Flame of Cytherea: Cytherean Chronicles book 1 (21 page)

As they walked south, which her mind balked at despite
understanding the need to throw off the soldiers, she felt herself drowning in
feelings she had never felt.
 
She was
awed by it.
 
The four women radiated love
and protectiveness toward this strange man, and he returned their feelings.
 
She almost cried, she had never known
anything like that in her life.

All she knew was if they could help her, they would.
 
She still felt their concern when they
glanced her way from time to time and she decided she would tell them anything
they wanted to know…

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Sally flew as high as she could, trying to stay out of sight,
but she needed to remain within the limits of her magic.
 
She couldn’t actually change Sara’s hair
color, or skin pigment, but color was a function of light, and she was able to
erect filters to change the color reflected.
 
She needed to stay close enough to maintain it.

The afternoon seemed to drag in the tense atmosphere of so
many soldiers, she hoped they would remain undiscovered or it would get very
ugly.
 
Eventually the time to stop for
the day arrived and it was with relief she landed, changed, and dug into her
pack for another set of clothes…

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Once the camp was up and dinner was over the fire, he
watched from a distance as Sally and Nicci talked to the girl.
 
He was sure the story she told was glossed
over, but it wasn’t hard to read between the lines and he was getting angry
about it.
 
He was sure the woman’s life
had been filled with abuse.
 
He only
managed to tamp it down when he saw the alarmed looks she was throwing his way.

He realized he was scaring her, as she had no idea what he
was angry about, and that cooled his ire quickly.

He listened as they gently pumped the girl for information
on the castle setup, guard locations, entrances and exits, guard posts inside
and all that.
 
Nora got involved then,
asking about the smallest things.
 

Based on the descriptions Sara gave, he was pretty sure they
even knew where the altar would be that he had to cleanse, the last door in a
side corridor in the Royal wing.
 
But the
amount of guards was intimidating.
 
Especially in that wing, he didn’t see how a stealthy advance would
work.

When they had gotten all they could, Nora said, “Well
listen, I wouldn’t advise trying to go north right now with all the soldiers
around.
 
What we are doing is dangerous,
but we can try to protect you if you come with us, and we will take you out
again when we leave.
 
Make sure you find
a good place safe from men like that piece of fucking shit lord.
 

“If you don’t want to risk that, I would advise you to go
deep in the woods, maybe west into the mountains and lay low a couple of weeks
before trying again.”

Sara said softly, “Thank you, I… don’t know yet.
 
The idea of returning anywhere near that
castle scares me, but I wasn’t doing so well alone, and you’ve all been so kind
to me…”

When Sara trailed off Nicci advised, “Sleep on it then, you
don’t have to decide until we move in the morning.
 
And… you’re very welcome.”

They talked for a while longer then went to their bedrolls.

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The king of
Egeria
snapped out,
“What is it?” he was tired of dealing with these fools.

The messenger cleared his throat cautiously and said, “Your
majesty, the Flame of Cytherea was seen crossing into
Egeria
two days ago.
 
I verified it myself, he
gave the same description of him and his lady companions that the survivors of
our invasion force gave.”

The king growled impatiently and ordered, “Well, send out
patrols, find them, kill them.”

The messenger said diffidently, “Most of our soldiers are
already out patrolling, looking for the maid that murdered your advisor.”

The king rolled his eyes, “So send fast messengers to update
them in the field, do I have to tell you everything?”

The messenger bowed low and said, “Yes Majesty, I mean no
Majesty,” as he walked backward toward the door.

Sara started awake, a scream caught in her throat.
 
She felt strong lust and in her world that
always meant danger.
 
Always meant being
callously used and tossed aside.
 
But she
slowly calmed when she remembered she wasn’t there anymore.
 
There was also something different to the
lust she had always felt before, it was wrapped in love, excitement, and bliss.

The next realization struck her dumb founded, the origin of
it was female.
 
In her experience in the
castle when she became a woman, it wasn’t something a woman ever liked.

Curiously she looked over and her mouth dropped open.
 
Kat, the confident woman who awed her with a
radiating inner strength, was pleasuring Justin with her mouth right out in the
open.
 
And most shocking, from the
emotions she was getting, Kat was enjoying it immensely.
 
It was only when she felt Justin waking in
shock, that she realized it had been completely Kat’s idea.

She then felt Justin’s lust, but also tinged with loving
warmth and not just a little bit of awe at his intended mate.
 
She was so taken off guard by his gentle
feelings, something she had never felt from a man in the midst of a sexual act,
it caused her to wipe tears from her eyes.
 

She blushed as her body responded to their feelings of
rising bliss, and she cut off her magic feeling like an intruder.
 
She buried her face in the bedding, and
wished she could have something so wonderful…

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Justin walked along, considering that he had never come
across such an obvious case of the difference between knowledge and
intelligence.

It was to his surprise that not only was Sara coming with
them, but she had approached him and started a conversation.
 
Two things were very obvious, she hadn’t had
much of an education, and she was frighteningly intelligent.

He found himself carefully walking as straight as he
could.
 
Despite her coming to him and
talking as they continued their walk south, anytime he accidentally stepped too
close to her she flinched back from him a little bit.
 
He wasn’t insulted, she wasn’t afraid of him,
he didn’t think, she had just been through too much at the hands of evil men.

He hadn’t realized until now how much a person automatically
gravitated to a set personal distance from the one they walked with.
 
Unfortunately her need for personal space was
not even close to most others, she needed much more space from him than he
could unconsciously give, so he had to keep it in mind all the time.

His mind was doing a juggling act, trying to stay away from
any negative emotions, tracking their space apart, and actually following their
conversation.
 
Despite all this, he found
himself enjoying her company and before he knew it, she had drawn from him the
basics of his life story up till now.
 

After they stopped for lunch, he walked with Nicci while
Sara seemed to retreat from him and started talking with Kat.
 
He found himself holding Nicci’s hand shortly
after she told him about her confrontation with her father the morning they
left the castle.
 
He could tell she had
let it fester too long, but outside of holding her hand and listening, there
wasn’t any way he could help.

As the afternoon passed, the soldiers started to thin out,
he thought they were probably still moving north, trying to catch Sara, which
could only be a good thing for them.
 

When they stopped for the night and started setting up camp,
he watched curiously as the ladies took out the tarp and started setting up a
crude tent with it.
 
It didn’t look very
sturdy, but he couldn’t help the intense reaction of his manhood as Nicci came
toward him, a hungry look on her face.

It had been a few days, they hadn’t had privacy and outside
of Kat’s morning blowjob he hadn’t had any of his intended mates.
 
Apparently he thought, they decided to find a
way to fix it.
 
He allowed himself to be led
into the tent, and smiled as all outside sounds were silenced.

He started to strip when Nicci did.
 
The fuck me look on her innocent face drove
him to shed his clothes even faster than usual.
 
He pulled her nubile young body against his, the suppleness of her flesh
against his caused his manhood to jump and harden painfully as he kissed her
delicious lips.
 
He tried to lower her
down, but she twisted and dropped to her hands and knees.

The hunger in her eyes was a sharp contrast to her innocent
face as she craned her neck around and looked up at him while her back arched
and she waved her core at him in invitation.
 
Her labia were already puffy and moist, glistening in the low
light.
 
He dropped to his hands and knees
and pushed his face between her legs and licked as deeply as he could.

He moaned at her taste and devoured her.
 
Every squeak, whimper and tremor he drew from
her made him increase his efforts as he brought her to bliss.

“Oh goddess Justin, I’m…”

He moaned in approval as her voice cut off, the lips of her
heat trembling against his tongue as she screamed in ecstasy.
 
He growled in pleasure as she flooded his
tongue and face with her rapturous honey.
 
He licked her from clit to anus, then playfully bit her ass before he
got up on his knees, grabbed her sexy hips, and thrust himself deeply into her
hot, wet, and tight welcoming tunnel.

“Take me hard Justin, split me,” she said breathlessly.

He started to saw in and out of her clutching center, she
was still so tight, but more welcoming as he felt her body devour his manhood
for every stroke in, her tight undulating walls milking him as he pulled back,
as if her body was reluctant to release its invader.

He released the tight hold on his talent that he had kept
up, not wanting to expose who he was the last few days.
 
White fire exploded around him and the
already silky hot wet pleasure of being deep inside Nicci doubled in a
blink.
 
He heard her gasp as he sped up
more, really slamming into her.
 
He felt
her pleasure tighten around his, and the cries of her ecstasy pushed him over
the edge.

He buried himself deep within her silken depths and felt his
manhood expand followed by the release of his baby batter into her womb.
 
When he could move again, they collapsed next
to each other and kissed.
 
He simply
enjoyed the feel of her body against his, caressing her hair and back, stealing
kisses at random moments, Nicci was a joy to him.

He started to kiss her harder, his intent changing as his
manhood stirred back to life.
 
He pushed
her gently on to her back then kissed down to her generous double D
breasts.
 
He took a nipple into his mouth
and sucked hard while gently pinching the other, remembering how sensitive she
was.
 
After a few minutes of this, her
breathing was hard and she was gasping with delight.

He sucked a little bit harder and added a slight twist when
pinching the other and she rolled into an orgasm, her body trembling.
 
It wasn’t a large one, but he was amazed she
had one at all.
 
He loved how her breasts
felt in his hands, and in his mouth.
 
He
had a sudden urge to slide his cock between them.

When he asked she looked intrigued by the idea and
nodded.
 
He reached down between her legs
and gathered her honey, slathering it between her perfect mounds of flesh and
mounted her stomach.

He watched as she started playing with her tits, then she
pushed them together lightly, tweaking her own nipples.

She said in a soft teasing voice, “You want to fuck these
sweet innocent tits?”

He didn’t wait for a second invitation, sliding his manhood
between the warm soft and silky smooth flesh of her breasts.
 
When he heard the moan of pleasure from her
lips, he sped up.
 
He had wanted to do
this for a while, and the fact it turned her on too just made it that much
better.

He gasped and looked down when he felt her warm tongue lick
his tip.
 
She started teasing him with
her lips and tongue when his tip shot out of her cleavage with each
stroke.
 
He was breathing hard, her flesh
bringing him to his peak.
 
He heard her
whimper softly as another orgasm took her.

Nicci said sultrily, “Justin, I want your cum all over my
tits and my pretty face.
 
Please Justin…”

He gasped and felt his legs lock, his body thrusting forward
automatically, his seed launching from his pole and landing on the sweet flesh
of her neck and face.
 
He felt her take
his tip in her mouth after the first two spurts and suck hard with her full
lips as she drained the rest of his offering.

He couldn’t take his eyes off her as she started to wipe her
supple flesh with her fingertips, gathering his seed mixed with her own
slathered juices, then sucking and licking her fingers clean in her mouth.

She giggled, “We’ll have to do that again sometime, it
wasn’t as pleasurable as, you know, but I loved it.”

After kissing a little, they moved to get dressed, but she
stopped him by grabbing his hand.

She said with a smile, “Don’t bother, all of us were wanting
you after almost three days of nothing, might as well save the effort, I’ll
send in the next one.”

She winked mischievously after getting dressed, kissed him
deeply and whispered, “I love you Justin.”

Before he could reply she left the tent…
 
He used his magic to restore his body,
wondering who was next…

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Justin felt someone shaking his shoulder, when his eyes
opened it was Sara, looking down on him with widened eyes.

He sat up and looked around, then looked at Sara.

She whispered, “There are soldiers all around us, searching
along the road and even back in the woods.”

He shook them all awake, and told Sally.

Sally said, “I don’t feel them, but Sara’s range is much
larger than any talent I have ever met.
 
All I can say is they haven’t tripped my wards yet.”

Sara said cautiously, “I think they might not just be
looking for me.”

Nora asked, “Why?”

Sara shook her head, “A bunch of them are scared, like they
are afraid of what they hunt.
 
I don’t
think they would be afraid of me.”

He snorted, “They would be if they were smart.”

Sara blushed and averted her gaze.

Nicci asked, “Can you guide us out of here safely?”

Sara shrugged, “Maybe, there are eight groups of six, but
there could be more I can’t feel yet.”

Nora sighed, “If they really do know about us, should we try
to slip away?
 
This just got much harder;
leaving enemies behind to follow would be a mistake if they search for us.”

He didn’t like the idea, but Nora was right, if the stealth
mission was dead they would have to change what they were doing.

He said, “Alright, whoever has armor, put it on, the time to
be subtle is past.”

How the hell do you invade a castle with five…
 
Six people?

Nora had Sara lead them to a good ambush spot.
 
The first three groups went down without a
sound, but then on the fourth group, one of them let out a huge scream and all
hell broke loose as the soldiers converged on that sound.

He burst into white fire, protecting the ladies from other
talents.
 
That weighed the battle heavily
on their side despite their lower numbers.
 
He stood in the center as the women surrounded him, even Sara helped
taking down a number of them with her talent.
 

Kat was transformed and monitoring everything, killing
anyone that got too close to them, while Nora, Nicci, Sally and Sara got most
of them from a distance.
 
Without magic
the enemy had no choice but to close in with weapons, but there was a killing
field in all four directions.
 

There were a few tense moments when more troops were drawn
by the cries, but in all only twenty four more joined the original forty
eight.
 
They were lucky.
 
If there had been enough troops to overwhelm
their magic…
 
Or even if they had thought
to all rush at once it might have been different.

He said, “We need to move fast now, we can’t take the chance
of facing hundreds like that.”

Nora nodded.

He turned to Sara, “Thanks for the warning, you’re welcome
to stay if you wish, but it’s probably safe to say the soldiers aren’t looking
for you anymore, it should be safe to go north now…”

She shook her head, her voice light and strong, “No, I’ll
stay,” she lightly blushed and turned her head.

They packed up camp and started south.
 
It was a little slower with him and Sara
being pushed, but Kat stayed in her Tiger form and ran alongside and they were
moving pretty fast.
 
Both Sally and Nicci
were flying, Nicci was so high up he could barely make out a tiny red spot in
the sky.
 
He thought if they didn’t run
into any more problems, they should be there by tomorrow…