Gwen is there, so I get her to stand up then possessively put an arm around her and grasp her tit. I lean over and whisper, "mine" and she smiles happily.
Once more I lead them upstairs, though other than Edwina, Emily and Gwen the rest hang pretty far back. Well at least out of grabbing range as the place is not That big.
Edwina nods at the cages, "So this place is like a pantry for you ?" I smile, "Had not thought of that version but it could be. Though truthfully my sexual preference is for willing playthings who enjoy being tied up, hurt as well as fucked. For me Unwilling is food. Willing is playmates."
Gwen pouts, "I want to be food to." I grin at her, "Ok but after I feed you." she nods and her stomach rumbles to. I grin and lead them upstairs.
I take my white door and hang it on a wall, then I knock 3 times and mutter some non-sense in elven (pretty much: hickory dickory doc the mouse opened the clock) as a 'magical spell' and open the door and activate the light spells with in. The store room beyond with its high shelves, sliding ladders and even a spare bed, make them all ooh and ahh. I let them go in first (paranoia about someone closing the door behind me.)
"My magic store house. Very handy when I was a merchant. Not a huge space as such things go but useful to me and stable. Stable in mage terms means while the door can be moved this place remains in place. So no matter where the door is it always leads to here."
That really impressed them. I next give them the tour of where is what. The language (which I am happy to note I can still read) is Common and I tell them back in my mortal days we had this language which all could learn to speak. I don't know what caused it to be forgotten though.
Edwina looking at a pretty peasants dress, "How long did you sleep before waking here ?"
I sigh, "Well in my day Elves and Dwarves and Orcs still walked the world. I woke to a world where they are all gone now. The goddess tells me I am from the Age of Legend, not that that means anything to me. I only know a rogue death god grabbed up a bunch of new turns and buried us around the world. Something happened to that being pretty recently and his power suddenly dropped off allowing me to awaken and escape. If not for the Lady Goddess I would not know all that I do. She was my Patron before and I am happy she is still remembered and worshipped in the now. Though she no longer walks the world like she did when I was young."
Samarra's eyes are bugging and she is pale. I gently put her on the bed and pat the top of her head. The other girls don't seem to comprehend what amount of time I am speaking of.
While sorting through items I find a complete alchemist set up I had forgotten about it. I had it to make potions and Blue Ice (which does not work like it did back 'home' here it is back to a mundane substance). Looking at that I go check my bookcase. It's a tall heavy wooden thing with lockable doors on the front. I open the lock and check. All my books are in it. Recipes, formulas, Spells - I had a massive collection of spell scrolls and books I procured in my travels. From what the AO tells me all these spells Should work in this world. So I am happy.
I also find a picture of Luce, well several. clothed, nude and in full armor holding her enchanted hammer. I run a hand over the images and sigh.
Gwen and Emily come over, Emily ask, "Who is she ?"
"That is Luce, Paladin of War and my lover when I was mortal. She was utterly evil but I loved her and she me. She is long gone now but for my memories of her."
Gwen nods, "She was pretty." I nod and sigh. "she was my first love really. Well first one that loved me back prior to her all my lovers cheated on me or treated me as something to use and then leave when I was of no more use for them.
I was 72 when I met her. Pretty little human and me, a demigod. We did well together."
Samarra raises her hand in a 'wait' pose, "You were a demigod ?"
I smile and nod, "Yes. Which is one of the reasons I am so powerful now. Most new awakened vampires while stronger than humans are not in the same league as me who is closer in power to an elder. At least on the physical side of things."
I forcibly pull myself to the present and put the pictures away. But as I do a note from a bottom shelf flits free. I start to ignore it even as I went to put it back but the hand writing is not mine so I read it. I stare at it long. It is from Trisha, my love and sire.
' My Dearest Rob,
I hope this missive finds you well and in good spirits in the world you will awaken in. Know if I could have gone with you I would have, but I have these responsibilities to consider. At the writing of this note your will has been dealt with. Luce got half of the gold you won that fateful day. She gave birth to 7 children, 4 boys 3 girls. The first boy she named Rob, after you. The others were Dave (Super smart scientist guy, her words not mine), William (said it was your grandfathers name and he was a great warrior), Swartzenager (after some barbarian, I know who she meant :D ), The girls were Agatha (after her friend Axe), Fortuna (for the Goddess who helped you move on and saved you at the end), and Diana (she said you always wanted a moon goddess in the mix, not sure I understood that but there you go).
I and my girls got some of the gold to as did other momma's you left behind. We did what we could to care for the children you left behind. Not all lived to adulthood but that was more because they were murdered than any other reason. We made sure those who killed them did not live long afterwards. Most made it and several went on to have children of their own.
Ok I am writing this 200 years after the fact. Dame Fortuna said she could get this and your spell books in to your special room. I asked her to watch over you to. She is good people for a god. I um fudged a little and added some more books to her package. Hope you like them.
Your loving sire, Trisha Lee Arikel First of the Toreador, Clan of the Blossom.
(Dame Fortuna told me to write it that way. Why I put in my last name I don't know.)'
I wipe the pink tears from my eyes and read it over a few more times. Then I look at the bottom shelf and pull out books, look at the covers and the first few pages. Plays, poetry, books of art from our world. Histories of the world I left behind (and could easily be confused for the Time of Legend here) and a family tree starting with me and ending with 50 boys and 68 girls, all direct descendants 200 years after I left. That's my kids, prolific. Even a couple of updated spell books and a 'book' that is nothing but sheets of gold (heavy book about 50lbs.) Titled 'Wealth' I have to laugh at that one.
I touch my symbol, "I found the care package. Thank you my lady." I feel a hand run over the top of my head. I pull 1 sheet out of the book of wealth. Stiff but thin, looks elven from the craftsmanship.
I look at Samarra and Gwen, the only ones close to me as the others found the food and are working on making a breakfast from it. "Care package from my sire via the Lady. She got this put in here while I slept. Sneaky girl, slipped in a book on Wealth." I hold up the page and Samarra softly whistles, "That’s solid gold isn't it ?" I nod, "Looks like elf made to. They have the touch to make a page of pure gold like this. Dwarf work tends to be heavier. Humans of that age did not have the skill to make anything like this. Elves and Dwarves had long had the secret of iron and steel. Humans still worked with bronze. My staff is dwarven made." I explain.
I get up, "Well you both need to eat and I smell the jam someone opened." I let them out first, sighing over the mess left in the room.
They took several bits of clothing, some of it of the more risqué type. I dodge back in and grab sheets, blankets and pillows for the beds then I am out and putting them on the beds while they eat and figure out the clothing. Emily looks the stuff they gathered over, then as I put the sheets on the last of the beds, comes over to me, "Mistress. Should we put on clothing or do you want us to remain naked so you can use us better ?"
I end up giggling, "Tell you all what. Those who would like me to have sex or other physical relations with me remain naked. Otherwise you may pick something and get dressed."
Endora (the busty blond), Samarra, and Arlene all put on some form of clothing. The rest don't. Though Gwen paints her chest with strawberry preserves. I just laugh at that. I ask, "Anyone want desert ?" Emily perks up, "Sweets ?" I ask, "Like strawberries ?" she nods. I point to Gwen's chest, "Lick that off." Emily happily complies as Gwen frowns, "I was trying to make my breast taste better."
Emily hums as she licks the virgin clean, "Well Emily is enjoying them." Going by her shivers, so is Gwen.
"I like strawberry to, just not on my meat." I purr to her, she pretty much melts right there.
Edwin grins at the girls eagerness and adds, "besides Honey works better as a topping."
I shrug, "Never cared for that myself. Not the way you mean it." I inform them. Edwina looks mildly surprised but shrugs, "Each to their own." I nod.
I turn to the dressed crowd, "Ok, so what is it you desire of me ?"
Endora shrugs, "I was just a farmer's wife before they killed him and took me away. I don't know what I will do now. I have no place to go and common skills. I doubt you have much use for me other than as food or plaything."
Arlene shrugs, "My life has been one bit of bad luck after another. I was trained to be a holy concubine for my Goddess. But the day I was to first serve the town and temple were attacked, all those captured, including me and most of my sisters were sold off as slaves. The last 4 of my masters all died, somewhat horribly, when they went to take me. 1 was murdered by a jealous lover, one got killed by thieves on his way to my bedchamber, the last two were just freak accidents. One was disrobing and tripped over his own sash and fell and hit his head, blood everywhere. The next one, a prize trophy came loose from its moorings and fell on him as he was climbing in next to me. The horn of the beast skewered him through the neck. The other slaves found me, bound to the bed with his pierced body next to me. You found me as I was being led away to be sold yet again."
Curiosity prods, "What did the beast look like, the one who did in your last master ?"
She shrugs, "White horse head with a single spiral horn in the middle of its forehead."
I grin, "Unicorn. Don't have much use for them myself but it sounds like it got it's revenge even after it's death. Magical and annoying creatures Unicorns. But they Protect Virgins. Mostly as they wish all human females would remain virgins so the human race would die out. Passive aggressive hypocritical creatures."
Samarra to Arlene, "Sounds to me like your goddess was protecting you from non-believers. Robina may be a monster, but she believes in the gods."
I nod, "From what I have been told her goddess was like one I used to know back in the day, called Lliira, She was a goddess of fertility as well as some creative sexual acts."
Arlene, "I don't know the name, but the rest fits. But I worship Aphrodite."
I nod, "ah the greek goddess of beauty, fertility, and sex in all its many and glorious forms."
Arlene smiles and nods. I just sigh and go lay down on a bed. For once my sex drive is completely offline. I miss Sune, and Lliira her 'little sister' even War and his bizarre sense of humor. Only been a day for me, but that letter, written 200 years after I 'died' has taken allot of the wind out of my sails. No telling how much time has passed since then.
"You all do as you please. I am going to take a nap. Sleep of the dead. Your call, stay or go."
I sit up, dig my purse out and hand each girl 5 gold coins. "So you don't start out penniless."
I stuff the purse back in its hiding place and lay down again. Pulling a blanket over me, "The door is unlocked now." I fully expect most of them to be gone by the time I wake up. If I wake up, there is a chance one or more will decide to kill me first.