the Officer
After a while we arrived at big military-looking barracks.
I was a bit surprised that on the way there nobody really looked at us because of the trash Rodrick was carrying, but apparently the townspeople were used to such spectacles.
In front of the building Lae spoke to one of the two guards at the door about meeting their superior, and we were quickly led in.
We were brought to a room on the second floor. In there was a old, man in a military uniform, sitting behind a desk reading some papers. The walls were mostly filled out with bookshelves, but on a wall was a map of the surrounding landscape.
Looking up he said: “Oh, so its you. What happened this time?”
It seemed like he had some history with my saviors.
Lae answered him: “We caught a pedophile.”
The officer’s expression darkened. “I hope before anything happened?”
“It was close. We found him assaulting this girl in one of the seldom used side streets, with his trousers down.”
“Hm.” He looked at me who had her gaze fixed on the books all around the room. I did listen to them, but those books! There were some about rare monsters one would only encounter far away from civilization I had not seen before, as well as books about the town’s near wildlife and plants I wanted to look through.
Wanting to ignore him for a bit I continued checking out the book titles, but I soon was interrupted: “Hey little girl. Can you tell me what happened?”
“I came to the gates and wanted inside when that offered to play some games with me in exchange for letting me in. When I asked which ones he...he dragged me off. He…. pushed me to… to the wall…. and… and…. “ I didn’t play. I was really that affected by that occurrence. I would never want to live through something like that again.
Lae came over to me and took me in her arms: “Shhh…. , it’s all ok.”
A bit later I had recovered and stopped shivering. I hadn’t realized I did.
An attendant came in, putting a bag on the table and leaving again.
The officer took out a few gold coins and quite a lot of silver ones, splitting them up in four piles.
“Here’s your reward for capturing that trash. He will be delivered to the church of the god of torture right away.”
Niishan and Roderick both took one pile, while Lae took the two others and presented one to me: “There. I don’t know if you would want this money, but its quite a bit. You should take it.”
Nodding I took it. 2 gold and 50 silver. Quite a reward, but I was that beautiful.
The reward for capturing a pedophile during, before or directly after usually consisted of three times the violated persons worth, and the victim also got it’s own worth once. This usually enabled them to buy themselves free if they were slaves, but most of the times their master just took that money away from them anyway. Regardless of that, the reward for capturing one was very much, so most people had an eye open for such easy ways to get money which made it far harder for pedophiles to fulfill their desires.
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I concluded gold really was worth quite much. I mean, look at me, such an appearance was unique in these lands, so obviously I would be rated quite highly. Additionally to that i glowed, rising my worth a bit more. To be sure I would have to check out the market though.
Anyway, following Lae outside, she was welcomed by a purple skinned lady with long black hair, ‘hiding’ her hourglass-like figure under a skin-tight robe and announcing her status as mage with the long, gem adorned wand at her side.
After a short hug, that person I thought of as succubus looked at me and asked: “So, who did you pick up this time?”
Only a short explanation from Lae was needed to make her bury my face in her ample breasts, pitying me nearly to death. Only after nearly a minute of suffocating and struggling I could escape from her grip.
“Can we keep her?” She asked with upturned eyes.
….am I treated like a pet?
Well, since they are so nice, I could probably use them to accompany on the journey. The way that officer talked to them implied that they see each other rather often, and the fact that they had good, well maintained armors and weapons should mean that they are strong and trustworthy, or at least won’t abandon me on the road.
“Are you mercenaries?” I asked.
“Yeah, why?”
“Can I hire you?”
....
“I need to go to the capital, but I fear that more such beasts would attack me. I can only pay so much.” I show the hand with the money I just got.
“So it’s like that. Yes, you can hire us, but we need to go to the guild to make this official. Do you want to do it now?”
“Yes!”
I was lucky they were such nice people. If they had not told me about the guild, I would have never followed them. I wouldn’t want to be abducted on the way after all.
And so I followed them to the guild house.
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