Planet Selara, year 2020 on Earth
Cal woke up on the seventh day of the week he had been given to court Alex, as she had told him to call her, and got ready for their final date. They were going to spend the whole day together.
He had already made up his mind to marry her, Alex was kind and funny and she was a riot to get drunk with, and of course he would be banished if he didn't.
Vera adjusted his collar and sent him on his way, telling him to have fun.
Cal arrived at the royal garden where Alex had instructed him to meet her for breakfast and the guards let him in without any questions.
Alex was sitting in a yellow sundress on a large quilted blanket with a wooden basket set to the side and Sophia and Hellen were standing a short distance behind her.
"Good morning Alex." Cal said as he walked over.
"Morning Cal." She said, smiling brightly at him.
He sat next to her on the blanket and she opened the box, pulling out a platter of cheeses and crackers.
"Leave us." Alex said to Sophia and Hellen.
Hellen just grunted and walked off out of sight, but Sophia hesitated, "I'm not supposed to let you out of my sight." She said.
"I trust Cal to protect me and I wish for some privacy, please Sophia?" Alex begged.
Sophia sighed, "Fine, just yell and scream if you're getting murdered or whatever." She said, and walked off.
"Now that we are alone, have you decided yet Cal? Are we to be married?" Alex asked when Sophia was out of earshot.
"Hmm." Cal said, rubbing at his non-existant stubble. "Remind me how kissing you feels again?" He said with a grin.
She smiled at him and leaned in, their lips locking in a chaste kiss, Alex never opened her mouth for their kisses and Cal wished he could taste her tongue.
"So? Is that a yes?" She asked. "Or do I have to do something else to convince you?" She reached for his crotch and lightly ran her hand across his bulge.
"Alex, we can't. Your father would kill me." Cal said, but made no move to push her hand away, leaning back on his hands instead.
She unbuttoned his pants and kneeled down beside him. "Let me show you a little sample of what you will be getting." She said.
She tugged his pants down a little until his stiff member sprung out and then leaned forward,drawing it into her mouth as her long blonde hair fell in her face.
Cal leaned up to take his weight off of his hands, his legs straight out in front of him. He held her hair back from her face, running his fingers through it as she began to bob up and down on him.
He couldn't help but think of Lilly, the only other woman who had ever sucked his cock, and a pang of sorrow clutched at his heart.
Alex wasn't nearly as good at it as Lilly, she didn't use her tongue at all. It still felt amazing, and Cal found himself gripping her hair in clenched fists after just a minute.
He cracked a grin at the loud slurping sounds she was making, she was barely managing to take his shaft halfway into her mouth.
She took it too far and pulled back coughing. "Are you alright?" Cal asked, concerned.
"I'm fine." She said, recovering. "You're alot bigger than..." She trailed off, realizing what she was saying.
Cal laughed it off, "Don't worry about it Alex, I don't care that you've been with someone else." He said.
Alex smiled at him and went back down, ready to try again.
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Sophia sat in the royal garden of Ranock at a white marble bench next to a pond full of ducks, watching them swim aimlessly through the water.
With her enhanced senses she could hear Alex and Cal's conversationand she snorted at Cal's cheesy line about kissing.
A few sentences later and Sophia stood up, she needed to get further away before they started... Too late, the tips of her ears burned as she walked quickly away, hearing loud slurping sounds from behind her.
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Cal tapped on Alex's head, "I'm about to cum." He warned her.
She didn't slow down, too focussed on what she was doing and trying her best.
He felt the telltale signs of his impending orgasm and gripped her hair as he came, his cum splashing across the back of her throat.
She choked and pulled back, seed spilling from her mouth as she coughed.
Cal pulled his pants back up and looked in the picnic box for a cloth napkin. He retrieved one and wiped at his pants while Alex appologized to him.
"It's ok Alex, that was great thank you." Cal used the napkin to wipe at the few spots on her dress, offering it to her when he was done.
She took it from him and used a corner to daintily dab at her mouth. So, have you decided yet?" She asked.
He couldn't keep teasing her and chose to tell her the truth. "I decided after our first date Alex, of course I'll marry you."
She squealed in delight and tackled him, knocking him onto his back and burying her face in his neck while hugging him.
"Haha I don't know why someone as beautiful as you is so eager to marry someone like me Alex, but it's certainly going to my head." He said.
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Cal was sitting with Vera and Mia in the common room of the inn the next morning when a man wearing the livery of Ranock entered and approached their table.
"Are you Cal?" He asked.
"Yep that's me." Cal replied.
"I'm to bring you to the royal tailor to get fitted for the royal wedding. If you have any family that will be attending you should bring them as well." The man said.
Cal looked at Vera and Mia. "Well come on then sis, lets go get you and my little niece fitted for a royal wedding." He grinned.
Vera smiled at him and Mia giggled, and they all stood to follow the man to the tailor.
"Do you know when the wedding is going to be?" Cal asked the man as they walked.
"In two days, sir." He replied.
"Two days seems like a short amount of time to plan a royal wedding." Cal said.
The man looked back at him puzzled, "I have been helping to plan this wedding for the past week sir." He said.
"That's funny, I just agreed to marry the princess yesterday." Cal grumbled, annoyed that the king had correctly assumed he would say yes.
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Cal and Alex stood face to face at the top of the steps to the keep with their palms held out and pressed together, her hands looking tiny against his.
King Ranock read from a book of poetry while they gazed into each other's eyes, unlike weddings from Earth Cal had been instructed to write or find a poem about love to be read at the beginning of the ceremony.
Cal had spent the day before the wedding pouring through books of poetry in the library, finding one that suited Alex.
Alex had likewise procured one from a book, neither of them being poetically inclined, yet still as the king read the poem Alex had chosen for him his heart soared with happiness.
When King Ranock finished reading their poems he instructed them to make the promise and Alex went first, as the woman traditionally did in a Ranockian wedding.
"I will love you faithfully and without deceit."
"I will share with you all of my worries and fears."
"I will endeavor always to make you happy and put your needs as my husband above my own." Alex said, staring into his eyes.
"I will love you faithfully and without deceit."
"Whenever you have a worry or a fear I will listen."
"I will endeavor always to make you happy and consider your needs as my wife." Cal said, hating how mysoginistic this traditional ceremony sounded.
"I, King Lucious Ranock of House Ranock witness your promise, two become one." King Ranock proclaimed, drawing the ceremony to a close.
The massive crowd of people packed into the relatively small courtyard of the keep clapped loudly as Cal and Alex kissed, palms still pressed together.
"Princess Alexandra Dair and Prince Calibra Dair will be accepting gifts of prosperity in the dining hall of the keep." King Ranock said, turning and walking into the open doors.
Cal looked to the front row of the crowd to make sure Vera and Mia were following before grabbing Alex's hand and leading her into the keep after the king.
King Ranock led them to the right of the throne room to a vast dining room the size of the courtyard.
They ascended a three step staircase to a table on a raised floor at the back of the room and took their seats as they had rehearsed, Alex sat to the king's left and Cal to the left of her.
Prince Derrin, Vera, and Mia were close behind them and Derrin took his place to the right of the king.
Vera sat next to Cal and Mia next to her. Sophia, Hellen, Blackburn, and two male guards Cal didn't know stood behind their table.
By the time they were seated a line of nobles was stretching from the table back out the door of the dining hall.
They approached one by one and spoke one word, "Prosperity."
The men lay items in front of Cal, the women in front of Alex, and after placing down an item they would seek out a seat at one of the dozens of tables.
Most of the men placed down small sacks of gold coins, the women various pieces of jewellry, but a few had more interesting gifts.
One man with a crew cut like the king's but brown hair held out a dagger with a huge sapphire in the pommel.
He drew it from the sapphire studded black leather sheath for a moment showing Cal the blue tinted blade etched with intricate designs.
Then he resheathed it and pulled a scroll from his pocket, tying it to the dagger with a ribbon before setting it down on the table.
Cal was curious about the contents of the scroll but knew unrolling and reading it while other guests gave him gifts would be incredibly rude so he put it out of his mind.
As the guests kept setting down gifts Hellen and Sophia, who were standing behind Cal and Alex respectively, took the gifts from the table and placed them into leather satchels on the floor behind them.
When the final guest had made her way to a seat the silence was broken by King Ranock loudly clapping his hands together twice.
Servants carrying platters of food streamed in from the wide double doors on the left of the room that led to the kitchens.
The murmur of loud conversations started up all at once around the room as the guests were finally allowed to speak.
The first servants to enter the room set their platters of food down on King Ranock's table along with pitchers of wine and juice while other servants placed a plate, silverware, and a cup in front of each of them except the vampires before heading back to the kitchens.
Cal eagerly dug in to the rich fare, piling his plate high with food and pouring himself a large glass of wine.
When Cal and Alex had gotten enough to eat it was time for them to leave, the rest of the guests were to stay and celebrate in the dining hall while the bride and groom consummated their union.
The celebration would conclude when the newlywed couple returned from the celebration of their own, and the people who had explained the traditions of Ranockian marriage to him had told him to stay gone for around two hours.
That was just another part of the traditional ceremony that Cal found distasteful, all the guests knew they were off fucking and would see their state when they returned.
Just like the promise part of the ceremony it didn't sit right with Cal, but there was nothing he could do but go along with it.
Cal and Alex left hand in hand to the hoots and hollers of all the guests but Cal didn't blush, holding his head high defiantly as he left.
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Cal saw Alex's bedroom in the keep for the first time and was impressed, the stone floor was completely covered by thick fluffy rugs and beautiful paintings of fields of flowers covered the walls.
A massive four poster bed that could easily fit eight people lying side by side and a couple lying across the bottom was placed against the wall across from the double doors.
Alex led him in by the hand and turned to look at him. "Well this is our room, what do you think?" She asked.
"It's the size of the whole inn I've been staying at." He replied.
"Yeah it's a little much." She said, moving over to sit on the bed.
Cal walked over and sat down next to her, putting his hands in his lap. "So..." Alex said.
I always think I'm done being shy and then freeze up like this. Cal thought.
He had been with so many women in the past three months and learned to take control with the ones who wanted him to but he had those women many times before he took charge, and this was his first time with Alex.
She's your wife and she wants you. Don't dissapoint her on her wedding night. He told himself determinedly.
He sank off the bed to his knees and turned towards Alex before lifting up her feet one at a time, slipping her heels off and setting them on the floor as he stared into her eyes.
"You are so beautiful." He said truthfully.
She bit her bottom lip, her cheeks flushed.
Cal stood and removed his own shoes before stripping off his royal blue dress shirt, then he pressed himself between her knees while she sat on the bed and gave her a deep kiss, holding her with his right hand behind her head and his left over her shoulder rubbing the bare skin of her upper back.
She wrapped her arms around his neck while they kissed and this time Cal forced his tongue between her lips. After a moment of hesitation she started moving her tongue against his.
When he pulled away Alex was breathing heavily and he stepped back, unbuttoning his pants and tugging them down before stepping out of them fully nude.
"You're quite beautiful youself." She said while staring at his cock.
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Cal laughed and Alex stood up on shaky legs, tugging her cream white strapless dress down over her breasts and to her ankles before kicking it away to the side.
He ran his eyes along her nude body for the first time while she looked over his in turn, his erection pointing at her stomach.
She was tiny, standing about eight inches shorter than Cal's own height of around five foot six.
He admired her grapefruit sized breasts with swollen pink nipples, her delicate collarbone that made him want to kiss all over her neck, and her stomach toned by days spent training which led down to her wide hips and patch of short blonde pubic hair.
"Get on the bed." He commanded.
Alex obediantly climbed onto the bed and seductively crawled slowly across the overly long matress to the pile of pillows at the headboard, giving Cal an excellent view of her heart shaped ass, puckered asshole, and wet pink slit.
She reached the pillows and flipped onto her back, her shoulders and head held up by a mass of pillows.
Cal climbed into the bed and followed her example, crawling towards her on all fours.
"Tell me what you want me to do." He told her, kneeling between her ankles.
"Lick me." She said in a soft voice.
"Sorry I couldn't hear you, what was that." He teased.
"I want you to lick me." She said louder, meeting his eyes.
Cal grabbed her by the hips and slid her towards him, pulling her shoulders off the pillows and onto the matress and causing her to giggle nervously.
He kept his hands on her hips and buried his face in her fuzzy mound.
Alex played with his hair while he licked her, he hadn't cut it once since he had arrived in this world and it was a little over two inches long.
"I like your hair Cal, I hate how most men keep it cut so short." She said.
Cal responded by attacking her clit and she let out a gasp, pushing his head away.
"Ok that's enough of that." She said and Cal tried to kiss her.
"Eww stop." She said.
"What, are you scared of a little bit of your own juices?" He teased her.
"Shut up and fuck me Cal." She said.
Cal shut up, and he fucked her.
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Sophia hated her job.
She had explained to Blackburn exactly why she didn't want to guard the young couple on their wedding night, but he had just told her to suck it up.
She stood to one side of the door plugging her fingers with her ears and gritting her teeth, but it didn't block out the sounds of passionate lovemaking that came from the room behind her.
"They're at it again, what is that the fourth time?" Hellen asked her, cleaning under her fingernails with a knife.
Sophia pretended not to hear her, she was never going to be able to look Cal in the eyes again.
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Cal and Alex returned to the feast hall two hours after they left to the cheers of drunken nobles.
They returned to their table to retrieve the gifts of prosperity as tradition dictated.
Normally the newlyweds would carry the gifts away themselves, but at a royal wedding like this there was simply too much for two people to carry.
Sophia and Hellen helped them out, all four of them carrying a heavy leather satchel stuffed with gifts back to where they had just come from, depositing the bags in Alex's room.
Sophia and Hellen's replacements arrived as they got back to the room, no longer needed as extra guards for the celebration.
Hellen wished them goodnight like usual but Sophia rushed off the second their replacements arrived, not saying anything.
"What's with her?" Cal asked Alex.
"Her passive magic." Alex said, blushing.
"Oh fuck. I forgot about that." Cal said, "We should do something to appologize to her."
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Cal woke late in the afternoon after their long night of lovemaking, finding Alex already gone. He decided to look through the bags of prosperity gifts he had received.
He opened the small bags of coins one by one, counting them out and placing them back into the leather satchel.
Next he grabbed the ornamental dagger with the attached scroll, curiousity rekindling when he spied it at the bottom of one of the satchels.
He untied the scroll and set it aside while he examined the dagger, when he focused on it he could sense some sort of energy radiating off of it like he could with his father's ring ever since he arrived in this world.
The energy from the dagger felt almost cold somehow though and it let out a low hum, unlike his ring.
He examined the blade and got lost in the swirling patterns etched all along it, every time he focused on a section it seemed to have changed completely from the last time he looked at it but he never directly saw it change.
He put it back in it's sheath and set it aside, eager to read a note from a man who would give such a gift.
He unrolled the scroll and read the one line it contained. The second he read the last word the scroll crumbled to dust causing him to inhale in surprise and then erupt into coughs.
Spatial mage, come to the estate of House Corin, I will make it worth your while.
Cal was puzzled, no one should know he was a spatial mage yet, King Ranock had told him to continue keeping his mark secret until after the wedding and the charging of the portal.
Let's see, who knows about me. There's Vera and Mia, Alex, Sophia, Blackburn, and King Ranock of course. Cal couldn't think of who would have told anyone and why, but now he was even more curious.
He headed off to find House Corin, tucking his new dagger under his belt.
When he left Alex's room he was surprised to find a guard standing outside the door, and even more surprised when the guard began to follow him without a word as he started to walk away.
"Can I help you?" Cal asked.
"Prince Dair, my name is Nirin, King Ranock assigned me to guard you." The guard said with a bow. "Please, carry on your way. I will follow."
Cal sighed and continued making his way out of the keep.
"Do you know the way to the estate of House Corin?" He asked his new guard when they had crossed the drawbridge.
"Of course, follow me." Nirin said, taking the front and leading Cal deeper into the city than he had ever been before.
"I didn't realize Ranock was this big." Cal said to make smalltalk with his new guard after they had been walking for almost twenty minutes. "Before today I haven't been past the keep."
Nirin turned around looking surprised. "As in, you've only stayed in the area between the East gate and the keep?" He asked incredulously.
"Yeah I've only been in Ranock for just under two weeks." Cal replied. "I love the library, it's massive."
Nirin laughed, "The eastern library isn't even the biggest library in Ranock. Make your way out to Ranock Island in Lake Ranock sometime, the library there makes it look like a hovel."
"Ranock Island in Lake Ranock in the kingdom of Ranock? A certain family sure seems full of themselves huh?" Cal asked.
Nirin snorted. "Anyway, Eastern Ranock is a very small part of Ranock, clean and proper to make an impression on visitors."
"Not sayin the rest of Ranock is a dump or anything, just not as fancy as King Ranock keeps his own little slice."
"Here we are Prince Dair, the estate of House Corin." Nirin said, pointing at a stately manor surrounded by a tall wrought iron fence.
Cal walked to the gate where two guards were standing, eyeing their approach. "What's your business with House Corin?" One of the guards asked.
"Um, I don't really know to be honest. My name is Prince Calibra Dair and I received a note asking me to come here." Cal winced as he used his name and title.
"Prince Dair, Lord Corin is expecting you, please head on in." The guard said, pushing open the gate.
Cal and Nirin stepped through and walked down the stone path and across the well maintained lawn. They arrived at the door and it opened, a well dressed butler standing inside.
"Please come in, may I take your cloak sir?" The butler asked him.
"No thanks." Cal responded.
"Lord Corin is in his sitting room, right this way sir." The butler said, walking off into the manor.
Cal and Nirin followed after him down a long hall full of portaits, arriving at an open door and introducing them to the man who had given Cal the dagger.
"Lord Corin, Prince Dair and his guard are here to see you." The butler said, stepping aside to let them into the room where Lord Corin was sitting in an armchair before a lit fireplace.
The butler closed the door behind them and left.
"Ah, good of you to come so soon, I was expecting you to take a few days with your new bride before you made it out to my humble estate." Lord Corin said.
Cal crossed his arms, "Your overly theatrical note along with knowledge you shouldn't have about my abilities got me curious. What do you want from me?"
"Straight to buissiness then, care for a drink first?" Lord Corin asked.
"No thank you, let's make this quick, you are right about me wanting to go spend time with my wife after all." Cal replied.
"This conversation will reveal your abilities." Lord Corin said, pointedly looking at Cal's guard.
"Doesn't matter, they will be public by tomorrow when I charge the portal anyways." Cal said.
"Charging portals. That is precisely what I want to discuss with you." He began.
"My family has a small portal that leads to a vault hidden somewhere deep beneath the earth, spatial mages were commissioned to build it by my ancestors almost a thousand years ago and used it to store the family's wealth."
"The portal only holds enough energy to remain open for ten minutes, requiring a spatial mage was a great security design hundreds of years ago, their temple was above reproach." He said.
"So you want me to keep your portal charged while you go in and clear it out?" Cal asked, imagining a cave with piles of gold like the hoard of a dragon. "How much will you be paying me?"
"House Corin has fallen on hard times I'm afraid, that dagger I gifted you for your wedding was the most expensive thing we had left." Lord Corin said with a frown.
"My offer to you is this, I will allow you to pick out one item from the vault as well as ten percent of whatever currency is inside."
"We have no records of what all is in there but the Corin family has been a prominent household in Ranock for thousands of years, I'm sure it will be a veritable treasure trove."
"Deal, where's this portal." Cal said eagerly.
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Cal stood in front of a ten foot wide and tall obsidian archway in the basement of the manor of House Corin, rubbing his hands together in greed.
"Ok, how do I charge it?" He asked Lord Corin.
"How should I know, you're the spatial mage." Lord Corin replied dejectedly.
"I'm just messing with you." Cal laughed, "You should've seen the look on your face."
He walked up to the infinity symbol on the right hand arch, right where the book about spatial mages had said it would be, and laid his palm on it.
He drew his spatial energy from his mark and pushed it out into the infinity symbol causing it to glow with a silver light to match the glow that would've come from the back of his hand were he not wearing gloves.
Cal pushed the energy into the symbol until it stopped taking it, unable to force any more in, and then stepped back.
Lord Corin and him stared at the archway expectantly. "Maybe it's broken?" Cal said.
Suddenly a sheet of swirling quicksilver spread between the archway, letting off a faint humming sound as it spun in a counterclockwise whirlpool.
Cal hesitantly reached out a finger and stuck it slowly into the liquid, it felt like ice water. He pulled his finger back and looked it over, it was dry and whole, tingling slightly.
"Stand guard out here Nirin." He said.
He looked back at Lord Corin and then stepped through the portal, eager to explore an ancient vault.
Cal found himself in an absolute and total darkness and panicked, thinking the portal had killed him somehow, before he remembered it led to a cave and felt stupid.
A moment later Lord Corin stepped through carrying a torch that illuminated a small dome shaped natural cavern with no exit tunnels.
There were chests lined up along the wall but Cal ignored them, heading straight to a large stone shelf that was buzzing with energy.
He picked up a necklace made of gold plates like something from ancient Egypt that was giving off a faint sound like tinkling bells before putting it down to pick up the next item that caught his attention, a humming shortsword.
He looked over the rest of the items but none of them felt quite as powerful as the shortsword, and with no way to tell what they did he chose the sword.
He walked over to Lord Corin who was opening the chests along the far wall one after another and looking over their contents.
There were six iron banded wooden chests in total, each about half the size of a fridge.
Cal looked inside of them and his eyes lit up, two were filled with gold coins, three with silver, and one with copper.
"I now wish I hadn't promised you ten percent." Lord Corin said while opening the sixth chest. "Is that the object you picked?" He nodded to the sheathed short sword Cal was holding.
Cal didn't respond, the second Lord Corin opened the last chest a low sound like a foghorn filled the room.
He walked over to the chest and set the sword down on the ground before reaching in and lifting out a small black metal box about the size of a book.
He opened the box and saw nine identical rings, thin silver bands affixed with flat heart shaped rubies the size of peas, there was a tenth indentation in the black fabric of the box where one ring was missing.
"I pick this." He said.
Lord Corin looked in the box Cal was holding and shrugged. "Those don't look too expensive but it's your choice."
"They might not look like much but they're the loudest thing in here." Cal said.
"Loudest?" Lord Corin asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, like the sword, or all the items on that shelf over there." He pointed at the shelf.
"Ah I did not realize your passive mark was magic sense." Lord Corin said, turning back to look through the other items in the chest.
Cal was hardly listening, he took off his glove and slipped one of the rings onto his left index finger, it shrunk down to perfectly fit his finger as he put it on.
"Make sure you take those rings to an identifier before you try to use them, I'd hate for a prince to get cursed by a gift from House Corin." Lord Corin said while digging through the chest.
Cal quickly tried to slip off the ring, feeling like an idiot. The ring wouldn't come off.
"Uh cursed?" He asked.
"Yeah it's pretty common with magic jewelry, elves don't like humans getting their hands on their enchanted stuff." Lord Corin responded distractedly as he read some papers from the chest.
"Hypothetically, how would someone go about removing a cursed ring?" Cal asked, slipping his glove back on before Lord Corin turned around.
"They wouldn't, unless they somehow managed to befriend the elves, which would be highly improbable with how reclusive and xenophobic they are." He said, eyeing Cal suspiciously.
"And uh what might a cursed ring do, exactly?" Cal asked, scratching the back of his head.
Lord Corin narrowed his eyes at Cal, "Might be it kills you instantly, if you're lucky that is. Some curses cause you to go completely insane, others make your skin slowly rot and fall off your bones."
"Really no telling until it happens, the most an identifier could tell you is if an item is cursed or not. Now let's go get your guard and some of my household to help drag all this stuff out of here."
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Cal and Nirin left House Corin after recharging the portal three times to get in and three to get out while they removed everything from the cave and left it in Lord Corin's basement.
Lord Corin had assured him he would have Cal's share of the coin sent to the keep after he had it counted.
Cal stashed the box of eight rings in his and Alex's room and went to track down his new wife.
He found her where he thought he would, in one of the royal training yards on the grounds behind the keep.
Cal stood next to Sophia and Hellen with Nirin off behind him and watched Alex train for a minute, she was running around an obstacle course and blasting spikes of shadow through wooden targets.
Alex spotted him when she completed a lap by hopping from boulder to boulder near the end, impaling three targets as she leapt.
She walked up to him breathing heavily and sweating. "I'd give you a hug but I'm all sweaty." She said with a sweet smile.
Cal grabbed her around the middle and hugged her, giving her a quick kiss. "I don't mind." He said. "I missed you this morning, you should've woken me up."
"Just because we're married now doesn't mean I have to drag you out of bed to train with me every morning when the sun rises. Unless you want me to, that is." She smiled at him.
"Sunrise? Uh nevermind, thanks for letting me sleep." He said, releasing her from the hug.
"I'm going to go check on Vera and Mia, want to come with me or are you going to spend more time training?" Cal asked her.
"I'll tag along, Mia is so adorable. I hope our first child is a girl." Alex said, grabbing a towel that Hellen offered her and wiping at her forehead.
"Our first child? Who says we're having more than one." Cal teased her.
"We can talk about it after we work on our first." She said.
They walked off hand in hand to Vera's inn, Hellen, Sophia, and Nirin trailing along silently.
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Cal fed Mia, it was her day, and then they all sat around the inn talking for a bit. He noticed Sophia didn't join in like she usually did and felt bad.
They talked for a bit but Alex wanted to go take a bath after her workout, and Cal wanted to join her, so they said their goodbyes and headed to the keep.
When they got to the room Alex sent Sophia off on some nonsensical errands, to Sophia's obvious relief.
Then they spent the entire day in their room, sending Hellen to fetch them all their meals.
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King Lucious Ranock walked through the torchlit halls of his keep with a spring in his step, the person he had made promises to had temporarily released him from them due to current circumstances and he was going to visit all of his old favourites.
But first he had a new hot young brunette to try out, he had waited paitently all day for her to get off work and retire to her room in the keep.
He stood outside Sophia's door trembling in anticipation before reaching out and knocking softly.
She came to the door in a long eggshell white nightdress and Lucious already began to stiffen.
"King Ranock? What can I do for you?" She asked him, confused.
"May I come in?" Lucious replied.
Sophia stepped out of the way as he swept past her into the room.
He moved to her bed and sat, taking her in. She had her arms crossed under her breasts, her flowing nightdress framing them perfectly.
"Lock the door and come here." Lucious said, watching her face twist in surprise as her body moved without her telling it to.
"What..." Sophia said as she locked the door and walked over to stand in front of him.
"Feel free to scream and cry if you want, it will make this more fun for me." He said, unbuttoning his pants.
Sophia turned and ran to the door, reaching for the lock.
"Stop. Come back here and stand in front of me until I tell you otherwise." He commanded.
Tears were already flowing from her eyes as she realized what was going to happen.
He pulled out his rock hard cock and reached out to roughly squeeze one of her breasts through her gown.
"Take off your dress and then suck my cock to the best of your ability, do not hurt me." He commanded her while giving his shaft a few strokes.
She sobbed as her body refused to respond to her will, pulling her nightdress over her head and dropping it to the floor before kneeling down in front of him.
She started sucking his cock and Lucious ran his hands through her long curly brown hair.
"Look into my eyes." He told her, and she complied.
He leaned back on his hands and sighed, he had been waiting a long time for this.
"Play with yourself while you suck me." He said, planning ahead for what came next.
Sophia fingered herself and sucked his cock until he finished, holding her head forcefully down on his cock as he came in the back of her mouth.
"Good girl." He said, pulling his cock from her mouth and stroking her hair lovingly. "Now lean over the bed on your stomach and show me that ass."
Lucious stood up and watched as she complied, flopping onto her stomach with her ass hanging off the edge of the bed.
He lined his cock up with her wet slit and forced his way inside, her sobs growing louder as he penetrated her.
Lucious smiled, it was time for his favourite part.
He pressed his thumbs into the back of neck, wrapping his fingers around her throat while he pounded into her from behind.
Her sobs turned into choked gasps as she struggled to draw in breaths and the sounds made him pound even faster, he couldn't remember the last time he was so aroused.
He came much faster than he would have liked but he didn't mind, he could visit her again whenever he liked.
He pulled up his pants and headed to the door, unlocking it before turning around to give a few more commands.
"I'm switching you and Blackburn around, you will be guarding me from now on."
"Report for duty at the same time you normally would and don't tell anyone what happened here tonight or what you think about your king."
Lucious left the sobbing woman lying brokenly on her bed and whistled while he walked down the hall, he had more stops to make.
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Sophia lay in her bed sobbing in terror and sadness after King Ranock left.
She crawled the rest of the way onto her bed and curled up into a ball, feeling completely powerless and broken.
Her first instinct was to run to Kyla for comfort, but what could she do? Sophia wouldn't even be able to tell her what was wrong.
The sickening feeling of not being in control of her own body replayed over and over in her mind, she had never felt so afraid and powerless.
She thought of how she would have to show up at the throne room the next morning and pretend like nothing had happened while she guarded the man who raped her.
She finally stood up shakily and pulled on her nightdress, heading to the bathing room to try to make herself feel clean again.
She sat in the bathwater the servant mage conjured for her until it grew cold, going over her options.
The king had ordered her to report for work at the same time she normally would, so she had no chance of simply running away.
Sophia sobbed quietly and thought about killing herself.
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Cal sat atop a horse and took in the impressive sight of his new home in the light of the setting sun.
The mountain rose up thousands of feet in front of him on the edge of the biggest lake he had ever seen, he couldn't even see the distant shore.
Cal had thought it was the ocean when he first spotted it, until Nirin informed him it was Lake Ranock.
He had woken up early in the morning and ridden off with Alex, Vera, Mia, Nirin, Hellen, and Blackburn Northwest to his new castle after charging the portal to Crossroads for the king.
Charging the portal had been significantly harder than the one at House Corin, he had to stop and rest several times before it stopped accepting energy and finally flickered to life.
Hel rode to the base of the mountain where an obsidian archway around thirty feet tall and ten feet wide was set into the sheer stone cliff face, the rock scooped out about a foot deep in the middle of the uncharged portal.
He dismounted and found the infinity rune carved into the righthand arch, flooding it with energy before remounting and waiting.
The portal came to life and he rode forward, firmly guiding the horse as it shied away from the swirling vortex of quicksilver.
He rode out a ways into the courtyard of his new home, giving his companions room to follow him through the portal.
Cal stared in openmouthed astonishment at the massive off-white stone castle before him, it was even bigger than the keep.
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